Things we'd be talking about if the forum wasn't deadFollow

I can't imagine Biden running unless Hillary falls hard in the election. He would be the next credible person, outside of Warren.

Side note- Notice how the GOP ACA replacement never seen the light of day after the SCOTUS ruled in favor of the administration? Just further evidence that the GOP doesn't and never had an actual plan, but was merely relying on the SCOTUS.

I'm aware of that. That is why he has to start talking to people now. The Don has shown how the prep is overrated. If the support is there, in this weak field, it won't be hard to go from 0 to 60 in a short amount of time. Losing to Bernie Sanders as a sitting VP is the epitome of embarrassment. Once people realize that more than 5 states vote, the math will support the fact that he can jump in midway and still win.

Non-election related, gas is down to $2.38 around here. What's up with that? I thought the big surplus had been used up and a lot of these fracking operations were winding down because it wasn't profitable so the glut was unlikely to re-fill itself.

Someone said something around the announcement of the Iran deal that it would likely mean gas prices would fall, possibly below $2 around Christmas. Maybe they were right.

Now if only I could remember who it was that said that. I think I heard it on the radio.

I'm not putting too much stock in what I heard. For all I know, it was the late night min-wage disc jockey that said it and not a quote from a news segment or something. I just vaguely remember hearing it on the radio.

You're buying Canadian gas at 75% of its value.

I thought Ugly was the angry Canadian.

The shakiness of my information notwithstanding, I think he gets his information from the bottom of a bag of weed.

I... have no idea what point you're trying to make.

I'm saying that a campaign needs an actual infrastructure for logistics. Not attention, not media cycles, not debates -- you need actual people working to meet the material goals required by the states to be eligible for the ballot. That means that you need volunteers, you need paid staffers to coordinate those volunteers, you need places for those people to meet and desks for them to sit at, etc. You also need actual executive level campaign staff for media management, ads, opposition research, polling, etc. You can't decide a month before a primary to run for office because the eligibility date will have passed. You can't decide a week before the date because you won't have time to coordinate the petition requirements to meet eligibility, etc. You can't decide to start hiring upper level staff at the last minute because other campaigns have already picked up the quality experienced people (this is a worse issue on the bloated GOP side). Even when you have an actual campaign, people manage to ***** this stuff up; you're not going to half-ass it in the 4th quarter and still have a campaign.

Biden's window is closing. You can't just wait for someone else to implode and then jump in the pool, you need to have your feet in the water well in advance.

I like it. If we cut off their food stamps and Obamaphones long enough, they'll eventually start killing and eating one another instead of fucking and getting abortions all the time.

Rich people, naturally, will still be able to afford food and "women's health clinics".

Biden's window is not closing. This field is so weak that he can indeed (along with others) wait until Hillary implodes and still win (with proper planning).

How about a hyperbolic time chamber?

What is the deadline to file?