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Trump or Clinton

Trump 444 33.59%
 
Clinton 487 36.84%
 
Undecided 109 8.25%
 
Not of age or not American 282 21.33%
 
Total:1,322

Trump



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Americans, please realize voting 3rd party is an option



i am not american
for the good of the word : both are bad
for fun : trump



I probably won't vote in general election. Don't like either and don't like the electoral college.  Rather see just popular vote for Presidential election.  They say your vote counts but if your state votes for other party then your vote doesn't count.  A vote for anyone not Republican in Texas for the Presidential election is like not voting at all.



taikamya said:
RolStoppable said:
Trump, because he is a man.

Now that's a good reason to vote for someone.

A conservative man who preaches about religion and against scientific development. Yay! Dark ages, here we go! (Again)

I've heard Trump say many things, but religious or anti-science, not so much. Now Cruz, yes, that would be true of that guy, but I can't attribute that to Trump.  



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Bernie or bust! These candidates are a joke. Bernie is a good guy that actually cares for others. What many don't understand is he does not want to give handouts, he wants to reallocate taxes to roadways, education, and healthcare (Really should be basic human rights anyhow) rather than towards wars and military spending. Having a defensive military and cutting that spending by the amount that Bernie wants to would STILL leave America with the largest military in the world. I personally would prefer our taxes go towards bettering our people and keeping them alive, not only that, Bernie helped Vermont immensely while he was there, and could definitely help this country move in the right direction.

Hillary is a flat out liar, being investigated by our own FBI because she doesn't understand what the word "confidential" means. And Trump is a celebrity who knows nothing about government or how to keep peace, we will be blown to smithereens in probably about 6 months if he becomes president.



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Bernie Sanders.



Jimbo1337 said:
padib said:

 

The voting system in USA is so complicated and strange. It is as if it was from the 18th century.



Wonktonodi said:
Jimbo1337 said:

He didn't make it because the primaries in the Democratic Party is rigged.  Yet you have people on here who laugh at the Republican Party and say that this is not a republic but a democracy.  

Bernie Sanders just recently stated that he has gained 45% of the pledged delegates and 7% of the superdelegates and called the whole system rigged as well.  The superdelegates are PLEO or Pledged Leaders and Elected Officials.  That means that current and prior people in the Senate, Governors, House of Representatives, Congressman, former Presidents, former Vice Presidents etc get to vote for their candidate of choice.  I believe there are some 800 superdelegates depending on how many people live/die.  So now you have Hillary Clinton (an elite) versus Bernie Sanders (outsider) in a proportional based pledged delegate system with a winner take all superdelegate system.  Of course these PLEOs will and forever vote for the insider as opposed to the outsider each and every time.  That is not to say that you wont have some superdelegates vote for the outsider.  I don't know if this is always true, but I did see that the governor of Hawaii had to step down from her position if she was to vote for Bernie Sanders.  That is why the entire system is rigged because no candidate can beat Hillary Clinton if she starts out with 800 delegates out of the necessary 2400 delegates to win the primary and be the democratic nominee.  But of course they didn't want to give all of the superdelegates to Hillary right away because then things would look really really rigged.  So they dribbled in some superdelegates in the beginning to give her a push so as to ensure she wins the majority of the pledged delegates going forward.  Here is the "little" push that I am talking about:

At the very beginning of the race, only two states had voted.  Those two states were Iowa and New Hampshire.  Bernie Sanders tied Hillary Clinton in Iowa and CRUSHED Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire.  One would look at that and say that Bernie Sanders must be winning in the delegate count.  But this is where your great democracy on the democratic side came into play.  Bernie Sanders had 44 delegates (I believe) after those two states while HIllary Clinton had 394 delegates!  Pfft some democracy.  So now it is my turn to laugh at every single democrat while they have a contested convention that will surely break apart their party. Meanwhile the republicans, who started with seventeen candidates and had a true democracy,  elected the outsider Donald Trump.  So I will take my "Republic" over your laughable "Democracy" any day.

You do know he's Canadian?

As for the point you were making, while the democratic party does have superdelagates, in 2008 when the media was reporting delagate count they counted them right along with the pledged delagates, this year they hold off mentioning the superdalates in reports until after they mention the other count.

As for the republican system it varies widely state to state, but many are winner take all, even if the winner doesn't get over half the votes. So Trump got all the delages for some states even if over 60% of the voters didn't vote for him. If it had been a more proportional system the whole time, Trump might have been stopped. If the democrats had the winner take all system in the same states the republicans do, Hilary would already have won the democratic primary.

Why does it matter if he is Canadian?  

They counted them along with the other delegates because you had Hillary Clinton (Elite) going against Barack Obama (Elite).  Both had a reasonable amount of superdelagates unlike what is currently being seen where Bernie Sanders only has 7%.  Hillary Clinton was leading in superdelegates up until May 11, 2008.  In 2008, they sat down and thought who would be the better candidate, the first black president or the first woman president?  Seeing as how Barack Obama was holding bigger rallies and had all of the energy, they went with him and switched over these unbound superdelegates to him causing him to clinch and become the demoractic nominee on June 3rd 2008.

The reason why they are holding off in mentioning the superdelegates this time because, as I stated before, Bernie only has 7% of the superdelegates. What would be the point for some delegate analyst to go up and discuss the rigged delegate count?  Let's look at Bernie Sanders chances of winning the election down 350 delegates just after two states!!  Or even better, the next state was Nevada where Hillary won by like 5% of the vote over Bernie but then gained like 108 delegates that day (mainly due to MORE superdelegates).  After three states it was something like 508 delegates to Bernie Sanders 77 delegates.  Imagine an analyst going up to the board and discussing Bernie Sanders chances of winning and becoming the Democratic Nominee where he is down 431 delegates just after 3 states!  That would be completely laughable.  So it is no surprise to me and many others to see these analysts instantly say "well let's just forget about the superdelegates at this point".  Holding off in mentioning these superdelegates doesn't eliminate the fact that you have a rigged "democratic" nominating process.

You had some states that were proportional, winner take all, and hybrid states.  The hybrid states turned into winner take all if one candidate won the majority of the vote.  Each state decided on their own rules, which is why you see such diversity.  Of course you do have some instances where the elites wanted to shift the delegates in favor of the elite candidates.  Take for instance Florida's winner take all state in an election that had Jeb Bush, governor of Florida, and Marco Rubio, senator of Florida.  Those 99 delegates were supposed to go to one of those candidates, but ended up backfiring and going to Doanld Trump.  I am not saying that the republican side is perfect, but at least the voters could elect an outsider, unlike what is perceived to be impossible on the democratic side.

**Edit**  If the Democrats had some winner take all states, at least they would know ahead of time what was at stake and could therefore campaign harder in those given states.  But people like Bernie Sanders have absolutely ZERO control over these superdelegates.  



StarOcean said:
Just give Obama another 4 years

Yes please