2016 USA Presidential election thread I: The warm-up

[notorious bum]

I wasn't able to watch this shit show, how much time did they spend on discussing war and how many Republican-esque comments/resolutions did Hilldog throw out?

[Fiye]

http://gizmodo.com/hillary-clinton-s...for-1748920528

[zoobernut]

Historically has there been any other time when two independents with decent support ran against the two parties? As far as I can remember the only time an independent gained enough support to pull votes from a party and change the election there was only one and it helped the opposite party. It would be really interesting to see Trump and Bernie as independents.

[archibaldcrane]

Ross Perot had really solid support at this point in the '92 election season, pulling from both candidates.

[Gredival]

http://trump-putin2016.com/

[Fiye]

The paid for by Kaisch is the best part of that website.

[6souls]

Lindsay Graham is out.

[Eurell]

Who?

[Waraji]

Who?

Fucking lol.

[Sho]

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/1...ampaign-217028

[archibaldcrane]

He couldn't even poll 2% in his home state.

[archibaldcrane]

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/...iploma-divide/

Good article about the split between college graduate republicans (who split between Rubio/Trump/Cruz/Carson) and non-degree holding republicans (who are strongly behind Trump) and how that's different from 2012, when graduates were pro-Romney and the non-graduates were split.

[Sho]

At least people are starting to drop out.

[Gredival]

At least people are starting to drop out.

This field needs to stay divided as long as possible for Trump/Putin to push through while the establishment is divided.

[Fiye]

Which to me is weird because in that case Degree Holding Republican were pretty static on Romney. If you go by Real Clear Politics Graph on it(.jpg image) [Sauce]

And now you got Trump staying pretty steady with the other candidates taking turns in the spotlight.

[Sho]

This field needs to stay divided as long as possible for Trump/Putin to push through while the establishment is divided.

Haha, true enough.

[Charismatic]

[Aksannyi]

Goddammit.

[Ksandra]

Mandy Patinkin is sick of Cruz quoting his lines:

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/firs...patinkin/?_r=0

“I would like to be with Senator Cruz for a moment and I would like to respectfully ask him, since he quotes all the lines from ‘The Princess Bride’ and certainly all of my character, Inigo Montoya’s, lines, I would like to know why he doesn’t quote my favorite line?” That line, Mr. Patinkin said, was among the last his character utters in a movie that essentially taught that love conquers all...“After the princess flies out the window and falls into Andre the Giant’s arms,” Mr. Patinkin said, “Inigo says to the Man in Black, ‘I have been in the revenge business so long, now that it’s over, I don’t know what to do with the rest of my life.’”...Sounding increasingly vexed, he added: “This man is not putting forth ideas that are at the heart of what that movie is all about. I would love for Senator Cruz, and everyone creating fear mongering and hatred, to consider creating hope, optimism and love. Open your arms to these people, these refugees trying to get into our country, and open your hearts.”

[archibaldcrane]

Can we all take a moment and watch Donald Trump say that Hillary got "schlonged" by Obama in the 2008 primary?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-a6782536.html

This shit cannot get any more amazing.