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[Flashermac]

[Coss]

Heck don't you people have contraception?

 

30% of Republican primary voters say they would support bombing Agrabah

 

A new poll found that many Americans—including 30% of Republican primary voters—say they would bomb the fictional country from Disney’s Aladdin, but the poll should be trusted about as much as the movie’s villainous vizier Jafar.

 

The poll came from Democratic firm Public Policy Polling, which likes to troll reporters and social media with humorously worded survey questions. A previous canvass compared the favorability of Vladimir Putin, the Republican-controlled Congress and dog poop, for example).

 

The question was fairly straightforward: “Would you support or oppose bombing Agrabah?†(Agrabah is, of course, not a real country.)

 

But it came after a long series of questions about things that have actually been in the news, such as criminal background checks of gun buyers, barring Muslims from entering the U.S. and raising the federal minimum wage.

 

The firm asked Democratic primary voters too, and they opposed bombing Agrabah by 36%, though 19% supported the proposal.

 

A release on the automated survey of 532 Republican primary voters did not include a margin of error. Based on its own tweets, the firm doesn’t take the poll too seriously

 

http://time.com/4155228/amiercans-bomb-aladdin-agrabah/

[Guest]

14% of Americans believe bombing Agrabah will not be enough, and troops are needed on the ground ..

[Flashermac]

Darth Vader Beats Donald Trump In Presidential Poll, But Not Hillary Clinton

 

 

American millennials would rather have a Sith Lord as president than Republican front-runner Donald Trump, according to a new online poll that pitted "Star Wars" characters against the 2016 presidential candidates.

 

The Ipsos poll released Tuesday found that when Darth Vader was matched up head-to-head against Trump, Vader came out on top with 27 percent support among millennials, while Trump took 18 percent. Minorities also preferred Vader over Trump, 26 percent to 13 percent.

 

Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton managed to beat Vader in the hypothetical general election matchup, 32 percent support to 16 percent. But Clinton lost to Jedi master Yoda, with the little green guy taking 50 percent of the millennial vote, while Clinton received 26 percent.

 

As for Jedi master Obi Wan Kenobi, the poll found that he would beat every candidate in the 2016 race.

 

"Ipsos finds that the American public would prefer to elect the iconic Jedi Obi Wan Kenobi than any other challenger," said Ipsos.

 

"Whether it's because of this week's release of Episode 7, or general disdain among Americans with their political system, this data suggests that the Jedi Order is vastly more popular than either the Republican or Democratic Party," said Chris Jackson, vice president at Ipsos Public Affairs. "As we have seen in much of the political data this year, our Republic is more fractured than in recent history. However, it seems that the force could 'surround us and bind the universe together.'"

 

The poll, which comes ahead of this week's release of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," was conducted Dec. 10-14 among 1,005 adults. Statistical margins of error are not applicable to online polls, noted the Hill.

 

 

http://www.hngn.com/...ary-clinton.htm

 

 

p.s. I'd pick Darth over Hillsie.

[Flashermac]

Polls are fascinating.

 

 

[Coss]

p.s. I'd pick Darth over Hillsie.

 

I dunno, Hilary is much more frightening that Darth, she'd put the fear of Allah into the enemy...

[Flashermac]

Is the Democratic Party Rigging the Election for Hillary Clinton?

 

 

 

Drama broke out in the Democratic Party Friday, when news broke that the national committee had blocked the Bernie Sanders campaign from accessing its invaluable voter database, claiming that Sanders' staff had taken advantage of a software glitch to improperly spy on information collected by Hillary Clinton's campaign. Campaigns rely on voter data for everything from fundraising to knowing which doors to knock on to get voters out on Election Day, so getting cut off from that data is a big deal.

 

In response, the Sanders campaign fired the national data director responsible the accessing the Clinton files. And then it sued the Democratic National Committee, and accused the party of trying to sabotage the Vermont Senator's insurgent campaign.

 

"By their action, the leadership of the Democratic National Committee is now actively attempting to undermine our campaign," Sanders' campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, said in a statement Friday. "This is unacceptable. Individual leaders of the DNC can support Hillary Clinton in any way they want, but they are not going to sabotage our campaign—one of the strongest grassroots campaigns in modern history."

 

There's no denying that Sanders' camp shouldn't have accessed the Clinton campaign's private files. In a strongly worded statement Friday afternoon, DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz said that "the Sanders campaign had inappropriately and systematically accessed Clinton campaign data," and that access to the database would be suspended until the "the DNC is provided with a full accounting of whether or not this information was used and the way in which it was disposed."

 

But to legions of liberal Sanders' fans, it looked like the DNC had rushed to take sides, hand down punishments, and renounce one of the party's top two candidates, despite it's stated commitment to remain neutral in the 2016 primary race. And they saw it as confirmation of their long-held suspicions that the Party Establishment is in the tank for Hillary Clinton. By Friday evening, a MoveOn.org petition calling for Sanders' access to be reinstated had more than 250,000 signatures; another, circulated by the Sanders campaign, had gotten 214,800.

 

By late Friday night, the DNC caved, reaching a deal with the Sanders' campaign to restore its access to the voter files by Saturday morning. "The Sanders campaign has now complied with the DNC's request to provide the information that we have requested of them. Based on this information, we are restoring the Sanders campaign's access to the voter file, but will continue to investigate to ensure that the data that was inappropriately accessed has been deleted and is no longer in possession of the Sanders campaign.

 

While the data debacle seems to have been resolved, it's not the only instance where the Democratic Party seems to have quietly stacked the deck in favor of the Clinton campaign. The limited number of primary debates—and the fact that many of them (like the one tonight) are scheduled on Saturday nights—is the most obvious—and frequently cited—example. But the apparent bias can also be seen at the grassroots level, where state and local party leaders seem to have quietly gotten behind the frontrunner before voters have the opportunity to caucus or cast ballots.

 

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http://www.vice.com/read/the-democratic-party-hillary-clinton-bias-goes-way-beyond-data

 

 

Of course they are! How do you think they got her into the U.S. Senate? (No primary election, just designate Hillsie as the candidate in a state she'd just moved to and which had an unbeatable Democrat majority.)

[cavanami]

No surpirse here... WTF, why is the media wasting bandwidth with Hillary? a liar, a traitor to the USA? just hang the azzhole!!!

[Flashermac]

The leader of the free world ...

 

 

[cavanami]

:barf: :barf: