Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: I am posting two Electoral College maps;one we win,the other we don't. (poll) [View all]TexasTowelie
(112,684 posts)then certainly we should be capable of winning them again in 2020, regardless of who our candidate is.
Democrats didn't win Texas in 2018 because the national party has viewed Texas as a cash register and hasn't made many expenditures in the state for nearly two decades. Texans are loyal to our own and Trump is a Yankee that is despised in this state which means that Beto will be a favorite and he has polled as well as and even surpassed Biden in some polls.
Frankly, I'm ready for younger politicians to take charge. I'm surprised that people want to lock it down to three candidates over 70 years of age when we have plenty of fresh faces with good ideas out there.
Also, I doubt that people were voting for the VP position in 2008 or 2012 in any of the fifty states so claiming that it gives Biden an advantage is a dubious argument.
Too much conventional wisdom is stating that Biden is favored to win the blue wall states, but conventional wisdom doesn't always work out very well for the Democratic Party. As much as I like Biden and respect his experience, there is also plenty of baggage that comes with that experience and the GOP will be ready to pounce on it.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden