Meh, it's waaaaayyyy too early to pay this much attention. I usually wait until two weeks before the primary, and a month before the election before I really focus and do research.

I'm pretty excited about Bernie Sanders. So much so that I really can't even understand how this thread got made. He's energizing and coming out of left field. He's making Hillary have to adjust and as much as I would love the opportunity to vote for a woman (Elizabeth Warren), I'm not at all inspired to vote for Hillary. She's too tied in to the system at this point.

Regarding the Republican field...yeah, that's a pretty mixed bag. It'll be fun to watch, though, as Jeb and Trump trade barbs. The usual backdrop of conservative to ultra-conservative candidates is difficult to focus too much energy on as they usually put their feet in each other's mouths.

Obviously my bias shows...but I just don't think this year looks any less entertaining (both politically and comically) than others. Sometimes our general malaise and boredom makes us paint all the world with that brush.

“There is no basis to support the proposed third-party review of the server that hosted the hdr22@clintonemail.com account,” Kendall wrote. “To avoid prolonging a discussion that would be academic, I have confirmed with the secretary’s IT support that no emails…..for the time period January 21, 2009 through February 1, 2013 reside on the server or on any back-up systems associated with the server.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/gowdy-clinton-wiped-her-server-clean-116472.html#ixzz3fheUrcYm

Andrew Jackson's rival campaign brought up the fact that his marriage to Rachel Robards wasn't technically legal when it was first made. That was due to her first husband falsely having the local newspaper print a notice of divorce when he never finalized it, so the Jacksons actually married in good faith, and by the time Jackson was actually running for President Rachel Jackson's divorce had been finalized and they were legally married. Yet, his political rivals accused them of bigamy and shacking up. Twenty years earlier, Jackson shot Charles Dickinson dead in a duel over accusations that Rachel was a bigamist. Meanwhile, John Quincy Adams was accused of running illegal gambling operations on public money and handing over an American woman for sexual slavery to the Czar of Russia.  And thus modern campaigning was born.

Trump has always been a master manipulator. He's also been a running joke as for over thirty years. A certain loud contingent of the populace is hoping for a Reagan-style landslide with him.

Yeah, see...I think we're doing alright. Nobody has even TRIED to anybody.

the clinton foundation is a scam, they dont do others then themself good. they just spent a mini fraction of the money on heling people, the most is for other expenses.

Hell, Alexander Hamilton was killed in a duel by sittint VICE PRESIDENT Aaron Burr in 1804. Nobody batted an eye, Burr was never charged. Dueling was just the way they settled personal disagreements back in the day. :)

Where did I try to prove we live in Patriachy? The point is a women being in power isn't going to change the "feminist" opinion, because their definition doesn't rely on the idea that women cannot achieve power, but that society makes it harder for them to do so and undermines their power more frequently then it does men. 

I provided you with a hypothetical situation so there is nothing to source. If it plays of the "reality of the world", well that kind of reinforces the point. Whether people find issue with the reality is a completely different question, I never said it was good or bad thing but simply that it would fit the description of a Patriachy which in itself is a description not a word based in morally judgment

 "Patriarchy is a social system in which males hold primary power, predominate in roles of political leadership, moral authority, social privilege and control of property"

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarchy

Bernie Sanders is the most interesting candidate in AGES and is driving the discussion the way we need it to be driven.

Kind of a rematch from 1991... although the protagonists have changed a bit