@gjohnsit
and correct me if I'm wrong, but after the 2020 election was it not touted that it was the young voters that voted in the majority for Biden and the Democrats were going to carry the elections well into the future because of that.

Carville said back in 1992 that "It's the economy, stupid". When young folks need two or three jobs to make ends meet I can't blame them for rethinking their positions.

If the young voters are now looking else where, that is a sea change in attitude.

nation

The “uncommitted” campaign didn’t even exist at the start of the 2024 primary season. But now, more than 500,000 Americans in states across the country have cast Democratic primary votes for “Uncommitted,” “Uninstructed,” and “No Preference” ballot options to send President Biden a message about the urgent need to end the killing in Gaza. What started with the “Listen to Michigan” campaign, which shocked Democratic insiders by securing more than 100,000 votes for the “uncommitted” option on that state’s February 17 primary ballot, has grown into a national phenomenon that has won at least 25 delegates and continues to organize in late-primary and caucus states.

With the results from this week’s primaries, the total vote for uncommitted options on state ballots now stands at 530,502. The campaign has won enough votes to secure Democratic National Convention delegates from Minnesota (14), Hawaii (7), Michigan (2), and, according to local news reports, Washington (2)...

Across Wisconsin, the “uninstructed delegation” option won 48,162 votes—8.3 percent of the total—which is more than double Biden’s 2020 margin of victory. In Dane County (Madison), the Democratic heartland that is absolutely essential to the party’s November prospects, almost 15 percent of voters cast “uninstructed” ballots, and many precincts in Madison registered support in excess of 30 percent. In the state’s most populous county, Milwaukee, 12.2 percent of voters backed the “uninstructed” option...

Voters in Tuesday’s New York Democratic primary didn’t have an “uncommitted” option, so they were urged to leave their ballots blank instead. While the final totals have yet to be tallied, observers estimate that the “Leave It Blank” campaign could win as much as 12 percent of the vote...

And in Rhode Island, 14.5 percent of Democratic primary voters cast “uncommitted” ballots Tuesday, with the option gaining almost 30 percent of the vote in Providence.

I think it's more than just Gaza. Gaza is just the tipping point. We've also got Biden's broken promise on school debt, plus he complete inability to buy a house.
Every Dem operative out there can read the tea leaves. Young voters aren't going to turn out on November.

@on the cusp
are trotting out for some reason. I doubt it's organic. It will be more obvious if we see more of it in the coming days and weeks.

If they're going to make a move to take out Joe Biden against his will they are running out of time.

If they change the top candidate with Joe's consent that's one thing, but if they do it against his will, man, that'll be huge if they can pull it off.

those in control to stop mumbling behind the curtains and come out publicly.
It isn't the polls, as Biden's numbers have been horrible. It wasn't the swing state vote of "uncommitted". It isn't minorities swinging right. That has been going on for months.
Is it the push by various states to make being a citizen a necessity to vote? That has been happening for weeks, if not months.
The only thing that happened recently was those white people getting killed trying to deliver food to the Gazans.
At any rate, it seems coordinated and that the green light is on.

@snoopydawg
see my reply to gjohnsit above. I probably published it as you were writing your comment. It can stand to repeated anyway. I think that's the main reason for the turnaround as well.

Let's face it, we'll be screwed as long as the establishment gets to pick the candidates and they can control third parties with policy and media control.

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Trump got more money into people’s pockets either by direct checks or increased in social funding and they could breathe more. Gas, interest rates, grocery prices, ect were much lower and then Biden came in and revoked the money and gas prices shot up as did interest rates. Plus rents have gone up so high that people are skipping meals for pay for them.

Half of Americans are struggling to afford their rising housing costs, and the financial squeeze is so severe for many that over one in five skip meals to get by, a new poll has revealed.

The survey, commissioned by Seattle-based real estate brokerage Redfin and released on Friday, showed that 50% of US homeowners and renters have had difficulties making their housing payments. Many respondents said they had to make sacrifices to cope with inflationary pressures. For instance, 22% reported that they had skipped meals, 21% sold some of their belongings, and a combined 37% either worked extra hours or took on additional jobs.

“Housing has become so financially burdensome in America that some families can no longer afford other essentials, including food and medical care, and have been forced to make major sacrifices, work overtime and ask others for money so they can cover their monthly costs,” said Redfin’s economic research chief, Chen Zhao.

How many people heard Powell say that he was raising interest rates to keep wages low? How many saw their extra money taken away by Biden after the parasite class got $5 trillion during Covid that they didn’t have to pay back?

Plus Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. His transferring billions to Ukraine whilst homelessness has gone up 12% during his watch. Now giving Israel more weapons and refusing to admit that it’s breaking human rights laws left and right while millions of Palestinians are starving.

It’s not going to matter who democrats put in at the 11th hour because the economy is blamed on democrats and Joe Biden.

Let’s face it…we’re screwed. RFK Jr. Might have walked away with the election if he was sane about Israel. Lots of people liked what he was saying before he became an Israeli firster. Just like Trump and Biden. Yep…screwed!

@exindy
Carville has always been a snake, he even looks like one. And that's not to mention his wife, Mary Matalin, as well. Could you imagine the dinner table conversations between those two?

There's no doubt they'll rally behind the nominee, whomever that may be. I think this is all a show to make the case that Biden needs to step down and to justify that reasoning.

will pretend to be an opposition.

For a while.

Then, no matter who is elected, the activities will go back to usual and Yellen will again be representing the City of London and Wall Street and the Klaus Schwabs and not our country. The Fed will print money, the national debt will only be a thing when the PRICs (people really in charge) need some yelling across picket lines before they head off to the yacht for free drinks and pate.

So when Blinky goes flying off to NATO in whatever monster AF plane, just who is buying the gas? Where is the money coming from? That single mom living in a 40-yo single wide in a holler in Ohio tryin to live on a double-shift waitress job being hit on at the local truck stop while gramma is watching the kids is pretty pissed off when she sees some guy with a freebie debit card.

I don't think she is thinking dem or rep. She knows the system is a lie. (BTW, I borrowed this descript from someone in nakedcapitalism comment thread) but I knew that woman. Maybe not her exactly but her. In fact, she could have been the one who lived down the holler from us next to the guy who was living in the basement while he was picking up discarded lumber to finish his house. Died before he was done.

Couple years ago my BIL called me a Bernie Bro and then 10 minutes later accused me of loving Trump. In my book those are opposites but it never occurred to him. In that election we stayed home. And every one since.

Time to take away the unlimited credit card. From every dam one of them.

/rant

@janis b
I just went through all of the comments and I saw none that were posted earlier than the essay. I'm not seeing what you're referring to.

Do you have your time zone settings correct in your profile. Got to My Account/Edit to check the time zones and correct them if needed.

Why are comments made in response to your essay registered as earlier than the essay was posted? Does it have something to do with my being in another hemisphere and time zone?