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

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"We agree on the issues, we just disagree on who should be the next president."

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 3 February 2016 14:58 (eight years ago) link

oof

Karl Malone, Wednesday, 3 February 2016 15:07 (eight years ago) link

New Hampshire responds to Trump's new loser status by not moving the needle at all:

http://www.uml.edu/docs/2-3%20TOPLINE%20-%20UMassLowell-7NEWS%20NH%20PRIMARY_tcm18-230574.pdf

Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 3 February 2016 15:09 (eight years ago) link

Nm, think I got it [the caucus process] now.

― Hi! I'm twice-coloured! (Sund4r), Tuesday, February 2, 2016

if so, you are ahead of 99.5% of Americans.

we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 15:18 (eight years ago) link

Is that Goldman tweet an outtake from the British Office? This might be the first time I've felt a twinge of sympathy for a Bush.

Chortles And Guffaws (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 15:21 (eight years ago) link

I cannot imagine what would ever compromise my dignity to the extent that I would beg for people's applause.

Chortles And Guffaws (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 15:22 (eight years ago) link

January 29... Hil "agreeing" on healthcare

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG7w3Oey3xs

we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 15:25 (eight years ago) link

FiveThirtyEight getting a little, ah, excitable.

natesilver:We keep getting into these loops and eddies about Trump and Rubio and everyone except Cruz, who won Iowa last night, and who’s a clear second in national polls (and could be in first nationally by tomorrow for all we know). Betting markets have Cruz’s nomination chances at just 13 percent, which seems way low.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/where-does-ted-cruz-go-from-here/

Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 3 February 2016 15:27 (eight years ago) link

From a must read NYROB article called "The Clinton System":

[D]irect payments to Hillary Clinton’s political campaigns, including for the Senate in 2000 and for the presidency in 2008 and now in 2016 ... had reached a total of $712.4 million as of September 30, 2015, the most recent figures compiled by Open Secrets. Four of the top five sources of these funds are major banks: Citigroup Inc, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase & Co, and Morgan Stanley....

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 15:50 (eight years ago) link

yeah, saw that the other day. It will generally be ignored by "pragmatists" of course.

we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 15:57 (eight years ago) link

1994-vintage cruz is a dead ringer for bill hicks in that pic upthread

Butt here is always time for the John Mayer Trio or Sting. (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 15:59 (eight years ago) link

"on the lighter side"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWl6TLvlFEk

we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 16:13 (eight years ago) link

Linked off the always great Gin & Tacos: Disturbing documentary of a Trump rally.

http://www.vice.com/read/this-short-film-takes-you-inside-the-strange-world-of-donald-trump-supporters

Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 3 February 2016 16:24 (eight years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP_J6gmJYiU

global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 3 February 2016 16:24 (eight years ago) link

Sanders-Clinton debate on for tomorrow night

we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 16:26 (eight years ago) link

Sanders-Clinton debate on for tomorrow night

Did Queen Hill agree to some weekday night debates, one in her "home" of Brooklyn, or did Bern fold?

Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 3 February 2016 16:38 (eight years ago) link

i don't microfollow such effluvia

we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 16:39 (eight years ago) link

what're the odds Rubio owns Christie's "boy in the bubble" nickname for him and starts playing the Simon song at rallies?

we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 16:53 (eight years ago) link

Rubio can't spell "Simon."

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 16:57 (eight years ago) link

Torn, I love the current thread title but I also sort of want it to be called "Please clap"

Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 17:05 (eight years ago) link

lol, i had the same thought

Karl Malone, Wednesday, 3 February 2016 17:09 (eight years ago) link

"Please clap" has now become the saddest two-word utterance I've ever encountered.

Chortles And Guffaws (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 17:09 (eight years ago) link

yes to that title change

the 'major tom guy' (sleeve), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 17:10 (eight years ago) link

^^^ otm

if thou gaz long into the coombs, the coombs will also gaz into thee (WilliamC), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 17:12 (eight years ago) link

you ppl are going to have a diff fave clowncar quote every week.

we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 17:26 (eight years ago) link

nothing will ever top 'please clap'. it is everything

Karl Malone, Wednesday, 3 February 2016 17:29 (eight years ago) link

This piece on Cruz is funny but worth reading for more than just the jokes.

There is no metric by which Ted Cruz is presidential. The only path to victory for a guy like Ted Cruz is through glitches in the electoral college only Cold War-era computer programmers and three borderline dead Ivy League professors with Henry Kissinger’s cell phone number know about. If Ted Cruz won the general election, his Iowa strategy suggests it’d be the most demoralizing win in modern presidential politics, like an A.I. beating you at Scrabble using words that haven’t been spoken since the 1920s.
Just imagine how creepy a win with Cruz’s methods would be. He’d win with an earth-shattering low cut of the popular vote. He’d win with 48 million votes because of some electoral college technicality in Nevada. He’d make bizarre computer-dictated moves like spending a month in Hawaii and never visiting the South. He’d be the first president to ever get assassinated for cheating.
He’s not cheating, of course, he’s just violating the spirit of presidential campaigning. He’s running a “the manual says I’m not cheating, and your mom says you can’t punch me again if I’m not cheating” strategy, and it’s just aggravating and phony as hell.

the top man in the language department (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 17:34 (eight years ago) link

Was going to post the same request re: "please clap". New thread after New Hampshire?

nickn, Wednesday, 3 February 2016 17:36 (eight years ago) link

i don't microfollow such effluvia

― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, February 3, 2016 11:39 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i love this post

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 17:40 (eight years ago) link

What's so weird about Cruz is that when I first heard about him he sounded like the perfect on-paper GOP version of Obama-- Hispanic (name, at least), from the West but also a Harvard Law grad who argued at the SC, taking on the Texas establishment candidate favored by Rick Perry.

But then when you actually see him and hear him it's like what the fuck is wrong with this guy

Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 17:41 (eight years ago) link

how is there no video of the please clap?

scott seward, Wednesday, 3 February 2016 17:41 (eight years ago) link

xp
Do you "like it" like it, or "thread title" like it?

nickn, Wednesday, 3 February 2016 17:42 (eight years ago) link

Arthur Chu has thoughts about Berniebros: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/02/i-like-bernie-sanders-his-supporters-not-so-much-berniebro?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, February 2, 2016 11:39 PM (Yesterday)

arthur chu has a real solid grasp of the endless complexities of politics:

https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/669187312027217921

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 17:42 (eight years ago) link

"Fraud! Fraud bad! Bad Cruz, commit fraud! See fraud run! Run, fraud, run!"

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-cruz-idUSMTZSAPEC23ZBL9YS

if thou gaz long into the coombs, the coombs will also gaz into thee (WilliamC), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 17:44 (eight years ago) link

here it is, his Roxie Hart moment.

Neanderthal, Wednesday, 3 February 2016 17:45 (eight years ago) link

independent run? this is the 'not fair' stuff we barely dared to dream of

𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 17:46 (eight years ago) link

wow, the video of "please clap" is somehow even more pathetic than i thought it would be

Karl Malone, Wednesday, 3 February 2016 17:47 (eight years ago) link

yeah he should just go home.

scott seward, Wednesday, 3 February 2016 17:50 (eight years ago) link

Jon Schwarz ‏@tinyrevolution
Ted Cruz's biggest backer is a billionaire who also supports the stockpiling of human urine:

https://theintercept.com/2016/01/28/black-americans-for-a-better-future-super-pac-100-funded-by-rich-white-guys/

we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 17:52 (eight years ago) link

Well, he also supports the election of human feces, so that follows.

Chortles And Guffaws (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 17:57 (eight years ago) link

Assuming he had a sliver of a chance at this point, I think "please clap" would've be Bush's Dean scream.

Chortles And Guffaws (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 18:04 (eight years ago) link

"would be"

Chortles And Guffaws (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 18:04 (eight years ago) link

http://s15.postimg.org/ll6mekut6/bsfa.jpg

Hungry4Ass, Wednesday, 3 February 2016 18:05 (eight years ago) link

he** yeah

ciderpress, Wednesday, 3 February 2016 18:09 (eight years ago) link

"Please clap." is such an amazing sentence. Jeb Bush's presidential run is worth it just for that. Those millions of dollars weren't completely wasted.

silverfish, Wednesday, 3 February 2016 18:15 (eight years ago) link

The description of the "please clap" video makes it sound like a ho-hum filler ep of network TV:

Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush has a light-hearted moment with a crowd in Hanover, N.H.

Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 3 February 2016 18:18 (eight years ago) link

Has his posture always been as slumped as it is in that video, or have I just never noticed before?

Chortles And Guffaws (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 3 February 2016 18:25 (eight years ago) link


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