My wife's friend invited her out to a local brewery tonight. Turns out it was a Bernie Sanders event
I mean...I'm jealous, but that's a shitty thing to do without warning her...I'd love Bernie to win, but I know that's unrealistic.
I really like that chart Charlie - I'm shocked that Jindal is so much further left than many of the other candidates. His lockstep "I want to be president" approach to "governing" our state has been a travesty. Seriously - I haven't seen or read anything positive about him for months - and that includes from my staunchest conservative friends. Universally hated.
Beyond that though, I hope Mr. Trump stays in the race as long as possible.
I've said it before - the republicans have been dragged too far to the right for me in recent years. I used to be pretty centrist, but I suddenly find myself on the far left on many issues that appear to now be republican litmus tests (climate change, voter rights, privacy rights, creationism in schools - i.e. the importance of religious liberty as long as it's my religion, acknowledging we have a race/poverty problem, handguns, investing in research and education, and trickle down economics/historically upper income low marginal tax rates....Fuck Grover Norquest).
In other words - I'll end up (reluctantly) voting for Hillary (go Bernie!), and I'll be shocked if whoever makes it through the republican nomination process is centrist enough to win the general election.