As Sanders vies for the left in New Hampshire, Biden is at home in the middle

[TexasTowelie]

Laconia, NH – Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Vice President Joe Biden have been spending plenty of time courting voters in New Hampshire in recent months. Yet you’d be hard-pressed to find overlap in the crowds turning out to see them.

As Vermont’s senator expounds on a progressive platform that includes Medicare for all and a sweeping $16 trillion climate action proposal, vying with Sen. Elizabeth Warren for support from the progressive branch of the Democratic Party, Biden is comfortably courting voters in the center.

“Wisdom is in the middle,” said Ron Lyman, who supported former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the last election and turned out for Biden’s campaign event Friday in Laconia, a town nestled in the lakes region of New Hampshire.

Biden could help to bridge the divide between the right and the left in the country, while other candidates may simply widen the ideological gap already splitting voters, Lyman said. “We need somebody in the middle of the two factions in this country.”

Read more: https://vtdigger.org/2019/09/06/as-sanders-vies-for-the-left-in-nh-biden-is-at-home-in-the-middle/

[Cha]

1. KR for Biden!

Mahalo!

[crazytown]

3. "We need somebody in the middle of the two factions in this country."

In a deeply stressed society, the closer you are to the middle, the less represented those on the edges feel - it is a recipe for extremism, not unity. The problem is corruption in Washington, and fraud in business, the later amplified by gigantic size that makes a mockery of the spirit on anti-trust law. This is Elizabeth Warren's message - it cuts through to into both left and right. A demand that all play by the rules, resonates across the political spectrum.

Joe Biden would like to heal the soul of the nation. You can't do that if the cancer of corruption is just nipped and tucked. Keyhole surgery won't cut out this monstrosity.

Senator Sanders like to quote FDR's 'I welcome their hatred' line from his 1936 Maddison Square Garden speech, but not the lines that follow it -

The American people know from a four-year record that today there is only one entrance to the White House--by the front door. Since March 4, 1933, there has been only one pass-key to the White House. I have carried that key in my pocket. It is there tonight. So long as I am President, it will remain in my pocket.

Those who used to have pass-keys are not happy. Some of them are desperate. Only desperate men with their backs to the wall would descend so far below the level of decent citizenship as to foster the current pay-envelope campaign against America's working people.

That is why their hatred was unanimous - they were left out in the cold.

Will Joe tackle corruption with the vigor that is needed? The mega donations Joe and Pete have been chasing do not buy outcomes, they buy access: A pass key called a telephone number.

[DownriverDem]

4. Elections

are won in the middle. I know many folks lean more left and seem to be missing this fact.

[oldsoftie]

5. The Right makes the same mistake. I've seen it often where I live

The most Conservative person in the primary wins, then loses the general! Not ALL the time, but often. And when its in a purple area it happens MOST of the time

[Thekaspervote]

7. +1000

[DrFunkenstein]

6. A Rockefeller Republican is Socialist Now, So The "Middle" of What?

The football has been moved far to the right going back to 9/11, going back through the "Third Way" 90's, back at least to the Reagan revolution.

The 21st century has seen the Dem establishment get more and more comfortable - and beholden - to the Wall Street millionaires and billionaires that fund their campaigns. That' not fist-pumping rhetoric. That's the reality of it.

"Moderate" is taken as a synonym for "reasonable." That's why so many Americans want to be viewed as safely moderate, not wanting to succumb to the excesses of, well, anything.

But the current state of the "moderate" Democratic establishment is as reasonable to the average American as the 5th circle of hell is a "moderate" circle. If someone plunges a knife in your back, taking it out half-way is not a "moderate" position. Handing half of the keys to the American economy to Wall Street executives is not a "moderate" position.

[Thekaspervote]

8. The far left Althou has some good ideas, is not the main stream of middle america

The leader Joe Biden’s, poll numbers reflect this

[jalan48]

9. Joe represents the past. At some point we will need to move forward.