2016 USA Presidential election thread I: The warm-up

[Byrthnoth]

Should add cancer to that list as well. Fuck cancer!

[BaneTheBrawler]

You guys wanna see some funny shit, pop into /r/aviation sometime and mention the F-35

[Mertron]

nj news is reporting christie is done

so he is free to come back to nj where everyone hates him too

[Mertron]

saw one article calling him a suicide bomber since he took out himself and rubio

[Sho]

For real though, it's pretty accurate, if offensive.

Was pretty obvious play off of Rubio's otherwise stellar performance in Iowa -- just shows how fickle election politics can be; one day Rubio was well loved and envisioned as a young GOP dream... 3 days later exposed as a robot and made un-electable. Meanwhile, the person who did the damage got absolutely no traction at all. Christie had no real lane to roll in as soon as Trump made his grand entrance. Trump became at least 100x the tough talker that Christie loved to bill himself as, and there was already about 8 others running in the same Establishment lane that he was in back then.

The RNC should mandate that there can't be 10+ candidates over a certain amount of time, really. So many campaigns damaged by people trying to hang on until Super Tuesday.

[Mertron]

the teachers I work with are all terrified. they're like "Christie is coming home and he's gonna be pissed, he's gonna go after the schools again!"

[archibaldcrane]

We feared that with Walker, but instead he just started selling municipal water systems away to private companies instead.

[Mertron]

well it's a good thing I drink beer I guess

[Cantih]

Hasn't someone compiled a running list of Zealot's campaign promises to date so far?

Yes, I got him to put his platform out, and I saved it to a text file.

[Sho]

Obama not giving any fucks today.

[6souls]

Bern and Sharpton dined together today at the same restaurant that Sharpton and Obama met at during the 2008 campaign.
They didn't meet with the press, so no further details.

[Sho]

Cary Fiorina is dropping out of the race:

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borow...campaign-staff

https://twitter.com/CarlyFiorina/sta...12258595782656

https://www.facebook.com/CarlyFiorin...57165012225206

No one is gonna miss her, except maybe the votes that could have went to Bush or Kasich last night.

[6souls]

[6souls]

Unlike Jesse where everyone wanted to play with him.

[Gryffes]

whoops

[Kyreth]

That's actually pretty hilarious, but the Clinton camp knew Sanders had that in his pocket since.

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Chris Christie is for sure going to announce his end for the Presidential bid this coming morning or early afternoon. Crazy shit that he put it all on NH (since he staked his bid) & destroyed Rubio's credibility, to only get 6th there. Carson will go to SC and likely quit right after deal making with Cruz. Fiorina is gonna flail in the water to SC and dead herself as well.

Clinton was hoping for a 10% or so difference, ended up twice as bad. Staffer heads will roll.

And Fiorina just quit completely, not even making it to SC. I'm not sure Carson's gonna make it that far at this point, cause even with all the dropouts, there's just not enough oxygen to reignite that campaign.

[ronin sparthos]

saw one article calling him a suicide bomber since he took out himself and rubio

Aloha Snackbar.

[Gryffes]

Clinton was hoping for a 10% or so difference, ended up twice as bad. Staffer heads will roll.

Clinton spent a ton in NH for that result as well.
Most of the reason she lost to obama in the end was because he outraised her in the latter half of the campaign and could outspend her.

She wasted a ton of cash trying to end this early by winning IA/NH and being "inevitable" , Sanders is gonna outraise her over the rest of the campaign... but he has some demographic problems w/ non-whites.
NV/SC will speak to that a lot and what he can do about it.

He's down 20 points in NV and 30 in SC, although likely w/ the current polling errors that's prob 15 and 25 instead. Still it's a lot to make up.

[6souls]

Christie officially out

[Bregor]

Cary Fiorina is dropping out of the race:

Christie officially out

What's taking Gilmore and Carson so long?