With less than a month to go until the LAB leadership contest ends Starmer moves up to a 94% chance on Betfair – odds that suggest that he’s a near certainty. The contest has gone on for so long and the outcome apparently a foregone conclusion for many many weeks now that it is hardly getting any attention. The big question that will soon be asked is how he’s going to against Johnson and how is politics going to change…
BREAKING: Elizabeth Warren is dropping out of the presidential race, ending a campaign that at one point seemed poised to win the Democratic nominationhttps://t.co/N8NE1MlcvA — BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) March 5, 2020 Back in October Warren was the 52% favourite on Betfair So now its down to the two very old men are not far from 80 Mike Smithson
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But the other two, Biden and Bernie, remain It was almost inevitable that after spending getting on for half a billion dollars on his effort to to gain the Democratic nomination that multi billionaire Mike Bloomberg should decide to quit after his disappointing performance yesterday. Bloomberg had avoided the first four primaries in the process thinking that he could join in for Super Tuesday by using his immense wealth to saturate key states with a mass of advertising on his…
And the person he should thank the most is Pete Buttigieg It was just three days before Super Tuesday that Mayor Pete made the dramatic move that has totally changed the Democratic nomination race and undermined the one who looked as though he was running away with it – Bernie Sanders. Looking back and seeing what happened overnight in the 14 primaries almost everybody totally underestimated the impact. For until then it appeared as though Bernie Sanders was heading for…
The three late septuagenarians lead the race The big development in the race for the White House overnight has been the decision by Pete Buttigieg to quit the race following his poor performance in South Carolina. This comes just 36 hours after it was confirmed that he did in fact win the Iowa caucuses which of course was the first State to decide. I just wonder if the outcome in Iowa had been clear-cut and and Pete seen as the…