About time.

Honestly i don't really know why some of the long shot candidates ever really try. Every cycle you have the Steyers or the Klobs that everyone and their mom knows they won't make it.

At this point it should just be Bloomberg-Sanders-Biden. Bloomberg should drop if he gets smoked Tuesday and fall in line behind Biden.

This post was edited by ofthevoid on Mar 2 2020 01:24pm

I agree with this

i think they stayed in specifically because of Pete's performance in Iowa. it read to them like certain candidates may able to win certain states and take just enough votes off of Bernie to force a convention vote. What i do find a bit off tho is they're not staying in post a big win in SC by biden. but maybe they realize if bernie and biden split down the delegates and head into convention both under the total it's still a 2 man race, you'd need to have more delegates than they can even hope for to stand a chance.

2 things im looking forward to now:

the next debate, interested to see how this cast gets along. Warren seems only in it to attack Bloomberg on behalf of Bernie. and im not sure what bloomberg's path even looks like unless he wins a few of the next primaries.

what percent of the "moderate vote" from Pete/Amy/Steyer(lol) bleeds directly to Biden. it would be wild if Biden goes on a tear and Bernie just fades in delegate count after all of his hype and "im leading the polls" narratives.

Was she ever really running though ? Seemed like more of a mall-power-walk

in reality, of course, it was not the call of her fellow former candidates, but the call of the donors and the dnc to consolidate the establishment vote, and the good party soldiers obeyed.

has the added benefit (especially for mayor butt) to not have an atrocious super tuesday result on his record for future runs...

excellent, battle lines are drawn. biden vs. barnie, with bloomberg seeing how much he can spend per delegate as a spoiler (Jeb! technically leads at like $42MM per delegate, Steyer math is funky cuz he spend $267.1MM for zero delegates)

i expect Warren to drop once she gets mopped on home turf by Barnie and to also endorse Biden

This post was edited by excellence on Mar 2 2020 02:18pm

i have this crazy bernie bro friend, and watching stuff like this happen is always a good laugh because i told him it would. that the centrist vote outweighs the bernie ceiling, that the establishment would still fuck him, that his communist/socialist labels will be most of his narrative in media, and (yet to come, maybe) that even if he somehow wins he's a lame duck because congress wont pass his bills. when i saw my buddy on Saturday he was super happy that people were going to be dropping out, hes not so good at math.

Alright who should I vote for tomorrow? Klobs out early ruins my plan

Barnie