The parties have the media by the short and curlies when it comes to primary debates. Say something wrong and all of a sudden there's no debate on your network.
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The parties have the media by the short and curlies when it comes to primary debates. Say something wrong and all of a sudden there's no debate on your network.
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thepotatoman
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Or you could do the south park strategy to get around Comedy Central censors.
After every rejection, replace it with someone slightly more liberal, so in 6 months republicans wont just be pressured by how much time they've wasted, but also pressured by the prospect of the picks getting worse and worse for them.
Well it was a conspiracy, not so much a theory
That would be perfect.
It's not.
What in the world, that poll is a sham. Why is 538 using it??
538 use all polls not matter how bad or good they are.
ItWasMeantToBe19
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Wow, one of the heads of Bobby Jindal's campaign thinks that Trump fucked up.That's an opinion I'm going to take seriously.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/trump-9-11-debate-219273
Brawndo Addict
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Nobody ever talks about the 9/11 Commission Report. You'd think Trump would bring it up when discussing how Bush's administration and the intelligence community failed. Hoping for Trump to substantiate himself on the rare arguments where he's in the right is a lost cause though. I just find it so patently absurd that he's the only person up there I can look to for representation on this argument.
j_k_redtail
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Veritigo_X
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Metaphoreus
This is semantics, and nothing more
This is the kind of inane argument I had in mind with my initial post on this subject. It's amazing in what contempt Democratic politicians like Warren hold their constituents.
Retromelon
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Are you alright meta, considering recent events?
http://www.rgj.com/story/news/polit...team-clinton-growing-nervous-nevada/80330062/
Ralston Reports: Team Clinton growing nervous about Nevada
Ralston Reports: Team Clinton growing nervous about Nevada
Dammit
thehypocrite
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Time to Diablos.
Could be Clinton's team just trying to create a narrative. If we get a bunch of people writing stuff like this and she has a comfortable win then it looks better than had she won and everyone expected it. Due to the lack of polling it's hard to tell what's really going on, are they nervous or are they playing up the expectations?
Veritigo_X
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He thinks 3 years is 4 and that Senate deserves to use their "independent judgment" to confirm a nominee despite McConnell saying they'll block it without even hearing who the nominee is. I'm going with no.
QuiteWhittle
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Gonna be a sad day when President Rubio nominates his fourth SC judge.
Macho Madness
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That's a whole lot of words that don't really say anything we didn't already know. Sanders is obviously making up ground but to the extent of it is the question.
Wow, and a new conservative PAC that ties Clinton to Trump on Immigration in Nevada (to try and sway the race to Sanders): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dqp4Wsw8Jk
Things are getting dirty.
Yeah, he's been sounding this bell on Twitter since Wednesday. Without polling we don't know how accurate it is, but he's trying to get Nevada to be more of a player in the primary conversation, and so he takes it personally when they downplay Nevada's importance now.
Ugh please don't even joke about that.
Brawndo Addict
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I think both of these races are more likely than not heading for the convention.
On the republican side, assuming things stay relatively stable, Trump will take SC and the only question is whether the math relative to winner take all states prevents Trump from gaining enough delegates or not.
On the democratic side I think the state of the race is a tie right now but Bernie is on an incredible trajectory where he could potentially win outright if this keeps up. As is however, they just split everything between the 60-40 percent band and I'm not sure how that maths out. Could come down to super-delegates.
It increasingly feels like Hillary is just playing from a losing position.
On the republican side, assuming things stay relatively stable, Trump will take SC and the only question is whether the math relative to winner take all states prevents Trump from gaining enough delegates or not.
On the democratic side I think the state of the race is a tie right now but Bernie is on an incredible trajectory where he could potentially win outright if this keeps up. As is however, they just split everything between the 60-40 percent band and I'm not sure how that maths out. Could come down to super-delegates.
It increasingly feels like Hillary is just playing from a losing position.
RastaMentality
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Damn that's messy. Using the same style as the trump commercials too.
Basileus777
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If Hillary loses Nevada the sky really will be falling. Even if she still won the nomination it'd leave me worried that she really is a weak candidate that would struggle in the general election too.
New voter registration in Nevada is pretty bonkers compared to previous years too, if Maddow's stats were correct. Going to be an interesting day.
Metaphoreus
This is semantics, and nothing more
Do I now? On what basis do you claim that?
ItWasMeantToBe19
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What do you think about using the 14th amendment in BushvGore as an originalist, Meta.
Bernie is such a narcissistic asshole. He and his campaign are so full of themselves it's ridiculous. They're promising everything they can think of and delivering nothing but the next Walter Mondale. This is so infuriating. I wish he never jumped in the race. Biden where are you
theprodigy
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Could you for once stop acting so whiny?
Snowman Prophet of Doom
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Hillary is and always has been a weak candidate. She is the epitome of a Beltway insider with no real guiding ethos, other than a generic commitment to whatever moderate liberalism presents itself as being at a particular point in time, and she campaigns arrogantly and lazily, taking for granted that people should vote for her because she's a Clinton, and a Democrat, damn it! She polls unfavorably with non-Democrats, and she plays right into perceptions that she sees herself as corrupt and "above it all" when she does dumb (not unprecedented, but very short-sighted) shit like keeping a private email server in the age of Anonymous. The only reason she's an okay candidate in this election is because the Republicans are imploding. If they got their shit together and put together a Kasich/Rubio ticket, or something like that, I think she'd be toast, and if it were her vs. Romney in 2012, where she had a pretty similar first term to Obama, I think Romney would have taken it.
Edit: Jesus, Diablos, are you this panicky and reactionary in every other aspect of your life?
I've read in a couple of other places that this CBS SC poll, on the dem side, has the AA vote weighted at 62%, which is apparently 7% more than 2008. They've been accurate so far this year, and for all I know they have a great reason for weighing it that way, but it does seem odd at first glance.
Shifting the percentages back to 2008 levels apparently tightens things up considerably.
Shifting the percentages back to 2008 levels apparently tightens things up considerably.
Yup. I'm almost starting to to despise him as much as the GOP.
Goddamn, I don't believe Hillary should've been coronated but shit this election is too important and Sanders has way too much baggage and could end up fucking things up way too much.
SenorArdilla
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Is this going to be a repeat of the 2008 Democratic Primary? Or maybe 2004? 2000?
ItWasMeantToBe19
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I wondered what 1999 Republicans thought of McCain.
Hmm, this is still going to be pretty easy for Hillary.
Hmm, this is still going to be pretty easy for Hillary.
Macho Madness
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It's kind of funny. Obama won Iowa, lost New Hampshire, lost Nevada, and then won South Carolina.
Clinton may do the same, or even win Nevada. But this is the time to panic, apparently. I know it's not the same, but the comparison does intrigue me.
Clinton may do the same, or even win Nevada. But this is the time to panic, apparently. I know it's not the same, but the comparison does intrigue me.
Aaron Strife
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That's why Reid hasn't made an endorsement btw.
It might help Hillary, but ultimately the NVDP wants to drive up voter registration.
Do you want a conservative SCOTUS for the next 20 years?
Is Bernie that important to you? He cannot beat any Republican. I don't even you'd see him beating Trump.
Nah. Too obvious
ItWasMeantToBe19
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This is about the easiest primary any non-incumbent could possibly hope for. If Hillary emerges too weakened to win the ge, especially against these republican clowns, she was always a shit candidate.
Frankly, at this point one of the biggest concerns I have about her is that even with the deck completely stacked in her favor, her supporters are still whining about how unfair everyone is to her and making excuses.
Idk about any changes, but polling in Nevada is generally expensive as fuck, and not many people want to front the money.
BrokenIcarus
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What am I reading?
We need someone like him, we can't keep moving to the right. Our political spectrum is completely out of whack!
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