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PotatoesRock Since: Oct, 2012
#113251: Feb 25th 2016 at 4:15:59 PM

Yeah. It would be the equivalent of the GOP blowing its brains out with a shotgun.

SeptimusHeap from Switzerland (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Mu
#113252: Feb 25th 2016 at 4:18:21 PM

That article isn't saying that Rubio will "steal" the vote. Maybe the video does, but what Rubio plans is simply to "hope on" in the convention ballot. Not stealing at all.

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JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#113253: Feb 25th 2016 at 4:34:26 PM

Could the US have a 5.3 percent growth rate.

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Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#113254: Feb 25th 2016 at 4:47:48 PM

The question is less whether it could than whether doing so is a realistic expectation. The conditions for that kind of growth are possible but grossly optimistic in many people's views.

edited 25th Feb '16 4:48:26 PM by Fighteer

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PotatoesRock Since: Oct, 2012
#113255: Feb 25th 2016 at 5:05:25 PM

That article isn't saying that Rubio will "steal" the vote. Maybe the video does, but what Rubio plans is simply to "hope on" in the convention ballot. Not stealing at all.
It's theft of the vote in that if Trump doesn't win the first round of votes, Rubio would be trying to scoop up unaligned delegates freed of their first round obligations.

It would be seen as a subversion of democracy on national TV by the party elites.

There's no way that flies when Trump has the FOX News demographic. It's effective suicide.

edited 25th Feb '16 5:07:00 PM by PotatoesRock

ILoveDogs Since: May, 2010
#113256: Feb 25th 2016 at 5:06:35 PM

It's weird how he has the Fox News demographic when he doesn't have, y'know, Fox.

Silasw A procrastination in of itself from A handcart to hell (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: And they all lived happily ever after <3
A procrastination in of itself
#113257: Feb 25th 2016 at 5:11:19 PM

several generals said they would stage a coup if Corbyn won here

No they didn't, one army general said something that the Telagraph spun to maybe being a coup threat. It wasn't several and it wasn't an actual coup threat. Anyway if you wanna task about the British military we should go to the British politics thread.

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Demonic_Braeburn Yankee Doodle Dandy from Defective California Since: Jan, 2016
Yankee Doodle Dandy
#113258: Feb 25th 2016 at 5:12:45 PM

Mississippi declares April “Confederate Heritage Month”.

Any group who acts like morons ironically will eventually find itself swamped by morons who think themselves to be in good company.
ILoveDogs Since: May, 2010
#113260: Feb 25th 2016 at 5:18:08 PM

It would be great if every state and every country was happy and prosperous.

Demonic_Braeburn Yankee Doodle Dandy from Defective California Since: Jan, 2016
Yankee Doodle Dandy
#113261: Feb 25th 2016 at 5:25:12 PM

[up][up] Hey, now. Where's your CONFEDERATE SPIRIT?

Robert Califf, a longtime Duke University cardiologist and researcher, was confirmed as the next leader of the Food and Drug Administration

He's vowing to use his "bully pulpit."

Any group who acts like morons ironically will eventually find itself swamped by morons who think themselves to be in good company.
Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#113262: Feb 25th 2016 at 5:30:02 PM

The Senate actually confirmed an Obama appointee? Has the Sun expanded?

"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
ILoveDogs Since: May, 2010
#113263: Feb 25th 2016 at 5:36:24 PM

Speaking of, I'm excited to see who Obama will nominate as the new justice. I mean, they'll get shot down super hard, and if they don't they'll probably be a disappointing settle, but it's interesting to see how this develops.

NickTheSwing Since: Aug, 2009
#113264: Feb 25th 2016 at 6:34:38 PM

I think Obama pointed toward Sandoval without directly really appointing him to test the waters to see what was popular in his profile and what was reviled. That, and to see what the Republicans would do.

If they approved him, they were clearly voting on party line and partisan cronyism. If they do not approve him, they look like staunch racists going after a Mexican American of their own Party simply because he was appointed by the black guy in office current sitting President and obstructionists full of spite.

All of which they absolutely are. A finely done plan, Mr. President.

ILoveDogs Since: May, 2010
#113265: Feb 25th 2016 at 6:48:54 PM

Well, Sandoval doesn't want in. Looking around, they're saying it could be either Sri or Watford.

JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#113266: Feb 25th 2016 at 7:24:37 PM

What the women who prosecuted OJ Simpson learned about race and justice in America. I know this is a sensitive subject, but do many people who rallied to OJ's defense regret the stance they took. Or is it ether thought that he was really innocent, or that white Americans deserved just a taste of the injustice they had inflicted on their Black countrymen for centuries, and that one women going without justice was the price that had to be paid for social justice. Nichole's words to her friend are just chilling. Do note I was not alive during the OJ trial, so I may not fully understand what it meant to people at the time, I apologize if I'm acting like an asshole.

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AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#113267: Feb 25th 2016 at 7:27:42 PM

I accept the apology for making me feel old though.

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JackOLantern1337 Shameful Display from The Most Miserable Province in the Russian Empir Since: Aug, 2014 Relationship Status: 700 wives and 300 concubines
Shameful Display
#113268: Feb 25th 2016 at 7:37:13 PM

[up]Np[lol] I guess it is a good thing they threw him behind bars for a few decades on some unrelated charges.

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AceofSpades Since: Apr, 2009 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
#113270: Feb 25th 2016 at 8:14:05 PM

It's amazing how basic infrastructure maintenance keeps not happening in small rural places.

Fighteer Lost in Space from The Time Vortex (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: TV Tropes ruined my love life
Lost in Space
#113271: Feb 25th 2016 at 8:24:22 PM

[whine] "It's too expensive!" "It's their fault for being too poor to afford it!" "Fiscal responsibility!"

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pwiegle Cape Malleum Majorem from Nowhere Special Since: Sep, 2015 Relationship Status: Singularity
Cape Malleum Majorem
#113272: Feb 25th 2016 at 8:24:30 PM

There was a survey of long-haul truck drivers, and it was their consensus that the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (my home state) has the worst roads in the nation. Thanks for nothing, Penn DOT.

Although it was similarly agreed that Massachusetts has the worst drivers...

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Bat178 Since: May, 2011
#113273: Feb 25th 2016 at 8:32:36 PM

[up] Both being two of the oldest states in the US (Pennsylvania being the former capital before Washington D.C.) and two of the original colonies.

edited 25th Feb '16 8:34:17 PM by Bat178

NickTheSwing Since: Aug, 2009
#113274: Feb 25th 2016 at 9:12:28 PM

Ted Cruz: I am bored and their suffering amuses me.

TheWanderer Student of Story from Somewhere in New England (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: Wishfully thinking
Student of Story
#113275: Feb 25th 2016 at 10:23:36 PM

Ted Cruz is the man withe the iron heart.

According to what I'm reading, Rubio managed to land some good digs on Trump in tonight's debate, even briefly turn Trump into a bit of a laughing stock, but it's probably still just a matter of holding his own rather than truly winning.

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