I voted. My polling place covers 3 precincts. I only saw one other voter while I was there. Granted I'm in Trump country, but still...it seemed very weird.
Hmm...
Apparently Joe won every county in MS...and MO...and MI. And all but 6 counties in ID, and one of those 6 was a tie. Bernie leads ND by 10 points (71% reported). And WA is basically a dead heat with 67% reported.
Yang endorses Biden.
Jim Clyburn, the endorser who got this Biden ball rolling, said on NPR that at this point the DNC may very well decide that there is no need for any more debates.
And, for the first time in 15 years, the approval rating of congressional RNC (40%) is higher than for congressional DNC (35%).
Biden can't beat Trump. He no longer has the needed mental accuity to stand toe-to-toe with Trump. The party knows this...the folks endorsing him know this...the media knows this...the $$ backing him knows this...anyone that has seen him speak recently knows this. Trump was already asked if he will bring up that point during the campaign. His response?..."All the time."
Unfortunately, the political establishment is busy squeezing out the one candidate that actually has empathy for the citizens, to move on to entertain us with the dottering old man vs the clown, while we move ever closer to a serious shit storm. It's in the news...but all the 'experts' are saying it won't be as bad as 2008/9. The Fed has been doing QE since Sept...they just cut prime by half a point...and 30 year T-bills dipped under 1% for the first time, ever. Business debt, personal debt, student loan debt, auto loan debt, and credit card debt are at all time highs...not to mention the $23 Trillion in federal debt. Companies were already using their tax cuts for stock buy backs, thus increasing their debt/equity ratio...and now the market is tanking, driving the ratio up even more. At some point banks will foreclose if they feel the debt has become too risky...tends to happen as soon as interest payments can not be met. Now toss in the pissing match between Russia ($6/barrel oil production cost) and Saudi Arabia ($3/barrel cost). The $2 a gallon gas is great...but not so much for US oil production ($35/barrel), not to mention the fracking industry. But that is not the worst part. With China's move to trade oil in their currency a year or two ago, and now Russia trading in their currency, and the market flooding from the pissing match, it is seriously starting to call into question the US$ as the reserve currency...the one thing that allows this country to do whatever the fuk it wants. If the $ starts to crumble, whole lot of folks are going to experience a whole lot of pain. Glad to know our politicians are looking out for them.