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aBagorn
Aug 26, 2004

Mr Ice Cream Glove posted:

Which Candidate are you?

http://townhall.com/2016quiz

I got Rand Paul

I got Sarah Palin by answering the correct, hosed up way.

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aBagorn
Aug 26, 2004

William Bear posted:

Detailed article in the NYTimes about Marco Rubio's billionaire mentor Norman Braman:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/us/billionaire-lifts-marco-rubio-politically-and-personally.html


I was really surprised to see how low the Rubios' net worth was. To elaborate further, Washington Post estimated he had a net worth of 400k in 2010 (The Senate median was 1.7m in 2010. His latest financial disclosure in 2013 revealed that he's since paid off the student loans and his liabilities are just a few hundred thousand in mortgages and home equity lines of credit.

http://apps.washingtonpost.com/politics/capitol-assets/member/marco-rubio/
http://pfds.opensecrets.org/N00030612_2013.pdf

Marco Rubio should make this part of his campaign story. He worked hard and pulled himself out of debt with a little help from his friends!

Wait Norman "former Philadelphia Eagles owner AKA The Man From Florida AKA the guy who let Reggie White walk" Braman?!!?!

My feelings toward Rubio have moved from apathy to seething hatred.

aBagorn
Aug 26, 2004

Raskolnikov38 posted:

What time is the campaign kickoff and will there be a livestream?

5PM EDT, yes

aBagorn
Aug 26, 2004

Logikv9 posted:

We're laughing at Donald now, but when he wins and Americans are all enslaved to work the Trump Casino floor and pander to rich Chinese tourists for eternity, we will wonder what went wrong.

Good thing I've been working out, those cocktail waitress uniforms don't leave much to the imagination

aBagorn
Aug 26, 2004

Gyges posted:

Not even Carter?

Ford won the White vote 52-48

aBagorn
Aug 26, 2004

FuriousxGeorge posted:

I'm going to defend Scott Walker. American without is a perfectly valid cheesesteak order. Media is dumb.

He does sniff his own poop though.

http://bit.ly/1Iqh3OA

This is true. I'm usually an American With guy myself, but some people just don't like onions and that's ok.

aBagorn
Aug 26, 2004
I'm pretty sure that Biden eats Hillary's support more than Bernie's, so I can't help but think this would be good for news for Sanderistas

aBagorn
Aug 26, 2004
poo poo if :shillary: is hanging with Kanye I might have to rethink my Bernie support.

aBagorn
Aug 26, 2004

Dalael posted:

Traitor. Once Bernie takes over the country, you will hang alongside the rich and Donald Trump. :colbert:

But Kanye, man.

Kanye.

e: \/ I don't think we'll be seeing any meaningful post debate polls until next week.

aBagorn fucked around with this message at 12:35 on Aug 7, 2015

aBagorn
Aug 26, 2004

Schnorkles posted:

That's actually a pretty huge drop for Trump in comparison to the other polls in NH.

YOOOOOOGE drop :eng101:


e: for context, the last 4 polls according to RCP were:

code:
Trump    +17
Trump    +12
Trump    +12
Trump    +7

aBagorn
Aug 26, 2004

Joementum posted:

:qq: People in Philly were mean to me, give me money :qq:



Keep talking, Walker, and we'll give you the HitchBOT treatment

aBagorn
Aug 26, 2004

Gregoriev posted:

I feel like Arizona has a better chance of going Trump than Georgia.

I feel a trump independent run will cede IN, IA, NE, and AZ to the Democratic nominee, as well as the relatively safe CO and NM, giving Democrats the first unbroken coast to coast victory since...uh 1964?

aBagorn
Aug 26, 2004
I'm pretty skeptical about Trump going forward as well, but polling > 30% in a field of 17 is pretty outstanding, IMO.

aBagorn
Aug 26, 2004

archaeo posted:

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/images/polling/us/us08272015_Ueg38d.pdf

Trump 28
Carson 12
Bush 7
Cruz 7
Rubio 7
Walker 6
Paul 2

I love this world

Looking into the individual candidate polling, looks like Comrade Bernie is still polling > 30% "Don't know" for all of his measurables.

He also loses to Rubio H2H, the only Democrat to lose in any hypothetical matchup.

This also tells me people live Biden way more than Clinton and he'd walk away with the nomination

(caveat: August polls)

aBagorn
Aug 26, 2004
Trump just had a "it's real and it's spectacular" moment with a supporter about his hair.

:allears:

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

aBagorn
Aug 26, 2004

Shageletic posted:

When did this happen in the video?

ABC posted the clip

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/donald-trump-says-i-dont-wear-a-toupee-33359554

e: He's explaining how the wall will be built

and now he's talking about infrastructure spending :swoon: oh man don't suck me in Trump

aBagorn fucked around with this message at 18:18 on Aug 27, 2015

aBagorn
Aug 26, 2004

NotWearingPants posted:

"It's not fair to what is the strongest Republican party presidential field in 36 years."
- Chuck Todd on Donald Trump

We've had what, 3 elections since then without an incumbent?

1988
2000
2008

aBagorn
Aug 26, 2004
Petition to start the 2020 thread early so we can all talk about Kanye West's insurgency candidacy

aBagorn
Aug 26, 2004

Deep Hurting posted:



Don't feed the Trump!

You still got it man. Good work

aBagorn
Aug 26, 2004
So, standard "single poll in September" qualifier, but this is interesting:

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/news-and-events/quinnipiac-university-poll/iowa/release-detail?releaseid=2277

code:
Quinnipiac Iowa Poll - Democratic "Likely Caucus Goers"
-------------------------------------------------------

Biden                12    
Chafee                -      
Clinton              40    
O'Malley              3      
Sanders              41    
Webb                  1      
DK/NA                 3
Then on the question of "is there a candidate you would not vote for" Hillary got 11% to Biden's 5 and Sanders' 3

Feel the Bern?

e: They also asked Biden voters who their second choice was, and the results without Biden are:

code:
Chafee                -    
Clinton              47    
O'Malley              4   
Sanders              44     
Webb                  1     
DK/NA                 4

aBagorn fucked around with this message at 13:02 on Sep 10, 2015

aBagorn
Aug 26, 2004

:getin:

aBagorn
Aug 26, 2004

Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:

You guys Bernie and Hillary are pretty much in a tie in Iowa.

Yeah I posted the numbers last page and then Jindal had to ruin the moment

aBagorn
Aug 26, 2004

Gregoriev posted:

What part of that are you reading? Question 3A clearly says his support results in a 47-44 between Hillary and Bernie.

The part where HRC is +7 without Biden and Bern is +3 (the other 2% went to Webb and "Don't know"

aBagorn
Aug 26, 2004

A GIANT PARSNIP posted:

5 people are hurt, including Bobby Jindal, after he plows his car into a Trump event.

Trump is uninjured.

fixed

aBagorn
Aug 26, 2004

Is that...a "sexy" Waluigi cosplay?

where can I get one?

What in the hell?!

aBagorn
Aug 26, 2004

Xenophon posted:

Marketing Resource Group, a polling firm in Michigan, released a poll for the Michigan Republican primary today (conducted before the debate):

Carson 24%
Trump 22%
Bush 8%
Huckabee 6%
Rubio 4%
Cruz 3%
Fiorina 3%
Kasich 2%
Paul 2%
Walker 2%
Christie 1%
Gilmore 0
Jindahl 0
Pataki 0
Santorum 0
Undecided 21%

Wrap it up Trumpailures! Guy is a loser now.

YOOOOGE if true

aBagorn
Aug 26, 2004

mdemone posted:

Honest question: I thought we had determined that the Clinton campaign was actually not involved in that at all? Wasn't that part a right-wing telephone game too?

Campaign? No.

Supporters? Most Assuredly

aBagorn
Aug 26, 2004

Joementum posted:

He was running until the end of March. Hence the Hillary comparison: a candidate with a lock on the nomination but with downward trending favorability who would open up the field for the Vice President should they leave the race.

I really REALLY don't want something terrible to happen to Warren, so we need to stop this comparison post haste.

aBagorn
Aug 26, 2004

Nessus posted:

There's also the fact that I think the examples that Americans are most likely to be familiar with in detail are either England's NHS or Canada's single-payer system.

Isn't Canada multi payer with a guaranteed government-backed base coverage?

aBagorn
Aug 26, 2004
So these numbers Trump is doling out doesn't include FICA right? Those numbers would remain unchanged? What's his stance on the FICA cap? Seems like he would be in favor of eliminating the cap and taxing all income.

I need to know just how great you plan to make America, Mr Trump

aBagorn
Aug 26, 2004

euphronius posted:

Haha that guy used to own the Eagles.

gently caress "the man in France" for letting Reggie White go to the Packers.

aBagorn
Aug 26, 2004

It all begins to make sense

aBagorn
Aug 26, 2004

the_paradigm_shift posted:

And Obama is one of the best campaigners of this generation.

He IS the best campaigner of his generation. Clinton (Bill) is a generation before him.

Campaign Obama has no peer

aBagorn
Aug 26, 2004

Chrpno posted:

What kind of playing do you think this is? What kind of miscues do you call this? What fuckin’ band do you think you’re playing on, MOTHERFUCKERS! You wanna gently caress with me on the bandstand?!

This isn't getting enough love

Buddy :allears:

aBagorn
Aug 26, 2004

Typo posted:

how long is hungary's border vs the american one?

175 km vs 3200 km

aBagorn
Aug 26, 2004

I'm the girl in the strapless black dress.

aBagorn
Aug 26, 2004

euphronius posted:

Kind of interesting we never even had the "should we politicize this tragedy ??" Moratorium.

The idea of a moratorium itself is political.

aBagorn
Aug 26, 2004

emfive posted:

Finding somebody in the West in the late 18th century with attitudes that today we'd judge as progressively non-racist would be really hard.

John Laurens comes really loving close

aBagorn
Aug 26, 2004

:vince:

What up and coming future (or former) Daily Show writers are on her social media staff?

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aBagorn
Aug 26, 2004

Captain_Maclaine posted:

No of course not, but it's nice to imagine for a moment or two

Nah I think it might actually be.

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