Interesting. https://t.co/knCc71k6nu— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 2, 2020
Yeah, but:
Vote-by-mail balloting began in California on Feb. 3, the same day as the Iowa caucuses, while Texas held an early voting period from Feb. 18 to 28. Somewhere north of 40 percent of Californians may have voted already—and some of them wish they could revote, which is definitely not allowed—while over 1 million people had already voted in Texas’ 10 largest counties. The difficulty for Biden, here, is that during the majority of these days, his campaign had been left for dead, and no one likes voting for a dead loser.
The Lovely Wife and I agree we wish we had waited to vote on Tuesday (but early voting is SOOOOO conveeeenient!). And it doesn't help that all the pundits with short-term memory loss (what is up with that? Even Dan Balz goes amnesiac, and he's been doing this as long as me) declare the winner of Iowa (who was that, again?) and New Hampshire the winner of all. Why, I'm old enough to remember when this was Bernie's race to lose. And that was right before...South Carolina. Which graveyard Bernie is loudly whistling past tonight.
I would have happily given my vote to Biden to give him more votes than Bernie, but votes will be split tomorrow night all over Texas because of early voting. Probably the same in California. Eh, so it goes. The primary system is still the best system for weeding out the youngest and most inspiring candidates in favor of the oldest and least threatening (Bernie's main threat is to down-ballot races). Same as it ever was.
♭Letting the days go by....letting the days by ♯ (For those of you who've never heard me sing, sharp and flat pretty much define my performance; and my range)
I'm voting for Warren because I want her to stay in and because it splits the "left vote". I figure that's a vote against Sanders, too.
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