*LIVE SUPER-DUPER TUESDAY ELECTION THREAD (FL, OH, NC, IL, AND MO)*

self | 3/15/16 | tatown

[tatown]

FL - Polls Close at 8:00pm Eastern NC - Polls Close at 7:30pm Eastern IL - Polls Close at 8:00pm Eastern MO - Polls Close at 8:00pm Eastern OH - Polls Close at 8:30pm Eastern

[jjsheridan5]

Bias? What bias?

What is the methodology behind your graph, and what is the point of it. Given that the vast majority of the media coverage of Trump has been ridiculously biased against of it, and that a sizable amount of it has been blatantly untrue, your graph confirms that the media is wholly in the tank for anyone other than Trump, and fully committed to the stop-Trump movement. Was that the point of your graph? To show the unprecedentedly large and coordinated role of the media in playing their role within the larger DC establishment? To show that while Trump is clearly reassembling the Reagan coalition, that the media is doing everything they can to prevent that from happening?

[Tuxedo]

What are those numbers? Exit polls? I don’t believe FL is that close. Nor is Kasich running away in OH.

[unsycophant]

Awgie, I’m going to send this back up, because I like it!

So: BTTT & I agree!

ps: And neither group ever gets what they’re promised by the “politics-as-usual” professionals.

[proudpapa]

Thank you for not buying into the media hype and voting for the best Conservative with a chance to win it all.

[Yaelle]

We may be over our skis, but, as a brilliant FReeper said this morning, we see it as an 80-20 thing. 80% that Trump will push for the things that will keep America a sovereign country and get our jobs back, and thus thwart the cheap labor cabal, and 20% that he was just tricking us and will rule like Obama and just wanted more fame for himself.

Though he is going to be attacked every day worse than W was in the WH so I don’t see the benefit to his ego at all.

[jjsheridan5]

Remember, head to head competition is not accurate at this point

"Not accurate" is an understatement. "Useless" would be a better adjective. The primary reason that Trump is doing "badly" in heads-up general election polls is that a sizable chunk of Republican voters are aghast at the idea of Trump as the nominee, or are fully committed to another candidate, and would never express what they would actually do in November. Seriously, heads-up general election polls are worse than useless when describing general election results during a heated primary.

[gogeo]

You see if you go into Harlem and run up and down the street screaming "I hate the N's word" and you get the crap kicked outta you, who’s responsible?

Imperfect comparison. Trump wasn't running up and down the street, he was speaking in a rally organized and paid for by him,

Those provoking were the disruptors.

[bray]

Bernie is not bringing in new voters? The Dems are down 35%, guess you would prefer the Repubs had fewer voters too. With Cruz that is pretty much a guarantee.

Pray America wakes

[tatown]

We’ve graduated from “Bush’s Fault” to “Trump’s Fault” and people can correctly thank Ted Cruz for that.

[unsycophant]

Well, should he win the nomination & be campaigning against Bernie or HRC, I guess we’d get a real education on how a professional politician would handle violent disruptors & organized thugs.

They would, and will go after him if given the chance. His religious beliefs, his immigration, his college background, his finances, his marriage, his family, his friends....

I’m sure he would take responsibility for provoking them. (laughs)

[Yaelle]

I was saying back when I respected Cruz, that on the R side, Rubio is bought and paid for, and that if Cruz isn’t, already, they figure he is easily buyable. I think I was right. I think that once Rubio just couldn’t do it, they went and bought Cruz. When the Sea Island meeting happened, when the Bushes jumped on the Cruzwagon, he was owned. These guys have prices. They want to be President. They can’t fund it themselves.

And it will be the best attack on Hillary too: no one is more blackmailable than the Clintons. She wants to be Prez so badly, she will do anything to get there, and then anything to stay out of the penitentiary and Sick Billy to be kept out of the Sex Offender Registry. Why would we want these criminals in the WH blackmailable by ANYONE?

[gogeo]

Like the saying goes, anything before the “But” is BS....

Exactly.

In politicalspeak, what is said before the "but" is the fig leaf...what's said after is the payload.

[No Dems 2016]

I just read on Fox that Rubio is planning on carrying on even if he loses Florida! That can’t make Tricky Ted too happy.

[jjsheridan5]

I was saying back when I respected Cruz, that on the R side, Rubio is bought and paid for, and that if Cruz isn’t, already, they figure he is easily buyable.

Buyable is probably part of it, but this primary has been very revealing of a lot of things, but particularly the makeup of Cruz' character. I don't really think its just the money. I think he is motivated by something else (selfishness? desire to be the center of attention?) that is also playing a role. Either way, at this point anyone who still believes in him would be better off staying up all night waiting for the Great Pumpkin -- at least then, they would only lose a night of sleep.

[Pravious]

“These guys have prices. They want to be President. They can’t fund it themselves.”

I agree. On the other hand, we can’t (and won’t) always have a self-funded billionaire to choose from - so how’s it going to work in the future? What system could possibly be set up to prevent our candidates from being bought like cattle, and selling us out because they feel obliged to?

[bray]

It will most likely be over tonight, but if it wasn’t Cruz is too stupid to realize the Establishment will desert him after he stops Trump.

[HamiltonJay]

I’d look out for another upset in the midwest for Bernie tonight.

[gogeo]

"Useless" would be a better adjective.

I think 'misleading' is better still.

[jjsheridan5]

Right you are. “Misleading” wins it.

[John W]

I’d say closer to 50-50.