Guess who is in fourth place among voters who are actually going to vote?

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Re: Guess who is in fourth place among voters who are actually going to vote?

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It should be telling that Rubio, Cruz, and Bush are down to basically nothing here. Their campaigns are mostly astroturf manufactured by the GOP establishment.
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Desert wrote: It feels good to be in second place.  ;)
We were winning until a few days ago.
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That is awesome.  Thanks Jake!!!
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Simonjester wrote: wavy gravy rockin the "nobody for president" campaign since the 1970s you gotta love a hippy clown activist..
I saw a "Nobody for President" campaign bus in NYC in the 1970's. I thought it was a great idea at the time, and would be happy to have that as an option on the ballot!
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ditto... i would have voted "none of the above" in almost every election since i have been old enough to vote...
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A vote for Rand is a vote for nobody because 5.7% for a guy who's been in the race more or less for 3 years and at one point was tagged as the front runner isn't very impressive. 
Simonjester wrote: voting for outsiders with the better principals in primaries, and throwing it away on libertarians/3 party candidates in the general election has been my version of a none of the above vote. :)
but it would mean more and be used by a lot more people if "none of the above" was actually on the ballot...
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clacy wrote: A vote for Rand is a vote for nobody because 5.7% for a guy who's been in the race more or less for 3 years and at one point was tagged as the front runner isn't very impressive.
Well, let's see. If a vote for Rand = a vote for nobody, then logically a vote for nobody = a vote for Rand.

Which means Rand is now in first place.

Thanks for pointing that out!
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Looks like another election I can plan on skipping.
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Are these electors?  BECAUSE NO ONE CARES ABOUT THE POPULAR VOTE, YOU STUPID MEDIA.

Stop falling for it, chutzpahheads.

And you can always write in "Nobody" on the ballot ticket to "waste" your useless vote.  That's what those lines are for!
Simonjester wrote: they don't count write in votes or report on them in the media, i think having "none of the above" (which isn't the same as nobody, it is "i don't want the crooks and loosers the political machine gave us to choose from") on the ballot would produce some interesting results, and give a voice to a feeling that is far more common than we might suspect, on the other hand there have been people wanting it since the 1970s... so i wont hold my breath...
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I suspect that fewer people watch the debates than we might imagine, and many of the ones who do watch them do so for exactly the same reasons that people watch WWE-style wrestling.

Trump is tapping into something that the rest of the candidates don't seem to understand.  I think that Cruz may sort of understand it, but not nearly as well as Trump.
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