a clown car full of millionaires: the 2016 presidential primary thread

Is that pen in midair?

wau, Hil doing "heroic" soundbite snarling about "super PACs" in speech clip they just played on Weeekend Edition

ppl who applaud that shit are literally morons

RODHAM: SUPERPAC-FREE

One angry man: http://time.com/3999272/donald-trump-jury-duty/.

lol schlump, that photo
yr list of telling details: otm
bernie's adorkable

pen is amazing detail wow

http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/15/politics/black-lives-matter-gop-republican-field-2016-elections/index.html

pen is stuck in the hole of a clipboard, which is also kind of old-school office lovable

http://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/bernie-sanderss-next-challenge

You can see this is in the national polls, which show her retaining a huge advantage over Sanders. The last six national polls showed Clinton leading him by thirty-seven percentage points (Ipsos/Reuters and Morning Consult), thirty-five points (another Ipsos/Reuters survey), thirty-three points (Zogby), thirty points (YouGov/The Economist), and twenty-nine points (Fox News). As of Saturday morning, the Huffington Post’s poll average, which combines these and other surveys, showed Clinton at 53.7 per cent, Sanders at 18.2 per cent, and Joe Biden (who isn’t officially a candidate) at 11.9 per cent.

While the former Secretary of State’s popularity among the electorate at large has fallen recently, the vast majority of Democrats still think positively of her, surveys suggest. For example, a Monmouth University poll published last week showed that seventy-six per cent of self-identified Democrats have a favorable opinion of Clinton; the latest CBS News poll put her favorability rating among Democratic primary voters at eighty-two per cent. In the same polls, among the same groups, Sanders’s favorability ratings were thirty-nine per cent and thirty-seven per cent.

These look like the numbers of a protest candidate rather than one capable of putting together a broad coalition of supporters, which is what you need to win the Democratic primary. A Gallup poll published this week showed that just twenty-three per cent of African-Americans have a favorable opinion of Sanders, and just thirty-three per cent of African-Americans are even familiar with him. (Clinton’s numbers on these two questions were eighty per cent and ninety-two per cent, respectively.) A prior Gallup survey found that Sanders was also on the wrong side of a big gender gap. Among men who self-identify as Democrats and “Democratic leaners,” his favorability rating was forty-seven per cent; among women who self-identify in the same way, his favorability rating was just thirty-two per cent.

Couldn't you wait until tomorrow to post that?

I like to my coming down on Sunday morning.

Sanders has never really sought a national stage in the past and has no real experience presenting himself to the public at that level. Hillary has been nationally visible for 23 years. He has a lot of ground to catch up there. He does have a period of about five more months in which to light a fire.

Not reading! Lalalalalala (holding ears closed)

http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/donald-trumps-greatest-hits-at-the-iowa-state-fair/

"I don't think I've made mistakes," the Republican presidential candidate said Saturday in Iowa. Trump also said that he'd be willing to spend $1 billion on his White House bid.

Well thank god for super PACs, huh Donald?

I have no doubt Trump would love to spend $1 billion of other people's money.

just saw a clip of Hil on CNN shouting "I will not get in the mud and play politics with national security... and dishonor those we lost!"

Christ, now she sounds like Reagan.

can we at least dishonor the people who are still alive

lol shakey

Compared to the more recently obligatory flag pin on the lapel and ending every speech with "...and may God bless America!", making adulatory noises about "those who lost their lives in service to America" has been s.o.p. for every American politician since time out of mind.

so thanks to trump the GOP is debating the 14th amendment now

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-trump-interview-20150817-story.html

what goole was talking about. lol, he dgaf

remember when the gop's big thing after 2012 was going to be trying to strengthen their perception among latinos and women? hahaha

He said Planned Parenthood, which has been sharply criticized after the release of undercover videos about how it handles the donation of fetal tissue, "has to stop with the abortions." Asked whether he had donated to Planned Parenthood, Trump said he wasn't sure. "I don't think so, but it's possible," he said, noting that he has given to many organizations over the years.

bobby and lindsey are against birthright citizenship

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/bobby-jindal-birthright-citizenship
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/lindsey-graham-birthright-citizenship

oh cool we can amend the Constitution

LOL what is the point of America then?

What if citizenship was just auctioned to the highest bidders? Free market, best talent coming to America. Easier to deport the impoverished.

no more immigration, no more births, and we deport people one at a time until we're left with the one truly great American

https://twitter.com/bpolitics/status/633634805469458433

hahahahaha

omg @ "has to stop with the abortions."

loool xxp

RIP rubio (not that he had a chance)

4 dozen injured, 2 dead in Marco Rubio football throwing incident

Anyone else in denial that he'll actually go the distance or do you agree with the consensus that he's in to win

the kid?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CMtXnuLWoAAcWWl.png

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CMtX3KCWgAAqMPW.png

my god

wtf

this is what the ppl want

http://i.imgur.com/8EKayvC.png

which one of those two tweets is worse, i don't know

Eventually someone who still gives a shit what Ann Coulter says/writes/thinks was bound to turn up.

who was the incompetent moron who couldn't distinguish between anal and doggy style, the writer or the editor

there should be no debate about that in any professional newsroom

coulter's fellating of the donalds immigrant bashing plan was pretty impressive tho

Coulter should run.

Im wondering if this Trump surge is mostly tied to the fact that its august, there's no news and trumps the perfect thing for our stupid ass 24hr cable news channels to cover..

ding ding

well there is news (Iran Deal, etc.) but Trump has put these reporters into a giggle fit they're probably going to need some meds for.

Bernie pursues substance

https://www.yahoo.com/politics/bernie-blasts-reporters-hair-question-126934490446.html

BLM-related quotes buried there, of course

xpost

it'll be neat in mid-september when all the GOP candidates battle to see who can be most in favor of shutting down the govt