Biden is not the official nominee yet. Let’s bring Bernie back before it’s too late!
Can we just bring Bernie back?
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What formal procedures does it involve?
The DNC asks Biden to drop out and then, like they did for Biden, ask every previous candidate to endorse Bernie in return for favors.
Why this won’t happen: Bernie isn’t a corporate shill.
If they don’t pick Biden they’ll pick Cuomo.
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Yes let's bring someone back who couldn't even win in his own primary! Way better than Biden, who has a sizable lead in early polling against Trump, including in swing states.
Bernie bro response: But Biden is so old... not like Bernie!I'm going to return to this post in November when Trump is re-elected just like I returned to similar posts about Hillary in 2016.
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I'm going to return to this post in November when Trump is re-elected just like I returned to similar posts about Hillary in 2016.
Median voter theory tells us that the more moderate candidate that appeals to the center will win most of the time. Not all the time, but most of the time, and the data supports this idea. If you want to choose a candidate who will beat Trump on the basis of probability, then you should be happy with Biden. If you want to choose a candidate on the basis of an outlier, then look to 2016 when the middle-of-the-road candidate lost. Social scientists should understand this.
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But both 2016 and 2020 have Trump as a candidate, so the exceptional dynamics of the debate stage will be present again. Trump would destroy Biden (like so many other establishment figures, not just Hilary). Bernie could actually perform. Social scientists think voters vote according to policy and ideology. This is only true some of the time, and it's never less true than in the case of Trumpian politics. Bernie can touch us where Trump touches us, and that's what matters in this particular race. I say this as someone whose politics actually align with Biden more than Bernie.
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For some reason people on this site think trump is a good debater and don’t remember that Hilary torched him: “when you were hosting celebrity apprentice I took down OBL”
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But both 2016 and 2020 have Trump as a candidate, so the exceptional dynamics of the debate stage will be present again. Trump would destroy Biden (like so many other establishment figures, not just Hilary). Bernie could actually perform. Social scientists think voters vote according to policy and ideology. This is only true some of the time, and it's never less true than in the case of Trumpian politics. Bernie can touch us where Trump touches us, and that's what matters in this particular race. I say this as someone whose politics actually align with Biden more than Bernie.
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Respectfully, it sounds like you are speaking way outside your area of expertise. The data is much more complicated than "the moderate candidate usually wins."
I'm going to return to this post in November when Trump is re-elected just like I returned to similar posts about Hillary in 2016.
Median voter theory tells us that the more moderate candidate that appeals to the center will win most of the time. Not all the time, but most of the time, and the data supports this idea. If you want to choose a candidate who will beat Trump on the basis of probability, then you should be happy with Biden. If you want to choose a candidate on the basis of an outlier, then look to 2016 when the middle-of-the-road candidate lost. Social scientists should understand this. -
For some reason people on this site think trump is a good debater and don�t remember that Hilary torched him
If someone claims Trump beat Hillary in the debates, that's usually a good sign to ignore all their subsequent analysis.
The Bernie Bros on SJMR have a pretty simple argument:
-Bernie is my candidate
-Because Bernie is my candidate, Bernie is the only one who can beat Trump, and is therefore the solution
-Because Bernie is the only one who can beat Trump, Bernie is a good debater and has popular policies and is a broadly loved candidate who everyone will vote for.It's pretty clear that only #1 is true, and if they actually went in logical order, the reverse, that they couldn't end up there. The fact is that Bernie has *good* policies but he's pretty weak on electability, and Bernie Bros' unwillingness to confront this makes them bad-faith debaters.