Oh No, The New Awesome Primary Thread

Ripping off Henry Ford . . .On the Democratic side you have many candidates to choose from, as long as you choose Hillary Clinton.

Republicans are a victim of their own gerrymandering. If we tally the House votes, more people voted for Democrats than Republicans, yet Republicans hold a huge majority in the House. This is due to gerrymandering. In order to hold on to these ill got gains, they pander to the base which is their ticket to winning the gerrymandered districts.When you move this to a national election, they simply don't have the votes. Moving hard to the right to ensure control of Congress only weakens their chances of winning the White House. Their strategy has been to sacrifice their chances at the White House in order to control Congress. They are afraid that if they play straight up on both fronts that they will lose both.

You could have a mix of the two systems. You could elect a President independently of Parliament, but still make it possible to have a vote of no confidence through the Parliament.Although, a lame duck President does make for interesting politics.Edited by Taq, : No reason given.

You mean other than doing a google search for "Santorum"?

I have found that there is an indirect relationship between someone's claim of "sticking up for the Constitution" and their actual support for the Constitution. The same goes for their knowledge of the Constitution. Most conservatives think Article III should be removed entirely from the Constitution, or even worse, they are unaware that it exists.

Cruz has always reminded me of Bill Murray. I keep waiting for him to break character.

Block traffic to Trump's casinos, no doubt.

Thankfully, that was not an opinion shared by the people who founded the United States of American back in the late 1700's.Martin Luther King, Jr. could have played it safe. African Americans could still be suffering from some form of segregation, but at least they wouldn't have been clubbed by policemen, right?