Sanders is winning more states than maybe expected buyt he's going to get swamped by GA delegates in particular.
His relative success is symptomatic of Clinton's dislikeabilty tho. She isn't very enthusing. Trump could beat her, with a fair wind.
Clinton is the Democratic Nixon, against Rubio she would probably lose, as Nixon would have lost to Bobby Kennedy. Against Trump she should scrape home as Nixon scraped home against Humphrey
That's a fair analysis. She'll probably be a better president than Obama. Not hard, in foreign policy. At least.
The melancholy truth is that any US president is now tasked with managing relative American decline. America will go from being 50% of global GDP in 1945 to around 10-14% in 2024. A huge drop. This collapse can no longer be disguised.
Yes, she is certainly much tougher than Obama. America will go into relative decline and will have to accept being the second largest economy behind China (although still ahead on gdp per capita). Abroad it is also being challenged by Russia in projection of power
This entire election seems emblematic of American decline. A second rate, do-nothing politician will become president on account of having ovaries and an ex-president for a husband, and because she will face a bonkers billionaire who inherited half his money and spent the rest on an awful pseudo-toupee.
I mean, FFS. No wonder Putin is running rings around the West.
It all feels very late Roman. Europe is the western Roman Empire, overrun by barbarians, America is Byzantium, still strong, but deeply strange and corrupt, and menaced by its own slow decay.
There will be a relative decline but I would not go so far as to say it is ancient Rome and Constantinople as yet, more a levelling off of economic and political power
But the West as a whole will still be far stronger than China or Russia.
Sanders is winning more states than maybe expected buyt he's going to get swamped by GA delegates in particular.
His relative success is symptomatic of Clinton's dislikeabilty tho. She isn't very enthusing. Trump could beat her, with a fair wind.
Clinton is the Democratic Nixon, against Rubio she would probably lose, as Nixon would have lost to Bobby Kennedy. Against Trump she should scrape home as Nixon scraped home against Humphrey
That's a fair analysis. She'll probably be a better president than Obama. Not hard, in foreign policy. At least.
The melancholy truth is that any US president is now tasked with managing relative American decline. America will go from being 50% of global GDP in 1945 to around 10-14% in 2024. A huge drop. This collapse can no longer be disguised.
Yes, she is certainly much tougher than Obama. America will go into relative decline and will have to accept being the second largest economy behind China (although still ahead on gdp per capita). Abroad it is also being challenged by Russia in projection of power
This entire election seems emblematic of American decline. A second rate, do-nothing politician will become president on account of having ovaries and an ex-president for a husband, and because she will face a bonkers billionaire who inherited half his money and spent the rest on an awful pseudo-toupee.
I mean, FFS. No wonder Putin is running rings around the West.
It all feels very late Roman. Europe is the western Roman Empire, overrun by barbarians, America is Byzantium, still strong, but deeply strange and corrupt, and menaced by its own slow decay.
There will be a relative decline but I would not go so far as to say it is ancient Rome and Constantinople as yet, more a levelling off of economic and political power
Europe is the collapsing power = Rome after 400AD. The analogy is uncomfortably close.
America is the inheritor of Rome, Byzantium, which actually lasted another 1000 years, thanks to military prowess, but was in relative decline all that time.
Makes me a tiny bit sad being born when I was. Not experiencing Britain at it's zenith, but rather coming to terms with post-imperial reality as a relatively minor major power. Bah!
Sanders is winning more states than maybe expected buyt he's going to get swamped by GA delegates in particular.
His relative success is symptomatic of Clinton's dislikeabilty tho. She isn't very enthusing. Trump could beat her, with a fair wind.
Clinton is the Democratic Nixon, against Rubio she would probably lose, as Nixon would have lost to Bobby Kennedy. Against Trump she should scrape home as Nixon scraped home against Humphrey
That's a fair analysis. She'll probably be a better president than Obama. Not hard, in foreign policy. At least.
The melancholy truth is that any US president is now tasked with managing relative American decline. America will go from being 50% of global GDP in 1945 to around 10-14% in 2024. A huge drop. This collapse can no longer be disguised.
Yes, she is certainly much tougher than Obama. America will go into relative decline and will have to accept being the second largest economy behind China (although still ahead on gdp per capita). Abroad it is also being challenged by Russia in projection of power
This entire election seems emblematic of American decline. A second rate, do-nothing politician will become president on account of having ovaries and an ex-president for a husband, and because she will face a bonkers billionaire who inherited half his money and spent the rest on an awful pseudo-toupee.
I mean, FFS. No wonder Putin is running rings around the West.
It all feels very late Roman. Europe is the western Roman Empire, overrun by barbarians, America is Byzantium, still strong, but deeply strange and corrupt, and menaced by its own slow decay.
There will be a relative decline but I would not go so far as to say it is ancient Rome and Constantinople as yet, more a levelling off of economic and political power
Europe is the collapsing power = Rome after 400AD. The analogy is uncomfortably close.
America is the inheritor of Rome, Byzantium, which actually lasted another 1000 years, thanks to military prowess, but was in relative decline all that time.
Rome was an empire covering most of Europe overrun by fellow Europeans, mainly from Germany. Even now Muslims make up less than 10% of the European population. American may be in relative decline but is still rather stronger than Byzantium was at the time. China has always been a great power, just sometimes sleeping
Sanders is winning more states than maybe expected buyt he's going to get swamped by GA delegates in particular.
His relative success is symptomatic of Clinton's dislikeabilty tho. She isn't very enthusing. Trump could beat her, with a fair wind.
Clinton is the Democratic Nixon, against Rubio she would probably lose, as Nixon would have lost to Bobby Kennedy. Against Trump she should scrape home as Nixon scraped home against Humphrey
That's a fair analysis. She'll probably be a better president than Obama. Not hard, in foreign policy. At least.
The melancholy truth is that any US president is now tasked with managing relative American decline. America will go from being 50% of global GDP in 1945 to around 10-14% in 2024. A huge drop. This collapse can no longer be disguised.
Yes, she is certainly much tougher than Obama. America will go into relative decline and will have to accept being the second largest economy behind China (although still ahead on gdp per capita). Abroad it is also being challenged by Russia in projection of power
This entire election seems emblematic of American decline. A second rate, do-nothing politician will become president on account of having ovaries and an ex-president for a husband, and because she will face a bonkers billionaire who inherited half his money and spent the rest on an awful pseudo-toupee.
I mean, FFS. No wonder Putin is running rings around the West.
It all feels very late Roman. Europe is the western Roman Empire, overrun by barbarians, America is Byzantium, still strong, but deeply strange and corrupt, and menaced by its own slow decay.
There will be a relative decline but I would not go so far as to say it is ancient Rome and Constantinople as yet, more a levelling off of economic and political power
But the West as a whole will still be far stronger than China or Russia.
Off to bed now, big winners of the night Trump and Clinton but both Cruz and Sanders have won at least two states which is enough to keep them going for a few weeks. Rubio looks to have won nowhere as yet and is the big loser of the night and is surely bowing out when Trump beats him in Florida in a fortnight
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Those are hispanic majority areas.
He hasn't sealed the deal tonight like I expected him to.
http://www.decisiondeskhq.com/results/2016/primary/gop/president/vermont/