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ORIGINAL: Phydeaux

http://docquery.fec.gov/pres/2015/Q3/
Hillary has spent 25 million in the quarter ending 2015
Bernie has spent 11 million
Cruz spent 7 million
Rubio spent 5 million
Trump spent 4 million

Outside spending:https://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/summ.php?cycle=2016&disp=C&type=P
Bush 56 million
Rubio 22 million
Cruz 13 million
Trump 5 million
clinton 2 million
Sanders 2 million

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ORIGINAL: tj444

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ORIGINAL: Phydeaux

http://docquery.fec.gov/pres/2015/Q3/
Hillary has spent 25 million in the quarter ending 2015
Bernie has spent 11 million
Cruz spent 7 million
Rubio spent 5 million
Trump spent 4 million

Outside spending:https://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/summ.php?cycle=2016&disp=C&type=P
Bush 56 million
Rubio 22 million
Cruz 13 million
Trump 5 million
clinton 2 million
Sanders 2 million

AND.. they are just getting started!.. by the time the election is over, how many millions will they have spent??? all those millions (or eventually billions?).. think of actual good things that money could have been spent on instead? how many lead water pipes could that money have replaced? what a HUGE waste of money on someone who will eventually win the title and shaft the voters and taxpayers of America.. just sayin'... oh well...

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Back then many Democrats were traditional people, people of faith and family. And their party reflected that through the decades, John F. Kennedy was a traditional guy. So was Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson.

But today the Democratic Party has turned far left. President Obama has led that march and his acolytes in Congress are currently violating federal immigration law, embracing a quasi-socialistic economic theory. And as we reported last night even embracing radical anti-police groups like Black Lives Matter.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What do we want?

CROWD: Dead cops.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: When do we want them?

CROWD: Now...

(END VIDEO CLIP)

O'REILLY: Now, it's hard to believe that a sitting president is sympathetic to a group that's calling for violence against American police officers. Remember, the Black Lives Matter leadership has never disavowed the violent anti-cop rhetoric we hear all the time.

In addition, the Democrats continue to enable sanctuary cities. Do not openly support Kate's Law, designed to protect Americans from illegal alien felons. And a Democrat senator this week Blumenthal of Connecticut even blocked legislation designed to hold the V.A. employees accountable for misconduct and corruption.

"Talking Points" submits that the Democratic Party right now has been hijacked and is trying to undermine federal law, undermine law enforcement in general and upend our capitalistic system. How many Americans even know that is happening?

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ORIGINAL: BamaD

FR
Rand Paul quit.

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Interesting that Democrats, 4-1 will vote for a socialist rather than an evangelical.

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ORIGINAL: DaddySatyr


While the religious argument is a good one, Phydeaux, I think there's an even more salient (and potentially dangerous) point:

Every time the groundswell underneath Sanders grows, it alerts me to just how far down "Socialism Road", the "common democrat" has gone.



Michael

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ORIGINAL: WickedsDesire
@greta75 Trump came in second. That is a BIG deal!
I mean, he should really be at the bottom of the list I agree I think him a dangerous man. An archaic fossil cave man mentality and intellect - if people wonder.
i don't understand your voting system did people vote in these - I saw delegate numbers - and are they same as a super delegate - who can ignore the vote of the voting people and did any of them

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ORIGINAL: Phydeaux
Wicked:
The democrat party has superdelegates; the republican party does not. The votes and caucuses of the democrat party are responsible for 80% of the total.
The other 20% - or roughly 747 votes are democratic party officials - office holders, DNC members etc. This is why hillary starts off with her thumb on the scale - she has already secured the endorsement of more than 500 super delegates.
On the republican side, things are a great deal fuzzier. Republicans have unpledged delegates 163 are RNC members, most of the rest are assigned to the winner of each congressional district.

• A Conservative interpretation of the US Constitution
  
• Personal Responsibility
  
• Help for the truly needy
  
• Limited Government
  
• Consumption Tax (non-profit charities and food exempt)
  

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ORIGINAL: bounty44
I think though the mitigating factor in the "socialism road" though is that so many of sanders' supporters are young, and essentially have little to no clue about the evils of it.

• A Conservative interpretation of the US Constitution
  
• Personal Responsibility
  
• Help for the truly needy
  
• Limited Government
  
• Consumption Tax (non-profit charities and food exempt)
  

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

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ORIGINAL: DaddySatyr


While the religious argument is a good one, Phydeaux, I think there's an even more salient (and potentially dangerous) point:

Every time the groundswell underneath Sanders grows, it alerts me to just how far down "Socialism Road", the "common democrat" has gone.



Michael

I think though the mitigating factor in the "socialism road" though is that so many of sanders' supporters are young, and essentially have little to no clue about the evils of it.

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ORIGINAL: DesideriScuri

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ORIGINAL: WickedsDesire
@greta75 Trump came in second. That is a BIG deal!
I mean, he should really be at the bottom of the list I agree I think him a dangerous man. An archaic fossil cave man mentality and intellect - if people wonder.
i don't understand your voting system did people vote in these - I saw delegate numbers - and are they same as a super delegate - who can ignore the vote of the voting people and did any of them

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ORIGINAL: Phydeaux
Wicked:
The democrat party has superdelegates; the republican party does not. The votes and caucuses of the democrat party are responsible for 80% of the total.
The other 20% - or roughly 747 votes are democratic party officials - office holders, DNC members etc. This is why hillary starts off with her thumb on the scale - she has already secured the endorsement of more than 500 super delegates.
On the republican side, things are a great deal fuzzier. Republicans have unpledged delegates 163 are RNC members, most of the rest are assigned to the winner of each congressional district.

Wicked: First thing, Greta is from Singapore, not the US. Not picking on you, but just a FYI. Second, you are correct, in that the delegates could vote for someone other than who they were assigned to vote for. I don't know how often it's happened in the nomination process, but it's rare enough at the Presidential (Electoral College) level that when a candidate "wins" the popular vote in a State, those electoral votes are automatically assigned to that candidate. Until the elector actually casts the vote, though, no candidate is absolutely guaranteed those votes. The "delegates" that have been assigned to Bernie or Hillary, are delegates to the Democrat National Convention, where the real nominating gets done. That's also where you'll find out where delegates for candidates no longer running are going to go. Say Rubio bows out of the race. His 7 delegates will have to be reassigned to a candidate still in the running.

The information Phydeaux posted is correct (at least in theme; I can't verify the accuracy of his numbers, but I'm not challenging them, either).