Super Tuesday thread!

[Blimey]

If there's one thing we need around here it's another thread on politics, so here it is.

Tonight bloomberg is on the ballot. I do not expect a ton of delegates to him based on the polls I've seen. NBC has a state by state break down, because the main contenders tonight of course are sanders and biden.

Super Tuesday polls: A state-by-state look at who's leading

Bernie Sanders is up in California, home of the biggest trove of delegates, although Joe Biden's big South Carolina win appears to be registering in recent surveys.

www.nbcnews.com

However, to my shock the last week has been utterly atrocious for Sanders. I am a tremendous fan of 538 and here is what they have now. I think even yestrday they had sanders/biden at 20%/15% respectively. Now they have knocked sanders down to an 8% chance of winning and biden up to 31%. They are working on minimal data. After tonight's results have been aggregated and consumed we'll have a firm picture.

If bloomberg pulls up almost nothing tonight he could end up a very short lived campaign. I don't know what his intention is because he's badly behind on pretty much every state here.

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[nortatoga]

 

[tirwin1]

Can't they all lose?

 

[Chevusa]

Someone better let Sleepy Joe know that it's today...

 

[prambo]

Can't afford to watch that stuff...once let into the tee-vee, it's contaminated and must be destroyed.

Just about to go out and finish a repair on the Cruze, can't blow up the finances anymore.

I'm devastated about it...the car, not the primary.

I'm sure there will be the usual hilarious running commentary from those with stronger stomachs than me.

 

[GOPerfect]

I am exited for tonight. I will be at work, so the tax payers will be paying me to watch all the fireworks.

 

[Plater1]

Can't afford to watch that stuff...once let into the tee-vee, it's contaminated and must be destroyed.

Just about to go out and finish a repair on the Cruze, can't blow up the finances anymore.

I'm devastated about it...the car, not the primary.

I'm sure there will be the usual hilarious running commentary from those with stronger stomachs than me.

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Trump will win! What's wrong with the car?

 

[Jsmegs77]

Cue Hillary as the moderate Dem candidate..... They're gonna do it. Bloomberg is only in to damage Sanders and throw money to the Dems.

 

[Blimey]

Cue Hillary as the moderate Dem candidate..... They're gonna do it. Bloomberg is only in to damage Sanders and throw money to the Dems.

It looks like he's in to damage bloomberg!

He is now admitting he cannot win except with a contested convention, so he's going to try and grenade it just like sanders is.

I do think bloomberg could have a shot against trump. I don't think sanders could. But biden will have enough delegates tonight that bloomberg is just going to be ruining biden's campaign. The dems probably need to tell bloomberg to get the f out.

 

[sschrad]

I don't think that the DNC wants Bloomberg out. Biden alone can not stop Sanders, they need the delegates split so Crazy Bernie doesn't get the nomination outright. If Bloomberg and Biden can suck enough away so there is a brokered convention, then the DNC will live with that . I believe that is what they want. Bloomberg also equals CASH for them, and lots of it. They are going to need it. MAGA

 

[Bustedknees]

The dnc will do anything they can to steal this from Sanders .. they did it for Hillary now they'll do it for Biden..

 

[prambo]

Trump will win! What's wrong with the car?

@Plater1

OK, apologize for the rant up front...gotta vent...I owe you one , Brother...

The POS plastic water outlet was leaking, slowly, somewhere. Replaced it, but still no idea where even after inspection.

After the USAF, but before grad school, I worked as a car mechanic at Heritage Lincoln-Mercury in The 'Cuse in the summer of 1974. I swear there were cars in those days where if you needed access to the engine you could climb into the engine compartment and stand on the ground to get close up and personal with the motor.

Not these days...they're hermaphroditic plastic and metal Frankensteins. The engine compartments are like being in a big plastic bag - no room whatsoever.

But...there's more...the overflow tank (pressurized these days) is connected to the plastic POS water outlet at the point in the upper left (shown below).



...and this connection is held together by a teeny-tiny plastic clip (WTF?? - this can hold 20 psi?)...the clip is the little plastic thingy at the bottom of the tubing...



...and yeah, the O-ring on the overflow tank tubing wouldn't fit into the proper place on the new water outlet fitting. So I came up with the brilliant idea of taking the fitting from the old water outlet, since it accepted the O-ringed part of the tank tubing. Viola!! no problem, it seats properly.

BUT, prambo, master of all he surveys and general, all-around fuck-up managed to break one small part of the clip...FUCK!!!!

So, now the clip is held in place with E6000 craft glue, 3 cable ties and Gorilla tape.

It survived a 10 mile run at 60+ mph with no leaks, so it's kinda-sorta OK. It'll blow sometime, so as soon as the $$$ is available, I'll replace all the parts.

Thanks again for asking...that felt good...time for another adult beverage.

 

[Blimey]

The dnc will do anything they can to steal this from Sanders .. they did it for Hillary now they'll do it for Biden..

Might be the one smart thing they do. I didn’t realize last election what a kook he is. He will sour millions to the party. They can not afford it. It’s probably worth burning him no matter the cost. He really could grenade everything for them in nov as the candidate.

Anyway so far Biden just won Virginia as expected and sanders Vermont. No upsets yet.

 

[Bustedknees]

Two good bets to consider..
1. How long before Joe Biden Collapses? There's no way he makes it through the election process without folding, he looks like shit now !
2. Which candidate gets Carona'd first ? Shaking hands and kissing will get you killed these days..

 

[Chevusa]

BREAKING: It’s 7 p.m. on the East Coast and polls have now closed in two of the 14 Super Tuesday states that are voting in today’s Democratic presidential primaries – Virginia and Vermont. The Fox News Decision Desk can now project that former Vice President Joe Biden will win the commonwealth of Virginia, beating Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in a key, delegate-rich state.

 

[Jmac00]

doesn't matter who win tonight, this will go to a brokered convention, at which point Hillary will come to the DNC rescue. and bernie will get the shaft, once again. And the funny part is, Bernie will take it up the ass,just like last time and he will enjoy it, just like last time hillary shoved it up his ass

 

[Twogunwilly]

The DNC has surrendered to the fact they can't beat President Trump so now it's Creepy Joe's turn to live out his fantasy and have his guts ripped out shortly after. Creepy Joe needs desperately to win so all his shady deals go away and his whole family stays out of prison.

 

[Jmac00]

The DNC has surrendered to the fact they can't beat President Trump so now it's Creepy Joe's turn to live out his fantasy and have his guts ripped out shortly after. Creepy Joe needs desperately to win so all his shady deals go away and his whole family stays out of prison.

and this is their entire platform. it has nothing to do with helping Americans, it's only about getting DJT out of the White House

 

[kev74]

doesn't matter who win tonight, this will go to a brokered convention, at which point Hillary will come to the DNC rescue. and bernie will get the shaft, once again. And the funny part is, Bernie will take it up the ass,just like last time and he will enjoy it, just like last time hillary shoved it up his ass

If it goes to a brokered convention, I bet Bloomberg gets the nomination.

Hillary got the nod in 2016 because the DNC was broke and she could raise enough to keep it afloat. Nobody really liked her then - they settled.

This time around, DNC is still hard up for money. And little Mike just happens to have lots of money.

 

[Blimey]

Thing is bloomberg is doing really badly. I'm actually a little faith restored watching it because despite him outspending biden 75:1, for example, in north carolina (wtf!), most of them still said hell no. I have ad block everywhere, I never watch tv ads but apparently that sob has inundated the internet with ads in the primary states, and youtubem, etc.

Pocahontas can't even win her own state by the looks of it. What a joke, time to bail.

 

[IrishMick]

I could be wrong but I don't think Bernie can beat President Trump. He is too far left. I don't believe the average american will embrace socialism. He does, however, have a large base of support among young people. If the Bernie Bros believe he was cheated out of the nomination I think that they will stay home and not participate in the general election out of spite. If the DNC screws Bernie over they are done. Especially if they pull some shady crap like running out the Hag for a third stab at the ring.

 

[Blimey]

I could be wrong but I don't think Bernie can beat President Trump. He is too far left. I don't believe the average american will embrace socialism. He does, however, have a large base of support among young people. If the Bernie Bros believe he was cheated out of the nomination I think that they will stay home and not participate in the general election out of spite. If the DNC screws Bernie over they are done. Especially if they pull some shady crap like running out the Hag for a third stab at the ring.

CBS a half hour ago showed 49/41 favorable/unfavorable view on socialism by NC democratic voters. Horrific unfortunately, but that shows half of them don't like it and most republicans don't, either. So I agree I don't think sanders can win. I think of all the candidates if one was going to explode in spectacular fashion and lose to 400+ electoral votes it would be him.

CBS can't shut the f up about black voters. They make up only 1/6th of the population but they are obsessed with them. Latinos outnumber them almost 2:1 but you never hear about it.

 

[BDinPutnam]

I could be wrong but I don't think Bernie can beat President Trump. He is too far left. I don't believe the average american will embrace socialism. He does, however, have a large base of support among young people. If the Bernie Bros believe he was cheated out of the nomination I think that they will stay home and not participate in the general election out of spite. If the DNC screws Bernie over they are done. Especially if they pull some shady crap like running out the Hag for a third stab at the ring.

Trump picked up about 12,000 very important Sanders voters last time around.

 

[prambo]

A Trump-Sanders debate would be something I'd actually watch.

Sanders is bat-shit crazy in the looney commie way - hands waving all over, hair all fucked up, raging like a steroid crazed rat and spittle flying out of his flapping maw.

Trump could probably bait Bernie into endorsing Lenin, Stalin and Mao, on nationwide tee-vee if he played it right.

I'd hope Trump would be super polite, but eviscerate the little fuckwit, stake his guts to the stage and drive him off-stage with a fistful of briars...with Sander's guts being slowly exposed to the world.......metaphorically speaking that is.

 

[Blimey]

Loomberg’s campaign is over.

Sanders didn’t do that well last night. Lost ones he needed like tx. We are back to where we were six months ago: Biden will be the nominee.

I guess enough Dems have realized there is no way sanders can beat trump.

 

[livingston]

Takeaways from Super Tuesday…
The key takeaways from the Super Tuesday results so far… Joe Biden won significantly, and it looks like those wins were by design. The media are amplifying a strong Biden narrative on behalf of the professional political class within the DNC Club.
Bernie Sanders is in a tenuous position as long as Elizabeth Warren remains in the race.

The total delegate distribution is still unknown. However, it does not currently appear like Bernie will achieve the threshold of half the total delegates that were available. California might be Bernie’s firewall to keep the delegate count close.

Team Bernie will now have to try and withstand an absolute blitz of pro-Biden media as the Club gets everyone to fall-in-line.

Meanwhile the voter turnout for an essentially uncontested President Trump was a very good sign. The turnout numbers for President Trump far exceed any former incumbent

Takeaways from Super Tuesday... - The Last Refuge

The key takeaways from the Super Tuesday results so far… Joe Biden won significantly, and it looks like those wins were by design. The media are amplifying a strong Biden narrative on behalf of the professional political class within the DNC Club. (1) If you accept the Club objective to keep...

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[Carlos Hathcock]

A Trump-Sanders debate would be something I'd actually watch.

Sanders is bat-shit crazy in the looney commie way - hands waving all over, hair all fucked up, raging like a steroid crazed rat and spittle flying out of his flapping maw.

Trump could probably bait Bernie into endorsing Lenin, Stalin and Mao, on nationwide tee-vee if he played it right.

I'd hope Trump would be super polite, but eviscerate the little fuckwit, stake his guts to the stage and drive him off-stage with a fistful of briars...with Sander's guts being slowly exposed to the world.......metaphorically speaking that is.

Soooooo if I'm reading this right.......you're not voting for Bernie?

 

[MothMan]

Soooooo if I'm reading this right.......you're not voting for Bernie?

Not in the “General” that will be Trump. But as a DINO I’m voting for Bernie in the primary. Operation Chaos is alive and well!

 

[kev74]

Meanwhile the voter turnout for an essentially uncontested President Trump was a very good sign. The turnout numbers for President Trump far exceed any former incumbent

This is the key. Trump got many times more voters to turn out for an uncontested primary than the entire Dem clown car could muster for a vote that matters. He will be winning Bigly in November!

 

[livingston]

Bloomberg Spends $18.4 Million In Virginia, North Carolina, Walks Away With No Delegates
In the lead-up to Super Tuesday, 2020 Democratic candidate Mike Bloomberg spent a total of $18.4 million in advertising in Virginia and North Carolina but left both states without a single delegate.

According to Advertising Analytics, Bloomberg spent $5.6 million in Virginia and $12.8 million in North Carolina.