2016 elections - because it's never too early

[jimmy olsen]

So, the next main GOP debate will only include candidates who have 3% support

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/gop-debate-cnbc-undercard-candidates-polls-214290#ixzz3nHFhpocW

By setting a floor of a 3 percent average in polls conducted by NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox, CNN and Bloomberg -- released between Sept. 17 and Oct. 21 -- CNBC will also be denying several other low-performing campaigns the oxygen of a nationally-televised primetime debate performance.
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the debate rules have highlighted how the outsiders have become the insiders. A CNBC spokesperson confirmed that candidates will be placed in order of their poll numbers, meaning the top three GOP candidates at the moment – none of whom have ever held public office – could be center stage. Donald Trump would be at the center, flanked by Ben Carson and Carly Fiorina.

If polling averages remain constant, the rest of the 8 p.m. stage would feature Sen. Marco Rubio, former Gov. Jeb Bush, Sen. Ted Cruz, Gov. John Kasich, Gov. Chris Christie, former Gov. Mike Huckabee and Paul.

Any candidate who has reached 1 percent in at least one of the polls recognized by CNBC is invited to participate in a 6 p.m. EDT undercard debate. According to current polls, that stage would feature Gov. Bobby Jindal, former Gov. George Pataki and former Sen. Rick Santorum. Sen. Lindsey Graham and former Gov. Jim Gilmore would need to notch at least 1 percent in any upcoming polls recognized by CNBC over the next three weeks in order to make the stage.

[jimmy olsen]

Carson raised $20 million in the last 3 months!

http://news.yahoo.com/apnewsbreak-carson-raises-20m-16-bid-past-3-224850361--election.html#

[jimmy olsen]

Hillary raised $28 million last quarter, down nearly twenty million from the $47.5 million of the previous quarter. Sanders rose $26 million, up eleven million from the previous quarter.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/bdfb7117dc9b427c917fac25b60eb110/clinton-campaign-says-it-raises-28m-past-3-months

[KRonn]

So, the next main GOP debate will only include candidates who have 3% support

That should begin to pare down the numbers to a more manageable size. 

[Eddie Teach]

So, the next main GOP debate will only include candidates who have 3% support

That should begin to pare down the numbers to a more manageable size.

You would think so, but the article says there'd be 10 candidates still qualifying.

[Phillip V]

Carson raised $20 million in the last 3 months!

http://news.yahoo.com/apnewsbreak-carson-raises-20m-16-bid-past-3-224850361--election.html#

People love him.

[Eddie Teach]

"HEEEEEEERE'S BENNY!"

[Phillip V]

Romney declares Trump ‘will not be the nominee’.

He added: “Rich people have gotten richer under President Obama. It’s the poor and the middle class who are suffering.”

Reflecting on the anger many voters feel toward politicians, Romney said he has been reading the writings of John Adams.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mitt-romney-still-not-a-candidate-but-a-keen-if-not-obsessive-observer/2015/09/30/698d70ea-6782-11e5-9ef3-fde182507eac_story.html

[11B4V]

Romney declares Trump 'will not be the nominee'.

He added: "Rich people have gotten richer under President Obama. It's the poor and the middle class who are suffering."

Reflecting on the anger many voters feel toward politicians, Romney said he has been reading the writings of John Adams.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mitt-romney-still-not-a-candidate-but-a-keen-if-not-obsessive-observer/2015/09/30/698d70ea-6782-11e5-9ef3-fde182507eac_story.html

Mittens, Mr. Silver Spoon himself. 

[Lettow77]

 After reflected on the anger of voters, he decided he needed to read up on some rich yankee that's been dead nearly two hundred years?

[jimmy olsen]

Fucking South

http://www.thenation.com/article/alabama-birthplace-of-voting-rights-act-once-again-gutting-voting-rights/

Alabama, Birthplace of the Voting Rights Act, Is Once Again Gutting Voting Rights

Alabama passed a strict voter-ID law and then closed 31 DMV offices in the state.

By Ari BermanTwitter

Yesterday 3:14 pm
It was Alabama that brought the country the Voting Rights Act (VRA) because of its brutality against black citizens in places like Selma. "The Voting Rights Act is Alabama's gift to our country," the civil-rights lawyer Debo Adegbile once said.

And it was a county in Alabama–Shelby County–that brought the 2013 challenge that gutted the VRA. As a result of that ruling, those states with the worst histories of voting discrimination, including Alabama, no longer have to approve their voting changes with the federal government.

After the Shelby County decision, Alabama's strict voter ID law, passed by the GOP legislature in 2011, was allowed to go into effect without federal approval. And now Alabama is making it much tougher to obtain the government-issued ID required to vote by closing 31 DMV locations in the state, many in majority-black counties. 

The state is shuttering DMV offices in eight of the 10 counties with the highest concentration of black voters. Selma will still have a DMV office but virtually all of the surrounding Black Belt counties will not. "Every single county in which blacks make up more than 75 percent of registered voters will see their driver license office closed," writes John Archibald of the Birmingham News. "The harm is inflicted disproportionately on voters who happen to be black, and poor, in sparsely populated areas."

Alabama describes the closings as a cost-saving measure, but the impact has clear racial and political overtones. Writes Archibald:


Look at the 15 counties that voted for President Barack Obama in the last presidential election. The state just decided to close driver license offices in 53 percent of them.

Look at the five counties that voted most solidly Democratic? Macon, Greene, Sumter, Lowndes and Bullock counties all had their driver license offices closed.

Look at the 10 that voted most solidly for Obama? Of those, eight—again all but Dallas and the state capital of Montgomery—had their offices closed.

This is the very type of voting change–one that disproportionately burdens African-American voters–that would have been challenged under Section 5 of the VRA, which the Supreme Court rendered inoperative. "The voices of our most vulnerable citizens have been silenced by a decision to close 31 license facilities in Alabama. #RestoreTheVOTE," tweeted Congresswoman Terri Sewell from Selma.

Approximately 250,000 registered voters in Alabama don't have a driver's license or acceptable form of voter ID. In the last election, a 93-year-old World War II veteran was turned away from the polls because of the new law. Only 41 percent of Alabamans voted in the 2014 election, the lowest turnout in the state in 28 years. •

[Admiral Yi]

Fucking article.

[jimmy olsen]

Fucking article.

You taking issue with the idea this is racially motivated?

[Admiral Yi]

You know the rule.

[jimmy olsen]

You know the rule.

I do?