The 2016 Republican Field

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I'd be holding out hope for a Hillary FBI indictment if I were you guys since she's going to have a prohibitive delegate lead after Super Tuesday most likely. Sanders had some encouraging results with Hispanics in Nevada(which I actually was thinking might happen since Hispanics are the demographic most open to socialism(other than college aged white hipsters ) but if he can't start peeling some of the Black vote away from Hillary he really has no chance. It is looking like Hillary will win big in South Carolina and they're dubbing the Super Tuesday this year as the SEC primary so I think things could get really ugly. Bernie if he can compete with Hispanics could mean he could compete in states in California and Texas, but he needs these black voters in the south.

I think Trump would beat Hillary in a landslide, 1980 Reagan revolution type landslide because Trump is the first Republican that could make serious inroads into the Democratic base especially with working class whites in the party. I think a lot of people think Trump is going to struggle with minorities but he seems to strongest Republican candidate with minorities. Trump has more than an ideological appeal, he represents the success that we all wish could achieve and he wears it like we could unlike all these other billionaires that prefer to play the hidden hand. Making America great again is more than just catchphrase or something even tangible, it psychological and I think Obama tapped into this in 2008 as well. It's hope and change, just in a different package.

It would be interesting how much of the black vote Trump could get with Sanders as the nominee, I really think its more blacks not liking Sanders for some reason than such a loyalty to Hillary Clinton who in 2008 ran a very racially divisive campaign.

what is it about sanders that blackfolk don't seem to like too much?

It's just that the Clintons have established strong connections to the black community for the past several years.

if only Hillary and Bernie could make a deal.

Personally I think being a 74 year old white Jew from rural lily-white Vermont might have something to do with it but that's just my theory. Calling yourself a socialist is buzzword that I imagine a lot of voters probably are uncomfortable with even if they agree with it just because they don't think they can win, this is more important to older voters and maybe Blacks as well I don't know.

I guess you can say the Clinton's have this special relationship with the black community but they really need to think how she ran her 2008 campaign when those same voters were against her. Hillary will say or do anything to become president, she is a liar and a criminal who is not eligible to hold the office of presidency. The DNC would be making the biggest mistake they ever made putting Hillary on a debate stage with Donald Trump.

I might be the only one here on this thread who feels sorry for the Carson campaign. Around this time several months ago {August/September-ish}, we all remember that the media was glorifying Carson and predicting that he would on the Republican ticket with The Rump, but now the media is predicting the Republican ticket will be either Trump/Cruz or The Rump/Rubio.

Now that Jeb Bush is out, but however IMO, we shouldn't rule out a comeback for the Bush Dynasty just yet. Many have speculated that the Bush Dynasty will make a comeback at some point in the future.

As for the Democrats, it's obvious now that the Democrat ticket will be Clinton/Sanders, whether Clinton and Sanders like it or not.

I am suspecting it could well be a brokered convention due to the likelihood that Rubio will win florida and cruz the ooze will easily win texas, denying trump a clear lead, come super Tuesday. in a brokered convention lots of mischief can take place.

Anybody in the Republican field is more worthy of the nomination than The Rump.

in the opinion of nearly every other senator, cruz the ooze is an oily sanctimonious Janus-faced scold. god help this country if he makes it into the white house when he belongs in the dog house for lying about his senate run financing.

I've been noticing something about Carson lately. His nonsensical answers, his slow, slurred speech, his bizarre behavior (flying home to Florida from Iowa for a change of clothes during primary night, for instance). The other day, I had seen an old interview with him, where he is of course younger, but more importantly, his speech was much quicker and concise, and his answers well thought out, and it occurred to me, this man is probably in the early stages of dementia. Has anyone else noticed this, or come to this conclusion?

that is interesting and sad, even though I despise the man.

Perhaps running for President has been causing a lot of stress for him?

at first I thought his quasi-stylistic obliqueness was just archness or arrogance, now I have some doubt.

In the heat of the last debate Carson demanded that "someone please attack ME!".

I guess the rest of the GOP hopefuls were like me, and didnt even realize that he was still running!

I do think he talks slow and I think that's going against him - he's too passive. I heard he had some anger issues when he was younger so the way he is acting now would be the complete opposite. I wouldn't doubt if he wasn't on a mood stablizer drug or anxiety med - something that would tone a person down.

Possible. But does it explain his odd behavior and statements?