A number of reasons why Joe did bad in IA and NH but.....

[Legends303]

I think that hurt him the most was the impeachment fight. I think voters are seeing the candidates with less baggage has a real chance of winning. Hunter Biden sitting on the board of Brishisma with no experience is seen as corruption in many voters eyes. They think Trump will probably gain advantage off of that and be seen as the anti corruption candidate. I think given the email nonsense from 2016 may have cost Clinton because it was seen as corruption and they don't want a repeat of 2016 with Biden this time. Just my thoughts on things.

[katmondoo]

1. I think you have a point.

[BusyBeingBest]

2. I think you're right, but "lying dog-face pony soldier" over the weekend

probably caused a number of people to break away from him at the last minute. Not because it was all that offensive, but because it was a weird and inappropriate moment.

[CentralMass]

6. It seems like maybe he was waiting to use that one and let it loose on the young lady.

It might have played better against a trumper.

[MoonRiver]

10. Ya think?!

[relayerbob]

3. IMO, It has to do more with the weird shit that he keeps saying

He sounds like a relic from the past.

So do some of the other leading contenders.

We need new leadership.

[Gravitycollapse]

15. He's always been like this. In 08 I thought he was weird.

Total gaffe machine back then and still one now.

[relayerbob]

16. Unfortuantely

Someone sounding like a skipping LP from 1968 isn't much better.

We need new leadership

[cherryinpa]

4. Advisors

Frankly I'm doubting he's getting the best advice on a lot of things.

Why the low-key approach so far?

Why the sudden attack on Pete?

Why leave NH on primary day suddenly?

None of this is making sense to me now.

I though Joe would come in #1 or #2 in NH, but then he leaves in the middle of the day. Who is guiding him is my question.

And why is everyone who supported him now seems to be drifting to a Republican Billionairre ... we haven't even got to SC yet and you're moving your chips onto a Republican Billionairre.

Maybe things are too complex for me now.

[LexVegas]

5. " Hunter Biden sitting on the board of Brishisma"

[Docreed2003]

7. Right???! Wtf

[ChubbyStar]

14. That was fucking painful to read. Seriously

the board of Brishisma? I will just leave it there.

[Codeine]

21. Spellcheck optimized for Cyrillic.

Plays hell with communication, tovarich.

[Indepatriot]

8. Anecdotal, but here might be another reason.

I'm a home visiting Physical Therapist, working in Los Angeles. I have a lot of elderly African American patients, and though I avoid talking politics on the job, I recently had a 72 year-old black woman from Compton ask me who I am supporting. I told her I support Bernie, but that I liked Warren as well, and would support her as well. This led to a short discussion about the other candidates, and when Biden came up she said " He's got nothing other than "I'm friends with Barack Obama", if he thinks that's all he needs to get black votes he's a damn fool", at which point her brother, sitting in the other room, yelled "Preach!" I can't argue their point....They are both supporting Warren but said they'd be happy with backing Bernie if he gets the nod.

[judeling]

9. Yes I believe that is pretty true.

but it also hurt all the senators also.

[uponit7771]

11. There were 4 regional or neighbor candidates running in IA and NH and all four ...

... placed 1 - 4

I wouldn't have spent a thin amount of resources in those areas either seeing they are not WTA.

Spend the resources shoring up a better representative races and a more representative demographic.

[Midnight Writer]

12. I think Biden's original polling lead was based largely on name recognition and familiarity.

As the other candidates got exposure and made their cases, his soft supporters peeled away.

[Garrett78]

13. I don't think so. Biden has never been a good presidential candidate.

He's doing better this year than he did in his previous attempts to get nominated, but I always viewed him as a very weak frontrunner with collapse all but inevitable.

Biden's baggage goes back much further than impeachment. To this day, Anita Hill thinks he owes the nation an apology. There's also the bankruptcy bill and more. And Biden has a long history of gaffes (no, not stuttering, but saying really stupid shit).

[rockfordfile]

17. No. lol Trump is crooked and Americans know this. Biden is a patriot

[Awsi Dooger]

18. Difficult to sustain as frontrunner when you're not extra special

I really like Joe Biden. I don't want to say anything negative. I've always doubted he'd be the nominee, simply because I thought of that Bob Dole comparison so quickly and easily, and I can't imagine the party going that route, not amidst the passion to evict Trump.

Joe Biden's best chance would have been 2016 if Sanders had not entered the race. I realize that's multiple changeups from how it played out. If Biden had decided to contest Hillary and Sanders had not screwed up the perspective and the distribution, then the pro-Obama and anti-Hillary forces in the party -- largely one in the same -- might have narrowly given the nod to Biden. If so, I have little doubt he would have defeated Trump.

[northoftheborder]

20. I fear that Trump's months' long slander against the Bidens may have worked.......

....unfortunately. I like Biden, think he is a decent man, and a smart, dedicated politician. He always has had gaffes, and still does. I was shocked that he came in so far down the line in New Hampshire. He's been on my favorite list from the first, although I have chosen others to root for at this time.