Il Douché and His Discontents: The 2016 Primary Voting Thread, Part 4

Rubio has an amazing 0 delegates tonight

rubiomentum

took me three re-reads to realize I typed Iowa and not Idaho. too goddamn late here.

he means 40(b) but....

https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/707430680133763074

Do you think these big data people get a raging boner when their computer finishes downloading a new set of spreadsheets?

don't really think about nerds and their erections

Nothing's hotter than a Nate Silver fantasy, and I'm sure even straight guys can agree on that one.

https://twitter.com/cdcarter/status/707438000163127297

Ok funny or die lurking writer needs to fess up

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/691b209fe7/finnish-news-team-reports-on-u-s-elections?_cc=__m___&_ccid=47bce0c034d440bc

Didn't see Trump's speech earlier tonight, but apparently he was claiming that Trump steaks are still around, they didn't go under, and he brandished some steaks to prove it. A panelist on CNN pointed out that the steaks were from a local butcher and not his own.

Van Jones: "He's lying about his meat again."

So seeing my name mentioned a lot in this thread since last night, do people really want to hear my thoughts on Michigan?

1) Great surprise, great victory, no doubt. At first I was dismayed, got way too caught up in the sport of it, but fuck that. However, does anyone really believe this changes anything fundamental about the primary? He still lost black voters by 35-40% (which is now considered really good...) he's still losing the pledged delegate count, and even if it turns out polling is off by 20% over the entire midwest, he won't make it up.

2) This just prolongs his defeat. Which is great! I've said repeatedly that I hope Sanders continues in the race, so this is good for that.

3) However, if he doubles down on an anti-free trade message, it could be the same. He won't win on that message, and the trade agreements weren't the cause of the decline in the rust belt, but another symptom of a wave of globalization that the west was ill suited for, due to the conservative waves in the eighties. And also, how does anti-NAFTA rhetoric track with hispanic voters?

(Also, anyone complaining about my 'smugness' in teaching US citizens about their own country, go to literally any debate on here where I try to explain what is going on in DK. Start with the Ice Age thread. This attack is massively hypocritical.)

for the record, your name was mentioned because we think you're a clown, not because we wanted your thoughts

One doesn't preclude the other.

Also, I don't care what you think, kevin.

"HEY I am also a smug dick about my own country's politics too! Not just on this thread!"

@pareene
An irony of Sanders' success with whites is that he is the opposite of what Democratic Party elites said they need to be to win back whites

"Race back to the middle" they said.

I'm not gonna run away and pretend something striking and unexpexted didn't happen. But what I've been saying all along is still right.

so...you'd like to point out that you've been otm on this thread?

@dick_nixon
I would like to reiterate at this point what a dumb son of a bitch Mitt Romney is. I think the events of the night warrant it.

morbs are dennis perrin and dick nixon the only people you follow on twitter

i don't follow anyone

"This wasn't unexpected for us" -- @HillaryClinton Deputy Communications Director on @BernieSanders' Michigan win

‏@ggreenwald
Actual LOL

http://i.imgur.com/MF30iTu.gif

so...you'd like to point out that you've been otm on this thread?

― Neanderthal, 9. marts 2016 14:06 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah, surprisingly enough, I have. Luckily for me I didn't try any predictions about Michigan, other than saying he wouldn't make up his delegate deficit there. Which turned out to be technically tom (though of course not what's important)

LOL Sanders has a two hundred+ delegate deficit obv he's not going to make up his deficit with one state that only has 120 something pledged delegates. That's some serious OTMing there, Fred. What wondrous and surprising predictions will you make next?

Got dammit, you're dumb.

He needed to win Michigan by a lot more than he did to begin making up the deficit. There, is that spelled out enough for you?

It's not an insightful point however you try to spin it.

Did I claim it to be?

Not that you appear to have ever made an insightful point on this thread (or any US politics one) which you mostly fill with vapid and obvious political predictions and defensiveness.

You appear to be patting yourself on the back on some sort of master of US political knowledge and prognostication all the time! If that was all meant to be humor, CONGRATS your dry Dane wit appears to have snookered all of us.

Yeah, that's not true. Go back and read. But then again, who cares, you're not trustworthy. You've shown yourself over and over to be a liar, and nobody believes what you're saying.

Fantastic Donald Trump imitation! Now tells us about your hands!

your dry Dane wit appears to have snookered all of us.

Snøkered all of us, I think you mean

dnftD

Frederik I'm not going to subject myself to re-reading your old idiotic posts. It's bad enough that I'll have to keep reading your new ones ("Why can't I quit you election threads??!?!")

Alex, you deserve nothing better than a Trumpian response. And if you don't get the difference between a presidential debate and an internet feud, then you're as dumb as I expect you to be.

Do stop reading my posts, why on earth would you keep on doing that? I never in a million years thought you'd be able to gain anything from them.

I don't like you, I consider you a worthless troll, I get nothing out of writing with you. Ignore me, and I'll be more than happy to ignore you. Deal?

He's not smug if you read the posts in the original Danish

http://denmark.dk/en/meet-the-danes

This is like Usenet circa '96.

PS. Bob Dole has no chance.

I'm learning so much. Did you know the Danes love hot dogs? I did not!
http://denmark.dk/en//~/media/Denmark/Images/Meet%20the%20danes/Teasers/meetthekids200.jpg?h=125&iar=1&w=200

My ex's sister and her gf who live in Copenhagen kept saying that Danes are kinda arrogant and even ruder than Finns, I guess Frederik isn't doing much in this thread to dispel that stereotype... :(

Danes do love their meat, when I've been there there were hot dog ads everywhere! Not the best country for a vegetarian traveller.

all the #narrative about hillary being shaken by stunning upset is a little much considering she won 86 delegates last night while bernie won 69

"I never in a million years thought you'd be able to gain anything from them."

NO ONE IS GAINING ANYTHING FROM THEM!

Please stop. Please?

plz guys let's just have a singalong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEwdroXuL8A

Well, the "Dewey Defeats Truman" polling/results gap would kinda be newsworthy no matter what; it IS a stunning upset, particularly if it's a bellwether for other states with similar polling. I dont think it reshapes the race in one stroke or anything, but I could buy mildly shaken, Clinton-wise.

agreed re: usenet 96