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February 9, 2014 at 9:31 pm
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/09...56385.html
Quote:BANGOR, Maine -- U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas on Saturday won an unofficial straw poll to be the 2016 GOP presidential nominee at the Penobscot County Republican caucus at Husson University.
Quote:Cruz led the field with an aggregate 107 points followed by U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky with 31 points, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota with 28 points, U.S. Sen. Mike Lee Utah with 18 points and Gov. Paul LePage with 15 points.
"Obviously this is not a scientific official poll," Berardelli, who represents Penobscot County on the state GOP committee, said in a press release. "It was strictly for fun, but it gives a good snapshot-in-time of the thinking from across the ideological spectrum,
Yeah...it sure delivers the latter!
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RE: Crazy Republicunts
February 9, 2014 at 10:07 pm
Lol, Ted Cruz makes Mitt Romney look like a liberal.
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RE: Crazy Republicunts
February 10, 2014 at 12:20 pm
2014 is still a bit early to be picking the primaries. I mean, back in 2010, everyone thought Rick Perry or Michelle Bachmann would win the GOP ticket and they were two of the earliest departures.
My personal opinion, though, if the election were today, Ted Cruz would poll well with the Republican base, but when you get to the movers and shakers of the party who actually understand how politics work, they'll nix him so fast the whole damn party will get whiplash. A much safer candidate would probably be Marco Rubio; they lost the last election largely because of the hispanic vote and Rubio would help them with that vote.
Still, Ted Cruz stands a chance of getting the nomination; the GOP has done crazier things lately. If he wins, though, the whole damn party will suffer for it. Do they even realize how much they're scaring away moderates? Or do they realize how important moderates are to senate or presidential elections?
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RE: Crazy Republicunts
February 10, 2014 at 12:51 pm
(February 10, 2014 at 12:20 pm)TaraJo Wrote: 2014 is still a bit early to be picking the primaries. Yes, but with the advent of a 24/7 news cycle (multiplied by dozens, if not thousands, of news channels/sites) you can start vetting candidates as soon as the previous election is over. I wonder if these early polls are a way of propping up 'phantom' candidates who are there specifically so that they can draw media fire and protect whoever the actual candidates will be.
Mind you, pulling an unknown candidate out of your hat doesn't always work. Just ask John McCain.
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RE: Crazy Republicunts
February 10, 2014 at 12:53 pm
(February 9, 2014 at 9:31 pm)Minimalist Wrote: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/09...56385.html
Quote:BANGOR, Maine -- U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas on Saturday won an unofficial straw poll to be the 2016 GOP presidential nominee at the Penobscot County Republican caucus at Husson University.
Quote:Cruz led the field with an aggregate 107 points followed by U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky with 31 points, U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota with 28 points, U.S. Sen. Mike Lee Utah with 18 points and Gov. Paul LePage with 15 points.
"Obviously this is not a scientific official poll," Berardelli, who represents Penobscot County on the state GOP committee, said in a press release. "It was strictly for fun, but it gives a good snapshot-in-time of the thinking from across the ideological spectrum,
Yeah...it sure delivers the latter!
Thinking? What thinking?
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RE: Crazy Republicunts
February 10, 2014 at 12:55 pm
(February 10, 2014 at 12:51 pm)Tonus Wrote: Mind you, pulling an unknown candidate out of your hat doesn't always work. Just ask John McCain.
I think his choosing Palin as his running mate was when the Republican party went from being kinda stupid to batshit crazy. Thing was, he had to pick a fundamentalist Christian to be his running mate just to keep that wing of the party happy. He also had to pick a woman to try to lure former Hillary supporters into voting for him (and having heard talk from some women/feminists, I can certainly see why he thought that would work). Since he needed a fundamentalist, Republican woman, it really slimmed his choices down.
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RE: Crazy Republicunts
February 10, 2014 at 12:59 pm
I think the Republicans will lose seats. Their base is shrinking, but they're still playing to it instead of broadening their appeal.
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RE: Crazy Republicunts
February 10, 2014 at 1:20 pm
(February 10, 2014 at 12:59 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: I think the Republicans will lose seats. Their base is shrinking, but they're still playing to it instead of broadening their appeal.
In the senate? Yeah, they'll probably lose seats there. The house is a different story. House districts are so gerrimandered that the only way to lose your seat there is in the primaries where you lose from not being extreme enough. If Washington would ever do something to eliminate gerrimandering, we could probably do away with a lot of the extremism that's become such a big problem in our nation.
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