News 2016 U.S. Presidential election - the highs and lows

Jamie in Chile said:
The Telegraph is indeed very biased and right wing and pro-conservative, as is the Daily Mail, even though the latter is less explicitly political.
However we have the even more laughably biased and anti-conservative Daily Mirror to counteract things at the other end of the scale. The Guardian and Independent are also left leaning. Oh, and see your location says England. OK, I guess you already know this. Well, just for the benefit of others then.

I remember visiting the US one of the first times years ago and tuning into the hotel TV and Fox News came on. I just sat there in a daze, I honestly couldn't tell at first if I was watching some sort of spoof channel or if it was real. I was amazed because in the UK we have nothing as biased as that, it was hard to even believe. Pure propaganda.

I think US is worse for biased TV (although I largely base this on Fox News) and the UK is worse for newspapers.
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I'm in a fairly left-leaning state (New York). Even though I live in upstate New York, not New York City, my area is still liberal... so in a way, I welcome something like Fox News for balance.

Jeremy said:
Yeeeeah! Go Trump go! Make America Great Again!

I kid, I kid... But he's still better than slime ball extremist tea bagger Cruz, or Mr. Roboto Rubio.
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I can't see Trump actually getting elected. Even though he enjoys a certain amount of popularity, would enough people actually VOTE for him? I'm not saying it's impossible, but...
 
Tom said:
I'm in a fairly left-leaning state (New York). Even though I live in upstate New York, not New York City, my area is still liberal... so in a way, I welcome something like Fox News for balance.

I can't see Trump actually getting elected. Even though he enjoys a certain amount of popularity, would enough people actually VOTE for him? I'm not saying it's impossible, but...
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I have no idea, Tom. I wouldn't vote for him. But then again I've never voted for a Republican, and don't foresee it happening any time in the foreseeable future that is for sure.
 
I just saw an interview with Larry Sanders (Bernie's brother) on a UK political programme, he is apparently the health spokesperson for the Green Party in England. The Republican woman on the programme was saying that the "superdelegates" could make a lot of difference.
Is the Sanders Campaign Doomed by Superdelegates? : snopes.com

I also didn't realise Ted Cruz was only 45! I thought he was quite a bit older.

I read this interesting article the other day about Hillary Clinton.
I'm glad Sanders won New Hampshire, but I want Hillary Clinton to be president | Kate Harding | Opinion | The Guardian

I have to say that people on VV are being very civil, everywhere else I've been reading the people are having huge arguments about the election.:D
 
I find this article interesting :)

Hillary Reaches Base With AOL Login Page Ad

Hillary Clinton seems to have learned nothing from last night’s spanking in New Hampshire. Given that she lost every demographic except seniors, one would think that team Clinton would be putting its prodigious war chest into wooing the young (where the young count as anyone under 64). And yet this morning found this ad framing the AOL mail login page:​
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Does no one at the Clinton campaign know that AOL's mail users are predominantly people who signed up back in the days of telephone modems and software on CDs? There are probably more people who voted for Clinton in New Hampshire than there are millennials using AOL for their email in the entire country.​
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I openly disclose here that my first "Internet" access (other than the university access to EARN/BITNET via the university mainframe and the first "web browser" prototypes I saw in the Swiss ETH labs around 1993) was also with AOL around 1996, with a spanking new 14,400 baud modem :D
 
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I would like to know why Trump keeps going on about building a wall. I thought there already was a huge fence between the US and Mexico...
 
I do like some of Bernie's ideas, I just don't think they are feasible. I would love nothing more than for everyone to get a free college education. I believe a real education is the best way to combat hate and bigotry, and for the country (and the world) to prosper, I just don't think it's a possibility presently, nor are some of his other ideas.

Someone worked out what it would take to make his promises into reality (if he weren't going to be blocked by the Republicans to begin with), and yes, it shows it can't be done. I am worried that a lot of people are going to be voting based on a bunch of pie in the sky promises that can't possibly come true and we're going to be stuck with The Donald as president.

It's a long article but worth reading to the end. For me, it explained things very well, but I'm not an expert in economics, so I admit, I might be missing something important that was left out.

Dear Bernie: I Like You, But These Red Flags Are Too Frequent to Ignore
 
Calliegirl said:
It's a long article but worth reading to the end. For me, it explained things very well, but I'm not an expert in economics, so I admit, I might be missing something important that was left out.

Dear Bernie: I Like You, But These Red Flags Are Too Frequent to Ignore
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Well, I read it to the end, and it seemed to be pretty thin and attacking some isolated statements.
Definitely not substantial enough to convince ME to move my vote to Hilary Clinton, were I allowed to vote in the US.
 
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