The lesson that a Biden win would underscore is that Democratic primary voters were persuaded in sufficient numbers that he was most likely to defeat Trump. That is the only question voters care about in this primary, despite the ideological fireworks from the expat punditry.https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1237350540520108032 …
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It's become déclassé to say it on this site, where the sophisticated take is that Biden and Trump are functionally interchangeable, but regular Democratic voters really want to win in November! They even considered Buttigieg! They will vote to maximize their chance of winning
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Arguing which particular hose we are going to try to put the fire out with is important only insofar as one is better than the other at putting out the fire. This is not my sophisticated political analysis, this is a conversation you can have with any primary voter off of Twitter
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Right but when you say "Democratic primary voters were persuaded" how do you think that happened? Considering Biden got a 30 point shift in only 3 days I'd say wall to wall coverage in the media had something to do with it. I'm personally not comfortable with CNN deciding this
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There's a widow where you actually have to decide and that's what happened. Media attention can steer is a bit but this isn't a conspiracy, it's what herding half a million cats looks like.
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There were wall-to-wall Bloomberg and Steyer ads for months, and two weeks of wall-to-wall CNN coverage of Bloomberg, and it all came to nothing. Voters have agency and they used it here
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