No, but the vast majority sympathize with their arguements. I would say the thought of a women president is a plus to most Democrat voters.
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What makes Joe Biden a better candidate than Elizabeth Warren? (1 Viewer)
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sho nuff
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Yes, because despite his disadvantage of being an old white guy in a party which highly values diversity, he is a better candidate.
sho nuff
Footballguy
The point is your point about progressives was easily disproven. The two favorites right now are old white guys. So claiming her numbers are higher because she is a woman and white guys are at some disadvantage just looks really bad.
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It doesn't disprove my point. There are just more old white guys in position to be president. Most would quickly embrace a minority or female candidate.
sho nuff
Footballguy
Her numbers aren’t even great and two of the oldest white guys on top puts a pretty big dent in Warren having numbers due to being a woman and liberals don’t like old white guys.
The Narrator
Footballguy
When, oh when will we finally have an old white guy overcome these structural disadvantages and become president?
Over here in the real world, the top two and five of the top seven are men.
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Cross-posting this from the election thread. New Q poll has Biden as the only candidate with a clearly positive favorable rating (Mayor Pete is favorable, but due to low name recognition he doesn't crack a total of 50% of voters having an opinion either way).
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Mystery Achiever
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Pete's is favorable.
LOL @ DeBlasio.
LOL @ DeBlasio.
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formerfourdigit
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Arguments against Warren for President:
- Not likable - she is never going to be a rock star but has worked quite a bit is picking up points at every appearance since she announced. People that mentioned her as "dishonest/disingenuous" I don't get that at all. She seems very genuine to me.
- Too far left- we have elected centrist Democrats for the last twenty years and that hasn't stopped the Republican party from moving further right and continuing to let corporate money run Washington. She will not be able to pass all the legislation she has talked about for sure but she will absolutely frame our national conversation for the next four years; if like me you think undue influence of dark money is the biggest problem with our government today, who is going to do a better job than Elizabeth Warren of driving reform? She will surround herself with good people, she's not a career politician but she understands how government works.
We just need to beat Trump - She can and will beat Trump, she would demolish him in any debate; they weren't ready for him and didn't take him seriously enough in 2016; I don't think the same mistakes will be made this time around. The end boss is Trump Jr 2024 it doesn't end with Trump, hes not an anomaly but a progression of whats been going on the last couple decades.
Warren is the best candidate in the field so far IMO, given its early but I am hopeful the momentum continues as we move forward to primary season. I think she smokes Biden and Sanders in the end.
- Not likable - she is never going to be a rock star but has worked quite a bit is picking up points at every appearance since she announced. People that mentioned her as "dishonest/disingenuous" I don't get that at all. She seems very genuine to me.
- Too far left- we have elected centrist Democrats for the last twenty years and that hasn't stopped the Republican party from moving further right and continuing to let corporate money run Washington. She will not be able to pass all the legislation she has talked about for sure but she will absolutely frame our national conversation for the next four years; if like me you think undue influence of dark money is the biggest problem with our government today, who is going to do a better job than Elizabeth Warren of driving reform? She will surround herself with good people, she's not a career politician but she understands how government works.
We just need to beat Trump - She can and will beat Trump, she would demolish him in any debate; they weren't ready for him and didn't take him seriously enough in 2016; I don't think the same mistakes will be made this time around. The end boss is Trump Jr 2024 it doesn't end with Trump, hes not an anomaly but a progression of whats been going on the last couple decades.
Warren is the best candidate in the field so far IMO, given its early but I am hopeful the momentum continues as we move forward to primary season. I think she smokes Biden and Sanders in the end.
timschochet
Footballguy
It’s very refreshing to have a Warren fan in here. Welcome!Arguments against Warren for President:
- Not likable - she is never going to be a rock star but has worked quite a bit is picking up points at every appearance since she announced. People that mentioned her as "dishonest/disingenuous" I don't get that at all. She seems very genuine to me.
- Too far left- we have elected centrist Democrats for the last twenty years and that hasn't stopped the Republican party from moving further right and continuing to let corporate money run Washington. She will not be able to pass all the legislation she has talked about for sure but she will absolutely frame our national conversation for the next four years; if like me you think undue influence of dark money is the biggest problem with our government today, who is going to do a better job than Elizabeth Warren of driving reform? She will surround herself with good people, she's not a career politician but she understands how government works.
We just need to beat Trump - She can and will beat Trump, she would demolish him in any debate; they weren't ready for him and didn't take him seriously enough in 2016; I don't think the same mistakes will be made this time around. The end boss is Trump Jr 2024 it doesn't end with Trump, hes not an anomaly but a progression of whats been going on the last couple decades.
Warren is the best candidate in the field so far IMO, given its early but I am hopeful the momentum continues as we move forward to primary season. I think she smokes Biden and Sanders in the end.
I think you make some good points here (though not about Don Jr., that’s kind of silly.) I don’t think Warren has much of a shot, but we’ll see.
Mystery Achiever
Footballguy
On likeable, that is subjective and emotional, and not something you'll likely get people to move on.
On Honesty/Genuine, here is a recent tweet of hers: "“@Chase: why aren’t customers saving money? Taxpayers: we lost our jobs/homes/savings but gave you a $25b bailout.”
She knows that (1) The bailout made taxpayers a $15 billion profit, and (2) Chase didn't want bailout funds, but was forced, along with other large banks, to take them.
In that context, her tweet is neither honest nor genuine. It is a clear misrepresentation of facts.
formerfourdigit
Footballguy
Found what you are referring to after some searching, https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/09/perspectives/elizabeth-warren-workers-wages/index.html If this is indeed a "clear misrepresentation of facts" (note she has citations for the $25b) I don't see it remotely registering on the same scale as the stuff that comes out of our current POTUS and the op-ed seems pretty much spot-on to me.
Mystery Achiever
Footballguy
@formerfourdigit What Trump does doesn't affect whether or not she is honest and genuine.Yes, money was doled out. But
(1)it was repaid, leaving taxpayers better off. I don't know what the gov't did with the $15.3B, but that's on Warren and Congress, not Chase. And
(2) They weren't really bailed out; they took the money because Paulson forced them. She's chastising them for compiying with the government.
If I were to edit her tweet for accuracy, it would read",,,We lost our/jobs/homes/savings, but you helped us make $15.3B and complied with a government request". Zing!
I have citations, too.
“And while the goal was always to stabilize the economy, and not to make a profit, it is important to recognize the return we have earned for taxpayers.”
First nine banks were forced to take bailouts Documents show US was insistent
(1)it was repaid, leaving taxpayers better off. I don't know what the gov't did with the $15.3B, but that's on Warren and Congress, not Chase. And
(2) They weren't really bailed out; they took the money because Paulson forced them. She's chastising them for compiying with the government.
If I were to edit her tweet for accuracy, it would read",,,We lost our/jobs/homes/savings, but you helped us make $15.3B and complied with a government request". Zing!
I have citations, too.
“And while the goal was always to stabilize the economy, and not to make a profit, it is important to recognize the return we have earned for taxpayers.”
First nine banks were forced to take bailouts Documents show US was insistent
formerfourdigit
Footballguy
I didn't mean it to digress into whatabouts but let's frame it for 2020 political discourse "Crazy Liz Warren (Pocahantas) says that Chase got a $25B taxpayer bailout in the Great Recession of 2007, but it was really only $15B. They didn't want it and paid back every cent with interest! Great Recession and great American institutions like JP Morgan Chase made the taxpayers $15B yet FAKE NEWS media and the Libs want to tell you people lost money!"
I can't see one single voter swinging on this especially if they were alive and trying to support their families during that time. I believe she is 100% genuine when she gets triggered and has walked the walk on avoiding a repeat of the Great Recession since the day she was elected. Even if you think she is posturing on some of this, give her credit for driving conversations where nobody wants to do (recent example Defense spending pork)
PS I vehemently disagree with how you are framing the bank bailouts and there are plenty of other reputable sources that would dispute your take as well. Nobody I know looks back on that time as a "good thing that made taxpayers money". You cannot frame TARP (the response) independently from the stimulus (Wall Street garbage RE investments freezing the economy). Maybe another topic but yeah if that was somehow a good time in your life I can see why you might be hesitant to join the bandwagon.
parasaurolophus
Footballguy
This is just as disingenuous as Warren. That tweet was about chase. What happened with other banks is irrelevant.
Chase repaid the money in June of 2009. The government actually had to approve them paying it back. The "taxpayers" made 795 million on dividends and then made somewhere in the neighborhood of a billion when its warrants were auctioned off. That's a pretty decent haul.
Warren knows all of this. She obviously was just trying to manipulate an audience that would automatically think that taxpayers just gave the bank that money. That link showing that they got 25 billion would be as far as they would look, if they even made it that far.
But since she isn't as dishonest as trump is, I guess it's all good. That's a pretty low threshold to set. She just needs to be like 1/1024th correct then.
Mystery Achiever
Footballguy
@formerfourdigitIt was not my intention to paint TARP as a good thing or crisis as good times.
I simply believe that she is not a particularly genuine person and that her framing of these facts is an instance I could point to that validates that.
I simply believe that she is not a particularly genuine person and that her framing of these facts is an instance I could point to that validates that.
formerfourdigit
Footballguy
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This "JP Morgan Chase was the white knight of the Great Recession" stuff is boggling my mind, I must have missed that thread the first time around the FFA. Maybe we can fire that one up again
parasaurolophus
Footballguy
First you have to try to use trump to show that Warren is honest and genuine. Now you have to try and deflect from facts with hyperbole.
Warren picked her targets well. She got good buy in from people that aren't very well informed.
caustic
Footballguy
Arguments against Warren for President:
- Not likable - she is never going to be a rock star but has worked quite a bit is picking up points at every appearance since she announced. People that mentioned her as "dishonest/disingenuous" I don't get that at all. She seems very genuine to me.
- Too far left- we have elected centrist Democrats for the last twenty years and that hasn't stopped the Republican party from moving further right and continuing to let corporate money run Washington. She will not be able to pass all the legislation she has talked about for sure but she will absolutely frame our national conversation for the next four years; if like me you think undue influence of dark money is the biggest problem with our government today, who is going to do a better job than Elizabeth Warren of driving reform? She will surround herself with good people, she's not a career politician but she understands how government works.
We just need to beat Trump - She can and will beat Trump, she would demolish him in any debate; they weren't ready for him and didn't take him seriously enough in 2016; I don't think the same mistakes will be made this time around. The end boss is Trump Jr 2024 it doesn't end with Trump, hes not an anomaly but a progression of whats been going on the last couple decades.
Warren is the best candidate in the field so far IMO, given its early but I am hopeful the momentum continues as we move forward to primary season. I think she smokes Biden and Sanders in the end.
I'm on board with Warren 2020. I think she'd be a more effective legislator than Bernie, who is big on ideas but light on details, and Biden, who seems pretty satisfied with the status quo. She's not the best politician of the bunch, but I think she'd make the best president.
-fish-
Footballguy
Presidents aren’t legislators.
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[scooter]
Footballguy
Warren could "demolish" Trump in a debate, and Trump would just respond with "You should be in jail for lying about being Indian" and conservatives would give him a standing ovation.
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formerfourdigit
Footballguy
Tell this to the media. One thing Trump is doing is focusing our conversation and the news cycle. I think if it was steered towards wealth inequality instead of foreign affairs/random nonsense we will be able to matriculate the ball down the field towards a better future.
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