Stranger Things

 

And...  Bloomberg's gone!

Money can't buy you love, and it appears now it can't buy you the Democratic nomination for President, either.  Just weeks into a campaign funded by over a half-billion Bloomberg bucks, MikeyB craters on Super Tuesday and Biden is back in the hunt.  Just like that (snaps fingers).

In fact, Biden did so well yesterday that — if he can keep up the 'Joementum' — he could make it oh-so-easy for the convention to sidetrack Bernie Sanders...  again.  Over the next few weeks, each Tuesday is going to have several state primaries.  Biden has to do much better in those than he did last night if he is to successfully fend off Sanders, but it's doable.

What's not doable is to avoid a convention in which there is considerable horse-trading.  Warren doesn't have many delegates, but she's holding a bunch.  Same for Buttigieg and Klobuchar, although those are probably already pledged to Biden.

I continue to believe that neither Biden nor Sanders, the only two viable candidates left, can face off against Trump in the Fall campaign unless the economy tanks before then.  The Republican primaries last night confirm that.  Trump ran virtually unopposed and so GOP voters did not even have to cast a ballot, but they did, and in what was for all practical purposes a one man race, Trump collected more primary votes than the top three (3) Democratic contenders.  If he can repeat that performance in November, it will be a blowout

Oh, this is going to be sooooo interesting...