"Warren finished in an embarrassing third place in her home state,"

[progree]

totally undeserved and wrong wrong wrong. I hate that such a wonderful person and candidate ended this way.

https://news.yahoo.com/super-tuesday-test-biden-looks-051039343.html

Maybe (hopefully) that's not the whole story, but I saw that segment,and thought crap

[LovingA2andMI]

1. It's Over for Lizzy

And we say this as Warren Supporters.

[SaschaHM]

2. I'm not sure it's over for Liz.

She sent out a fundraising email. If the money rolls in, she may stay. Hillary 2008 begot Sanders 2016 which may beget Warren 2020 as the perpetual thorn in his side movement candidate. It doesn't help that her staff and the candidate herself have no doubt faced harassment. There's a chance that she sees this through the month.

[progree]

3. I hope you are right. n/t

[Indykatie]

13. I Would Think Folks Will Be Reluctant to Contribute to a Losing Campaign n/t

[Recursion]

4. Taking as many delegates as possible to the convention is a tried and true strategy

It's a great way to get things you care about on the platform. And if you're a potential unity candidate during a floor fight...

[progree]

5. Whatever, darn. I hope she gets the clout she deserves (a lot), and then some. nt

[Shemp Howard]

6. Warren is now a kingmaker.

If she stays in, she’ll split the more progressive votes and Biden will probably get the nomination. If she drops out, Bernie will probably get the nomination. As a Sanders supporter, I would prefer that she drop out. But it’s her choice and I would not fault her either way.

[stopbush]

7. I see her numbers dwindling if she stays in. Any votes she takes away from Sanders will be

negligible.

[OnDoutside]

10. Every race she stays in, the better.

[MontanaFarmer]

14. Bernie was hurt by Warren tonight, but

Biden was hurt by Bloomberg as bad or worse in many states. I don't see any real path for Bernie absent a shift in preferences. He's not getting much out of Florida, Georgia, LA, Mississippi. Joe will run strong in the rust belt, NY, NJ, Kentucky. Bernie's path was a knockout punch last night, and he took one instead of delivering one IMO.

[stopdiggin]

8. agreed. totally undeserving.

I chalk this up to a near desperation on the part of the electorate. No place for sentiment .. or niceties. Winning is job one.

[progree]

9. Yup yup yup and .. yup. Such an undignified end to such a dignified++ candidate nt

[Kahuna7]

11. If only she would have hurled even more insults at Biden...

Oh well. I guess we'll never know.

[progree]

12. Honestly, I wasn't following her or her campaign all that closely. (frankly I'm an ignoramus) nt

[MontanaFarmer]

15. Warren's mistake was actual

honesty about her healthcare plan. Someone asked her how to pay for it and she got into the weeds to try to explain it, and it didn't go well. Bernie hasn't been shackled by any of that, he just says it's paid for and rolls right back into the stump speech. Warren would have made a very good and consequential president indeed, and I'm sad it's gone this way for her thus far.

[progree]

16. Yeah, uhh, well, anyway that's how I see it too, quite frankly. Well said. :) nt

[Baitball Blogger]

17. The big prize might elude Elizabeth Warren, but she serves a purpose, sadly.

As long as Bloomberg is still running, she serves a purpose for the Democratic party because she showed how easy it was to expose his weaknesses. So the voters who saw Biden and Bloomberg as an option, would have dropped Bloomberg from their choices.

And, of course, she will draw progressive votes away from Bernie. So I expect she will make it to the convention if all it takes is donations.

[Kaleva]

18. Bloomberg's chances depended entirely on how well or poorly Biden did in SC

When Biden won a crushing victory in SC, a state Bloomberg did not compete in, Joe got a slew of endorsements and wavering supporters went back to him in a big way. Heck! Look at MA where Biden came out of nowhere and easily bested both Sanders and Warren.

Now, had Biden faltered in SC, I believe many Biden supporters or those leaning Biden would have gone to Bloomberg as Plan B.

[dlk]

19. Deeply ingrained sexism is part of America's dna

As the saying goes, a woman has to do twice as well as a man to be considered half as good. We have very far to go.