Elections 2020 Democratic Primary Thread: The Announcements

[jeffk]

Buttigieg is probably too young this time around but I am impressed by him. Graduated from Harvard manga cum laude, Rhodes Scholar and served in Afghanistan. I haven't gone through all of his platform but he is getting my vote at this point.

 

[Trotsky]

It's crazy that anyone could cite that as being "right" when the very caption - "Mueller reported Trump did not collude with Russia" - is objectively inaccurate.

 

[58miles]

Biden +10 over Bernie

Okay, corporate Dems, okay. Definitely not hitting us with the fake polls. Meanwhile, BDB is closing in on 1,000,000 individual contributors with an average donation of $20.

This primary is going to fracture to the Democratic party if the establishment refuses to bend by summer 2020.

Bernie bots are even more delusional and annoying than Trumptards which is a monumental accomplishment. At least Trump won the Republican nomination and the Presidency while Saint Bernie of Vermont couldn't even win the Democratic nomination.

Bernie and every other candidate in the Democratic primary's ultimate fate will be determined by suburban voters and African Americans especially African American women.

 

[xcvbn]

Bernie bots are even more delusional and annoying than Trumptards which is a monumental accomplishment. At least Trump won the Republican nomination and the Presidency while Saint Bernie of Vermont couldn't even win the Democratic nomination.

Bernie and every other candidate in the Democratic primary's ultimate fate will be determined by suburban voters and African Americans especially African American women.

You could have just said Trump 2020 instead of writing that wall of text

 

[bobgeese]

It's crazy that anyone could cite that as being "right" when the very caption - "Mueller reported Trump did not collude with Russia" - is objectively inaccurate.

 

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Kirsten Gillibrand is the first presidential candidate to release her 2018 tax returns
Vox

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on Wednesday became the first candidate in the 2020 field to release her 2018 tax returns, and in doing so, she pressed the other contenders in the already very crowded field to follow suit.

“For public servants, releasing your tax returns shows the American people that you work only for them, not the powerful,” she said in a statement. “I’m proud to be the first presidential candidate to release my latest returns, and take that critical step towards transparency.”

Other candidates in the Democratic primary, including Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, have previously released some portion of their tax history — Warren more than Sanders — but both have yet to disclose their 2018 filings. (It’s possible candidates have yet to fully complete their 2018 taxes since the filing deadline isn’t until April 15.)

Returns can be viewed here:
https://kirstengillibrand.com/news/kirstens-tax-returns/

 

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What the 2020 presidential candidates’ logos tell us, explained by design experts
Vox

What is it about a political candidate’s logo that makes people want to get out and vote? Did Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s dynamic branding — incorporating speech bubbles and stars, her name pitched at an angle — particularly speak to voters in Queens and the Bronx last November? Was it President Donald Trump’s heavy sans serif logo, rendered in navy and red, that Americans found so compelling in 2016?

Voters might not necessarily realize it, but graphic design plays an important role in political campaigns, alerting us to how a candidate wishes to be perceived by the public. The growing field of entrants to the 2020 presidential race has already introduced a wide array of visual styles, from Kamala Harris’s striking purple, yellow, and red color scheme and Elizabeth Warren’s upbeat but simple sans serifs to Jay Inslee’s environmentalist iconography.

Some of the logo's

 

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The big divide among 2020 Democrats over trade — and why it matters
Vox

It’s a pretty safe bet that no candidate is going to campaign as a free trader in the 2020 Democratic primary, setting up the potential for a large-scale realignment on a major policy issue for the party.

The Democratic Party faces a fork in the road, on an issue where President Donald Trump has scrambled all the old alliances.

“I think we’re at a tipping point,” says Thea Lee, who leads the lefty Economic Policy Institute, which is skeptical of free trade agreements. “You could see Democrats retreat to their comfort blanket. My hope is we can convince people that’s not an option. We’re not going to go back to the status quo ante. What we need to do is have a forward-looking vision.”

Former Democratic Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, in part because of their decision to work with congressional Republicans, put the party on the path of free trade. They pursued trade liberalization in service of embracing global competition; the left’s dire warnings of jobs shipping overseas went unheeded. Then Trump staged a protectionist takeover of the Republican Party on his way to the White House.

 

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2020 Democrats Love Small Donors. But Some Really Love Big Donors, Too.
New York Times

Senator Cory Booker spun through a San Francisco fund-raiser hosted on Friday afternoon by high-tech titans and wealthy venture capitalists, including the investor Ron Conway. That evening, in New York, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand gathered donations at the Upper West Side home of Matthew Mallow, a vice chairman of the investment giant BlackRock.

And on Sunday night, Senator Kamala Harris is set to mingle with Hollywood luminaries at the home of the president of the MGM Motion Picture Group, Jonathan Glickman.

The race for cash in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary is reaching a frenetic peak this weekend with a dozen fund-raisers on both coasts, as presidential hopefuls rush to vacuum up $2,800 checks — the maximum amount individuals can give for the primary by law — before the first quarterly fund-raising deadline of the campaign at midnight on Sunday.

A portion that some here might take issue with:

Beto O’Rourke, the former Texas congressman, began calling some donors to seek support before he entered the race this month, but he is expected to lean heavily on a small-donor network that netted more than 100,000 contributions and $6.1 million in his first 24 hours. He has held no fund-raisers so far and has none planned yet in the future, according to his campaign.

The donor primary has a whole other level to it for 2020 it seems like with some voters seeing importance in small donors.

 

[Trotsky]

What the 2020 presidential candidates’ logos tell us, explained by design experts
Vox

Some of the logo's

My ranking of the logos:

1. Warren - minimalist, conspicuously ditches the red, stressing her commitment to blue collar interests
2. Inslee - accentuates his platform, unique, less traditional
3. Gillbrand - accentuates her platform and is tight to her brand
4. Booker - excellent throwback-style logo, makes you feel like it could be for city counsel in 1960s NYC
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5. Harris - not a novel slogan and not one that seems to track with her record/platform very well, not a memorable style
6. Klobuchar - it's nice and all....but there's not much there

[big space]

7. Beto - so....just a hark back to an election that he lost, still no message, drawing from a well that is becoming stale
8. Gabbard - by far the fucking worst; contains no message and calls upon her background that is not particularly in-line with most of her voters.

 

[Trotsky]

@Fawlty let's get some impressions from a computer design guy

 

[Fawlty]

@Fawlty let's get some impressions from a computer design guy

Can't help you there, I'm hopeless when it comes to graphic design. My opinions though:



Harris: Fire whoever the fuck designed that clunky shit, it looks like it bled around its tampon

Inslee: Pallid globe is pallid, is he a small environmental group or something? Is this guy even from America?

Warren: IRL stripped-down mobile view is super inspiring

Tulsi: What a tacky whore, maybe I could get her drunk and fondle her

Cory: That ice cream looks gross, get your shit together homie

Gillibrand: If Warren's didn't suck quite as much but still kinda sucked

Beto: That grill-ass looking thing is probably the last thing his victims saw before he plowed into them drunk, and at the bottom he's actually apologizing for running for president

Amy: Who the fuck is Amy?



It's not a strong field, logo-wise.

 

[Trotsky]

Can't help you there, I'm hopeless when it comes to graphic design. My opinions though:



Harris: Fire whoever the fuck designed that clunky shit, it looks like it bled around its tampon

Inslee: Pallid globe is pallid, is he a small environmental group or something? Is this guy even from America?

Warren: IRL stripped-down mobile view is super inspiring

Tulsi: What a tacky whore, maybe I could get her drunk and fondle her

Cory: That ice cream looks gross, get your shit together homie

Gillibrand: If Warren's didn't suck quite as much but still kinda sucked

Beto: That grill-ass looking thing is probably the last thing his victims saw before he plowed into them drunk, and at the bottom he's actually apologizing for running for president

Amy: Who the fuck is Amy?



It's not a strong field, logo-wise.

Jeez. I actually liked this year's crop of logos =(

I especially like Booker's

 

[Fawlty]

Jeez. I actually liked this year's crop of logos =(

I especially like Booker's

Like I said, I don't have a great eye for that sort of thing. I don't expect my opinions of logos to matter much (and they don't mean anything to me).

 

[Trotsky]

Like I said, I don't have a great eye for that sort of thing. I don't expect my opinions of logos to matter much (and they don't mean anything to me).

 

[Phisher]

Check out the responses to this word salad of platitudes. Beto is getting clowned.


People are on to what an empty suit this dude is. It was a huge fucking mistake for him to listen to the donors that told him to run for POTUS. He should have challenged Cornyn.

People will tolerate this shit if it means the possibility of flipping a red state senate seat. It's not going to get you to the Dem nomination in this climate.

 

[jrams]

Check out the responses to this word salad of platitudes. Beto is getting clowned.


People are on to what an empty suit this dude is. It was a huge fucking mistake for him to listen to the donors that told him to run for POTUS. He should have challenged Cornyn.

People will tolerate this shit if it means the possibility of flipping a red state senate seat. It's not going to get you to the Dem nomination in this climate.

I kind of feel like he got coaxed into running to try to make Harris and Booker seem more human. He brings back memories of the Rubiobot getting stuck in an infinite loop at the debates.

 

[Trotsky]

I kind of feel like he got coaxed into running to try to make Harris and Booker seem more human. He brings back memories of the Rubiobot getting stuck in an infinite loop at the debates.

Haha, he definitely makes Booker and Harris seem less human.

But he's not Rubio. The dude is intelligent and does have thoughts. Rubio is pretty unique in that he is actually empty-brained with no positions, thoughts, or ability to think on his own. I can't think of any politician remotely close to Rubio in terms of caricature-esque uselessness.

 

[jrams]

Haha, he definitely makes Booker and Harris seem less human.

But he's not Rubio. The dude is intelligent and does have thoughts. Rubio is pretty unique in that he is actually empty-brained with no positions, thoughts, or ability to think on his own. I can't think of any politician remotely close to Rubio in terms of caricature-esque uselessness.

 

[Phisher]

I kind of feel like he got coaxed into running to try to make Harris and Booker seem more human. He brings back memories of the Rubiobot getting stuck in an infinite loop at the debates.

No, he was talked into running by some of the donors who were behind Obama after they saw how mediocre Harris is. His backers genuinely want him to win, or at the least, get the VP nom. However, they're going to ruin his career.