Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog

Unlike Iowa, we actually have results to chew on the next morning.

1. Bernie Sanders
2. Pete Buttigieg
3. Amy Klobuchar (only those three pick up delegates)
4. Elizabeth Warren
5. Joe Biden
6. Tom Steyer
7. Tulsi Gabbard
8. Andrew Yang
9. Others
10. Deval Patrick
11. Michael Bennet

Two contests, two Sanders wins, two Buttigieg second place finishes, two cases of Amy Klobuchar doing better than expected, two cases of Biden placing fourth or lower.

Biden knew he was going to get creamed, and left the state before voting even closed.

#NHprimary pic.twitter.com/j6DH9ogDkV

— jon gabriel (@exjon) February 12, 2020

Ann Althouse says he should drop out, and that “he’s been the Jeb of the 2020 Democratic race.” Ouch!

Here’s a piece suggesting that both Biden and Warren drop out: “They’ve both taken on the stench of death.”

Are one or both going to drop out? Not this week. I’m pretty sure Biden stays in until Super Tuesday, and I suspect Warren stays in as well just to jam Bernie by siphoning off left-wing voters. And we get to see how much difference Michael Bloomberg’s money makes in the race.

Other fallout:

Andrew Yang, one of the more interesting Democratic candidates, dropped out. he exceeded expectations (none), but never earned a single delegate.

Michael Bennet, one of the least interesting candidates, also dropped out. I would say the least interesting, except I was going through the list of also-rans when I came across Seth Moulton’s name, and it had completely slipped my mine that he had been running at all. Then again, Moulton ran against Pelosi for Speaker, so maybe he’s more interesting than Bennet still…

Word is that Deval Patrick will drop out as well, but since no one noticed he was in the race in the first place, no one will care.

Tom Steyer is not dropping out. Good. I want to see him waste more of his money.

This is interesting:

.@AFSCME Prez Lee Saunders just put out a statement encouraging every remaining candidate to stay in the race: "Millions of voters have yet to choose, and I encourage all remaining candidates to stay the course and give more working people a chance to make their voices heard"

— Cameron Joseph (@cam_joseph) February 12, 2020

Even organized labor seems scared of Sanders leading the ticket in the fall.

Ideally, we’ll have six theoretically viable candidates (plus Tulsi Gabbard) continue on the campaign after Super Tuesday, raising the tantalizing specter of a brokered convention.

Tags: 2020 Presidential Race, Amy Klobuchar, Andrew Yang, Bernie Sanders, Democrats, Deval Patrick, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, Michael Bennet, Pete Buttigieg, Seth Moulton, Tom Steyer, Tulsi Gabbard, unions

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