Re: progressives attack Biden

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

 > From: heather Howard <http://www.gmail.com/~hhoward40>
 > Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2020 08:28:14 -0800
 >
 > This is exactly what I was afraid of.  At least Julian Castro is now supporting 
 > Elizabeth Warren.

This could be part of the problem: Castro is continuing to split
progressive votes.

 > From: Noelle <http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg>
 > Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2020 07:31:11 -0800 (PST)
 >
 > PS and this is from electoral-vote.com:
 > Unspoken, but key to the progressives' problem, is that they are 
 > split between two candidates. Having Sanders and Sen. Elizabeth 
 > Warren (D-MA) together getting more votes than Biden, but 
 > individually getting fewer delegates, would ultimately hand the 
 > nomination to Biden (or possibly another moderate). What the 
 > progressives really need to do is find a way to convince either 
 > Sanders or Warren to leave the race after Super Tuesday and support 
 > the other one. If both of them continue until the bitter end, the 
 > chance is great that Biden will get the nomination, supporters of 
 > both Sanders and Warren will be very angry and not vote, and Donald 
 > Trump will be reelected. One can see this problem a mile away, but 
 > the solution is not in view. 
 > (plus election hackers in social media will play up the differences)

I think the correct solution is to give money to ex-Mayor Bloomberg or
Buttigieg to split the right-wing of the democratic party.

 > On Thu, 9 Jan 2020, Noelle wrote:
 >  > https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/08/progressives-pre-iowa-assault-biden-095934
 >  > 
 >  > I heard someone(Mark Blyth) say "remember back in 2004 Dems were 
 >  > saying we have 
 >  > to defeat Bush, and Kerry is the safe choice? But no one was really 
 >  > excited about him...this might be the case with Biden this year..."
 >  > and so if the Dems don't unify behind whoever is the nominee then we 
 >  > are screwed.