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

[NeverSure]

Trump's hostile (and sarcastic) takeover of the republican party almost done.

He's shown his cards now though.

The democrats are ready.

As Trump said to Hillary: "You've been around DC for a long time. What makes you think your ideas are suddenly going to start working?"

[NovaBlue05]

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.

Trump's an Independent and a nightmare come true for the GOP

[NovaBlue05]

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?

Partisan Republican voters are the same as Democrat voters. They hate Congress but think the problem is the representatives from the other 49 states

[CWMcMurray]

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!

Protect the political establishment at all costs!!!

[boomerangutang]

I have to say, I think the West has been sold a bill of goods on the free trade deals. US

corporations closing production lines moving then to Mexico and China and importing

the products back tariff free helps the workers in China and Mexico and the US businesses.

Yes it makes for lower prices in the US but with no jobs there is only short term benefit.

Corporations make off like bandits, the middle class, not so much. Go Trump.

Trump has already declared he will instate an added 25% tariff on all goods made by American companies which are manufactured outside the US - intended to enter the US. If that happens, cost-of-living will zoom up for Americans, and many US corporations will be in deep doo doo.

Trump's hostile (and sarcastic) takeover of the republican party almost done.

He's shown his cards now though.

The democrats are ready.

Trump has a lot more cards to show. Most cards, he won't show himself. Indeed, he'll try to hide them, but they'll fall to the floor, face up. Trump is a mini-disaster each week (alienating the Pope, offending Mexicans, Lying about meeting Putin, offending Muslim-Americans, Lying about not knowing who David Duke is, ....about not knowing who the KKK are, .....). And that's just the surface. Wait until the campaign gets going with the 2 party reps. Trump will be making excuses each morning, for the smutty revelations from the night before. Unusual entertainment, but I'm enjoying it. Trump likes to play dirty and is used to being the only player who can out-shout all the others. Well, we'll see if he can continue to out-shout everyone when the race really gets going.

[CWMcMurray]

Congratulations to the first woman president of the USA -- Hillary Rodham Clinton.

It was a historically good day for her.

She's well on her way towards being nominated against worthy and honorable opponent Bernie Sanders.

Sure the vast majority of Sanders supportes will be on board with HRC in general.

Why?

Well, overwhelming enthusiasm, not so much, but there will be massive enthusiasm to block the apparent republican nominee, the distressingly dangerous psychopathic demagogue, Donald (Trumpf) Trump.

The general election starts today.

It's the sensible and solid ship of state Clinton vs. the Somali pirate ship, the Donald.

I personally disagree.. I would definitely vote Bernie but never Hillary

Rather have an a loud mouth who will try to rage against the normal power brokers than Hillary

The reality is that not afraid of a Trump presidency , as seems both Democrat and Republican congress members dislike him equally

So not likely will have too much happen in his Presidency

[boomerangutang]

Memo to Republican senator Lindsay Graham. You got your tenses wrong. The Republican Party isn't going batshit crazy, it's already gone batshit crazy. Take a long look at Trump's photo. That's who Republicans have voted for. There were a dozen contenders, most of whom were right-of-center and able speakers, yet your constituents have picked Trump to be their standard bearer. Republicans are like a lonely guy who finds an Aladin's Lamp. He gets one wish. He wishes for a chick with very big tits. She appears and her mammaries are so large they smother the guy to death.

[NeverSure]

Trump supporters like to dream that Trump has mass appeal even though anyone should see that his record viewers for debates, record turnouts for his speeches, and his record numbers of voters at the polls prove that everyone hates him.

Cheers.

[NovaBlue05]

Lindsey Graham is a career politician who, thanks to his seniority, has a place on all the right Committees. Like the other dozen or so in each party that hold "leadership" positions, he is a loyal commodity to the Oligarchs. Why would he want anything other than the status quo?

[NeverSure]

The supporters of the status quo in DC on either side of the aisle must be numbly unaware that this status quo has been frittering away their grandchildren's futures. We've had these same insiders for decades and all they've done is destroy the middle class, run up debt and start wars all over the globe. No wonder Wall Street donors support them. The rich including the Clintons get richer and their suckers just keep voting for them.

Just look how hard the big money insiders are fighting for their candidates, on both sides.

[boomerangutang]

The supporters of the status quo in DC on either side of the aisle must be numbly unaware that this status quo has been frittering away their grandchildren's futures. We've had these same insiders for decades and all they've done is destroy the middle class, run up debt and start wars all over the globe. No wonder Wall Street donors support them. The rich including the Clintons get richer and their suckers just keep voting for them.

Just look how hard the big money insiders are fighting for their candidates, on both sides.

Considering that there's some truth in what you wrote, above, do you think Trump would be better? From what I've heard him declare, and from his management style, I venture that Trump would be woefully worse. Just because he appears different, doesn't mean he would be better. He would still be anti-science, with a maturity level of a bratty 5-year-old. You might like some of his proposals now, but what about some future proposals you may not like? If he knew how to deal with Congress, he would make proposals, lobby and try to get them voted through. But someone like Trump in the #1 power seat can't be bothered with congressional protocol. He would just bluster and charge forward. If he can do that with building a wall and saying Mexico will pay for it (one of the most ridiculous political assertions in decades), then he can charge through with starting wars (like his Republican predecesors) without consent from Congress. I hope none of your sons or daughters get blown away in a war started by Donald Trump - which resulted from one of The Donald's famous temper tantrums.

Come to think of it, The Republicans' hero, Ronald Reagan, started and maintained a dirty little war in Nicaragua, without consent of Congress. Indeed, he purposefully sidestepped (and lied to) Congress, and even got the Iranians to clandestinely supply weapons to his (Reagan's) favorite side. If Trump gets to be president (which I highly doubt) expect more of the same Reaganite dirty secret war style of governing.

[boomerangutang]

Trump supporters need to draw the words 'delay, delay, delay' in 10 inch high red letters and hang it in their kitchen in plain view. That's Trump's recent mantra - aimed at Republican obstructionists - for trying to keep the president (with 11 months left in his tenure) and members of congress from doing their Constitutional duty.

....just the sort of maverick we need in the White House: a blustering windbag who urges others to use the Constitution as a doormat to wipe the soles of their dirty shoes on.

[sgtsabai]

How in hell can anybody with more than one working brain cell support a fascist like Strumpf? Oh wait, there were a few, not enough though without the NOT-supreme court and later lies and voting fraud in Ohio to put the idiot back in office. Frankly I'm not sure enough Dem's and independents will vote for Hillary even with the impending doom of what is left of America and the world hanging in the balance. Only a fool would vote for Strumpf and I'm damn sure not one. I may be crazy, but my momma didn't raise no fool!

[mopar71]

Barney Rubble looks on as Fred Flintstone announces his appointing of Barney as White Horse press secretary.

Yeah, they had a tweetfest with that look of resignation in Christie's face. Looks like he will be reduced to keeping Trump's shoes shiny or something similar. He's not a happy camper, but he had to do the right thing to advance his career.

Saw NJ former Gov. Christie Todd Whitman on tv last night during which interview she said that as an R she cannot vote for Trump for Potus and that Chris Christie is already taking serious career gas for his endorsement of The Donald. Whitman speaks for at least 20% of Republicans according the consistent reputable polling.

So? "current reputable polling" also has 60% believing Hillary is a liar and that still won't sway millions of voters.

[NeverSure]

Saw NJ former Gov. Christie Todd Whitman on tv last night during which interview she said that as an R she cannot vote for Trump for Potus and that Chris Christie is already taking serious career gas for his endorsement of The Donald. Whitman speaks for at least 20% of Republicans according the consistent reputable polling.

So? "current reputable polling" also has 60% believing Hillary is a liar and that still won't sway millions of voters.

That's just it. Hillary is a known sleaze who took millions of dollars from foreign governments for the Clinton "foundation" and has repeatedly lied to the public. She and Bill were paid more than $60 million dollars for "speeches" to Wall Street in just one year recently. No one pays $250,000 for a "speech" without expecting something in return. Hillary refuses to release the transcripts of any of those speeches.

She is a wholly owned subsidiary of Wall Street and the big bankers and some foreign governments. She is wealthy beyond belief just due to these shenanigans. Yet she would try to convince anyone that she's for the little guy? No, she is for Hillary.

The Clintons have been around since Bill was governor of Arkansas and have been insiders in DC since Bill became president in 1992. All of this time the middle class has been destroyed by shipping jobs overseas (Bill signed NAFTA) and by allowing illegals to come in and work for prices below the US minimum wage let alone a decent wage. The Clintons are up to their eyeballs in destroying the middle class.

I cannot understand how anyone would vote for this phony.

Cheers.

[boomerangutang]

I cannot understand how anyone would vote for this phony (referring to H.R. Clinton).

Maybe I can help you understand: Even for people who believe some of the Republican alarmist name-calling targetted at Hillary, .....they're still going to vote for her, when compared to someone like Trump, who is worse by far. And Trump is better than Rubio or Cruz, but that's like saying a broken knee is better than a skull fracture or an eye poked out.

[NeverSure]

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.

[JHolmesJr]

Saw NJ former Gov. Christie Todd Whitman on tv last night during which interview she said that as an R she cannot vote for Trump for Potus and that Chris Christie is already taking serious career gas for his endorsement of The Donald. Whitman speaks for at least 20% of Republicans according the consistent reputable polling.

So? "current reputable polling" also has 60% believing Hillary is a liar and that still won't sway millions of voters.

That's just it. Hillary is a known sleaze who took millions of dollars from foreign governments for the Clinton "foundation" and has repeatedly lied to the public. She and Bill were paid more than $60 million dollars for "speeches" to Wall Street in just one year recently. No one pays $250,000 for a "speech" without expecting something in return. Hillary refuses to release the transcripts of any of those speeches.

She is a wholly owned subsidiary of Wall Street and the big bankers and some foreign governments. She is wealthy beyond belief just due to these shenanigans. Yet she would try to convince anyone that she's for the little guy? No, she is for Hillary.

The Clintons have been around since Bill was governor of Arkansas and have been insiders in DC since Bill became president in 1992. All of this time the middle class has been destroyed by shipping jobs overseas (Bill signed NAFTA) and by allowing illegals to come in and work for prices below the US minimum wage let alone a decent wage. The Clintons are up to their eyeballs in destroying the middle class.

I cannot understand how anyone would vote for this phony.

Cheers.

Thats what trumps tv ads are going to focus on....that plus her im above the law attitude....hes gonna steamroll her.

[mopar71]

I cannot understand how anyone would vote for this phony (referring to H.R. Clinton).

Maybe I can help you understand: Even for people who believe some of the Republican alarmist name-calling targetted at Hillary, .....they're still going to vote for her, when compared to someone like Trump, who is worse by far. And Trump is better than Rubio or Cruz, but that's like saying a broken knee is better than a skull fracture or an eye poked out.

Alarmist name-calling is what the Dems (& Rep establishment) are doing to Trump. The guy might be a crude clown, a billionaire reality star/real estate mogul from New York City, but he is not some "fascist-bigot who will destroy America".

People throw those accusations around about Trump without anything to back them up other than the unscripted rambling of the man himself - who obviously loves to hear himself talk (did I mention he was a New Yorker?).

While on the other hand, the same people (from the left at least) will discount any suggestion of Hillary's alleged crimes in relation to the classified emails or her role in Benghazi and its cover-up afterwards as part of that fabled "right wing conspiracy" despite mountains of evidence.

I really am amazed at the amount of time the media spends on silly crap Trump says while virtually ignoring the crimes of Hillary. Even the other Republican candidates are going off on this whole KKK nonsense but at least I understand, they want to win. Why Bernie refuses to hold Hillary accountable I don't know, but his donors should sue him for conning them out of their cash. What's he doing with it if he has no intention of even trying to win?

[NeverSure]

Exported jobs to get cheap labor + illegal aliens to get cheap labor = happy Wall Street and big corporations. Apparently much of the middle class doesn't know it's been screwed.

If they vote for Hillary to get more of the same they deserve her. Then those same people will complain that "the rich get richer" apparently not realizing that this is exactly what they voted for.

Cheers.

[NeverSure]

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.

[mopar71]

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'm not a big Trump supporter. I shake my head in disbelief more than cheer in agreement. But The People have been complaining about politicians since the first politician appeared. Republican or Democrat, they are all politicians and they always manage to get millions of us to support one over the other (then they go in the back rooms of Congress together and laugh at us). It's a vicious cycle that is never-ending...

...unless this Trump guy manages to break it (the cycle, not the country). It might be worth the risk. I really don't think Trump is a harmful kinda guy despite all the desperate comparisons to Hitler or Mussolini. I hope that he matures A LOT over the next few months. I hope his behaviour has been an act, red meat for the primary voters.

[NovaBlue05]

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'm not a big Trump supporter. I shake my head in disbelief more than cheer in agreement. But The People have been complaining about politicians since the first politician appeared. Republican or Democrat, they are all politicians and they always manage to get millions of us to support one over the other (then they go in the back rooms of Congress together and laugh at us). It's a vicious cycle that is never-ending...

...unless this Trump guy manages to break it (the cycle, not the country). It might be worth the risk. I really don't think Trump is a harmful kinda guy despite all the desperate comparisons to Hitler or Mussolini. I hope that he matures A LOT over the next few months. I hope his behaviour has been an act, red meat for the primary voters.

Politicians are salesmen... just like the guy on the car lot.... and people are conditioned to accept mediocrity and sleaze in their leaders.

[JHolmesJr]

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.

[NeverSure]

NEWS IN BRIEF

March 2, 2016

VOL 52 ISSUE 08

Politics · Politicians · Election 2016 · Republican

WASHINGTON—In an effort to counter the real estate magnate’s rapidly growing lead in the delegate count, GOP statisticians announced Wednesday they had successfully developed an entirely new branch of mathematics for formulating scenarios in which Donald Trump does not win the Republican Party’s presidential nomination. “By expanding on pioneering work in the fields of applied statistics, higher-order logic, and number theory, we’ve arrived at a new branch of mathematics that provides for a multitude of feasible outcomes in which Donald Trump is not the 2016 GOP nominee,” said Dr. Jeffrey Larson, who has led a team of more than 30 statisticians who have been working around the clock at RNC headquarters to establish new mathematical properties since the wealthy businessman won the New Hampshire primary by a 20-point margin. “The new field required several breakthroughs on the manipulation of Boole’s inequality principle, and some of our models are still only predictive within certain artificial stochastic conditions. However, this new discipline of Nonlinear Computational Probability finally establishes a practicable methodology by which there exist possible paths to the nomination for Marco Rubio or Ted Cruz.”

At press time, Larson announced the team had devised a new method of abstraction and mathematical induction in which lower numbers have a greater numerical value than their higher counterparts.

LOL

LINK

[NeverSure]

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

It has been.

[dunroaming]

It is not uncommon for people to show their disgust for the government by voting for the opposite. Happened in the UK with the sudden rise of the right wing nutjobs UKIP. But when it comes to the actual election and people really have to vote in a president then surely reality takes over. Of course if the duck should become president then that is because the majority of the American people want him and after all it's their country and it's their bed they are making.

Would Clinton make a good president........ very unlikely I would have thought

More popcorn over here please! I am loving it!

[mopar71]

The supporters of the status quo in DC on either side of the aisle must be numbly unaware that this status quo has been frittering away their grandchildren's futures. We've had these same insiders for decades and all they've done is destroy the middle class, run up debt and start wars all over the globe. No wonder Wall Street donors support them. The rich including the Clintons get richer and their suckers just keep voting for them.

Just look how hard the big money insiders are fighting for their candidates, on both sides.

Considering that there's some truth in what you wrote, above, do you think Trump would be better? From what I've heard him declare, and from his management style, I venture that Trump would be woefully worse. Just because he appears different, doesn't mean he would be better. He would still be anti-science, with a maturity level of a bratty 5-year-old. You might like some of his proposals now, but what about some future proposals you may not like? If he knew how to deal with Congress, he would make proposals, lobby and try to get them voted through. But someone like Trump in the #1 power seat can't be bothered with congressional protocol. He would just bluster and charge forward. If he can do that with building a wall and saying Mexico will pay for it (one of the most ridiculous political assertions in decades), then he can charge through with starting wars (like his Republican predecesors) without consent from Congress. I hope none of your sons or daughters get blown away in a war started by Donald Trump - which resulted from one of The Donald's famous temper tantrums.

Come to think of it, The Republicans' hero, Ronald Reagan, started and maintained a dirty little war in Nicaragua, without consent of Congress. Indeed, he purposefully sidestepped (and lied to) Congress, and even got the Iranians to clandestinely supply weapons to his (Reagan's) favorite side. If Trump gets to be president (which I highly doubt) expect more of the same Reaganite dirty secret war style of governing.

Arms were sold to Iran (to be used against Saddam), proceeds went to fight Communism in Nicaragua, and our hostages in Lebanon were freed. Sounds like some read "The Art of the Deal" by you-know-who.

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

[Johpa]

A choice between Trump and Clinton?!?

It leads me to the words of one of the great poets and performing artists of my generation.

[NeverSure]

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.