[POLL] United States Presidential Elections 2016

The party nominees are named. Now who do you support?

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Brutaka
They can't say only 20% of millenials voted like 100% of all other generations vote. I do, however, believe that not enough people my age are voting in the main election and in all other elections.
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Doesn't say 20% of millenials voted nor does it say 100% of all other generations vote either.
 
Brutaka
It says "20% of millenials are politically engaged." I would take that as at least voting.
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You could take it that way but that's not what it means in a literal sense. If they meant voting they probably would have said voting. Using the term "politically engaged" probably means just that, active in the political process, aware of the issues and candidates etc. The one thing I give Bernie credit for is activating the younger voters. He seems to have brought them out in droves. Guess it probably has something to do with free tuition and free healthcare:)
 
Johnnypenso
You could take it that way but that's not what it means in a literal sense. If they meant voting they probably would have said voting. Using the term "politically engaged" probably means just that, active in the political process, aware of the issues and candidates etc. The one thing I give Bernie credit for is activating the younger voters. He seems to have brought them out in droves. Guess it probably has something to do with free tuition and free healthcare:)
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That definitely helped lure some of us. I personally want him as our next president because I feel that he can be more of a catalyst for improving our political system in a few ways such as getting young people out to vote and having less corporate dealings to gain power. I am also fully aware that the free tuition idea is practically impossible for him to achieve within a 4-8 year time frame, that would require multiple years of budgeting and tax alterations over a set time. I can't comment on health care because I have little knowledge of how that works.
 
If millenials is the generation I think it is, they are the ones I spoke of earlier in the thread and they are very much engaged in what is going on, perhaps they are showing a disgust for what they are seeing. But not engaged? No.
 
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton won their respective party's primary in Arizona. Arizona is a Winner Take All for Republicans.
 
Damn shame that he got beaten bad at Arizona but it's likely he will get the most delegates from today, even if it's about 3 to 5 more, if he can get Arizona back up to about 43% then today can be a healthy victory of about 15 Delegates.

Idaho and Utah are a complete destroying, also should be noted he won the Democrats abroad primary yesterday by almost 70% as well, he is catching slowly but he needs to win big in the big states or it's more over then Trumps sanity.

Anything less then 70% at Washington is a complete failure but it's looking like it might be his strongest win yet, as the state funds Bernie more per capita then every state in the country, with 101 delegates he can claw back a big chunk if he gets Clinton below the threshold of getting any delegates.
 
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ukfan758
Brussels attacks: Cruz says police must 'secure' US Muslim neighbourhoods
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2016-35867967
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His remarks are not as outlandish as the Beeb claims them to be, and they took it out of context. According to the latest data, 2014, 70 US citizens were successful in joining ISIS as fighters(Source: Washington Post). However what is not told in that statistic is the cases of financial support to the group, which they got from black market oil sales to donations to shell groups, such as the case that Federal prosecutors are putting together against a New York man. (Source: CNN). This is no different tactic for police to monitor high crime neighborhoods, or as the case was yesterday, have a show of force at high value areas.
 
Sanji Himura
His remarks are not as outlandish as the Beeb claims them to be, and they took it out of context.
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Yes they are and no they didn't....

Cruz made a sweeping generalization, something expected to come from Trump, that has no solid basis, and is a knee-jerk reaction, to just another event where three radicals did something of harm.

The claim would be no different than saying "men can't handle themselves in front of the flesh of a woman." When you totally disseminate crap about 1/7th of the worlds population, he should be ready to receive backlash.

Sanji Himura
This is no different tactic for police to monitor high crime neighborhoods, or as the case was yesterday, have a show of force at high value areas.
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Of course there is. Stacking **** atop of **** doesn't make the new pile of **** any greater. What they are planning to do is go out with guns out. As if we didn't learn anything from Ferguson, is that over policing doesn't help..

The world's most busiest airport, in terms of traveling pax, is doing the same. More SWAT, more dogs, and it's only causing more false alarms in just the first day. Now they are thinking of adding additional screening before getting pre-screened to get screened. Granted, TSA is its own mess and another topic, but the point is prevalent that it is piss-poor management on how to solve a problem, where we refuse to look to history.
 
@R1600Turbo voting is a silent sort of thing, at the end of the day I honestly believe that the establishment is the safer bet, if you can grasp that.

I will still be all on Johnson, but you know why that is 👍
 
Famine
That'll be because the minimum wage exists... As I explained, minimum wage creates unemployment and hurts the lowest paid most of all. Your solution is to tax the rich more punitively which, as I explained, makes the problem worse, not better, by forcing companies to outsource or automate to remain competitive at the expense of the least skilled workers.

You can throw as much emotive hyperbole about as you like, but ultimately your ideas make income inequality worse.
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Not true at all. America thrived with fair tariffs which helped the American worker because it was more expensive for a company to utilize the 5 cent per hour wage other non minimum wage countries have. The minimum wage dosent create unemployment, it prevents unfair working conditions. You are using arguments from the 1% and donor class, and none of it makes any sense. the U.S isn't a Cleptocracy, and shouldn't behave as such. Corporations don't come before people.
 
HELLAFLUSH240SX
Not true at all. America thrived with fair tariffs which helped the American worker because it was more expensive for a company to utilize the 5 cent per hour wage other non minimum wage countries have. The minimum wage dosent create unemployment, it prevents unfair working conditions. You are using arguments from the 1% and donor class, and none of it makes any sense. the U.S isn't a Cleptocracy, and shouldn't behave as such. Corporations don't come before people.
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He's using principles of Economics 101. There's no debating that minimum wage increases unemployment. It drives up the price of goods and services for everyone, while marginally increasing the wages of those at the minimum. Your $7 burger combo today is $8.50 tomorrow. Less burgers will be sold, less people employed, the cost of labour is higher, the cost and efficiency of using technology instead of humans comes more and more into play. For the most part, minimum wage labour requires minimal skills and minimal training and are the easiest to replace. The fast food industry and other retailers are already exploring and experimenting with kiosks and self serve stations. My "high end" grocery store for example, is also unionized, and has 8 self serve checkout stations handled by one employee. The budget store down the street is crawling with staff and everything is done manually.

The reduction or elimination of tariffs in the global economy has increased the international flow of goods and reduced prices for everyone. Tariffs will increase the price of goods there's no question of that. Increased prices mean lower unit sales given the same disposable income. Lower unit sales = less employment. So you shift production back home right? Dramatically higher labour costs increases the price of goods again. You'd have to have massive tariffs on many small goods in order to be able to compete with low wages and benefits overseas, which again means higher prices to consumers. Adding 5 or 10% to the cost of a toaster isn't going to be enough to cause one of the "donor class" to invest $10's of millions to build a factory to make toasters.

Protectionism and isolationism through tariffs is a fantasy and it's not the answer. Individuals have to adapt and change with the changing economy in order to prosper. Acquire the skills that are in demand and move away from manual and unskilled labour jobs as a primary source of income.
 
WaPo say Trump's popularity is all about the less educated voter and guess what, they're wrong.

In his analysis of Trump, Peter Schiff rightly point out just exactly why Trump is doing so great and goes right back to the state of the economy especially when 85% of the population see the country on the wrong track.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...reliant-on-less-educated-americans-heres-why/

As for young people, the only reason why you less of them participate in politics stem from both parties. In fact its no different than in Europe where the same trend is apparent.
 
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