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

[lannarebirth]

This is what a typical Clinton corporate tie looks like, with the typical outcome:

http://www.businessinsider.com/clinton-futures-scandal-still-relevant-today-2016-2

[NeverSure]

Hillary is winning all of the states where Democrats usually lose. Sanders is doing best in states that are traditional D states. This doesn't bode well for Hillary.

Voting today in these certain states is about each party, not the general election in November.

Each political party in each state is deciding who shall be its respective nominee.

We can talk on Sept 1 about each person who is nominated by each party.

For example, Alabama is a solid Red state but Democrats in Alabama are participating in who shall be nominated at the national convention in August in Philadelphia for Potus.

The Democratic party is whole, the Republican party is fracturing and shattering. Sayonara.

GOP RIP.

We're taking our country back. Trump is expanding the party with new voters and some of them are traditional D's like union workers. He's about jobs, jobs, jobs. That means stopping illegal immigration and illegal workers who drag down wages while taking jobs. That means dealing with people who ship jobs to China and Mexico and making it so that isn't worth it. We have no excuse for enriching China at American worker's expense.

Just don't get trampled while you aren't paying attention.

Cheers.

[Steely Dan]

I think Clinton should use the old Don Henley track Dirty laundry as her campaign music against Trump, it will be wonderfully appropriate considering what's lurking in her closet.

[NeverSure]

It must be very confusing to D's how Trump is crushing his competition. After all, his followers are just a few redneck trolls.

[keemapoot]

I think Clinton should use the old Don Henley track Dirty laundry as her campaign music against Trump, it will be wonderfully appropriate considering what's lurking in her closet.

I really can't recall two more unlikable front runners in any presidential race. Hilary: self-serving, entitled, opportunistic, insincere highly un-charismatic but competent, but may be undone by her nefarious deeds. Trump: just plain bizarre and highly risky.

Both leave a bad taste in the mouth, but at least Trump has started the proper dismantling of the GOP that would hopefully result in a transformation into something noble again. Hilary is pure establishment, and at least is predictable.

[grumpyoldman]

Hillary is winning all of the states where Democrats usually lose. Sanders is doing best in states that are traditional D states. This doesn't bode well for Hillary.

Voting today in these certain states is about each party, not the general election in November.

Each political party in each state is deciding who shall be its respective nominee.

We can talk on Sept 1 about each person who is nominated by each party.

For example, Alabama is a solid Red state but Democrats in Alabama are participating in who shall be nominated at the national convention in August in Philadelphia for Potus.

The Democratic party is whole, the Republican party is fracturing and shattering. Sayonara.

GOP RIP.

We're taking our country back. Trump is expanding the party with new voters and some of them are traditional D's like union workers. He's about jobs, jobs, jobs. That means stopping illegal immigration and illegal workers who drag down wages while taking jobs. That means dealing with people who ship jobs to China and Mexico and making it so that isn't worth it. We have no excuse for enriching China at American worker's expense.

Just don't get trampled while you aren't paying attention.

Cheers.

"Taking our country back", yes, tha'ts correct, backwards.

Last time GOP was in and the topic of shipping jobs overseas?

"WASHINGTON — The movement of American factory jobs and white-collar work to other countries is part of a positive transformation that will enrich the U.S. economy over time, even if it causes short-term pain and dislocation, the Bush administration said Monday."

Sure, just what America needs another round of GOP goofs.

[webfact]

It's a Super Tuesday for Clinton and Trump
By JULIE PACE and JILL COLVIN

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton swept through the South on Super Tuesday, claiming victory in their parties' primaries in delegate-rich Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama and Virginia. The front-runners appeared ever more likely to end up in a general election showdown.

On the Republican side, Ted Cruz won his home state of Texas, the night's single biggest prize, as well as neighboring Oklahoma. Democrat Bernie Sanders picked up a home-state win as well, in Vermont, and won in Oklahoma, too.

Still, the night belonged to Trump and Clinton, who turned the busiest day of the 2016 primaries into a showcase of their strength with a wide swath of American voters.

Signaling her confidence, Clinton set her sights on Trump as she addressed supporters during a victory rally.

"It's clear tonight that the stakes in this election have never been higher and the rhetoric we're hearing on the other side has never been lower," she said.

Trump, too, had his eye on a general election match-up with the former secretary of state, casting her as part of a political establishment that has failed Americans.

"She's been there for so long," Trump said at his swanky Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. "If she hasn't straightened it out by now, she's not going to straighten it out in the next four years."

Trump's dominance has rattled Republican leaders, who fear he's unelectable against Clinton in November. Even as Trump professed to have good relationships with his party's elite, he issued a warning to House Speaker Paul Ryan, who declared earlier in the day that "this party does not prey on people's prejudices." Trump said that if the two don't get along, "he's going to have to pay a big price."

But all efforts to stop Trump have failed, including an aggressive campaign by Florida Sen. Marco Rubio to discredit the billionaire businessman.

For Rubio, Super Tuesday turned into a bitter disappointment. While many Republican officeholders have rallied around him in recent days, his first victory remained elusive.

With an eye on Florida's March 15 primary, Rubio vowed to keep up efforts to "unmask the true nature of the front-runner in this race."

Cruz desperately needed his win in Texas in order to stay in the race. He's the only Republican to beat Trump this primary season, a fact he wielded as he called on Rubio and other candidates to step aside.

"I ask you to prayerfully consider our coming together, united," Cruz said.

With results still coming in, Trump had won at least 139 Super Tuesday delegates, while Cruz picked up at least 52. Overall, Trump leads the Republican field with 221.

Sanders' wins did little to help him make up ground in his delegate race with Clinton. She was assured of winning at least 334 of the 865 at stake on Super Tuesday. That's compared to Sanders, who had at least 145 delegates.

Clinton also picked up wins in Arkansas, and Texas, while Trump carried the GOP contests in Arkansas and Massachusetts.

Trump's wins in the South were a major blow to Cruz, who once saw the region as his opportunity to stake a claim to the nomination. Instead, he's watched Trump, a brash New York real estate mogul, display surprising strength with evangelical Christians and social conservatives.

Republicans spent months largely letting Trump go unchallenged, wrongly assuming his populist appeal would fizzle. Instead, he's appeared to grow stronger, drawing broad support for some of his most controversial proposals.

In six of the states on Tuesday, large majorities of Republican voters said they supported a proposal to temporarily ban all non-citizen Muslims from entering the United States, an idea championed by Trump. Nine in 10 of Trump's voters were looking for an outsider, and half were angry with the government, according to exit polls conducted by Edison Research for The Associated Press and television networks.

In the Democratic race, Clinton has steadied herself after an unexpectedly strong early challenge from Sanders. The Vermont senator did carry his home state decisively, and told the crowd at a raucous victory party that he was "so proud to bring Vermont values all across this country."

Sanders, who has energized supporters with his calls for a "political revolution," has struggled to expand his base beyond young people and liberals. His weakness with black voters, a core part of the Democratic constituency, was underscored anew.

Clinton was supported by at least 80 percent of black voters in Alabama, Arkansas, Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee and Texas. She was also bolstered by women and older voters.

More than 90 percent of Clinton's voters wanted an insider, according to exit polls, and nearly half said experience was the top quality they were looking for in a candidate.
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Colvin reported from Palm Beach, Florida. AP writers Julie Bykowicz in Washington and Ken Thomas in Burlington, Vermont, contributed to this report.


-- (c) Associated Press 2016-03-02

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Bernie Sanders wins the Democratic presidential caucuses in Colorado.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Marco Rubio wins the Republican presidential caucuses in Minnesota.

[webfact]

Viewer's Guide: After Super Tuesday, cold hard delegate math
By NANCY BENAC

WASHINGTON (AP) — Presidential candidates will wake up Wednesday morning to the cold, hard truth of delegate math. It might give the front-runners some breathing room, but for the rest of the field the truth may hurt.

What to watch for on the day after Super Tuesday doles out a quarter of all the delegates at stake in the GOP and Democratic nominating contests:

THE TALLY: With 12 states awarding delegates, see how the delegate totals stack up when the dust settles.

With results in some states still in flux, Donald Trump had won at least 139 Super Tuesday delegates and Ted Cruz at least 52. Marco Rubio had won at least 25 delegates, John Kasich 13 and Ben Carson two. There were 595 GOP delegates at stake in 11 states.

Overall, Trump led with 221 delegates, Cruz 69, Rubio, 41. It takes 1,237 delegates to win the Republican nomination for president.

On the Democratic side, Clinton was assured of winning at least 334 of the 865 delegates at stake on Super Tuesday. Sanders was sure to get at least 145. Including superdelegates, Clinton had at least 882 delegates. Sanders had at least 232. It takes 2,383 Democratic delegates to win.

GENERALLY SPEAKING: Watch how front-runners Clinton and Trump position themselves going forward. Do they focus more on their primary election rivals or pivot toward an anticipated general election matchup? Trump said Tuesday night that if Clinton hadn't straightened out Washington by now "she isn't going to straighten it out in the next four years." Clinton, in turn, criticized what she called the angry, divisive rhetoric from the Republican front-runner, though she did not name him.

The B-WORD: Trump's strong showing could generate fresh talk about the possibility of a brokered convention from Republicans who just can't get on board with the idea of Trump as the eventual GOP nominee.

RUBIO'S ROAD: Rubio's itinerary reflects his priorities. He campaigns Wednesday in Michigan, which votes March 8. And he's already putting big effort into his home state of Florida, which votes with a number of winner-take-all-delegates states on March 15. Early voting already has started in Florida, and Rubio has been unequivocal about its importance to him, saying: "We're going to win Florida. Florida is not going to vote for a con artist like Donald Trump."

CRUZ'S COURSE: Watch for a more aggressive Cruz, rejuvenated by victories in his home state of Texas and neighboring Oklahoma. Stressing that he's the only candidate with victories over Trump so far, Cruz on Tuesday night urged the other GOP candidates to "prayerfully consider coming together" and uniting against Trump. Translation: get out of the race.

GOP SOUL-SEARCHING: Keep an eye on how the GOP establishment does — or doesn't — reconcile itself to Trump. In the run-up to Tuesday's mega-round of voting, some establishment figures were vowing they'd never, ever support Trump; others were reluctantly pledging to fall in line behind the eventual nominee, whoever it is.

AM NOT, DID TOO: The rhetoric in the GOP race took a turn for the worse before Super Tuesday, featuring a series of taunts between Trump and Rubio about potential pants-wetting, bad spray tans and overactive sweat glands. Do the candidates elevate the conversation once Tuesday's big vote is past?

SANDERS' STAND: Sanders, looking for someplace to shine after wins in Oklahoma and his home state of Vermont, planned to talk strategy over breakfast Wednesday before campaigning in Maine and Michigan, where he hopes his populist message will resonate with union and blue-collar voters.

ENTHUSIASM GAP? Check out final turnout figures from Tuesday. The first two primary states to vote — New Hampshire and South Carolina — turned out record numbers of Republican, but not Democratic, voters. If that trend continues, it could have implications for the general election.

AIR WARS: Expect to see lots of Trump thumping in the next two weeks. Ahead of Super Tuesday, anti-Trump ads outnumbered pro-Trump commercials nearly 3-to-1. That ratio is likely to grow. Three outside groups, Our Principles, American Future Fund and Club for Growth, have laid plans for millions of dollars in new Trump attack ads. Conservative Solutions, a super political action committee backing Rubio - and blasting Trump -- has reserved $6 million of ad time for in the soon-to-vote states of Michigan, Illinois, Missouri and Florida. On the Democratic side, Clinton and Sanders both continue their campaign advertising. From the looks of the ad reservations, Sanders is betting big on Michigan, spending more than two-thirds of future ad money there,
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Associated Press writer Julie Bykowicz contributed to this report.


-- (c) Associated Press 2016-03-02

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Bernie Sanders wins the Democratic presidential caucuses in Minnesota.

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Hillary Clinton wins the Democratic presidential primary in Massachusetts.

[Chicog]

Trump would of had a harder time against Bernie. He will eat hillary alive.

Eating her alive is probably his best bet.

[Chicog]

Clinton is 965-317 on delegates.

Trump has almost twice as many delegates as the rest put together.

The RNC must be apoplectic.

[keemapoot]

Trump would of had a harder time against Bernie. He will eat hillary alive.

Eating her alive is probably his best bet.

I'm not sure that is possible in one sitting.

[pedro01]

WASHINGTON (AP) - Bernie Sanders wins the Democratic presidential caucuses in Colorado.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Marco Rubio wins the Republican presidential caucuses in Minnesota.

Still no AP announcement about Trump wins? PMSL....

[NeverSure]

Here is Trump's press conference tonight, if anyone wants to see the real Donald Trump. Start at 49:30.

[NeverSure]

We're taking our country back. Trump is expanding the party with new voters and some of them are traditional D's like union workers. He's about jobs, jobs, jobs. That means stopping illegal immigration and illegal workers who drag down wages while taking jobs. That means dealing with people who ship jobs to China and Mexico and making it so that isn't worth it. We have no excuse for enriching China at American worker's expense.

Just don't get trampled while you aren't paying attention.

Cheers.

"Taking our country back", yes, tha'ts correct, backwards.

Last time GOP was in and the topic of shipping jobs overseas?

"WASHINGTON — The movement of American factory jobs and white-collar work to other countries is part of a positive transformation that will enrich the U.S. economy over time, even if it causes short-term pain and dislocation, the Bush administration said Monday."

Sure, just what America needs another round of GOP goofs.

I don't know anyone who approves of either party for the past few decades. Both parties, when in office, have shipped our jobs overseas. Bill Clinton signed the worst trade deal in history. GW was no better. It started decades before that.

No leader and no party has stood up to this job loss or to illegal immigration which affects jobs for Americans. NO ONE.

Watch the video of Trump's press conference right after the primaries tonight - just finished. Start at 49:30. The guy is completely serious, candid, answering questions, and relaxed with himself.

Cheers.

[Publicus]

We really are watching the meltdown and disintegration of the GOP. It's about damn time. Now, we need to dismantle the Dems too.

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/analysis-super-tuesday-bringing-super-meltdown-republican-party-203036054.html

Radical stuff, smashing both political parties simultaneously.

So let's slow down a bit on the Democratic side. There's plenty of life left in the ol' gal yet...oldest continuous political party in the US. Twenty years older than the Republican gone old party.

R Sen Linsey Graham of SC got it right the other day: "My party has gone batshit crazy."

This will bring on a hail of bash Hillary posts at the threads for the next six hours but that happens anyway so here goes....

'My party has gone bats--- crazy': GOP lawmakers are freaked out about Trump

Fear and loathing is striking congressional Republicans faced with the distinct possibility of Donald Trump as their presidential nominee.

"My party has gone batshit crazy," says South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, who called Trump a "nut job" and maintains that the billionaire businessman would inflict as much damage to the GOP as the iceberg did to the Titanic.

Republicans share a palpable fear that Trump would alienate Hispanics, minorities, independents and women, driving them to vote Democratic in November and costing the GOP the presidency, its Senate majority and suddenly competitive House seats. With the death of Justice Antonin Scalia, the ideological balance of the Supreme Court for decades also is at stake.

http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-fear-and-loathing-over-trump-among-gop-in-congress-2016-2

Sixty-six percent of Trump voters believe President Obama is a Muslim. Sixty percent of Trump supporters believe Barack Obama was born outside the United States. Ninety-nine percent of Trump supporters are lunatics (that one is my own stat ).

GOP RIP.

[keemapoot]

^I hear ya, and for sure the GOP has gone totally batsh*t and the dems less so, but truly the Dems have become the party of sleight of hand for the disadvantaged. The dems really need to do some soul searching.

Unfortunately, Clinton will likely emerge as our next President, and as I said, at least she is competent, and will surround herself with the best, including hubby. The Dems should use this opportunity to watch what has happened as an opportunity to do some change management of their own. It really needs to be the wake up call, and if they don't get it, they will also descend into chaos.

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Donald Trump wins the Republican presidential primary in Vermont.

[NeverSure]

Hillary is winning all of the states where Democrats usually lose. Sanders is doing best in states that are traditional D states. This doesn't bode well for Hillary.

Voting today in these certain states is about each party, not the general election in November.

Each political party in each state is deciding who shall be its respective nominee.

We can talk on Sept 1 about each person who is nominated by each party.

For example, Alabama is a solid Red state but Democrats in Alabama are participating in who shall be nominated at the national convention in August in Philadelphia for Potus.

The Democratic party is whole, the Republican party is fracturing and shattering. Sayonara.

GOP RIP.

This is big. Hillary didn't win one single state tonight that Dems typically win in the general. They are blue states. Bernie won them.

That's strong evidence that there's no loyalty or excitement toward Hillary in traditional Democrat strongholds. Those people will sit on their butts in the general and yawn while the R's continue to draw record crowds.

This is fatal for the Dems. Voter apathy from the Dems coupled with record determination by the R's is disaster for the Dems.

Cheers.

[mopar71]

This is what a typical Clinton corporate tie looks like, with the typical outcome:

http://www.businessinsider.com/clinton-futures-scandal-still-relevant-today-2016-2

They got this part partially wrong...

"Today, we tend to dismiss these scandals as irrelevant because they mostly involved sex, were exaggerated by partisan Republicans and were mostly related to actions taken by Bill Clinton, ..."

Bill's scandals involved sex, everything else involved Hillary; those cattle futures, Vince Foster, Travelgate, secret Hillarycare meetings, etc.

Hillary's shadiness pre-dates Benghazi and emails by decades. So I think it is a good idea to educate the young and forgetful older people of ALL her past scandals.

[boomerangutang]

Exit polls for the R's are saying that people want an outsider.

That's code for they want to stop illegal immigration.

That's your code, maybe. What Reps say is they don't want a Washington which stymied by lack of action, yet it is their Republican congressmen who are always dragging their feet. Question: if Republicans hate all politicians, what about the politicians they elect to congress? Do they hate them also?

Trump would of had a harder time against Bernie. He will eat hillary alive.

Wrong. Whichever Dem candidate wins the nomination will take the lion's share of the others' votes with him/her. Very few, if any Dems will vote for Trump in November. Dems may be a bit self-loathing, but they're not masochists. They don't want to see their country go to the dogs, as it would with any of the Republican contenders.

It must be very confusing to D's how Trump is crushing his competition. After all, his followers are just a few redneck trolls.

Trump is only winning among Republicans. Democrats are voting for Democrats. The Republicans (mostly their sage elders) are having conniption fits because the choices are so poor - not 'poor' in lacking money, but poor in wisdom, and policies that will improve the USA.

[mopar71]

Voter apathy from the Dems coupled with record determination by the R's is disaster for the Dems.

We can expect to hear that a lot on Nov 9th.

[Publicus]

Amazing over time how certain people just crank it out.

It's all about quantity to 'em.

[boomerangutang]

Just got a letter from Bernie. He says besides VT, they also won OK, CO and MN ! Feel the Bern.

Oh, and the Sanders campaign raised over $40 million last month. All of that from individuals and small contributions. None of that from PACS or large corps. He's not in anyone's pocket.

[mopar71]

Trump is only winning among Republicans. Democrats are voting for Democrats.

In some states you are only allowed to vote for the nominee of your party. In others you are allowed to vote for any candidate.

http://www.fairvote.org/primaries#open_and_closed_primaries

[boomerangutang]

All the Trump supporters are sounding a lot like the Romney supporters of 4 years ago. And they're the same folks. Remember? All were sure Romney would sweep to victory. Sorry guys. Hope you enjoy the champagne, but it's going to be another rout by Dems in November. I guess you'll have to wait another four years, to 2020, to rally around yet another Republican loser.

[boomerangutang]

Trump is only winning among Republicans. Democrats are voting for Democrats.

In some states you are only allowed to vote for the nominee of your party. In others you are allowed to vote for any candidate.

http://www.fairvote.org/primaries#open_and_closed_primaries

My missive still holds true.

[Pinot]

It must be very confusing to D's how Trump is crushing his competition. After all, his followers are just a few redneck trolls.

Not surprising in the least. The Republican base is racist, xenophobic and doesn't want government to do anything. The perfect candidate is Donald Trump. His hate speech is music to wingnut ears.

Go Drumpf!