When voters were asked which Democratic candidate they would choose today, Biden led with 28 percent, followed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren in second with 21 percent. Rounding out the top five Democratic candidates in the F&M poll were Sen. Bernie Sanders (12 percent), Sen. Kamala Harris (8 percent) and Pete Buttigieg (6 percent).

pacino wrote:new F&M Poll for pA:

When voters were asked which Democratic candidate they would choose today, Biden led with 28 percent, followed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren in second with 21 percent. Rounding out the top five Democratic candidates in the F&M poll were Sen. Bernie Sanders (12 percent), Sen. Kamala Harris (8 percent) and Pete Buttigieg (6 percent).

jamiethekiller wrote:

pacino wrote:new F&M Poll for pA:

When voters were asked which Democratic candidate they would choose today, Biden led with 28 percent, followed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren in second with 21 percent. Rounding out the top five Democratic candidates in the F&M poll were Sen. Bernie Sanders (12 percent), Sen. Kamala Harris (8 percent) and Pete Buttigieg (6 percent).

It's Biden vs the field IMO. If Biden doesn't haven't more than 40% he'll never win the general. Those 60% spread out will far more likely vote for Warren or Sanders than for Biden. It'll be a vote left home again.

Feel like that somehow needs to be realized. A ranked vote would be amazing in the primary.

Wolfgang622 wrote:

thephan wrote:I bet the residence of central Mississippi are cracking bottles of champagne tonight, because DHS rolled up 680 illegals today. Where were these lollygag are’s at? Are they down on the corner? Were they plotting crimes like the masterminds they are? Were they murdering and reaping are women? What insidious thing where they doing?

The answer is that this big read took down a serious menace to our society, if crushed the workforce operating on the dayshift add a handful of factories.

In this climate I am loath to admit it, but I do have mixed feelings about this.

A crime is being committed here that arguably depresses wages both for the people in question and for the community at large, and deprives citizens and/or documented guests of work.

I think something should have been done.

That something is: come in and serve the goddamn employer with one hell of a fine that can be greatly reduced or eliminated by doing the following:

1. Submit expedited guest worker application visas for the people in his/her employ;

2. Certify and/or prove that you are doing all of the following: paying these people the federal minimum wage; backpaying them for any hours paid that were not at the minimum; paying and backpaying for all such employees all Medicare, social security, and other applicable taxes;

Or the employer can pay the prohibitive fine, which will be used to compensate employees who will no longer be able to work and will have to either return home or apply for residency status, for which they will be given priority status (meaning they will be fast-tracked). The employer may then hire properly documented workers, of course. If the employer decides to declare bankruptcy in order to try to avoid either, the government becomes the first-in-line creditor who must be made completely whole before anyone else gets a dime. Assets liquidated in such a proceeding will again be used to compensate dismissed employees, documented or otherwise.

Or they could just hire correctly in the first place!

The point is: it is a problem, it does cause resentment, it has an economic impact, and the cause of almost all of it is: capitalists. So the punishment should be theirs.

jerseyhoya wrote:Not the worst thing he's done this week, but Trump looking like he's getting set to commute Blago's sentence because his wife has been whining on Fox News is embarrassing

JUburton wrote:Isn't the 'they're taking good american jobs and they depress wages' sort of a myth? They are mostly taking jobs that people here do not want to do (low skill, low pay) and the real irony is that it likely disproportionately affects poor black people...not the people trump is trying to protect exactly. I'd think the standard republican policies (complete free trade, union busting) and now trump policies (tariffs) hurt american workers far more than the tide of illegal immigration.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/artic ... -americans

thephan wrote:TP - Don't forget the Walmarting of America to addict us to cheap, replaceable goods. That has as much to do with it.