Nesrie
5702
There is a growing gap in life expectancy between the rich and the poor. I am not sure the entitlement programs are being used more by the poor than the middle-class rich. … this isn’t Medicaid we’re talking about.
LMN8R
5703
Do you consider Social Security to be an “entitlement”?
magnet
5704
That’s true, but nobody can vote 97000 times. And no matter which way one person votes, it will not influence the other 96999.
The only person who can prevent 97000 third party votes is the major party candidate, by convincing those voters to vote for him or her instead. And an appeal that amounts to “I’m the lesser of two evils” isn’t necessarily going to work.
Medicaid is considered an entitlement too (as is welfare).
ZOMG, how the hell did you get in here??? Tom! Toooooooooooom!!!
The IT shop I work in has one woman. I’ve been known to make reference to the He-Man Woman Hater’s Club from the Rascals on not-so-rare occasion. But she puts up with us and our nerdy senses of humor, the ribald humor. If there is a heaven, I’m pretty sure she’s earning admission into it.
If Donald Trump gets to be the nominee, Michael Bloomberg will probably run for president.
With absolutely no chance in hell of winning, but only increasing Trump’s odds of pulling it off. Gee, thanks?
I would consider not voting for Hillary if she picked Kasich, for the same reason I thought McCain disqualified him from consideration when he picked Palin - it was a short-sighted stunt-casting choice that made me think poorly of his strategic decision-making skills.* She might as well get on TV and scream, “I don’t care about issues or the party, I just want to win Ohio!!!”
*The same was true of McCain’s attempt to get Joe Lieberman, then a Democrat, as his running mate. Basically McCain wanted one of his posse on his ticket because BFF!! Never mind the party affiliation - it was a terrible idea because, as 2000 showed, Lieberman is one of the most boring people alive and a bad campaigner. Reaching for the center can’t work if it just puts the votes in the center asleep. That’s something on which Bernie fans and I agree.
Thank you for being willing to do so. FWIW, your perspective continues to be helpful to me.
No chance of winning, but plenty of chance of running a massive negative campaign against Trump with an unlimited pile of cash. Bloomberg’s net worth is ten times Trump’s.
The Wall Street branch of the GOP is using the threat of a Bloomberg run as their doomsday device. The message to Donald is, “We’d rather blow up the GOP’s chances than have someone as unpredictable (or hard to control, if you prefer) as Trump in the White House.”
ShivaX
5713
But Lieberman was competent, if he’d picked him he very likely would have been president.
Timex
5714
I think that many folks believe that he would actually be able to make an impact large enough to cause the election to be decided by the house of Representatives.
ShivaX
5715
That sounds like Russian Roulette considering Trump is pretty much assured to lose a general election.
Nah, not really. The reason McCain picked Palin in the first place was that Obama looked likely to defeat him (per 538, back before most people outside political consultants knew what “poll aggregation” was or why it was powerful.)
Lieberman never would have moved the dial enough to make a difference to the McCain campaign’s chances, which is why McCain’s campaign manager was willing to go all-in on an unknown. High-risk, possibility of high-reward, was the thinking.
The assumption that Trumph will automatically lose to Hilary in a face-off is dangerous.
He ran a very successful campaign thus far by just saying nonsense and tapping (insulting his way) into the opponent’s weaknesses. Isn’t Hilary a very polarising figure too? And with such huge anti-establishment emotions running…
I mean, I guess the thinking is that somewhere north of 50% of the voting public in America isn’t functionally retarded.
Mind you, I’ve worked customer service and tech support, so I’m not–like–100% on that theory.
ShivaX
5719
He’s only run a successful campaign because he’s competing against a clown car. If it was him vs… really anyone in the GOP he’d be losing. If everyone dropped out but him and Rubio, Rubio would mop the floor with him and take the nomination.
He has his people. That’s all he has. He only wins because everyone else is spread among like 6 other people. In a head-to-head against anyone he loses and that’s just in the GOP. Against a Dem he loses horrifically because having 1/3 of 1/2 of the population and no one else amounts to jack schitt.
Timex
5720
You started doubting this post half way through typing it, didn’t you?
Admit it.
No, I don’t think that’s true.
He’s winning because he’s better at this. He’s easily the most gifted politician in the entire field.
