POTUS 2016

[peteblue]

There is no small irony that people (not just you) keep talking about Obama's approval rating being "historically low" or "lower than Bush" as a weapon to "prove" how dumb Americans are when the numbers they are referencing are completely incorrect.

Generally if you want to call someone stupid you shouldn't do it by saying a bunch of stupid stuff.

Obama's gallup rating is current 47%. http://www.gallup.com/poll/113980/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Job-Approval.aspx

Not only is this not even close to the lowest in history, not even close to how low GW Bush got, it's not even Obama's lowest rating!

Bush had 22% approval in his final year.

Obama's approval rating in his final year v. Bush in final year: Obama is currently over double GW Bush's rating (114% higher).

... oh and Clinton leads over Trump in a general with a decent lead; Trump doesn't even poll better than Sanders in a general election (tied last I saw ... and Sanders is a COMMUNIST! don't you know ... Trump can't even poll higher than a dirty red!).

Republicans are very, very dumb (at least the current batch) but "Republicans" do not equal "Americans" despite how much the rest of the world wishes it were true for the lulz.

Well if they are not all Republicans, the Queen would like her colonies back thank you very much.......

 

[SpurtingLesbian]

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[jal123]

Ban all Finns from Got, until the moderating team have worked out what to do with them!

 

[Azzurri]

He's absolutely nuts this Trump lid, isn't he? And alarmingly people seem to be lapping up all his nonsense.

 

[jal123]

He's absolutely nuts this Trump lid, isn't he? And alarmingly people seem to be lapping up all his nonsense.

Yanks for ya kid, these are the same head the balls that say arming children will stop high school massacres.

 

[Dylan]

The state of the republicans.

There is no way Trump is getting the nomination. No way. He is just using this as a big image boosting stunt. No, sad as it is, I think the nomination is going to another Bush.

Then Sanders takes the presidency with a decent majority over Bush.

What folks seem to forget, is the Democrat/Republican votes are guaranteed. 40/40. It is the remaining 20% who decide these elections, and I would like to think, that 20% has the nous to not elect the abnormally poor Republican bunch.

 

[chewee]

Democrat nominee almost certain to be Clinton sadly not Sanders (She'll walk it against any Republican with the exception of Rubio).

 

[ToffeeDoug]

Interesting bet on Skybet at the moment: Democratic candidate to win the presidency is 8/11 but a female to be the next President is 4/5. I suppose they are factoring in that Hilary might not be the nominee?

 

[TheFinnFan]

Ban all Finns from Got, until the moderating team have worked out what to do with them!

Excuse me?

 

[hallamblue]

There is no small irony that people (not just you) keep talking about Obama's approval rating being "historically low" or "lower than Bush" as a weapon to "prove" how dumb Americans are when the numbers they are referencing are completely incorrect.

Generally if you want to call someone stupid you shouldn't do it by saying a bunch of stupid stuff.

Obama's gallup rating is current 47%. http://www.gallup.com/poll/113980/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Job-Approval.aspx

Not only is this not even close to the lowest in history, not even close to how low GW Bush got, it's not even Obama's lowest rating!

Bush had 22% approval in his final year.

Obama's approval rating in his final year v. Bush in final year: Obama is currently over double GW Bush's rating (114% higher).

... oh and Clinton leads over Trump in a general with a decent lead; Trump doesn't even poll better than Sanders in a general election (tied last I saw ... and Sanders is a COMMUNIST! don't you know ... Trump can't even poll higher than a dirty red!).

Republicans are very, very dumb (at least the current batch) but "Republicans" do not equal "Americans" despite how much the rest of the world wishes it were true for the lulz.

I still don't understand how the majority of the house is against Universal Healthcare and Gun Control though? Obviously not every American is a gun toting, poor hating divvy, but enough of them seem to be to make it a problem. In this country Universal Healthcare is one of the only things we're proud of.

 

[SerenityNigh]

Interesting, but subject to change

 

[wm02]

Interesting bet on Skybet at the moment: Democratic candidate to win the presidency is 8/11 but a female to be the next President is 4/5. I suppose they are factoring in that Hilary might not be the nominee?

I think they are including Carly Fiorina in that 4/5

 

[Garrick]

Most political things I'm callous enough to laugh off at this point, but warmongering still does scare me. I'm not watching the debate tonight because I know it's mostly going to be a bunch of racists (most closeted, some increasingly in the open) talking about starting Yet Another War™.

As a country we've removed almost all checks on a president's ability to wage war unilaterally, and all presidential candidates with the sole exception of Sanders are warhawks of varying degrees.

For the Brits that may be perusing this thread, being a leftist in this country is pure agony when it comes to foreign policy. Our choices are basically Tories or UKIP.

 

[Huyton Layne]

Was behind a fella in the maccies drive thru and his bumper sticker was for Ben Carson. Wound down my window and laughed loudly and read his bumper sticker as he ordered.

 

[ilikecheese]

Christ! Rand Paul actually made sense there.