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

Well maybe not policy differences

omigod Jeb Bush looks like he's gonna cry

he's dropping out!

Told ya

You're not going to have Jeb Bush to kick around anymore.

He looks absolutely crushed. He looks like his old man did in November 1992.

damn the average GOP candidate has just become 18.6% crazier

Alfred Soto "The amazing humor of Lindsey Graham" -- classic Bush malapropism

did he mean to say, "Lindsey is a subject of humor"?

sorry -- c&p'ed Facebook comment

Geez, why crushed? I'd think he'd feel relieved to be free of this charade - he's been phoning it in for a while.

He can finally finish Meacham's book on his dad!

lol alfred

http://twitter.com/ElizabethEmken/status/701202888517812224

Every candidate who has won both New Hampshire and South Carolina has gone on to win the Republican nomination. Every. One.

haven't heard a Trump speech in a while, but this one feels a lot scarier than what he used to preach before

You know W.'s going to tease Jeb with 45 jokes.

God Carson just join your melon headed partner and drop out.

I'm loving "sentient rabies" as a descriptor for the eventual GOP nominee

http://i.imgur.com/Y0Blgyd.png

Why is the party establishment so much more enamored with Rubio than Kasich? Is Rubio just closer to the party backers' ideology or is it a misguided belief that he can be some kind of mirror of Obama, a "young fresh face" with some nominal chance of increasing the GOP's appeal to the minority group that everyone says is their demographic problem? I don't know if Kasich is a brilliant politician, but he comes off a lot better than Rubio, and I'd give him more of a fighting chance against Clinton.

a misguided belief that he can be some kind of mirror of Obama, a "young fresh face" with some nominal chance of increasing the GOP's appeal to the minority group that everyone says is their demographic problem

Bingo

Brown skin.

Probably the Medicaid thing, plus Kasich's decision to play to the reasonable audience early makes him look like more of a sellout to the Trump/Cruz crowd and it feels safer to go with someone who plays to the base during the primary.

they seem so clueless when they do that, xp

Man, a Kasich/Clinton election would be such a snoozefest, almost want to see Trump in there just for the lols (although I'm still half-clinging to the theory that he's only in this as black ops for clinton).

jeb bush -- you're fired! amirite

http://www.snopes.com/sanders-english-only-huerta/

I'm somewhat happy to see Cruz unable to gain any real ground against Trump or Rubio, but a big groundswell for Carson in SC would have been best of all.

I wonder what kind of carrots are being dabbled in front of Cruz to get out and give Marco a shot.

Dangled! Not dabbled.

Is it safe to assume that at least the majority of Bush's support goes to Rubio, and that similar will be true of Kasich if he drops out?

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Cruz will not drop out. He wants it all.

Trump is hilarious, he's like Rush Limbaugh meets Tony Clifton

Clinton/Trump will be the nastiest presidential election of my lifetime. Neither of them will draw a line anywhere.

Cruz will not drop out. He wants it all.

― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Sunday, February 21, 2016 4:54 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

He won't drop out easily if at all, but I'm sure that as much as they detest him, the party elders will try to make him some kind of deal. Even if his voters split half and half between Trump and Rubio, that's a plus for Rubio.

on the bright side, clinton supporters won't have to fabricate anti-latino statements by trump's camp like they did with Sanders, they'll certainly supply them with plenty of ammo

http://www.snopes.com/sanders-english-only-huerta/

― Darkest Cosmologist junk (kingfish), Saturday, February 20, 2016 10:31 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is a relief of sorts but still seeing ppl going after huerta and ferreira over this in a nasty way (lol tweets but its still important 4 me)

yeah that is nagl, but I'm really tired of discussing "the supporters" as an issue, like the ONE GUY who called John Lewis an uncle tom or w/e.

its def overcovered in online media just because...its all out there. but it sucks.

so is carson just gonna keep going or

He marches to an obscure, mysterious drummer.

https://interactive.guim.co.uk/embed/2016/elections/primary-pres-results-map/v/1456015343904/files/clinton.gif https://interactive.guim.co.uk/embed/2016/elections/primary-pres-results-map/v/1456015343904/files/trump.gif

Something wrong with the Post's results table.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/2016-election-results/south-carolina/?hpid=hp_rhp-top-table-main_sc-graphic3-desktop%3Aelections-2016%2Fstate-single

'Movement conservatism' in 2016 defined:

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/21/glenn-beck-responds-to-sc-primary-results-join-me-in-a-fast-for-ted-cruz/

He marches to an obscure, mysterious drummer.

Or even better:

https://twitter.com/jamilahlemieux/status/701404636738166786

I'm probably more tolerant of the network people than anyone on here, but Chuck Todd is the worst. He was okay in 2008 as a charts-and-polls guy. As an interviewer, he's on mic through the whole interview impatiently waiting to jump in: "Right...okay...right." You know what he's thinking: "Can't let them spout talking points, must cut that short." Fine--if someone's 30 seconds into an answer and rambling, speak up. Not five seconds after you've asked the question.

I am devastated about Jeb.

he devastated his pants during this campaign

Carson's still in b/c his advisors are still making too much dosh from the process, Producers-style

he's got books to sell

Or like this, basically:

The trickiest question about the Ben Carson campaign is whether or not the former surgeon is himself in on the scam. My guess is that he’s not. Ben Carson strikes me as many things — naive, befuddled, deeply weird, woefully ignorant and incurious about everything other than surgery — but I don’t think he’s particularly cunning. So I suspect he was probably just duped into being the front for this money-making enterprise without ever fully understanding that that’s all it ever was. I’d guess he hasn’t even negotiated a fair share of the take.

If that’s true, then Carson is innocent of being in on the grift, but still not entirely innocent. He’s still guilty of a staggering arrogance. You should run for president, the grifters told him, and he responded by saying, “Yes, that makes perfect sense. Who better than me?”

[....]

Carson gave a (pretty bad, actually) speech at a National Prayer Breakfast, after which a bunch of people said to him “You should be president.” And he agreed with them. He agreed with them even though he seems to have little understanding of what that means other than having the public acknowledge that he is uniquely deserving to hold the highest office....