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Jes Beard

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« Reply #360 on: February 24, 2016, 12:30:29 am »
So pitch framing is irrelevant now because umpires realize what's happening.

LESS relevant.  Not IRrelevant.

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« Reply #361 on: February 24, 2016, 12:47:23 am »
I guess this shows that I dont have you on ignore but I early voted dumbass.

Jes Beard

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« Reply #362 on: February 24, 2016, 07:40:01 am »
I guess this shows that I dont have you on ignore but I early voted dumbass.

I forgot about the foolishness of Tennessee's early voting, allowing votes to be cast before late developments are even known, and allowing voters to voter for candidates who end up having dropped out of the race before election day.

Ray

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« Reply #363 on: February 24, 2016, 08:32:48 am »
Bold prediction:  The Republican Party will NEVER AGAIN win a Presidential election as long as the United States of America exists.

I think the most interesting part of this declaration is the qualifier.....as long as the USA exists? 

Bennett

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« Reply #364 on: February 24, 2016, 08:43:36 am »
Michael Bloomberg will decide to enter the presidential race as an independent.   Enough of the electorate dislikes both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump and the former NYC mayor wins the popular vote in a handful of states.  That results in none of the candidates winning a majority in the electoral college.

More confusion is added as both parties dispute the election in Illinois accusing the other side of fraud.     Appeals are filed and the case goes to the Supreme Court where no ruling is made because all votes end in a 4-4 tie. 

The election goes to the House of Representatives where the Republicans have maintained control.  The Republicans can’t bring themselves to vote for Hilary Clinton and dislike Donald Trump enough that no decision is made by Inauguration Day.

Meanwhile, the Senate, where the Democrats now have a majority,  selects the next vice-president from the top two vote getters in the electoral college and Hillary Clinton’s running mate becomes acting president until the House can finally come to a conclusion.

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« Reply #365 on: February 24, 2016, 11:08:09 am »
Consider Rubio's abortion position to be the similar to the pro-choice position.  He is personally opposed to exceptions, but as a matter of law he isn't going to do anything to to enact it because that isn't supported by many Americans.  It would be where I am as well.

Just to give me a glimmer of hope if the election was thrown to House, is there anything in the constitution that says they have to pick from  Trump or Clinton?  Could they choose somebody that didn't run?  If Clinton wins the Democratic nomination Bloomberg won't get in.

Bennett

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« Reply #366 on: February 24, 2016, 11:54:59 am »
Just to give me a glimmer of hope if the election was thrown to House, is there anything in the constitution that says they have to pick from  Trump or Clinton?  Could they choose somebody that didn't run?
The House would have to choose between the three top vote getters in the electoral college. 

What I neglected to say is that it would be one vote per state in the house.

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« Reply #367 on: February 24, 2016, 12:16:23 pm »
Welp, 4 years is a short time period.

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« Reply #368 on: February 24, 2016, 12:19:42 pm »
But Hillary,being indicted for the email scandal and, wanting a top legal mind as running mate, chooses Cruz as her running mate, thus making him acting president.

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« Reply #369 on: February 24, 2016, 12:28:25 pm »
That's like the old Jesse Jackson-Jesse Helms ticket.  Let's offend Everybody.

Rubio is too far right to win, and he's too inexperienced (letting Christie dismantle him in the debate was shocking).  Kasich is interesting but doesn't have a prayer at the nomination.  Cruz is scary ideologically, plus I think someday we will find out he's a Frank Underwood level of slime.  Trump can't win a general election.  Looks like it will be Hillary to me.

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« Reply #370 on: February 24, 2016, 12:37:21 pm »
Yup.  It's always "decent" to forcibly take the earnings of one person to give them to another,

Can't get more decent than that.

How absurdly reductionist of you. Our current system does this already, and basically any viable candidate supports a progressive tax system.

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« Reply #371 on: February 24, 2016, 12:39:40 pm »
I no longer care about "right" or "left".  I'm looking for "sane".

Bingo

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« Reply #372 on: February 24, 2016, 12:41:47 pm »
trump can always go back to trump university to fleece more "students".

He'll be OK.

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« Reply #373 on: February 24, 2016, 01:08:41 pm »
And yet...somehow...383,259 people in Tennessee have already managed to vote.

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« Reply #374 on: February 24, 2016, 01:12:00 pm »
"I forgot about the foolishness of Tennessee's early voting,..."

Not quite as quickly as you managed to forget the foolishness of your last post.