2016 elections - because it's never too early

[DGuller]

Voting is still a long ways away.  There is plenty of time for Grumpy Cat to enter the race and have a meteoric rise to the top of the polls.

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[alfred russel]

I just don't see how Trump is going to be stopped in the southern and western states. He's going to massacre the field on Super Tuesday and lock up a quarter of the delegates.

Fiorina and Huckabee should be considered establishment candidates. Fiorina has a mainstream GOP platform and was a corporate executive.

[jimmy olsen]

Voting is still a long ways away.  There is plenty of time for Grump Cat to enter the race and have a meteoric rise to the top of the polls.

Grump Cat? 

[DGuller]

I don't think Huckabee should be considered part of establishment.  He always had his own platform in all his presidential runs.  While that platform is severely repulsive to any rational human being, it's not the mainstream GOP platform.

[jimmy olsen]

I just don't see how Trump is going to be stopped in the southern and western states. He's going to massacre the field on Super Tuesday and lock up a quarter of the delegates.

Fiorina and Huckabee should be considered establishment candidates. Fiorina has a mainstream GOP platform and was a corporate executive.

Her support doesn't come from that though, she's running as an outsider.

[Razgovory]

http://news.yahoo.com/clintons-debate-showing-may-spell-trouble-biden-061944946.html

Since Biden isn't going to run, I don't see why this is trouble for him.

[DGuller]

I just don't see how Trump is going to be stopped in the southern and western states. He's going to massacre the field on Super Tuesday and lock up a quarter of the delegates.

Fiorina and Huckabee should be considered establishment candidates. Fiorina has a mainstream GOP platform and was a corporate executive.

Her support doesn't come from that though, she's running as an outsider.

In 2015, even Strom Thurmond would be running as an outsider, if he were still alive and had presidential ambitions.  Though given his age, he would probably have to switch back to Democratic Party to not look out of place.

[jimmy olsen]

I just don't see how Trump is going to be stopped in the southern and western states. He's going to massacre the field on Super Tuesday and lock up a quarter of the delegates.

Fiorina and Huckabee should be considered establishment candidates. Fiorina has a mainstream GOP platform and was a corporate executive.

Her support doesn't come from that though, she's running as an outsider.

In 2015, even Strom Thurmond would be running as an outsider, if he were still alive and had presidential ambitions.  Though given his age, he would probably have to switch back to Democratic Party to not look out of place.

Bush, Rubio, Kasiach, Christie, Lindsey and Pataki aren't and those are the guys that I meshed together into one candidate.

[Eddie Teach]

IIRC, Rubio was a Tea Party favorite.

[alfred russel]

I don't think Huckabee should be considered part of establishment.  He always had his own platform in all his presidential runs.  While that platform is severely repulsive to any rational human being, it's not the mainstream GOP platform.

Huckabee I'm less adamant about than Fiorina, but Huckabee is a former governor with a fox news talkshow (fox news being the republican de facto nerve center).

[alfred russel]

I just don't see how Trump is going to be stopped in the southern and western states. He's going to massacre the field on Super Tuesday and lock up a quarter of the delegates.

Fiorina and Huckabee should be considered establishment candidates. Fiorina has a mainstream GOP platform and was a corporate executive.

Her support doesn't come from that though, she's running as an outsider.

Everyone tries to run as an outsider. You can't really do that if your name is Bush and it is tough if you are a sitting senator, but I'm sure the vast majority of establishment oriented Republicans would be happy if right now a crystal ball showed that in a bit over a year she was being sworn in as president.

[Razgovory]

I think Hillary's performance is a little overblown.  She did all the right things, yes, but it wasn't an exceptional debate performance.

Hillary does not excite anybody. But I probably will support her come Super Dooper Special Tuesday. She seems like the only adult in this race.

Let's not get over-dramatic.  I think all the Democrats on stage yesterday are adults, and it's really not such an exceptional state of affairs.  That's one of the minimum requirements.  The fact that this fact is noteworthy highlights how incredibly dysfunctional our electoral system has become that one party can completely detach itself from reality and lucidity, and yet not suffer any electoral consequences for it.

The Democrats are acting normally.  I expected this was the Republicans year.  I thought they had a good field of candidates, but the three leaders are people who never held office and have no fucking clue what they are doing.  I keep telling myself, they'll fall by the wayside, but I can't shake the feeling that the Republicans are going to go "full retard".  The House is in disarray, nobody seems to want the coveted position of Speaker.  I'm really at a loss as to what is happening.

[HisMajestyBOB]

Voting is still a long ways away.  There is plenty of time for Grumpy Cat to enter the race and have a meteoric rise to the top of the polls.

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I saw his Christmas movie. It was actually pretty cute.

[jimmy olsen]

I don't think Huckabee should be considered part of establishment.  He always had his own platform in all his presidential runs.  While that platform is severely repulsive to any rational human being, it's not the mainstream GOP platform.

Huckabee I'm less adamant about than Fiorina, but Huckabee is a former governor with a fox news talkshow (fox news being the republican de facto nerve center).

Huckabee's vote would go to Carson, wouldn't it?

[DGuller]

I don't think Huckabee should be considered part of establishment.  He always had his own platform in all his presidential runs.  While that platform is severely repulsive to any rational human being, it's not the mainstream GOP platform.

Huckabee I'm less adamant about than Fiorina, but Huckabee is a former governor with a fox news talkshow (fox news being the republican de facto nerve center).

Huckabee's vote would go to Carson, wouldn't it?

More likely Carson's remaining votes would go to Huckabee.  Which would not be much.  Carson is a flavor of the month, even GOP voters will get tired of his kindly imbecile act before too long.