U.S. presidential election 2016 (official thread)

by **saxitoxin** on Sun May 31, 2015 12:35 am

The May poll results have been logged in the OP and the June poll is now open and active with a bunch of new candidates, including ...

Governor George Pataki (Republican)

Governor Mike Huckabee (Republican)

Governor Rick Perry (Republican)

Senator Rick Santorum (Republican)

Senator Lindsay Graham (Republican)

by **notyou2** on Wed Jun 03, 2015 2:34 pm

GO BERNIE!!!!!!

by **waauw** on Wed Jun 03, 2015 2:49 pm

I'm curious, what do the americans here desire as foreign policy? Being Russia, middle-east, south-china sea.
And which of these presidential candidates does your opinion reflect on the most?

by **saxitoxin** on Wed Jun 03, 2015 4:41 pm

waauw wrote:I'm curious, what do the americans here desire as foreign policy? Being Russia, middle-east, south-china sea.
And which of these presidential candidates does your opinion reflect on the most?

I'm still supporting Lincoln Chafee, even though he lost the password to his Facebook page.

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/artic ... -password-

He supports converting to the metric system, opening diplomatic relations with Iran, stopping Israeli settlements in the West Bank, stopping U.S. aid to the Syrian rebels, ending air strikes against ISIS, pressuring the EU to accept the Russian Federation as a member state, and "improving and expanding" U.S. cooperation with Latin America, which I read as code for supporting Argentina's claims in the South Atlantic.

by **saxitoxin** on Tue Jul 07, 2015 5:28 pm

some CNN editor was ROFLing when he paired this creeptacular photo with the headline

by **Serbia** on Tue Jul 07, 2015 8:22 pm

I'm not supporting anyone yet.

Bollocks.

by **Dukasaur** on Fri Jul 10, 2015 12:10 am

Only 3 month in and already saxi has lost interest in updating the poll.

by **saxitoxin** on Fri Jul 10, 2015 12:32 am

Dukasaur wrote:Only 3 month in and already saxi has lost interest in updating the poll.

Unfortunately, there are now vastly more candidates than the maximum number of choices the poll allows so voting will have to be suspended until some start dropping out. The June results have been logged, however.

by **notyou2** on Fri Jul 10, 2015 7:59 am

notyou2 wrote:GO BERNIE!!!!!!

by **saxitoxin** on Fri Jul 17, 2015 2:30 pm

The Huffington Post has announced it's moving all future coverage of Donald Trump's campaign to the Entertainment section.

After watching and listening to Donald Trump since he announced his candidacy for president, we have decided we won't report on Trump's campaign as part of The Huffington Post's political coverage. Instead, we will cover his campaign as part of our Entertainment section. If you are interested in what The Donald has to say, you'll find it next to our stories on the Kardashians and The Bachelorette.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/a-n ... 6514d0fd66

by **notyou2** on Fri Jul 17, 2015 2:49 pm

by **Lootifer** on Mon Jul 20, 2015 12:16 am

notyou2 wrote:like

^^

I am interested in understanding what demographic he was trying to appeal to when making those comments.

All I can think of (and granted it's not much since I tend to try and avoid American news/culture outside of the business section) is he thinks that will appeal to some kind of weird macho neo-con libertarian.

by **Metsfanmax** on Tue Aug 04, 2015 7:37 pm

I officially endorse Lincoln Chafee for President.

by **saxitoxin** on Tue Aug 04, 2015 9:47 pm

Metsfanmax wrote:I officially endorse Lincoln Chafee for President.

Nice try but I'm still not gonna unzip for you.

by **Metsfanmax** on Tue Aug 04, 2015 9:55 pm

I didn't at first catch the bit about supporting the metric system. Once I read that, I realized I'd unzip for him.

by **notyou2** on Wed Aug 05, 2015 8:58 am

Bernie Sanders will be your next president.

by **saxitoxin** on Wed Oct 21, 2015 11:44 am

Republicans Have Most Trouble with English Language - Lincoln Chafee Supporters Smartest

According to a new study by the grammar-checking app Grammarly, supporters commenting on Democratic candidates’ Facebook pages made an average of 4.2 mistakes per 100 words compared to 8.7 mistakes for supporters of Republican candidates. The Democratic supporters also showed a larger vocabulary, using on average 300 unique words per 1,000 words, while Republicans used only 245. Of the entire field, Chafee supporters are most grammatical (while also being rarest), making 3.1 errors per hundred words. Trump supporters are far more numerous but most grammatically challenged, racking up 12.6 boo-boos per hundred words.

http://onpolitics.usatoday.com/2015/10/ ... ee-on-top/

by **Bernie Sanders** on Wed Oct 21, 2015 1:01 pm

saxitoxin wrote:
waauw wrote:I'm curious, what do the americans here desire as foreign policy? Being Russia, middle-east, south-china sea.
And which of these presidential candidates does your opinion reflect on the most?

I'm still supporting Lincoln Chafee, even though he lost the password to his Facebook page.

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/artic ... -password-

He supports converting to the metric system, opening diplomatic relations with Iran, stopping Israeli settlements in the West Bank, stopping U.S. aid to the Syrian rebels, ending air strikes against ISIS, pressuring the EU to accept the Russian Federation as a member state, and "improving and expanding" U.S. cooperation with Latin America, which I read as code for supporting Argentina's claims in the South Atlantic.

Sorry but Chafee is going nowhere fast. Just a bit of laughter from this sad man