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FFShinra Since: Jan, 2001
#113851: Mar 1st 2016 at 12:25:57 PM

Since Clinton is gonna sweep my state, I decided to be strategic in my voting and give Rubio a nod.

TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
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#113852: Mar 1st 2016 at 12:29:25 PM

You're voting for the Rubiot?

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Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#113853: Mar 1st 2016 at 12:30:58 PM

Not sure how long Rubio will be in the face; he can't be taken seriously as a canditate if he can't take a single primary. And with Trump up so much in Florida, I think that Rubio is toasted before March is out.

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FFShinra Since: Jan, 2001
#113854: Mar 1st 2016 at 12:33:15 PM

Probably true. But hey, any chance to stick it to the hairdo and the Mc Carthy cosplayer, I'll take it.

DrDougsh Since: Jan, 2001
#113855: Mar 1st 2016 at 12:35:15 PM

Don't they have to prevent Trump from gaining more than half of the overall delegates in order to conceivably be able to cheat him out of a victory by calling for a brokered convention? That might provide incentive to stay in the race.

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#113856: Mar 1st 2016 at 12:41:06 PM

So, I was looking at the states voting in the primary and I noticed something.

Why does Texas get 155 delegates?! That's insane! Even New York only has 94.

EDIT: Oh, wait, that's Republicans. New York has over 200 Democrat delegates. Never mind.

EDIT EDIT: But so does Texas! What the hell? Our election system seems to care an awful lot about what Texas thinks.

edited 1st Mar '16 12:42:43 PM by TobiasDrake

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#113857: Mar 1st 2016 at 12:45:19 PM

Everything's big in Texas? even the delegates?

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#113858: Mar 1st 2016 at 12:45:29 PM

There are a lot of people in Texas, you know. It's the second most populous state.

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#113859: Mar 1st 2016 at 12:46:37 PM

So nobody wants to talk about how there may actually be decent, principled, honorable, non-delusional people in the Republican Party?

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#113860: Mar 1st 2016 at 12:48:04 PM

There are stupid insane people in the Democrat party, too. And sane, rational people in the Conservative side, too.

Politics in the U.S are so mindlessly polarized it is not so much the beliefs that matter. Just the label.

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#113861: Mar 1st 2016 at 12:49:04 PM

I do not doubt they are. They are sadly not in a position of authority. I am not opposed to sane and responsible conservatives even if I'd disagree with them on arguments.

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TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
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#113862: Mar 1st 2016 at 12:49:17 PM

There are stupid insane people in the Democrat party, too.

True dat.

[up]But they seem to be under the impression that Liberals are the most evil and villainous scum on the planet. Which, again, shocks me.

edited 1st Mar '16 12:50:25 PM by TheHandle

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Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#113863: Mar 1st 2016 at 12:50:33 PM

So, we will know tonight if Rubio is done I think. And Kasich is probably running out of room to win as well. Carson is nothing more than noise at this point.

So its either Trump, or Cruz if he lasts long enough for an overdue Trump implosion.

edited 1st Mar '16 12:51:10 PM by Rationalinsanity

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#113864: Mar 1st 2016 at 12:51:30 PM

So nobody wants to talk about how there may actually be decent, principled, honorable, non-delusional people in the Republican Party?

Do we ever hear about any?

Luminosity Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Lovey-Dovey
#113865: Mar 1st 2016 at 12:53:32 PM

Do we ever hear about any?

Pretty much. And as much as I try to think, there's really nothing I wouldn't oppose a conservative on, no matter how sane and reasonable they seem.

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V
#113866: Mar 1st 2016 at 12:54:06 PM

[up][up], [up]

They're not newsworthy.

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Eschaton Since: Jul, 2010
#113867: Mar 1st 2016 at 12:59:19 PM

And depending on how this this election swings, they could be irrelevant in their own party.

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#113869: Mar 1st 2016 at 1:04:34 PM

I probably would disagree on conservatives on most things, but I'd probably at least respect them if they were a bit more reasonable and avoided some of the vices of most republican candidates (i.e alienating potential minority voters with xenophobic rhetoric). I feel like eventually the republican party will have to adapt in order to stay relevant; the racist and middle-aged/old white people will only be around for so long.

edited 1st Mar '16 1:06:40 PM by wehrmacht

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#113870: Mar 1st 2016 at 1:07:34 PM

there's really nothing I wouldn't oppose a conservative on, no matter how sane and reasonable they seem.
Any conservative who is actually sane and reasonable can be debated, they can be negotiated with, and they can work with you towards a common goal. A sane, reasonable conservative recognizes that yes, the government needs to run, hearings need to happen, inspectors and workers and soldiers need to do their jobs.

The problem is that the last 20 years has seen sane, reasonable conservatives lose out to the shrill hate-mongers of the Tea Party and the Christian Taliban. Regularly and repeatedly.

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Greenmantle V from Greater Wessex, Britannia Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Hiding
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#113871: Mar 1st 2016 at 1:10:17 PM

@ Luminosity:

Pretty much. And as much as I try to think, there's really nothing I wouldn't oppose a conservative on, no matter how sane and reasonable they seem.

Depends on you mean by Conservatism — after all, would you oppose someone who calls themselves a "One Nation Conservative", or follows a non-US style of conservatism? And is change for changes sake a good thing?

[up]

Any conservative who is actually sane and reasonable can be debated, they can be negotiated with, and they can work with you towards a common goal. A sane, reasonable conservative recognizes that yes, the government needs to run, hearings need to happen, inspectors and workers and soldiers need to do their jobs.

And that change is inevitable, as much as someone may not like it. It's how you deal with it that matters.

edited 1st Mar '16 1:11:35 PM by Greenmantle

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#113872: Mar 1st 2016 at 1:10:43 PM

On the delegate thing I believe that states get their delegates based on both population and level of support for the party, so a deep red state will get more delegates then an equal population battleground state, which will itself get more delegates then an equal population deep blue state.

Edit: On conservatives, Clinton is a Conservative, Trump is a Reactionary.

edited 1st Mar '16 1:11:48 PM by Silasw

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#113873: Mar 1st 2016 at 1:13:16 PM

Is Obama a conservative? I've spoken to some people who seem to think so, and he seems like a pretty reasonable person as far as I can see.

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#113874: Mar 1st 2016 at 1:14:14 PM

[up] Obama would be conservative by British standards. Politically, he's probably fairly close to David Cameron.

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FFShinra Since: Jan, 2001
#113875: Mar 1st 2016 at 1:14:15 PM

conservative =/= unreasonable. Thats polarization talking.

Also [up]

edited 1st Mar '16 1:14:30 PM by FFShinra


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