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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Erick Erickson Disinvites Trump from Conservative Gathering Due to Megyn Kelly Remarks.
The thing that always struck me about Trump is that he could have been serious presidential candidate. But while his ego is his biggest advantage (it's the reason why so many people know him), it is also his biggest weakness.
edited 8th Aug '15 4:57:01 AM by AngelicBraeburn
The artist formally known as Deviant BraeburnBBC: Donald Trump axed from event over Megyn Kelly blood comment
Mr Trump said Megyn Kelly of Fox News "had blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever".
Ms Kelly challenged him on remarks he made about women during a TV debate.
Are we sure he isn't /b/? That would explain a lot.
Edit: Imagine Howard T. Ackerman, only Anonymous phished his control interface's passwords and turned it over to the boards... And they disabled the 'democracy' option.
edited 8th Aug '15 11:32:07 AM by Medinoc
"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."I'm beginning to think that bizarre conspiracy theory of Trump's entire campaign being an elaborate ruse to sabotage one of the other factions might have merit.
If Trump were to go through with the idea of making his own independent party and then attracting all the crazies, there exists a chance they might want to solidify and become a permanent, separate entity from the Republicans. Such a schism would ruin both groups for this upcoming election, but come next Congressional vote the Republican party would now have an excuse to reshape itself into something more saner and distance themselves from the newly formed "Radical" party. Same goes for the media and general public too: they'd quickly get the message that said radical party is too extreme due to all the flack coming from both parties, and then resort to supporting and praising the lesser evils of the Democrats and Republicans - no more tea party voters.
Cause as it's been pointed out by some of the posters here, Trump's actual chances of gaining the Presidency are extremely poor due to how utterly polarizing he is. Even he has to realize he's pissing off tons of vital minorities and voter bases. So aside from the possibility that he's just that stupid enough to believe he can charm the American public into voting for him or making the political landscape more favorable for his businesses, what other major reason exists?
...Then again, the fact we have such idiotic voters willing to choose this guy because of his reality TV show and tone... yeah, it's probably a bunk idea.
Would totally make Trump a real-life magnificent bastard if it were true, though.
Trump's not a liberal. He's just very egotistical. He wants to be president because he's Donald Trump goddamnit, and he thinks he'll get there by raw force of personality.
But, here's the thing: BECAUSE of that raw force of personality, he ... oddly enough seems to be immune to some of the affinity fraud crap you see in a lot of right wing economics. He's pretty horrible in a lot of ways regarding his view of other countries and minorities especially, but as I've said before, he's actually pretty moderate on economic issues, and flipflops about whether he approves of single-payer healthcare.
I get the sense that Trump doesn't care about the right versus left crap, and he's so rich he doesn't care too much about whether the political system benefits him personally. He's a buffoon, but his buffoonery is somewhat refreshing in the way it manifests itself.
Why the fuck is it that being a nice, decent, likable human being is considered "politically correct" by Trump?
And why, oh why, do people think Fox was putting out a hit on Trump? Oh no, they asked him tough questions! It's okay, Donnie, they'll be nicer next time! They'll ask what your favorite color is! Motherfucking crybaby.
edited 8th Aug '15 12:24:19 PM by SciFiSlasher
"Somehow the hated have to walk a tightrope, while those who hate do not."I just loved that Trump was so crazy he drove Fox News to carry out in air fact checking.
But as for the why of Trump running, ego. He wants everyone to know who he is, he wants everyone to run around reacting to what he does, he wants to prove that he's the biggest and the toughest kid on the block, he wants to shout his opinion at the nation and make it listen,
He can even want all of that and be smart enough to realise he can't actually win, or he might be deluded enough to think that he is going to get to put TRUMP in big flashing letters on the White House.
That or it's all a con. Sure he's using his own money, for now, once the race narrows he's going to have all sorts of campaign organisations set up just for the republican primary, if he wins that he will have tons of campaign money coming his way for an actual election (he might get that even if he loses and runs third party). How much of that money do you think he could pocket? Probably a lot.
I refuse on principle to think that Koch and the Tea Party are anything but crazy enough to force another three way race.
edited 8th Aug '15 3:53:10 PM by Silasw
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran

@The Wanderer Interesting numbers there, they almost match mine but don't. Do you know the logic behind the map? Why is Wisconsin a swing when it's gone Dem 4 times in a row? Why are Indiana and Nebraska's 2nd Republican when they swung for the Dems in 2008 (like North Carolina did)? Why is New Hampshire Dem when it went Republican in 2000?
I've got Wisconsin as a Dem solid, which puts it for the Dems what Montana and Missouri are for the Republicans. I'd say that the Dems are more likely to win Missouri (Rep win last 4 elections, with 3 of those being with over 50% (but bellow 55%) of the vote, then the Reps Wisconsin (Dem win last 4 elections, with 1 of those being with over 55% (but bellow 60%) and another with over 50% (but bellow 55%)).
Hold on, the linked map is one you made right? Cus the site's base map seems to agree with me on New Hampshire and Wisconsin.
Still in the end we're in agreement.
As for the Senate, I've got numbers on that to if people want them, it's 34 seats up with the Republicans being on the defensive (24 Rep seats up to 10 Dem seats) and the Dems only needing to win 4 seats to get a 50-50 split. And I've got the Illinois and Wisconsin seats as likely to go from Rep to Dem, with Arkansas leaning Dem, meaning the Dems just need to pick up one of the toss ups of: Florida, Ohio, Indiana. If the Dems do real good they could grab Pennsylvania or Alaska (Aska is so weird I can't make predictions on it, as it may well be a 3 way race).
I've got more numbers and explanations for each senate race if people want them.
Edit: I'd failed to account for some local factors and changing in polling numbers for my senate stuff, now updated.
edited 8th Aug '15 4:40:36 AM by Silasw
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran