It's a mess.
I dont know where we are this week but a week ago Quinnpineac showed numbers that said - not just in NC but nationwide- that Biden and Harris had a combined number of 48. Fine so far......except Biden had 47 of the points and Harris had 1. NOT FRIGGING PRETTY IF SHE IS PLANNING ON GETTING THE BLACK VOTE.
We will get a better view by the middle of October or so when people have thoroughly gotten this ridiculous idea that Biden is going to get the nomination out of their heads. And then we will see where his fall-outs go. Note that I am not saying that Warren fill benefit from the fall-outs who are black, but probably from those who support biden because he is allegedly more mainstream, moderate, whatever.
The situation among black voters is dicey. On one hand, they hold a lot of power. On the other hand, they dont know where to go with it once it becomes clear that Biden cannot get the nomination. So then what? To Harris, who so far they seem to outright dislike? Or what? They have hooked all their hopes for blacks on to an old white guy who stammers every day to explain his racist past. Or they can go with Kamala the Cop who locks up blacks.
So I am not oblivious to the power of the black vote. I am just saying the lefties gotta provide a channel for that which does not cause them to no-show or puke at the polls. Biden will lose his leadership position by mid-fall if not sooner, but he will hang around and suck up a lot of votes because, like, what else does he have to do. Ditto for Bernie. But the loss of his leadership position will nevertheless cause some serious looking elsewhere.
Warren is an obnoxious fraud but in some areas she is pretty smart for an indian. She knows that she is a white, honky, elitist, fraud and needs to take steps to compensate. Although I dont think she has done it yet, she will declare that her vp will absolutely be either hispanic or black. Well, duh. But then she will go well beyond and declared that 50% of all appointed positions in government will be either women, blacks, or hispanics or some such gimmick.
Sure it is gimmicky and a cheap shot at pandering for votes but what choice does she have? AND AS I SAID ABOVE, SHOW ME THE PATHWAY BEING LAID OUT FOR THE BLACK VOTE AS AN ALTERNATIVE. I will adjust my view when I see it. I am immovable on my view about Biden. The other stuff, I can adjust my view if I am persuaded by something along the way. I am flat out saying that Biden is not going to be the nominee. I am also saying that I THINK that Warren will be the nominee but who knows.
To fine tune my view a bit, I will say that I think that we will probably go to a brokered convention where Warren is the nominee but her vp "selection" will more or less be delivered to her as the price to pay for support. In other words, I agree that there are bodies to come in to the ticket who are not yet known or on the stage, but most likely at the VP level.
Knock Biden down a couple more pegs to get people thinking about Plans B, C, and D a bit more and we will see where the dem rats all scramble to.