well, i've spent a lot of time analyzing this in this space, and i've argued pretty forcefully that warren is on the right of the spectrum.

so, when i consistently refuse to rank her near the top, it's always with the argument - she's a conservative. if i identify as way to the left of sanders then, looking at the candidates, warren is not an obvious second choice for me at all, because it's not obvious that she's on that side of the spectrum.

but, that's not the media narrative, which isn't particularly attached to reality.

i'm sure that if you were to look at this more rigorously, you'd realize that people's choices are consistent with their own perceptions. what's been clear from the start, though, is that voters seem to be unwilling nowadays to allow the corporate media to determine their perceptions for them - that just because the media is insistent that warren is on the left doesn't mean that people are going to actually interpret her that way.

and, that's a good thing, after 2008, when the media sold us some magic beans.

i'm not happy about bernie's recent swing to the right on social issues, and his misreading of the electorate around it, and am retreating to the greens as a result of it. but, he's still far and away the most appealing candidate. and, if i were to list a second choice, it wouldn't be warren - because she's the most pro-market and most pro-capitalist of the bunch. it might even be biden if i have to site down and carefully work it through, but it's not an endorsement so much as it's a denunciation of the field.

my ranked ballot choices are really this:

1. greens

2. sanders

3. the rest of them are all the same. biden? whatever. sure.

but, what i'm doing here is rejecting the idea that elizabeth warren is left-wing, which is something i've been doing for years, and not embracing biden on some level of identity, that i don't even have.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/12/02/surprising-second-choices-democratic-primary-voters-upend-political-cliches/