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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Probably true. But hey, any chance to stick it to the hairdo and the Mc Carthy cosplayer, I'll take it.
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
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.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.
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothesTrue dat.
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
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.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
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.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
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.
That’s the epitome of privilege right there, not considering armed nazis a threat to your life. - Silasw@ Luminosity:
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?
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
Keep Rolling OnOn 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
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ Cyran
Obama would be conservative by British standards. Politically, he's probably fairly close to David Cameron.

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