2016 U.S. Presidential Elections: The Circus Is In Full Swing

[user1324865215]

More specifically:

Because of contribution limits, organizations that bundle together many individual contributions are often among the top donors to presidential candidates. These contributions can come from the organization's members or employees

 

[Beny]

Is there any presence of an alternative vote in the US system? My knowledge of the US system doesn't extend beyond the US house of cards remake.

 

[Dodes]

Alternative vote as in besides the Republicans (conservatives) and the Democrats (liberals)? If so, no, or at least I wouldn't say so.

 

[Kentucky 『 ＨＥＩＧＵＩ 』 James]

I assume Beny is talking about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting

I vaguely remember one of the second houses using a more complicated version of that system.

 

[Beny]

Nah, I meant is there another party like we have here in the UK which somehow I've not heard of. Well that must suck.

 

[Vermillion_Hawk]

Don't diss Ralph Nader like that.

 

[user1324865215]

He got no electoral votes, though.

 

[user1324865215]

By that reckoning John Hospers was relevant in '72, but he only got 3,674 votes.

Exactly. The system is broken beyond belief.

 

[SwadianJedi]

The electoral college is stupid anyway.

This. Very much this. Why can't we just dump the electoral college and just do a vote by popularity? People say "Oh, if you had a popular vote, all candidates would is just funnel money into the populated states," when they already do the exact same thing, just with weird states like Florida and Ohio.

 

[rebelsquirrell]

I wouldn't mind a king, we could determine there merit by having the candidates shove a egg in there ass and running from California to DC. The first to make it there with a unbroken egg shall be made King!

I can see myself now, pinching out the egg at the end only to reveal that the egg was hard boiled. When the others protest saying "I could have done that!" I will look down at there eyes with a laser focus of steely determination and say "Indeed you could have, BUT DID YOU?"

Then the musical refrain that will drown out the sound of the roaring applause shall be:

*The men will cheer, the boys will shout when I poop a hard-boiled egg out and I legalize being gay when Pennsylvania avenue is my home!*

 

[Mage246]

.... Anyway....

I'd say any discussion of candidates at the moment is premature to the extreme, as others have noted. There's just too much time between now and even the beginning of the real campaign events that actually decide who is and is not a practical candidate.

 

[Catholic]

First GOP primary debate is in the beginning of August, and most candidates have announced already. It's hardly premature.

 

[Mage246]

First GOP debate? Oh, you mean the one where most of the candidates are just attention whoring because they have no chance of winning? You believe the hype, it seems.

 

[Oakenshield]

Up to 14 and counting with Christie throwing his hat in the ring it seems.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/2016-elections/chris-christie-launches-campaign-site-three-days-before-his-announcement-20150627

 

[Almalexia]

By 2016 I'm pretty sure anywhere between a quarter and a third of America will have put in their candidacy for president.

 

[Dodes]

What's the record for most candidates anyway? We've got to be getting somewhere close.

 

[Oakenshield]

By 2016 I'm pretty sure anywhere between a quarter and a third of America will have put in their candidacy for president.

Yah as long as they meet the requirements i.e. white middle aged male

 

[Frankish Sinatra]

TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT 
I've heard he's going to take down ISIS single-handedly...
and don't forget how rich he is (not that he would let you)

 

[Kentucky 『 ＨＥＩＧＵＩ 』 James]

A President who once retweeted a recontexted image of josef fritzl and circlejerks with lonely soccer mom libertarians on twitter who spam in allcaps? I can't even snark about that.

 

[Oakenshield]

Funny thing is he isn't even the worst