(04-14-2020, 03:09 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote:

(04-14-2020, 02:40 PM)Gabe Wrote: Wait, it wasn't Hillary's emails or the lamestream media?

I think it was solely the hideous Hillary! candidacy that did them in. Between her awful personality, terrible track record, the Media beatifying her, and the Super Delegate mess with Bernie, national fatigue with Obama himself is probably much further down the list.

 
I agree, to an extent. 

I also believe that Obama's noticeable lack of campaign support for Hillary was a substantial contributor to her losing. It may have been so late in the game that what campaigning he did was too little too late, but I'd caution those people thinking the US had Obama fatigue to be careful of overconfidence. If nothing else, Obama can absolutely rally voters and Joe is a personal friend...not so much Hillary (actually not at all). Bernie dropping out this early and easing a segment of the #WriteInBernie idiots away from the ledge will make things difficult with 7 months to go. It won't be like last election at all, which seemed to be a DNC cluster from the get-go all the way up until the debates, disenfranchising dem voters in the process

FWIW, I also don't believe Bloomberg is done opening his checkbook. Like Trump, his ego is pretty fragile.

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