Republican Nomination Thread

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  1. KingRoach

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    Latest odds update and Rubio is in a free fall

    Candidate03/0903/0403/0303/0203/0102/2902/2602/2402/22
    Donald Trump2/71/41/81/61/61/55/181/32/3
    Marco Rubio25/14/16/19/24/17/25/22/15/4
    Ted Cruz9/210/112/118/140/140/135/150/120/1
    John Kasich10/120/135/140/150/140/140/160/150/1
    Ben Carson----750/1750/11000/1750/1750/1
    Mitt Romney40/150/145/150/1-----
    Paul Ryan100/175/175/1------
    Trump is down
    Rubio is way down and below both Cruz and Kasich
    Cruz is up
    Kasich is up
    Romney is up
    Ryan is down
     
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    No. I corrected myself. He's bad for business. He debatably bad at business.

    He's driven many companies into the ground and screwed over a ton of investors but he's always made out ok.

    So he might be great at business. Just bad for businesses.

    Edit: To his credit, he is a great salesman imho
     
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    Maybe he's trying to persuade Rubio and Kasich to drop out this week. There's a rumor that Rubio is about to drop out and will not attend Thursday's debate.
     
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    fixed.
     
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    Rubio has to win Florida if he stays in. If he doesn't do that he'll never be seriously mentioned as a Presidential candidate again. The thing that sucks is he already gave up his Senate seat to run. He'd have to really scramble to get that going again.
     
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    Rubio is down by double digits in the latest FL polls. Then, you add getting zero delegates last night and his campaign is as good as done. He has no chance in FL.
     
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    Which means he is best off getting out now and letting whatever the Establishment vote is coalesce around Kasich.

    I think the Establishment is much smaller than they think they are right now but they need everybody pulling one direction or they are going to get a nominee who is too extreme to win (Cruz) or one whose win would essentially be the coup de grace for them.

    This election is becoming about how the middle class was sold out by the Establishment in both parties. It's a watershed election. It's as likely to take down the Military Industrial Complex as any phenomenon in American politics ever will be.

    Notice how we're getting all these teasers about new weapons technology suddenly on display?

    That's desperate sales pitch to maintain the current spending level in an environment that just isn't going to support it.
     
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    Rubio's rally today....

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    Fox News Florida poll:

    Trump - 43%
    Rubio - 20%
    Cruz - 16%
    Kasich - 10%

    Fox News Ohio poll:

    Kasich - 34%
    Trump - 29%
    Cruz - 19%
    Rubio - 9%
     
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    Cruz needs to stop being a douchebag.

    He loses 3 out of 4 states, then goes out, and with a STRAIGHT FACE says, he's proven time and time again, he can beat Trump...

    How fucking tone deaf can you be, lying like that by DC politicians, is Why Trump is in the cat bird seat...

    SMMFH.
     
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    Some smart mf er said that two weeks ago..lol
     
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    It aint about the MIC anymore.

    Banks. Arbitrage, etc..Wall Street is the MIC of the modern age. No defense contractor was ever deemed too big to fail.
     
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    They designed the Joint Strike Fighter to be too expensive and politically difficult to cancel.

    They did this by putting the manufacture of various parts in such a diverse number of states that it would be politically impossible to kill it without effecting a large number of Senators and House members in the process.

    The JSF is too big to fail.

    There are other projects that have been designed in similar ways but not to the same extent.

    Predictably the JSF appears likely to have a cost per unit far above the original projection, because if you cannot cancel the program, well, then you can rob the government blind in fulfilling it.
     
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    Anyone else tired of Cruz saying the same line over and over again "repeatedly beating Donald Trump... blah blah blah"? He repeatedly loses 2 out of 3 or 3 out of 4, yet he keeps saying that he's repeatedly beating Trump.
     

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