Election Thread 2016

[Cowutopia]

It was a relevant talking point early on. Some people I know still are voting for Hillary because they are too afraid of republicans to attempt to vote for an anti establishment candidate.

[Dunlap]

You don't have to play it safe in the primaries, your representatives will handle the electability votes:
http://hotair.com/archives/2016/02/1...shire-primary/

[Cowutopia]

Someone who I grew up with in the next town over posted some electability slamming shit on facebook just today and we are illustrating the fact that he works for hillary's campaign.

[YellerDog]

I hope the Flavor Aid was a nice color at least.

[Diff-chan]

How is Clinton more electable anyway? The right fucking hates her.

Nobody is gonna vote for her just because she's been around forever. New York is a blue state (even taking into account she moved there explicitly to be a senator).

I'm not sure "electability" is actually a thing. It's just how well the candidate matches up to the consensus view of what the consensus view's are.

[Yoshi]

To me "electable" is the gap between what the party would vote for in primaries and what the general electorate would vote for in the election. The larger that gap, the less "electable" a candidate is.

[Diff-chan]

By that definition the Republican Party is in deep shit.

[Yoshi]

I don't mean the national committee when I say "party." I was trying to think of a word to use to differentiate it from the full electorate.

[Anthony]

Been trying to wrap my head around the concept of democratic socialism (social democracy) and thought this was a good read. If anyone finds anything better, don't be afraid to share. The political/economic system we have today is absolutely broken and needs to be fixed. If Scandanavian countries are consistently rated among the happiest in the world, and are socially democratic societies, then maybe it's not such a bad thing? Granted their small size affects their rating, but I imagine the policies they have in place are also a big factor.

There is no blanket "socialism" or "capitalism" in real world economics. There are always shades and degrees. The Nordic models are more socialistic for example, we are pretty far on the side of capitalism. They both have pitfalls, but what is the optimal balance should change in relation to technology, demographics, and morals. While a more capitalistic lean might have worked in the past, modern technological advances removing sections of our job force combined with a sense of entitlement to bend laws by the super rich are pretty much forcing our hand towards a more socialistic system then we currently have.

[Dunlap]

Hillary is the electable one because Sander's is this term's Ron Paul.