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Discussion: U.S. Election 2016: Primary Season
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I bought Donald Trump's new book. Let me pull an all nighter 
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Clinton ahead in NH again.
Clinton vs. Rubio for the general is looking more and more likely, and I'm excited for her to win!
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the skull dragging 
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Republican Matt Bevin elected governor of Kentucky, 2nd GOP governor in 4 decades...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Republican Matt Bevin has defeated Democrat Jack Conway to become only the second Republican governor in the state in four decades.
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Apparently they didn't get the memo that the GOP is dead.
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Originally posted by Chanel.
Clinton ahead in NH again.
Clinton vs. Rubio for the general is looking more and more likely, and I'm excited for her to win!
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Rubio is the only one who stands a chance imo, since he'd probably win the latin vote etc, and he's not crazy like Trump or Carson so there's nothing to balance out the hoards of people who hate Hillary 
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Hillary vs. Rubio would be decently close, but I think Hillary would pull it off. She has the black vote and will still get a lot of the Latino vote as well.
If the election were now, she would win against every republican candidate except Carson (and that would be a tie).
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Crap. HERO went down in flames in Houston, Texas.
Jean Ann Esselink at The New Civil Rights Movement:
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HERO - the Houston city ordinance that would guarantee members of the LGBT community could not be discriminated against in matters of employment and housing - has gone down in flames lit by the religious right.
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Now, because of religious intolerance, not only gay and transgender citizens, but Blacks, Muslims, military veterans, a about a dozen other categories of people will be left unprotected against bigotry, racism, and discrimination.
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SHAME ON YOU, HOUSTON VOTERS WHO VOTE NO TO PROP 1!!!     
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I heard the Pro side had bad campaigning  The ones who wanted HERO gone went to minority areas while most of the Pro side didn't. Now the calls for a city boycott have started since Comic Con and the Superbowl are both scheduled to take place there.
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I heard the Pro side had bad campaigning The ones who wanted HERO gone went to minority areas while most of the Pro side didn't. Now the calls for a city boycott have started since Comic Con and the Superbowl are both scheduled to take place there. |
It was on the ballot and defeated so now people are going to try to boycott the Superbowl? Good luck with that.
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It was on the ballot and defeated so now people are going to try to boycott the Superbowl? Good luck with that.
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They're trying an Arizona/Indiana 2.0 and cranking up pressure, but I don't think much will be done. This is Texas, even without those events the state wouldn't be as shook economically as the others.
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Do any of y'all ever read Facebook comments on pro-Hillary posts? CNN posted some poll showing her ahead in SC and the top 20 comments were all some variation of "Because Hillary paid you to say this" or a decrying of polling methodology.
Do these intense Bernie supporters REALLY not get how similar they are to the Tea Party? Not ideologically, of course, but in their fervor. I don't think they understand just how many people are moderates.
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Elizabeth Warren is going in the Senate right now. drag queen
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I feel like the whole Rubio finances thing is a low-key class warfare thing, especially when Trump is the one criticizing him. Trump doesn't understand the struggles of people who are transitioning from working class to middle/upper class. Trump was born in a privileged class and doesn't understand that people who come from lower-class backgrounds often have financial difficulties that they need to sort out and work through.
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Jeb is at FOUR. PERCENT. in the latest Quinnipiac poll
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Originally posted by Citrus
Do any of y'all ever read Facebook comments on pro-Hillary posts? CNN posted some poll showing her ahead in SC and the top 20 comments were all some variation of "Because Hillary paid you to say this" or a decrying of polling methodology.
Do these intense Bernie supporters REALLY not get how similar they are to the Tea Party? Not ideologically, of course, but in their fervor. I don't think they understand just how many people are moderates.
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When Bernie loses they will see
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Hillary Clinton Raise Federal Minimum Wage To $12 Per Hour
U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday at two campaign stops in Iowa
that she would like to raise the federal minimum wage to $12 an hour from the current $7.25.
Clinton has said repeatedly she wants to raise wages for working Americans,
including by raising the minimum hourly wage, but she has rarely named a specific figure.
"I want to raise the federal minimum wage to $12, and encourage other communities to go even higher,"
Clinton told a campaign event in Coralville, Iowa.
"I think we can manage it, and I don't think there should be any unintended consequences to job creation,"
Clinton said at another campaign stop at Grinnell College.
Many U.S. cities and municipalities have established a higher minimum wage than the federal rate.
Bernie Sanders, who is Clinton's chief challenger for the Democratic Party nomination for the 2016 presidential election,
has said the federal minimum wage should be raised to $15 an hour.
"I'm more comfortable saying let's get to $12," Clinton said at Grinnell, "in a reasonable, expeditious way."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...illary-clinton
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Apparently they didn't get the memo that the GOP is dead.
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The Dems are doing horrible on the state and local level. Needs some sweeping changes but continuously losing Governorships will only keep them in the hole.
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screaming @ Poor Jeb 
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Originally posted by Radiance
The Dems are doing horrible on the state and local level. Needs some sweeping changes but continuously losing Governorships will only keep them in the hole.
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The Dem candidate was winning polls righ before, I know people shouldn't trust them too much but I wouldn't be surprised if turnout was abysmal. Like someone said: Liberals ask for change, but don't vote - especially in off years 
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