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People may not know this - but neither the mayor nor city council are responsible for the school system, which has a School Board that governs the system, presumably with some oversight from the state and federal government.
Cuz there aint room for that. The difference between Republicans & Democrats and most Independents is the difference between those who want everything figured out up front and those who want to figure it out as they go along. That is what Gingrich & the Heritage Foundation realized 30 years ago and used to create majority control out of a minority viewpoint. Public polls show it all the time - America is 60-70% liberal on the issues themselves. But on whom they elect to represent them, the country likes certainty over options. With their pledges & party line & "control" of the Dow, the GOP has a natural edge on an undecided voter because they are the very answer to doubt.
This is a campaign failure, more than a candidate failure, imo.
This is 100% a candidate failure. if she couldn't run something as manageable and small as a campaign, she stood no chance running something much much bigger.
She had some Senate moments, but attacking Biden on race issues from decades ago was not a good strategy.
I agree. She got 15 minutes of fame by getting on Biden's case about busing, a dead-as-doornails issue if there ever was one. And then it turned out that her position on busing is actually the same as Biden's. I'm glad to see her gone.
Yes and no. Had she chosen a better team to run the campaign, Harris the candidate, would probably be a front-runner right now.
My point is because she was unable to put together a good team, and let nepotism of all things get n the way of that, directly points to her being a failed candidate and unable to lead.
It's a good thing we don't ask presidents to assemble a team of people who they rely on for advice and assistance.
If we're taking a poll, put me down for strongly disagreeing with all of this. IMO, Harris was not a good candidate for reasons having nothing to do with her campaign. And while Buttigieg is running a great campaign, he's my preferred candidate completely independent of that.
I agree - it is a decidedly bad mark on her campaign.
Fair enough - though I might quibble with "completely independent" - given that it was his well run early stage that propelled him and his message into the mainstream. And, while you probably would have looked into his candidacy anyway, I think the buzz surrounding the early campaign did bring a lot of people in to have a look - thus the campaign itself played a big role in getting people to take notice of the policies behind the candidate.
See, to me, this is the lazy way of looking at it.
I think his current job is pretty important.
My fear is that, much like some us were blind-sided by the large number of people in this country who would vote for a candidate because he catered to their, uh, "economic anxiety" despite his obvious failings as a human being, there may be more people than we think who won't vote for a gay man despite everything else.
I disagree.
This is five months old, but shows Warren 1st, Biden 2nd
Awesome..I applaud your forward thinking....and to me, his homosexuality has no bearing on his ability to effectively be president.
If he loses. It won't be because he is openly homosexual.
Well no, he could lose because of better candidates out there.
eople who want to vote for Pete but don't think other people will vote for him because he's gay. Short sayseople refusing to vote for Pete because he's gay.
That's why Buttigieg winning Iowa would be a huge deal, in the same way that Obama winning Iowa convinced a lot of people that a black guy could actually win.There's a cartoon on FB I really want to post, but it isn't public and I can't find it elsewhere
There's a long line of people and a very short line of people. Long says
Chris Hayes (or may have been Kornacki) described stuff like this as voters modeling other voters; behavior. Still costs votes
Well he is no community organizer nor a real estate developer, just a simple experienced executive department administrator in a government office with prior military experience and private sector employment who has traveled outside of our borders.
I think Iowa and South Carolina are key to Buttigieg winning the nomination.
Warren kind of makes sense if your plan was to vote for a female candidate but outside that I'm not sure how much alike those two were. What Pete needs is more of the centrists to drop out (Booker, Klobuchar...) while he continues building his ground game.
As a general principle, I agree with you. I've argued over and over again that wisdom and temperament are more important than formal government experience when it comes to the presidency. One reason why I like Buttigieg is because he seems to have the personal qualities I'd like to see in a leader. (Also, I'd prefer for Trump to lose, but I'd far prefer that he lose to a centrist than to somebody like Warren, and Buttigieg is claiming the centrist lane pretty aggressively). So I'm predisposed to not worry too much about his resume.
Ugh. I had enormous respect for how Gov Carter conducted his campaign and am regularly overwhelmed by the grace & tenacity of former-President Carter, but President Carter was an unmitigated disaster. His primary quality as Commander-in-Chief was probably the least enviable a prominent leader can have - rigidity. I know from personal experience that he would not take counsel in areas in which he had strong views (especially when those views had basis in his very conservative notions of faith & morality) and was very slow to be corrected by result. I would rank his administration on a par with the current one, between Nixon's scandalous and GWBush's ruinous administrations as the worst of my time.
Trump is an #######.
I don't like nor hate you boy Pete but I just don't think he will making any meaningful change for the people that need it. But I guarantee this, Trump will use coded or not so coded language about his sexual orientation to rally his base. It will be disgusting and work.
I am sure he will.IC FBGCav said:
