2016 USA Presidential election thread I: The warm-up

[Andalusian girls]

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/...ver-back-trump

Someone's making a list.

add Senator Lindsey Graham to the list

Graham says in a statement Friday he "cannot in good conscience support Donald Trump because I do not believe he is a reliable Republican conservative nor has he displayed the judgment and temperament to serve as Commander in Chief."

South Carolina's senior senator also says he will join a growing list of veteran Republicans, including both Presidents Bush, Mitt Romney, John McCain and others, now declining to attend the party's convention this summer in Cleveland, Ohio.

"He's a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot," Graham told CNN late last year.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/06/politi...nton-not-vote/

[thetruepandagod]

fuckin nerds

[Gredival]

Pretty clear you haven't learned a single thing

Only took him one page of my post getting buried before he peaked out again.

He was probably busy doing Bernie Bro. things like...

[Fiye]

Democrats confirmed worst losers.

(Thanks Samantha Bee)

[ringthree]

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/...ver-back-trump

Someone's making a list.

Holy shit, some of the people on that list (like Max Boot Brent Bozell) are fucking nutjobs, and even they wont support Trump.

[ringthree]

If I've learned anything from paying attention to politics, it's that everybody's going to forget about everything that happened during the primaries and the general election will end up being a lot tighter than everyone is expecting it to be once everyone learns to love The Donald.

General presidential elections always generally tighten. That isn't going to make this race competitive though.

[Fiye]

http://gawker.com/dont-blow-this-1775111772

Gawker post highlighting Hillary's tactics against Donald.

But remember one thing as you watch this: The Republican Party is hugely unpopular. The people criticizing Trump in this video are unpopular. Ted Cruz is unpopular. Mitt Romney is an out-of-touch vulture capitalist who lost the last election after he insulted half the country. This is a parade of unlikable people from a hated institution saying they can’t stand Donald Trump.

“Dangerous Donald,” the “loose cannon,” hated by loser Republicans, capable of doing anything. This is all straight out of the orange idiot’s dream journal.

[Gredival]

http://gawker.com/dont-blow-this-1775111772

Gawker post highlighting Hillary's tactics against Donald.

Donald supporters are so enamored with his personality that they will never turn against him (much like Berners). This stuff didn't work on them months ago, it won't work on them now.

But that's not the point. The point is to keep right leaning moderates and establishment Republicans home. If she keeps Donald to only pulling his primary 55% share of the GOP, she rolls over him in the general.

[kisada]

i think the fascinating part of it will be the number of those moderate/establishment guys she can persuade.

[Andalusian girls]

given that Hillary has been demonized as a lying murdering corrupt doesn't-know-her-place Lady Macbeth for the past 25 years by these same people i doubt she can convince many. most of those who are against Trump will declare so early or not at all unless Donald himself engages in new highjinks that drive them away

[Ragnus]

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-en...-a7014526.html

Trump supporters continuing to prove that they're a bunch of butthurt little babies at the same time that they are telling people to not be so offended at everything.

[Sho]

Would Trump really reach across the aisle to pick a Democrat?

[Marootsoobutsu]

Would Trump really reach across the aisle to pick a Democrat?

Why not? He was a Democrat most of his life.

[Sho]

It creates a very interesting narrative if he does and would actually see some appeal with outlier Dems. Considering that many top level Republicans aren't supporting him now... very interesting.

[Zealot]

He's going to pick Arnold Schwarzenegger, and he's let me down on all levels if he doesn't.

[Tyrath]

Well Ahnold can't be pres because he wasn't born here, can he be VP?

[Krandor]

Well Ahnold can't be pres because he wasn't born here, can he be VP?

This wasn't stopping Ted Cruz

[Gredival]

Well Ahnold can't be pres because he wasn't born here, can he be VP?

Arnold can't. To be VP you have to be eligible to be President.

There's debate about whether that excludes former Presidents as the rules on being elected President vs. inheriting it via succession regarding the 22nd Amendment are vague. However Arnold is clearly eliminated.

[Tyrath]

This wasn't stopping Ted Cruz

It's not the same -_-

[dasva]

Only took him one page of my post getting buried before he peaked out again.

He was probably busy doing Bernie Bro. things like...

Oh god the guy who was donating so much they had to take away his daughter and then that made him happy because it meant he could donate more was great