Monday, March 9, 2020

The Primary Race So Far - And Another Round of Voting

Before we get into this, pardon my inactivity over the past couple weeks.  I've been busy at the paying job and needed to rest.  The down side is I was a little out of action.  On the other hand it gave me room to process and think.,

So, since Super Tuesday it's been reduced to a two person race for the most part between former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders after Mike Bloomberg dropped out last Wednesday and Sen. Elizabeth Warren dropped out of the race last Thursday.  In the aftermath there's the divide between Biden followers and Bernie followers seems to be getting hyped up more in social media as well as the corporate owned mainstream media.  While Warren so far hasn't made an endorsement, there appears to be some key Warren endorsements who switched to supporting Sanders.  As the media tried to whip up a scare of Bernie Bros being mean on the Internet (trying to give the impression that all Sanders supporters are like that), there seems to be an attempt to overlook a few things.

First, while the media and Biden supporters want everything to think it's a done deal we have to remember that the primary race is still far from over.  At this point Biden has more delegates but it's still a 50-50 race as we head towards the Democratic Convention.

Tomorrow primaries will be held in six states (Idaho, North Dakota, Michigan, Washington, Mississippi, and TTWN's original home base of Missouri).  365 delegates are at stake 99.2% available).   While the results will still be far from the 1,991 pledged delegates the Dems need for a nomination.  While some predict it'll go easy for Biden (and it might) I still hold by the fact that it's anyone's guess who gets more delegates tomorrow.  It's easy for media pundits to armchair quarterback but they're guessing as much as the rest of us. 

Regardless of what happens one thing is certain - it's still going to be a long hard slog between now and November.

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