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Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
LOL--didn't a poll recently say that a majority of Americans said they should have the hearing?
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LOL--didn't a poll recently say that a majority of Americans said they should have the hearing?
BoboBrazil
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Although @marcorubio has built a conservative record & high ACU rating, he & his campaign have made a rookie mistake by not attending #CPAC.
He needs to change his name to Marco Polo because most of the time you don't see him.
Serious question: why on earth would he do that? My god his campaign is a big fat mess.
NYCmetsfan
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Didn't a majority of Americans oppose a shutdown?
The only way this hurts is if it hurts the blue state senators. Even then I don't think it will. I really don't think they're gonna pay too much a price.
QuiteWhittle
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This won't hurt them at all. Republicans have only been rewarded after their obstructionism, not punished. Why should I believe this time will be any different?
GregLombardi
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They'll be rewarded with a 100% guaranteed presidential loss.
Because Democrates actually show up during presidential elections.
Cesare Borgia
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It's a decision of necessity. I assume his campaign is honest enough in private to admit he isn't making any progress with black voters who will largely dominate many of the southern states. The campaign burned through a lot of cash last month and spent a lot of resources trying to win Nevada. They can't afford to waste a lot of time in the south on primaries they're going to lose badly.
I don't get the impression Sanders' camp put much thought into actually playing to win. He caught on last year unexpectedly, Biden and other candidates didn't run, and eventually his numbers started going up. If he had an actual game plan he would have spent some time in the south early last year introducing himself. You've got to do well with African Americans and Hispanics to win...and more and more it's clear his camp didn't believe that, or didn't care. It's too late to play catch up.
User 463088
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I don't disagree with you at all. My thought is just hwo freaking terrible it looks. To basically admit "Ya, the largest, mot important voting block in the Democratic primary doesn't support me so eff trying anymore" is just a terrible, terrible look.
If Bernie was serious about this, he should have been working with southern AAs for a few years. There was no reason he couldn't have done a few listening tours in the early part of last year. Build those connections outside the announced time he was a candidate. He didn't do that.
I also agree that he benefited greatly from being "not Clinton," in that someone was always going to be able to take 30%ish percentage of the vote against her. (Nationally not state by state.) His message caught on enough that he did a bit better. Had there been another viable candidate, he wouldn't have done much better than 20ish percent nationally, I don't think.
Did anyone share the NJ poll I just saw?
Hillary 55%
Bernie 32%
Trump 38%
Rubio 11%
Cruz 10%
Well Donald Trump's going to be the Republican nominee unless something changes massively in the next 3 weeks.
Aaron Strife
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"The Court is more important than the Senate" is what some conservatives are starting to rally around.
Apparently unaware that whoever controls the Senate will likely be the same party as the next president and therefore will control the Court too...
vicissitudes
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Can't wait for the inevitable general election polls to come in and states start to turn red:
NJ: 43 Trump 42 Clinton
GAF: too early! Blah blah blah
NJ: 46 43 Clinton
GAF: biased! Margin of error!
NJ: 51 Trump 43 Clinton
GAF: New Jersey is full of racists! Idiots! They elected Chris Christie! Hillary still has her firewall!
General election: Trump is nominated
GAF: this country sucks! I'm moving to Canada!
NJ: 43 Trump 42 Clinton
GAF: too early! Blah blah blah
NJ: 46 43 Clinton
GAF: biased! Margin of error!
NJ: 51 Trump 43 Clinton
GAF: New Jersey is full of racists! Idiots! They elected Chris Christie! Hillary still has her firewall!
General election: Trump is nominated
GAF: this country sucks! I'm moving to Canada!
BoboBrazil
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Fox News will push this as a good thing I'm sure. So tired of this horrible network brainwashing people.
Reminder: Wasserman's "delegate path" projections have NJ as a winner take all must win for Rubio. Their rosy path for Trump has him getting zero delegates here.
Stop it, I can only get so erect.
Basileus777
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What pollster is this? Link?
Rubio is a poor fit for NJ Republicans. Even 1v1 Trump would win here.
No, NJ Gaf will point out NJ's demographics and laugh at the idea of Trump winning the state in the GE.
Aaron Strife
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lol are you high
Dude, are you OK? You don't seem OK.
QuiteWhittle
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New Jersey of all states?
RustyNails
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Saving this post.
Basileus777
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There is no plan to win a majority of the delegates.
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ItWasMeantToBe19
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I mean, Trump's voters are racists.
VendettaRed07
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Say what you want about the Democratic Party
Let's thank our lucky stars that it isn't anything like the sad sack of crap that Labour has become.
People say Hillary is a lame/boring candidate. Pretty sure our British liberal friends would eat their own head to get a candidate like her on their side at this point
Macho Madness
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The tone he had the night before was definitely that. "We're going to make history tomorrow!"
Damn, talk about a gut punch. Dude took a body blow and never even bothered to brace for it.
This is why you always write a concession speech, you never want to temp the guy high atop the thing.
cartoon_soldier
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Ooh, that registration date can hurt Sanders.
Why are you doing that to yourself? After growing up having to listen to talk radio every car ride I have limbs I'd rather lose then willingly tune in to it again. Hell, I can only imagine it's gotten worse since the days of Bob Grant.
Sanders is a smart guy, how is he not seeing the same data everyone else is seeing? Weaver and Co. are really pulling him along in a boondoggle.
Macho Madness
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Hope the LA poligaffers are okay.
Basileus777
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http://eagletonpoll.rutgers.edu/rutgers-eagleton-2016-presidential-election-Feb2016/
There you go friend.
Thanks.
Rubio's favorables are worse than Trump's with Republicans.
It's strange to see a state where Trump has the best favorables in party.
too bad for Sanders that the primary ends a week from today if her leads hold.
http://cookpolitical.com/story/9274
http://cookpolitical.com/story/9274
It'll be poetic justice when Hillary the She-Bitch - the HildeBeast - the Butcher of Benghazi - the one they've spent a quarter-century demonizing - is the one to put a nail in the GOP's judicial coffin. The meltdowns.. take November 2012 and King and Obergefell and combine them all.
Thanks! So far, so good. One tornado hit within 5 miles of my parents' house and gave us all a god scare, but we're lucky so far..
User 463088
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I mean.....don't anyone take this wrong, but he's definitely been drinking his own Kool Aide. I genuinely do not thing he understands that he has a demographic problem. I mean, I think a lot of this illustrates some of the things Barney Frank has said about him. Bernie is not wrong or out of touch, it's everyone else who doesn't immediately agree with him who is the problem. They've all been bought out or corrupted by someone or something.
There will be no reality in which Bernie failed to win the primary, only the voters failed Bernie.
ProfessorMoran
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Not necessarily true, it's clear people like Meghan Kelly, Charles Krauthammer and Steve Hayes all think Trump is a pandering, petulant child.
It's one of those train wreck things. I have an old car that doesn't have a CD player, I don't have a smart phone, lost my old ipod somewhere, so I listen to the radio. Sometimes I listen to 103.3 (when I worked morning shift especially since that's when the classical music is on), sometimes I'll put it on classic rock, don't like most of what's on PST, but when I get bored I flip to talk radio to listen to what the circus has to say.
I used to spend wayyy too much time listening to Hannity and Levin since I had a long commute. Some days I just want to strangle Curtis Sliwa. The only thing I can actually say that I enjoy listening to is John Batchelor since his show can be very interesting when it's focusing on history or space exploration (outside of Don Black constantly shitting on NASA) instead of current events.
gutter_trash
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I wanna hear more Spanish words coming out of Cruz's mouth like last time.
Dude needs to hit Marco Rubitron or he risks turning into the new Jeb as Trump just shits all over him debate after debate.
Macho Madness
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When is the next Republican debate?
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