The Write-In Joe Biden Campaign will likely result in a Biden “win.” There isn’t anyone else on the ballot to attract votes away from him, and New Hampshire Democrats are good little socialist doobies as long as Bernie isn’t a choice— so, dear leader or bust. But that’s less interesting than this.
It is, in true Democrat party/policy fashion, virtue signaling. A Biden win in New Hampshire doesn’t mean anything. The DNC doesn’t recognize it. The party won’t seat any delegates. So, the effort is smoke and mirrors—PR for a political dead animal—a mirage. And good on them for trying and wasting money on it. Anytime you can get Democrats to waste their money is a good day.
The budget for the main write-in campaign is somewhere around $70,000 — a comically paltry sum in modern presidential campaigns — which is mainly going toward printing signs explaining the write-in process and covering the cost of one staffer and one part-time consultant.
An affiliated super PAC would not disclose its budget. But a source familiar with the effort said it had raised roughly $500,000 by mid-December. That’s enough to pay for some mailers and some digital advertisements, but not enough to run television ads or staff a real field operation.
It is true that if Biden had an actual campaign and primary in the Granite State and had actual challengers, he’d have had to spend more than the $570,000, give or take, raised to write in his name, meaning it might not be the great gift of wasted money my headline implies. But it is an empty waste of money. Nothing that is gained is real. A cheap trick meant to fool the gullible into believing what happened in New Hampshire had meaning beyond reality. People who would typically be hobnobbing with national party and media elites across the state, including perhaps the man himself, found themselves with too much free time they are trying to fill.
Related: Why NH Democrats Should Be Proud to Lose Their Primary
The write-in campaign is busy work – speaking of which. If I’m not mistaken, any ballot with a write-in must be hand-counted because the machine can’t tell whose name is in the space. Poll workers might be busy working longer hours to count them, having any number of machine-counted ballots turned into hand-counted paper ballots at every polling place in the state.
Isn’t that a threat to Democracy or something? I thought Democrats were opposed to that sort of thing. Or is it okay when it’s Democrats? And how is this not the epitome of current Democrat politics? A void without meaning, onto which Obama’s faithful water carriers scribble, Joe Biden.
That describes his entire presidency—a blank space filled in by the people placed around him.
