2016 US Presidential Election Thread 2 - Always Darkest before Don

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*Asterisk* said:
Trump can't even withstand a joke about his undersized fingers without getting triggerd.

"Drumpf" works as an insult on Trump for the exact same reason "Ian Brandon Anderson" works on Chris.
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Sure, but if you are going to lower your standards to anything that triggers Trump it will be champagne comedy when someone says his Vagina looks silly. I figured John Oliver could construct a decent joke, particularly with the way people were losing their shit at how 'he took Trump down'.
 
AnOminous said:
If the Republican Party ever fixes its racism problem
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thats their biggest problem. the perception that all republicans are racists. it seems every republican will always get accused of this these days. maybe they need to rethink their policies or at least how they word them, but this is an issue that is now an easy fix at all
 
CatParty said:
thats their biggest problem. the perception that all republicans are racists. it seems every republican will always get accused of this these days. maybe they need to rethink their policies or at least how they word them, but this is an issue that is now an easy fix at all
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I'm pretty sure this election cycle has further cemented minorities and women further away from the GOP. They've likely lost the Hispanic vote for an entire generation.
 
Oliver's show is gimmicky and already is repeating jokes and joke-formats.

Glad they go over issues that most people don't give too much thought about (nutritional supplements, seed faith, journalism etc.) but the bad jokes tend to overshadow them and do them a disservice.
 
Pikimon said:
The best chance the GOP has at recapturing their voter base is to shift over to Libertarian policies concerned with freedom of choice and small government politics. They would also need to work their asses off to repair their image with Hispanics (which once upon a time used to vote mostly Republican), Asians (same thing), Women (Yep), and other key demographics that are bit by bit changing the political landscape of the United States.

No one is going to vote for you no matter your policy ideas, if your party gives off the impression that they hate your very existence.

It's possible, but improbable.

As for the Democrats, if they want to maintain any form of control over the next few years they need to:

A) Cater to their constituents that got them the election in the first place.

B) Be very open and advertise their successes well

C) Continue to broaden their base for the midterms, and encourage people to vote

Again, it's possible, but improbable.
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Doing all of that would require leaving behind the Southern white working class.

I'm thinking this is the point where the GOP either starts talking tough love, or dies. You can barely market yourself as Republican now without being viewed as mildly racist (at least) because of the new "solid South". Racism is woven intricately in the fabric of the Southern white working class, and we've crossed a point in American demographics where this will clash harder and harder with the majority of the population. These people tarnish the GOP's image more and more among an America that just isn't white anymore.

The 2012 GOP autopsy is even more relevant now than it was then. This is not a majority white, working class country anymore. The Democrats are reaching out with broad appeal in their message, but the GOP isn't doing the same for principles of small-government and budgetary responsibility.
 
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The Republican party needs to distance itself from religion and social issues and become the party that only cares about the economy.
 
Ass Manager 3000 said:
I disagree. If anything ignoring the poverty their base lives in gave Donald room to run against them.
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If they were interested in popularity rather than getting rich they'd start pivoting to being a staunchly libertarian worker's party. Less focus on entitlements as their method of helping the poor and more focus on stimulating the local economy. Reign in military spending not by decreasing the quality of our military but narrowing it's scope to defending American shores. Use tariffs as an alternate revenue stream for the government (which is how things used to work before everyone hopped on the free trade bandwagon) to give companies incentive to design and manufacture stateside. Dismantle the surveillance state and drug war and demilitarize American policing as a means to strengthen American's 4th amendment rights.

It's basically Trumpism with a more consistent focus on Libertarian policies. If you gave that platform to someone even slightly more articulate than Donald I guarantee they'd be beating Hillary in a landslide. It's not my personal ideal, but I'd love to see a counterweight to the "spend forever, war forever, spying forever" attitude of the Nanny State Democrats.
 
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