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[Urist McScoopbeard]

(Kerry kinda sucks)

[RedKing]

John Bolton. His temperament is perfectly suited to Trump.

For those of you who don't remember, John Bolton was Undersecreatary of State for Arms Control and International Security during the run-up to the Iraq War. Later, he was ambassador to the UN for 11 months, where mostly he just insulted US allies and called for the dissolution of the UN. He also led the US to pull out of the ICC, the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention, and pushed to reduce funding for the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction program (where we helped Russia dispose of fissile stockpiles and make sure their nuke scientists were getting a decent paycheck so they weren't tempted to go rogue).

[smjjames]

Rick Perry is now OUTTA the race.

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/rick-perry-drops-out-presidential-race-213569 I saw it on CNN, but here's a linkage. It's a short article because it was like 5, 10 min ago that he dropped out.

[Bauglir]

Rick Perry confirmed for candidate with best sense of reality. Give him the nomination.

[smjjames]

I wonder how many more will drop out between now and the 16th, besides Gilmore, who has already been pushed into complete irrelevancy.

In any case, it'll give the others a little more of a chance to try and capture that moment of strength and post-debate boost Fiorina got last time.

Edit: You know, I wonder, if it comes down to two in the first round, will CNN shunt them into the main debate? Unless it's down to Santorum and Jindal, out of those still in the first round, those two probably have the most potential.

[RedKing]

Rick Perry confirmed for candidate with best sense of reality. Give him the nomination.

"We have a tremendous field—the best in a generation—so I step aside knowing our party is in good hands," Perry said

You were saying? 



New CNN poll out showing Clinton's national lead down to just +10 over Sanders, 37-27, *and* showing Clinton tied with Trump and losing to Bush and Carson, while Biden beats Trump and Bush but loses narrowly to Carson. However, this poll needs to be taken with not just a grain of salt, but a whole fucking salt lick.

Looking at the crosstabs, their sample for the Dem polling (259 registered voters who identify Democrat and 136 independents who lean Democrat) was entirely white, entirely urban/suburban, entirely 50+ and entirely college-educated. I'm not even sure how the hell you do that unless you only polled retirement homes for Jews in Florida, or someone just fucked up the reporting.

Needless to say, that's not a representative sample. Though it's interesting to debate whether it's an undercount or overcount for Clinton. Lack of rural and non-college educated Democrats would seem to undercount Clinton's base, but the lack of college-age voters undercounts Sanders' base, while the lack of minorities undercounts Biden's base (see post a few pages back where Biden had overwhelming positives with the African-American community).

Also, their demographic breakdown was as follows:

Democrat: 259 (27.8%)
Independent (Lean D): 136
Independent (no lean): 61 (39.1% for all independents)
Independent (Lean R): 167
Republican: 307 (33%)
Total: 930


According to Gallup from the beginning of this year, the makeup of the US electorate is:
Democrat: 30%
Independent: 43%
Republican: 26%

So there's a statistically significant tilt toward under-representing Democrats and Independents and over-representing Republicans.

[redwallzyl]

possibly relevant.
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/09/11/439563982/nypd-releases-video-of-officer-throwing-tennis-star-james-blake-to-the-ground

[Frumple]

...

You know. I hadn't noticed. But it's apparently looking fairly likely (Though worth note, I haven't done much but run into someone else talking about the subject and decided to skim over the article they used. May be problems with that one, ha.) we're going to have another shutdown within the next month or two. Budgeting issues again, the iran deal, and apparently some lackwits willing to bring the entire system to a halt to defund Planned Parenthood (over a questionable issue the program in question isn't even receiving federal funds for). Plus some other stuff.

That's... just great. Bloody hell. Here we go again.

[Aklyon]

Can't we just fire/impeach/whatever them for conspiring to shutdown the government every year or something?

[Frumple]

... didn't realize you were actually being serious, Isp, or recognize the context. Hadn't noticed some of the rightwing crazies were trying harder than normal to shit on women and parents

[Egan_BW]

If they didn't want to have a government they shouldn't have run for congress.

[Playergamer]

still not sure why congress has to work with the president but the president doesn't have to work with congress. thought that was the reason we don't have a parliamentary government. explain plz.

[RedKing]

still not sure why congress has to work with the president but the president doesn't have to work with congress. thought that was the reason we don't have a parliamentary government. explain plz.

President can't work with something that doesn't fucking work, period.

For all the conservative hand-wringing about abuse of executive orders (and for the record, I don't like the precedent it sets either), they're the ones who set Congress up into permanent gridlock mode. They thought they could make Obama the least effective President ever, and instead they just made themselves the least effective Congress ever.

[FearfulJesuit]

Rick Perry is calling it quits.

[Loud Whispers]

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