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So Carson's polling at around 20% right now. Hypothetically, if he dropped out instead of just suspending his campaign, who would his supporters move to? Trump? Huckster? Anyone have any solid info on the "second choice" candidate of Carson's supporters?
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If they really want to keep everyone above 1% in, they should at least split it up, make the debates 7 and 7 or something instead of 4 and 10
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Oct 29, 2015 17:20
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Istvun posted:It is important to remember that the Ark was made out of wood, which floats, and the Titanic was made out of steel, which sinks. The fools. They should have made the Titanic out of something like bread, apples, or perhaps very small rocks
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Raskolnikov38 posted:IIRC from wookiepedia it was to protest a tax. But that's what doesn't make sense. No one in the Senate actually knows about the blockade, largely because the Trade Federation was preventing anyone from entering or leaving Naboo, but also because Naboo is a small, out of the way planet that doesn't trade a whole lot to begin with. When Amidala finally gets before the Senate and pleads her case, no one responds because this is the first they're hearing about such a blockade. The Neimoidians swear up and down that the allegations of a blockade are untrue, and call for an investigation into the matter. If they were trying to protest the taxes and get them removed, they wouldn't try and prevent everyone from knowing about their protest. Literally the only reason they blockade Naboo is because Palpatine told them to. This is even addressed in the dialogue of the movie: Qui-Gon explicitly tells Padme, "There is something else behind all this, Your Highness. There is no logic in the Federation's move here."
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Oct 30, 2015 16:46
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Marco Rubio: the Minecraft candidate
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Oct 30, 2015 17:20
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happyhippy posted:What children's movie would most like each Republican Candidate? Fiorina - Foodfight!
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Oct 30, 2015 17:25
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Jazerus posted:So there are three layers to this plot. Naboo does actually trade; the blue poo poo that the Gungans make bombs out of is a valuable energy source. The human Naboo were suckered by Palpatine's master, Darth Plagueis, into selling it below market rates to the Trade Federation. Eventually the Naboo tried to break out of the deal and this pissed off the Federation mightily, as imperial powers that lose most favored nation status tend to be. So Palpatine cooks up this scheme to get himself elected on the back of a crisis and suggests that the Trade Federation blockade Naboo in retaliation for breaking the exploitative treaty, with a "tax protest" as a pretext, presumably so that Freepers and Very Serious People the galaxy over would fawn over them.  that's still kind of dumb but at least makes the least bit of sense. I'll stop going on this derail but I will say that USPol is a more tolerable Star Wars thread than the actual Star Wars thread.
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Oct 30, 2015 22:34
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Mr Hootington posted:I asked Marco Rubio at the event I attended today what his favorite Star Ward movie was. He said "The third one, The Phantom Menace." So there you go. Sounds like Rubio's a fan of the Machete order!
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Jim Webb thinks we need an Independent candidate for president, preferably one named Jim Webb.
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