Re:Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided ...
by claudeganon on Saturday November 07, 2020 @05:27PM
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Every single member of the House progressive caucus in swing districts won re-election.
Everyone knows that Biden isn’t going to follow through on any of the progressive parts of his party platform. We already had eight years of the the Obama bait-and-switch with him as VP. He’s expressed more interest in appointing actual Republicans to his cabinet than doing any of this.
Re:Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided ...
by jakelazaroff on Saturday November 07, 2020 @04:56PM
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> Drug decriminalization and minimum wage increases are in the party platform already.
Crucially, though, voter support for progressive policies and for Biden did not necessarily correlate — most significantly in Florida, which Biden lost and where the state Constitution was amended to raise the minimum wage.
Re:Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided ...
by creato on Saturday November 07, 2020 @05:07PM
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That seems to have hinged on south Florida. Bernie would not have done well there given his comments on Cuba and Venezuela. In fact Bernie's comments may be the reason even Biden lost there.
Re:Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided ...
by jakelazaroff on Saturday November 07, 2020 @05:17PM
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That’s the narrative, but Biden consistently distanced himself from those comments (“Listen, I beat the socialist!”) and the GOP seems to think that anyone to the left of Mitt Romney is a communist. I think Biden’s intentional lack of attention to Latinx voters did more harm than any actual Democratic position.
Drug decriminalization and minimum wage increases are in the party platform already.
Biden beat Bernie when it was 1-1 in the primary, Bernie could only win with the moderate vote split. The voters picked.