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Recent content by Ben Crowell

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    impressions

    I've been trying out this forum for the last week or so and have decided it's not for me. I thought some feedback might be helpful. My impression is that there is very little actual fact-based debate on this site. A lot of posts are just people posting one sentence to affirm their ideological...
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    What did Trump really say about war with Mexico?

    I could have used the info without the personal attack. Plonk.
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    Why are unions flirting with Trump?

    It would make more sense for them to support Sanders, who is also a prominent opponent of free trade. But in any case, it sounds to me like this is only the Teamsters, the Teamsters are doing it because of an idiosyncratic grudge against the Clintons, and the part about SEIU was completely...
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    What did Trump really say about war with Mexico?

    What did Trump really say about war with Mexico? RCP has this partial transcript: Woodward Grills Trump: Would You Be Willing To Go To War To Make Mexico Pay For Wall? | Video | RealClearPolitics Politicalo has this, which includes even more inflammatory remarks about nuclear war and comparing...
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    Why are unions flirting with Trump?

    Can you show us sources for this? All I found for SEIU by googling is that their leadership is alarmed because there seems to be support among their members for Trump. These articles seem to be on right-wing sites such as Breitbart, which makes me wonder if it's even real. Since 1/4 of SEIU's...
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    Lets Compromise-Vote Libertarian

    I'm basically a libertarian (or classical liberal) in my political outlook, but I don't see the Libertarian Party in the US as anything worth paying attention to, because they never get enough votes to be relevant. The most interesting libertarian politician we have in the US right now is Rand...
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    Donald trump will be the next president of the united states

    In January there were plenty of people not paying any attention to Trump. Since then, the nonstop flood of media coverage has ensured that everybody in the US knows about Trump, in excruciating detail.
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    Donald trump will be the next president of the united states

    A running average of the most recent polls for a hypothetical Clinton-Trump matchup shows Clinton winning by a large margin. Of course the election is far off, and a lot could happen between now and then. However, voters know a lot more about these two candidates than they normally would in...
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    Rnc 2016=dnc 1968?

    Trump says, "I think you'd have riots" if the convention picked someone else over him. "If you disenfranchise those people, and you say, 'I'm sorry, you're 100 votes short' ... I think you'd have problems like you've never seen before. I think bad things would happen." --Washington Post...
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    Dem primary states prediction

    Are we looking at different poll data? RCP shows Sanders losing by huge margins in all three of those states: RealClearPolitics - Election 2016 - Pennsylvania Democratic Presidential Primary -- 23% in Pa. RealClearPolitics - Election 2016 - New York Democratic Presidential Primary -- 21% in NY...
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    "i hate donald trump because"

    We need to put the "low-information voter" thing to bed. The nonstop media attention lavished on Trump means that there are no LIVs left when it comes to Trump. People know more about him than they've ever known about any presidential primary candidate. When people support Trump, it's because...
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    "i hate donald trump because"

    A lot of people seem to be indulging in this kind of wishful thinking. Trump is a demagogue. If you vote for a demagogue, what you end up with isn't a tame spaniel that sits in your lap. What you get is a demagogue.
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    Fun campaign 2016 Presidential merchandise.

    Considering that Mark Twain is dead, I don't think there's anyone capable of doing the type of bitter satire that would work for me right now as humor. I guess the good news is that if Trump is elected, we'll see a resurgence of the ethnic joke as an art form. So a Muslim terrorist and a...
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    Could Trumpism or Sanderism evolve into a third party?

    Jennifer Rubin, a conservative blogger with the Washington Post, suggests that we should scrap the GOP and start over, i.e., that mainstream Republicans should become the third party. Unfortunately, this is probably unrealistic, because there are clearly only a few Republicans who are brave...
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    Rnc 2016=dnc 1968?

    Washington Post:
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