Is that Erik Estrada there in the back?

And a beautiful fence!!!

Oh look. Rubio is telling us the his dad was a bartender story again.

Both runner up speeches were way better than the winners. Way. Hope that Carson, Fiorina and Christie withdraw. This is a bad showing for Christie.

Christie heading home. A lot of mops waiting for him.

Hahahshahahahaaaaaaaaaa

Trump should change his theme music to Everything is Awesome

Rubio always has cotton mouth and it's annoying.

He has an anxiety disorder.

He has panic attacks and often freezes under unexpected pressure. That's why he went all robot the other day. He panicked and froze and couldn't think of anything else to say. I'd feel bad for him if he wasn't running for president on a platform of hate.

Monkeyboy wrote:He has an anxiety disorder.

He has panic attacks and often freezes under unexpected pressure.

Is that true? Like he was diagnosed with something like that? Doesn't sound like a great quality in a president.

If hes one of us anxiety-americans now I'm gonna vote for him

I take it that the Rubio result was unexpected/bad, Kasich did well, and Trump was expected to win, but how did Cruz perform relative to expectations?

Does Kasich have enough money overtake Rubio/Cruz in the long haul? He seems like the most tolerable of them

/guy who watches WADR on Bloomberg and otherwise avoids politics thread

slugsrbad wrote:I'm predicting Fiorina and maybe one more drop out after tonight. Carson and Christie should based on how they're polling in NH and SC, but they both seem too stubborn to drop out this early.

Despite poor showing, the show continues for Fiorina (who will probably not make the cut for the next debate). Nothing official out of Christie/Carson camp yet, but everyone's favorite Governor should be making a decision tonight (he also might not make the cut for the debate). As for the good doctor, he skipped his own party and stated he'd be open to being Trump's VP, so yea, he's looking to win still.

joe table wrote:I take it that the Rubio result was unexpected/bad, Kasich did well, and Trump was expected to win, but how did Cruz perform relative to expectations?

Does Kasich have enough money overtake Rubio/Cruz in the long haul? He seems like the most tolerable of them

/guy who watches WADR on Bloomberg and otherwise avoids politics thread

Kasich is not polling well in SC, Georgia, or Texas. I don't think Kasich has the support to last in the long haul. He would need Bush and Christie to drop out and possibly even endorse him. It's not going to happen.

slugsrbad wrote:

joe table wrote:I take it that the Rubio result was unexpected/bad, Kasich did well, and Trump was expected to win, but how did Cruz perform relative to expectations?

Does Kasich have enough money overtake Rubio/Cruz in the long haul? He seems like the most tolerable of them

/guy who watches WADR on Bloomberg and otherwise avoids politics thread

Kasich is not polling well in SC, Georgia, or Texas. I don't think Kasich has the support to last in the long haul. He would need Bush and Christie to drop out and possibly even endorse him. It's not going to happen.

Christie probably will drop out; he put everything into NH. Bush? He's in until the bitter end and that's going to prove death to Kasich, IMO. Fine by me since I think he's the only guy that can win the national election on that side.

pacino wrote:interesting piece on gerrymandering and how it affects Philly

probably the most under-reported story with the biggest impact on politics this decade was the push by the GOP to gain as many state seats as possible. (the amount of money used in an "off" election year for state elections was incredibly high) The consequence was being able to rig the house via gerrymandering. Rachel Maddow had an interview with one of the architects about a year ago - http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watc ... 7234115988

and yes I am perfectly aware that the dems do the same thing, and historically it's even been used altruistically to give minorities better representation.

that said my hope would be that some sort of bipartisan and independent commission would come up with a fairer system through math/analytics but I doubt either party would want to relinquish such control anytime soon.