Sunday, March 1, 2020

Dilemma Time

Sleepy Joe Biden won the South Carolina primary which happened yesterday. He got more than twice as many votes as Comrade Sanders, and no one else met the 15% cutoff to earn delegates. RealClearPolitics projects Biden will win 33 delegates to Sanders’ 11.

This has me wondering if we might see a series of Democrat primaries in which states where most Democrats are black vote for Biden and the other states vote for Sanders. Where does that leave a party that can’t win without black votes but also can’t win with only black votes?

Up that often-cited, evil-smelling creek without a means of propulsion, I’d judge. Squarely in a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don’t dilemma. Richly deserved, too.