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The South Carolina Primary & Nevada Caucuses |Feb 20, 23, 27| Continuing The Calm

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Trickling out from what? Republican Nevada caucuses are done at night. As others said, don't expect results until 12AM EST (5AM GMT), and maybe some useless entrance polls leading up to that.

Serious? I swear we got Dem results earlier than SC on Saturday.

Edit - Yeah, my friend was posting results to me 10pm UK time Saturday night.

Democratic caucuses started at 11AM, doors closed at 12PM. Republican caucus is starting at night.

Ah ok, diff times. Thanks. Bit silly to do them at night surely ...
 
Honestly, I'd rather Bernie lose. If he were elected and unable to deliver, it would sour young progressives for years, and further drive democratic socialism into the ground. "SEE?! SOCIALISM DOESN'T WORK!" along with a new Republican voter wave. If they lose, it may embolden them to fight harder next time, and hopefully new Bern sprouts will be seeded and emerge in 8 years.
 
Honestly, I'd rather Bernie lose. If he were elected and unable to deliver, it would sour young progressives for years, and further drive democratic socialism into the ground. "SEE?! SOCIALISM DOESN'T WORK!" along with a new Republican voter wave. If they lose, it may embolden them to fight harder next time, and hopefully new Bern sprouts will be seeded and emerge in 8 years.

I think I'm a bit more optimistic than you regarding this. The way I see it, Bernie is attracting a rather non interested group of people, much like Trump is, as did Obama. I think there's a large percentage of that support group that will vote for Hillary as a result of Bernies participation.

Also moving forward, I just can't see the Republican message carrying any weight. More and more of the population is flocking to large cities, and I don't feel like Republican values hold. I feel like it's a dying party, and this batch of candidates is just digging the grave faster.
 
Honestly, I'd rather Bernie lose. If he were elected and unable to deliver, it would sour young progressives for years, and further drive democratic socialism into the ground. "SEE?! SOCIALISM DOESN'T WORK!" along with a new Republican voter wave. If they lose, it may embolden them to fight harder next time, and hopefully new Bern sprouts will be seeded and emerge in 8 years.

It would make some go further right, and make some go further left. A similar amount of discontent would occur if he loses, but I would imagine that less people would go right-wing in that situation.
 
Her name is Chelsea. Please don't misgender trans people.

I don't think foxtrot cares to acknowledge that. Unfortunately.

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Republicans don't care for facts regarding economic policy in my experience.
 
Those graphs seem pretty misleading, at a glance. You'd have to factor in the quality of the surrounding economy to really get a handle on administrations' spending habits and economic impact. Clinton, for example, added a shit-ton of private sector jobs, but many of them lived on the skin of the dotcom bubble, iirc. Not to mention the quality of the jobs has to count, too.
 
The Nevada GOP caucus is sounding like an absolute mess. I've been seeing reports on Twitter of voting volunteers wearing Trump gear. This is really damaging to the process.

Honestly, I'd rather Bernie lose. If he were elected and unable to deliver, it would sour young progressives for years, and further drive democratic socialism into the ground. "SEE?! SOCIALISM DOESN'T WORK!" along with a new Republican voter wave. If they lose, it may embolden them to fight harder next time, and hopefully new Bern sprouts will be seeded and emerge in 8 years.

Say what. You could say the same thing about Obama. He's disappointed many of the progressives that voted for him (me included). That kind of attitude is how we've gotten successively more centrist Democratic candidates, because the Democratic establishment knows the progressives will just support the "electable" one.
 
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