Primary Cholers, or the Caucusin' Chat Circle (Politics)

Re: Primary Cholers, or the Caucusin' Chat Circle (Politics)

Postby The Crimson Cyclone » Tue Feb 02, 2016 09:11:58

O'Malley and Huckabee both dropped out
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Re: Primary Cholers, or the Caucusin' Chat Circle (Politics)

Postby pacino » Tue Feb 02, 2016 09:12:19

i forgot huckabee was in

hope he bagged enough spotlight to roll it into another tv show
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Re: Primary Cholers, or the Caucusin' Chat Circle (Politics)

Postby pacino » Tue Feb 02, 2016 09:13:21

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Re: Primary Cholers, or the Caucusin' Chat Circle (Politics)

Postby Monkeyboy » Tue Feb 02, 2016 09:16:19

Between being thrust into the spotlight as a young teenager and having Ted Cruz as a father, that poor child doesn't have a chance.
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Re: Primary Cholers, or the Caucusin' Chat Circle (Politics)

Postby Rev_Beezer » Tue Feb 02, 2016 09:35:52

Well, at least his wife doesn't have to deal with Iowa anymore.

According to a Gawker rumor (so grain of salt here):

She says everyone smokes cigarettes, eats horribly, and wants to hug and touch her all the time. She said that she has to go back to the hotel and take a shower multiple times a day due to this environment.
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Re: Primary Cholers, or the Caucusin' Chat Circle (Politics)

Postby pacino » Tue Feb 02, 2016 09:37:26

it's much more hands off on in lower manhattan
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Re: Primary Cholers, or the Caucusin' Chat Circle (Politics)

Postby RichmondPhilsFan » Tue Feb 02, 2016 09:42:48

pacino wrote:i forgot huckabee was in

hope he bagged enough spotlight to roll it into another tv show

I honestly never even knew he was in.

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Re: Primary Cholers, or the Caucusin' Chat Circle (Politics)

Postby CalvinBall » Tue Feb 02, 2016 09:46:39

re: rubio

I think over the past few weeks he really played the Jesus card pretty hard. I remember seeing some video of an atheist ask him about his faith influencing his potential presidency. He said something along the lives of you better hope it does. I don't know if it was the first time Rubio said that, but then I started seeing it in dozens of soundbites from him on the the campaign trail.

One of the 24 hour news networks talked to a Iowa woman who basically said she is voting for Rubio because he talks about Jesus a lot.

Has anyone seen the numbers on evangelicals in Iowa and how they voted? I would guess that he pulled some of that block away from Cruz.

If so, is that something he can carry in other states? I just don't know if it is a winning strategy yet or something the Democrats should be really scared about.

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Re: Primary Cholers, or the Caucusin' Chat Circle (Politics)

Postby Brantt » Tue Feb 02, 2016 09:57:01

New Hampshire will be very interesting.

Trump has to win the state.........no if, ands or buts about it. And there's no reason he shouldn't. Pretty amazing that he got more votes last night than any other Republican in a primary in the state's history and still only took second. The Cruz "ground game" won this thing which shouldn't be a surprise since he poured basically everything he had into the state for the past year.

Missed opportunity though for Trump who could have one-punch KO'ed Cruz with a win last night.

Rubio will now be under massive attacks from definitely Jeb, the Dough boy and Kasich. Maybe Rand Paul as well if he sticks it out (although last night had to be a bitter disappointment for him at 4%). If Rubio finishes in the top 3 in NH those guys are done. Literally campaigns will probably be over. They will be throwing the kitchen sink at Rubio and fighting for their lives. I expect Cruz to pull in 10-15% in NH. Cruz's BS won't play outside the sticks.

If Rubio would somehow pull off a win NH you can crown him the nominee.

If Trump wins NH it sets up what will be a bloodbath in South Carolina between him, Cruz and probably Rubio.

Should be a fun week.
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Re: Primary Cholers, or the Caucusin' Chat Circle (Politics)

Postby momadance » Tue Feb 02, 2016 10:07:12

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Re: Primary Cholers, or the Caucusin' Chat Circle (Politics)

Postby TomatoPie » Tue Feb 02, 2016 10:16:41

Very happy with the GOP results.

Trump gets knocked off the top rung. No fan of Cruz, but he's useful here. Rube is rising.

The whole Trump spectre is so ugly - I'm anxious for that flavor of fascism to crawl back under a rock.
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Re: Primary Cholers, or the Caucusin' Chat Circle (Politics)

Postby traderdave » Tue Feb 02, 2016 10:18:45

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Holy crap; throw a mustache on Cruz and they could pass as Marty and Mitzi Huggins for Halloween.

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Re: Primary Cholers, or the Caucusin' Chat Circle (Politics)

Postby Monkeyboy » Tue Feb 02, 2016 10:21:02

CalvinBall wrote:re: rubio

I think over the past few weeks he really played the Jesus card pretty hard. I remember seeing some video of an atheist ask him about his faith influencing his potential presidency. He said something along the lives of you better hope it does. I don't know if it was the first time Rubio said that, but then I started seeing it in dozens of soundbites from him on the the campaign trail.

One of the 24 hour news networks talked to a Iowa woman who basically said she is voting for Rubio because he talks about Jesus a lot.

Has anyone seen the numbers on evangelicals in Iowa and how they voted? I would guess that he pulled some of that block away from Cruz.

If so, is that something he can carry in other states? I just don't know if it is a winning strategy yet or something the Democrats should be really scared about.



You may be right. And he does seem to do poorly when the light is on him, so the field dwindling may actually hurt him, who knows. But right now, he's the only guy on the GOP side that makes me nervous at all. It's possible I may be focusing too much on his improvement for that reason. It's actually not the presidency that worries me, though I think he'd be bad. It's the SCOTUS. The idea of having the court stuffed to the gills with activist and extremist conservative judges is just too disheartening. They could give each other cover and do whatever they wanted.
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Re: Primary Cholers, or the Caucusin' Chat Circle (Politics)

Postby thephan » Tue Feb 02, 2016 10:26:40

RE: Rubio getting votes because of his religious stance, I don't need to remind all our gentile readers here that the last two Iowa caucus winners were Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum.

RE: Mrs. Cruz not liking Iowa... I think that was an episode of The Good Wife, right?!?
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Re: Primary Cholers, or the Caucusin' Chat Circle (Politics)

Postby pacino » Tue Feb 02, 2016 10:30:27

thephan wrote:pacino's posting is one of the more important things revealed in weeks.

Calvinball wrote:Pacino was right.

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Re: Primary Cholers, or the Caucusin' Chat Circle (Politics)

Postby Soren » Tue Feb 02, 2016 10:47:54

Got attacked on FB for pointing out that a poll on MSNBC's website, reblogged by KOS, might have some bias and should be taken with a grain of salt.
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Re: Primary Cholers, or the Caucusin' Chat Circle (Politics)

Postby pacino » Tue Feb 02, 2016 10:54:13

Boko Haram murders 86 in Nergia
Scores of charred corpses and bodies with bullet wounds littered the streets from Saturday night's attack on Dalori village and two nearby camps housing 25,000 refugees, according to survivors and soldiers at the scene just 5 kilometers (3 miles) from Maiduguri, the birthplace of Boko Haram and the biggest city in Nigeria's northeast.

The shooting, burning and explosions from three suicide bombers continued for nearly four hours in the unprotected area, survivor Alamin Bakura said, weeping on a telephone call to The Associated Press. He said several of his family members were killed or wounded.

The violence continued as three female suicide bombers blew up among people who managed to flee to neighboring Gamori village, killing many people, according to a soldier at the scene who insisted on anonymity because he is not authorized to speak to journalists.

Troops arrived at Dalori around 8:40 p.m. Saturday but were unable to overcome the attackers, who were better armed, said soldiers who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press. The Boko Haram fighters only retreated after reinforcements arrived with heavier weapons, they said.
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Re: Primary Cholers, or the Caucusin' Chat Circle (Politics)

Postby thephan » Tue Feb 02, 2016 10:55:40



This is the argument for Rubio. GOP wants Trump over Cruz, but would love to have Rubio as an outcome of bad luck. For that to happen the GOP needs to get Jeb the Turtle and the rest of the ankle biters from chomping at the Rubio rung of the ladder. What a flipping mess.
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Re: Primary Cholers, or the Caucusin' Chat Circle (Politics)

Postby The Dude » Tue Feb 02, 2016 10:57:27

Anyone see the ISIS special on Vice? THought it was interesting, but it was more of a primer for people that don't read a lot about it
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Re: Primary Cholers, or the Caucusin' Chat Circle (Politics)

Postby Brantt » Tue Feb 02, 2016 10:58:34

thephan wrote:


This is the argument for Rubio. GOP wants Trump over Cruz, but would love to have Rubio as an outcome of bad luck. For that to happen the GOP needs to get Jeb the Turtle and the rest of the ankle biters from chomping at the Rubio rung of the ladder. What a flipping mess.


Exactly right.

This week should be an "establishment" bloodbath featuring Rubio vs the field. Jeb, Christie, Kasich or Rand have to finish in the top 3 in NH.
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