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10-23-2015 , 09:00 AM

#4526

Roonil Wazlib

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yeah man, it's totally all of our faults that the majority of conservative posters couldn't hide their racism enough to prevent being banned.

10-23-2015 , 02:58 PM

#4527

ludacris

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Chafee is out now, too.

Thank god we don't have to hear from Chafee and Webb again.

10-23-2015 , 04:24 PM

#4528

Mayo

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It's a good thing his father's not alive to see this.

10-23-2015 , 04:25 PM

#4529

ludacris

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I think the death of his father was still weighing on his decision making when he got in the race.

10-25-2015 , 07:15 AM

#4530

beansroast01

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FEEL THE BERN. Bernie ****ing elite in this speech. Fully pissed off mode engaged.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S6k....be&t=2h16m26s

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10-25-2015 , 09:21 AM

#4531

EddyB66

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Is there a reason Bernie is running as a D instead of an Independent?

10-25-2015 , 09:38 AM

#4532

JB91

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Quote:

Originally Posted by EddyB66

Is there a reason Bernie is running as a D instead of an Independent?

Because he is a man of well-considered principles and knows that if he ran as an independent it would split the dem vote and tremendously increase the risk of a republican gaining office.

10-25-2015 , 09:39 AM

#4533

zikzak

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Quote:

Originally Posted by EddyB66

Is there a reason Bernie is running as a D instead of an Independent?

Because he decided, correctly, that he would get 100x more exposure.

Quote:

Originally Posted by JB91

Because he is a man of well-considered principles and knows that if he ran as an independent it would split the dem vote and tremendously increase the risk of a republican gaining office.

This is not the reason.

10-25-2015 , 09:50 AM

#4534

EddyB66

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so in the oft chance he loses the nom he will still run?

10-25-2015 , 10:00 AM

#4535

zikzak

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Originally Posted by EddyB66

so in the oft chance he loses the nom he will still run?

It's practically guaranteed he will lose the primary, and very unlikely he will run as an independent. He's not trying to win the White House, he's trying to push the eventual Dem nominee left and raise awareness for his progressive causes. That is the entire purpose of his campaign.

10-25-2015 , 10:57 AM

#4536

JB91

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Originally Posted by zikzak

I'm pretty sure he's trying to become president and I feel like anyone who has over 650,000 people donating to his campaign probably doesn't discount their chances. That's at least the impression I got from his speech.

10-25-2015 , 10:58 AM

#4537

JB91

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Quote:

Originally Posted by EddyB66

so in the oft chance he loses the nom he will still run?

Straight from the horses mouth.

"If we were serious about winning this election, which is always my intention from day one, I thought we could and I hope that we will. I had to do it within the Democratic primary caucus process," he said.

"What I did not want to do is run as a third party candidate, take votes away from the Democratic candidate and help elect some right-wing Republican. I did not want responsibility for that. So what I said at the beginning of the campaign is that I was not going to run as an independent. And I say it now, that if I do not win this process I will not run as an independent."

10-25-2015 , 12:34 PM

#4538

EddyB66

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I would think he would draw enough from the Repubs and Dems to be able to win as an Independent. If ever there was a race to be won by an Independent, this would be it.

10-25-2015 , 12:38 PM

#4539

rjoefish

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There were a lot of veiled shots at Hillary in his speech last night but I think she did better overall. Her team did a way better job with her crowd section as well.

10-25-2015 , 12:39 PM

#4540

lycosid

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If he can't win in an electorate composed of liberal, more engaged than average primary voters, there's literally no way he's winning a general election.

10-25-2015 , 12:42 PM

#4541

simplicitus

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Originally Posted by EddyB66

I would think he would draw enough from the Repubs and Dems to be able to win as an Independent. If ever there was a race to be won by an Independent, this would be it.

Then you understand very little about american politics.

10-25-2015 , 12:43 PM

#4542

rjoefish

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Originally Posted by EddyB66

I would think he would draw enough from the Repubs and Dems to be able to win as an Independent. If ever there was a race to be won by an Independent, this would be it.

Um, wat? No way he gets a sizeable chunk of GOP.

10-25-2015 , 12:51 PM

#4543

seattlelou

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Um, wat? No way he gets a sizeable chunk of GOP.

Maybe some butterfly ballot confusion. But yeah no right leaning person is feeling the Bern.

10-26-2015 , 11:41 AM

#4544

boobies4me

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Originally Posted by Roonil Wazlib

yeah man, it's totally all of our faults that the majority of conservative posters couldn't hide their racism enough to prevent being banned.

Yeah, a total echo chamber because all the conservatives were too racist for us to let em stick around and we had to ban em.

10-26-2015 , 11:44 AM

#4545

Roonil Wazlib

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we had to ban them because the people who own this private forum don't want racist language on their forum.

But I guess that's all the liberals who post here's fault

10-26-2015 , 11:53 AM

#4546

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Quote:

Originally Posted by EddyB66

I would think he would draw enough from the Repubs and Dems to be able to win as an Independent. If ever there was a race to be won by an Independent, this would be it.

lol

10-26-2015 , 12:49 PM

#4547

Inso0

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Roonil Wazlib, buy yourself an egg timer. Every time you feel the urge to respond to someone, set that timer to 30 seconds. See if the feeling passes.

Also, I'll ship you twenty bucks if you can go an entire two weeks without outright asking for someone to be banned, quoting a post and then implying that the poster is risking the banhammer, or generally discussing the topic of bans.

Noon CST on October 26th. Timer starts now.