You guys are going to need it.
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/google-searches-move-canada-spike-super-tuesday-results/story?id=37337658
Don't worry we're bringing microbrews.
So we should just give up? When the opportunity to change things is available at every election?
Lobbyist dollars don't amount to shit if they can't be used to generate votes. Jeb Bush and to a lesser extent Hillary Clinton are learning this the hard way at the moment. Our system is...
I mean ignoring them emotionally. Discounting them. For instance Obama made that comment deriding people "clinging to their bibles and their guns". Even if that's what he thinks it's not a very emotionally intelligent thing to do if your goal is to be an inclusive, unifying President...
Yeah I more-or-less see things going the same way. Technology has already replaced a large chunk of blue-collar labor, and AI is getting to the point where low-end white collar jobs will be affected as well. There's no stopping it, because whoever regulates it out of existence will be...
I've always been a moderate. My views on gun rights are conservative, my views on the role of government, political correctness and personal responsibility lean right overall; and that's most of what I've talked about here. But I'm generally pro choice, pro ending the war on drugs, pro...
I'd just like to point out that the United States has survived worse than Hillary, worse than Trump, and will continue to survive regardless of who gets elected. That's the beauty of democracy.
But don't let that stop you from proclaiming that everything's shit and the country is going to...
It's already worse.
"Please clap..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdCYMvaUcrA
Yeah he probably meant it as some endearing self-deprecating humor, but he was just a little too genuine there. Poor guy.
I don't think the Democrat establishment is so retarded as to deny Bernie the nomination if he wins the popular primary. In the short term it would splinter the party and be a boon to Republicans, if for no other reason than decreased voter turnout. In the medium-term it would just pour...
There's a big difference between losing an election and being denied a place the table. If ideas reach a certain threshold of national popularity then they deserve attention wherever they're found. Your logic produces a system where if an idea isn't popular in the cities it doesn't deserve to...
That's how it used to be up until about a century ago. The modern party convention is basically a coronation party. Back in the day they were where the party elite went to decide who to nominate. After multiple days of horse-trading, voting and nominating the party elite would put forth a...
And left unchecked the large cities are in a position to effectively disenfranchise the rest of the population. I fail to see how simply having more people as a result of socioeconomic factors gives them that right. It's like saying the family with 12 kids has more rights than the family with...
You haven't been reading the conversation. Eskimopie was arguing that the rural and suburban regions have too much power and that some of that power should be taken away. I was arguing why I think their extra power is necessary.
I'm also not sure where you got "persecution complex" come from...
I don't think they should be able to "dictate", I think cultural regions should be balanced and allowed substantial self-government. Under our current system I think the big cities still have a significant edge over other populations. So naturally I'm against giving them more power...
Can you explain why a few million people living in one spot should be allowed to dictate the lives of people living tens or hundreds of miles away, living in different circumstances with different ideas, needs and wants? Because you're advocating in that direction. The "wild" levels of...
The issue is larger states go the way of the big cities, which are often not representative of the state as a whole. Those small-state advantages you dislike are needed to ensure we don't become the United Cities of America and have a massive abuse-of-the-majority problem. We arguably already...
There's new information if he somehow manages to win, even by an insanely slim margin. Don't underestimate the power of headlines. Hillary getting a slim victory over Sanders is borderline disgrace given all her advantages. Sanders getting a slim victory over Hillary would be the scrappy...
It matters because Sanders has made a steady rise over the last few months from the very fringes of the Democratic party, culminating in tonight. The Iowa caucuses have never been about numbers, they've been about momentum and perception, and Bernie has had a consistently positive slope to...
I'm not so sure. Right now he's effectively tied with Trump for 2nd place, technically in 3rd. He'll REALLY have to step it up to get the nomination unless Iowa is somehow a fluke for the Republicans.
If Cruz or Trump gets the Nomination then Bernie has a serious shot in the general, I'm not sure where your certainty of his defeat comes from there. He polls ahead of Trump nationally, and Cruz is just a more polished Trump.
What makes you think he'd go third party? Bernie, unlike the other candidates, seems to legitimately want to make the US a better place. I'm sure he'd prefer Hillary to whomever the Republicans nominate.
Screw the scandal, what will happen if he wins the "popular vote" but it's the superdelegates who are the deciding factor. Even losing the nomination he could reveal the strings. That alone might we worth it in the long run, I disagree with Sanders about more than a few issues, but he's right...
Maybe not, but he'll be a start. He also has a promising history of respect and friendly relations with the other side of the aisle.
At the very least we'd have an honest person in the White House. That's one more decent person in power, and I'll take that over the status quo even if all he...
Oh don't get me wrong I have zero love of Rubio, but if it's him or Clinton, well I could practically flip a coin. They're just business as usual, Trump and Cruz are IMO actual threats.
Yeah. There actually aren't that many caucuses. Traditional voting is far more common.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_presidential_primaries,_2016#Process
Like most candidates the issue isn't whether she's a good choice, the issue is whether the other choice is worse. Ted Cruz is a more articulate and composed Donald Trump. If it came down to him or Hillary, speaking as an independent I'll lean heavily towards Hillary. If Rubio got the nod I'd...
Maybe, but take a look at the polling history in South Carolina, a Clinton stronghold.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/sc/south_carolina_democratic_presidential_primary-4167.html
Even there Sanders has a substantially positive slope while Hillary is in decline. The only...
It doesn't at this point. She may technically "win", but barring some massive upset in the last 8% of voting she's winning by a shave. It's also symbolic of the general trend in the Democrat primaries, Bernie's numbers have been steadily growing. A candidate who can come in from the fringe...
Some fun entrance poll demographics, Hillary's supporters are mostly old and rich.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/02/01/us/elections/iowa-democrat-poll.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=span-abc-region®ion=span-abc-region&WT.nav=span-abc-region
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