The Democrat establishment is rallying around the possibly senile Joe Biden in an effort to deprive Bernie Sanders of the nomination. Other than this one on one contest, the only interest will be how little Michael Bloomberg will get for the 800 million that he has poured down the electoral rathole in this vanity run to beat all vanity runs. Pass the popcorn.
6:00 PM-Fox is calling Virginia for Biden. That was quick. Bloomberg, who gave the Democrats a lot of money to flip the Virginia legislature, is learning that politics is an ungrateful business.
6:20 PM-Sanders takes his home state, The People’s Republic of Vermont.
6:30 PM-Fox calls North Carolina for Biden just after the polls closed. Dixie is looking bleak for Sanders.
7:00 PM-The sovereign state of Alabama is called for Biden.
7:05 PM-Bloomberg takes the critical American Samoa vote. You will always have Pago Pago Mike.
8:00 PM-Biden takes Oklahoma, one of Liawatha’s home states. Bernie Sanders takes Colorado.
We are waiting on some tight states, so I am going off to do some work. I will resume later in the evening or early in the morning. Sanders apparently breathed new life into an expiring Biden campaign by making radical statements, for example praising Castro’s Cuba, that convinced quite a few Democrat voters that he is a dead bang loser in November. Biden is the not-Bernie tonight, and, for now, that appears to be a good place to be. More later.
3:45 AM-I don’t think that it is too strong to say that Super Tuesday turned into a disaster for Sanders. Biden took Arkansas, Massachusetts (No one loves you Fauxcahontas), Minnesota, Tennessee and Texas. Sanders took California and Utah. Maine remains too close to call.
OK, what does this all mean? Sanders went into Super Tuesday with the prospect of putting this race away. He comes out of Super Tuesday in a dog fight with Biden for number of delegates. Mike Bloomberg is a non-factor, and Elizabeth Warren is scalped and left for dead. It is a two man race now, and Sanders shows little draw among black voters. He is strong in the West, and in states where the Democrat constituency is whiter than white, and I doubt this will be enough. Democrats are looking at a repeat of 2016 where Sanders comes up short, and the Bernie Bros are furious. Milwaukee is likely to be the most bitter of Democrat conventions since Mayor Daley I, yelled “Fudge You” to Senator Abraham Ribicoff (D. Conn) in 1968 in Chicago as Ribicoff lambasted the Chicago cops for responding with violence to the violent “anti-war” demonstrators.
As for the Democrat establishment they have got their wish, and as long as Biden doesn’t appear too senile he is likely to be the nominee. It doesn’t seem too much to ask of a candidate, but it might be more than Biden is able to give. Lots of minders are likely to be by Biden’s side going forward, gags ever ready.
The Bernie Bros are not happy (language advisory):
The untold story from last night is the strong Republican turn out in most states for a candidate, Trump, running virtually uncontested.
Interesting night.
Update: Bloomberg is out and has endorsed Biden. I guess he decided 800 million was enough. Not so easy trying to be Trump, eh Mike?
Early prediction, Biden will win.
Yes, the Left has been courting crazies and Frankenstein always returns to the castle… but sane townsfolk will prevail.
Here in Texas we have been treated to a week-long tsunami of Pocahontas ads from some super-PAC. Talk about more money down the rathole…
I have to say, Biden is doing better than I thought he would. Honestly, I’m surprised MN didn’t go for Sanders.
[Norm Coleman: “I’m not.”]
Don, I too am looking forward to a brutal Dem convention reminiscent of the literally riotous 1968 disaster. That was the summer before I started high school in northwestern Illinois, and I still remember the TV coverage, which seemed to focus on the riots as much or more than the convention itself. The media clearly sympathized with the rioters, who likely were led by…wait for it…Soviet paid organizers…much as today they refuse to call out the thuggery of the Soros-funded “antifa.” Some things never change
In any case, it will be popcorn-worthy to watch today’s miserable excuse for journalists trying to decide how to cover the Left eating its own without an easy foil like Mayor Daley to pick on. Of course they have Trump, but I am betting that not even the likes of MSNBC and CNN can find a way to blame him for the Shafting of Bernie v2.0.
Looks like the race for the dem nod is going to come down to a fight between the Creep and the Commie. How y’all got?
Funny you include TYT video in this post. Since Cenk was running for office and as of last night….
Got 4% of the vote.
I’m still laughing.
Yeah, the man is a joke, but I do think he reflects accurately the thinking, if we may call it that, of the hard Left in the Democrat party.
Mini Mike the Billionaire Racist just dropped out – he’s endorsing the senile Katholyck apostate clown over the geriatric commie imbecile:
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/04/mike-bloomberg-drops-out-of-2020-presidential-race.html
There’s no way either of those two nit wits could possibly fare well in a debate against Trump.
If the Democrats win, the administrative state will prevail and freedom will be eliminated.
Considering that Roe v. Wade, the 1973 permissive abortion decision disenfranchised every man of his seed, his children and his Posterity, Blumenthal and Schumer were pretending to be un-emasculated in recent news interviews. The rest is censored.