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Ted Cruz

7 (6.5%)

Rick Santorum

16 (14.8%)

Michelle Bachmann

13 (12%)

Chris Christie

23 (21.3%)

Rand Paul

49 (45.4%)

Total Members Voted: 107

[misko27]

Didn't I make a post earlier about NY electoral fusion? Jesus, Help me, I'm losing it.


Err, Okay. The NY system is one where, if a candidate is supported by multiple parties, you can still vote for the candidate while supporting the other party, for example the Working Families party over the Democrats,  hence not "wasting" your vote. This only applies if the candidate was endorsed of course. It's important for debates and government funding and such.


The US likely  will retain a 2 party system for as long as both parties remain strong. Of course, if the GOP starts buckling, and the libertarians nip their heels enough, the ideological strength of the democratic party will collapse, leading to multiple parties vying for influence. Which is apparently better some how? I don't know. At leas the US government doesn't collapse.

[Pnx]

The US also occasionally manages to get an independent/third party person elected... It's really rare though, larger electorates are harder to sway into it, and the gerrymandering and electoral district system only makes things far worse.

[Jervill]

The only party I know of (I could be wrong) that holds seats at a state level is the Vermont Progressive Party, that holds a couple of state house & state senate seats in Vermont only.

[GlyphGryph]

there's quite a few indeps around. The Green party has had some success in Maine.

[FearfulJesuit]

The rest of the world may be having a holiday 'cuz they're damn commies, but I'm happy to report that Washington is hard at work. 

[Sheb]

Larry Flint, wheelchair-pimper and porn mogul, endorsed Mark Sanford for "exposing the hypocrisy of traditional sexual values and putting sex in front of the agenda".

[kaijyuu]

Ah yes, I've heard a bit about that governor since moving to South Carolina.

[misko27]

The Second test of the gun issue is upon us, unfortunately. Now we see if republicans can be pressured by their own constiuents, and politics have zeroed in on the life of Kelly Ayotte.

Larry Flint, wheelchair-pimper and porn mogul endorced Mark Sanford for "exposing the hypocrisy of traditionnal sexual values and putting sex in front of the agenda".

This sentence is possibly the least understandable I have seen yet on bay12.

[FearfulJesuit]

Remember when I accidentally an article about Ted Cruz in Portuguese about a month or so ago? É voltado. But where's the birth certificate?

More general article on his possible 2016 run. I'd love to see a showdown of, say, Cruz/Santorum vs. Warren/Schweitzer. It would be hilarious. Though what's frightening is that while Cruz is a firebrand and a partisan, he isn't a lunatic- he's smart, young, dedicated. His biggest flaw in an election would be his tendency to make enemies, not looking out-of-touch.

[misko27]

Remember when I accidentally an article about Ted Cruz in Portuguese about a month or so ago? É voltado. But where's the birth certificate?

More general article on his possible 2016 run. I'd love to see a showdown of, say, Cruz/Santorum vs. Warren/Schweitzer. It would be hilarious. Though what's frightening is that while Cruz is a firebrand and a partisan, he isn't a lunatic- he's smart, young, dedicated. His biggest flaw in an election would be his tendency to make enemies, not looking out-of-touch.

I have to disagree with that. He once stopped a resolution passing through the senate (one of those really small ones, recognizing a week as autism week or something, the ones where they just pass is through a unanimity-form unless someone dissents) which commemorated Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week, on the grounds he wanted to review its language.

[FearfulJesuit]

Remember when I accidentally an article about Ted Cruz in Portuguese about a month or so ago? É voltado. But where's the birth certificate?

More general article on his possible 2016 run. I'd love to see a showdown of, say, Cruz/Santorum vs. Warren/Schweitzer. It would be hilarious. Though what's frightening is that while Cruz is a firebrand and a partisan, he isn't a lunatic- he's smart, young, dedicated. His biggest flaw in an election would be his tendency to make enemies, not looking out-of-touch.

I have to disagree with that. He once stopped a resolution passing through the senate (one of those really small ones, recognizing a week as autism week or something, the ones where they just pass is through a unanimity-form unless someone dissents) which commemorated Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week, on the grounds he wanted to review its language.

I'll have to send a check to his campaign fund, it looks like. Wow.

[misko27]

Oh, and he was born in Canada, which means he is likely therefore not a natural-born citizen.


Fucking Canada, exporting their loonies.

[Moghjubar]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/03/world/meast/israel-airstrike-syria/index.html

Hoy boy.  Expecting a very active next week.

Also... CNN.... sigh. "The United States believes Israel has conducted an airstrike into Syria" .... " the U.S. does not believe Israeli warplanes entered Syrian airspace to conduct the strikes".... so Israel shoots missiles into Syria, got it.

[MaximumZero]

Oh, and he was born in Canada, which means he is likely therefore not a natural-born citizen.


Fucking Canada, exporting their loonies.

Hey, don't knock the loony. According to XE.com, Canada's money is actually almost perfectly interchangeable with ours.

[Descan]

And ours is metal.

HEAVY METAL!

* Descan does a wicked guitar riff.

No, seriously. Don't eat our money. Shit's deadly, yo.