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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
A contested convention for the Democrats just means that they superdelegates' votes actually matter. Unless there's a mass defection by superdelegates that have already pledged for Clinton, a contested convention means Clinton wins the nomination.
A contested convention for the Republicans basically means that all bets are off and anyone there can vote for whoever they want, which would be much more... "interesting".
Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.it's actually reasonably possible, Paul Ryan and Romney have both been mentioned. As for what would happen? The police where the Republican convention is happening have been stocking up on riot gear, so the bet is a riot if Trump looses the nomination, especially if it's the someone who didn't run.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranIs it just me, or does anyone else find the debate rather annoying to listen to? Maybe it's the crowds cheering at everything they say, the lady interrupting and saying "time's up" all the time, the thick accents, me being European, etc. but it's been giving me a bit of a headache.
edited 14th Apr '16 8:44:22 PM by Bat178
I found the debate stage to be tacky and too bright, but that's pretty much par the course for CNN. I was more bothered when they refused to heed the calls of moderators that their time was up than at the calls that time was up to begin with.
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.Tennessee Governor vetoes the bill making the Bible the official state book
. Essentially, he's offended by the dog-whistle language the legislature's using.
- Legislature: "It's an important historical and cultural book and a major part of our state's economy! Cross my fingers! Tee-hee! (The voters'll get it.)"
- Governor: "No. It's a sacred text. I am not devaluing the scripture of my religion just for the sake of flipping the bird at non-Christians."
edited 14th Apr '16 9:50:10 PM by Ramidel
Personally, I think it's slightly blashphemous to declare the Bible your state book. In fact, shouldn't it be a book from your own state?
Leviticus 19:34"They want to do something horrible, and they need a justification, regardless if it's any good or not, to convince themselves that what they're doing is right or justifiable. You see justifications used by criminals and bullies all the time. It's never their fault. The victim deserved it. No matter what, it's justified."
Oh, the good fashion moral myopia, the idea tha as long is me or my crew, EVERYTHING is necesary or being aceptable, the general point is "I can do whatever the hell I want but you dont"
Also as a venezuelan I just want to said something....the more I read about trump, the more he look a lot like chavez: the atack on the establishment, the idea that your are a messiah because you are outside of that establishment....somehow, the whole "Fuck the law,fuck the state I want my country good" now he is moving into the phase of "Politics is boring and Im cool" I cant wait where this is going
"My Name is Bolt, Bolt Crank and I dont care if you believe or not"One of my German online friends says he's heard about Trump in college and says the teacher "hoped that America will not make our grave mistake, of trusting an amoral political outsider with power."
Random question. I wonder how possible it would be for the appropriate federal agencies to label the NRA as a viral marketing campaign and regulate it under the rules for commercial speech, instead of political speech?
After all, the point of the NRA isn't actually to prevent legislation from being passed, it's to fearmonger so that the loony bin will be convinced that the gubmint is gonna take away their guns (which makes them buy more guns, strangely enough).
edited 15th Apr '16 12:52:00 AM by Ramidel
(Vox) 2 winners and 3 losers of Thursday's Democratic primary debate
Winners:
- Sanders for managing to basically managing to unwaveringly criticize Hillary multiple times for fracking, AIPAC, humilating her about Goldman-Sachs, taking the energy of the audience from her, and attacking her and her husband for Super-Predators.
- Fight for 15 (the push for a much higher minimum wage in the US), as Hillary swore if any 15 dollar minimum wage was put in front of her, she'd sign it.
Losers:
- Hillary for getting rocked so many times by Sanders on substantive issuse and finding her attacks less and less effective. The longer Sanders stays in the race, the more she ties herself to American leftwing political views that could hurt her in the General, is the general fear here.
- The New Democrats as their era of centrist authority is slowly but surely being chipped away at and Democratic voters keep shifting left.
- Policy Wonks / Economic Professors, as many researchers and professors think 15 dollar minimum wages are absurd, and potentially severely dangerous to the U.S. economy, and it would be better handled shooting for 10 to 12 dollars. And are increasingly finding themselves ignored by a public that doesn't want "sensible results".
edited 15th Apr '16 5:04:53 AM by PotatoesRock
Blah, blah, populism = confirming biases. I have kind of given up on watching the debates because they just make me angry. If anything genuinely interesting happens, the news will report it.
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A contested convention is basically a single candidate doesn't automatically get the nomination, isn't it? Isn't it basically "We go to the DNC and debate and give a final vote of which of us gets it"?