@Le Frog

that George W. Bush MISSION ACCOMPLISHED banner. Nothing else will do.

@snoopydawg
this piece claims it was at the behest of Bernie.

Q: Why are Democrats making this change?

A: The new rules were mandated by the DNC as part of a package of changes sought by Bernie Sanders following his loss to Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential primaries. The changes were designed to make the caucus system more transparent and to make sure that even the lowest-performing candidates get credit for all the votes they receive.

And it’s not just Iowa that is affected by the changes. The Nevada Democratic caucuses on Feb. 22 will also report three sets of results.

Anyone familiar with the rules change meeting and/or what exactly was the impetus for this?

That said Iowa remains foremost in my mind about 2016. Because Bernie should have been declared winner outright. The Des Moines Register, who endorsed Clinton, called the whole thing a "debacle," inferring that the correct winner wasn't chosen. Had Bernie won outright and then destroyed her in NH it would have been harder for them to have cheated him with that much momentum.

Guess we'll see how this goes. But it's gotta be vert closely monitored.

(AP) — For the first time, the Iowa Democratic Party will report three sets of results from the party’s presidential caucuses. And there is no guarantee that all three will show the same winner.
(from @AP) https://t.co/9CKr64MWYL

— Stephen Ohlemacher (@stephenatap) January 16, 2020

This looks hinky...but then it's the DNC who decides which candidate gets to win.

Twitter is abuzz with shaming people to vote blue no matter who because Trump is so bad. I keep asking those people who are pushing this that if Trump is such a dangerous president then why are democrats continually voting for his agendas? So far no one has answered me.

the party joined me."
@snoopydawg

Bernie.

It's bad when a news article from ones home state doesn't believe you.

Why did Warren do it? Simple: Because she’s losing.

Having tried to run as the smart candidate, the energetic candidate, the consensus candidate and the fightin’ candidate, Warren has fallen back to the last refuge of the progressive scoundrel: Identity politics.

“Look at the men on this stage,” Warren said Tuesday night. “Collectively, they have lost 10 elections. The only people on this stage who have won every single election that they’ve been in are the women: Amy (Klobuchar) and me.”

Warren’s campaign has devolved from “I’ve Got A Plan for That” to “Girls Rule, Boys Drool!”

A Bay State aside: What’s the deal with Massachusetts Democrats using their political victories in Massachusetts as proof that they are tough campaigners who can’t be written off. First it was Liz Warren’s “upset” victory for the U.S. Senate, now it’s Deval “Nobody expected me to win” Patrick.

Wow. Who knew all these years that Massachusetts was a bastion of red-state Republicanism? Democrats bragging about winning in Massachusetts sound like Kim Jung Un celebrating his long-shot victory in the Supreme People’s Assembly.

For Liz Warren, this is just another example of the fundamental inauthenticity of her presidential bid. Over the summer, she was touting Medicare For All as a matter of political life or death. Tuesday night she treated it like a recently dumped boyfriend, refusing to even say the phrase a single time (check the transcript!). She did, however, say she would “build on the Affordable Care Act.”

No wonder progressives don’t believe she’ll really fight for a single-payer system. Or for the Green New Deal. Or that Bernie Sanders said a woman couldn’t win.

Warren is lying, trashing Bernie Sanders in a desperate bid to get his women supporters to save her sinking campaign. She’s hoping “I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar” will work better than “I’m Gonna Git Me a Beer.”

As Nina Turner said:

I know 30 years ago Warren was a republican

Asked after the debate about whether Warren’s remark was unfair to Sanders, Turner took a jab at the Massachusetts senator.

“You should ask [Warren] that, but I know 30 years ago she was a Republican,” Turner told reporters, according to HuffPost.

Turner's comment came as tensions have mounted between Sanders and Warren after news reports emerged that Sanders told Warren during a private dinner in December 2018 that he did not believe a woman could win the presidency.

It was only after she went to Capitol Hill, she told the newspaper, that she “picked sides” and “got in the fight.”

“I quickly discovered that every single Republican was on the side of the banks and half the Democrats were,” Warren told the Times. “But whenever there was someone who would stand up for those working families, it was a Democrat.”

Bull. Democrats haven't stood up for working families since long before the Clintons slimed their way into the WH and then destroyed everything democrats once stood for. The democrats moved so far right they became republicans and Warren finally joined them.

@MinuteMan

He's definitely taking votes away from Biden.

I just saw Bernie is doing quite well in the most recent NYS poll (I think I was surprised that he was even leading the pack but now I can't find the poll) where Bloomberg might be expected to be at his best (but I figure the Rubicon will be crossed by then).

So what is Bloomberg's utility and to whom?

I can't see him as directly helping Clinton or whoever in terms of a second ballot coz he's not going to get 15% of the vote anywhere, thus no delegates to horsetrade. But he still serves to keep Biden away from winning on the first ballot.

If Bernie pulls off the miracle, Bloomberg could run third party but he has stated that he will provide support to Bernie if he wins the nomination.

I noticed that in the latest NH poll, Klobuchar jumped way up to 10% from 2%, obviously taking votes from Warren and Biden. So, she's actually helping Bernie. I don't imagine TPTB will let her continue her run too much longer.

I wonder whether Bloomberg is running only so he can legally run full-on attack ads against Trump? I don't think he could do that, at least not without significant restrictions, as a private citizen. The occasional bit of media attention he garners is just gravy.

@Bob In Portland

And how can you avoid any meaningful media scrutiny, especially when you're pulling your IdPol schtick?

To show you how well things can remain hidden in the MSM, I just discovered last night that as a Republican and corporate lawyer Warren represented Dow Corning/Dow Chemical in that huge class action suit by thousands of women regarding Dow's leaking breast implants. As you may suspect, her role as a corporate lawyer was to minimize the payout to the victims.

This morning I think like it's one of those things that everyone knew but nobody talks about. I mean, how can a woman run under the progressive feminist banner and work for such a foul corporation that injured thousands of women (silicone leaking into your body is bad for your health)?

Did anyone here know this about Warren?

How can you present yourself as a feminist with this on your resume without multiple explanations and mea culpas?