And Then There Were Six

[SAYIT]

With just 10 hours left before the deadline, only 6 Dems are scheduled for Tuesday's Dem debate.
Steyer is in but Gabbard and Yang are not. Right now it's 3 white guys, 2 women, and 1 Petey Butts.

Democratic Debate Grows To 6 Candidates As Steyer Hits January Threshold
Warren has faded in recent weeks in polling, while Klobuchar has seen a boomlet following strong performances in the past two debates. And Steyer has seen a surprising surge given his spending, which has dwarfed that of most of the field.

 

[BluesLegend]

Seems overly white to me, who is representing minorities?

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Seems overly white to me, who is representing minorities?

Warren, of course.

 

[BluesLegend]

Seems overly white to me, who is representing minorities?

Warren, of course.

Yeah but that only covers 1/1,000th of minorities. Well Biden, Warren, Bernie together now you have 3/1000ths covered.

 

[Osiris-ODS]

Seems overly white to me, who is representing minorities?

Since it goes by polling and fundraising, what it means is the democratic party as a whole doesn't want the minority candidates that declared.

 

[BluesLegend]

Seems overly white to me, who is representing minorities?

Since it goes by polling and fundraising, what it means is the democratic party as a whole doesn't want the minority candidates that declared.

Whatever happened to the whole Dem narrative about demographics and how minorities were becoming the majority? Yet no candidates of color I'm so mean to the left I love rubbing salt in their wounds.

 

[Ray From Cleveland]

Fro a Dem voter, looking at the candidates is kind of like going through the menu on you television and coming to the conclusion there is nothing you really want to watch on TV. Hillary is what they came up with last time, and Biden is still in the lead today. However I can't imagine anybody on the left is excited about any candidate still in the race.

 

[Osiris-ODS]

Seems overly white to me, who is representing minorities?

Warren, of course.

Yeah but that only covers 1/1,000th of minorities. Well Biden, Warren, Bernie together now you have 3/1000ths covered.

1/1024 to be exact.

The Hill: Media embrace of Warren’s 1/1,024th heritage an epic failure

 

[SAYIT]

Fro a Dem voter, looking at the candidates is kind of like going through the menu on you television and coming to the conclusion there is nothing you really want to watch on TV. Hillary is what they came up with last time, and Biden is still in the lead today. However I can't imagine anybody on the left is excited about any candidate still in the race.

Just 1 month before the 2016 election USNews published an insightful piece that clearly has been realized:

https://www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...emocratic-party-if-clinton-loses-the-election
...The final, and most important, reason the Democrats are in trouble if Clinton loses (and even if she wins, really) is the lack of future Democractic candidates. This year, the Republicans originally fielded 17 candidates for president in the primaries, compared to three Democrats and an aging Socialist on the left. The Democrats don't have nearly the deep bench that Republicans do across the country – 23 states have Republican governors and a Republican majority in both houses of the state legislature. The Democrats hold only seven of those trifectas. There are currently 34 Republican governors; Democrats number only 18. Republican state senators and representatives outnumber Democrats by nearly a thousand. The Democrats don't have nearly as many potential candidates in the pipeline as Republicans do – a huge problem for the long-term health of the party.