2016 USA Presidential election thread I: The warm-up

[archibaldcrane]

Martin O'Malley made the cut for this Sunday's debate.

[Quicklet]

As much as he does deserve some airtime no matter how futile his candidacy is, I would love nothing more than to see an extended one-on-one debate between Hillary and Bernie.

[Fiye]

Martin O'Malley only made the cut so they could reduce exposure to the Bern.

50:25:25 debate split. Hillary gets majority. Now where's my tin foil hat.

[archibaldcrane]

As much as he does deserve some airtime no matter how futile his candidacy is, I would love nothing more than to see an extended one-on-one debate between Hillary and Bernie.

I assume we will shortly, they keep ramping up the required poll numbers to stay in.

[Ragnus]

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2016...ld-trump-rally

Cripes...

[Fiye]

Catching up on the daily show. Last night was pretty funny.

[Quicklet]

I assume we will shortly, they keep ramping up the required poll numbers to stay in.

I actually think it's to Hillary's advantage to be one-on-one with Bernie in a debate. In fact I think more, better scheduled debates would be to her benefit.

[Fiye]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...l-street-what/

http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...ity-for-libya/

Two things I can remember off the top of my head Quicklet where she really bombed.

[archibaldcrane]

I actually think it's to Hillary's advantage to be one-on-one with Bernie in a debate. In fact I think more, better scheduled debates would be to her benefit.

I agree that Hillary in the flesh is more appealing than Media Specter Republican-framed BENGHAZI BENGHAZI BENGHAZI boogeyman Hillary, so more exposure is probably a good thing for the general election, but Bernie needs all the facetime he can get to have a shot, so limiting that allows her to kinda run out the clock on his chances.

[Quicklet]

That's true, but there's also a question of whether limiting the audience during the primary debates puts her behind in messaging to swing voters for the general if 3x as many are watching the Republican debates and only seeing that BENGHAZI BENGHAZI BENGHAZI caricature of her.

[notorious bum]

I don't think you guys actually pay attention during the debates if you believe Hillary is a better debater than him. The non-answer answers, deflections, and outright fallacious responses don't resonate well in the instant fact-check social media world. She's losing every debate, even with the deck stacked in her favor.

It's not like people identify her as a separate entity when she's talked about in the context of being friendly with Wallstreet/corporate America, stooping to GOP-level character attacks, and etc. That's why her favorability numbers are in the trash next to Jeb's and how her campaign has manage to evaporate such a wide lead. Deja Vu, part deuce.



Have some lulz: Clinton senior adviser authored paper arguing for paid leave proposal she now opposes http://interc.pt/1NO9Iy2

[notorious bum]

O'RLY?

[Fiye]

Time to hate watch the Republican Debate.

http://www.foxbusiness.com/live-cove...rk-gop-debates

I give it 30 minutes before I turn it off.

Edit: Pretty disappointed Megan Kelly isn't moderating.

[Quicklet]

Megyn Kelly will be doing the Fox News debate in 2 weeks. In fact that might be even better because that will be the last debate before the Iowa caucus.

[Sho]

Jeb sounding Presidential tonight.

[Quicklet]

15 minutes in and all I'm hearing so far is Hillary/Obama bashing. No real differentiation between candidates on the stage.

[Tyrath]

Chat it up for the lulz bitches.

[Fiye]

Oh my fucking god these guys are willing to throw bombs at Iran for the whole event. Nevermind that our sailors we returned right back to us, safe as could be. They were held in what looked to be pretty appropriate conditions.

Sure, shit shouldn't have happened but fuck thats a win.

Also I don't think Trump's had a chance to even speak yet. Hahaha this is funny. Marco Rubio saying Hillary can't run for president.

These people live in their own world.

[archibaldcrane]

I really worry about Bum, I don't think he's going to survive Bernie's ultimate defeat.

[Churchill]

btw my HOT TAKE on the sailor situation is you prob shouldn't go into iranian waters because iran doesnt fuck around and is a real power of a country