Buttload of Faith: the 2016 Presidential Primary Thread (Pt 2)

he does not want to have a beer with you, he wants to show you his wine cellar and brick you up, cask of amontillado style

man, rubio is a child. hillary could eat him for breakfast and still have room for brunch.

wait i'm on the wrong thread...

marco reminds me of

http://www.moviesonline.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/peter-lorre-m-1.jpg

Politico with this gem:

Trump’s data shop is headed by a pair of low-profile former RNC data engineers, Matt Braynard and Witold Chrabaszcz, who are regarded as technically savvy but who do not have previous high-level campaign experience. And, while Trump’s team late last year entered into an agreement with the political data outfit L2, the campaign has paid the firm only $235,000 for “research consulting” through the end of 2015, the period covered by the most recent Federal Election Commission reports.

Trump’s reports show that his self-funded campaign has spent relatively little on voter data or outreach. They showed $200,000 in list rental payments to the conservative Newsmax Media, and $47,000 to Targeted Victory, a leading GOP digital firm, as well as $700,000 on field staff and consultants.

By contrast, the campaign has spent at least $1.2 million on hats ― presumably mostly for the now-iconic hats bearing Trump’s campaign slogan “Make America Great Again.”

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/donald-trump-iowa-caucus-loser-218604

can we lock this thread

The Lonesome Ballad of Mike Huckabee and Martin O'Malley: the 2016 Presidential Primary Thread (Pt. 3).

(I know there's a much better title than that.)

There's already a new thread, linked above.

I'm realizing that I don't understand some of the basic mechanics of this system. Is there a good online resource that explains things like: exactly what a caucus is and how/why it differs from a primary, why the primaries/caucuses take place in the order that they do, how the results of these caucuses/primaries lead to the choice of the party's Presidential candidate, etc? (I gather that e.g. Clinton and Sanders won very close percentages of the vote in this caucus, with Clinton getting 22 delegates and Sanders getting 21: does this mean that at the party leadership convention, there will be 22 Iowa delegates who will vote for Clinton on the first ballot with 21 voting for Sanders? Or does Clinton get to count all of Iowa in her pocket because she got more delegates this time? etc.) It's probably high school civics class material but I don't always trust Wikipedia and I don't always find journalistic sources to be that clear.

Whoops, missed the new thread.

Nm, think I got it now.

rand paul is dropping out

a good note on which to close this thread. We're here now: I will keep doing, but not worth it! The 2016 Presidential Primary Voting Thread

Mods?

whoops, thanks! i'm so used to ctrl+f'ing "faith" when i have urgent political news

Who can find the betting odds on Reagan's dudes working through 2020? They'll be pushing 85 by then.

― service desk hardman (El Tomboto), Monday, January 25, 2016

thread still needs locking but i am happy to have scalia's death marked in every thread on the board tbh