Off Topic Politics Thread

Bernie Sanders managed to beat Hillary Clinton in Michigan last night. A massive upset in the race for the Democratic nomination.

Polls and projections gave him a chance of winning Michigan of less than 1%.

 

Corrected that, for you.

 

Badger, you were looking for impartial referendum facts. Here's an article to warm the cockles of your heart: It also links to a site that is neutral and checks facts.

http://www.economist.com/news/brita...opean-unionbut-these-are-elusive-out-find-fib

Vin

 

And here's the fullfact page: https://fullfact.org/europe/

Vin

 

Thanks for that.

 

You're welcome; I'll post them as the Economist publishes them.

Vin

 

http://news.sky.com/story/1657644/man-filmed-punching-trump-rally-protester

This is the sort of thing that gives Americans a bad name. We can only hope he is a minority although the way Trump is so popular maybe he isn't.

 

And Trump refused to condemn it at the GOP debate last night.

 

The Americans are doing themselves no favours at the moment. I bet the Isis Properganda machine is using Trumps descrepancies to their advantage. God help us all if he gets to the White House!!!

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-35783049

Boris looks to Canada. They have or potentially have the strongest trade agreement with the EU without the compromise of free movement.

Tony Blair shows his support for the remain vote...a reason to exit?

 

I wish Boris would bugger off to Canada. He's done absolutely nothing for London.

 

Woman on BBC News - talking about Boris: "He's for us. The workers, the people."

 

Exactly what many Americans say about Trump. A billionaire born with a silver spoon in his mouth is "one of the people". Bizarre, frankly.

 

Live scenes in Chicago. Trump supporters on the left. Protestors against Trump on the right. His rally has been cancelled.

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He's not very popular. He has terrible approval ratings. Somewhere between 65 and 70 percent of Americans dislike him. It's depressing that it isn't higher, but still you would think that leaves him no chance.

The issue is that here in the US, we have trouble getting people to vote. The people who do like Trump are maniacs. And you can't dissuade them with logic, because if they used their brains they never would have embraced Trump in the first place.

His path to winning is basically to get his hardcore 30% to all turn up. Then maybe get another 5% from Republicans who do not like him but feel they somehow must make a stand for their party. Then hope that of the remaining people, not enough of them show up to vote.

 

I think I read somewhere that he is not even attracting anywhere close to 50% of the republican vote and if the other candidates had got behind one guy, then they could have prevented this from getting too far

 

I'm the son of a milkman so was born with a silver top in my mouth. I must admit though that as I got older my mum changed that to stripey top as she said it was healthier. I was happy because I called it Saints Milk.

 

I was bitterly disappointed when I discovered by cutting a tube open that red and white striped toothpaste wasn't striped inside the tube. My mother wasn't too happy about it either.