The New Hampshire Primary |Feb 9|: Live Free or Die

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So after tonight will NeoGAF keep saying Bernie is a loser?

In all fairness he was supposed to win NH it's his neighboring state his issue is with the south. It will all depend on how the media spins it as most liberal pundits are for Hillary.
 
Bloomberg would essentially be a moderate Republican who would split the GOP in twain (good), but it risks no one getting to 270 and a vote for president in the GOP-dominated House (bad).


Bloomberg wouldn't win a single state. He would take at most 5% of the most overall.
 
The only caveat with Decision Desk seems to be that they'll update their map while they're in the middle of updating a precinct, so I've already seen the numbers bounce around a bit, precincts showing no votes for Trump for a while, etc.

So it may not be a real snapshot of the margins until we get more data in so that each precinct doesn't move the numbers a few percent.

But yeah, looks like Jeb! is going to be Rubio. Kasich probably 2nd.
 
Kasich coming in second makes for a real mess for the establishment guys because he has no game at all in any other state.
 
I know that there is no chance at all, but just imagine this.

Close your eyes, and imagine the reactions from both sides if Jeb Bush beat Donald Trump.

Just imagine it.
 
He's younger and more photogenic, which has proven to be critical for electability in the last few decades. Clinton, W. Bush, and Obama were all very charismatic (relatively) young men who won most on likability. Rubio has that AND has the Hispanic connection, making him much more dangerous in the general election. If the winner of the Republican nomination were guaranteed to be the president, I seriously doubt many people here would be wanting Trump or Cruz over Rubio.

I would prefer President Trump to President Rubio, straight up. Absolutely no question about this.

I'd take Rubio over Cruz though.
 
Sure, but the existence of voting booths themselves aren't wrong. You're looking at it as if it is a symbol of super backwards technology, but if that's the case, why can't you simply vote by app in those three states? "I can't believe you still have to vote by mail", etc.?

I mean, for all the ease of being about to smoke a blunt and vote at the same time, only Oregon of those three rank high in voter turnout, and even Oregon's turnout is not as good as these other states that are still using these crazy voting booths. Are those three states even trying, lol

It's not backwards, it's just weird that more states haven't adopted it. It saves the state a lot of money and voters a lot of time.

As for turnout, ours is obviously not going to be as high as swing states or states that get a lot of attention in the primaries. That said, it's generally accepted that the turnout is higher than it would be if we had a traditional system. I would expect turnout to be higher this year since it will be the first year that automatic voter registration is in effect.

Vote by mail and absentee balloting is historically where most election fraud (real fraud, not R trumped up "fraud") takes place. Personally, I love voting booths. Optically scanned paper ballot voting booths doubly so. Run out of booths? Pull out a manilla folder or three ring binder and you have another one!

Voter fraud, in reality, is extremely rare here.
 
DAVID WASSERMAN 7:48 PM
At this point, it’s pretty clear from the early results that Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump will win New Hampshire, possibly very convincingly.
 
Bloomberg wouldn't win a single state. He would take at most 5% of the most overall.

I would assume so, but the risk (while minimal) would still be there.

Almost anyone entering the race as a third-party candidate other than Hillary herself would almost guarantee a Sanders presidency and the most obstructionist House ever, and that's saying something having lived through the last eight years of the Obama presidency.

Re: Bloomberg on soda and guns, he'd explain that way by talking about having to govern in a blue city within a blue state, and moderates would forgive him. The extremists would be voting for Cruz anyway.
 
All these establishment governors getting a boost means they'll maybe stay in the race longer, which only helps Trump.
 
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