One reason so many Democrats are running for president is that none of them is a strong enough candidate to scare off the other ones. “The Democratic field to me, so far, is more about quantity than quality,” the Cook Political Reports Dave Wasserman told the New Yorker recently.
The first televised Democratic debate, with less-than-commanding performances by Senator Sanders and Vice President Biden, triggered some Democratic fantasizing about candidates other than two dozen or so “major” candidates who are already in. Michelle Obama’s name gets mentioned a lot.
Billionaire anti-climate-change activist Tom Steyer, sensing an opening, has joined the race. Some Democrats spend time dreaming about the existing candidates but with magically altered attributes: Biden, but ten years younger. Pete Buttigieg, but ten years older, and experience as a governor rather than a mayor........To Read More....
No comments:
Post a Comment