Joe Biden, Senator from Citibank (oops, DELAWARE), to Run for President

this was necessary to keep the k hive from doing war crimes tbf

Don't diss St-Viat bagels, VHS, they're still good. Just had some a couple of hours ago, actually.

actually now I do vaguely want to know what she did for 12th grade

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COP

;)

it is good (safest pick) for the election, and it will remain to be seen what her level of influence is in the WH.

#onethreadanditsrollingmontreal

At least it wasn't Selwyn.

― stabbing fantaisiste, repellent imagiste (pomenitul), Tuesday, August 11, 2020 4:39 PM (two minutes ago)

damn I still have some local prejudices to learn :(

#onethread

the k hive is interesting to me. why does she attract such passionate fans? maybe she has more firepower than it looked like in the primaries

I was sarcastic and anticipating some sort of strange pride and warmth towards Kamala from the Mile-End Parc-Ex elite.

Her mien impressed me in May and June '19, and she can throw a punch. She impressed me less on realizing (a) she kept relying on it (b) I read about her record.

Maybe that's all you need for a vice president: a puncher and someone who can project authority.

I was dismayed to find just now that Kamala only ranked #96 in some site's 2018 list of the most conservative senators. Well, there goes the most conservative vote.

Don't diss St-Viat bagels, VHS, they're still good. Just had some a couple of hours ago, actually.

― stabbing fantaisiste, repellent imagiste (pomenitul), Tuesday, August 11, 2020 1:40 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

im a Fairmount bagel man myself

A fine choice.

Can Newsom name himself to fill her seat?

she conveys intelligence and authority, which i guess is important for balancing biden's folksy senescence

i feel like susan rice was the best pick for the election because they would have gone benghazi-insane for weeks and literally nobody persuadable cares about it.

i also do not want kamala harris to ever be president so in that sense this is a bummer.

I like treesh's story

Harris is no worse than anyone else talked about

worse than Warren, and plenty bad about her, but a less terrible choice than nearly anyone else talked about

xp yeah the worst thing about Harris as a pick is the high probability she will be President

We probably need a new thread at this point?

I love St-Viat bagels, though tbh I can't remember which ones I like better, theirs or that other place. Anyway, I like that they are smaller than American behemoths, with a touch of sweetness, and they convinced me that sesame seed is the best type of bagel, too.

#onethread

We probably need a new thread at this point?

Just post in the general election thread imo

Joe "Bagels" Biden

Or don’t post at all

She graduated from Westmount High School pom!

So basically Montrealers are soon going to be running the continent.

PS: my youngest brother went to Westmount High, overlapping Kamala by one year I reckon.

She'll probably excite the hell out of older black voters -- a demographic not amply represented on ILX iirc.

I'm not sure she'll uh excite anyone involved in BLM or protests, and Biden may lose voters, but I dunno if that's enough to cripple him.

Alfred my spider senses tell me she'll pull plenty of BLMers, qualms and all

My sources have told me that Biden just picked George Benson's "Give Me the Night" as his campaign song.

whose vote would he lose? someone very passionate about criminal justice reform likely would be just as offended by biden, i'd think

My sources have told me that Biden just picked George Benson's "Give Me the Night" as his campaign song.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, August 11, 2020 4

OK I'm in.

Stories already out that Trump donated to Harris's campaign in 2011 and 2013. Ivanka, too.

lol (to George Benson)

The immediate market plunge as soon as this news was released is the best evidence that Kamala was a good choice, at least w/r/t Biden's election chances

the spirit of the Party starts to come alive

Kamala Harris the first Asian American person on a major party presidential ticket. https://t.co/6GGt8TGFOS

— Angry Asian Man (@angryasianman) August 11, 2020

Biden may lose voters

It's more that he's unlikely to win any more voters among trve lefties, but that already seemed like a longshot. I'd say it's a fine pick, strategically speaking, uninspiring though it may seem to me and most ILXors.

lol i'm .. relieved it isn't pete

I don’t get it. She can help him deliver California...which is Dem already? Please explain

It's more that he's unlikely to win any more voters among trve lefties, but that already seemed like a longshot. I'd say it's a fine pick, strategically speaking, uninspiring though it may seem to me and most ILXors.

― stabbing fantaisiste, repellent imagiste (pomenitul),

oh I spoke for my younger BLM friends, all of whom have said they'll reluctantly vote for Biden. The posturing FB and Twitter friends of theirs, however....they're numerically insignificant, though.

I don’t get it. She can help him deliver California...which is Dem already? Please explain

― calstars, Tuesday, August 11, 202

The theory is she gets older POC excited.

I think the idea is that the conventional wisdom about a VP pick helping to deliver a swing state is vastly overstated.

She'll probably excite the hell out of older black voters -- a demographic not amply represented on ILX iirc.

I do wonder if she moves the needle at all for Indian Americans

She can help make it seem like at least one of our political parties is not made up entirely of white grandpas.

I wonder about that too. Seems very likely, but maybe not statistically significant.

xp

always thought the perfect choice would've been Tammy Baldwin

[x] woman
[x] from a swing state
[x] very popular
[?] wants to be VP

It's more about not losing key voters, rather than gaining them.

If picking Kamala earns even a few Black voters in the Carolinas or upper Midwest, it's a net gain.

Of course there's a "she's a COP, I'm OUT" vote - possibly represented here in this thread. But where do they live? If the answer is predominantly New York and California then it's hard to see the net loss.

I figured it was a long shot given that Illinois is not in play, but I was kind of hoping for Duckworth.

her being a cop is a vague edge problem at worst