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"this is not matt farah's foxbodymiata" (fantastic-mr-foxbody)
11/06/2015 at 02:50 • Filed to: oh caucus

Low energy my ass!

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Richtofen, Baron von Pickup > this is not matt farah's foxbodymiata
11/06/2015 at 03:11

Now, if we can just throw out the playbooks...

Yeah, that won’t happen.

CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist) > this is not matt farah's foxbodymiata
11/06/2015 at 03:27

Ben Carson has the reassuring voice of a doctor who’s about to give you a in depth rectal exam but while he’s doing it, he’s going to say cringworthy things about your parts, and connect that with the Nazis and Jesus.

this is not matt farah's foxbodymiata > CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist)
11/06/2015 at 03:42

I guess in some cases that could be helpful, as in telling you that you have some extremely painful fatal illness in such a chilled out way that you don’t even realize you got bad news till you’re home. Or perhaps distracting you from the shock of finding out you have colon cancer by giving you some friendly antisemitism to be angry about.

CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist) > this is not matt farah's foxbodymiata
11/06/2015 at 04:26

“You currently have 5 different diseases that are fighting as hard if the Jews had guns in the Holocaust. Oh yes, upon close inspection which adheres to Biblical law, your rectal anal chute has cancer, while this form of sodomy is allowed under a specific bible verse.”

PS9 > this is not matt farah's foxbodymiata
11/06/2015 at 05:10

Something interesting I read on electoral-vote.com today;

The media are so fixated on the national polls plus the early-state polls that almost everyone has forgotten what the Republican nomination is all about. It is about getting at least 1237 delegates to the Republican National Convention. The state that sends the most delegates to the convention is not Texas; it is California. And if you think California is going to vote en masse for Ben Carson, I have a bridge I want to sell you—and it is not the Golden Gate.

Delegate allocation is byzantine, but there are some basic rules. Before March 15, all Republican primaries must award delegates in proportion to the votes the candidates got. Starting March 15, states may elect to use a winner-take-all system, as Florida, Ohio, Arizona, and others have done. In some states, voting is by congressional district, with each district getting three delegates. About one third of all delegates are elected this way. As David Wasserman has pointed out this rule creates a rotten borough effect. For example, NY-15, in the Bronx, is heavily Latino and cast only 5,315 votes for Romney in 2012, but gets to pick three Republican delegates. AL-06, which covers Birmingham’s whitest suburbs and which gave Romney 233,803 votes, also gets to send three delegates. That means that a Bronx Republican has 44 times more influence than an Birmingham Republican. And since blue-state Republicans are much more moderate than red-state Republicans, the more moderate candidates may ultimately collect far more delegates than the national polls suggest they will.

This method of allocating delegates is not accidental. The RNC does not want someone like Donald Trump, Ben Carson, or Ted Cruz to be the nominee. It wants a center-right nominee who can win the general election. In effect, the rules have been set up to let the Republicans in California, Texas, Florida, and New York choose (or at least heavily influence the choice of) the nominee and not those in Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Idaho. As a consequence, the reports of the deaths of the moderate Republican candidates may have been greatly exaggerated.

This same issue came up in 2008 in reverse. Barack Obama understood that many of the low-population red states in the Midwest and West held Democratic caucuses that hardly anyone went to. He realized that if he could get 3,000 supporters to show up in states like Idaho, North Dakota, and Alaska, he could pick up most of the delegates, and that’s exactly what happened. Hillary Clinton didn’t understand the rules and was completely blindsided. She will not be making the same mistake again, of course.

this is not matt farah's foxbodymiata > PS9
11/06/2015 at 05:36

That’s a very good summation of, well, ONE of the many underlying weirdnesses of the American electoral system. I try to remind myself on a daily basis that in this phase of the election the campaign is really 90% meaningless entertainment—the most expensive reality show in history.