Super Tuesday: Clinton, Trump look to pull away from rivals

[NovaBlue05]

Of course mr trump is not the lunatic cnn thinks he is...when he is in combat mode he plays to win....often by creating his own playbook....those chumps cruz, rubio and jebroni never saw him coming. His victory speech was pretty presidential and he put aside the gloves to relax a little.

People seem to think his methods are vile....

Well, muhammad ali used to do the same ....trash talk his opponents and mess with their heads....long before they got into the ring with him.

Hey, I could decimate any of Hillary's butt-breathing neanderthal supporters in any formal debate as long as I'm allowed to shout "racism" any time I don't like what they say.

"Fascist" & "Hitler" would be the other two default go-to's. None of the three have much meaning anymore as they are used so gratuitously that context no longer has a place.

[NeverSure]

I think other posters on here are right. Trump isn't ready to be president. After all, when dealing with China, Mexico, Iran or Putin he'd exercise common sense and walk away from lousy deals. He really needs to do an apprenticeship with Obama first.

[NeverSure]

I wanna know why we're worrying about the falling middle class whose jobs have been exported or taken by illegal immigrants. Why are we talking about the drug cartels coming over the border? Why bother talking about America enriching China at the expense of the middle class?

Why aren't we talking about the really important things that deeply concern the Democrats like converting to solar power?

[lannarebirth]

Several senior Republicans interviewed on BBC Radio 4 Today program. ALL worried about Trump. Could he possibly be stopped? Doomsday scenario is encouraging Republicans to vote Democrat! Astonishing!

That's not a doomsday scenario, that's how government functions best. Sometimes you have to be flexible in your goals. It's the intransigence that leads to doomsday.

[NeverSure]

We all need to engage in the war against crony capitalism by voting for people on their payroll like Hillary.

[Throatwobbler]

-snip- I hope his behaviour has been an act, red meat for the primary voters.

It has been.

So in other words he is acting like every other politician. Yet people on here claim he is different.

[Throatwobbler]

Of course mr trump is not the lunatic cnn thinks he is...when he is in combat mode he plays to win....often by creating his own playbook....those chumps cruz, rubio and jebroni never saw him coming. His victory speech was pretty presidential and he put aside the gloves to relax a little.

People seem to think his methods are vile....

Well, muhammad ali used to do the same ....trash talk his opponents and mess with their heads....long before they got into the ring with him.

Hey, I could decimate any of Hillary's butt-breathing neanderthal supporters in any formal debate as long as I'm allowed to shout "racism" any time I don't like what they say.

The fact that you use butt breathing neanderthal in your post totally proves your vast intellect.

[puukao]

TRUMP will unite the world for a World event!!!! A great World event that will be named with Roman Numerals...

III

All farangs will lose their property and money in Thailand.......

but it will be exciting until it's not exciting

Hillary will put us all asleep for 4 years while planning public speaking events at $400,000 per minute

[lannarebirth]

No one ever tells my why Hillary is better, even after I point out that she is a wholly owned subsidiary of Wall Street. It's as if the reactions are totally emotional but blinded to what she really is.

Trump is the only person running for the office who isn't owned by the Establishment. DC stinks to the rooftops and has destroyed the middle class by exporting jobs to the sole benefit of big corporations. The donor class loves illegal immigration because it drives wages down by overloading the system with workers - workers who work cheap. The middle class has a double whammy of exported jobs and imported illegal workers.

Trump is the only chance we have for the middle class to recover from these things that both parties have been doing for decades. Hillary will keep it up for her donors. She IS Wall Street and big pharma and big corporations. She's in their pockets and they pay her millions for speeches to keep her in their pockets.

The R's current excuse for not wanting Trump to be the nominee is that they are afraid he'd lose to Hillary.

The TRUTH is that they are afraid he'd win and stop their nonsense.

Cheers.

I think the Republicans main concern is that Trump's got no coat tails for their Senate and Congressional race candidates.

[lannarebirth]

The R's are going to do everything they can to deprive Trump of the nomination. They may deprive him at the convention, or at least try. This is especially true if he arrives at the convention without enough delegates to outright win. This is why the Elite aren't pressuring the other 4 candidates to drop out. They hope Trump won't outright win his needed delegates.

We are about to witness the nastiest nomination process we've ever seen, including what will happen in the next two weeks.

The Power Brokers on both sides of the aisle are terrified that they might lose their power and donor class money to Trump. They are not terrified for the people, but for themselves which is why they are there in the first place.

Cheers.

I'll tell you what would be the most fun. Is if the Republicans broker the convention away from Trump and then both he and Sanders run as independents against Hillary and whatever place filler the Republicans come up with.

[JHolmesJr]

Several senior Republicans interviewed on BBC Radio 4 Today program. ALL worried about Trump. Could he possibly be stopped? Doomsday scenario is encouraging Republicans to vote Democrat! Astonishing!

That's not a doomsday scenario, that's how government functions best. Sometimes you have to be flexible in your goals. It's the intransigence that leads to doomsday.

They will cut off their trunks to spite their faces.

[lannarebirth]

Several senior Republicans interviewed on BBC Radio 4 Today program. ALL worried about Trump. Could he possibly be stopped? Doomsday scenario is encouraging Republicans to vote Democrat! Astonishing!

That's not a doomsday scenario, that's how government functions best. Sometimes you have to be flexible in your goals. It's the intransigence that leads to doomsday.

They will cut off their trunks to spite their faces.

I have no doubt but its easier to kill the roaches when they come out into the light.

[lannarebirth]

IAN BREMMER: This is why the world isn’t concerned at all about a President Trump

http://www.businessinsider.com/ian-bremmer-world-leaders-ceo-think-about-potential-president-donald-trump-2016-3

[NeverSure]

Hey, I could decimate any of Hillary's butt-breathing neanderthal supporters in any formal debate as long as I'm allowed to shout "racism" any time I don't like what they say.

The fact that you use butt breathing neanderthal in your post totally proves your vast intellect.

I love personal attacks, and all of those butt breathing neanderthals who "like" them. I always know I'm winning when the plebeians attack me.

[Publicus]

The loser rednecks who support Trump together with the rightwhingers who are wildly enthusiastic about Trump just don't get it as the majority of the Republican party assert that Trump is neither suitable nor is he qualified to be Potus. It's not a matter of whether Trump is a Republican or a Democrat. It is that Benito The Donald is an unknowing menace to himself and a recognised and known menace to the USA and to the world.

As with earlier generations of the 20th century who never knew it either, these particular Americans are lost in their twilight world. Their twilight of the gods and the supposed triumph of will.

USA has never gone to extremes at either end of the political spectrum. The reason is that most Americans are like most of their fellow Angophile world, i.e., centrists of the political and cultural middle; of the center right, the center left and are overall and over the long haul moderate and middle of the road.

The Anglophile world hasn't nor will it ever produce a fascism of any particular kind. We are the ones who have fought and defeated fascism and its extremist kin totalitarian and authoritarian Marxism.

CAN it ever happen otherwise? No. Not as long as we have the vote.

Neither is Hillary Clinton giving speeches to Goldman Sachs nor is Bernie Sanders critising it fascism, nor is it extremist. Donald Trump building walls and closing the United States to Muslims and all the rest of it is exactly a unique American fascism. Even mainstream Republicans know this, recognise it, oppose it in the absolute.

Trump cannot succeed because, well, he is unable to succeed as long as we have the vote. The Anglophone world is centrist so it moves gradually. It is not extremest nor is it wildly unpredictable.

[Linzz]

Now this is interesting. I never knew there were 20,000 intelligent individuals that had ever come out of MA.

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Many Mass. Democrats Switched To Republican Party Ahead Of Super Tuesday

March 1, 2016 11:10 AM By Carl Stevens

BOSTON (CBS) — Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin told WBZ NewsRadio 1030’s Carl Stevens that he’s seen a lot of the state’s registered Democrats leave the party and become unenrolled ahead of the Super Tuesday primary–and that some voters had gone even further.

“In fact, we’ve seen a significant number of people leaving the Democratic party and joining the Republican party,” said Galvin.

Galvin said he is predicting a big Republican turnout at the polls Tuesday.

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2016/03/01/many-mass-democrats-switched-to-republican-party-ahead-of-super-tuesday/

Forget it.

This is what I wrote yesterday to NS at another thread about Trump in a poll and second place when NS made the same similar and like post there as you have done here....do try to keep up plse thx.

Massachusetts Vote Potus 2012

Obama 1.9 million votes = 61%

Romney 1.1 million votes = 38%

Trump needs a complete turnaround of one million votes in Massachusetts in November to win the solid Blue state. That would mean one-third of the total Massachusetts electorate switching over to the enemy. Lemme say it again, Forget It.

Same for the other solid Blue states and Blue leaning states.

Pennsylvania for instance (strongly) leans Blue. Here's the 2012 PA Potus election result:

Obama 2.9 million votes = 52%

Romney 2.6 million votes = 47%.

In PA Trump in November (or any R for Potus) needs to swing 300,000 votes to the R and add another one percent of the PA total electorate for a minimal good margin or measure. That means changing up to 400,000 voters to the other side in PA. That's five percent of the PA total electorate. The mountain here is high.

PA has not voted R for Potus since 1988. When Bill Clinton in 1992 started PA on its current Blue state status, he got 50.6% of the state's vote. Barack Obama in 2012 got 52.0%. This not only is a trend, it is a significant and sustained trend.

The numbers cited in MA don't support a voter reversal in MA. Nor do they suggest a voter revrsal PA. Even if the reversal data of today might be a trend in this election, it is a small and electorally insignificant development. The Trump fanboyz need to recognise Trump or any wildman candidate like him repells the vast moderate and centrist mass of voters who are the middle and who when they are in an unusually broad agreement will blow your guy out.

Many Republicans recognise this. It's the far right that is out there about it; the farther out right fails to recognise it and the fringe wingnuts miss it completely. Think Sen Barry Goldwater in 1964 cause reality is, well, real. Always has been.

Lotta intelligent people in and emergine from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts if I don't mind saying so myself. Taking the one page from your book about it that isn't wrong wrong wrong that's all.

You bring up Sen Barry Goldwater again? I agree he was a liability but Hillary has great admiration for your fringe wingnut as a Goldwater Girl !

http://imgur.com/gallery/QHrZeB0 Actively campaigned to overturn the Civil Rights act 1964

All in the past of course, but you keep bringing up Barry Goldwater who also is well in the past.

As you keep on saying in your superior tone, try to keep up plse thx, oh and since you like to use this smiley a lot, this also is for you

[lannarebirth]

The loser rednecks who support Trump together with the rightwhingers who are wildly enthusiastic about Trump just don't get it as the majority of the Republican party assert that Trump is neither suitable nor is he qualified to be Potus. It's not a matter of whether Trump is a Republican or a Democrat. It is that Benito The Donald is an unknowing menace to himself and a recognised and known menace to the USA and to the world.

As with earlier generations of the 20th century who never knew it either, these particular Americans are lost in their twilight world. Their twilight of the gods and the supposed triumph of will.

USA has never gone to extremes at either end of the political spectrum. The reason is that most Americans are like most of their fellow Angophile world, i.e., centrists of the political and cultural middle; of the center right, the center left and are overall and over the long haul moderate and middle of the road.

The Anglophile world hasn't nor will it ever produce a fascism of any particular kind. We are the ones who have fought and defeated fascism and its extremist kin totalitarian and authoritarian Marxism.

CAN it ever happen otherwise? No. Not as long as we have the vote.

Neither is Hillary Clinton giving speeches to Goldman Sachs nor is Bernie Sanders critising it fascism, nor is it extremist. Donald Trump building walls and closing the United States to Muslims and all the rest of it is exactly a unique American fascism. Even mainstream Republicans know this, recognise it, oppose it in the absolute.

Trump cannot succeed because, well, he is unable to succeed as long as we have the vote. The Anglophone world is centrist so it moves gradually. It is not extremest nor is it wildly unpredictable.

For someone that would appear to live and breath politics, or at least a skewed version of it, you seem pretty naive. Unless you're just being disingenuous, which I don't discount. There's not going to be any wall. Just like Bernie's not going to be giving free college to everyone. Just like Hillary isn't going to ignore the interests of the special interests that have made her rich. Given the amount of time you spend at this I would have thought you'd be less gullible and more discerning.

[Linzz]

"GOLDWATER in your heart you know he's right" thx Hillary

[NeverSure]

The loser rednecks who support Trump together with the rightwhingers who are wildly enthusiastic about Trump just don't get it as the majority of the Republican party assert that Trump is neither suitable nor is he qualified to be Potus. It's not a matter of whether Trump is a Republican or a Democrat. It is that Benito The Donald is an unknowing menace to himself and a recognised and known menace to the USA and to the world.

As with earlier generations of the 20th century who never knew it either, these particular Americans are lost in their twilight world. Their twilight of the gods and the supposed triumph of will.

USA has never gone to extremes at either end of the political spectrum. The reason is that most Americans are like most of their fellow Angophile world, i.e., centrists of the political and cultural middle; of the center right, the center left and are overall and over the long haul moderate and middle of the road.

The Anglophile world hasn't nor will it ever produce a fascism of any particular kind. We are the ones who have fought and defeated fascism and its extremist kin totalitarian and authoritarian Marxism.

CAN it ever happen otherwise? No. Not as long as we have the vote.

Neither is Hillary Clinton giving speeches to Goldman Sachs nor is Bernie Sanders critising it fascism, nor is it extremist. Donald Trump building walls and closing the United States to Muslims and all the rest of it is exactly a unique American fascism. Even mainstream Republicans know this, recognise it, oppose it in the absolute.

Trump cannot succeed because, well, he is unable to succeed as long as we have the vote. The Anglophone world is centrist so it moves gradually. It is not extremest nor is it wildly unpredictable.

People who want middle class jobs:

Are not mainstream.

People who don't like illegal immigration, especially when sanctuary places give them driver's licenses so they can sneak in and vote:

Are not mainstream.

People who are tired of enriching China by shipping them American jobs:

Are not mainstream.

People who think a country should have borders:

Are not mainstream.

People who want to improve the economy by increasing manufacturing in the US:

Are not mainstream.

People who want to put America first:

Are not mainstream.

Mainstream: (I guess)

Giving away your economic future to illegal aliens would be a huge help in reaching Hispanic voters.

I'm doing my best to catch on to all of this but It's not working.

[Throatwobbler]

The loser rednecks who support Trump together with the rightwhingers who are wildly enthusiastic about Trump just don't get it as the majority of the Republican party assert that Trump is neither suitable nor is he qualified to be Potus. It's not a matter of whether Trump is a Republican or a Democrat. It is that Benito The Donald is an unknowing menace to himself and a recognised and known menace to the USA and to the world.

As with earlier generations of the 20th century who never knew it either, these particular Americans are lost in their twilight world. Their twilight of the gods and the supposed triumph of will.

USA has never gone to extremes at either end of the political spectrum. The reason is that most Americans are like most of their fellow Angophile world, i.e., centrists of the political and cultural middle; of the center right, the center left and are overall and over the long haul moderate and middle of the road.

The Anglophile world hasn't nor will it ever produce a fascism of any particular kind. We are the ones who have fought and defeated fascism and its extremist kin totalitarian and authoritarian Marxism.

CAN it ever happen otherwise? No. Not as long as we have the vote.

Neither is Hillary Clinton giving speeches to Goldman Sachs nor is Bernie Sanders critising it fascism, nor is it extremist. Donald Trump building walls and closing the United States to Muslims and all the rest of it is exactly a unique American fascism. Even mainstream Republicans know this, recognise it, oppose it in the absolute.

Trump cannot succeed because, well, he is unable to succeed as long as we have the vote. The Anglophone world is centrist so it moves gradually. It is not extremest nor is it wildly unpredictable.

People who want middle class jobs:

Are not mainstream.

People who don't like illegal immigration, especially when sanctuary places give them driver's licenses so they can sneak in and vote:

Are not mainstream.

People who are tired of enriching China by shipping them American jobs:

Are not mainstream.

People who think a country should have borders:

Are not mainstream.

People who want to improve the economy by increasing manufacturing in the US:

Are not mainstream.

People who want to put America first:

Are not mainstream.

Mainstream: (I guess)

Giving away your economic future to illegal aliens would be a huge help in reaching Hispanic voters.

I'm doing my best to catch on to all of this but It's not working.

yet already Trump is moving his position for November. He is moving mainstream. You posted about this. Who is the fool? The person who say's he is not electable in his current state or the people who support him now but will see him change all his views.

Edit and that is a serious question

[NeverSure]

The loser rednecks who support Trump together with the rightwhingers who are wildly enthusiastic about Trump just don't get it as the majority of the Republican party assert that Trump is neither suitable nor is he qualified to be Potus. It's not a matter of whether Trump is a Republican or a Democrat. It is that Benito The Donald is an unknowing menace to himself and a recognised and known menace to the USA and to the world.

As with earlier generations of the 20th century who never knew it either, these particular Americans are lost in their twilight world. Their twilight of the gods and the supposed triumph of will.

USA has never gone to extremes at either end of the political spectrum. The reason is that most Americans are like most of their fellow Angophile world, i.e., centrists of the political and cultural middle; of the center right, the center left and are overall and over the long haul moderate and middle of the road.

The Anglophile world hasn't nor will it ever produce a fascism of any particular kind. We are the ones who have fought and defeated fascism and its extremist kin totalitarian and authoritarian Marxism.

CAN it ever happen otherwise? No. Not as long as we have the vote.

Neither is Hillary Clinton giving speeches to Goldman Sachs nor is Bernie Sanders critising it fascism, nor is it extremist. Donald Trump building walls and closing the United States to Muslims and all the rest of it is exactly a unique American fascism. Even mainstream Republicans know this, recognise it, oppose it in the absolute.

Trump cannot succeed because, well, he is unable to succeed as long as we have the vote. The Anglophone world is centrist so it moves gradually. It is not extremest nor is it wildly unpredictable.

People who want middle class jobs:

Are not mainstream.

People who don't like illegal immigration, especially when sanctuary places give them driver's licenses so they can sneak in and vote:

Are not mainstream.

People who are tired of enriching China by shipping them American jobs:

Are not mainstream.

People who think a country should have borders:

Are not mainstream.

People who want to improve the economy by increasing manufacturing in the US:

Are not mainstream.

People who want to put America first:

Are not mainstream.

Mainstream: (I guess)

Giving away your economic future to illegal aliens would be a huge help in reaching Hispanic voters.

I'm doing my best to catch on to all of this but It's not working.

yet already Trump is moving his position for November. He is moving mainstream. You posted about this. Who is the fool? The person who say's he is not electable in his current state or the people who support him now but will see him change all his views.

Edit and that is a serious question

I said what? I don't recall and never thought he'd change his positions. I do recall saying that his shtick right now is for breaking through the establishment. That's a tall order and they are fighting him.

I do recall saying that if elected he would revert to his normal management style which is calm, deliberate and organized. He wouldn't carry this act into the White House.

He's simply doing what he has to do to get noticed. He's fighting not only Democrats but also the Republican power brokers who don't want him to take their candy store from them.

Cheers.

[Jingthing]

That's your theory anyway.

[keemapoot]

^^Yeah, interesting theory. You can behave outrageously like an older version of Charlie Sheen, but deep down inside you're really a thoughtful person. You can initially run on batsh*t platform, and then later you will amend that to be a prudent, thoughtful and benign leader of the free world.

[Jingthing]

Christie could be a good VP. First sell the bridge and then block traffic on it.

[NeverSure]

^^^ "Some people" haven't been watching Trump navigate the international business world while maintaining relationships with city halls, governments, contractors... He didn't do that by being extremely hyper. He's actually quite well liked in the business community.

NOW. Why don't we get back to discussing the really important things? You know, the things that give Democrats a big "O" like using ethanol or eating organic?

[NeverSure]

Topic: Clinton - Trump to pull away from rivals. Well, here is what the Dems have to figure out how to handle. Record turnouts for R's.

[keemapoot]

I've watched Trump navigate the business world. First of all, he's hardly an "international," businessman. He's done a few international deals mostly in Anglophile countries, but as someone who's spent his entire life doing global business at high levels I know something about this. He's one of those typical American NY guys you bring into a foreign deal and walks in like a bull in a china shop, and the entire room of experienced global dealmakers let out a collective groan.

He's a New York swingin dick, period. Nothing more. A master at media manipulation. A graduate level Tony Robbins persona.

Whatever substance he has in terms of character required to be President, he will hire that. Whatever intellectual rigor it takes to study and master policy issues, he will fake it.

[Jingthing]

So what? Lots of competition on the republican side. The dynamics will be very different in the general. Probably heavy turnout both sides favoring President Hillary.

[NovaBlue05]

So what? Lots of competition on the republican side. The dynamics will be very different in the general. Probably heavy turnout both sides favoring President Hillary.

Hillary won't inspire democrat voters to rush to the polls in greater numbers. Trump might though

[boomerangutang]

No one ever tells my why Hillary is better,....

Ummm, let me think. She's better because she doesn't consider everyone with less money as losers. She knows how to effectively deal with foreign leaders. Foreign leaders like Clinton, they don't like Trump. Heck, Trump can't even get along with the Pope, for kirssakes. She's not beholden to the Koch brothers, as all Republicans are. Yes, the same Koch brothers who bring in $13 million a day from their inherited oil biz and spend much of that money to own right-wing politicians like Trump. What's that you say? Trump is so rich, he can't be bought? Well then why is he repeating the Koch brother's anti-poor people, anti-environment, anti-immigrant, anti-minimum wage rhetoric word for word? Maybe it's just coincidence.

-snip- I hope his behaviour has been an act, red meat for the primary voters.

It has been.

So Trump's temper tantrums have been an act? It's not the real Trump? Great, we're seeing an actor and we'll just have to wait and see the real person, if he's elected, as president. Will he be more of a hot-head quick-to-anger, quick-to-name-calling immature bully when in office? Or less so? Regardless, his act is working. It's garnering votes. Come to think of it, Hitler garnered votes also, in the early days at raucous beer halls. They loved guns also (see below).

So what has been the benefit of Obama selling guns to the Mexican Cartels and the forerunner of ISIS?

Many of the Mexican cartels' guns are as easy to get as crossing the border in to a US city like San Antonio, where there are giant gun shows where anyone can buy a military-type gun by just slapping the cash down on the table. It's Republican rednecks who keep the military weapons biz going - enabling any punk in North America to get automatic weapons and use them however they want. Cruz, Rubio and Trump love those guys. They're their base supporters.