Alert readers will notice we don't mention Joe Biden in our New Hampshire wrap.
Why?
We've been saying for months (years?) that the Democrat Party of 2020 is not going to nominate an old white guy, at least one not named Bernie Sanders:
In a Democrat presidential race packed with over 20 candidates Joe Biden understandably enjoys massive name recognition. The man has been in public office for nearly 1/5th of American history, long enough to hold positions on controversial issues long forgotten by the public. In the 2010’s he was Barrack Obama’s Vice President. In the 2000s he was a supporter and later opponent of the Iraq War. During the 1990s he authored the Crime Bill. In the 1980s he was a presidential candidate caught plagiarizing speeches from British Labour Leader Neil Kinnock. In the 1970s he was a staunch opponent of forced busing. Joe Biden is a man of many eras. Except the current one. In last month’s debate Biden looked like a lost time traveler from the 1970s. All he was missing were his1970s era haircut and sideburns. Joe Biden’s long public record makes him extremely vulnerable today.
Keep reading to see our prediction that Bernie would slowly fade. Also, Jews aren't white.
Anyway, you'd have to be a clueless media teleprompter reader in a short skirt to not understand that Biden was never going anywhere, say Katy Tur, or Savannah Guthrie...I dunno. They're not me, that's for sure. Will is usually right. The media is usually wrong.
Nuke it from orbit.
[Why?-ed]
I dunno, why not?
Carnage, panic, impaled campaign operatives on the battlefield. Bernie won, his second in a row (sorry Wall Street Pete, Iowa ain't about delegates). Someone named Amy Klobuchar came in third. Don't get to excited. In 1996 someone named Lamar Alexander (over to you Harris) finished 3rd in Iowa and New Hampshire.
The numbers should terrify the party on the verge of embracing Soviet style socialism. Vast armies of young people did not show up to vote of Larry, erm, Bernie.
Meanwhile, Trump absolutely rocked the turnout, blowing away all other incumbent presidents in New Hampshire, ever. That is, 118,000 people turned out to vote for Trump in an uncontested election. We would have, just to give the middle finger to the press. You want enthusiasm? Trump has your enthusiasm.
New Hampshire!
And so our stupid party nomination process continues...
Polls show Bloomberg gaining ground. Maybe he's 3rd, maybe he's 2nd?*
Lets see, how does one judge this? On the one hand, Bloomberg is surging. On the other hand, he's blown a quarter of a billion dollars to finish 3rd. Foreign reader(s), Bloomberg's ads are annoyingly and persistently ubiquitous. You can't watch a sporting event without seeing them. NFL, NBA, even the XFL. Why just the other day we were watching ESPN-8 the Ocho…If it's on TV, it's Bloomberg. On the gripping hand** this blog believes the party of Bernie Sanders, Ilhan Omar and the rest of the Mos Eisley Cantina will never nominate a Jewish billionaire oligarch who liked stopping and frisking black guys and, oh, by the way, used to be a GOP.
We have no predictions except chaos.
At least they can't screw up the vote counting in a straight-up election, right? Right?
*Up-talked on that one.
**Come on, people, that is some serious science fiction referencing.
