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Bay12 Presidential Focus Polling 2016

Ted Cruz
- 7 (6.5%)
Rick Santorum
- 16 (14.8%)
Michelle Bachmann
- 13 (12%)
Chris Christie
- 23 (21.3%)
Rand Paul
- 49 (45.4%)

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Re: FJ's Murrican Politics Megathread 2: So dysfunction. Much Congress. Wow.
« Reply #6270 on: March 27, 2014, 01:40:20 pm »

Cause you know how black people are....

Stereotypical?
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Re: FJ's Murrican Politics Megathread 2: So dysfunction. Much Congress. Wow.
« Reply #6271 on: March 27, 2014, 01:51:30 pm »

I think one of the important differences is that the European road network hasn't been updated that much since the romans, so blocking something tends to have more impact.
Well, at point it has been upgraded, but there never have been major redesigns. So city centers are usually quite chaotic and traffic disasters, thought a bit more charming than the straight grid you find in American cities.

Anyway, to put numbers in comparison, a week long EU meeting costs only 500 000 euros in security, rather than the 10 million of the Obama visit.

Anyway, it could've been worse. They wanted to shut down the roads for 2 hours before, and 2 hours after he passed by. ((FYI, in decent traffic situations, that's enough time for a cross country trip.))
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Re: FJ's Murrican Politics Megathread 2: So dysfunction. Much Congress. Wow.
« Reply #6272 on: March 27, 2014, 02:26:06 pm »

Anyway, it could've been worse. They wanted to shut down the roads for 2 hours before, and 2 hours after he passed by. ((FYI, in decent traffic situations, that's enough time for a cross country trip.))
I'd blame that one on the fact that the US is so much bigger than many other countries. It always shocked our exchange students to learn that our state was nearly as big as their country was and that in the time that it took us to drive to school in the morning you could cross a sizeable portion of their country; I wouldn't be surprised if the opposite effect would lead to US security asking for time/area requests that would seem huge to most European countries.
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Re: FJ's Murrican Politics Megathread 2: So dysfunction. Much Congress. Wow.
« Reply #6273 on: March 27, 2014, 03:00:31 pm »

Anyway, it could've been worse. They wanted to shut down the roads for 2 hours before, and 2 hours after he passed by. ((FYI, in decent traffic situations, that's enough time for a cross country trip.))
I'd blame that one on the fact that the US is so much bigger than many other countries. It always shocked our exchange students to learn that our state was nearly as big as their country was and that in the time that it took us to drive to school in the morning you could cross a sizeable portion of their country; I wouldn't be surprised if the opposite effect would lead to US security asking for time/area requests that would seem huge to most European countries.
That always shocked some of our international guests as well (at least the ones not from places like Russia or China, which also have huge tracts of land). I would always take the opportunity to point out that America is in many ways 50 countries stuck with each other. No matter how hard we try to convince some to leave (I'm looking at you, Texas). Or how much we try to drown some in the bathtub (*cough* New Jersey *cough*).
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Re: FJ's Murrican Politics Megathread 2: So dysfunction. Much Congress. Wow.
« Reply #6274 on: March 27, 2014, 03:02:21 pm »

That always shocked some of our international guests as well (at least the ones not from places like Russia or China, which also have huge tracts of land). I would always take the opportunity to point out that America is in many ways 50 countries stuck with each other. No matter how hard we try to convince some to leave (I'm looking at you, Texas). Or how much we try to drown some in the bathtub (*cough* New Jersey *cough*).

I resent the implication that you count Idaho as equal to... well pretty much anything really.
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Re: FJ's Murrican Politics Megathread 2: So dysfunction. Much Congress. Wow.
« Reply #6275 on: March 27, 2014, 03:03:10 pm »

How do we even still have Rhode Island? Isn't there some rule or something they're violating by now?
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Re: FJ's Murrican Politics Megathread 2: So dysfunction. Much Congress. Wow.
« Reply #6276 on: March 27, 2014, 03:07:36 pm »

What rule would we possibly be violating? Being too awesome?

The better questioning is why we have places like California, which are way, way too big to be a single state.

Also, we're a bigger state than Montana, Delaware, South Dakota, Alaska, North Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming in every way that actually matters. :D
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Re: FJ's Murrican Politics Megathread 2: So dysfunction. Much Congress. Wow.
« Reply #6277 on: March 27, 2014, 03:09:09 pm »

Redking Be nice, that bathtub doesn't desire to have New jersey touch it! Also on topic a lot of our school's foreign students got surprised on independent our states are and how much time it took to cross our state she mentioned she could have went to and from one end of her country and back in the time it took use to go down state.
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Re: FJ's Murrican Politics Megathread 2: So dysfunction. Much Congress. Wow.
« Reply #6278 on: March 27, 2014, 03:26:19 pm »

Why do we keep Canada around?  Shouldn't we have kicked them out of the country already?
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Re: FJ's Murrican Politics Megathread 2: So dysfunction. Much Congress. Wow.
« Reply #6279 on: March 27, 2014, 03:44:02 pm »

* Descan has an aneurysm.
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Re: FJ's Murrican Politics Megathread 2: So dysfunction. Much Congress. Wow.
« Reply #6280 on: March 27, 2014, 03:47:42 pm »

Why do we keep Canada around?  Shouldn't we have kicked them out of the country already?
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Re: FJ's Murrican Politics Megathread 2: So dysfunction. Much Congress. Wow.
« Reply #6283 on: March 27, 2014, 05:48:36 pm »

I'm surprised people live in Canada. Nice apartments above meth labs tend not to do well.

Joking, of course. America's a crack den :P

Now, now, give America credit. We have a wide and diverse drug culture that embraces substance abusers of all types!

(By embrace I mean locks up in prison for long periods of time. Unless you're a celebrity, or rich, of course)
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Re: FJ's Murrican Politics Megathread 2: So dysfunction. Much Congress. Wow.
« Reply #6284 on: March 27, 2014, 05:49:10 pm »

This is why I don't support gun control.

Because an obscure politician I would bet money you have never heard of before today was corrupt?
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