[POLL] United States Presidential Elections 2016

[GTPorsche]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/24/politics/arizona-voting-investigation-department-justice/index.html

 

[Sanji Himura]

Shift in Polling: According to a Bloomberg poll, Bernie Sanders is leading Hillary Clinton 49-48

 

[CodeRedR51]

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/24/politics/arizona-voting-investigation-department-justice/index.html

My brother waited in line for over 2 hours. I'm glad I am in a smaller town and was able to get in and out, if I had to wait in that line I wouldn't have had as much patience as him.

 

[Johnnypenso]

I didn't say all, I said half. But even if they are all being used, there's typically a few of them that only accept cards or only accept cash because one or the other doesn't work.

Except in Johnny-land where they all work perfectly.

Never claimed they work perfectly, I just think it's ludicrous to claim that they are half broken at Walmart because of your handful of visits. I've seen them out of order more than once, it's technology it's not perfection. The fact that you think Walmart would have tens of thousands of these machines and that they would be down a large portion the time is laughable.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to come to the conclusion there that you really only need to visit a few stores and open your eyes. Unless that is something you are physically incapable of doing.

I have visited many Walmarts and do so on a regular basis. I've seen the self checkouts down once or twice and that's it. Same with the grocery store and I'm there every week. Hundreds of visits and I could probably count on two hands the number of times they had checkouts out of order. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that anecdotal evidence is unreliable, especially when it's clouded by your personal bias.

That's one way to spin it, I guess.

A more direct way to look at it is that his yuge lead among low-education voters is exactly why he's ahead, given that among higher-educated voters it's, as you put it yourself, a "dead heat." Without that enormous lead among the low-education cohort, he'd be fighting for his life right now instead of enjoying a commanding lead.

No spin required. Trump is tied for the lead with college grads and leading with non-college grads. Of course it would be a dead heat but he's the leading candidate so statistically he's likely going to have a commanding lead in one category or the other but it's not like he's well lagging behind with college grads either. If that was the case I'd agree that he's highly dependent on the non-college grad vote. Given that he's tied or leading with both groups I'd say that he has broad based support.

 

[CodeRedR51]

Never claimed they work perfectly, I just think it's ludicrous to claim that they are half broken at Walmart because of your handful of visits. I've seen them out of order more than once, it's technology it's not perfection. The fact that you think Walmart would have tens of thousands of these machines and that they would be down a large portion the time is laughable.

I'm not talking completely out of order. You may have missed where I said they don't take cash or only take cash because something is wrong with them. The point is, very rarely are all of them working 100%. Last I checked, a real person can run a register with less problems. But maybe it's just me.

 

[squadops]

It's also rare to see 100% of the people working well.

 

[mustafur]

We have them here at supermarkets and such, most times there is no issue and you can get your stuff paid and get out of the store much faster.

 

[A2K78]

Funny that you have people on the right calling Trump out by calling him a protectionist yet what most of these people fail to realize is that Reagan was huge protectionist. Even G W. Bush himself favored protectionism with his bailouts.

 

[TenEightyOne]

Funny that you have people on the right calling Trump out by calling him a protectionist yet what most of these people fail to realize is that Reagan was huge protectionist.

The difference being that Reagan favoured legal immigration, no?

 

[HELLAFLUSH240SX]

The difference being Reagan isn't a yardstick to judge a good president to anyone but Republicans and corporate welfare queens.

 

[Tornado]

There's so much edginess in that post I could shave with it.

 

[Johnnypenso]

The difference being Reagan isn't a yardstick to judge a good president to anyone but Republicans and corporate welfare queens.

True. Reagan was only a good President if you look at things like economic growth rates, unemployment levels, median family incomes, total job growth, inflation and interest rates. Outside of those minor things he was probably just a good looking actor who smiled a lot.

 

[Danoff]

Libertarian Gary Johnson is polling at over 10% when matched with Trump and Clinton.

https://www.rt.com/usa/337118-gary-johnson-polling-double-digits/

 

[HELLAFLUSH240SX]

True. Reagan was only a good President if you look at things like economic growth rates, unemployment levels, median family incomes, total job growth, inflation and interest rates. Outside of those minor things he was probably just a good looking actor who smiled a lot.

Trickle down economics helped the middle class? Since when? The continuation of a losing drug war helped? When? Why is it that CEOs and corporations saw a skyrocket in net worth, but no one else? Obama has the same amount of growth, job creations yet zi doubt you would say a good word about him.

 

[Danoff]

Trickle down economics helped the middle class? Since when?

Since economics. Here's a decent explanation of trickle-down theory:

The trickle-down theory is an economic idea which states that decreasing marginal and capital gains tax rates - especially for corporations, investors and entrepreneurs - can stimulate production in the overall economy. According to trickle-down theory proponents, this stimulus leads to economic growth and wealth creation that benefits everyone, not just those who pay the lower tax rates.

It's necessarily correct in an government system in which human rights are preserved.

 

[HELLAFLUSH240SX]

Since economics. Here's a decent explanation of trickle-down theory:



It's necessarily correct in an government system in which human rights are preserved.

And relies on the goodness of the ones who get to decide wether or not they want to trickle that wealth. Dosent work.

 

[Sanji Himura]

And relies on the goodness of the ones who get to decide wether or not they want to trickle that wealth. Dosent work.

Prove it. Bill Clinton balanced the budget thanks to capital gains tax cuts.

 

[mustafur]

Reaganomics wasn't trickle down economics, it was the start of the major corporate take over of Washington, packaged in name only as trickle down economics.

Economic inequality exploded from the Reagan campaign, so did his limit on Civil liberties with his grotesque war on drugs and the expansion of the military industrial complex.

The scary thing is he claimed to be a Libertarian, and most idiots still think he was after this.

He was basically the the ideal Rush Limbaugh style Neo-Conservertive, yeah he was great

 

[HELLAFLUSH240SX]

Prove it. Bill Clinton balanced the budget thanks to capital gains tax cuts.

Silicon Valley. Electronics boom. Nothing to do with Capitol gains cuts.

 

[Danoff]

And relies on the goodness of the ones who get to decide wether or not they want to trickle that wealth. Dosent work.

Nope. No goodness required.

 

[Sanji Himura]

[Note: Linking to the Daily Caller, mainly because the Wall Street Journal article is behind a paywall.]

While Donald Trump may have won Louisiana by 4 points, Ted Cruz may be the real winner of the primary. First, he won an equal amount of delegates to Trump, but second, it was announced that Cruz supporters scooped up five out of the six positions that the state has in writing the RNC's rules and platform, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Only one Trump supporter managed to receive an appointment to a senior level delegate post. Eric Skrmetta, the Trump campaign’s state co-chairman was named vice chairman of GOP convention delegation, a mainly ceremonial position without decision-making responsibilities.

It appears the Cruz camp’s strategy of winning over state delegates who will be major players at the convention is bearing fruit. Cruz may end up with up to 10 more delegates in Louisiana favorable towards him in his goal to reach 1,237 delegates before Trump does at a possible contested convention.

Source

 

[mustafur]

This was how Ron Paul was soo dangerous, he had plenty of highly educated supporters who took advantage of this big time and even pretended to be Romney Delegates.

 

[squadops]

True. Reagan was only a good President if you look at things like economic growth rates, unemployment levels, median family incomes, total job growth, inflation and interest rates. Outside of those minor things he was probably just a good looking actor who smiled a lot.

Lets not forget the wall

 

[GTPorsche]

Reagan wanted a wall torn down.

Trump wants one built.

 

[squadops]

That is too true. We do need to seriously address illegal emigration however, the crime and inhumanity is not so great.

 

[GTPorsche]

I'm just wondering how the Cruz scandal is going to affect things. I see he's blamed Trump and Rubio for it.

 

[Dotini]

I'm just wondering how the Cruz scandal is going to affect things. I see he's blamed Trump and Rubio for it.

The same thing sunk the presidential campaigns of other politicians, including John Edwards and Gary Hart.
But this year, who knows? The usual rules haven't been seen to apply.

 

[squadops]

Yet it didn't sink Bill.

But just about anything can sink you, such as this.



So who knows

 

[A2K78]

Prove it. Bill Clinton balanced the budget thanks to capital gains tax cuts.

Clinton balancing the budget is of the most often repeated lies ever told. In fact this pretty much destroys the argument:

https://mises.org/library/surplus-hoax

As for Reagan, he was hardly ever a small government conservative, this when you consider the fact the guy partly responsible for America's current fiscal situation.

 

[GTPorsche]

The same thing sunk the presidential campaigns of other politicians, including John Edwards and Gary Hart.
But this year, who knows? The usual rules haven't been seen to apply.

GOP wants Cruz to be their savior from Trump, but this scandal still hasn't hit full speed yet. Lots of information yet to come out about it.