February 4, 2020

" we expected to have a media narrative last night, and we don't."

https://twitter.com/mattdpearce/status/1224681938809651201?s=21


With the benefit of a night’s sleep... a lot of the handwringing about the Iowa results feels overwrought. In 2016 it took a month for California to count up its primary ballots. A month!

The bigger issue is that we expected to have a media narrative last night, and we don’t.

February 4, 2020

"I've seen two coin tosses and now we have name-pulling out of a hat"

https://twitter.com/politicalmiller/status/1224531778490314752?s=21

@marksalter65 FYI 3 way tie at the end btwn Biden, Bernie and Warren. Picked a name out of a hat. Biden won.

February 4, 2020

At Drake University in Des Moines, first alignment:

https://twitter.com/adamwren/status/1224514278788562949



Uncommitted: not viable

Tulsi: not viable

Yang: not viable

Biden: 131

Warren: 212

Klobuchar: 140

Sanders: 129

Buttigieg: 172

February 3, 2020

Common Cause has filed a formal complaint against Our Revolution with the FEC.

Common Cause has filed a formal complaint against Our Revolution with the FEC. It is not easy for a Democratic candidate to get on the wrong side of Common Cause: Our view
THE EDITORIAL BOARD | USA TODAY | 13 hours ago


This year brings a new chapter in the story. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., has created, and is the beneficiary of, a new kind of dark money group called Our Revolution.

What makes Our Revolution different is that it is designed to advance Sanders’ cause against other Democrats in the primaries, rather than against a Republican in a general election. It’s one thing to say you have to play the dark money game because the other side surely will. It is quite another to be first off the mark in bringing its corrosive powers into a new area.

Sanders has long been a big critic of money in politics, often criticizing political action committees and the candidates who benefit from them. To then go out and found a group like Our Revolution is hypocritical.

Our Revolution claims to voluntarily report all donors who give more than $250. But it doesn't file documents with any agency, provide identifying information about individuals or specify how much they gave.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/todaysdebate/2020/02/02/bernie-sanders-campaign-dark-money-our-revolution-editorials-debates/4556051002/

February 2, 2020

A big weakness for Sanders

https://twitter.com/gelliottmorris/status/1224001063054970881

A big weakness for Sanders is that he’s only polling at 9% among 2016 Clinton primary voters, who make up about half of Democrats




https://twitter.com/gelliottmorris/status/1224000564738056193


The Economist’s polling with YouGov finds that on the eve of the Iowa Caucus, Sanders is only winning 41% of the voters who cast ballots for him in the 2016 primary nationally

February 1, 2020

This says it all really