Dreading a Cruz victory speech
"More than anything, tonight you've sent a powerful message to my daughter"
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 03:14 (eight years ago) link
ugh Marco Rubio
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 03:15 (eight years ago) link
he repulses me more than Trump
Des Moines used to be called something like Fort Raccoon.
Lots of states where counties and cities don't match up.
― pplains, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 03:16 (eight years ago) link
the raccoon river is the other one at whose confluence w/ the des moines the fort was located
also, iowa city is not in iowa county
― j., Tuesday, 2 February 2016 03:24 (eight years ago) link
ditto Alfred xxp
― never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 03:25 (eight years ago) link
aaaannnd it's Cruz
and ugh Rubio
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 03:25 (eight years ago) link
Rubio's kind of needlessly apocalyptic and way too earnest, but I don't know, he doesn't bother that me much. (No, I don't live in his state.) (Or country.)
Trump's second-place normally might not be too bad, and assuming he wins NH and SC, it'll probably be forgotten. But maybe there's just this onslaught of backlash out there (media, primarily) lying in wait, thrilled to see him humbled, and that should make for a difficult week or two.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 03:29 (eight years ago) link
Feel like it opens up a lot of space for the other candidates - takes the Teflon off, all of that. Sort of an "if it bleeds, we can kill it" effect. Brace yourself for zingers at the next debate. "You know Donald, you were talking about polls just now, but we all know polls can be wrong - the polls showed you winning Iowa by a landslide, remember?"
― the thirteenth floorior (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 03:31 (eight years ago) link
Huckabee "couldn't recapture the magic" (actual quote), taking some time out to look for the magic.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 03:32 (eight years ago) link
moving forward I don't think Trump will play the underdog card very well, maybe that's wishful thinking though
― Sharkie, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 03:32 (eight years ago) link
hilary falling in the markets
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 03:33 (eight years ago) link
I want so badly to hear the audio from the Trump van
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 03:34 (eight years ago) link
Paul Begala: "This is what you want," the woman I've devoted my life to ahead by 0.6% in Iowa. Glad Anderson Cooper called him out on that.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 03:34 (eight years ago) link
Huckabee: not your huckleberry.
― the thirteenth floorior (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 03:35 (eight years ago) link
Also, apparently an hour ago Ben Carson let it be known that he was going home to Florida, not to New Hampshire, but then speedily issued the explanation that he was just going there to get some clean clothes. I assume everybody else has already seen this, but it strikes me as one of the most important events of the night and well worth recording here.
― the thirteenth floorior (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 03:36 (eight years ago) link
ugh Marco Rubio speech
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 03:37 (eight years ago) link
Marco Rubio is the least interesting man in the world.
― never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 03:38 (eight years ago) link
marco rubio looks like fuckin scott wolf wow
― get a long, little doggy (m bison), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 03:39 (eight years ago) link
Wow. I don't think I've ever heard an angrier and more mendacious victory speech.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 03:40 (eight years ago) link
what a weiner, i mean i know u dont think he's got the juice, alfred, but isnt he the gop's best shot?
― get a long, little doggy (m bison), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 03:41 (eight years ago) link
dear lord this speech, i dont fear him that much bc he just looks like a slick college republican
Mark Harris โ@MarkHarrisNYC 4m4 minutes ago Manhattan, NY
Rubio: "So this is the moment they said would never happen!"
Dude, they said you'd finish third and you finished third.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 03:42 (eight years ago) link
โ get a long, little doggy (m bison)
at shooting themselves in the balls?
I do count this as more proof that nobody knows anything this year: wasn't Charles Pierce mocking the "Rubio surge" the other day?
― clemenza, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 03:43 (eight years ago) link
the county-by-county breakdowns are pretty interesting. there's a bunch where trump is 3rd, behind either cruz or rubio. in some counties (maybe ones he managed to appear in?) he finishes strong first, but in plenty, rubio handily beats him. if Trump ends the night 3rd overall I will laugh for weeks
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 03:43 (eight years ago) link
Looking forward to Trump as underdog, but I'm done saying things like "this will be the moment where it all unravels!"
― pplains, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 03:43 (eight years ago) link
Clinton now down below 50%. With 86% of precincts in: Clinton 49.9, Sanders 49.5, O'Malley 0.6. Looks like it might be a photo finish.
― the thirteenth floorior (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 03:44 (eight years ago) link
Interesting to hear what Rubio's advisors think is a winning message. He's apparently going to win over 'people struggling paycheck to paycheck and crushed under student debt' to the conservative movement, but doesn't give even a hint of what he would do for those people, besides a lot of patriotic hand waving.
― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 03:44 (eight years ago) link
I said a long time ago that Trump wouldn't win a single state. I still feel pretty good about that, despite what his recent NH numbers have been.
― โนโก. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 03:44 (eight years ago) link
rubio sounds like he's auditioning for the role of president in a local playhouse adaptation of "independence day"
― get a long, little doggy (m bison), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 03:46 (eight years ago) link
someone on 538 pointed out that districts that are thought to be more clinton-friendly have proportionally more to report than bernie strongholds. but since he's said that bernie's closed the gap further, so idk
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 2 February 2016 03:47 (eight years ago) link
Rubio seems like a real goober, and also just seems to be going on and on. But I don't know how much of the problem is that the backdrop behind him makes him seem like he's at the annual corporate dinner where they announce the biggest sellers for each fiscal quarter.
― the thirteenth floorior (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 03:48 (eight years ago) link
I can hear Chris Matthews jerking off furiously over this Rubio speech.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 03:49 (eight years ago) link
Did Bush or Christie get anything tonight? Were they shut out? Haven't heard their names all night.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 03:49 (eight years ago) link
there's no feeling behind Rubio's words. I get a sense of hollowness from him unmatched by any other candidate.
― never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 03:49 (eight years ago) link
lol Trump obv told by handlers that he must show Christian charity
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 03:50 (eight years ago) link
re: Bush/Christie - Both down at 2%. Christie at least has the excuse that his eyes have been only on New Hampshire for quite a while. Oh mannnn here's Trump.
― the thirteenth floorior (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 03:50 (eight years ago) link
i'm sorry i love this man
During Critical Campaign Period, Ben Carson Heads Home To Get Fresh Clothes
― lute bro (brimstead), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 03:51 (eight years ago) link
Bush has a future as a poinsettia thrown away after Xmas.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 03:51 (eight years ago) link
Wow, O'Malley's 0.5% is actually the difference right now...power broker!
― clemenza, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 03:53 (eight years ago) link
clinton lead down to 0.2% with 90% in
― k3vin k., Tuesday, 2 February 2016 03:54 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/caznQ0c.png
― pplains, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 03:55 (eight years ago) link
whoa just saw Bernie/Hil at 50/50
― never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 03:55 (eight years ago) link
hilary down to 62% in the markets
― ๐ ๐๐ข๐จ (caek), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 04:02 (eight years ago) link
maybe Carson doesn't know that many hotels have laundry service, someone should tell him
― Sharkie, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 04:02 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/u4QGUkj.jpg
― pplains, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 04:04 (eight years ago) link
The last few updates to the Iowa live map have Clinton inching back some ground. I kinda agree that there's not really room left in the map for Sanders to take this thing, but IMHO it still counts insofar as the basic stakes for Sanders were "confirm that he is a real candidate." I don't think a 50/49 (or 49.8 to 49.5) hurts him, and it probably helps him (if obviously not as much as a win).
LOL at ABC News's reporters on the field chasing down Cruz's bus on foot in order to get a four-second dispensation of the exact cliches he intends to tell the gathered crowd. Star-struck reporters then tell the anchors back home that this demonstrates that he "loves to tell a joke."
― the thirteenth floorior (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 04:07 (eight years ago) link
Trump did okay--no meltdown or anything. What a letdown.
I have no idea which of these three guys will win the Republican nomination. None.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 2 February 2016 04:08 (eight years ago) link
so has Sanders eschewed luxury for a Motel 6 room facing the parking lot?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 February 2016 04:08 (eight years ago) link