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Old 05-10-2019, 01:31 AM
 
Location: Old Mother Idaho
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So are the left leaning posters here saying they do not trust the polls? For the record?
No. Not at all. This early, the polls won't be providing much information that will be accurate.

What is that 'for the record' nonsense? No one here is a public official, so why did you even include this?
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Old 05-10-2019, 01:35 AM
 
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Except for Bernie Sanders, every one of the Dem candidates’ appearances will outshine Trump. He looks so weird, with his orange complexion, big belly and butt, baggy old out-of-style suits that he can’t button. And his HAIR—so weird. The extra long strange ties...

Picture him on stage debating with Mayor Pete or Kamala or Warren or Klobuchar. All Trump can say is nasty comments about people or other races. He cannot articulate a real thought about anything. All he can come up with are slogans.

Trump will look like a crazy old man.
None of the bolded candidates (except maybe Warren) are going to win the nomination.
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Old 05-10-2019, 08:05 AM
 
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Sure I despise what stupid Trump is doing to the country. I’m not a lefty—I’m an Independent and center-right.

Trump makes very bad decisions. He even thinks China will pay the tariffs. He’s not even smart enough to realize that it’s the American consumers who will pay the tariffs, in the form of higher prices.

I REALLY hate having a dumb, nuts person as our leader.
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Old 05-10-2019, 11:32 PM
 
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It is too soon to formally declare the race over. But with Joe Biden routinely posting leads in excess of 20 points, it is not too soon to start considering the possibility that it may well be over. Rush Limbaugh weighs in.
Limbaugh says Democratic presidential primary 'may well be' over already

Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh said Friday that former Vice President Joe Biden may have already won the Democratic presidential primary and that President Trump may benefit from disenfranchised Bernie Sanders voters.

"Do you realize it may well be the Democrat primary race is over? In New Hampshire, Joe Biden is blowing out Bernie Sanders. Bernie Sanders was up 30 points nationally, he was up 25 or 30 points in New Hampshire, the last poll, and Biden has just launched over Bernie Sanders," Limbaugh said on "The Rush Limbaugh Show."

Biden leads the Vermont senator 36 percent to 18 percent in New Hampshire according to a Monmouth University poll released Thursday. South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg sits in third with 9 percent and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., follows with 8 percent.
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Old 05-10-2019, 11:33 PM
 
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Sure I despise what stupid Trump is doing to the country. I’m not a lefty—I’m an Independent and center-right.

Trump makes very bad decisions. He even thinks China will pay the tariffs. He’s not even smart enough to realize that it’s the American consumers who will pay the tariffs, in the form of higher prices.

I REALLY hate having a dumb, nuts person as our leader.
In the Soviet Union you may have been center right.
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Old 05-11-2019, 07:57 AM
 
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It is too soon to formally declare the race over. But with Joe Biden routinely posting leads in excess of 20 points, it is not too soon to start considering the possibility that it may well be over. Rush Limbaugh weighs in.
Limbaugh says Democratic presidential primary 'may well be' over already

Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh said Friday that former Vice President Joe Biden may have already won the Democratic presidential primary and that President Trump may benefit from disenfranchised Bernie Sanders voters.

"Do you realize it may well be the Democrat primary race is over? In New Hampshire, Joe Biden is blowing out Bernie Sanders. Bernie Sanders was up 30 points nationally, he was up 25 or 30 points in New Hampshire, the last poll, and Biden has just launched over Bernie Sanders," Limbaugh said on "The Rush Limbaugh Show."

Biden leads the Vermont senator 36 percent to 18 percent in New Hampshire according to a Monmouth University poll released Thursday. South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg sits in third with 9 percent and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., follows with 8 percent.
Rush Limbaugh is the furthest thing from a bastion of credibility.

EDIT: Granted, he is right about getting 4 more years of Trump if Biden wins. So of course he wants to push for that outcome.
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Old 05-11-2019, 08:11 AM
 
Location: Nowhere
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Sure I despise what stupid Trump is doing to the country. I’m not a lefty—I’m an Independent and center-right.

Trump makes very bad decisions. He even thinks China will pay the tariffs. He’s not even smart enough to realize that it’s the American consumers who will pay the tariffs, in the form of higher prices.

I REALLY hate having a dumb, nuts person as our leader.

Okay. Like Bret Stephens, Ana Navaro, Megan McCain et al are "center right".

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In the Soviet Union you may have been center right.
Exactly.
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Old 05-11-2019, 09:36 AM
 
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President Trump has picked a nickname for Mayor Pete: Alfred E. Neuman, the iconic mascot of MAD magazine:
President Trump Just Gave Mayor Pete His New Nickname: Alfred E. Neuman

Say what you want about the man, but President Donald J. Trump reigns king in terms of giving his political opponents nicknames. His latest moniker was bestowed upon South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg during an interview with Politico on Friday. The commander-in-chief bluntly told the magazine that "Alfred E. Neuman cannot become president," referring to the iconic mascot for the magazine MAD.

The president made his remarks during a 15 minutes interview with Politco Friday afternoon. As noted by the magazine, "Neuman’s freckled, gap-toothed face and oversized ears have for decades graced the cover of the humor magazine Mad."

Indeed, a side-by-side comparison of "Mayor Pete" and Alfred E. Neuman shows the president nailed the description.

These nicknames he gives have a remarkable capacity to stick and have resonance. To be fair, Buttigieg is just a fad candidate and is not going anywhere. But this is the slow season, the time for pre-game talk before the warm-ups (early debates) begin.
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Old 05-11-2019, 12:21 PM
 
Location: Planet Telex
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So are the left leaning posters here saying they do not trust the polls? For the record?
After 2016, I have a hard time believing these presidential polls. Polls of the primary races are meaningless until this fall at the earliest. And at that point the only worthwhile polls are the Setzer poll in Iowa and a few comparable polls in NH, SC and NV. National polls don’t mean anything.

I have read from many sources that much of Biden’s “lead” in the polls is astroturfed nonsense. This is because the corporate poll-takers are taking data from demographics that lean heavily towards Biden in an effort to skew the numbers towards making him seem more popular than he really is. They seem to only poll landline phones, those that sub-age-50 people rarely have. Bernie is probably closer to 70%, similar to his favorable rating. Biden is not that popular at all, it's just that the younger candidates in the race don't have any name recognition.

And ask yourself this...how popular can Biden really be when he is heaping praise on Dick Cheney?
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Old 05-11-2019, 12:46 PM
 
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President Trump has picked a nickname for Mayor Pete: Alfred E. Neuman, the iconic mascot of MAD magazine:
President Trump Just Gave Mayor Pete His New Nickname: Alfred E. Neuman

Say what you want about the man, but President Donald J. Trump reigns king in terms of giving his political opponents nicknames. His latest moniker was bestowed upon South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg during an interview with Politico on Friday. The commander-in-chief bluntly told the magazine that "Alfred E. Neuman cannot become president," referring to the iconic mascot for the magazine MAD.

The president made his remarks during a 15 minutes interview with Politco Friday afternoon. As noted by the magazine, "Neuman’s freckled, gap-toothed face and oversized ears have for decades graced the cover of the humor magazine Mad."

Indeed, a side-by-side comparison of "Mayor Pete" and Alfred E. Neuman shows the president nailed the description.

These nicknames he gives have a remarkable capacity to stick and have resonance. To be fair, Buttigieg is just a fad candidate and is not going anywhere. But this is the slow season, the time for pre-game talk before the warm-ups (early debates) begin.
Have you had your vision checked lately??

Mayor Pete Buttigieg is handsome and very charming. He makes Trump look like the dirt ball that he is—ugly and weird. Buttigieg is doing very well in the polls— #3 at this time. You are just trying to bring him down. But that’s what Right Wingers do, because they don’t have anything intelligent to say. Guess reading comic books is heavy reading for them!
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