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Punkingal

(9,522 posts)
Fri Nov 6, 2015, 10:16 AM Nov 2015

The Nervous Breakdown of US Politics....

I wonder if people who support these nutcases will even accept any truth about their crazy candidates, or just blame it on the "liberal" media...


WASHINGTON -- Here’s all you need to know about the not-funny nervous breakdown now going on in American politics.

In a respected new poll, the Democratic Party front-runner, a former secretary of state and senator, loses a test match -- overwhelmingly -- to a political novice who says that evolution is the devil’s work and that Joseph, of the Bible's Old Testament, built the pyramids in Egypt to store grain.

It’s true: A retired neurosurgeon, Republican Ben Carson, crushes Democrat Hillary Clinton by 50 percent-40 percent in the poll.

The news is that this news was not news in the U.S. It did not create a twinge of alarm or even amazement in political circles.

Why? Well, it’s just one poll, and we're still a year away from Election Day. Yes, Carson is rising steadily, and in many polls has replaced real estate billionaire Donald Trump in the GOP’s top spot. But Carson could yet fade; Trump, after all, seems to be doing just that in some states.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nervous-breakdown-us-politics_563bf531e4b0411d30707454?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000592

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The Nervous Breakdown of US Politics.... (Original Post) Punkingal Nov 2015 OP
If Rubio hits a home run on Tuesday, he's the nominee yeoman6987 Nov 2015 #1
 

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)
1. If Rubio hits a home run on Tuesday, he's the nominee
Fri Nov 6, 2015, 01:00 PM
Nov 2015

I'd rather him anyway. He doesn't have the experience that our 3 candidates do.

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