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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Cherry picking is pretty easy, politics students would have to have covered the civil war anyway, plus there's the possibility of people missspeaking, being tired, or even deliberately giving the wrong answer.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranRand Paul has quit the race
, surprising absolutely nobody. That brings the GOP field down to a mere ten candidates. It's almost small enough to fit on a single stage!
Also, Congress will be holding a hearing today on the Flint, Michigan water crisis. Oddly, they have invited few of the principals involved, making it questionable whether the committee is intended to help advance a resolution or be a political stunt. The one important person invited, the city's former emergency manager, has declined to come and is even refusing the followup subpoena. Perhaps they are concerned about the criminal probe that the FBI is launching.
edited 3rd Feb '16 6:29:19 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"I'm slightly surprised, actually. I thought Rand would continue, not because he had a chance or believed he did, but out of sheer stubbornness and obstinance. We can just count it as another way Rand isn't his father, I guess.
| Wandering, but not lost. | If people bring so much courage to this world...◊ |Donald Trump accuses Ted Cruz of stealing Iowa — and demands a new caucus.
edited 3rd Feb '16 7:04:45 AM by Demonic_Braeburn
Any group who acts like morons ironically will eventually find itself swamped by morons who think themselves to be in good company.I've been seeing reports that Trump failed to establish an early ground game in Iowa to get people to the caucuses and had to rush to get something in place; meanwhile, both Cruz and Rubio spent extensive time and built large networks. In the end, the polls don't matter as much as the people hoofing it to their caucus stations.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"It would be really ironic if Trump's presidential ambitions were defeated by something as trivial as failing to put boots on the ground in caucus states.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"An interesting set of statistics:
- Jeb Bush spent the most in Iowa: $14.9 million, and received 5,165 votes (2.8%). That works out to $2,884 per vote.
- Ted Cruz spent $6 million: $116 per vote.
- Donald Trump spent only $3.3 million. He got the best deal, though he didn't win: $73/vote.
- Marko Rubio spent $11.8 million, just behind Bush in expenditures: $273/vote
Democrats don't tally individual votes in Iowa, so you can't do a direct comparison, but Hillary spent about $9.4 million and Sanders $7.4 million.
Conclusion: The big money didn't win in Iowa, except on the Democrat side.
Apparently Trump on his twitter was aghast at the fact that his opponents conducted polling themselves when after all, the networks did it for free. His campaign captain in Iowa broke with trump over the fact that Trump wanted to bar Muslim immigrants, because 9/11 was really an inside job.
Trump is such a rank amateur at this that this campaign is going to be the equivalent of the time he blithely bought land for his casinos, paid multiple times what the land was worth, then slowly had to sell them off or take them into bankruptcy in the following years when reality didn't match expectations.
Now if he drops New Hampshire too, both the popcorn and schadenfreude will be delicious.
| Wandering, but not lost. | If people bring so much courage to this world...◊ |

I think they were confused because she didn't call the """civil war""" by it's true name, the war of northern aggression.