What If Joe Biden . . . Really Is the Strongest Option for Democrats?

Fans of Joe Biden who contend that he’s the only one who’s “electable” and that the other candidates are not have another small but intriguing bit of data to support their view. An OH Predictive Insights survey completed May 1-2 in Arizona asked respondents their view about hypothetical matchups in the 2020 election.

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Biden is the only Democrat who was ahead of Trump, with 49 percent to Trump’s 44 percent. Trump led Warren by 5 percentage points, Beto O’Rourke by 6 percentage points, and Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, and Pete Buttigieg by 9 percentage points. (A good indicator of the genuine “top tier” is the list of which candidates pollsters feel are worth asking about in potential head-to-head matchups.)

Arizona is one of those traditionally red states that has trended purple in recent cycles. In 2016, Trump won Arizona, but only by a 49 percent to 45.4 percent margin, and Kyrsten Sinema narrowly won last year’s U.S. Senate race.

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https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/joe-biden-campaign-arizona-voters-democratic-party/

oh please make it so! standby and ready the memes! the Democratic hopefuls, the memes that keep on giving…

When SPARTACUS spoke nobody listened…Now with his pencil neither does his own party… KEK

Cory Booker's Microstamping Mandate Would Amount to a Ban on New Handgun Models

The Democratic presidential candidate promises to fight for a design requirement that is not currently feasible.

The list of gun control ideas that Cory Booker unveiled yesterday includes that hoary favorite, a ban on "assault weapons," whatever those are. But it also included a less familiar proposal that would amount to a gun ban: "handgun microstamping."

As the New Jersey senator and Democratic presidential contender explains, "Microstamping is technology that allows law enforcement to identify the source of ammunition used in crimes by making a shell casing traceable to the specific gun that fired the round." The problem is that such technology has not been developed yet in any practical and cost-effective form. So when Booker promises he will "fight to require that microstamping technology be incorporated into new models of semi-automatic handguns sold in the United States," he is actually promising a moratorium on new handgun models until that dream becomes a reality.

That is what happened in California, where a law that took effect in 2013 prohibits the sale of new handgun models unless they are "designed and equipped with a microscopic array of characters that identify the make, model, and serial number of the pistol, etched or otherwise imprinted in two or more places on the interior surface or internal working parts of the pistol, and that are transferred by imprinting on each cartridge case when the firearm is fired." As Judge Jay Bybee noted when he dissented from a 2018 decision in which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit upheld that mandate, complying with it does not seem to be feasible…

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https://reason.com/2019/05/07/cory-bookers-microstamping-mandate-would-amount-to-a-ban-on-new-handgun-models/