The End of the World: A Political Thread. A New Hope coming soon!

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horns said:
Not sure I would agree with this poll. Online gambling data is not a reliable predictor for elections especially from a source like http://CanAndrewYangWin.com. Yang is at 2-3% in polling. I believe only one poll has shown him at 4%.
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The sites examples of how he could win the nomination are ridiculously cherry picked and misleading

The way Yang wins is to do really well in Iowa. Right now he is maybe at 1% there while the main candidates have lots of staff and ready to pour in the money. It just isn't plausible.
 
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The sites examples of how he could win the nomination are ridiculously cherry picked and misleading

The way Yang wins is to do really well in Iowa. Right now he is maybe at 1% there while the main candidates have lots of staff and ready to pour in the money. It just isn't plausible.
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I like Yang, but is this part of a trend of Issues Candidates? Or even that people are running to be a Super Congressman rather than President?

Everytime now people run on new programs or reforms that must come from changes in the law which is Congress' job. Granted to some degree the President can bully pulpit Congress at rallies or in the media, but the role of President itself seems really muddled.
 
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I like Yang, but is this part of a trend of Issues Candidates? Or even that people are running to be a Super Congressman rather than President?

Everytime now people run on new programs or reforms that must come from changes in the law which is Congress' job. Granted to some degree the President can bully pulpit Congress at rallies or in the media, but the role of President itself seems really muddled.
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A lot of candidates are running on things that will never pass.
 
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The Enduring Mystery of Tulsi Gabbard

The 38-year-old presidential contender does not fit any “conventional” political profile.
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Many high-level Democrats I spoke with for this story, who insisted on anonymity to share their true feelings about her, suspect that Gabbard is up to something other than actually trying to win the party’s nomination—even if they can’t quite identify what her goal is. These are people who have been wary since Gabbard became a Fox News favorite for criticizing Obama’s foreign policy. They believed that their distrust was vindicated when Steve Bannon brought her in for a meeting with then-president-elect Donald Trump just two weeks after the 2016 election, which was one of Trump’s first meetings with a Democrat. To this group, Gabbard looks like Jill Stein, who also talked about progressive politics and peace, but whose 2016 Green Party run was, to them, a self-centered campaign that blew a crucial hole in Hillary Clinton’s chances, eating up money and getting Russian support along the way.
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heories I’ve heard from top Democrats include that Gabbard is trying to get a TV show—“I already know which network: Fox,” one senior Democrat not affiliated with any campaign said, speaking anonymously to remain publicly neutral—and that she’s gearing up for a Trump-benefiting third-party run. “Green Party. Willing to take bets on this,” Center for American Progress President Neera Tanden tweeted last week after Gabbard appeared on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show to trash the Democratic National Committee because she hadn’t qualified for the September debate.
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Well at least I'm not alone
 
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