The U.S. election and British house prices

chewmylegoff

antrobus wrote: »

Hilary wins big in South Carolina; 76.5% to 26.0%.

Is this a clever and witty reference to there being more registered voters than people, or is google's counting function broken?

Generali

antrobus wrote: »

Hilary wins big in South Carolina; 76.5% to 26.0%.

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Is this a clever and witty reference to there being more registered voters than people, or is google's counting function broken?

Vote early, vote often. It's a well loved Democrat tactic.

antrobus

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Is this a clever and witty reference to there being more registered voters than people, or is google's counting function broken?

No, it's a typo. Should have read 73.5%.:)

Generali wrote: »

Vote early, vote often. It's a well loved Democrat tactic.

It certainly was in the days that the South was Democrat. Not like that anymore, of course.

antrobus

antrobus wrote: »

....Sanders will, of course, win big in Vermont. But I suspect that once they've counted the votes in Georgia and Texas, he'll be dead in the water.

They've counted (most) of the votes in Georgia and Texas, Clinton won both, and Sanders is now dead in the water.

FiveThirtyEight set Clinton a target of 453 delegates in Super Tuesday neeed to win the nomination. Guess how many she got? Give yourself a biscuit; exactly 453 according to the NYT. Sanders came in at 70% of target. There is something like a 100% chance that Clinton will be the Democratic nominee.

Republicans? Trump did well, but not well enough to bag it. But then nobody else did well enough to suggest they were a threat either.

mwpt

antrobus wrote: »

Here is some guy who disagrees. He thinks Sanders will be president.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/h-a-goodman/bernie-sanders-will-becom_b_9289066.html

I strongly suspect he's wrong, mind you. Sanders got thumped by 50 points in SC. Which is a lot.

Sanders will, of course, win big in Vermont. But I suspect that once they've counted the votes in Georgia and Texas, he'll be dead in the water.

I would really like to see Sanders win. The world could do with a bit of a shake up.

antrobus

mwpt wrote: »

I would really like to see Sanders win. The world could do with a bit of a shake up.

You are going to be disappointed.

mwpt

antrobus wrote: »

You are going to be disappointed.

That is unfortunate. Never mind, either the socio-economic situation will improve and there will be no need for a Sanders, or we will get one sooner or later.

CLAPTON

mwpt wrote: »

That is unfortunate. Never mind, either the socio-economic situation will improve and there will be no need for a Sanders, or we will get one sooner or later.

how would sanders 'improve' the lot of the people of the world or even of USA?

mwpt

CLAPTON wrote: »

how would sanders 'improve' the lot of the people of the world or even of USA?

I don't know. The world could do with a bit of a shake up though, imo.

antrobus

mwpt wrote: »

That is unfortunate. Never mind, either the socio-economic situation will improve and there will be no need for a Sanders, or we will get one sooner or later.

I suspect that the same was said of McGovern, and he actually won the nomination. Forty years on ......