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

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I wonder where Trump will come to in CA. Kinda looking forward to it.

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https://twitter.com/GideonResnick/status/711234839509377024

I wonder where Trump will come to in CA. Kinda looking forward to it.

― Οὖτις, Saturday, March 19, 2016 5

he'll be a big hit in Berkeley and San Francisco

I cant see him hitting any of the major metro areas w out huge problems. Sooo ... Bakersfield? Fresno? Central valley is so heavily latino he's probably screwed there too...

I can't recall a time when a party's presumptive nominee garnered such big protests prior to the general election even starting

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CNN is becoming the Ghosts of Republican Campaigns Past network, as they assemble en masse to denounce Trump.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/03/gop-must-answer-for-what-it-did-to-kansas.html

The rise of Trump has forced many conservatives to reckon with the moral odiousness of Nixon’s Southern Strategy — a blueprint for GOP electoral success that relied on coded appeals to white racial animus. Unfortunately, the fall of Kansas has failed to inspire a similar reckoning with the policies that those ugly advertisements were designed to sell. The GOP front-runner’s praise of mob violence and religious discrimination has spurred much righteous outrage from the National Review. Kansas’s shortened school-years have spurred none.

http://www.vocativ.com/news/296340/donald-trump-handprints/

Henry Kraemer, founder of the Trump Has Tiny Hands PAC (which has since been ordered to change its name) said he is not surprised that the Trump Organization is not forthcoming with proof of the size of Trump’s hands. “This is textbook tiny-handed trickery from Donald Trump,” Kraemer told Vocativ. “Of course he never actually made cement handprints because the weight of the wet cement would have certainly crushed his weak, pathetic mouse fingers. The truly sad thing is that he thought any of us would be deceived by his miniature-ham-fisted pantomime.”

Loooooool

kids u gotta get outta the house on Saturday

wonderful mouse hands

Was marveling earlier tonight at the weirdly in-sync/out-of-sync "Up Like Trump" -- how Rae Sremmurd unintentionally made the political song of 2015 -- and when I watched the video for the first time in ages, this shot in particular got me.

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I met Kraemer thru a local Bus Project thing some years back here in Portland. I'm quite amused his joke has had this amount of impact

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/03/donald-trumps-bleak-view-of-how-dogs-live.html

I hear that sleepy eyes @chucktodd will be fired like a dog from ratings starved Meet The Press? I can't imagine what is taking so long!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 13, 2015

"like a dog!" sleepy eyes chuck todd thought; it was as though the shame of it must outlive him

Kasich on Meet the Press: vision, consensus, etc., etc., then he gets asked a direct question about Merrick Garland and the Senate, declines to answer, mumbles something about considering him when he gets elected president. After the interview, a clarification from the host: Kasich wants to be clear that he would not consider Garland.

I would think at this point, with about a 0.1% chance of winning, Kashich might just answer the question.

yeah he's pretty pathetic. otoh i was thrilled yesterday to learn that my dad, who when i last talked politics with him circa ~october (?) was leaning trump, has now thoroughly rejected him in favor of kasich. i also think kasich is a fraud and a right-wing monster but at least he's been trying to pass himself on as a get-things-done regular joe politician and i am way more comfortable with my dad being taken in by that one.

Weird

Just saying "vote on Garland" would have been an opportunity to separate himself from Trump and Cruz and solidify his establishment credentials without any downside (e.g. a vote on Garland). If this comes down to a convention fight, you need to distance yourself from your competitors to win. Especially when delegates are likely to be handpicked mainstream establishment folks.

i.e. loudly endorse any position that helps down ticket republicans

This is the most gifted class of republican nominees in generations

really interested to see what the Rubio-drop does for Cruz's numbers on Tuesday. doubtful that it's going to have any meaningful effect in Arizona (and no polls have been released that were taken post-drop), but he's supposed to win significantly in Utah caucus.

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Failure and little girls.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo-ddYhXAZc

Allen: Yeah, that's what I mean--it's no longer enough to just separate himself from Trump, he now has to separate himself from Cruz. And it doesn't matter if he "alienates the base," since his minuscule chance of winning has nothing to do with the base anymore. That question's a gift.

Trump pronouncements very much in character: "The Mormons are very smart people--I know many Mormons."

https://twitter.com/owillis/status/711405869850894336?s=09

Love how these protests are being pegged as "far left." By what standard? Or is it simply that everyone is "far left" compared to Trump?

thode are conservative outlets calling them that

"Far left" distinguishes them from "Clinton left"

yeah c'mon that's nothin new.

even middle of the road Kerry got called "Dictator material" by one Repub voter I knew back in 04

guys prepare for a time of miracles

https://youtu.be/kbWWvHsEiy0

no, this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbWWvHsEiy0

argh fuggit, @ 21:15

stared at this for a while yesterday and then brought out the cheeks more this morning

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Nice work with that 3D effect.

That picture of Trump...If I had him in a TV studio for an interview, I'd point him in the direction of a chair, snap my fingers, and say "You, Flock of Seagulls."

that fasting child is gonna fix everything
i wonder what the party in hell will be like when glenn beck dies; it's gonna be a high time

Looking at New York, California, and Pennsylvania alone, I get the feeling stop-Trump is just a mirage. Real Clear Politics' poll averages:

New York (95 delegates, winner take most):
Trump 54.5
Cruz 11.5
Kasich 9.5

California (172 delegates, winner take all):
Trump 31.5
Cruz 21.0
Kasich 17.5

Pennsylvania (71 delegates, winner take all):
Trump 28.5
Cruz 16.5
Kasich 13.0

If he gets 320 out of those 340, that'd put him over 1,000. Arizona's the next biggest, and he's winning there by ~10 points.

They arent gonna stop him

Are any of those polls post 3/15 tho? NYC I'm not sure it matters but the closer ones sure.

here's a thought: donald j. trump is going to be the republican candidate for president of the united states of america

the 'j' sounds so made up

sounds like a cartoon character: homer j simpson, rocket j squirrel, bullwinkle j moose

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