Talk Elections

Yes. I don't recall this level of discussion about Duncan Hunter 2008 or Thaddeus McCotter 2012.

Some of it is just hilarious though. I love how some think some super rich guy from the DC suburbs is a perfect candidate to appeals to working class whites because his father was in a union or something.

No it's hilarious

No, they're bored and he's the first declared candidate. He's pretty much all there is to talk about.

This, basically.

Hillariously pathetic.

I've never bothered to keep up with the forum memes.

Funnier than angry New Hampshire women, I tell you what.

I seem to recall a bit of ironic chatter around McCotter too, but you are completely ignoring that this man announced two years too early. It totally makes sense that he'd have more. I am much more bothered by the 46th president signature memes which seem to serve no purpose whatsoever as there is no possible punchline.

That's like saying something is more pleasurable than being repeatedly punched in the testicles.

I mean, most people are making fun of him through sarcastic post (You can't contain-y the Delaney!!!!) so no. What's really pathetic is Delaneys bid in the first place.

Obsessing over mocking a pathetic joke candidate is still pretty pathetic in itself. Imagine if Lincoln Chafee got as much attention as Delaney is getting now.

The difference is Bullock has never had eight threads about him on the front page of 2020 board.

https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=253320.0
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=270815.0
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=262341.0
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=264067.0
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=258506.0
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=255734.0
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=268000.0
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=258248.0
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=256992.0
https://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/index.php?topic=264305.0

And there's even more of this. He definitely had five or six threads about him on the front page at some point.

I mean, people didn't expect Trump to be the 2016 nominee........

"One of the most recognizable people in America got elected, therefore it is quite likely this random no name will be elected."

Chafee actually did get a fair bit of ironic support when he announced. I could definitely see it getting as big as this Delaney thing, if he had announced in Summer 2013, when Atlas didn't have anything more exciting to talk about.

Once again, what ISN'T? Larry the Cable Guy movies probably have significantly more humor in them than that meme does.

Yes, to some extent. I guarantee the dude won't even make it to the IA caucus.

Absolutely not. President Delaney will win the Iowa circus hands-down.

By which of course I mean Delaneyposting is stupid and I hope it never ends.

Jim Gilmore made it to the Iowa caucus, so why not Delaney?  Gilmore's secret was to not leave his house very often, or hire staff, or run ads.  The campaign can't go into debt if it doesn't spend money.

Kandering got old.

Dude, we get it, you're not impressed by him ... but the talk about Bullock 2020 isn't weird at all.  Democrats just lost an election because they are even more out-of-touch with "Middle America" than they initially thought, and he's a red state governor who's also a solid progressive.  It's so cliche to bring up his name as a darkhorse that "weird" should be the last thing coming to mind.

To be fair

1. It's mostly ironic
2. It's only because he declared first, with like 3 and a half years to go

Neither am I, and unlike you, I'm a Democrat.
No, the election was lost because the-then FBI Director thought it would be a great idea to write a letter to Congress about a situation involving a presidential candidate - 11 days before the election and without classifying the letter.
LMAO @ the idea that people like Bullock and Brown are more progressive than Gillibrand and Harris.

1) I'm trying to converse with TN Vol, because I actually expect him to give a coherent and somewhat polite response, so please bud out?

2) I don't care that you're a Democrat.  I definitely don't think it's cool or some status symbol, and I would never lay such a distinction on myself (as you seem to be implying I am?).

3) You can believe that about Comey all you want.  The leadership in "your" party seems to be smarter than you, though, and got the kick in the nads and wised up.  You have Chuck Schumer going in a 100% populist direction, returing to the party's roots and real purpose, in response to Trump, and I think a lot of Democrats are thankful that people like you - who seem to only be intent on describing themselves as "liberals" because they think it bestows some label of being "enlightened" while seemingly not caring at all about the ideals of past Democrats - are losing influence in the party.

4) I didn't say Bullock was more progressive than either one of those people, are you drunk posting right now or something?  I said Bullock was a solid progressive, and he is.  He's not a moderate, he's definitely not right-of-center, and representing the cultural attitudes of his rural state doesn't make him either of those things.

1. You aren't under any obligation to respond if you don't want to.

2. We're talking about the Democratic primaries.

3. Returning to the Party's past roots... like Jim Crow and the Confederacy. No thank you.

4. It wasn't necessarily in response to you. It's just a narrative that I've seen in general here.

"Ironic" support is also very pathetic.

Example: "Ironic" Trump support.

TIL John Delaney is equivalent to Trump.

That's not the point at all, just that "ironic" support is lame and not funny.

But anyway, I'd rank this as only the second worst meme currently on Atlas, the worst obviously is the New Hampshire women thing which is not only quite blatantly sexist but has produced about as much humor as an ISIS beheading video.