Joe started to answer a question about troops in the mideast and then he left the planet. No idea what he is ranting about.
Trump is planning to hold a rally in Manchester, NH next week just to be able to do his compare and contrast routine and show em how it is looking in Camp Trump and to suck all the oxygen out of NH during the primary. What a troll he is.
Biden is in trouble as always. No way that he will finish above third in NH, with 4th being more likely. So that means that Mr. The Only One Who Can Beat Trump will have launched his entry into the real-live voting campaign with 4th tier results. Yeh, okay. Black voters, South Carolina. We know the drill at this point. Bernie and Booty have another little happy-result fest coming up in NH. Problem is that they are pretty much at their top without much upside. They are getting a lot of their good result because there are still so many candidates. Bloomy may not win but he can suck up 5 points here and ten points there rather than it going on top of someone elses tally which would have made them competitive. Warren did okay in the debate but nothing that would move her up. Although a third place win would keep in her a holding pattern while everyone assesses the impact of Joe's going down. If she could get that, she should be damn happy because it would allow her to live for another day until things sort themselves out more. That third place win in NH may/should go to Amy Klobuchar but good performances in the past have only translated into small gains for her. She has that moderate rap nailed now but her Dutch Aunt persona holds her back. She is not stupid but seems more like Office Manager material. Although remember she got dinged by her staff for being the manager from hell. Funny dat. Steyer= Mr. Goofy. Not sure if he is on the ballot in NH. Doesn't really matter anyway. Yang - as discussed earlier. He has had a good run for a little adventure. But we be into the serious part of the campaign now. It's over. At least for primary votes. New Hamphire is a quirky mixed-bag state. Hard to assess even if you are very familiar with it as I am. Very conservative past, lots of hard core libertarians, lots of rural issues- yet the southern part is basically an extension of the Metro Boston lefty area. And of course all the carpetbaggers moving into all these states change the mix. There was a time when Vermont was a great, great, great little state. But the Bernies of the world "improved" it. Anyway. Big loser of the night - my forever bias being noted- is Joe Biden. No disaster but just did not help himself when he must do so. This happy horseshit about "I am leading in all the national polls but am not doing shit on the ground in actual voting" gonna catch up with him bigtime. Another loser although not a big loser was- in my mind- noting in advance that most will disagree- was BootyBoy. He did very well in the debate but there was also that little edge to him that people are starting to get sick of. The pre-canned, white-boy intellectual snoot, quick brain, fake compassion. That wont catch up with him immediately and he will do very, very well in NH but the long term trajectory of his little whitey-tighty school boy snoot was on display. Warren loser as discussed for not moving herself up but if she can hold on to third in nh - iffy- that's a win along with third in iowa which at least stops the slide. Klobo was a winner but she will have to pray that it translates into votes. Otherwise, doesnt count for much. And if Klobo does rob some votes from Booty and others, what do we get? Oh I see, a field that just continues to be highly divided at a time when it needs to consolidate to avoid a brokered convention. Nice night for Bloomberg whose plans require complete chaos in the field. And there we have it- OR NOT.