Totally agreed, my biggest problem with these past 2 weeks and everyone going insane over Biden is I never once heard a convincing case that Kamala would be better. It seemed that the argument reasoning stopped at “she’s different so she must be better”. It was always rooted in pure optimism and best case scenario thinking and I never he…
Totally agreed, my biggest problem with these past 2 weeks and everyone going insane over Biden is I never once heard a convincing case that Kamala would be better. It seemed that the argument reasoning stopped at “she’s different so she must be better”. It was always rooted in pure optimism and best case scenario thinking and I never heard (especially from Bulwark) people talking about the downfalls of Kamala.
I've listened to the arguments and I've only heard equal or worse ideas for replacement plans. No good ones.
The debate was bad but this jump to dementia is just ridiculous at this point. Honestly, he had a raspy voice and pretending people on a bad day of an illness don't lose their thoughts is silly. I've seen it from Sarah and JVL on these very podcasts. The difference is the stakes aren't nearly as high. There is a precedent for people needing bed rest to treat an illness, I don't know why that is news.
If we're talking what people see and how they react, then we have an actual conversation of what that means politically, but there's no evidence the mentally compromised Biden.
Secondly, if you're referring to the polling that asks if Biden is too old to run/shouldn't be running, I'm not quite sure what to conclude from that. I don't doubt that and I'm of course not trying to argue that is advantageous by any means, but what does that tell us? I don't take that to mean they won't vote for him. I also don't take that to mean they would be particulary more thrilled with a Kamala ticket... I think they are simply answering the question posed. I think you re-poll those same people after they go to the voting booth and they still pick his name over Trump.
The polling is unconvincing coming off a historically bad night IMO. I’m not surprised in the least that people jumped at the chance to poll for a new name… but given how historically unpopular Kamala is I would be truly shocked if that polling did not go down 3,4,5,6 points if she were to be the nominee
Totally agreed, my biggest problem with these past 2 weeks and everyone going insane over Biden is I never once heard a convincing case that Kamala would be better. It seemed that the argument reasoning stopped at “she’s different so she must be better”. It was always rooted in pure optimism and best case scenario thinking and I never heard (especially from Bulwark) people talking about the downfalls of Kamala.
I've listened to the arguments and I've only heard equal or worse ideas for replacement plans. No good ones.
The debate was bad but this jump to dementia is just ridiculous at this point. Honestly, he had a raspy voice and pretending people on a bad day of an illness don't lose their thoughts is silly. I've seen it from Sarah and JVL on these very podcasts. The difference is the stakes aren't nearly as high. There is a precedent for people needing bed rest to treat an illness, I don't know why that is news.
If we're talking what people see and how they react, then we have an actual conversation of what that means politically, but there's no evidence the mentally compromised Biden.
Check the polling
Secondly, if you're referring to the polling that asks if Biden is too old to run/shouldn't be running, I'm not quite sure what to conclude from that. I don't doubt that and I'm of course not trying to argue that is advantageous by any means, but what does that tell us? I don't take that to mean they won't vote for him. I also don't take that to mean they would be particulary more thrilled with a Kamala ticket... I think they are simply answering the question posed. I think you re-poll those same people after they go to the voting booth and they still pick his name over Trump.
The polling is unconvincing coming off a historically bad night IMO. I’m not surprised in the least that people jumped at the chance to poll for a new name… but given how historically unpopular Kamala is I would be truly shocked if that polling did not go down 3,4,5,6 points if she were to be the nominee