I suspect the same. Likely far too difficult to change and no political will to change it for it to ever happen.

June 7th is rather late in the game...

I doubt there is such a confusing system anywhere else on the planet.

Great Grandad, soon.

You obviously started very young.

Oh that Trump. What sane person would say this. http://edition.cnn.com/2016/01/23/politics/donald-trump-shoot-somebody-support/index.html

What is even more to the point is that all of his rants and threats are ostensibly playing quite well to a fairly large targeted audience. What does that say about that segment of the US voter eligible population?

Does not say anything good, that's for sure.

Trump's twitter feed is littered with white-supremacist and neo-Nazi nutters.

Well, at least we can't say we weren't warned.

Gotta love Tina.

Ditto

I was thinking about that too. He talks very tough and can-do, but the reality of the position is so much different. Maybe he would just install a capable team like Bush or Reagan, and sit back and bask in the presidential glow. At the end of the day, I don't think he gives a 4X about the USA, he just sees a crowning opportunity for his name. He's dial the rhetoric down, and take a back seat, because there's no way his property development deal making skills (the "main thing" as Mrs Palin calls it) will translate into the alliances and compromises required in politics. But hopefully, it won't come to that.

Time to start limiting how much can be spent on elections?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...6a0_story.html




The media in Canada has been reporting that the net worth of the Koch brothers has doubled since Obama has been in office, seems they have done pretty well since 2008......

I agree, he doesn't care on any subcutaneous level. His needs begin and end with attention and being worshipped. He's shown that he only has three speeds (1) bullying and character assassination (2) throwing money at any obstacles, and (3) sue anybody who 1&2 didn't work on. This approach will not work on Putin or the Ayatollah. They don't give a shit - they've got their own countries.

I was reading the other day that a lot of the GOP prefer Trump to Cruz, as they think his desire to be liked means they can work with him to achieve something. Whereas with Cruz, he won't compromise on anything, as was shown in that grandstanding shutdown he orchestrated.

It still amounts to a choice between piles or the clap though.