'16 Democratic Nomination Thread

[Erik]

Holy hell, what a load of nonsense. My head hurts just reading that.

[baldgriff]

Wow, that is bizzare

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democ...ocratic-debate

The evening’s low-point involved a tussle about campaign finance, as Mr Sanders came close to accusing Mrs Clinton of being in hock to big banks on Wall Street, thanks to years of hefty donations from bankers and titans of finance. The Vermont senator boasted, as he so often does, of his army of 750,000 small donors who have sent him contributions.

Mrs Clinton’s reply combined indignation, an irrelevant appeal to feminist pride, and a bizarre riff about the September 11th attacks, by which she seemed to imply that taking money from big banks was her way of making sure that the terrorists behind that 2001 atrocity did not win. It was so odd, and so shameless, that it is worth quoting in full. Here is what the former First Lady, senator from New York and secretary of state said in reply to Mr Sanders, after charging that he had impugned her integrity:

“Oh, wait a minute, senator. You know, not only do I have hundreds of thousands of donors, most of them small. And I'm very proud that for the first time a majority of my donors are women, 60 percent. So, I represented New York, and I represented New York on 9/11 when we were attacked. Where were we attacked? We were attacked in downtown Manhattan where Wall Street is. I did spend a whole lot of time and effort helping them rebuild. That was good for New York. It was good for the economy and it was a way to rebuke the terrorists who had attacked our country.”

And she is the person that they want to go all in on???? Yikes!

[The Feral Slasher]

And she is the person that they want to go all in on???? Yikes!

After giving it some thought I've decided that I'm willing to join the fight against terrorism by accepting millions of dollars from large banking institutions. Take that ISIS !

[onejayhawk]

After giving it some thought I've decided that I'm willing to join the fight against terrorism by accepting millions of dollars from large banking institutions. Take that ISIS !

Don't forget the donations from OPEC countries, particularly Saudi Arabia.

Back on topic, the last several polls show that Hillary and Bernie essentially split the Biden vote. For the last two weeks, the spread has extremely flat. Short of judicial intervention, Hillary will sweep through the early primaries, possibly losing New Hampshire and only New Hampshire. It should be over by 2 Marsch 2016.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/2016_democratic_presidential_nomination-3824.html

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[revo]

Big night for Bernie, down just by 0.5%. O'Malley bites the dust.

[baldgriff]

This seems more like a win for Bernie than a win for HRC. This is the first voting where people can actually see Bernie can actually win.

[GwynnInTheHall]

This seems more like a win for Bernie than a win for HRC. This is the first voting where people can actually see Bernie can actually win.

The UnElectable playing her to a tie is absolutely a win especially seeing as how he was down 30 points when this all started.

I predict she starts to get really ugly as her chokehold slips away.

[baldgriff]

The UnElectable playing her to a tie is absolutely a win especially seeing as how he was down 30 points when this all started.

I predict she starts to get really ugly as her chokehold slips away.

She is already pretty ugly.......... Oh you mean in her tactics.... Gotcha!

[baldgriff]

Christ..... you really just cant find a way to laugh at all can you.

[gcstomp]

A problem with HRC is similar to the baggage Obama had, being a black person and the nearly 1/2 of the country that has varying levels of dislike/distrust and disrespect towards him, to have the temerity to have bettered himself to the extent that he held highest office, and that he did it well and with respect towards everyone in the face of blatant hate means not one whit.

Even worse a fate, a thousand times harder to accept, would be to have a woman in charge, that has biblical weight going against the notion, as well as societal expectations of a woman should keep the family together, keep the home up, raise the children, and make unto the man a sammich. How can a man who goes to the nudie bar reconcile the notion of that figure on stage shaking bits for his amusement is actually the one who may be his bosses bosses boss and has a head on her that dwarfs his beer swilling experience.

[cardboardbox]

I think Sanders had to win Iowa and NH to have enough momentum to stand a chance on March 1.

[GwynnInTheHall]

A problem with HRC is similar to the baggage Obama had, being a black person and the nearly 1/2 of the country that has varying levels of dislike/distrust and disrespect towards him, to have the temerity to have bettered himself to the extent that he held highest office, and that he did it well and with respect towards everyone in the face of blatant hate means not one whit.

Even worse a fate, a thousand times harder to accept, would be to have a woman in charge, that has biblical weight going against the notion, as well as societal expectations of a woman should keep the family together, keep the home up, raise the children, and make unto the man a sammich. How can a man who goes to the nudie bar reconcile the notion of that figure on stage shaking bits for his amusement is actually the one who may be his bosses bosses boss and has a head on her that dwarfs his beer swilling experience.

Illuminati?


But really, nothing can dwarf a really good beer swilling experience........

[baldgriff]

Interesting article from Huffington.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/h-a-go...b_9137730.html

[BuckyBuckner]

"Just how close was the race in Iowa for Democratic presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders?

At least six precincts reportedly awarded their delegates after tossing a coin.

In Ames, the decision to award delegates by coin toss was made after 60 caucus participants apparently disappeared from the results, according to a report from The Des Moines Register.

In all six precincts where coin tosses were used, Clinton won an extra delegate."


Err....that doesn't sound good.

Choose your next President here.

[The Feral Slasher]

Interesting article from Huffington.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/h-a-go...b_9137730.html

Pretty amazing statistics on how the younger and older participants voted

https://twitter.com/gabbilevy/status/694351875915780096/photo/1