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Joe BidenCongratulations to our presumptive Democratic nominee, Joe Biden!
 

boston bean

(36,221 posts)
Fri Mar 13, 2020, 09:11 AM Mar 2020

Someone has more votes than you, you are the loser.

Thought this was common sense. But I guess it needs repeating in this Orwellian world where losing seems to mean you are the winner.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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Someone has more votes than you, you are the loser. (Original Post) boston bean Mar 2020 OP
Yep... Joe Biden.. Many More Votes.. Winner! Cha Mar 2020 #1
That 'stuff' just won't go away readily empedocles Mar 2020 #2
Saving face on the way out the oor! UncleNoel Mar 2020 #3
I'm positive Joe Biden won't say it like that Sunlei Mar 2020 #4
So Trump is the loser IronLionZion Mar 2020 #5
But they weren't the right kind of voters! R B Garr Mar 2020 #6
Sorry they don't end games or races in the middle because you are mikeysnot Mar 2020 #7
Unless 'more' is just a plurality. That leaves some questions unanswered. That said, Sanders pampango Mar 2020 #8
 

Cha

(297,154 posts)
1. Yep... Joe Biden.. Many More Votes.. Winner!
Fri Mar 13, 2020, 09:14 AM
Mar 2020

Those Pesky Voters.. Gotta Love 'em!

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

empedocles

(15,751 posts)
2. That 'stuff' just won't go away readily
Fri Mar 13, 2020, 09:15 AM
Mar 2020
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Undecided
 

UncleNoel

(864 posts)
3. Saving face on the way out the oor!
Fri Mar 13, 2020, 09:32 AM
Mar 2020

I think most Sanders supporters and Sanders would agree that he has lost,but I think Biden supporters should recognize that in two elections he has put before the nation the ideal of a great health care system.

The problem is how do we get there and it is not by revolution but by steps forward. First, close corporate loopholes and make the rich jpay their share of taxes and raise the taxes for the wealthy slightly. Then when we have the money, we can tailor the helth care to what is financially achievable.

I live in Taiwan which has according to many the best health care system in the world. I pay as anexpat about $25 a month and have highly qualified medical personnel and doctors available. My wife, a Taiwan citizen, is over 55 and doesn't have to pay at all. The plan includes basic medical care (quite generous actually on wht is considered basic), medicine (for up to three days or so above which you have to pay a but inexpensive. Basic dental care is included (but not false teeth and such). So it is great in my winter years.

The problem in the US is very high salaries of doctors and the purposeful limiting of their number and the high costs of medicine. This has to be addressed as well. I was sick in the US for 4-5 days in the hospital. Bill was 18,000 (paid ofr by Medicad). I came down with the same problem in Taiwan. The cost was a couple of hundred dollars. Doctors get good salries, but not outstanding ones and medicine is relatively inexpensive. So with Sanders and Warren I like the ideal, but I think Biden's approach is thebest way to get us onethe way.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
4. I'm positive Joe Biden won't say it like that
Fri Mar 13, 2020, 09:38 AM
Mar 2020

It's always a positive when your voice is heard and you can vote with your heart in the primary

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Undecided
 

IronLionZion

(45,432 posts)
5. So Trump is the loser
Fri Mar 13, 2020, 09:46 AM
Mar 2020

Dems have gotten more votes than GOP in 2000 and 2016.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

R B Garr

(16,950 posts)
6. But they weren't the right kind of voters!
Fri Mar 13, 2020, 09:50 AM
Mar 2020


Call everyone “older voters,” —- including all the black voters across several states —- who don’t count as much as the young people having a good time at his rallies. I guess you just count heads at his rallies and declare him the winner. No need for actually voting.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

mikeysnot

(4,756 posts)
7. Sorry they don't end games or races in the middle because you are
Fri Mar 13, 2020, 09:58 AM
Mar 2020

ahead in the 5 inning, or at half-time and joe is only up by 150+ and over a thousand votes short of 1991.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Undecided
 

pampango

(24,692 posts)
8. Unless 'more' is just a plurality. That leaves some questions unanswered. That said, Sanders
Fri Mar 13, 2020, 10:09 AM
Mar 2020

is indeed losing. He knows it. I realize that most here seem not to trust that he will do his best to bring along his supporters. If, in his opinion, the best way to do that is to debate and suffer through another round of primary defeats next Tuesday that is OK with me even if it is not with you.

We are a long way from the convention and a long, long way from the election. If it takes a few more day for Sanders to withdraw in a way that is most likely to bring along his supporters that is more important.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Undecided
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