Originally posted by DivineOb
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What does matter, is that the team works well together and can together produce more enthusiasm in their support base than either could also. Also if people think the President is old and quite likely to die in office, they want to see someone in the VP slot that they are okay with being President. So, that's Warren and Sanders. They were (are?) friends, who campaign for roughly the same policies, and if one were to die in office the other would carry on their legacy of roughly the same policies.
There's an adage about why Republicans win despite there being fewer of them and their policies sucking: "Democrats fall in love, Republicans fall in line."
More generally, I would just say Republicans win because they cheat.
That's unfair to Biden. Trump clearly has the signs of dementia and they are accelerating. Nothing on par with Biden.
To be selfish for a moment it doesn't even really sell to me because I have very good insurance through my employer.
I live in a country where the government provides the healthcare (equivalent to VA for all, or NHS in Britain), and it works well. I was flabbergasted when I heard that in the US that a really common reason people stayed doing jobs they didn't like when they would prefer to change job was health insurance, and even more when I heard that medical treatment is the most common cause of bankruptcy in the US.
I was hoping for something more like this after having a bleeding heart attack.
This article covers what a disaster his supporters turned the convention into.
I'm not into 'tone policing'. So what if their tone wasn't 'nice'? Bernie had been unfairly treated by the DNC, as pretty much everyone now agrees. It reminds me of when conservatives on this forum whine about the lack of decorum in the Occupy Wall St protests. They'll talk as if the global movement of hundreds of thousands of people protesting inequality was irrelevant and pretend that the one relevant thing that happened was that one guy defecated on a car in public. It's a pretty extreme way to miss the basic point.
He insisted on not conceding after Super Tuesday when it became (effectively) impossible for him to win.
When Hillary ran against Obama in the 08 primaries, she stayed on to the end despite being in clearly a losing position. Personally I think that's an acceptable choice if that's what she wanted to do / thought was best. If the DNC is concerned about candidates hanging on too long in the primaries, they can change the rules to declare the end of a primary if they want, but it's not a serious problem, so they haven't.
He spent most of August working on his book instead of campaigning for Clinton
Clinton's team asked him to stop because they decided he was costing them too much money for all his travel to do rallies for them. So he said ok, and went away and busied himself writing a book instead.
He turned on Clinton in the final week of the election. (opinion piece)
Last, he either knew or should have known that he was getting online support from Russia and did nothing about it.
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