Hoooo boy…
https://twitter.com/schwartzbcnbc/status/1157678929332887553?s=21
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Hey he’s not a former prosecutor so there’s that
Makes sense. If no one’s gonna stop Trump, who’s gonna stop him?
Yeah that’s not what I said cat face.
African American voters skew moderate in most of the country. Blue collar whites inPennsylvania, Ohio skew moderate. Old people in Florida, AZ skew moderate. These are key swing states. Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota skew way more progressive and someone like Biden is more likely to lose those states than someone like Bernie/Warren. But Bernie or Warren would have a much tougher battle in Ohio, Florida, North Carolina, Arizona, Pennsylvania, and Texas Van Biden would. Of course, excitement and turn out could change that, I’m just alluding to traditional demographics and help people tend to vote in those areas.
Yeah, I hate the, “I like him/her. but I just don’t think America is ready for a black/hispanic/gay/female president” bullshit.
Whenever someone says that to me about Pete, I have two answers. First, I ask them, “but are YOU ready for a gay president?” It either makes them face their own homophobia, or it makes them realize that it doesn’t matter what their weird idea of “america” thinks.
Then I say, "I vividly recall people saying they didn’t think america was ready for a black president in 2007…and look what happened.
Electability is bullshit. WE make them electable. It’s our job as voters.
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tbh I haven’t heard the “but is America ready” rational for like 5-10 years. Unless its furries. Then, no, we’re not ready.
You make good points about how different states that are swing states skew differently on a left/right scale, but I do disagree with a couple of your assertions. I think Bernie does very well with working class, blue collar whites. I think he’s more likely to win somewhere like Ohio and has no shot at Texas. I think Biden also does well with the blue collar voters, and would have a better shot than Bernie in Texas.
That said, their approaches would be very different. Biden would be going after moderate Republicans in Texas, whereas Bernie, Warren, Beto, Buttigieg, etc would be trying to register and turn out new voters.
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Def a decent chunk of people out there who aren’t based on this poll, but the numbers are trending up for sure. Source article below.
Edit - i downloaded the PDF report and found the historical data for ‘Black’. At the time of the 2008 presidential election, “Yes, would vote for” was at the 93-94% stage. Thus the data seems to indicate that there are a lot more people with reservations about a gay/lesbian candidate now than there were of a black candidate when Obama ran.
The atheist one pisses me off.
Yeah, same. The report has all the crosstabs info in it as well - nothing really surprising there. Liberal, Young, Dem, College Grad voters are the most willing to vote for anyone regardless of whether they are atheist/gay/etc. Conservative, Old, Republican, HS Grad or Less voters are least willing to vote for candidates who are gay/atheist/etc.
Edit - except for ‘evangelical christian’, where the trend is reversed. 
The numbers are all trending up though which is promising.
This is the shit we need - no-chance presidential candidates running for Senate.
Beto, you next
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0 to Hero Hickenlooper, wp
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If there is a single lesson Democrats should have learned by now is (especially after Trump), don’t run on what you think you need to run on, or what people tell you need to run on. Just be your fucking self. That is the Beto I liked when he was running for senate
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Bullock is next, then Beto
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That’s what I like about Warren right now. When she gets going she shines like freaking Galadriel.
If the Hickenlooper that I saw running for president is any indication of his views, hard pass on him running for senate. Colorado can do much better than that.
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Yeah I am very much not happy with him running for that seat.
Seriously, where has this guy been for the past 6-8 months?
I think Beto has always been good with race stuff, at least from a talking points perspective. I remember him saying some good stuff in 2018 on the topic. You can be willing to call out racism but still be a bland centrist with no ideas on how to fix it.