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OK, fine: Here’s the 2016 election if it were an NCAA bracket
The Washington Post's The Fix Blog ^ | March 16, 2015 | Philip Bump

Posted on 03/16/2015 8:37:17 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

It is March, as you know, which means that media outlets such as ours use interest in the upcoming NCAA college basketball tournament as an excuse to develop imaginary brackets of other important contests. In part, this is because we are not bound by the stupid rules that govern advertisers, so we can refer to the Final Four™ without having to pay money to the NCAA (which, we assume, then gets distributed among the players or something). In fact, we can write Final Four™ without the trademark if we want. Final Four. Final Four. Pretty great.

But, in part, this is also because brackets are fun. People fill out tens of millions of brackets because the single-elimination contest is exciting. It is much more interesting than, say, a series of caucuses and primaries that are of quickly diminishing importance over the course of months and months.

Which brings us to: Your Fix 2016 presidential bracket, which we will present by party....

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Campaign News; Parties; Polls
KEYWORDS: bush; palin; scottwalker; tedcruz
Boy, even dumber than I thought it would be.
1 posted on 03/16/2015 8:37:17 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Waste of space, but it does show that the democrats are hurting for presidential talent.


2 posted on 03/16/2015 8:41:05 AM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

so dumb... the pairings do not make sense to me...


3 posted on 03/16/2015 8:41:40 AM PDT by latina4dubya (wheni have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I wish I could get those 2 minutes back.


4 posted on 03/16/2015 8:45:45 AM PDT by wolfman23601
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To: Kirkwood

I remember a friend of mine getting the 2014 Democrap Primary mail in ballot, every damned single office was unopposed.... It was like a surreal soviet era ballot from the soviet union....


5 posted on 03/16/2015 8:53:25 AM PDT by GraceG (Protect the Border from Illegal Aliens, Don't Protect Illegal Alien Boarders...)
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To: Kirkwood
DONT COUNT ME OUT YET....PLEASE...Please!!??






6 posted on 03/16/2015 8:54:16 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The Jim Webb vs. Vermin Supreme matchup! In the Steel Cage of Death!


7 posted on 03/16/2015 8:54:41 AM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: GraceG

If George Clooney ran, he would likely win the nomination. Can you imagine?


8 posted on 03/16/2015 9:51:22 AM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Kale; Jarhead9297; COUNTrecount; notaliberal; DoughtyOne; RitaOK; MountainDad; ...
Ted Cruz Ping!

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CRUZ or LOSE!


9 posted on 03/16/2015 1:38:12 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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