Pre-Super Tuesday Presidential poll

What a bunch of fucking sheep most people are.

 

More of a bump from South Carolina than anything. I think there were a lot of people that were going to vote for him and jumped on the fence after his candidacy was presumed dead because he didn't do well in Iowa or New Hampshire and were left searching for another option. But he ends up not just winning South Carolina, but damn near taking 50 percent of the vote and those people are back on board again.

He's going to win North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee and Alabama better than expected and I'm pretty confident he'll win Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma as well. Win those and cut into Bernie's delegate share in California and he'll be in a pretty favorable position to make it a one-on-one contest.

 

And I'm guessing Warren's hope is that when she's the only one on a debate stage with Biden and Bernie, she suddenly seems like a lot better of an option.

 

There's not another debate for 12 days. That's a looooooooooooong time. Both Super Tuesdays will have happened by then.

 

If she’s on that debate stage in 12 days, I’ll be shocked. She isn’t likely to win a single state between now and then.

 

Nobody said it had to be that way.

 

How can you be anything but?

Let's say you dismiss the far left's most extreme views and the far right's most extreme views.

Then you take points A, D, F, H and J from the left's platform that you find agreeable, and B, C, E, G and I from the right's platform that you find agreeable.

You are as moderate a candidate as is statistically possible.

Who will vote for you? You're too far right for the left, and you're too far left for the right.

 

You could argue I guess that Perot was a "moderate" third party candidate, but his views did not fit into any left-center-right spectrum, at least not very neatly. It still amazes me that a candidate who proposed a 50-cent a gallon increase in the gasoline tax got 19 percent of the vote. Later polling did show Perot's support would've split nearly down the middle between Bush and Clinton, so maybe he did hit the middle sweet spot.

 

I think the US is too dumb of an electorate to have more than two parties.

Seriously.

There are far too many people in this country, including some on this thread, who think that Sanders' brand of democratic socialism is akin to Russian or Chinese communism. It's not even close. His ideas borrow heavily from countries like Denmark and Norway. The healthcare stuff is right out of the UK.

Our obsession with American Exceptionalism and belief that there are no good ideas beyond our borders will keep up us in this two-party hellhole in perpetuity.

 

I've just never understood how positions that have NOTHING to do with one another have to fall within one group. Hypothetical:

"I believe CLIMATE CHANGE is a serious threat to our existence on the planet and that INCOME INEQUALITY is a scourge on the people's well being . . . . so I guess that means I have to be PRO-CHOICE and a serious advocate of GUN CONTROL."

WTF? What do those four things have in common that all four have to fall in line under one party platform? How did that happen?

 

The Reform Party was about being a radical centrist. I still can't really digest what the fuck that really is, but that was a lot of their platform until people like Pat Buchanan jumped in.

 

Bernie Sanders has praised aspects of leftist regimes. Nobody's made any of that up.

I'm not obligated to think the Soviet Union was a good idea because the alternative is Trump.