Slow Joe is a no go?

[Scooter]

David Axelrod addressed this; while he wasn't personally involved in the vetting process, he said there was no way that anything like that would have gone unnoticed if there was anything to find.

And Reade appears to have changed her story again. She now says that any report she supposedly filed at the time would not have alleged either sexual harassment or sexual assault, merely that Biden had complimented her legs and invited her for drinks and that made her uncomfortable.,

[Guinevere]

Thanks Scooter, I hadn’t seen that yet.

[Darren]

Sander's fans got somewhat of a reprieve when the NY primary was reinstated. Slow Joe needs to get the knee pads out. He's got more people to please. Will he be pleasing? Or not?

"New York state's presidential primary is back on for June 23, under a ruling issued by U.S. District Judge Analisa Torres in Manhattan. She said the Board of Elections' decision to cancel the contest out of concerns for the coronavirus unconstitutionally deprived candidates of their right to compete – even if they themselves have suspended their campaigns for president."

[Darren]

May 7, 2020

"Former Vice President Joe Biden will not be the Democratic nominee in 2020, despite recent endorsements from Hillary Clinton, President Obama, Bernie Sanders, and other Democrats.

The closer we get to the convention, the less unified Democrats will be regarding the prospect of Biden running against, or even debating, President Trump. Biden already loses to President Trump in Florida, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and other swing states according to the latest CNBC poll.

Furthermore, Biden’s gaffes and continual lapses in memory, in addition to possible cognitive issues already have Democrats clamoring for an alternative. Biden’s success in the Democratic primary has more to do with a repudiation of Bernie Sanders and a revulsion for President Trump than anything positive about the former Vice President."

[Lord Jim]

Wow, reality is sure a lot different on Earth 2 than it is here o Earth Prime...

[Big RR]

Please post those poll results; the ones I see call it a deadlock--no clear winner. With 6 months left until the election, big deal.

"have Democrats clamoring for an alternative". Again, post you link to a mainstream press link claiming or showing this

[Darren]

Please post those poll results; the ones I see call it a deadlock--no clear winner. With 6 months left until the election, big deal.

"have Democrats clamoring for an alternative". Again, post you link to a mainstream press link claiming or showing this

Post a sentence or two out of the article into your search engine. BINGO! You'll find the article.

[Big RR]

Ok, so you have nothing to post then. Fine.

[RayThom]

...Biden already loses to President Trump in Florida, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and other swing states according to the latest CNBC poll.

Darren, while you were licking the Big Grifter's ass I'm fairly sure your Trumped up poll stats got caught in your teeth.

Links please.

BTW -- PA is already polling BLUE and bound to get most BLUE by November 3rd.
https://www.inquirer.com/politics/elect ... 00127.html

[Lord Jim]

I found this:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/election ... r-BB13Jp8W

This poll shows a margin-of-error two point lead for Trump across six battleground states...

I find this highly suspect, because it's a huge outlier from every other battle ground state poll which has been done over the past two months that has consistently shown Biden in the lead, generally by 6-9 points. (What makes it even more suspect is that the poll also has President Inject Lysol with a 48% approval rating for his handling of the coronavirus crisis; a number waaay out of line with every other recent poll.)

These results have to be replicated before they can be taken seriously.

[Bicycle Bill]

Furthermore, Biden’s gaffes and continual lapses in memory, in addition to possible cognitive issues already have Democrats clamoring for an alternative.  Biden’s success in the Democratic primary has more to do with a repudiation of Bernie Sanders and a revulsion for President Trump than anything positive about the former Vice President.

Do you have any idea how weak a candidate Trump must be when you say that the de facto candidate running against him was selected because of revulsion for Trump ... not dislike of the man, not distrust of the man, not disagreement with his agenda and policies, not even disappointment in his lack of ethics, but pure revulsion of his ?

And then your staunchest, most hardcore supporters double down on that and say they will vote for Trump not because of his policies, or his leadership, or his handling of national crises, but because he is pissing off the liberals.

The Hatfield-McCoy feud, way back when, made more sense than the Republican party does these days.

-"BB"-

[Darren]

"A court document from 1996 shows former Senate staffer Tara Reade told her ex-husband she was sexually harassed while working for Joe Biden in 1993.

The declaration — exclusively obtained by The Tribune in San Luis Obispo, California — does not say Biden committed the harassment nor does it mention Reade’s more recent allegations of sexual assault."



https://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/poli ... 27331.html

[Darren]

And then your staunchest, most hardcore supporters double down on that and say they will vote for Trump not because of his policies, or his leadership, or his handling of national crises, but because he is pissing off the liberals.

The Hatfield-McCoy feud, way back when, made more sense than the Republican party does these days.

-"BB"-

You're not telling me anything new which has nothing to do with what you wrote. You're confirming what's been obvious following the election in 2016 when Podesta had to speak for Clinton.

[Darren]

I never saw this before. Someone's working overtime.

[Bicycle Bill]

I highly doubt that the last line in that .jpg of that 'document' — "It was obvious that this event had a very traumatic effect on Petitioner, and that she is still sensitive and effected by it today" — was ever written or run past an attorney, or anyone else with at least a 6th-grade level of the English language.  The word the author of this 'document' was searching for is 'affected', not 'effected'.

Then the news organ proudly claims that this 'declaration' was

exclusively obtained by the Tribune in San Luis Obispo, California

This 'document' should be suspect for no other reason than that alone.  How did a paper from a small city (population 45,000) located a couple hundred miles north of Los Angeles come to be in 'exclusive' possession of this?  If this truly is a declaration filed in court in 1996, wouldn't anyone else, whether a rival newspaper or muckraking rabble-rouser or anyone in between, also have been able to gain access to it through an Open Records request?

-"BB"-

[Darren]

I highly doubt that the last line in that .jpg of that 'document' — "It was obvious that this event had a very traumatic effect on Petitioner, and that she is still sensitive and effected by it today" — was ever written or run past an attorney, or anyone else with at least a 6th-grade level of the English language.  The word the author of this 'document' was searching for is 'affected', not 'effected'.

Then the news organ proudly claims that this 'declaration' was

exclusively obtained by the Tribune in San Luis Obispo, California

This 'document' should be suspect for no other reason than that alone.  How did a paper from a small city (population 45,000) located a couple hundred miles north of Los Angeles come to be in 'exclusive' possession of this?  If this truly is a declaration filed in court in 1996, wouldn't anyone else, whether a rival newspaper or muckraking rabble-rouser or anyone in between, also have been able to gain access to it through an Open Records request?

-"BB"-

It looks like a transcription of an interview. The word effected may have been verbatim. You're right to question how a small town newspaper came up with that. I'm thinking dirty tricks. If so, who?

FWIW, I've never had an issue getting access to a small town newspaper morgue.

[TPFKA@W]

It’s pretty discouraging that our choices are 2 creepy, gross and disgusting old men, one of whom seems to have Alzheimer’s and the other who is just stupid. Tragic.

[dales]

[BoSoxGal]

The excerpt is from an affidavit filed in a court proceeding - where Reade filed for a restraining order against her husband after he filed for divorce; the transcript would be included in the case file, open to the public at the clerk of courts office in that jurisdiction. While case numbers and party names and litigation outcomes are all online in California’s digital court records system, specific documents within an old court file wouldn’t necessarily be digitized and accessible online, which would be why it would be an exclusive via the local newspaper whose reporter went in person to the courthouse and slogged through the court file to unearth that paragraph of that affidavit and to seek comment from the exH.

PS, the misuse of affect and effect is one of the most common word usage errors and is engaged in frequently by legal writers, as I saw many times in my career reading the efforts of average esquires.

[Darren]

"WASHINGTON — Joe Biden is in no danger of losing young voters to President Donald Trump. But he faces a lack of enthusiasm among Millennials and Gen Z voters with the potential to decide his fate if they stay home or vote for a third-party candidate.

Many of these voters preferred Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary and perceive Biden as a blank slate. They aren’t sure that he’s a change agent or that his policies match the scale of their problems. Some worry about his age and fitness."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-e ... d_nn_tw_ma