2016 US Presidential Election Thread

[MonkeyMan576]

Power Rankings:
1. Hillary Clinton
2. Marco Rubio
3. Jeb Bush
4. Bernie Sanders
5. Joe Biden
6. Ben Carson
7. Donald Trump
8. Carly Fiorana
9. Rand Paul
10. Ted Cruz

[Rob14]

Clinton's fundraising is down 41% on the quarter going into the first primaries/caucuses. That's pretty telling.

[Rob14]

In a straight Clinton v. Rubio general election match-up in Texas, Clinton wins by 7 points according to a new poll. If you can't get Texas as a republican, you're pretty fucked.

[Yosarian2]

Jeb's problem in the primaries is not his last name
It's his brown wife

So sad but true.

I'd hate to admit it, but Jeb is probably the best of all possible Bushes. It's a shame we had to go through two of them before him.

A lot of Jeb's positions are terrible. He honestly believes rhat racist crap about "blacks wanting free things".

If we had to elect a bush (and we really really don't) then I'd rather just elect his father for a second term right now then elect Jeb.

[shaft.ed]

I'd rather elect Reggie Bush

[Psyche]

for some reason bernie is pretty invisible this news cycle about the oregon shooting while hillary is really riding it

[AniX]

for some reason bernie is pretty invisible this news cycle about the oregon shooting while hillary is really riding it

His voting record on gun control is spotty at best and he would definitely open himself to some pretty powerful attacks from Hillary if he tried to get in on the spotlight.

[quadz08]

by 'spotty' you mean 'he identifies more strongly with gun culture than most liberals'

which, yes, is probably why he's not angling on the spotlight there.

[Rob14]

It makes him more likely to draw libertarian votes in the general, though, if he gets there.

[AniX]

by 'spotty' you mean 'he identifies more strongly with gun culture than most liberals'

which, yes, is probably why he's not angling on the spotlight there.

Yeah, I meant spotty as in "sometimes he votes for gun control and sometimes against, according to his personal philosophy" and not "He is inconsistent".

[Psyche]

r u sure you don't mean spotty as in "his gun record is the smoking gun that will finally reduce his presidential campaign to an historical footnote of the story of america's decline as an global empire"

[Sudo_Nym]

America will never suffer a decline in relation to other nations, Psyche. If we're going down, we're taking everybody with us.

[Ythan]

I typed up essentially that post and then Sudo had already made it for me.

[Psyche]

i'll put you down as "not totally unsure"

[Aj The Epic]

Hillary's just glad she can ride anything not related to e-mails at this point.

[Kublai Khan]

http://gawker.com/ben-carson-wouldnt-me ... 1735027922

Then Fox’s Brian Kilmeade asked if, like Obama, [Ben] Carson would would still travel to visit victims’ families despite some residents protests of grandstanding, to which Carson replied all too casually:

"Probably not. I mean, I would probably have so many things on my agenda that I would go to the next one."

[Yosarian2]

Yeah, I saw that quote. Carson is terrifying.

[Aj The Epic]

How did Carson's popularity ever increase after the first debate? He was terrible there.... I thought for sure he'd just end up dropping out.

[Psyche]

he said the the things on race that help republicans sleep at night

[xRECKONERx]

yeah right now racists get to seem not racist by saying they support carson until he drops out then they will have that back pocket trump card when people call them out on their racism re obama

[Untrod Tripod]

How did Carson's popularity ever increase after the first debate? He was terrible there.... I thought for sure he'd just end up dropping out.

he's their token black friend like how Fiorina is their token woman friend

[Untrod Tripod]

it's important to remember that these are the same people who wink at each other while they refer to young black men as "thugs"

[Yosarian2]

Plus, the fact that this obviously smart, well-educated, black surgeon is saying out loud all the stupid and hateful things they believe (denying climate change, denying evolution, all muslims are evil, obamacare is the worst thing since slavery, poor black people just don't work hard enough, ect) allows them to feel better about themselves for beliving those things.

[Cephrir]

I don't think they feel bad about themselves for thinking those things in the first place though.

[Kublai Khan]

I don't think they feel bad about themselves for thinking those things in the first place though.

Yet they'll look around real quick before they say them.