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2016 Presidential Election Thread: TRUMP vs. Hillary SMACKDOWN

View Poll Results: The 45th President of the United States of America will be

Hillary

332 46.63%

TRUMP

190 26.69%

In to watch it burn

161 22.61%

Bastard

73 10.25%

im tryin to tell you about ****in my wife in the *** and youre asking me these personal questions

57 8.01%

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05-14-2016 , 10:49 PM

#2101

fatkid

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lol Jeb is off the rails.

05-14-2016 , 10:52 PM

#2102

chasern1

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Mayo

Yeah, with the official Jeb! logo and everything. No way to fake that.

Yea, it might be fake, but that guy totally sounds and looks like him.

05-14-2016 , 11:23 PM

#2103

Dr. Zoidberg

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Quote:

Originally Posted by otatop

No. You have to be eligible to be President to run for Vice President, per the 12th amendment.

The eligibility criteria are spelled out in Article II. Barack Obama is eligible to be President for the remainder of his life. He just no longer can be elected President.

05-14-2016 , 11:33 PM

#2104

LASJayhawk

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Dr. Zoidberg

The eligibility criteria are spelled out in Article II. Barack Obama is eligible to be President for the remainder of his life. He just no longer can be elected President.

No the 22nd nixes that.

05-14-2016 , 11:46 PM

#2105

pvn

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Originally Posted by BrettFavre

Couldn't she win with Obama as her running mate and immediately step down to get Obama in again, thus bypassing the 2 term rule?

Amazing

05-14-2016 , 11:47 PM

#2106

pvn

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Dr. Zoidberg

The eligibility criteria are spelled out in Article II. Barack Obama is eligible to be President for the remainder of his life. He just no longer can be elected President.

sometimes you have to read all the way to the end

05-15-2016 , 01:09 AM

#2107

Nicholasp27

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It's almost like amendments change/update things that came before them

05-15-2016 , 09:17 AM

#2108

[Phill]

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Lol there is no way that is Jeb. The idea he somehow got into a fight, and is winning, runs contrary to everything we know of him.

05-15-2016 , 09:21 AM

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Riverman

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Somewhere in Maine, Jeb! Remains perplexed. Willie Horton and Lee Atwater worked! How is Donald winning by giving away the con!

05-15-2016 , 09:28 AM

#2110

seattlelou

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Frum's fictional respective on Trump's path to the presidency is not a bad read. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/...idency/482796/

05-15-2016 , 09:51 AM

#2111

awval999

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Quote:

Originally Posted by seattlelou

Frum's fictional respective on Trump's path to the presidency is not a bad read. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/...idency/482796/

It was a fun read, although, in my opinion, just not the way Trump would win. The author was implying Trump won by winning NV and CO. Just not the way I see a narrow Trump win. I think you'd have to flip Latino men and African American men in the scenario, and maybe I could buy it for a fictional scenario. Trump has just done too much damage to his brand among Hispanics IMO to win 270 following a road out west.

05-15-2016 , 10:03 AM

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seattlelou

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The story would center around "x changed everything"with x being some external event ime.

05-15-2016 , 10:12 AM

#2113

TomG

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With the amount of criticism Trump has heaped upon Romney for how he closed out the 2012 election, you have to imagine Trump will have an October Surprise ready and waiting.

05-15-2016 , 10:13 AM

#2114

awval999

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Quote:

Originally Posted by seattlelou

The story would center around "x changed everything"with x being some external event ime.

Could totally see it.

"Terrorist Attack in ***** Changed Everything"

05-15-2016 , 10:15 AM

#2115

Riverman

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Breaking news, Trump habitually sexually harassed pageant contestants. More at 11

05-15-2016 , 01:04 PM

#2116

MrWookie

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Originally Posted by Riverman

Breaking news, Trump habitually sexually harassed pageant contestants. More at 11

Reince, on this, has the thesis that because Trump isn't a hypocrite about it, no one will care.

05-15-2016 , 01:24 PM

#2117

ChrisV

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Good article from a Republican about how the denizens of the Right will try to position themselves to benefit from a Trump loss.

05-15-2016 , 01:34 PM

#2118

florentinopeces

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Quote:

Originally Posted by aflametotheground

Im from scandi and we probably have the best 3 societies on the planet here, all social democracies.

If you like cold, alcohol, and ****ing reindeer.

05-15-2016 , 01:43 PM

#2119

Nicholasp27

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Quote:

Originally Posted by TomG

With the amount of criticism Trump has heaped upon Romney for how he closed out the 2012 election, you have to imagine Trump will have an October Surprise ready and waiting.

Why?

He heaped criticism on Romney for not releasing tax returns but then won't himself

05-15-2016 , 01:51 PM

#2120

aflametotheground

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Quote:

Originally Posted by florentinopeces

If you like cold, alcohol, and ****ing reindeer.

I actually hypothesize that temperature correlates well with how crappy a country is. Not claiming it to be true but something that could be looked into. And there is outliers.

05-15-2016 , 02:03 PM

#2121

ChrisV

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Originally Posted by aflametotheground

I actually hypothesize that temperature correlates well with how crappy a country is. Not claiming it to be true but something that could be looked into. And there is outliers.

Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs and Steel" has a bunch of stuff about how being in the tropics sucks for societies for a number of reasons (diseases are rampant, everything rots, it's hard to do physical work etc). If you look, say, within Europe or within the US, it's generally true that the hotter regions are less prosperous than the colder ones.

05-15-2016 , 02:13 PM

#2122

Money2Burn

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Originally Posted by ChrisV

Good article from a Republican about how the denizens of the Right will try to position themselves to benefit from a Trump loss.

The most interesting part about that was the bit about why FOA actually shuttered its operation, imo.

05-15-2016 , 02:14 PM

#2123

synth_floyd

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Saw the interview with Reince Prebius today. He seems like he got abducted by a Trump cult and is just parroting everything they told him to say to make Trump look good. Though obviously it is in his own interests as chairman of the RNC to make Trump look good.

05-15-2016 , 02:20 PM

#2124

aflametotheground

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ChrisV

I see. I actually read this book a long time ago.

05-15-2016 , 02:39 PM

#2125

dessin d'enfant

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ChrisV

Well, being in cold weather places obviously sucks also. Don't think the cultural capital of the world has ever been in a place as cold as Scandinavia.

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