Amerikaanse verkiezingen 2016 #44

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Op vrijdag 11 maart 2016 18:04 schreef FritzWepper het volgende:
Begin langzaam te denken dat de wereld beter af was geweest als McCain in 2008 had gewonnen.

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Op vrijdag 11 maart 2016 18:24 schreef Monolith het volgende:
De Rubio campagne adviseert een stem op Kasich in Ohio:
http://www.politico.com/b(...)o-ohio-kasich-220635

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Op vrijdag 11 maart 2016 18:24 schreef Monolith het volgende:
De Rubio campagne adviseert een stem op Kasich in Ohio:
http://www.politico.com/b(...)o-ohio-kasich-220635

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Op vrijdag 11 maart 2016 18:24 schreef Monolith het volgende:
De Rubio campagne adviseert een stem op Kasich in Ohio:
http://www.politico.com/b(...)o-ohio-kasich-220635

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Op vrijdag 11 maart 2016 18:32 schreef L3gend het volgende:

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Rubio campagne is wel erg wanhopig geworden, die hopen nu dat Kasich hetzelfde zou doen in Florida.

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Op vrijdag 11 maart 2016 18:28 schreef Kaas- het volgende:

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Wat zwak eigenlijk.

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Op vrijdag 11 maart 2016 16:22 schreef DUTCHKO het volgende:

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LOL Die Romney...wat is dat toch een oetlul....

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JaredWyand twitterde op vrijdag 11-03-2016 om 04:42:52 WATCH #CruzCrew: Cruz's pastor calls for execution of gays before introducing himThis is unelectable#CNNDebatehttps://t.co/9NZYn4bWew reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 11 maart 2016 18:35 schreef studentje7.1 het volgende:

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Dit is gewoon de beste strategie. Zorgen dat Trump niet de meerderheid heeft geeft Rubio nog een kans op kandidaat te worden.

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kronayne twitterde op vrijdag 11-03-2016 om 17:55:21 Kasich spox Rob Nichols on Rubio news: "We were going to win in OH without his help, just as he's going to lose in FL o ours" reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 11 maart 2016 18:38 schreef martijnde3de het volgende:
Mijn god

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JaredWyand twitterde op vrijdag 11-03-2016 om 04:42:52 WATCH #CruzCrew: Cruz's pastor calls for execution of gays before introducing himThis is unelectable#CNNDebatehttps://t.co/9NZYn4bWew reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 11 maart 2016 18:38 schreef martijnde3de het volgende:
Mijn god

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JaredWyand twitterde op vrijdag 11-03-2016 om 04:42:52 WATCH #CruzCrew: Cruz's pastor calls for execution of gays before introducing himThis is unelectable#CNNDebatehttps://t.co/9NZYn4bWew reageer retweet

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Get ready, Donald Trump. You’re about to run into a buzz saw.

t last night’s debate, Donald Trump lorded it over his rivals with supreme confidence. Gone was narcissistic, rambling, insult-spraying Trump. In his place stood calm, unifying, presidential Trump. The Donald noted with satisfaction that his foes were mostly laying off of him. “I can’t believe how civil it’s been up here,” he said, by which he really meant, “all you losers have surrendered to me, and I’m loving every minute of it.” And Trump may be right: it’s possible that by next week, he will be on a path to winning the nomination outright.

But if there is anything last night’s debate really revealed, it’s that Trump may not have any idea what is about to hit him soon enough. If Trump does become the nominee, he will run into a buzz saw of reality otherwise known as the general election, and he may not know how badly mangled he’ll get.

Last night’s debate is being widely described as a shift in tone: rather than lob schoolyard insults at each other, the GOP candidates had a real policy debate. And that’s true. But in the process, the debate really revealed the limitations to the scrutiny Trump has faced on policy in the context of the GOP primaries — and that foreshadows, by contrast, just how brutal the scrutiny of Trump on policy will be in the general election, once those limitations are removed.

Consider a few of the main attacks that Trump had to endure last night. When Trump vaguely promised to keep entitlements solvent and to cut “waste, fraud and abuse,” Marco Rubio made a spirited case against Trump’s budgetary hocus pocus, repeatedly saying the numbers “don’t add up.” But Rubio was constrained from pointing out a key reason Trump’s numbers don’t add up — Trump’s tax plan would deliver a huge, deficit-busting tax cut for the rich — because Rubio’s plan does the same thing. Democrats speaking to a general election audience will be freer to attack Trump on this front.

[Why Donald Trump won’t be elected president]

Rubio also had a good moment when he offered a serious critique of Trump’s anti-Muslim demagoguery. But if anything, this was a reminder that throughout these primaries, Trump’s rivals have mostly refrained from such critiques. On immigration, the GOP candidates also had an intense debate over its impact on American workers, but Republicans have laid off offering a sustained moral and substantive case against Trump’s absurd plan for stepped-up mass deportations. After all, Trump’s demagoguing on Muslims and immigrants resonates among a lot of GOP primary voters. But Democrats will be freer to attack Trump’s xenophobia frontally, and very, very hard, before a general election audience.

Or consider how climate change played. Trump has regularly offered up laughable buffoonery on the issue, claiming that the Chinese invented the concept of global warming to rip off U.S. manufacturing or insisting that U.S. action is futile because “it’s a big planet.” Last night, Rubio sounded somewhat more sensible, acknowledging the realty of climate change, but he, too, was constrained into saying that America shouldn’t act, because other countries won’t (never mind the global climate deal), since apparently GOP primary voters don’t want to hear anything else. Before a general election audience, Dems will be freer to slice Trump’s climate absurdity to ribbons.

The point is that the GOP primaries are offering Trump a kind of cossetted environment, in which the parameters of acceptable policy debate before the GOP primary audience ensure that Trump is not being subjected to anything close to the scrutiny he’ll endure in a general election, on either his specific proposals or his lack of policy depth in general.

Last night, looking towards the general election, Trump predicted that he’ll “win it easily.” He can be forgiven for believing this, given how soft the policy scrutiny has been on him thus far. But should he win the nomination, he’s in for a pretty nasty awakening.

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Op vrijdag 11 maart 2016 18:43 schreef Montov het volgende:
Waarom komt dit nu pas naar voren?

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Op vrijdag 11 maart 2016 18:54 schreef OMG het volgende:
In de media, de linksige dan, is dat in november al eens voorbij gekomen.

Maar Ted Cruz heeft wel vaker geen moeite met de enorm twijfelachtige ideeën van z'n endorsers.

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Op vrijdag 11 maart 2016 19:00 schreef Montov het volgende:
Sanders heeft overigens maar 4 delegates meer gekregen in Michigan dan Clinton: 67 versus 63
Dit is voor beiden 'on track' volgens 538 voor een meerderheid. Dit volgens thegreenpapers.com, waar alle gedetailleerde info over delegates wordt bijgehouden.

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Op vrijdag 11 maart 2016 19:03 schreef L3gend het volgende:

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The Green Papers is idd een gave site, waar zeer gedetailleerd staat hoe de delegates verdeeld worden per staat per district

In Mississippie heeft Sanders slechts 4 delegates tegenover 28 voor Clinton. Sanders is in de helft van de districten niet boven de kiesdrempel gekomen. Sanders is afgelopen dinsdag, ondanks de overwinning in Michiga, 20 delegates extra op achterstand gezet van de al 200 delegates die hij achter stond

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Op vrijdag 11 maart 2016 19:44 schreef WheeledWarrior het volgende:
Trump wordt volgens mij gewoon de Republikeinse kandidaat. Alles wijst er op dat hij die voorverkiezing gaat winnen.

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Op vrijdag 11 maart 2016 18:56 schreef Monolith het volgende:
Obama werkt nog wat aan zijn carrière als cabaretier:

President Obama jokes about Ted Cruz at White House state dinner