Originally Posted by
Skroe
I think it scarcely matters. One way or another. Fire mostly comes out through what? Rallies and debates, and rallies and debates don't move votes. Democrats, again, want to be thrilled in the way they were with Obama. They got addicted to being fired up. In some way, I think they're envious that in Trump the right has someone who can finally do that too (after decades of having rather staid figures). But that's basically hoping you can strike gold twice.
What does make a difference is ground game, messaging around the ground game, and retail politics. That is where the Presidency will be won or loss. That is something Biden is very good at. Warren does it pretty well too. But Warren's message is disjointed from the target voter.
And therein likes the disconnect. Warren is very much putting ideas on the table and saying "voters... come to me". It might work... in another year. Not this year. The way to win is to do the exact opposite. To go to targeted swing voters and say "what do you want?" and then do it.
Warren's biggest problem is her ever grander, more unrealistic plans have successfully worked her into a corner that if she captures the nomination, she'll have to work her way out of, but in doing so giving Trump ammunition that she's untrustworthy. Biden's minimalist approach thus far gives Trump little ammunition.
But that's because Biden is running the strat that ALWAYS should have been the 2020 strat, which is a minimalist campaign on ideas that targets voters in a handful of states and makes Trump run against himself.
But then Democrats, pushed by Bernie Sanders, felt the need to masturbate in public with their fucking hopes and dreams as the fap material. And Donald Trump has a lot better chance at re-election than by rights he should.