In Iowa.  Iowa does not represent the total US electorate.

Cruz attracts the far right wing and the evangelicals.  He is opposed by moderates and absolutely despised by the left.

Rubio attracts moderates and the conservative left.

To win the White House one needs a solid majority of his party and a small percentage of independents and democrats crossing the line.

Go back the previous two elections and look at the demographics for McCain and Romney.

We'll see, won't we?  And polls don't represent the electorate either. If it did, Trump would be doing the victory dance on Cruz' and Rubio's heads.

This thread has been very entertaining.  Thank you Lucifer and Jeff. 


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Not me?  I don't get a participation ribbon?  I'm feeling a microaggression coming on.

Aided and abetted by state governments that take the money.

Who's worse: the one offering the bribe or the one taking it?

Great question. Let's ask John Kasich. He likes to take federal money and play puppet for FedGov.

In all seriousness, this has been going on  for a long time. I remember when the FedGov grants ran out from Bill Clinton's "100,000 cops" initiative. Departments were scrambling to fill the budgetary hole.

Color blind means that we ignore the identity of people.  Dr. King meant that we evaluate people based on their behavior and actions and not by defacto White = Right or the corollary Black = Guilty.

Who the hell said that he meant a "defacto White = Right or the corollary Black = Guilty"? 

You are seriously delusional on this point, JB. I'm sorry you have such hatred for white people. I guess in your world we can never live together and act like a color blind society. Segregation, separation, "equal but separate" forever more. In planetary terms, that's called "retrograde motion."

I have less of an issue when a Cabinet Secretary (Dole) or Congress itself (the National Minimum Drinking Age Act) lobby/pressure states.


I do have an issue when executive agencies do it.  Again, this is a new issue that I've not deeply considered before.

It's the federal blackmail tactic that I despise, whether it comes from a Cabinet secretary, her agency's bureaucrats through Rulemaking, or from Congress itself.

They ALL shit on the Tenth Amendment.

I think that's pretty much Dear Leader's plan, to have two Democrats (Dear Leader and Hillary) in the general, either with or without a Republican.

Oh, I think it will be much worse than that.

I can see that if Cruz or Rubio wins the nomination, Trump will tell his sycophants:

"Hillary is a wonderful, powerful woman, and a close friend of mine.  I even invited her to my wedding, which was a yuuuge event in Trump Tower.  She is so experienced, and so presidential, that I just can't turn my back in my friend.  Ted's [Cruze] experience as a one-term Senator just can't compare, plus, he's just stuuupid.  So I encourage all of my fans and supporters to support Hillary Clinton as the next president of the United States."

That would be the ultimate power- broker move, and will indebt the Clinton's to Trump forever. Win-win.

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The Trumpkins do know that 2nd Place is "The Biggest Loser", right?

No, they don't.

Of course, they have to resort to the far leftist rag "The Nation" to slam Cruz.

Yeah, it's bad. He's actually appeared to me to be in physical or emotional pain at some points.

I know.  I see it in the debates, but it's even worse when he's interviewed.