A University of Pennsylvania professor writing at the progressive news site OpEdNews.com has reported that gambling odds-makers have given Bernie Sanders a higher probability of beating Trump in November than Joe Biden, were Sanders to become the Democratic nominee. At the same time, concern that recent Biden gaffes indicate the onset of early stage dementia have broken out into the open among Democratic voters, including at the major Democratic party website DailyKos.



Steve Freeman, a business professor, writes for OpEdNews.com:

If Sanders gets the nomination, he has a 48.5% probability of actually winning the presidency (21.7% / 44.7%).

If Biden gets the nomination, he has only a 43.9% of actually winning the presidency (21.0% / 47.8%).

At Daily Kos, in a blog that went viral, the author wrote:

"This is not a post that I want to write, but I think its extremely important. I recently made a post about why Bloomberg is a horrible candidate, and I still think he would be totally unelectable. But in the face of possibly having Joe Biden as our nominee instead, I think this is a must-have discussion for Democrats."

Freeman uses the odds given at the online gambling outfit 5dimes.eu.

Joe Biden's Recent Public Gaffes

Biden recently appeared confused as to what office he was running for, declaring at a small rally that he was seeking support in his run for "senator." And in a television interview with Chris Wallace, Biden repeatedly called Wallace "Chuck," apparently confusing him for another newscaster, Chuck Todd.

The important Michigan primary is coming up this week, on Tuesday, March 10th.

Glenn Greenwald of the well-respected online magazine The Intercept tweeted last week:

"The steadfast, willful refusal of Dem political & media elites to address what is increasingly visible to the naked eye — Biden’s serious cognitive decline — is frightening indeed, not only for what it portends for 2020 but what it says about the ease of snapping them into line"

A week later Greenwald defended his position.

Politico has raised the issue as it is perceived in both Biden and Trump in "2020 becomes the dementia campaign."

In one instance, reporters for the popular online news channel Top Stories Today traveled to a Biden event to interview Biden supporters about how they felt about the issue. The supporters interviewed acknowledged it was a problem, but stuck with their support of Biden (video below.)