(02-18-2016 11:01 AM)JSA Wrote:  

(02-18-2016 10:32 AM)JustAnotherAustinOwl Wrote:  Nate Silver channels Soul Asylum:

“runaway trump, never goin’ back /
right way on the outsider track /
seems like rubio should be getting somewhere /
somehow cruz is neither here nor there”

The latest polls show Trump with a big lead in SC but Cruz with a lead nationally.

I think Silver posted that before the poll with Cruz leading came out. (NBC I think?) Anyway, CBS just released one with Trump leading Cruz 36-19. National polls are of debatable importance in any case. The idea of a pundit using Soul Asylum just amused me. : )

And now Trump is in a twitter war with the Pope?

We are living in Bizzaro World.

A moment of sanity.

Jeb!'s out. Suspending campaign right now.

So, half of "no more Clintons, no more Bushes" is done. Now for the other half. Get Hilliary to drop out (or..more likely, arrest and indict her. Put her in Guantanamo)!

(02-20-2016 08:51 PM)GoodOwl Wrote:  Jeb!'s out. Suspending campaign right now.

So, half of "no more Clintons, no more Bushes" is done. Now for the other half. Get Hilliary to drop out (or..more likely, arrest and indict her. Put her in Guantanamo)!

The wrong half.

This article points out that if Rubio, Kasich, etc. had done what Trump has done so far in terms of primaries and delegates, they would be considered the prohibitive nominee and the race would be over. Yet people are still doubting he will win the nomination.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/...story.html

Having said that, I'm still having a hard time believing he's going to get the nomination.

Rubio captures the coveted Donnie Wahlberg endorsement.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massach...story.html

But can he wrap up the endorsements of the other NKOTB?

(02-22-2016 10:11 AM)JustAnotherAustinOwl Wrote:  This article points out that if Rubio, Kasich, etc. had done what Trump has done so far in terms of primaries and delegates, they would be considered the prohibitive nominee and the race would be over. Yet people are still doubting he will win the nomination.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/...story.html

Having said that, I'm still having a hard time believing he's going to get the nomination.

I for one am excited to welcome our first reality TV star president.

Perhaps he will bring his experience with him to the Oval Office. He can start having states compete to stay in the Union and bring in the losing group of states' governors and deliberate about which one will be fired and forced to fend for itself as a sovereign nation.

(02-22-2016 10:52 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  . He can start having states compete to stay in the Union and bring in the losing group of states' governors and deliberate about which one will be fired and forced to fend for itself as a sovereign nation.

I think Texas should take a dive in this completion.

Curious if the Republicans/Republican leaners here will vote for Trump in the general if he's the nominee.

UH trumps Rice again: gets republican debate this Thursday.

Why did we not try for it, or did we? We hosted the 1990 World economic Summit under GHW Bush, after all.


The University of Houston has been selected by CNN and Telemundo as site-host of a Republican presidential primary candidates’ debate on February 25, 2016. As a Carnegie-designated Tier One public research institution, UH is committed to providing affordable and outstanding educational excellence to over 42,000 students. Hosting such an important public discussion about our country’s future – one that impacts our community locally, nationally and abroad – is precisely in line with our steadfast commitment to leadership and our ongoing academic pursuit of scientific, political and social discourse.



The 16th G7 Summit was held at Houston between July 9 and 11, 1990. The venue for the summit meetings was the campus of Rice University and other locations nearby in the Houston Museum District.

The Group of Seven (G7) was an unofficial forum which brought together the heads of the richest industrialized countries: France, West Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada (since 1976) and the President of the European Commission (starting officially in 1981). The summits were not meant to be linked formally with wider international institutions; and in fact, a mild rebellion against the stiff formality of other international meetings was a part of the genesis of cooperation between France's President Giscard d'Estaing and West Germany's Chancellor Helmut Schmidt as they conceived the first Group of Six (G6) summit in 1975.

Query: If it is Trump v. Clinton, does Bloomberg get in the race?

(02-22-2016 10:17 PM)NolaOwl Wrote:  Query: If it is Trump v. Clinton, does Bloomberg get in the race?

Didn't Bloomberg say he'd only get in if it was Sanders v. Trump? I suspect Wall Street isn't overly worried about a Pres. Clinton.

Jeb Bush, human being: NYT campaign reporter's farewell

(02-22-2016 10:33 PM)ausowl Wrote:  

(02-22-2016 10:17 PM)NolaOwl Wrote:  Query: If it is Trump v. Clinton, does Bloomberg get in the race?

Didn't Bloomberg say he'd only get in if it was Sanders v. Trump? I suspect Wall Street isn't overly worried about a Pres. Clinton.

Jeb Bush, human being: NYT campaign reporter's farewell

Yes, he did. But with both Hillary's and the Donald's negatives so high, could he change his mind? I don''t see Jeb's voters going for either one of them. Other more moderate, establishment type GOPers might feel the same way.

(02-22-2016 10:50 PM)NolaOwl Wrote:  

(02-22-2016 10:33 PM)ausowl Wrote:  

(02-22-2016 10:17 PM)NolaOwl Wrote:  Query: If it is Trump v. Clinton, does Bloomberg get in the race?

Didn't Bloomberg say he'd only get in if it was Sanders v. Trump? I suspect Wall Street isn't overly worried about a Pres. Clinton.

Jeb Bush, human being: NYT campaign reporter's farewell

Yes, he did. But with both Hillary's and the Donald's negatives so high, could he change his mind? I don''t see Jeb's voters going for either one of them. Other more moderate, establishment type GOPers might feel the same way.

I can see an opening for a third party candidate, but I can't see it being Bloomberg. I just don't see a base for him.

I saw a Rubio ad this morning. A vote for him would "send a message to the establishment."

(02-23-2016 09:56 AM)JSA Wrote:  

(02-22-2016 10:50 PM)NolaOwl Wrote:  

(02-22-2016 10:33 PM)ausowl Wrote:  

(02-22-2016 10:17 PM)NolaOwl Wrote:  Query: If it is Trump v. Clinton, does Bloomberg get in the race?

Didn't Bloomberg say he'd only get in if it was Sanders v. Trump? I suspect Wall Street isn't overly worried about a Pres. Clinton.

Jeb Bush, human being: NYT campaign reporter's farewell

Yes, he did. But with both Hillary's and the Donald's negatives so high, could he change his mind? I don''t see Jeb's voters going for either one of them. Other more moderate, establishment type GOPers might feel the same way.

I can see an opening for a third party candidate, but I can't see it being Bloomberg. I just don't see a base for him.

I saw a Rubio ad this morning. A vote for him would "send a message to the establishment."

It would. That the establishment is preferar to a whacko who is good at business but has a hard time speaking to the American people above a kindergarten level! Haha, I crack myself up.

(02-23-2016 10:23 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(02-23-2016 09:56 AM)JSA Wrote:  

(02-22-2016 10:50 PM)NolaOwl Wrote:  

(02-22-2016 10:33 PM)ausowl Wrote:  

(02-22-2016 10:17 PM)NolaOwl Wrote:  Query: If it is Trump v. Clinton, does Bloomberg get in the race?

Didn't Bloomberg say he'd only get in if it was Sanders v. Trump? I suspect Wall Street isn't overly worried about a Pres. Clinton.

Jeb Bush, human being: NYT campaign reporter's farewell

Yes, he did. But with both Hillary's and the Donald's negatives so high, could he change his mind? I don''t see Jeb's voters going for either one of them. Other more moderate, establishment type GOPers might feel the same way.

I can see an opening for a third party candidate, but I can't see it being Bloomberg. I just don't see a base for him.

I saw a Rubio ad this morning. A vote for him would "send a message to the establishment."

It would. That the establishment is preferar to a whacko who is good at business but has a hard time speaking to the American people above a kindergarten level! Haha, I crack myself up.

When Hillary knocks off Sanders and he endorses her and IF she's not perp walked, then I suspect her negatives will go down. Enough to beat Rubio-Kasich? (if Kasich cuts a deal before Trump can't be stopped). Assume the combo of FL, OH goes to the R's - that's a tough ticket to beat for the D's.

(02-23-2016 11:36 AM)ausowl Wrote:  

(02-23-2016 10:23 AM)RiceLad15 Wrote:  

(02-23-2016 09:56 AM)JSA Wrote:  

(02-22-2016 10:50 PM)NolaOwl Wrote:  

(02-22-2016 10:33 PM)ausowl Wrote:  Didn't Bloomberg say he'd only get in if it was Sanders v. Trump? I suspect Wall Street isn't overly worried about a Pres. Clinton.

Jeb Bush, human being: NYT campaign reporter's farewell

Yes, he did. But with both Hillary's and the Donald's negatives so high, could he change his mind? I don''t see Jeb's voters going for either one of them. Other more moderate, establishment type GOPers might feel the same way.

I can see an opening for a third party candidate, but I can't see it being Bloomberg. I just don't see a base for him.

I saw a Rubio ad this morning. A vote for him would "send a message to the establishment."

It would. That the establishment is preferar to a whacko who is good at business but has a hard time speaking to the American people above a kindergarten level! Haha, I crack myself up.

When Hillary knocks off Sanders and he endorses her and IF she's not perp walked, then I suspect her negatives will go down. Enough to beat Rubio-Kasich? (if Kasich cuts a deal before Trump can't be stopped). Assume the combo of FL, OH goes to the R's - that's a tough ticket to beat for the D's.

Too late I think. Even if all the establishment got behind one candidate, the Curz folks will probbbly go with Trump.

Trump got more than Rubio and Cruz *combined*...

I was sure he would be out of the race by now, so I make no claims to know how this is all going to end up...

(02-24-2016 09:36 AM)JustAnotherAustinOwl Wrote:  Trump got more than Rubio and Cruz *combined*...

I was sure he would be out of the race by now, so I make no claims to know how this is all going to end up...

I've quit predicting.

Trump appears to have won in Nevada across most demographic groups.

Someone on NPR pointed out that Ventura and Schwarzenegger were supposed to be flashes in the pan, too.