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Pick 3 Democratic candidates you'd like to drop out of the race

Pick 3 Democrats you'd make drop out if you could

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Neomalthusian

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I can't include nearly as many options as there are candidates, so I'll list the most prominent ones and a final "other: ___________" option.

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Sanders, Gabbard, and O'Rourke. Your time's up.
 
Harris, Biden, and Biden again because I get being told no is a foreign concept to him.
 
Sanders, Warren, Gabbard.

Edit: Okay, misread the title. I want Sanders, Warren, or Gabbard to win the nomination.

If I had to pick three to drop out it would be Biden, Booker, and Harris.
 
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I wouldn't have anyone drop-out. There's always room for more & better ideas. Let them all battle it out. The cream will rise to the top, and the People will decide through the proper channels - that being their voting.
 
Neomalthusian said:
I can't include nearly as many options as there are candidates, so I'll list the most prominent ones and a final "other: ___________" option.

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How interesting to see a picture of Trump there. Has he gone back to being a Democrat again?
 
Dittohead not! said:
How interesting to see a picture of Trump there. Has he gone back to being a Democrat again?
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All of the candidates are there -- Democrat and Republican. Notice the color of the borders of their pictures.
 
Josie said:
All of the candidates are there -- Democrat and Republican. Notice the color of the borders of their pictures.
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Oh, thanks. I missed that border color. So, two Republican candidates?
 
Josie said:
That kind of surprises me. Who are you hoping wins the nomination?
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Well this is a reason to not post before coffee, :lol: Read the first half of the sentence and poll, and thought it said who you would want to WIN the nomination.

So yeah, ignore my poll results and that post.

My top three to win the nomination are Sanders, Warren, and Gabbard.

If I had to pick three to drop out, it would be Biden, Booker, and Harris.

BRB, heading to Starbucks. :lol:
 
Your Star said:
Well this is a reason to not post before coffee, :lol: Read the first half of the sentence and poll, and thought it said who you would want to WIN the nomination.

So yeah, ignore my poll results and that post.

My top three to win the nomination are Sanders, Warren, and Gabbard.

If I had to pick three to drop out, it would be Biden, Booker, and Harris.

BRB, heading to Starbucks. :lol:
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That makes MUCH more sense. :)
 
I picked Bernie, Beto and "Other," by which I mean de Blasio.
 
Gabbard actually presented herself well. Of all those on that entire sheet...I'd be fine if every other one vanished. She is the least bat **** crazy or just outright stupid of the entire group. Mind you...thats damning with faint praise.....
 
Dittohead not! said:
Oh, thanks. I missed that border color. So, two Republican candidates?
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One real Republican, and one that pretends to be one and succeeds because he dupes the easily duped and he has a long history of playing on reality TV shows.
 
DeBlasio needs to leave the race. Sorry. He was really grating on my nerves.

Beto needs to leave for the good of his future.

I was impressed with Gabbard last night and think she should leave for the same reason as Beto plus I need to start focusing on their candidate for 2020 and I don't see it being her.
 
Sanders is the only one. Leave the democratic primary to the democrats.
 
Redress said:
Sanders is the only one. Leave the democratic primary to the democrats.
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Sanders has been the intellectual leader of the democratic party for the past few years. At the debate last night, even if he wasn't up there, his ideas were. He's helped shift the party dramatically to the left.

This loyalty to party is absurd. Progressive ideals should be the litmus test for the nominee, period.
 
Your Star said:
Sanders has been the intellectual leader of the democratic party for the past few years. At the debate last night, even if he wasn't up there, his ideas were. He's helped shift the party dramatically to the left.

This loyalty to party is absurd. Progressive ideals should be the litmus test for the nominee, period.
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You can get some unstable radicals in positions of too much power when you make ideals the only litmus test. There are some bona fide Marx-style thinkers out there whose commitment to anti-capitalist ideals are extremely pure and uncompromising. We don't really want those types of people leading the free world.

Either that or the person who wins has to renege on all sorts of idealistic campaign promises that weren't made in seriousness but fooled enough people.
 
Your Star said:
Sanders has been the intellectual leader of the democratic party for the past few years. At the debate last night, even if he wasn't up there, his ideas were. He's helped shift the party dramatically to the left.

This loyalty to party is absurd. Progressive ideals should be the litmus test for the nominee, period.
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His ideas are democratic ideas, turned up to 12. Nothing new, just lots more.
 
Redress said:
His ideas are democratic ideas, turned up to 12. Nothing new, just lots more.
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Hence, he should be the nominee. He's the best hope against Trump and to move the nation forward. After him, it's Warren.
 
Neomalthusian said:
I can't include nearly as many options as there are candidates, so I'll list the most prominent ones and a final "other: ___________" option.

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I would just as soon they all run. Unless they are all heard to some degree, there is no way to separate the fruit loops and dangerous from those who might do a decent job of leadership of the country.
 
AlbqOwl said:
I would just as soon they all run. Unless they are all heard to some degree, there is no way to separate the fruit loops and dangerous from those who might do a decent job of leadership of the country.
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What if there were 150 of them running? The more crowded the field, the more of them feel they have to act like clowns to try to dominate the spotlight. How people would actually lead is not necessarily indicated by the publicity stunts they feel they need to engage in to dominate the headlines and get ahead.
 
Neomalthusian said:
What if there were 150 of them running? The more crowded the field, the more of them feel they have to act like clowns to try to dominate the spotlight. How people would actually lead is not necessarily indicated by the publicity stunts they feel they need to engage in to dominate the headlines and get ahead.
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There aren't 150 of them though are there. And those polling pretty much zero at this juncture were not included. Reciting talking points and little memorized speeches tells us absolutely nothing about how these candidates would govern or provide leadership.

But including Elizabeth Warren with the 1% polling people is a pretty good indication that if Biden crashes and burns, she is the #2 choice of the DNC. Otherwise they would have put her with the other front runners.
 
Chomsky said:
I wouldn't have anyone drop-out. There's always room for more & better ideas. Let them all battle it out. The cream will rise to the top, and the People will decide through the proper channels - that being their voting.
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To me, it would depend on how candidates are forced out.

For example, if it's a buzzer sounding and three trap doors opening over a bottomless pit, I'd probably pick Biden, Sanders, and Warren since they're quite a bit older and have fewer years left to live.

If it's a force-out by incurable head lice infestation, then it'd be Booker, Delaney, and Sanders since they have "less to lose" in the hair department, if you get my drift.
 
Neomalthusian said:
I can't include nearly as many options as there are candidates, so I'll list the most prominent ones and a final "other: ___________" option.

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Why isn't the creepy porn lawyer Michael Avenatti who CNN thought would make a great president on the list?
 
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