2016 Presidential Primaries [ SUPER TUESDAY | 3-1-'16]

Another funny thing on the ground here is watching the dick swinging going on between Trump and Cruz people. Went by the polling place next to my house at 9 this morning and Cruz people had put Cruz signs all up in front of the Trump signs. Rode by again at 11, and Trump people had switched the signs and five of them were out there waving at cars. Elsewhere in town, a bigger Cruz sign at the dead end of a main road was engulfed by about 20 small Trump signs.
 
acesfull86 said:
Well, you did call him a "friend of Satan" in a thread you started back in September. I'm not a religious man, but that would seem to be a pretty hostile. Not sure what you want me to find. It's not easy since the search bar doesn't pick up anything posted in meme form.
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so you disagree that Dick cheney is a friend of satan?

not sure how that one post (which i still don't even see) equates to sturgs level of bernie but whatever
 
BedellBrave said:
I'm not sure I'd agree with that take on Cruz and religion. I actually think he is both a dye-in-the-wool politician and a Zionist Fundie. He's Jerry Falwell. And I think he is playing to those sorts in SC (and there are many) and disenchanted Carson voters. Rubio will play better to segments of Evangelicals (the less Dispensationalist inclined), Confessionalists (sort of my tribe), and conservative Mainliners (a demographic a bit larger than in Iowa) - he along with Kasich. Trump picks up the trailer-park crowd, and cross-over Ds.
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If I'm reading you right, I agree with you that voters whose religion plays the major role in determining their political preferences are not part of a monolithic bloc. Guys like Cruz try to convince these folks that it is. I frankly think he's worse than Falwell.
 
Unless Sanders closes strong in Clark County where Las Vegas is, Hillary looks set up to get a win there by a handful of points. Still, the race is very much on. Sanders is going to have to expand his appeal to older voters.
 
bravesnumberone said:
Unless Sanders closes strong in Clark County where Las Vegas is, Hillary looks set up to get a win there by a handful of points. Still, the race is very much on. Sanders is going to have to expand his appeal to older voters.
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He may win in Clark County. I'm guessing SEIU has been hitting the strip pretty hard and their a ton of low-wage folks there.
 
interesting point:

Michael Cohen ‏@speechboy71 31s31 seconds ago

I think Sanders will really come to regret not spending more time in Nevada this week. Odd, bad strategic choice

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read a report he spent most of the week in Oklahoma
 
bravesnumberone said:
It will be more wins for her if he doesn't expand beyond college students. He needs a few wins on Super Tuesday.
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I've been around the game for quite a long time. I wasn't active in 1972 (still in college and more interested in seeing how much I could imbibe), but the Sanders movement reminds me a bit of the McGovern movement, although McGovern is about ten times the Senator and thinker than Sanders will ever be. Times are different, but I think folks should sit back and remember what happened to McGovern.
 
50PoundHead said:
I've been around the game for quite a long time. I wasn't active in 1972 (still in college and more interested in seeing how much I could imbibe), but the Sanders movement reminds me a bit of the McGovern movement, although McGovern is about ten times the Senator and thinker than Sanders will ever be. Times are different, but I think folks should sit back and remember what happened to McGovern.
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I was a '72 McGovernite. Saw him speak the day before the election in Philadelphia. They closed Broad St, forget the number of people reported but yes, Sanders appeal reminds me so much. I remember that day McG was almost apologetic for the whipping he (we) was about to get. It pains me to hear people that never saw or heard McGovern lump him into the trashcan of idealistic thinkers. But, pause for a second and look what he proposed - of course unilaterally pulling us out on IndoChina but health care,daycare,a progressive college tuition system. A welfare system reformed and rejuvinated.

He was a bomber pioet in WWII and labeled a pansy because of his anti war stance.

He nominated Thomas Eagleton to VP. After the convention he was found to have been institutionalized for depression earlier in his life. Today not only would that have been not a dis-qualifier but a non issue because of advances in medical treatment.

Nixon was out of office for all intent and purposes within a year of his landslide victory. Based on fear, catering to the lesser of our citizenry or, in a nut shell The Southern Strategy
 
Chicago Tribune ‏@chicagotribune 10h10 hours ago

1963 arrest photo of young activist Bernie Sanders emerges from Chicago Tribune archives

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So, Trump has been projected as the winner in SC.

Teddy Shutdown and Rubio are tied for 2nd, everyone else lags.
 
You'd have to think this is pretty much the last dance for Jeb. Maybe he tries again in 4 years.

Rubio looks like the establishment favorite now. Carson idk why he's still in the race.
 
The Don said:
You'd have to think this is pretty much the last dance for Jeb. Maybe he tries again in 4 years.

Rubio looks like the establishment favorite now. Carson idk why he's still in the race.
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Rubio is the guy now. By default, sure, but he's the guy. Trust me, Nikki Haley wouldn't be on the bandwagon if he weren't.
 
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