Lewis, "Dem primary voters have, so far, exceeded my expectations."

As far as I know not one vote in the 2020 Presidential campaign has been cast, but CNN's Matt Lewis is already impressed by the results so far, Lewis tweeted this out today, "I have to admit that Dem primary voters have, so far, exceeded my expectations."

No doubt Lewis has great expectations that Democrat primary voters will make a great choice. So confident of that fact that he is already complimenting them.

Some Background:

On twitter I found the following. After the first series of debates this summer Lewis expressed "concern" that Democrats were moving too far left. Not sure why he was "concerned", but he was.

Being too liberal is known as being "woke". Lewis joined Bill Mahar in urging Democrats to move to the center. That is less "woke."

Lewis has now changed his view. In a tweet Lewis said:
"I wrote my column after early Dem debates featured unanimous and unfettered support for abortion (including for a 'trans female'), support for decriminalizing border crossings, and a call for 'mandatory' gun buybacks, etc..."

What changed? Why does Lewis now think Democrats are looking for a moderate.

Looks like a column by Times opinion writer James Bouie convinced Lewis.

Bouie's thesis is this. The woke (far left) candidates have done the worst, so that proves that Democrats want a moderate candidate. That theory only works if you ignore the so called moderate Democrats who have dropped out.

Bouie ignores Gov. John Hickenlooper. Rep. Tim Ryan, Gove Steve Bullock, former Rep. Joe Donnelly. All moderates. Instead he focuses on two left wing Democrats that dropped out. Beto O'Rourke, and Kirsten Gillibrand.

O'Rourke and Gillibrand were not plausible candidates to begin with. They didn't lose because they were too far to the left. O'Rourke served a couple terms in the House, but lost his last campaign for the Senate despite spending a record 70 million dollars. And there is a mug shot out there of him from an arrest when he was young.

Gillibrand had a moderate voting record and her lurch to the left would not have been bought by the woke Democrat party.

Lewis and Bouie claim Joe Biden is a moderate. Biden is renouncing every sane vote he cast over the last 5 decades. That is woke! He now realizes that he was wrong to support more cops on the street, marriage, welfare reform etc.

He is the poster boy, well, grandfather, of woke liberals. He is making amends and sincerely apologizing.

Lewis and Bouie claim Mayor Pete Buttigieg is a moderate, but Mayor Pete has taken very liberal positions. And he is gay and married to a man. What is more woke than that? If he were a heterosexual would he be doing so well?

In his newsletter today Lewis parroted Bouie and said Democrat primary voters are showing signs of moderation. He showed no such evidence if he has it. Lewis optimistically concluded:

"Democratic voters, it turns out, are much more sane, moderate, pragmatic, and stubborn than many of us suspected."

Usually, we wait for the returns to come in first, but CNN is fake news after all.