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Democratic Debate of March 15, 2020

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Hillary was a terribly flawed candidate; many people gave Trump the benefit of the doubt. He won by 80,000 votes over three states. Trump did a great job suppressing the Dem vote in 2016, but every election since then has told us that the Dems will no longer stay home.

He has lost the benefit of the doubt votes; Biden is not Hillary; his unfavorables remain solidly over 50% and growing because he has royally screwed up this crisis. He re-election prospects are abysmal.

So there is the argument that says his prospects are not good. Do you have a reasoned counter-point?
 
Nations that have national health insurance universally experience better health outcomes at lower costs than experienced in the United States. While your taxes may increase, the total amount you pay for healthcare (individually and as a society) should be lower than what we are experiencing now.

That is always the promise of a single-payer system, yet do we see that with our single-payer DoD or do we see a hugely expensive and highly profitable MIC? The same can be asked of our public K-12 educational system - it is single-payer (mostly at the state level, yet requires federal assistance) but is not exactly world class in its outcome (standardized test results) or less expensive than that of other (first world) nations.
 
Hillary was a terribly flawed candidate; many people gave Trump the benefit of the doubt. He won by 80,000 votes over three states. Trump did a great job suppressing the Dem vote in 2016, but every election since then has told us that the Dems will no longer stay home.

He has lost the benefit of the doubt votes; Biden is not Hillary; his unfavorables remain solidly over 50% and growing because he has royally screwed up this crisis. He re-election prospects are abysmal.

So there is the argument that says his prospects are not good. Do you have a reasoned counter-point?

His favorability is higher than it was when he was elected, and his disapprovals peaked in September 2017. The self identification of Republicans is up one and of democrats down a little over 3 since 2016 and among democrats, the party is drifting further left which makes Biden a less attractive nominee. That Trump isn't particularly weakened by the virus and the GOP ranks have grown while the DNC ranks have shrunk is simply reality.
 
I agree. Biden is speaking to all Americans, not just his supporters. Sanders won't give an inch to understand that not everyone is comfortable with the extreme left policies he stands for. I personally am fine with Medicare for All, but I'm no longer working and don't have a family to support. I just began to receive SS benefits this month, I'm fine regardless of who becomes President, even Trump won't affect me very much personally.

I'm very content with Joe Biden's messages tonight, he spoke well and spoke to all Americans. He is the better of the two to win the 2020 election. I hope when Sanders drops out, he'll also send a clear message to his supporters to do the right thing to avoid another four years of a Trump admin, which would be a threat to our democracy and our country.
Ironically, the very inability of Sanders to 'give an inch' on his democratic socialist agenda, means he won't compromise on his message. That makes him a powerful voice for economic justice that we have not heard with such clarity since Eugene Debs and Samuel Gompers. I am nothing but happy to have him in these debates and as a presidential candidate. He is a net good for this country as long as income disparity continues to grow rather than shrink and union representation continues to shrink rather than grow.

It also makes him a lousy nominee, and probably a less than ideal choice for that office if he won. If you can't compromise to reach out for support when you most desperately need it to even get in there, you sure won't be doing much of it in the oval office when win another 10 votes in the Senate, or 25 votesm in the House to get a marginally good bill passed, instead of watching it die on the vine. And a whole lot of 'marginally good work' needs to get don on subject after subject rather than nothing getting done..
 
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His favorability is higher than it was when he was elected, and his disapprovals peaked in September 2017. The self identification of Republicans is up one and of democrats down a little over 3 since 2016 and among democrats, the party is drifting further left which makes Biden a less attractive nominee. That Trump isn't particularly weakened by the virus and the GOP ranks have grown while the DNC ranks have shrunk is simply reality.

Can you back up any of the "facts" that you are trying to sell here?
 
Can you back up any of the "facts" that you are trying to sell here?

I can but I chose not to waste my time on you since you would dismiss it out of hand anyway. If you want the information, go to Gallup and do your own homework.
 
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