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On April 28 2016 02:59 Lord Tolkien wrote:

Very few of the Democratic voters in the polls I worked at were under 30. There were a number of independents who did not know Maryland Primaries have same-day registration (and I ended up directing a number over to re-enroll and sign up for provisional ballots), but otherwise, the Bernie "demographic" did not show up at my polling place at all. That being said, Bernie was landslided in MD so it's to be expected.

In the under 30 crowd, I'd estimate there were more REP voters in the under 30 crowd than DEM voters, but the station I worked at was in a moderately Republican-slanted district.

On April 28 2016 03:08 xDaunt wrote:
Picking Fiorina makes little sense. I don't see the advantage that it gives Cruz at all. No one likes Fiorina, which is why she flopped hard during the primary.

The bison, an animal once hunted to the brink of extinction in America, is set to become the first national mammal of the US, putting it on a par with the bald eagle as a symbol of the nation.

Congress has passed legislation, the National Bison Legacy Act, which names the hoofed beast as a “historical symbol of the United States” and establishes it as the nation’s landmark mammal.

Once the bipartisan move passes the Senate and receives Barack Obama’s sign-off, the bison will join the bald eagle, the national emblem since 1782, as America’s symbolic animal. America’s flora is represented by the oak, the national tree, and the rose, the national floral emblem.

The designation is a “milestone” in the effort to “prevent the bison from going extinct and to recognize the bison’s ecological, cultural, historical and economic importance to the United States”, said Cristian Samper, president of the Wildlife Conservation Society.

“The bison will serve as a great national symbol for the United States as it is as strong as the oak, fearless as the bald eagle and inspiring as a rose,” Samper added.

The honor doesn’t confer any new protections for the bison but represents a startling turnaround in the fortunes of the animal, also known more informally as the buffalo. The species was virtually wiped out in the 19th century as settlers moved west across America, slaughtering bison as they went.

On April 28 2016 02:52 Plansix wrote:
Apparently Trump wants to force other nations to pay for US security, which is super dumb and impossible to enforce. But it fails to address the fact that doing that will cause the nations to seek assistance from US rivals. Trump doesn’t seem to understand that the free market doesn’t dictated the relations between sovereign nations.

On April 28 2016 03:27 oBlade wrote:

No, he wants them to pay for their own security.

And you tried really hard to wedge the "free market" meme in there after you just said essentially that US allies would make other arrangements if it was cheaper for them.

On April 28 2016 03:21 GreenHorizons wrote:
On how it ends up a brokered convention, neither candidate gets the pledged delegates needed and they make a case to the super delegates that Hillary has little to no support among independents and is not liked or trusted by a majority of Americans. So if they nominate her, instead of watching her lose a 60 point national lead to Bernie, they'll see her lose her small 10-15% lead she has over Trump after months of him pointing out any and all of her flaws with no mercy.

Hillary need something like 60% of pledged delegates left to clinch and she's unlikely to win much from here on out. Cali was tied in the last poll I saw also.

As it stands now, Trump is more likely to clinch than Hillary.

WASHINGTON — A group of House Democrats is organizing an effort to slow down an Obama administration plan to reduce drug prices, according to a letter obtained by The Huffington Post.

The Department of Health and Human Services is working toward finalizing a new rule that would experiment with ending the financial incentive doctors have for prescribing some extremely expensive medications. The rule has been well-received among some patient advocates, but congressional Democrats have been largely silent, while the pharmaceutical industry and medical community have waged an aggressive campaign to stop it.

The campaign is bearing fruit. The letter being circulated among House Democrats uses the oldest move in the opposition playbook — warning of the dreaded unintended consequences. “We have concerns about the proposed payment model and its potential for unintended effects on beneficiaries and the physician community,” it reads, offering that, of course, they support the goal of the policy, just not the way it’s being done.

“A number of members have expressed concern about the scope and size of this initiative while recognizing problems with current payment rules,” said Drew Hammill, a spokesman for House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.). “Leader Pelosi hopes that CMS will continue to actively engage members and advocacy organizations as the particulars of this test are finalized.”

Hammill said Pelosi is urging members to sign the letter, which is being circulated by Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.). As a result of pressures among the medical community and Big Pharma, sources following the fight said, many Democrats were nervous enough about the proposed rule that they were considering signing a Republican letter that spoke in even harsher terms. The Democratic missive is written with an eye to those who want the rule to go forward, but don’t want to attract the ire of two powerful lobbies.

The US army had a policy to kill off bison to harm the Native American tribes that relied upon them...

On April 28 2016 03:34 On_Slaught wrote:


Buying allies has been US policy for over a century. Usually better than letting them run to our possible advisaries.

On April 28 2016 02:48 On_Slaught wrote:


Explain.

On April 28 2016 03:21 GreenHorizons wrote:
On how it ends up a brokered convention, neither candidate gets the pledged delegates needed and they make a case to the super delegates that Hillary has little to no support among independents and is not liked or trusted by a majority of Americans. So if they nominate her, instead of watching her lose a 60 point national lead to Bernie, they'll see her lose her small 10-15% lead she has over Trump after months of him pointing out any and all of her flaws with no mercy.

Hillary need something like 60% of pledged delegates left to clinch and she's unlikely to win much from here on out. Cali was tied in the last poll I saw also.

As it stands now, Trump is more likely to clinch than Hillary.

On April 28 2016 03:38 Plansix wrote:

Trump: You need to pay for your own security and defense.

Ally: We already do??? Did anyone tell you that our GDP is like 1/12th the size of yours?

Trump: You need to pay more, America isn’t picking up the tap until you do.

Ally: Why are we allied again?

On April 28 2016 03:36 Introvert wrote:
Cruz should have waited until after IN. Before looks too desperate (because it is). Before CA makes more sense, given Fiorina's connection to the state. I don't see how this helps on IN, and if he loses IN it's over anyway.

On April 28 2016 03:21 GreenHorizons wrote:
On how it ends up a brokered convention, neither candidate gets the pledged delegates needed and they make a case to the super delegates that Hillary has little to no support among independents and is not liked or trusted by a majority of Americans. So if they nominate her, instead of watching her lose a 60 point national lead to Bernie, they'll see her lose her small 10-15% lead she has over Trump after months of him pointing out any and all of her flaws with no mercy.

Hillary need something like 60% of pledged delegates left to clinch and she's unlikely to win much from here on out. Cali was tied in the last poll I saw also.

As it stands now, Trump is more likely to clinch than Hillary.

On April 28 2016 03:51 zeo wrote:

It will be cheaper in the long run because Trump won't go on 'democracy' bombing sprees around the World. I'm sure European NATO countries would gladly pay up if it meant no more refugee crisis's because an American president gets that military industrial complex whisper.