Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Iowa co-winner, is surging mightily in New Hampshire polling.
I expect to see Mayor Pete and Bernie occupying the two center spots in this evening’s New Hampshire debate.
Biden? He tucked tail and scampered back to Delaware in effort to re-group. Biden did poorly in Iowa and is not looking all that great in New Hampshire, either!
Oh, dang, I missed this must see TV 
Wow!
You obviously had a sock drawer to clean out, or something similarly important. 
Yeah, I tried very hard to watch . . . I mean I really struggled and gave it my absolute best effort. But I had to tune out well before the end. One can only tolerate so much BS and insanity.
This coming Friday, February 14, 2020, is Valentine’s Day.
Why is that same day of interest with respect to our topic here?
Valentine’s Day, this coming Friday, will be Mike Bloomberg’s seventy-eighth birthday!
I think Mayor Bloomberg really has his act together for a person of that advanced age. Speaking of which:
I detect no age-related mental slippage with Bernie, Bloomberg, Trump, and certainly not with Senator Warren, who is somewhat younger but is a septuagenarian nevertheless, just by a whisker.
I do have doubts about Vice President Biden in this regard.
Reminds me of a friend who was a regular pot smoker back when a half-ounce would get you five years in the state pen. His motto - always act like you’re stoned and they’ll never be able to tell when you really are. 
A quick summary article for those who passed on watching the NH debate and select reader comments.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/sanders-buttigieg-to-vie-for-edge-in-new-hampshire-debate-11581120938
There was not a single person on that stage that could be president. All they talked about was how bad things are. Really? Low unemployment, wage growth, a commitment to US security, the best economy on the planet. What “bad” are they referring to? I don’t get it.
After missing the last few debates and then watching most of the debate this evening, I didn’t see a single candidate with any kind of vision for the U.S. that I can feel good about as a moderate. Compare that to Mr. Trump’s last two State of the Union addresses. I want to hear about a brighter future and better tomorrow. Instead what I hear is a long list of grievances. And the proposed solutions are always more government spending and control. Thanks, but no thanks
It’s astounding to me how out of touch they are. Who is in favor of releasing tons of criminals? Who is in favor of flooding our border with millions of illegal immigrants? Who is in favor of paying reperations for slavery? Who is in favor of letting the Boston marathon bomber vote?
Thanks for the recap, and making me feel good about precognition 
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They learned from the last “successful” Democrat.
Sorry @xerty, but you are a moderate from about 70 years ago … at least according to CBS/NBC/ABC/blah,blah. Today’s moderate wants a minority/victim to be everything good, and a non minority/victim to be responsible for everything bad, real, imagined, and triggered.
Who do you think will ever hear those things, or hear them in light of sanity/logic/common sense?
Senator Warren appears to be having more trouble in New Hampshire than I anticipated she would have. Instead, Senator Klobuchar’s star looks to be ascending.
It will be interesting to see if Amy can do better than Biden in New Hampshire. We could be in for some surprises just 48 hours hence. Stay tuned.
Yeah quite possible for Amy. Polls have Bernie in first and Pete a surprising close second for NH, but we’ll see how good those are in a few days.
Now, they say the “final” results still contain known mistakes in tabulating. But they’re claiming it’d be illegal to correct the math errors on the tally sheet. How the hell did we get to the point where accurate math would harm the integrity of the process and be considered election tampering?
And correcting math errors would inject “personal opinion” into the results? I swear to god this is saying that the tabulator “identified” 2+2 as equaling 5, so 5 is the correct answer! Not a simple math error, it’s numerical fluidity.
‘It’s a Crime’: Iowa Reportedly Won’t Correct Errors on Caucus Worksheets
I think the only thing that matters is how different the correct results would be from the reported ones. As in, did most of the incorrect results favor or hurt the same candidates and by how much.
This just in - Creative Writing to be replaced by Creative Math. No longer will we not correct your errors due to possibly hurt feelings. We now will just believe you are right.
Next up - Fixing Newton’s Law of Gravity. It’s going to make space exploration so much cheaper.
What matters is that these “captains” (or whatever they’re called) tallying vote results can write down whatever totals they want, and correcting the sheet to the actual vote totals is what’s considered election tampering. That’s a hell of a precedent to set.
I concede it could be my imagination. But Biden’s star, to me, looks to be in a STEEP descent . . . . one which even a victory in South Carolina will be unable to reverse.
I wish someone from California would post on this. Will Biden have a good showing in the Golden State? I’m not there. I dunno. But seems to me we’re almost at the point where that’s what it would take to get him back on track. Otherwise, Biden is toast . . . . just like the last two times he tried for the Democrat nomination and came up short.
Yes, that certainly matters in the long-term, but I don’t know how quickly that could be resolved. In the immediate term actual vs reported results are important. I hope this ordeal kills their stupid process and changes it to a primary, preferably with ranked voting.
I think the actual verses reported is little more than for curiosity. To see how bad they did f$@k things up, and give people excuses.
The consequences go beyond the Iowa format. Someone recording voting machine tallies on the “official” form accidentally writes down 1003 instead of 3001, or when adding together individual machine totals for the precinct totals - it’s now (allegedly) election tampering based on “personal opinion” to find and correct the mistake to the 3001 shown on the machine printout, or to fix math that clearly shows 2+2=7. That’s asinine, and setting that precedent is what should matter.
More and more Biden is fading . . . . almost on an hour by hour basis. His candidacy is imploding, even in South Carolina!!!
Right now, to me, this is becoming a Bernie vs. Bloomberg race. The other candidates simply do not have the juice to go up against Trump. Mayor Pete is one VERY smart guy. But he ran a city of 100,000 vs. NYC at 8 million for Mayor Bloomberg. Amy is gaining and for good reason. She is a solid candidate. But as she rises her lack of cred with black voters is starting to become known. Trump is very actively recruiting black voters . . . did you see the SOTU? Democrats need a candidate who can attract and hold those voters so Trump’s efforts fail.
Finally, Mayor Bloomberg has just an overwhelming, overpowering, advantage where money is concerned. This is so important. Trump is a third rate pauper by comparison. If he wins the nomination, Bloomberg will blow Trump right off TV screens all across America. Neither will Bloomberg become in any manner intimidated by Trump; not at all.
If the most important thing to Democrats is defeating Trump, they need to stop messing around and deploy their most powerful candidates ASAP. Of overwhelming importance would be to find a way to get Mayor Bloomberg on that Nevada debate stage in Vegas, just nine days from today!
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I didn’t mean to slight Senator Warren in the above. But I’m not seeing her candidacy catching on. To have a chance she must poll really well in New Hampshire, for her a neighboring state. I guess that still could happen. But I’m not seeing indications yet that it will happen.
Bloomberg has an up hill battle with African Americans. He was, afterall, a proponent of stop and frisk, that overwhelmingly targeted minority communities.
I don’t recall them calling “Chicago rules” pre-election.
I believe they overwhelmingly targeted the most crime-ridden communities. Those happened to be minority communities.