Pre-Super Tuesday Presidential poll

So does Cardi B...you going to put her on the short list.

 

I agree with every point you check off except the sexism. Again, if you can't pull more than one quarter of the female vote in a liberal state -- your liberal home state -- you can't claim sexism is an issue.

 

Because females can't be sexist, amirite?

 

If people in this country had any sense, this would be a reason to vote against the Republicans in every contested Senate election this fall. The Republicans are literally promising to not do their jobs properly.

What happens when a seat on the Supreme Court opens up? You have to imagine Ginsburg will retire not long after a Democrat takes office given her age and health issues. What if McConnell refuses to schedule a hearing even without the excuse of being the final year in office? At some point, you have to do what I said President Obama should have done. You put the guy on the court and challenge the Senate's ability to veto a Supreme Court nominee because short of that, the seat would remain open as long as the Republicans control the senate until they got the White House back.

 

One of Obama's biggest fuckups was not naming Garland in a recess appointment. Technically, recess appointments can be recalled at the start of the next Congress, but make them own trying to remove a guy who had been hearing cases for nearly a year.

 

You trying to tell me that 76 percent of the females who voted against Elizabeth Warren in Massachusetts are all Mormon housewives? Don't be ridiculous. You can vote against a woman candidate, whether you're male or female, and not be sexist.

 

Was sexism one reason Warren didn't do better? Sure. Was it the only reason? Of course not. I was a supporter and I know those things are both true.

 

This. What I'm saying is that the statistic is so one sided that misogyny *has* to play a part.

 

Opinion | I Am Burning With Fury and Grief Over Elizabeth Warren. And I Am Not Alone.

Check out this analogy (from an author of a decent book):

After the fund-raiser and after watching Ms. Warren’s dismal returns on a hotel television, I spent the next day on the beach with a Geraldine Brooks novel I’d randomly purchased at a bookstore on Sanibel Island. The book, it turned out, was about a bright girl in the Massachusetts Bay Colony who is indentured as a servant in Cambridge to pay for her brother’s academic studies. Along the way, she tends the miscarriage of a girl whose rapist goes unpunished.

I looked out at the sea and considered that, for all our advancing on gender matters, the novel’s story is alive today: A woman must step aside as a man ascends to the presidency, and a “pro-life” activist would sooner bomb an abortion facility than let a raped girl cross its threshold.

 

7 times as much positive coverage. Not 21. 7.

I'll say it again for those who only read the link.

7 times as much positive coverage. Not 21.

You also might be interested to know that Trump's ''negative'' mentions (25 percent) were more than his positives (17 percent).

Of course, I can't help but wonder what this ''think tank'' considers a ''positive'' mention, since Putin's description of Trump in 2015 as ''Яркий'' (bright, noticeable) was interpreted by American media to mean ''intelligent.''

 

Shouldn't we start a post-Super Tuesday poll thread and close this one down?

 

Probably. This one has become something of an election catch-all, separate from the Trump thread.