The right-wing imperialists had some big victories in recent years in Brazil and Bolivia, but the Big Enchilada is Venezuela, and the window of opportunity for neoliberals is closing.
Let's be ready to meet it peacefully but decisively.
After New Hampshire, Tulsi is on a plane today to South Carolina to campaign there, wisely skipping Nevada (because that's going to be a complete sh*%show).
Since Yang dropped out, Reddit has been littered with comments from Yang's supporters saying they are joining the "Tulsi Posse". One essay there starts: "College student from Yang Gang here. You guys [Tulsi supporters] look like you could use an enthusiastic internet army!"
Here's the exit poll, chock full of sundry demographic results:
https://www.cnn.com/election/2020/state/new-hampshire?xid=ec_btn_nh
You gotta scroll down and click on "Exit Polls."
Here's one positive development off the bat:
With all of Nashua in, Sanders has won the 7 largest cities in NH
— Steve Kornacki (@SteveKornacki) February 12, 2020
Returning to my roots as I never really liked political "science".
When listening to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez talk about the "Changing the Poverty Line Calculation" legislation she included these words:
… this idea and this metaphor of a boot strap started as a joke because it is a physical impossibility …
Sanders declared the winner in New Hampshire, with 90% of results in.
Right now (1:24 AM NH time), 97% precincts reporting:
Sanders: 25.9%
Buttigieg: 24.4%
Klobuchar: 19.8%
Warren: 9.3%
Biden: 8.4%
Steyer: 3.6%
Gabbard: 3.3%
Yang: 2.8%
Things are wrapping up. Maybe one or two more updates coming--then it is off to sleep!
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/02/11/andrew-yang-drops-out-of-the-2020-presid...
Two points:
1. Good for him for bringing forward ideas on, for examples, universal basic income and decriminalizing drugs, and running a grassroots campaign that was overall pretty positive.
2. Why today, on this, the day of New Hampshire? Discuss.
Yesterday I was musing on this:
At the same time it does seem like all this shit is just backfiring on these feckless and venal corporate lackey clowns heading the DNC. They’re even starting to lose moderate Dems. When that begins to reach critical mass with voters they’re going to start flocking to the only genuine, authentic and honest candidate in support. It’s doubtful that the short term boon out of this Pete depravity will amount to anything. Ultimately it will totally be their undoing as the public sees for all time how corrupt the whole process really is.
