[POLL] United States Presidential Elections 2016

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

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FoolKiller
That's why people write-in Mickey Mouse. It's common enough of a write-in to actually have a decent count and recognizable enough for it to not be an little known candidate.

Unfortunately, people will write in their own name too. Everyone unhappy with the choices presented need to agree on a single protest name to write in so the count is clear and high enough to be notable.
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Start a trend then. I don't know how that would gain traction other than social media but it's still early enough in the dog fight to get it to work out.
 
It would still be better if it was an official option on the ballot, sometimes on the federal level voting reminds me of going to a car lot. "Do you like the Blue one or the red one?" If the majority of consumers voiced loud enough...
 
LMSCorvetteGT2
Start a trend then. I don't know how that would gain traction other than social media but it's still early enough in the dog fight to get it to work out.
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But I have a candidate that I like on the ballot.
 
OP Update: Big event going on this weekend (It is the Republican State Convention for Colorado.) 34 delegates are up for "election" in a process that started on Super Tuesday. These Delegates are technically unbound, but will be bound to a campaigned candidate (for example, if delegate A gets elected to represent their state in the national convention, and campaigned for Ted Cruz, they can be bound to him if they so desire).

I would also like to note that Wyoming undergoes the same process with 18 of their 29 delegates (9 have bound for Cruz, with one each going to Trump and Rubio) next weekend.
 
Not quite:

Concerning Nevada:
http://www.snopes.com/bernie-sanders-won-nevada/

Concerning Missouri:
Reddit
First off, I'm in Greene County and Sanders got 33 delegates to Clinton's 22 which should put to rest fears of the 49.6 / 49.4 split mentioned in the Crisis article, so all is well there. Edit This means the rules DIDN'T change and delegates were allocated proportionally

On another note, tonight I gained some insight that was actually pretty interesting and I want to post this because I heard some articles are out there about Bernie potentially winning MO. Brace for incoming wall of text.

So in each country/district, delegates and alternates are elected to represent at the state convention. So in this example 33 delegates and 33 alternates were selected for Bernie. The alternates show up to the state convention in case the elected delegates can't make it and sub in as votes. So for a county If all 33 elected delegates show the alternates basically hang out on the sidelines.

Here's the cool part: if a small country didn't fill their delegate seats at the county convention, alternates from larger counties can sub in for them. So if I'm an alternative from the larger Greene county, and all my Greene county elected delegates show up, I can go sit in as an elected delegate for a smaller neighboring county who may not have filled every allocated Bernie seat.

Edit: Sanders HASN'T won Missouri yet. But read below.

So here's the potential Bernie flip scenario (which is rare, but possible). If a seat is left vacant, that vote is gone. So if I don't have an alternate to fill that spot I lose a vote. If HRC can't cover all her vacancy spots in smaller counties with alternates from larger counties, Bernie could potentially pick up more votes if he's able to fill all his seats.

Again this is a rare scenario, but when I learned about this it really clarified that whole "Nevada-retroactive-win" situation.
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So basically in Missouri:
Reddit
It means in the smaller counties more people showed up and he was able to elect delegates for his seats. However, for instance in my county, Hillary has 22 back-up delegates she could allocate to the smaller counties that didn't have anyone show.

But basically it means we have a bigger safety net and it puts more pressure on HRC to make sure all of her delegates and alternates show up again to the next votes.
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https://www.reddit.com//r/SandersFo...souri_post_some_extra/?sort=confidence(source. Read the first and fourth posts)

For more context:


Edit: Two of Trump's kids fail to register as Republicans, hence can not vote in New York's primary. Eric and Ivanka Trump both have donated to Democrats and Republicans, according to the New York State Board of Elections.
 
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How can Hillary contend though, at Nevada she lost 2/3 of her total delegates as they didn't show up, not even alternatives can make that number up.

Missouri is a Primary though and it has much less delegates so i guess that will be much more difficult to turn the tables, but the vote there is also significantly closer.
 
mustafur
How can Hillary contend though, at Nevada she lost 2/3 of her total delegates as they didn't show up, not even alternatives can make that number up.
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She lost her delegates in one county. It isn't enough to flip a state.
 
Sanji Himura
She lost her delegates in one county. It isn't enough to flip a state.
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Each County doesn't have 9000 delegates though I doubt there would of been that much votes.

That is state level.

from the source:
Nearly 9,000 delegates were elected on caucus day in late February, but only 3,825 showed up to [the] convention. An additional 915 elected alternates and 604 unelected alternates also turned out to support their favored candidate.

The final delegate count was 2,964 for Sanders and 2,386 for Clinton. That means the Sanders campaign will send 1,613 delegates to the state convention, while the Clinton campaign will send 1,298.

This is the Delegates from All countys.

This was the original allocation: In the February caucuses, Clinton had won 55 percent of delegates to the county convention — 4,889 to Sanders' 4,026.

So from all Countys in Nevada, Clinton lost 2,503 and Sanders 1,058 in the 2nd Stage.
 
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I'm still not ready to make the flip in the OP. At least, not until some mainstream site changes the [national delegate] numbers.

Snopes
As explained by the Las Vegas Sun, the events that led many to believe Sanders had actually won Nevada involved the second part of a three-step process, in which county conventions select delegates to send to the Democratic state convention in May 2016, not to the Democratic national convention in July 2016 (although, confusingly, some of the former could be among the latter)
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He has basically won Nevada, however the amount of that win is yet to be determined so technically it's not a win yet, I would expect many more states like this to roll out before we get to the National Convention.
 
I put them in doubt in the OP.

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Donald Trump supports amnesty.

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Congress must protect our borders first. Amnesty should be done only if the border is secure and illegal immigration has stopped.
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