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Who do you side with?

Um, I think I just found something interesting about that site.

https://www.isidewith.com/map/Ht8E/2016-democratic-primary#z5

Er... right. That can't possibly be accurate... can it? I mean, I prefer Bernie myself and all, but... wow.

One wonders if the lesson here is that Bernie is way more popular than Clinton, just not amongst people who actually get off their asses and, ya know, vote in the actual primary.

EDIT: Actually, it now occurs to me that perhaps the reason the numbers are so skewed is that there are probably as many Republicans as Democrats voting in this poll, and it's safe to say that Republicans hate Hillary more on the average. Still interesting, though.
 
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LOL ... apparently I side with Marco Rubio.


I'm really not sure he's Presidential enough but I guess we have similar views...


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Guys, I know we regularly waste billions of your dollars a year, but if you just give me some more...I promise I'll take good care of it.
 
Jamezz said:
What does "being Presidential" mean? I never got this concept.
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hmm, I guess someone who looks intelligent, can speak clearly, can inspire hope and optimism, is not an embarrassment when meeting with foreign officials, doesn't pick his nose in public.
 
JazzGal said:
hmm, I guess someone who looks intelligent, can speak clearly, can inspire hope and optimism, is not an embarrassment when meeting with foreign officials, doesn't pick his nose in public.
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I'll take someone that gets the job done over any of that. As if he wants to scratch his... hair, in public. Not to that extreme but you get the idea.
 
JazzGal said:
hmm, I guess someone who looks intelligent, can speak clearly, can inspire hope and optimism, is not an embarrassment when meeting with foreign officials, doesn't pick his nose in public.
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This...


As much as it pains me to say it but Rubio just looks a bit young & inexperience.. and in dealings with the Russians and the North Koreans of this world, I dunno how he'd fared.
 
#bern said:
Guys, I know we regularly waste billions of your dollars a year, but if you just give me some more...I promise I'll take good care of it.
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Better than people wasting all of your money on pointless wars. Let's hear the list of benefits that emerged from that front ;)
 
Bernie, Stein, Gary Johnson, Hillary, then Bloomberg. Trump is 6th. I actually don't hate most of Trump's policy, I just detest his temperament.
 
dalamon said:
Better than people wasting all of your money on pointless wars. Let's hear the list of benefits that emerged from that front ;)
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Cool. If you've read my posts, I want to cut defense spending and stop acting like the worlds police. Soooooo your post is pointless.
 
Dr. Jones said:
The fact so many got Sanders frightens me.

I am sincerely curious whether;
1) Americans are lazy, welfare-minded, robots
2) Political correctness has gone to a whole new and ridiculous level
3) We have been infiltrated by robots

There are no other possibilities.
I'm thinking it's likely mostly #2 - in more ways than one.
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I got Sanders at like 80% or smth so I think it's rigged. I disagreed with many of the stances he pushes for.
 
Jamezz said:
I think I've gone through this one before. Please tell me how the government has helped for instance a home owner make improvements in his own property to increase it's value, so that they can just turn around and take part of the capital you've gained when selling it. Give me a good reason for this to be justified. It's a blatant case of thievery that they legally get away with year after year.

Then they turn around and spend this tax money in stupid foreign interventions that haven't been approved in Congress and ****. Criminal activity in my book.
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If it's your primary residence then home sales are tax free. If it's an investment property then you get to depreciate improvements.
 
green said:
A million times this.

Here is my crazy idea:

Bring everyone home. Cut the defense budget by 70%. Take 10% and send it Canada for being our buffer to the North. Send 10% to Mexico for being our buffer to the south. Take 10% and create a military that WE need...not the military the rest of the world needs.

Take that 70% and invest it in America. Raise taxes on those making over $400,000 (the 1%) and escalate back to where it was pre-Reagan.

Let's get people educated in a way that they can actually succeed after. Yeah, we may lose a few Walmarts. Bring back small business. Bring back competition. Get rid of this crony capitalism and allow people to compete.
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I wouldn't vote for any of this nonsense.
 
fishonjazz said:
Some might just want to smoke pot, stay out of the middle east, get abortions, tax the hell out of the rich, and stop bailing out banks and wall street
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Dr. Jones said:
We agree on items 1, 2, and 5.
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We didn't bail out the banks. We bailed out our economy (and Detroit). Backstopping the lifeblood of our economy has been the role of government since 1933. The banks fully repaid TARP, including General Motor's share they didn't pay back in full, and then some. Plus, they've been fined billions upon billions more over the last 6 years.
 
fishonjazz said:
Some might just want to smoke pot, stay out of the middle east, get abortions, tax the hell out of the rich, and stop bailing out banks and wall street
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#bern said:
Granted this is just for FIC, but the rich are paying a pretty good amount. Example is from 2013, but people who earned $250,000 and above paid 48.9% of FIC. The top 50% of wage earners paid 97% of FIC, and the top 1% paid 38%. In simple terms, the highest quintile of earners received 19 cents back for every dollar paid in federal taxes, the lowest received $18 for every dollar paid in federal taxes, and the middle was at $2.23 for every dollar paid. Now this is just FIC, and obviously there are other changes that could be made (capital gains for one), but I think the popular rhetoric that the rich aren't taxed highly is a little misguided.
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I've been saying for several years that we need to let the Obama 58.67% increase on capital gains settle in before doing anything. Now that we have solid numbers, we're seeing the rich pay much, much more in taxes prior to Obama. Both as a % and overall #'s.

We are also at full employment yet we cannot cut a dime of federal spending? There is no balance in the tax teh rich stance. We did, now let's see how they avoid it and then adjust accordingly.
 
colton said:
I did this about 5 months ago and got Rubio. Did it again just now and still got Rubio.

Rubio 89%
Bush 86%
Cruz 84%
Trump 82% --> scary
Carson 78%
Bloomberg 76% --> would definitely consider voting for him as an independent if Trump gets the Republican nomination
Clinton 67%
Gary Johnson 66%
Sanders 61%
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Bump.

Guess Gary Johnson isn't that great of a match for me.
 
franklin said:
I've been saying for several years that we need to let the Obama 58.67% increase on capital gains settle in before doing anything. Now that we have solid numbers, we're seeing the rich pay much, much more in taxes prior to Obama. Both as a % and overall #'s.

We are also at full employment yet we cannot cut a dime of federal spending? There is no balance in the tax teh rich stance. We did, now let's see how they avoid it and then adjust accordingly.
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This article's a year old but it gives some good insight into just how misleading (and to me, untrue) those unemployment numbers (purposefully) are.

https://www.gallup.com/opinion/chairman/181469/big-lie-unemployment.aspx
 
I just retook this with the updated candidates. My results were 97% Clinton and 8% Trump. The others were scattered between the two with Stein coming in a close second and that Mormon guy that has gotten attention for some odd reason coming in really low at 28%. Not that who I was voting for has been in question for awhile since we got our nominees but this confirms that there is no chance I would vote for Trump when I disagree with him on almost every policy. The only things I completely agreed with him on from this quiz is requiring vaccines and limits on the amount donors can give candidates.
 
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