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Feb 19th 2019, 3:35 pm

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Re: 2020 Election

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Klobuchar is a moderate, great speaker, easy to understand, straight talker, personable, smart, no negatives, authentic. She will be President one day, not sure if it will be 2020.

I saw her CNN town hall last night and turned over with 15 minutes to go. She just isn't that interesting as a candidate. That might be just what the D need of course, but she didn't appeal to me.

Feb 19th 2019, 4:15 pm

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Re: 2020 Election

The candidate is determined by the Activists and there agenda is somewhat different.

Feb 19th 2019, 4:20 pm

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Re: 2020 Election

I did like the fact that she was prepared to give a direct 'No' to the question of if she was for free college for all.

Feb 19th 2019, 4:35 pm

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Re: 2020 Election

I thought free college is part of the GND?

Feb 19th 2019, 4:36 pm

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Re: 2020 Election

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I thought free college is part of the GND?

She doesn't support that either. It's 'asperational' but we can't expect that it will be implemented in full, nor implemented quickly.

Feb 19th 2019, 4:38 pm

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Re: 2020 Election

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She doesn't support that either. It's 'asperational' but we can't expect that it will be implemented in full, nor implemented quickly.

That sounds like she is disqualifying herself from the get go.

Feb 19th 2019, 6:37 pm

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Re: 2020 Election

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Originally Posted by samiam1066

My bet is Biden or Amy Klobuchar. Klobuchar is a moderate, great speaker, easy to understand, straight talker, personable, smart, no negatives, authentic. She will be President one day, not sure if it will be 2020.

Klobuchar is smart and pragmatic. But she certainly won't get votes from the Sanders wing of the party. The negative I've heard about her is that she is extremely difficult to work for.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019...minnesota-mean

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Feb 19th 2019, 8:26 pm

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Re: 2020 Election

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Is he still pretending to be a D?

Precisely. Actually both Trump and Sanders should’ve run as independents had US politics not been so utterly reliant on the machinery of the two party system.

Feb 19th 2019, 9:20 pm

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Re: 2020 Election

According to the info I can find he's still Independent, and yet he still want to be the Dem nominee?

Feb 19th 2019, 9:22 pm

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Re: 2020 Election

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According to the info I can find he's still Independent, and yet he still want to be the Dem nominee?

Worked for him last time so not sure why this would be an issue.

Feb 19th 2019, 9:29 pm

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Re: 2020 Election

It didn't really though.

Feb 21st 2019, 3:32 pm

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Re: 2020 Election

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I did like the fact that she was prepared to give a direct 'No' to the question of if she was for free college for all.

The Democrats should be pushing for free healthcare for children. They seems to have smeared every left wing cause across their plate rather than concentrating on a couple of big ones that are harder to fight against and that will open the door to actual change.