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Maine Democrats and Puerto Rico Republicans: The easternmost primary day!

206 thoughts on “Maine Democrats and Puerto Rico Republicans: The easternmost primary day!

  1. Puerto Rico results showing Rubio completely dominating. He's likely to get all 23 delegates.

    Maine should go to Sanders but who knows by how much since we have like no polling.

  2. Hi everyone–I'm assuming this will also serve as the debate sticky? I just hope Wolf Blitzer won't be one of the questioners FFS…

          1. I went down to the Sunset Strip in LA Friday night for a thing at a bar, and everyone there except for the host and one other woman were EMBRYOS. Skinny, driven, desperate-looking embryos in Prada. I bet they all knew this meme already, I felt so damn OLD.

          2. They probably had, and the spread part is hilarious:

            The format of the poster, which was relatively easy to Photoshop, quickly became popular in Bernie Sanders meme groups like the Facebook group Bernie Sanders’ Dank Meme Stash, which has over 79,000 members.

            BERNIE SANDERS' DANK MEME STASH

        1. └( ° ͜ʖ͡°)┐Born too late to explore the Earth, born too soon to explore the Galaxy. Born just in time to post DANK ℳℰℳℰS └( ° ͜ʖ͡°)┐

  3. UM…something weird is going on. I posted two comments that initially appeared, but then disappeared when I refreshed the page (and this time I am sure I didn't hit delete.) HUH?!?

    1. I just checked the "spam" folder and there were two in there from you, so I just approved them. I only saw two, though. (Not that third one you mention above).

        1. There were 106 pending comments earlier today, they were all spam. Maybe something is borked on Word Press's filters today.

          1. It sure seems like it, wow. I know we get a lot of spam but that filter missing 106 is ridiculous.

  4. Speaking of Flint, a very depressing NYT article (too depressing to link to) today said the problem won't be fixed quickly.

    Fire Rick Snyder–you tell 'em, Bern!

  5. Maine update: Sanders 64, Clinton 36, 73% reporting. NYT and AP oddly haven't gotten around to calling Maine yet but I'm going to do it: Wonkville predicts that Bernie Sanders will win Maine.

  6. Jesus, both of these people would be so much fucking better for this country than any of the wingnuts. I REALLY hope the American people don't fuck it up in November…

    1. The GOP seems to be doing everything possible to make it easy. Let's make sure we don't snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. I've already dealt with that outside of politics twice this week, so can we please not do it somewhere it actually matters?

    2. Who's got the bigger peen? Who'll lock up more people forever and torture them because why not? No one's addressing the issues!

  7. Jesus, CNN sure wants to fire and convict the EPA before the fucking investigation is done. Glad the candidates are both telling them to wait for the facts FFS…

  8. Jim Beam and "John Barleycorn Must Die" on the tube amp. Watch the debate? Naaaaahhhh, I love 'em both, and just hope Cruz and Drumpf can wound each other enough to allow Hillz or Bernie to finish 'em off.

    Have fun!

  9. Voter: how do we know you two aren't pimping Flint out for votes?

    Hillary: I've been working on problems for years, so this is nothing new for me.

    Bernie: I've been on the down low here in Michigan.

  10. AP has Bernie with 14 delegates from Maine, Hillary with 6. Margin seems to imply a 16-9 spread by the end of the night, which is good for Bernie: 538 target was 15-10 Bernie. Going over those benchmarks is exactly what he needs to do. He's now 81 behind target instead of 82.

    1. Hillary Clinton:

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  11. Hillary, just release your speech already. What are you hiding? You sound so disingenuous.

    Sometimes she can be so totally tone deaf. People aren't buying her bullshit on this.

  12. OK, I am officially bored with Bernie's attempt to make an issue out of this fucking speech. Point me to specific votes and policies from Hilary that you disagree with? Fine. Endlessly insinuate that she can't take their money and then vote against them? Show evidence or move the fuck on, please.

    1. I agree. And she could end it by just releasing her speech. Of course the flip side of that is that people will just use it to dredge up more nonsense about her, but it would still have the effect of taking the wind out of Bernie's sails on this issue.

      That said, it's kind of like Obama and his birth certificate, she can't win either way, and Bernie should get out of the mud on this. They're both better people than this.

  13. We need to break up the banks. Bernie will try to do that, Hillary I'm not so sure. He needs to stay in the race and hold her feet to the fire. I don't think she realizes how strong people feel about this. I honestly don't think she gets it.

        1. Its a way to say "cool memes" in such a vein that it mocks memes in a parody-type way

          except now people are using it not in a parody-like way sometimes but considering they're memes we're all just messing around and it doesn't matter too much

    1. And companies like Boeing and Caterpillar use suppliers and subcontractors that are small and medium sized businesses. Supporting the Ex-Im Bank =/= corporate handouts, Anderson…

  14. Is anyone else experiencing WordPress wierdness? The font keeps changing right before my eyes, and the "reply" button disappears on some comments.

    1. WordPress is showing about 70 delete buttons on me but it happens to me sometimes already. WordPress is having a bad night.

      1. Karen, your comment above, "A+ Wonkville thread moment just happened" doesn't show a reply button. The two posts below it have a different font.

          1. I wish I knew what was going on. Maybe whatever is going on with WordPress will be fixed soon because not being able to reply to things sucks.

    1. It will be fun in the general election when the GOP nominee will have to actually answer that in a debate.

  15. @nxthompson

    GOP debate: lie, penis, little Marco, failed, disavow, breathe
    Dem debate: TPP, NAFTA, TARP, Brady Bill, ACA

  16. Can we discuss those idiots who think that a stockpile of military weapons insures freedom and they have a God-Given right to armed insurrection whenever they decide that the government we elected isn't letting them do whatever the hell they want for free?

  17. Don Lemon: you voted for that shit–why should we trust you now?

    Don honey? This would not be the first time an elected official changed positions when external conditions changed. This is a dumb-ass question, for either candidate.

    Dammit, why the fuck can't we get Rachel instead?

    1. What the?! Is that happening here now?

      Wonkville used to get hammered by Breitbart downfist trolls, back in the day. I would go and upfist everyone, just to piss them off. Good times!

      1. I've noticed it happening over the last few weeks, and this time it seems to only be happening to one person. I'm guessing someone else is mad about something.

    2. Huh…I'll have to upvote all of glasspusher's comments that I didn't already upvote after the debate ends.

  18. Snark off…the cab story Bernie is telling is all too fucking true. I fucking KNEW I had white privilege when I saw cabbies drive past well dressed, middle aged black professionals and I could be in schleppy student clothes and get a cab in a nano-second.

    I don't even want to think about the GOP's answers to that question.

      1. There's a phone app that connects you to some guy with a car who agrees to drive you somewhere, for a pre-set fee on your card. After you leave, they pour fake vomit all over the seat, take a photo and charge you for a bogus $300 clean up fee. It's The Fountainhead made real!

  19. If the Republicans were asked about education?

    Something something school choice something something teacher's unions something something AMERICAN FREEDOM!!!

  20. Anderson Cooper: Isn't the problem really caused by teachers?

    Hillary: Pay the fuck up, government, and fund the schools!

    Anderson: But don't unions suck?

    Hillary: Teachers deserve more credit than that!

    1. Come on, did you really expect a man who can't figure out which name is his first and which is his last to figure out silly things like logic and facts?

  21. Ugh, fracking. Last time I was back home in Pittsburgh, the unfiltered drinking water was TERRIBLE (noticeably worse than just a few years ago), and I can't help but think the fracking in Western PA had something to do with that. I just hope that gas prices stay low, which will decrease the profit incentive to frack in the first fucking place…

    1. The city of Athens, Ohio voted to ban fracking in city limits (wouldn't do much but symbolic) and the state is trying to sue them because they made a law a while back barring cities from banning any fracking-related activities. It's been going through the courts for a year and is probably going to last for a while longer (including an attempt to change the county's form of government just to take advantage of a loophole!)

  22. Amanda Marcotte just pointed out on Twitter that whenever Citizens United is brought up, Hillz should point out that it stemmed from an attack on her. So true.

          1. Ugh, so it was intentional. I was hoping it was just an extreme example of someone being tone-deaf. These people can't be any more awful.

          2. Oh, no – they're every bit as bad as you think they are and more. The real trouble comes in when they, you know, start saying what they think out loud in public.

          3. Their views have come to life in the form of an orange man wearing a dead possum on his head!

          4. The teabaggers proudly called themselves teabaggers for for like the first month of their existence.

  23. Anderson: Hillary, The Donald is going to babble about your e-mails. WTF are you going to do?

    Hillary: I have more votes than he does, so he can suck it!

  24. "Do you believe God is relevant?"

    WTF kind of attack question is that? And what does she think he'll say–Fuck no?

    Good answer from Bern, though.

  25. The tl;dr for those who didn't or couldn't watch:

    Either one of these candidates would be a fuckton better than whoever the GOP rolls with. We need to get our asses out and vote!

        1. I managed to get a few people to vote that weren't originally going to in the last presidential election, so maybe I'll be able to do that again.

          1. Don't know if they support him, but they lean right.
            Saw one Trump bumper sticker this afternoon ………want one that adds "Make America the Laughing Stock of the World"
            Signs in the area are Bernie's. Don't think I've seen any other so far….. this is, by some measures, the leftistest district in Az.

          2. So is Tucson area left Arizona and Phoenix area right Arizona? That's what it sounds like.

            Donald Trump: Make America Irate Again

          3. Well, area-wise, maybe a little. The Metro's are both lefter than the surrounding rural. McSally won here and hasn't done anything horribly obnoxious that I know of, boilerplate old school GOP, I'll bet she gets re-elected. Grijalva is West Tucson and over to Yuma.

    1. IKR, these two should be competing for the presidency. Hillary is center right enough to be running on the 70's GOP ticket.

  26. They're definitely different, it might make it harder to pick that way though.

    Crab is amazing, no question. Doesn't matter which ocean they come from!

  27. It also shows a glaring weakness in basically every political campaign in the last several years: A barrage of attack ads only makes people hate both candidates. The candidate it's for gets hit about as hard as the person being attacked and it just makes a lot of people not want to get involved.

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