2016 elections - because it's never too early

[11B4V]

So it's not impossible for Trump to actually become the president of the USA?

No, never doubt the resolve of the American masses to be stupid.

[Eddie Teach]

No, never doubt the resolve of the American masses to be stupid.

"No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby."

[DGuller]

So it's not impossible for Trump to actually become the president of the USA?

Not impossible at all.  Especially if he starts converting his poll numbers to primary wins.  If he can defy expectations up until now, then maybe there is something behind it that is more than just dumb luck.

[Zanza]

I would be both amazed and amused by President Trump.

[Legbiter]

A two-term Trump presidency would secure a vital strategic supply of lulz and butthurt.

[Eddie Teach]

A two-term Trump presidency would secure a vital strategic supply of lulz and butthurt.

A two-term Trump presidency would require some modicum of competence at the job, otherwise the lulz will be long gone.

[Martinus]

First the over-the-top campaign tv ad, now the song/dance - I can't believe Trump is not going for the troll content, at least in some part. 

[Martinus]

Is there a document somewhere that clarifies what "natural born" means?

I wonder if a person born through a Cesarean section could be the President. 

[Martinus]

Okay, this was funny. 

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2016/01/freedom-girls-donald-trump-rally

The guy who hosts the comedy podcast I listen to commented that it was awesome and he hopes the next Trump's public appearance is with him flanked by battle robots. Because it's getting into Fallout/dystopia territory.

[alfred russel]

Even if we assume those voters are better informed, a national poll would be a better proxy for the November election.

Maybe, but Iowa and New Hampshire are both competitive states, and those are the two states that know the candidates---which is an indication of what the rest of the country will also think when the rest of the country also gets to know the candidates before the November election.

[alfred russel]

So it's not impossible for Trump to actually become the president of the USA?

I think it is highly unlikely he gets the republican nomination, and even if he does, regardless of what the poll numbers may say now, he will get trounced. His only hope is for nominee Clinton to get mired in a horrible scandal (which is plausible), or to somehow transform himself into a less polarizing figure for the general election and go against Sanders.

I'm a white guy in Georgia who works for a big corporation in accounting. I pretty much live in a republican demographers wet dream. I don't know anyone that is supporting Trump. The only opinions I hear regard him negatively as a clown or cynical populist (if still entertaining). He may be firing up the rednecks, but keep in mind the state has a massive minority population that is reliably democratic. So the state is 55-45 republican and closing, and if you lose the white professionals, a republican can't win the state no matter how excited the rednecks are. And if a republican can't cruise to victory in Georgia, how is a republican going to win a general election?

[Valmy]

A two-term Trump presidency would secure a vital strategic supply of lulz and butthurt.

Is there anything you do not love entirely based on spite?

[Admiral Yi]

Just learned Rubio got a football scholarship to Division VII Tarkio College.

[Eddie Teach]

Dorsey, do you not live in Atlanta city limits?

[The Brain]

Don't answer that!