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Out of Sanders, Warren and Biden, it seems like Buttigieg has the best chance of winning against Trump and would be the best at being the president if he wins.

Then again apparently Buttigieg is tied in with that app that screwd up the Iowa caucus.

I would hope that if Buttigieg becomes the nominee that his husband is front an center and campaigns for and with him. There's the puzzling clip from Iowa where one of his Iowan supporters, a middle aged woman, didn't know he was gay and didn't know he was married to a man. Buttigieg's campaign worker told the woman it's common knowledge. I don't know that it is. I wonder how many people know he's married? My only point is that if the fact that he's gay and also that he's married to a man doesn't become public knowledge quickly, not getting it out there might be bad for him politically since he's an unknown to nearly all of America. America would need to get to know him well fast .

I did not know that he is gay and married to a man. But I did not feel particularly inclined to learn about all the candidates running since all but one will be eliminated. Although If I were voting in that caucus I would have done some homework.

With More Results In, Buttigieg And Sanders Still Lead In Iowa — Biden Still Fourth

I wonder if a lot of people are voting for Sanders because they feel like he got cheated in the last election.

In theory everything for free sounds like an attractive option -cash, college, medical, food, rent, and prizes for all! Think about this. People up until today joined the military to afford college, worked, starved, and sacrificed to get through courses while trying to eat. Now is the proposition that one won't have to suffer nor payback college. I'm unsure how this will work out since university fees cannot be discharged. Who will eat the losses? The universities would have to increase the tuition beyond affordability to offest devastating losses. If so, would the gov have to pay to compensate public and private universities? Naturally it would increase taxes; which free rent, medical, food, and everything else would too. The student loan debt is massive: $1.6 trillion. If it went the career politician's ways think about this: you go to college to get a degree to make money, that college is free since self-serving soc.. Then after years of hard college work, you get the work you desire but your increased tax load is way higher. Some of the candidates advised they have no problem taking 50-60% federal, add in state, FICA, etc and you have virtually nothing left. What is the point? Everything for free; the reality is far worse in everyday practice. Career politicians are unaffected. They have a retirement for life some only have to serve one term. Their medical is different from yours, they don't have to pay for it and their families are covered, no co-pay. Making a law for you to follow which disempowers YOU doesn't affect them in the slightest financially, medically, etc. Context.

Buttigieg narrowly holds lead in Iowa caucuses as more precincts report

Pete Buttigieg maintains tight lead for first in Iowa

CNN Excludes Tulsi Gabbard From Town Hall That Includes Lower-Polling Candidates

On Feb. 5 and 6, CNN will host a New Hampshire town hall with eight presidential candidates, including: Joe Biden, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Andrew Yang, Tom Steyer, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, and Deval Patrick.

Two top 10 Democratic presidential candidates are excluded from CNN’s series. The first is former NEw York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, who is not competing in the New Hampshire primary. The second is Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii.

Gabbard is polling nationally higher than Patrick, a candidate who was asked to join CNN’s series. According to Real Clear Politics’ latest aggregation, Gabbard is polling at 1.8 percent nationally, while Patrick is at 0.5 percent. In New Hampshire, Gabbard is polling ahead of Yang, Steyer, and Patrick, all three of whom were invited to the town hall.

https://thefederalist.com/2020/02/06/cn ... andidates/

Hey, Bloomie's not allowed to do that! Joe Biden's the only authorized plagiarizer around here!

(The young folks may not know that Biden made a name for himself 20 or so years ago when he was found to be plagiarizing his speeches from British politicians.)



BLOOMBERG PLAGIARIZED PARTS OF AT LEAST EIGHT OF HIS PLANS

MIKE BLOOMBERG’S PRESIDENTIAL campaign plagiarized portions of its plans for maternal health, LGBTQ equality, the economy, tax policy, infrastructure, and mental health from research publications, media outlets, and a number of nonprofit, educational, and policy groups.

The Intercept found that exact passages from at least eight Bloomberg plans or accompanying fact sheets were direct copies of material from media outlets including CNN, Time, and CBS, a research center at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the American Medical Association, Everytown for Gun Safety, Building America’s Future Educational Fund, and other organizations. Bloomberg co-founded Everytown for Gun Safety, a political organization focused on gun control, and Building America’s Future Educational Fund, a nonprofit working on infrastructure investment and reform, and has chaired them in the past, and he was listed as a co-author on the educational fund’s reports. He is not clearly affiliated with the other sources. The plagiarized sections ranged in length from entire paragraphs to individual sentences and fragments in documents that were between five and 14 pages long.

On Wednesday afternoon, The Intercept sent a detailed query to the Bloomberg campaign. By Thursday morning, one of the plans was completely taken down, while others were changed.

https://theintercept.com/2020/02/06/mik ... arization/