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CriedWhenBrucieLeft
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OMG I JUST MESS-BIG MY PANTS!
While I do think he's an idiot, it's possible he was just listing things and doesn't actually think Paris is in Germany.
CriedWhenBrucieLeft
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Get smart, NP.
This was funnier IMO:
bearfan
Ancient Mariner
Yeah, think he is speaking a) of the Paris police stations and b) the sexual assaults in Cologne
Ben Carson: great brain surgeon, politically a weapons-grade moron. His campaign has self-destructed and he seems likely to finish 4th (or worse) in Iowa.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/inside-the-carson-campaign-meltdown-218092#ixzz3xz3q2e6y
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/inside-the-carson-campaign-meltdown-218092#ixzz3xz3q2e6y
The problem with this is when he was originally asked he said that he didn't need to go back. Then he changed his mind, probably so he could try to claim this presidential moment.
I think he would be an OK president (if he isn't shutting bridges down to stymie his political opponents at a federal level). He is far too sane for the majority of the GOP, who seem to prefer a Trump or Cruz or Rubio. Him and Kasich are the sanest remaining Republicans. I find myself very sad Romney is not running though.
bearfan
Ancient Mariner
It was a big story when it started ... faded away the last week or so, and is back as a headline story today
Sounds like the Bundy people started shooting. To which I say: LOL.
CriedWhenBrucieLeft
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Just imagine if these people had been black or Muslim.
bearfan
Ancient Mariner
A nice summary of how the Iowa caucuses work .. if Santorum and Huckabee do not do well (top 4 or 5) they will probably be dropping out tomorrow .. which means they will be dropping out tomorrow
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...og-presidential-nominating-contest-kicks-off/
Iowa’s the first state in the nation to vote for who the presidential nominees will be, but the process requires some explaining.
Instead of heading to one of Iowa’s 1,681 precincts and pulling a lever, voters will head to a caucus site that may toss several precincts together. Instead of seeing their votes tabulated by the state elections office, they’ll see them reported to the state parties, which will in turn report them to the news media.
Here’s where the parties diverge. A Republican caucus is odd but simple, a peanut-butter-and-tuna-fish combination of a normal election and a PTA meeting. At nearly 900 caucus sites, voters will gather, then hear speeches from whichever campaigns have precinct captains assigned to whip up votes. (Presidential candidates can show up and do this for themselves, in one of the most intimate examples of democracy in all of politics.) Then they’ll write their choices on paper and hand them in.
The Democratic caucus process is more complicated. When they show up at one of the 1,100-odd sites, voters will be asked to gather in sections designated for the candidates. They will be counted. If one candidate fails to get at least 15 percent of voters in his corner, they are released, and caucus captains for the surviving candidates can personally lobby and answer questions, enticing them to join up. After that, delegates are assigned based on the support for each candidate.
It sounds confusing, and it is. For starters, the number of delegates for each precinct will be assigned based on Democratic turnout in that precinct from the last two elections. (There is no raw vote total released, only projections of how many Democrats turned out.) If there’s a massive surge of voters in, say, an Iowa City precinct, if there’s a massive fall-off in a rural precinct, it does not matter — the same number of delegates are at stake. This might be best illustrated by the live recording C-SPAN did from one key caucus site in 2008.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...og-presidential-nominating-contest-kicks-off/
Iowa’s the first state in the nation to vote for who the presidential nominees will be, but the process requires some explaining.
Instead of heading to one of Iowa’s 1,681 precincts and pulling a lever, voters will head to a caucus site that may toss several precincts together. Instead of seeing their votes tabulated by the state elections office, they’ll see them reported to the state parties, which will in turn report them to the news media.
Here’s where the parties diverge. A Republican caucus is odd but simple, a peanut-butter-and-tuna-fish combination of a normal election and a PTA meeting. At nearly 900 caucus sites, voters will gather, then hear speeches from whichever campaigns have precinct captains assigned to whip up votes. (Presidential candidates can show up and do this for themselves, in one of the most intimate examples of democracy in all of politics.) Then they’ll write their choices on paper and hand them in.
The Democratic caucus process is more complicated. When they show up at one of the 1,100-odd sites, voters will be asked to gather in sections designated for the candidates. They will be counted. If one candidate fails to get at least 15 percent of voters in his corner, they are released, and caucus captains for the surviving candidates can personally lobby and answer questions, enticing them to join up. After that, delegates are assigned based on the support for each candidate.
It sounds confusing, and it is. For starters, the number of delegates for each precinct will be assigned based on Democratic turnout in that precinct from the last two elections. (There is no raw vote total released, only projections of how many Democrats turned out.) If there’s a massive surge of voters in, say, an Iowa City precinct, if there’s a massive fall-off in a rural precinct, it does not matter — the same number of delegates are at stake. This might be best illustrated by the live recording C-SPAN did from one key caucus site in 2008.
bearfan
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Of note
Cruz is the first presidential candidate to win the Iowa caucus while opposing federal support for corn-based ethanol (along with "all energy subsidies and mandates").
On the Republican side, all the winners—George H.W. Bush (1980), Bob Dole (1988 and 1996), George W. Bush (2000), Mike Huckabee (2008), and Rick Santorum (2012)—were ethanol boosters. Likewise on the Democratic side: Jimmy Carter (1980), Walter Mondale (1984), Dick Gephardt (1988), Tom Harkin (1992), Al Gore (2000), John Kerry (2004), and Barack Obama (2008) all favored crony capitalism for co
Cruz is the first presidential candidate to win the Iowa caucus while opposing federal support for corn-based ethanol (along with "all energy subsidies and mandates").
On the Republican side, all the winners—George H.W. Bush (1980), Bob Dole (1988 and 1996), George W. Bush (2000), Mike Huckabee (2008), and Rick Santorum (2012)—were ethanol boosters. Likewise on the Democratic side: Jimmy Carter (1980), Walter Mondale (1984), Dick Gephardt (1988), Tom Harkin (1992), Al Gore (2000), John Kerry (2004), and Barack Obama (2008) all favored crony capitalism for co
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You really like this idiot? Ted Cruz?