As I've said before, in normal (ie non-Trump) times Joe Biden would be way to liberal for me to consider voting for...
But assuming (God forbid) that Donald Trump is the Republican nominee, Biden is my number one pick for the Democratic nomination, and I would definitely vote for him...
There are other Democrats running who I would vote for over Trump, (and the further Il Boobce goes in his full court press to thwart the Constitution and the rule of law the lower my standards will fall and the longer that list will grow) but Biden has emerged as far and away my number one choice...
I was frankly holding my breath when Biden announced, because (given a lot of what was going on in the media during the run-up to his announcement) I was deeply concerned that his would become The Incredible Shrinking Candidacy as he sunk into the pointless quick sand of endless rounds of "apologies"...
But I have to give Joe credit, he has avoided that, and he has been rewarded by seeing his candidacy grow ever stronger...(In poll after poll both nationally and on a state basis for the early primaries, since he announced his lead over Sanders has grown to 2-1, and he's 3 or 4 to one over any of the next nearest competitors)
I thought his announcement video was almost pitch perfect, really laying out the stakes well, and since then he has done a superb job of sticking to and articulating his macro-themed candidacy...(and he's also shown he can raise boatloads of cash)
The argument that Biden just isn't leftie enough to win the nomination given where the center of the Democratic Party is today, (an argument advanced most frequently by lefties who would prefer to see a nominee more leftie than Biden) is being proven false over and over again by the poll numbers...
Biden's base of support for the nomination is that clear majority of Democratic voters that in poll after poll say that they place defeating Donald Trump as their number one priority...above any ideological or specific policy consideration...
A lot is made of Biden's appeal to working class white voters, but he's also polling exceedingly well (despite all the attacks on him over things like his support for The Crime Bill in the 90s, and his handling of the Anita Hill hearings...attacks being made for the most part by Kamikaze Lefties, ideological purists who aren't part of that broad majority of Democrats who place defeating Trump above embracing a hard-left agenda) among the minority voters who are of critical importance both for securing the Democratic nomination and winning the general election:
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4 ... biden-poll47 percent of black women say they'd back Biden: poll
Nearly half of black women say they would support former Vice President Joe Biden in the Democratic presidential primary, according to a new Morning Consult poll.
Forty-seven percent of black women surveyed for the poll said Biden is their top choice to be the Democratic nominee, giving him a wide lead in the demographic over his rivals.
Another 18 percent of the black women polled said Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is their top choice, and 9 percent said they back Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.).
Biden also has the most support among white women, with 36 percent of white women naming him as their top choice, the poll found.
The poll's results are based on surveys with a sample of 15,475 registered voters who indicated they may participate in their state's Democratic primary or caucus. The surveys were conducted from April 22-28 and the poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 1 percentage point.
Another poll released Tuesday showed Biden with the lead among nonwhite voters in the Democratic presidential primary race.
The CNN/SRSS survey showed Biden with the support of 50 percent of nonwhite voters, giving him a commanding lead over his Democratic rivals in the key demographic.
(Of course if they ever do a poll of left-wing college professors, professional activists and leftie cable news pundits, I expect he'll do rather poorly...)
Add to all of this that Biden seems to have put together far and away the best organization he has ever had for a Presidential run, and he comes out looking very well positioned to get the nomination...
The conventional wisdom that Biden might be the strongest candidate to beat Trump, but that he isn't "Liberal Enough" to get the nomination is (happily, from my point of view) proving based on the numbers to be false...
And of course when it does come to the general election, Biden clearly is the best positioned to defeat Trump...
Other candidates may be able to do this, but he is the one candidate we know for a fact can keep the bulk of those Independent and disgruntled Republican voters that gave the Democrats control of the House, while simultaneously appealing to those core Democratic party constituencies that are also essential for a Democratic Presidential victory...
And with the stakes this high, even if I were a Democrat who was more "progressive" then Biden, and someone who in an ideal world would prefer a candidate who was more "new and exciting" I'd still want to go with the person I know can rid us of Donald Trump over one I think might be able to do it...