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The face of entitled white privilege. It’s his turn, goddammit!
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Never has so much piss been deployed against so much wind.
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Put a fork in him.
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This guy doesn’t know if he’s coming or going. I say he’s going, albeit at a stubborn and begrudgingly slow rate. He still seems oblivious to the fact that he’s already toast. Thirty people being added to any ground game aren’t going to stop the hemorrhaging of donors who have been quietly jumping off the SS Jeb! in search of a steadier ship. Without them, he hasn’t got shit…because no one wants to vote for the fucker, especially base GOP voters. If that isn’t obvious to him by now, he sure hasn’t been paying attention.
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All those staffers can help make sure the 2% of voters that like him make it to the polls.
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Na, na, na, na
Na, na, na, na
Hey, hey, hey
Gooodbye!
We just don’t love you
The way that you love you
So please just kiss your ass
Goooodbye!
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In other news, deck chairs just went on sale. Great for your holiday decorating/rearranging needs!
Plz contact: captain@rms_titanic.com
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Anyone check on Reince yet?
He’s been radio silent for quite awhile.
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The ¡Jeb! organization continues to work hard at becoming the ¡Meh! campaign.
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Alternate headline: Bad money after bad.
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Google Images produces the photo below using that search term:
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Not much he could say. I doubt he gets out of bed much these days, or bothers to shave and get dressed when he does.
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Wait…there are other candidates besides the BIG MOUTH??? If I read and watched the MSM I would have thought no other candidates existed. Or maybe the MSM is running out of oxygen yet again.
Conventional political wisdom has been blown away and we’re in uncharted territory. The BIG MOUTH could get his fat ass elected and if that happens …
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The party’s over…
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If I’m wrong, mea culpa
However if I was told that three governors (two current and one former) were already gone from this race (before actual primaries), I’d do the same damn thing.
Damn Rubio is now Luke Skywalker, christ
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Winter is coming, Jeb! Bush
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Nearly everyone is convinced Trump just can’t actually end up being the GOP nominee. And if he somehow does he’ll still lose to the eventual Dem nominee, strictly by virtue of the “fact” a Trump Presidency is too ludicrous to happen in any rational plane of existence. But all this depends on Hillary beating him. What if Hillary doesn’t win the election? What if unforeseen events and the nation’s mood on election day see him triumph? Is Hillary beating him somehow a foregone conclusion? Really? If not it’s President Trump. Let that marinate in your mind for awhile.
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One of the great misconceptions about politics in the US is the idea that the candidate who spends the most has the best chance of being elected. There is absolutely no evidence that this is true, yet we never stop hearing it. In fact, there’s a good deal of evidence that the amount a candidate spends on an election campaign has almost no correlation with their chance of being elected.
As examples:
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Self funded campaigns are usually disasters. Over 90% of the candidates who self funded a campaign for either the US House or Senate between 2002 and 2012 lost. (Self funding defined as financing a campaign with at least 50% of the candidates own money.) This was true even for self funded candidates who outspent their opponents by millions of dollars.
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Super pacs have not been shown to have much influence on election outcomes. A study by the sunlight foundation showed that the amount spent by a super pac on a candidate in the 2012 election had almost no correlation with whether that candidate won.
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Jeb Bush has outspent all of his other Republican Opponents combined and yet can’t break double digits in the polls.
Obviously candidates need to spend at least enough money so that people know who they are and what they stand for. The evidence shows that, if a candidate spends more than that amount, that money is largely wasted. People will decide rather quickly if they’re in favor of a candidate and, if they don’t like someone, they won’t like that person any more if they see him or her in 20 commercials a day.
I should note that the amount of money spent on campaigns does have an effect on politics even though it doesn’t seem to directly affect election outcomes. When rich people bankroll a candidate’s campaign, they usually expect something in return if that candidate does win.
It’s a bit like betting on a horserace. When you place a big bet on a horse, your bet won’t affect whether that horse wins the race or not. If that horse does win, though, you get to cash in on that bet. Rich people make large political contributions so that they can buy politicians. They still aren’t able to buy election in the US (yet).
The fact that we never stop hearing this cliche about money buying elections in the US (even though the evidence is to the contrary) is probably because the media wants us to believe it’s true. After all, who gets most of that money in the end? The media, of course. They’re on the receiving end of nearly all of the money spent on election campaigns in the US (through political ads). Is it any wonder they want everyone to believe that a candidate can only win by outspending their opponent?
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There are actual candidates, but the list of establishment ones are slowly shrinking.
That wasn’t part of any GOP gameplan.
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