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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Regarding primaries: I don't understand why we can't just do the primaries over a day or a weekend, really. It's not like we don't do the actual election the same way. Guess that's too boring or whatever.
Also, the more I hear "winner take all" the more annoyed I get. That doesn't sound like very good democracy to me.
edited 20th Feb '16 10:13:12 PM by AceofSpades
That's actually a bit of the underlying logic that leads to only two viable parties in our system. In a more perfect world, we could get folks to pay attention to election mechanics in addition to whether or not their taxes will go up or the out group will be able to participate.
edited 20th Feb '16 10:23:37 PM by Artificius
"I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once.""In a more perfect world, we could get folks to pay attention to election mechanics in addition to whether or not their taxes will go up or the out group will be able to participate."
In a more perfect world, communism would actually function on a larger scale than like a dozen or so people. America runs on self-interest; the source of most of its failings is also its fuel.
i care but i'm restless, i'm here but i'm really gone, i'm wrong and i'm sorry, babyIn theory, winner-takes-all and first-past-the-post systems lead to outcomes in which there's a lot of fighting during the election, but actual governing gets done afterward. This as opposed to election by proportional representation and so forth, in which there's less fighting during the election but a lot of fighting during the actual governing. Of course, then Gingrich and company rode in and ruined things by purposefully making things more parliamentary in style in order to win elections, but in theory FPTP is better for compromise-making.
This is just in general and on an overall level, by the way. I suppose it's not all that applicable to primaries at the moment.
edited 20th Feb '16 10:34:19 PM by darksidevoid
GM: AGOG S4 & F/WC RP; Co-GM: TABA, SOTR, UUA RP; Sub-GM: TTS RP. I have brought peace, freedom, justice, and security to my new Empire.![]()
So to explain why our collective whining about the lack of relevant third parties has less to do with the man crushing them and more to do with a bias inherent to all first-past-the-post, single-seat systems, we should focus on how it affects the audience member specifically?
The one aspect of proportional representation that keeps drawing me back is how quickly those new parties can form if there's an unrepresented electorate, though they stick around a lot longer than they need to.
edited 20th Feb '16 10:41:14 PM by Artificius
"I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once."So Trump won 44 of South Carolina's 50 delegates.
I don't know when the remaining 6 delegates will be assigned.
So here's each candidates official delegate count.
Trump - 61
Cruz - 11
Rubio - 10
Kasich - 5
Carson - 3
Super Tuesday is the GOP's last chance to stop Trump.
edited 20th Feb '16 11:39:29 PM 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.Months ago I would have laughed at the notion; but right now I don't see how Trump isn't set for the nomination. Barring a scandal that manages to get through his teflon, a historical comeback by one of his opponents (who apart from Kasich are even worse), or Trump dying, I don't see the Donald's march stopping.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.Welp.
http://wonkette.com/598027/south-carolina-republican-reporters-go-directly-to-jail-do-not-pass-go
Godwin's Law died when Trump became the Front Runner. And this buried it.
Turns out Mr. Pitts was just trolling / trying to make a point about gun control.
Anyone feel like reflecting on Jeb's campaign, where it all went wrong? I like the town hall which went viral back in May, when that student caused him to stumble for weeks afterward on his brother's legacy and the Iraq war, while giving the media a perfect soundbite: "Your brother created ISIS."
"I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once."That GWB was going to be an issue for Jeb! was something I expected, really. That none of the "establishment" candidates for Republican presidential nomination are particularly compelling is something I still perceive, too.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard FeynmanIt went wrong between 2001 and 2008, especially 2003.
Jeb! Had he meant to win, he should have disowned his brother and played up the differences.
edited 21st Feb '16 6:16:11 AM by TheHandle
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.Disowning his brother would have carried its own set of problems with the base. 2003 does seem a good moment then, maybe running was a bit of a Morton's Fork?
We'll see. It's not especially surprising that Clinton carried Nevada, though her campaign had made disowning overtures in the weeks just prior. Not much has changed for Sanders, he'll still need a clear mandate from the base to start flipping superdelegates. If that's going to happen now, it'll happen after super tuesday instead of the 27th.
From what I've heard, Sanders seems to be trending upwards
.

Seems that Sanders actually did even better against Clinton in Nevada than Obama did in 2008, which should say something.