2016 USA Presidential election thread I: The warm-up

[Milkster]

Crusades 2016? JEWS AND CHRISTIANS ONRY BITCHES!

[Byrthnoth]

I've been watching since the commercial breaks (pot discussion) and the degree of misinformation and irrelevant arguments is already turning me into a democrat.

[Tyrath]

Carly Fiorina "Smoking pot isn't just like having a beer. I buried a child due to drug abuse."

Her daughter heavily abused alcohol and prescription drugs. GTFO.

[6souls]

The last time a debate was held here, Reagan was mentioned 50 times. I don't think he's been mentioned more than 10.

[Moss]

Great idea Mike! We should start looking for a cure for cancer! Why hasn't anyone thought of that before...

[Moss]

"let's end with a stupid ass question"

[Sol-Blackguy]

Nope, end with anther round of Reagans and try to summon the devil one last time before Rand Paul goes home and says his name in the bathroom mirror 3 times.

[MrW]

I feel like this Republican roster referencing Reagan is much akin to Dolphins fan not letting go of the perfect season.

[Sho]

Now to see if Trump was neutered.

[Sho]

Also, those moderators got absolutely rolled. And Hugh Hewitt didn't get any good questions in.

[Sho]

But basically, Fiorina won big, followed by Carson and Kasich. Trump faded to the back -- he'll probably lose votes after this. Bush probably gonna maintain. Christie given a lifeline. Walker, Huckabee, and Cruz should be done. Paul will hang around and be annoying for another month or two.

No real substantive questions asked, like jobs. No one really invoked Reagan, except Kasich. Hyper right wing conservative rhetoric everywhere, and nothing was really said.

Finally, this happened:



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Key Moments:

[Sol-Blackguy]

Santorum is getting drilled by Chris Matthews right now on ignoring supreme Court decisions lol

[6souls]

NPR user poll results:

[Sho]

The Fiorina moment that destroyed:



The funniest part is that she wanted to be called during the Iran debate to make this statement, but Jake Tapper turned her down to move onto Planned Parenthood.

Bush defending his family:

[Ksandra]

NPR user poll results:

We're doomed.

[Quicklet]

So the two people who won the debate are a CEO who ran multiple companies into the ground and a guy who filed for bankruptcy multiple times in order to get bailed out by (I presume) taxpayers.

[Ragnus]

What fetus video is she referring to?

[Quicklet]

According to this person who watched the entire set of footage from Center for Medical Progress, she basically made it up.

http://www.vox.com/2015/9/16/9342165...ned-parenthood

I'm guessing she probably got a description off of a conservative website somewhere and didn't bother to verify it, but decided it was too good to not use for the debate.

[Moss]

I have a serious disdain for Fiorina but I can't quite put my finger on it.

"There's a lot of commentary about these tapes being doctored," Fiorina said in an interview with George Stephanolous. "In fact,that's what the mainstream media keeps talking about is the tapes and their origin. Rest assure, I have seen the images I talked about last night. Rest assure, human lives are being harvested."

"rest assured, you don't need to fact-check me." oh fuck off.

[Moss]

so many good nuggets here: http://fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog...ential-debate/

Huckabee asked: “Why doesn’t this country focus on cures rather than treatment?” Nixon declared a war on cancer in 1971. This year the National Institutes of Health will spend $5.4 billion on cancer research. We still have no cure.

The data on Christie’s claim that marijuana is a gateway drug: 111 million Americans have tried marijuana in their lifetime; 4.6 million people have tried heroin. Marijuana “does not appear to be a gateway drug to the extent that it is the cause or even that it is the most significant predictor of serious drug abuse,” according to the federal Institute of Medicine.