I will keep doing, but not worth it! The 2016 Presidential Primary Voting Thread

A shining border upon a hill.

hmm, borderline hot.

http://i.imgur.com/iUdh8V6.jpg

I feel compelled to re-post what I posted just before Saturday's debate began, just because it's as close to prophetic as I ever get:

I just want rubio's circuitry to go haywire onstage, his eyeballs spinning, smoke coming out his ears, over and over repeating "This administration this administration this administration"

wow lol, nailed it there.

Good one, dude.

http://i.imgur.com/WzSuGy8.jpg

Sounds like Christie may drop out--cancelling his SC events (where he now doesn't qualify for the debate), going home, presumably for more than a change of clothes.

just wanted to say that Kasich's hilarious toneless "There's magic in this campaign" made me expect a followup of "The magic of narcolepsy."

btw i read a refresher on his history re gay rights legislation and he's a shit.

hates women too!

wau -- Hillary lost by 21 points, according to the latest

as a female candidate you can't echo that anger in the same way. you just can't get up there and sound angry. it doesn't work

This is why my early candidate of choice in 2012 was Roseanne. She made it work.

obv "kicking the shit out of her" is bad, but i still think it's generally just a few jerkwads on the internetz. Elections steeped in fight/boxing metaphors, and even tho women were nowhere in sight (except Beyonce), 200 million Americans just watched a massive gladiatorial brain-damage spectacle.

i'll pour one out for christie just for the rubio smackdowns in the last debate. that was much appreciated. now get on back there to NJ, where they also hate you, get on now

he will dispel with those calls to drop out

"wau -- Hillary lost by 21 points, according to the latest"

Danish vote not decisive in NH

The states with the smallest populations of Danish Americans are as follows:

West Virginia - 1,317
Delaware - 1,585
Rhode Island - 1,811
Vermont - 2,522
Mississippi - 2,617

can't imagine NH is much different than VT.

i believe per 'Dick Nixon', Jeb! being in a near-tie w/ Cruz = survivability.

sanders has said a few times now, when asked about his health, "I have good endurance", and man is that becoming clear (that speech tonight, sheesh). the thing that strikes me about him is that his energy feels unforced -he's "playing within himself", whereas Hillary feels like she's pushing herself to a certain level of intensity (to match the energy of Bernie's rallies?). this is all very nebulous, gut-level perception, but I feel like she could burn herself out by the time of the convention.

btw i read a refresher on his history re gay rights legislation and he's a shit.

yup. it says something about people's memories and the ceaseless awfulness of the GOP primary season that kasich qualifies as 'moderate' to many people.

pataki was the only credible centrist in the race and he never got off the ground.

@ggreenwald
Sanders tonight won every demographic group: except for people earning more than $200,000, who voted for Clinton

@dick_nixon

For a man of such considerable political skill, President Clinton has never been good at hiding his anger in public. Even when he's silent.

I don't believe the rumors about Rubio's marriage and his preferences. But if someone wanted to exploit it, South Carolina is the place.

Chris Matthews is the kid who ran away to join the circus and has done it for so long that he forgets other people get up and go to work.

so is rubio cooked or what?

close?

Sanders needs to bulk up his yakkin' on foreign policy:

http://theweek.com/articles/604307/bernie-sanders-needs-serious-about-foreign-policy

Ben Carson (2.3%) is barely beating "Other" (1.7%)

The Gilmorementum is rolling with 119 votes

Ben Carson (2.3%) is barely beating "Other" (1.7%)

― Karl Malone, Wednesday, February 10, 2016 1:25 AM (53 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the other really getting creamed in this republican race

niiiice

pretty fucking amazed at gilmore getting over a hundred votes though. results still trickling in; bush is like two gilmores behind cruz in the who'll-take-third-place struggle. rubio seems pretty much locked in for fifth.

That Week piece surprised me. 99% of the time when a candidate "needs to get serious about foreign policy" it means he/she "needs to tell us who we're going to invade/bomb next."

well it only makes sense to differentiate yourself from the hawk.

"prediction markets," per CNN, have Sanders at 28% as nominee; unthinkable a month ago.

i confess that i do follow the horse race aspects of the election more than i engage with the issues, but for me it's mostly a coping mechanism to try and deal with the fact that no american who's not a billionaire has any meaningful say in the political process in this nation, that really i have about as much ability to affect the ultimate outcome as our danish friend does. yeah, i'm super mad about the massive injustices in this country, but all the anger is going to accomplish is to give me a cerebrovascular accident.

his probability on the markets hasn't moved much since mid-january, but way up since xmas, xp

http://i.imgur.com/zH6ysUv.png

can't believe carson is still in the race honestly.

Given his entrance in last week's debate, I'm given to believe that Carson has the tenacity and the incomplete grasp on reality to keep running for president even long past the actual election.

I expect "Carly" to retire to a HP graveyard in the next couple days.

I don't know if NJ can survive a depressed, vengeful Christie returning from the campaign trail.

Noted some simmering right wing talking points questioning the health of Bill Clinton, of all things. Based I guess on his appearance on the campaign trail? Anyway, I wonder what a sick Bill would do for/to Hillary's campaign.

Ben Carson (2.3%) is barely beating "Other" (1.7%)

― Karl Malone, Tuesday, February 9, 2016 11:25 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

when faced with this lineup of GOP candidates i would imagine "Other" has some appeal

xp Possibly worried that if we elect Hillary, she'll be a heartbeat away from the presidency?

xp She'd win. And they'd have to leave his past alone, because that would suddenly be disrespectful.

No, no. A good woman would leave her professional life behind to nurse her sick husband back to health.

This is my only contribution to analysis of the NH primary:

https://twitter.com/djperry1973/status/697175672100298752

Noted some simmering right wing talking points questioning the health of Bill Clinton, of all things.

These questions were on the front page of the New York Times last week so I don't know if they're really right wing talking points.

the NYT and the Clintons do not have a cozy relationship, eephus

https://iemweb.biz.uiowa.edu/graphs/graph_RCONV16.cfm

"other" is leading the IEM

lol DJP

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i don't like this new hamster dance director's cut

omg pplains

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