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Originally Posted by calgarybornnraised
So Yang is better because of betting odds? People didn’t vote for him, that’s your first tell
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He was a better matchup
against Trump specifically, due to his appeal to disaffected Republicans. Biden is more appealing
among Democratic voters, but only Democratic voters (for the most part anyway) actually vote in Democratic primaries. That's the distinction you don't seem to be making here...
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2nd is you think he’d pull Republicans off Trump? Have you met Trump voters? Their going nowhere,never mind voting for an Asian.
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Not every Republican voter is the same. Have a look at the Lincoln Project for instance. Also, Trump won in 2016 due to his appeal to people in swing states who lost their jobs in recent years. They were in pain and looking for someone to give them a positive outlook for their future. Yang provides this more so than Biden, and he's also a caring person who doesn't have Trump's fascistic tendencies. Every time Yang speaks about his policies, he talks about the job losses due to automation, and he is mindful of the pain that job losses cause.
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Originally Posted by New Era
Do you have a clue about what you're talking about? Betting odds? You do know that betting odds mean nothing. That only votes matter? It only matters if you are able to motivate voters to get to the polls. Again, Yang didn't even win the Asian demographic. He finished third with the people that should have rallied around him the most. Yang wasn't winning anything.
Yang's "freedom dividend" had zero chance of seeing the light of day. ZERO. Republicans saw this as socialism. They saw it as an expansion of government. They say it as an expansion of our national debt. The only way this would have worked is if there were massive tax increase, which Republicans would never have supported. More importantly, this never would have been supported by half the Democrats either. No one is going to sign on to a plan like that as a campaign cornerstone. It would have been suicide at the polls.
Yang wouldn't have stolen anything from the Republicans. This is just laughable to suggest as much. For all the reasons above Yang was not going to pull anything of significance from the Republican base.
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You're making a whole bunch of assumptions here, but I was actually paying attention to the lines that bookies were making during the primary. At the time, Yang vs Trump was showing a line that favoured Yang more heavily than Biden was in the Biden vs Trump line. I wish I had taken a screenshot of it at the time.
Well, for starters, there's this:
https://www.sportsbettingdime.com/ne...s-andrew-yang/