Because we hate Hilary.
With Trump's Indiana Win Can he Be stopped?
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Because we hate Hilary.
Cow Mengde
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But Neogaf's political experts says Trump can't win the nomination. It has to be true cause Poligaf says so.
PeskyToaster
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The primary system was a mistake. We need to get rid of it.
But it was PoliGAF who predicted that Trump would take the Republican party by storm! Granted, some of us may have tried to be fair and assumed the party would do a little more to fight back as the opportunity presented itself, but the receipts are there.
BennyBlanco
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NeoGAF's increasingly nervous men OT
ArchedThunder
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RIP in piss Republican party.
There was a plurality of posters that said he would win the nomination, actually. They even made a table.
This type of hivemind shitting is becoming tiresome.
Kid Kamikaze10
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The GOP kept denying how real Trump's movement is. And now they have to work with it.
I hope Democrats don't make the same mistake. Trump's support is very very real. Very white, but very very real.
And protest votes are just going to help it.
I hope Democrats don't make the same mistake. Trump's support is very very real. Very white, but very very real.
And protest votes are just going to help it.
ryutaro's mama
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Get those facts outta here. That poster was busy assigning "NEOGAF" as thinking one way, as a whole.
NOLA_Gaffer
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This is going to be a shitstorm for the ages.
No amount of pivoting is going to help Trump. Minorities aren't suddenly going to be like you know what this guy isn't so bad after all. He's done way too much damage to walk back from any of his racist bullshit. He's done in the general. With the demographics the way they are if you can't get the minority vote you aren't becoming the president. Trump right now is going to have to try and get 7 out of 10 male white voters in order to win, and that is not going to happen. There are only so many racists votes Trump can get in the general. No amount of pivoting can undo the damage he's done.
I've got some bad news on the Florida front. Will Donald Trump drive Miami Cuban Americans from GOP? New poll says yes
And pretty soon people are about to find out that the general election is a much different beast than primaries.
yanipheonu
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Oof, that's a hell of a quote. The republican race right now runs like a hyperactive version of what lost them the last two elections.
I really wonder what happens to the GOP if (or when?) they lose the election once more.
PoliGAF was a mistake, it is nothing etc.
AnathemicOne
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Why can't we have Biden run for President? Damnit Joe we need you!
That is not what PoliGAF said.
Most PoliGAFers have been saying for months that he is likely to win the nomination, despite a brief spell after Ohio and Wisconsin where there were some questions if he could get to 1,237 delegates.
Nothing's impossible, and he will be one of two legitimate candidates on the ballot, but it's silly to equate "he over performed in the primary, so he's definitely going to overperform in the general!"
He's been the polling leader for 10 months in the Republican primary, but hasn't been the polling leader in the GE since it started, and has been far behind Hillary in every aggregate (a gap that's only recently begun to get wider). Maybe she trips and dies this summer. But him overtaking their positions in the polls today would be unprecedented.
Let's just say that unless Hillary has a groundbreaking controversy or is killed, she will be our next president.
JordanN
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people saying bernie for clinton vp was one thing, but now we're saying bernie in the trump administration? what
Moff
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Is that really how the 2party system works in practice?
Genuinely curious, I am not from the US
won't many republicans simply support their candidate because he is THEIR candidate and maybe the lesser of 2 evils?
She overperforms the typical Democrat against Trump in all demographics except white men. She's winning some Republicans (though not a lot, but she doesn't need a lot), most importantly, she winning more Independents versus Trump than most Democrats need in 2016.
There is a word for those kinds of people...
Idiots!
Big-ass Ramp
hella bullets that's true
there's going to be a lot of tumblr users moving to canada come November.
30yearsofhurt
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i don't see the math for trump. what are the swing states really? because i wouldn't count on nevada, colorado, or new mexico.
same goes for michigan, pennsylvania, new hampshire, and wisconsin. that shit is fool's gold for republicans. i don't know why they waste their time there. and really, that's the presidency right there. ohio, florida, north carolina, and virginia don't even matter in this context.
it's going to be really nerve-wracking until november though, especially when the race inevitably tightens (i'd be super glad if it never does though). hopefully hillary can appear cool and presidential and bill can be charisma man out on the campaign trail instead of crazy grandpa bill.
same goes for michigan, pennsylvania, new hampshire, and wisconsin. that shit is fool's gold for republicans. i don't know why they waste their time there. and really, that's the presidency right there. ohio, florida, north carolina, and virginia don't even matter in this context.
it's going to be really nerve-wracking until november though, especially when the race inevitably tightens (i'd be super glad if it never does though). hopefully hillary can appear cool and presidential and bill can be charisma man out on the campaign trail instead of crazy grandpa bill.
He's the most right wing of all the three big democrats, why do you think he would do well in a campaign where hilaryvhas been called a fake democrat and a republican?
From my understanding with the way the electoral college works all Hillary has to do is win Florida and she has the election in the bag.
tearsintherain
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Vice President Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Constitution hastily amended to allow Austrian Bodybuilders to become VP/POTUS.
Trump wins in a landslide, as American's all want to make America Great Again and Hillary breaks down at a debate and screams at the camera that she is tired of eating corn dogs, drinking beer, and its her turn to be President.
At the state of the union in 2018 Trump declares himself God Emperor of the new Empire of Man, killing the leader of ISIS with his bare hands at the end of his speech - Arnold, Stallone, and a few expendable mercs went out and captured him in a covert op.
We begin the conquest of the stars with Trump Spaceships, and the immortal God Emperor feeds on the blood of untold millions of aliens to fuel the twin machines of war and commerce.
Constitution hastily amended to allow Austrian Bodybuilders to become VP/POTUS.
Trump wins in a landslide, as American's all want to make America Great Again and Hillary breaks down at a debate and screams at the camera that she is tired of eating corn dogs, drinking beer, and its her turn to be President.
At the state of the union in 2018 Trump declares himself God Emperor of the new Empire of Man, killing the leader of ISIS with his bare hands at the end of his speech - Arnold, Stallone, and a few expendable mercs went out and captured him in a covert op.
We begin the conquest of the stars with Trump Spaceships, and the immortal God Emperor feeds on the blood of untold millions of aliens to fuel the twin machines of war and commerce.
I was referring specifically to Cruz's bizarre implosion and the GOP's failure to capitalize on his Wisconsin loss and the period of time where he was notably shaken for the first time. But you're right, that they really were trying to fight back in their own way - but since that way was not very much in accordance with reality, it was supremely ineffective.
Perhaps it's just cynicism or perhaps it's from forcing myself to read the writings of the alt-right (because it's important to know how to argue against those you oppose) or perhaps it's from years of noticing how certain subversive arguments worked very for garnering the approval of conservatives towards very liberal ideas signifying that they prioritized signalling and unfettered nationalism over actual Republican policy (granted, I have been disappointingly been seeing the opposite happen as well recently), but somehow I knew that Trump was the candidate the current Republican base wants and party deserves. The only time I doubted it was when I was intentionally chastising myself for being, in my eyes, too unfair and not charitable enough towards the competency of the Republican party - that I was being unrealistic. I keep being immediately proven wrong when I do that, so I think I'll stop.
Good point, though, on how this really is an unprecedented election cycle. I wonder what the future will hold - especially as issues such as ever-increasing automation and the growing fields of biotechnology are thrust into the forefront.
context, man.
Bananajama
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You've got a tough choice over the pond if its between Hilary & Trump
Rock & Hard place springs to mind!
Emigration is viable
Rock & Hard place springs to mind!
Emigration is viable
Lightning Count
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I think one of the nice things about Trump being the nominee - as opposed to Cruz, to some extent - is that I think it's safe to say that people will want to make a point of voting against him. I don't think the masses know Cruz well enough to have the same motivation.
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I'm more so expecting pretty much all states to become proportional rather than the winner take all bullshit which is frankly very silly, as Trump has clearly proven.
Templar Wizard
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'We' arent saying anything, this is my own statement.
I am stating that Mr Trump is going to reach out to Sanders supporters and as crazy as it sounds, i wouldnt be too surprised if he offered him a role in his administration.
This Is utter nonsense. To even think the two are comparable in any way is frankly insulting and ignorant.
Telling LGBT people, or minorities, that the two are even in the same league is nuts.
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