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

Trump isn't racist at all. He encourages people to immigrate to the US legally so that they can clean the rooms in his fabulous hotels.

i've noticed the ones who oppose him are very vocal

anyway, one hispanic supporter said it's because of job competition. businesses prefer to hire illegal immigrants to lower overhead costs. he'd rather see these people get deported, giving him a better chance to receive a fairer wage

A sensational minimum wage job working for a human Swiffer lies just on the other side of that big, beautiful door.

Vancouver-based videographer Guy Chavasse told CBC News that he shot the footage before putting it up on stock video sites. Campaign ad-makers regularly license stock footage for spots.

Chavasse told CBC News he shot the footage last August.

"It's pretty funny, isn't it?" he said. "It's a good-looking video, no doubt, but it's pretty recognizable as Vancouver."

Incorrect footage has tripped up campaigns before, including this cycle when Donald Trump's campaign mistakenly used footage of Soviet veterans instead of American veterans in an ad last month.

It's not the first time the Republican presidential front-runner has mistaken foreign soldiers with American servicemen. In July, Trump's campaign produced a promotional image showing soldiers wearing German World War II uniforms instead of American ones.

i can't get too worked up about mini-controversies like this. i mean, some person in the rubio campaign ok'd a contract with someone else to work with someone else to put it together, and then they probably paid someone else to review the video and do focus testing, and somewhere along the way a shot of vancouver got in there. i guess maybe it says something about the quality of the people that rubio surrounds himself with, tbh i don't think it says much. same with the porn actress in cruz's video, or trump's soviet veterans.

Other candidates have committed similar gaffes, such as in Marh of 2016, when an ad for Donald Trump featuring a montage of past presidents celebrated by the GOP contained a brief glimpse of Adolph Hitler saluting his troops.

ben carson's map, otoh:

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/12247149_10153261318225959_2552633604433753946_n.jpg?oh=6d19d8ba76499df4c21bc6adcb0eac0a&oe=57712498

represented a colossal failure on all levels

ahahahahahahaha I had forgotten about that already

#BC2DC16R2D2USA

That map is still endlessly fascinating. Did Carson cut all of the individual states out and drop them and then have to hastily reassemble the map from memory before it was sent out? I just have no idea how that could have happened either accidentally or intentionally. I look forward to the Raw Vision feature on his campaign.

there was also the "why are nevada and idaho a lighter shade of red?" subcontroversy

ah the recognizably iconic skyline of Vancouver

http://www.vox.com/2016/2/16/11018070/trump-scalia-conspiracy-theory

xp: lots of season 3 MacGyver fans out there

dying all over again at the carson map

the vancouver thing isn't really a "controversy," but it is funny. i don't like the guy, so seeing a string of things go wrong where he looks bad and out of his depth is satisfying.

but oh man that map. did it always have the wretched artifacting that seems to blur some of the non-dislocated states together?

pretty sure Scalia slept with a pillow over his face so the ghosts of all the fetuses he failed to save couldn't steal his eyes

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/02/16/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-civil-rights-nevada-south-carolina/80453486/

Elon James White has been tweeting excerpts/reactions to this today:

https://twitter.com/elonjames/status/699704073545617408

A link to the plan she is referencing in her speech can be found here:

https://www.hillaryclinton.com/briefing/factsheets/2016/02/12/breaking-every-barrier-agenda/

https://twitter.com/JebBush/status/699706718419345408

uhhhhhhhh

"vote for me or I will shoot you, xoxo"

that was a weird tweet

murica

Jeb Bush would probably be the type to horribly bungle an assassination

I can play this game

https://twitter.com/djperry1973/status/699714101040156672

that was a weird tweet

cry for help

don't rly want to see what he signs+tweets next

https://twitter.com/JebBush/status/699706718419345408

― mookieproof, Tuesday, 16 February 2016 21:37 (21 minutes ago) Permalink

please clap back

whose name is engraved on the bullets tho

tbh it looks more like a suicide hint than a threat, or what shakey said

cos what this election was totally missing was a Budd Dwyer moment

ugh

One of my bosses described Jeb as "the neighbor you avoid having conversations with." This kind of puts a new spin on that.

omg the america parody tweets are half my feed now, jeb is such a maroon

@ggreenwald
This is basically a version of the self-posted picture that ended Anthony Weiner's political career...

It kind of reminds me of the Dukakis tank photo.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/02/16/sleep-well-baby-boomers-the-millennials-arent-taking-over-politics-yet/?tid=sm_tw

The aforementioned race being that for the presidency, and the unsettling referring to the disruption that's been unsettling baby boomers the country over: The decreasing demographic dominance of America's once-largest generation. "For the first time," reporter Janet Hook writes in her lead, "millennials will match baby boomers as a share of the electorate." Oh my God, boomers think, as they try to catch their breaths. What is this country coming to? Will they elect ... a selfie stick??

Yes. Yes they will.

Selfie Stick/Eyebrows On Fleek '16

An entire 2016 campaign just consisting of "BAE" on lawn signs. Is it a candidate? A slogan? A party? No one knows.

i just want to state that i have no clue what "America." was supposed to mean. i mean really, what was he trying to say? america is the freedom to own a gun with your name on it? that only in america would you have your own name on your gun? america is owning a gun? america is owning a custom gun? wtf does it mean?

so doubling back though, what do we think about clinton's civil rights agenda? i haven't followed all her previous statements on this, so it's hard for me to get a sense of whether this is a small elaboration of things she's already said, a big step forward, more of the same, cover for the fallout of the 1994 crime bill, or what.

xpost that he's pretty determined to get jebbush.com back

I haven't really digested what she's said; the initial Twitter reaction I saw was "this is the most comprehensive statement on civil rights put forward by any of the candidates and it's still short on detail"

maybe this is the first hint that one of Jeb's cost cutting measures will be rolling back his own secret service detail.

"i got this one, boys." *shoots self in foot*

.....current polling indicates Ecco the Dolphin holding a comfortable lead over ASCII art of the Golden Girls in South Carolina

the "America." tweet is the Far Side "Cow Tools" of the 2016 election

xpost that he's pretty determined to get jebbush.com back

Heh, I like that. Not the URL, but the word.

As in: "It was very jebbush to caption that gun tweet with 'America.'"

I haven't really digested what she's said; the initial Twitter reaction I saw was "this is the most comprehensive statement on civil rights put forward by any of the candidates and it's still short on detail"

that is the impression i got from skimming the agenda, and every time it mentions something like govt matching funds for down payments on homes it attaches a who-knows-what-this-means neolib qualifier like "hardworking" to the beneficiaries, but i also gut feel that it is probably Enough electorally -- it made me feel like bernie's opportunity to actually attack the clintons' '90s legacy in racial terms, which despite all his attractive collegiality he needed to do to proceed, has passed, especially since bill got into position a while ago with that "i went too far, sadly, for regrettable technical reasons, and totally not because i was more scared of a tubby moonbase nerd than i was of becoming history's greatest jailor" stuff -- sanders would be attacking an officially different clinton now. i know he is continuing to Surge and clinton's lead in SC is way smaller than hillary clinton's lead in SC over a socialist should be, but i still just think sanders really is about to hit a wall unless he suddenly produces+disseminates a serious intersectional masterpiece of a unified left field theory, which is also a plan, and also punchy, and also seems vaguely like something that might happen in america in the third millennium anno domini without the gutters actually having to run with blood first, and i don't think he is the guy who is going to do that.

i'm sure we've all seen variations on this claim but is there any reason not to believe the argument that many black politicians backed the 1994 crime bill? ppl seem to keep glossing over that fact to make it seem like bill clinton was just doing some tough on crime triangulation bullshit but if that's not historically accurate, and he wasn't the only person to foresee the impact of the bill, then esp if you feel like politicians should take the lead on policies from black leaders it seems kinda shitty to dump it on hillary as a point against her.