🇺🇸 💣 The US Presidential Race

It is indeed confusing.

The highlighted, at the most basic level, is kind of true.

It’s a mix of party officials, and ublic. The exact process differs state by state - so it’s hard to make a blanket statement. In most cases, it’s a state-wide vote by registered members (this is a thing in the states, it varies a bit to being a member of a party, and is more prevalent) of each state.

There’s also caucuses which are weird and messy. These are basically meetings of party officials (of a state) that decide which candidate gets their vote.

These are generally counted up and weighed on state-by-state basis (dependent on size/population of state) and this is culminates in the circus of the party covention where Candidates are officially selected.

Well, can you imagine many PM hopefuls introducing someone at Glasto?

The other answers above are far more complete than mine – but to distill things down to the core essense – it comes down to the candidate with the most money to spend on their campaign, and who is prepared to suck off AIPAC the most. :lou_wink_2:

So Hillary triumphs in New York and Trump gets his campaign back on track.

Looking difficult for Sanders now.

Susan Sarandon on Hillary and Sanders.

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More Susan Sarandon.

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More Susan Sarandon.

I believe yong Bazza has been saying the same for ages, but please what does he know…

Yeah, but you’ve never excited me with a stirring rendition of toucha-toucha-touch-me in your underwear.

Such things weigh into political thinking.

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Trump’s latest attack on Cruz. Your dad knew Lee Harvey Oswald. I shit you not.

You know, I’ve met plenty of Americans. They’ve anearly all been fine, normal, intelligent individuals. How on earth can they end up with this crock of shit as a bunch of pontential leaders? :lou_sad:

What would we do if presented with this kind of nightmare? I mean, Cameron and Miliband were not great options, but Trump v Clinton?

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Cruz has jumped out of the race leaving Trump for the republican nomination

Lets face it the free world is fucked.

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I think he was on a hiding to nothing in any event. The only reason that Cruz was still in the race was because he had good connections in the states where popular mandate did not decide the outcome.

Still hoping that Bernie Sanders can pull a rabbit out of the hat so we can have a contest in which one of the candidates is desirable. I still think there’s a chance that Hillary could end up being a worse President. She wants it far too bad, and has been bought by far too many.

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And that’s what happens when you let your presidential candidates be chosen on how much money they have…

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Trump is now on his own, he’ll be up against Clinton, two of the bloodiest ever political battles are taking place this year. Crazy.

I think Trump will get annihilated in a wider election, he’s far too disliked outside of his core demographic to pull in any swing voters and they’ll all gravitate towards Clinton, being a nice populist candidate with centre-right views. It’s been a foregone conclusion for a long time though, Trump bullied every other candidate in the race with ease which just shows the calibre of politician the Republicans were putting up for office…

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Aye, there was literally no ‘good’ candidate for the GOP.

Says a lot when a Bush is one of the more sensible ones.

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Originally posted by BTripz

And that’s what happens when you let your presidential candidates be chosen on how much money they have…

The essence of the core issue in a nutshell.

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Originally posted by @SuperMikey

It’s been a foregone conclusion for a long time though

Since the inception of the farce.

Money dictates in this Country as well, politicians are not well paid for many who have their qualifications, they do it for power, granduer and opportunitiies outside of the house. Osbourne is very very wealthy but so are many of all politicians dipping into lobbying, private speaking and fiddling expenses.

How many politicians are from real life? Few, even the Labour party through political correctness is fucking off the unions which founded them and whacking in quotas of yes men/women university people.

A sham the World over of handshakes and nods. Every Country is corrupt, just some more than others.

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