Tuesday, December 10, 2019

OUT OF DEEP CONCERN FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY

So first we were told by multiple "liberal" voices in the media that it was suicidal for Democrats to choose a progressive like Elizabeth Warren as the party's presidential nominee. Don't pick a candidate who pleases lefties on Twitter! they told us. Find someone who can win back the votes of non-college-educated whites in the Rust Belt!

The candidate who seemed to appeal to those voters was Joe Biden, but he's been erratic and uninspiring in his public appearances.

Then a new candidate entered the race: Mike Bloomberg. And many of the same people who'd urged us to pick a candidate with appeal to non-college whites told us that Bloomberg might be the ideal candidate to lead us. Really? we said. You mean he might win those blue-collar voters back?

And now we have a new Quinnipiac poll, and it has an interesting data point on Mike Bloomberg:



Among non-college whites, Bloomberg has a 13% favorable rating -- and a 51% unfavorable rating.

This was the guy the blue-collar whisperers believed might lead the Democrats to victory? Someone blue-collar whites clearly despise?

If I didn't know better, I'd conclude that these supposedly liberal pundits really don't care whether Democrats appeal to blue-collar whites or whether we defeat Trump -- like the plutocrats whose opinions they parrot, they just want us not to choose Warren as our nominee.

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