*2016 US Presidential Elections* - Candidates, Statistics, Campaign Timelines, Debates

[Ace Boobtoucher]

Belated congratulations to Donald Trump for being the only white guy to crack the top four in the Iowa GOP caucus.

 

[Supafly]

Belated congratulations to Donald Trump for being the only white guy to crack the top four in the Iowa GOP caucus.

Damn! I didn't notice THAT detail. If the initiative to deport non-whites will be fully deployed,, he would be the one that is left for office.

Well played,

 

[Jack Davenport]

^ What a total fucked up thing to say. I don't mean that. Posting while drunk and belligerent and a total asshole instead of a partial one. Sorry.

Yeah, I'd avoid air travel until that juju wears off if I were you.

 

[sean miguel]

Well that didn't go well for Rubio. And congrats to Christie for embarrassing Rubio but no one is going to vote for his fat ass, governor or not.

Rubio repeated himself 4 times and he's getting hammered virally for it. It looks bad but I think he was just trying to hammer that point home to the ADD electorate.

Whatever, I have no qualms about voting for a robot if I agree with it's programming and it has some badass integrated weaponry like laser beam eyes.
And maybe an adamantanium skeleton for the added indestructibility.

Rubio 2016
He represents the future, in more ways than one.

Rubio 2016
He represents the future, in more ways than one.

 

[Little Red Wagon Repairman]

Belated congratulations to Donald Trump for being the only white guy to crack the top four in the Iowa GOP caucus.

The Hispanic fellas are the palest ones up there and Trump seems to have a healthy shade of Orange. Chris Christie looks like a White Abdullah Thee Butcher. I wonder if he also carries his wallet under the flap of one of his tits too.

 

[Johan]

Bernie Sanders 'political revolution' threatens to overtake Hillary Clinton


Vermont senator is expected to win Tuesday's primary election in New Hampshire, but margin of victory could be crucial in race for Democratic nomination

He is a septuagenarian senator and self-avowed socialist, but Bernie Sanders is on course for a resounding victory over Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire primary this week – a win that would set up a dogfight for the Democratic nomination that looked unthinkable just a few months ago.

After running Mrs Clinton to a virtual tie in Iowa, the virulently anti-establishment Vermont senator is now averaging 17 points clear of Mrs Clinton in the Granite State – a stunning reversal from six month ago when the former secretary of state led by 40.

His anti-capitalist call to arms has inspired millions of young Americans and resonated strongly in the liberal counties of New Hampshire where Mr Sanders was met with a roar of approval at a rally in the city of Rochester this week.

In the aspirationally-named ‘Rochester Opera House’ – just down Main St from the local Clinton campaign headquarters where teenage girls prepared their ‘Ready for Hillary’ signs - a boisterous crowd was getting ready to crown Bernie as a future president.

They were hopeful, but they were also angry, and Mr Sanders soon took the stage to promise “a revolution” in US politics and tell them that anger was exactly the right emotion.

Pledging to “take on Wall St, take on the billionaire class”, Mr Sanders pushed his brand of pitch-fork politics, waiting impatiently for the applause to subside before insisting that a Sanders presidency would fundamentally transform America.

It remains unclear whether Mr Sanders’s message can really propel him all the way to the nomination – Mrs Clinton still holds a clear lead in many upcoming primary states – but a big loss here would add to the sense that Mrs Clinton’s aura of invincibility is fading fast.

Nationally, Mr Sanders has erased a 30 point margin with Mrs Clinton among Democrats in just six weeks, pulling into a statistical tie with the former secretary of state according to a Quinnipiac University Poll poll released on Friday.

Among young women, once seen as a reliable voting bloc for Mrs Clinton, more than 80 per cent support the Vermont senator.

He even outperforms Mrs Clinton in hypothetical general election match-ups with Republicans, and is flush with cash from an unprecedented wave of more than 2.5 million small-dollar donations to his campaign.

As Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll, put it “Democrats nationwide are ‘feeling the Bern’.”

Still, Mrs Clinton well knows that losing in New Hampshire is not necessarily the end of the road. Her husband Bill was catapulted to the White House in 1992 after finishing a stronger-than-expected second in the state and declaring himself the "Comeback Kid".

But she is trying to avoid the kind of embarrassing margin that would raise fresh questions about the viability of her campaign.

Spurning the advice of some in her party to skip New Hampshire to sure up her leads in South Carolina and Nevada, the next states to vote, Mrs Clinton has taken to the campaign trail with renewed vigour.

Along the way her advisers tried to spin the new-found competition as a positive, saying Mrs Clinton loathed the “inevitable” label, and “likes a good fight”.

Mrs Clinton has countered that Mr Sanders’s political revolution is unrealistic, and pitched herself to voters at a rival event earlier that day as “a progressive that gets things done”.

Most independent analysts still think the nomination is Mrs Clinton’s to lose, but Mr Sanders’s grassroots fundraising machine, his appeal to idealistic young voters and Mrs Clinton's lack-lustre performances on the stump mean the fight could be longer and dirtier than anyone imagined.

“Hillary has been such an under-performing candidate that it gives him an opening,” said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Centre for Politics. “The idea he would be the Democratic nominee is in my mind, laughable. I don't think the Democrats are this stupid, but I'm starting to wonder."

But for supporters likes Charles Sawyer, a 74-year-old retired software engineer who attended the rally, the Sanders socialist offering is more than just a pipe-dream in an America where wages are flat and inequality has become an over-riding political theme.

“Bernie's not appealing to the fear. Everything was a policy brief, and these people were so convinced, so energised,” he enthused, “It's like a constellation in the stars and it comes together to form a picture of what's wrong with our society.”

Even many of Mr Sanders’s own supporters once conceded that theirs was a symbolic quest - to shape the narrative of the Democratic race before Mrs Clinton moved on to the general election. Not anymore.

Political revolution, Mr Sanders has reminded voters as he has travelled New Hampshire, begins with victory on Tuesday night, and not just any victory – he needs a big one.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...on-threatens-to-overtake-Hillary-Clinton.html

 

[knowone]

Last night on Saturday Night Live host Larry David did a very funny mashup of his 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' and his Bernie Sanders parody called 'Bern Your Enthusiasm'

On last night's Republican debate when Ben Carson was introduced he went part way out and then just stopped. Other candidates were announced and as they went past him encouraged him to go but he just stayed there, even when a stage hand signaled him. Something is wrong with him.

 

[Supafly]

Last night on Saturday Night Live host Larry David did a very funny mashup of his 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' and his Bernie Sanders parody called 'Bern Your Enthusiasm'

On last night's Republican debate when Ben Carson was introduced he went part way out and then just stopped. Other candidates were announced and as they went past him encouraged him to go but he just stayed there, even when a stage hand signaled him. Something is wrong with him.

Man, watching that scene felt totally creepy. One of Carsons spokespersons was on Bill Maher's show the other night and they touched the weird topic that he decided - or, as that spokesperson put it, had previously scheduled that visit home - for that specific time.

I feel he is just plugging his new book, he can't be serious about wanting to be POTUS. I think that Trump is doing the same. The actual race is between Cruz and Rubio, ironically two partly latinos being against immigration. Jeb Busgh is just so back down, now he even has his brohr in a commercial, after all the fuss about being just Jeb!, NOT a Bush.

 

[Little Red Wagon Repairman]

"Aw geez! Look what dis dingbat hasta resort to!"

 

[knowone]

In less than 2 hours the NH primary starts. There are 3 small precincts that always votes at midnight. They make a party of it.


Its beginning to look like Bloomberg may be serious about mounting a third party Presidential run.

 

[Supafly]

Live Feed:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...6162d6-cecf-11e5-88cd-753e80cd29ad_story.html

Right now it's like this:

D: Sanders, 55%, Clinton 40%
R: Trump 32%, Rubio 15%, Cruz 13%, Kasich 13%, Bush 10%

 

[knowone]

It sounds like Kasich is getting strong support, which IMO is good because he's the only "adult in the room" in the Republican debates.

 

[pool_hustler]

Trump and Sanders win New Hampshire.

I wonder what kind of odds you could have gotten on that result in Vegas a year ago? Damn.

Kasich has been the adult in the room in the debates, but I just can't get past a couple of his policy positions, and something about him strikes me as not quite genuine (hardly surprising for a politician but in his case it feels like it goes a little deeper than that). Meh, could be wrong about that. Just an inkling.

 

[knowone]

Trump and Sanders win New Hampshire.

I wonder what kind of odds you could have gotten on that result in Vegas a year ago? Damn.

Kasich has been the adult in the room in the debates, but I just can't get past a couple of his policy positions, and something about him strikes me as not quite genuine (hardly surprising for a politician but in his case it feels like it goes a little deeper than that). Meh, could be wrong about that. Just an inkling.

Really? I'm a liberal and he sure seems like a conservative to me, and his views have stayed the same since he worked on Fox News.

 

[Johan]

Trump and Sanders win New Hampshire.

Both not just won, they both crushed their opponents by more than 20%

I heard that in her speech, Hillary spoke about money in politics as a major issue. An issue she's been denying 'till now. Let's hope democrat voters will see who's genuine on that issue and who's just adapting her talkiing points to the political tendency of the moment...

 

[pool_hustler]

Really? I'm a liberal and he sure seems like a conservative to me, and his views have stayed the same since he worked on Fox News.

No I agree he's clearly a conservative.
What I meant was something about him personally that doesn't feel quite genuine.

 

[Little Red Wagon Repairman]

Both not just won, they both crushed their opponents by more than 20%

I heard that in her speech, Hillary spoke about money in politics as a major issue. An issue she's been denying 'till now. Let's hope democrat voters will see who's genuine on that issue and who's just adapting her talkiing points to the political tendency of the moment...

There is such a massive contrast of sincerity and character between the two. Sanders is also gracious and appreciative toward his supporters and Hillary is manipulative and seems to feel entitled. Many are getting tired of being treated like heads of livestock owned by deceitful politicians who themselves are owned by lobbyists and special interest groups. I've mentioned before that I can see why people like Bernie Sanders. I also think he's a decent fellow even though he wouldn't get my vote in a potential General Election.

 

[Ace Boobtoucher]

Christie and Fiorina OUT!

 

[Little Red Wagon Repairman]

Fiorina OUT!

Goody! Hit the bricks, Sugartits! If you wanna interrupt somebody now do it in a PTA meeting.

 

[sean miguel]

Ben Carson's numbers don't even qualify him for the next debate.

South Carolina is the last stand for a few. If Trump takes SC (I don't suppose he'll be saying 'pussy' at any of his rallies and will once again break out his bible) then that runaway train steamrolls the rest of the way to the nomination.

fuck. or yay. I'm not sure yet.