Part of what bugs me about this whole discourse is that all the "drop out Biden" people are talking about it like it's the most pragmatic option instead of an insane desperation move
There are times when an insane desperation move is genuinely your least bad option, but there is remarkably little evidence that right now is one of them.
If Biden was incapable of making a public statement without sounding like the first 30 minutes of the debate, and/or he were dropping like a lead bullet balloon in the polls, I'd get it. But neither of these things are happening
What's actually happening is that a bad media narrative has developed, and people are assuming that 1) this narrative will sway voters, 2) it will have a lasting impact, and 3) whoever damns choose as a replacement will not be subject to similar treatment. All strong, untested assumptions.
Biden/Harris->Harris/Biden is the right move imo. It's weird, there's no precedent, but I think it works. Plus the GOP will have a much harder time ratfucking the ballots
Yes it is insane. It's also fucking crazier to sit on our hands like this for months, lose an election and get put in fucking camps because we don't have an ounce of will to power
There’s uncertainties with every choice. My concern is the steady drip-drip of “Biden is old” stories eat up all the oxygen in the room. So low-info independents are really surprised when abortion is banned and Trump is openly soliciting bribes from the Oval Office in late January.
low info independents are overwhelmingly R voters and so irrelevant to this conversation. low *propensity* voters mostly lean D and, in focus groups and polling since the debate have largely said "yeah we know he's old, so?"
