Cyneheard: When asked to vote for Biden-Harris in the primaries, 90% of Dems said yes. That’s 90% more than anyone else being offered.

The reason pundits like the contested convention thing is that it plays to their vanities: what if the smart people made a meritocratic decision about who’s best? This is driven, in part, by being mostly isolated from negative reactions to their opinions over the years.

I can’t imagine asserting with unwavering confidence that I knew who was or wasn’t the best candidate against Trump.

I see— important that the candidate has “the confidence of the party elite.” Not the base.

When asked to vote for Biden-Harris in the primaries, 90% of Dems said yes. That’s 90% more than anyone else being offered.

Not to quibble over maths, but it's over 800% more than anyone else.

Percent, percentage points, tomato, tomahto

Still not true. He was 83.8%pt. above Dean Phillips. You might think I'm splitting hairs when the majority was of the same order (after correcting for your initial misstatement), but given the urge over the last few days to explain the primaries system to an international audience, this does matter.

No one is discussing making Dean Phillips the nominee. The “being offered” qualifier excludes him.

Slightly flawed metric anyway given that no one seriously ran as a challenger but you know, too late now

There was an organized campaign around uncommitted, and it got ~10%, basically the same as Obama faced in 2012 when there wasn’t an organized campaign.

Nobody of serious mind wanted to walk face-first into the buzzsaw of offering a primary challenge to a successful President who was widely popular in his own party. That's not an argument /against/ Biden's strength as a candidate.

Right those VIPs could have absolutely tried “for the good of the country” to win a primary but they cba or dgaf If only they’d known last year if he was old. Or 4 years ago or 8.

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