OSUViking 505 Posted July 31, 2015 (edited) Kind of hard for me to choose, really. On one hand, there are a bunch of Republicans and I can't even name them all. On the other, I have Hillary (who seems cancerous at this point) and Bernie who while he seems cool always comes off as a socialist. It doesn't help Bernie's image (at least for me) that he keeps advocating stuff that would close the "23 cent" wage gap, even though a lot of that gap is a result of women choosing lower paying careers. I don't know if he's pandering to the women voters here, but any legislation that would close that gap seems like it would just be making engineers earn the same as teachers. I think there's still a much smaller pay gap within the same fields, but it's not as egregious as people claim it to be. EDIT: I'd still like to be able to support Christie or Paul, but Christie seems to be caught up in too many controversies and Paul seems like he's far more conservative than his father. EDIT2: I could be totally wrong about Bernie's socialist image. I haven't done much educating, which I admit makes me ignorant. Could be totally wrong about him. Edited July 31, 2015 by OSUViking Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CampinWithaMissingPerson 2,025 Posted August 3, 2015 Man, these photobombers are going all in on this dude Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BwareDWare94 723 Posted August 7, 2015 Kind of hard for me to choose, really. On one hand, there are a bunch of Republicans and I can't even name them all. On the other, I have Hillary (who seems cancerous at this point) and Bernie who while he seems cool always comes off as a socialist. It doesn't help Bernie's image (at least for me) that he keeps advocating stuff that would close the "23 cent" wage gap, even though a lot of that gap is a result of women choosing lower paying careers. I don't know if he's pandering to the women voters here, but any legislation that would close that gap seems like it would just be making engineers earn the same as teachers. I think there's still a much smaller pay gap within the same fields, but it's not as egregious as people claim it to be. EDIT: I'd still like to be able to support Christie or Paul, but Christie seems to be caught up in too many controversies and Paul seems like he's far more conservative than his father. EDIT2: I could be totally wrong about Bernie's socialist image. I haven't done much educating, which I admit makes me ignorant. Could be totally wrong about him. Bernie's more interested in fixing the income inequality between CEOs and lower employees, things like that. There's no reason some person in the higher up should be making astronomically more than the lowest employees. It just goes to show that the whole GOP-pushed idea of helping the "job creaters" doesn't work. They just keep the extra money. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
OSUViking 505 Posted August 7, 2015 Bernie's more interested in fixing the income inequality between CEOs and lower employees, things like that. There's no reason some person in the higher up should be making astronomically more than the lowest employees. It just goes to show that the whole GOP-pushed idea of helping the "job creaters" doesn't work. They just keep the extra money. Well, they shouldn't be making the same money. Maybe those wages should be controlled so CEOs aren't controlling what they make, but someone who works with software shouldn't be making the same amount as someone organizing a huge deal worth tens of millions of dollars. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SteVo+ 3,702 Posted August 7, 2015 Anyone else watch the debate last night? I thought most candidates were relatively vanilla, not doing much to improve/worsen their poll numbers, though there were a few standouts, IMO: Rubio did incredibly well. If you can declare a "winner" from a 10-person debate, he was it for me. Trump gonna Trump. His poll numbers are going to plateau eventually, and he'll be excluded from these debates sooner than later. Ben Carson was pretty underwhelming to me. He came off as likable but weak, not very presidential. Rand Paul kinda sucked. He was overly aggressive, which is not the right play for these early debates. He should have just stuck to his message, which he finally found at the end with his "I'm a different kind of Republican" closing statement. Ted Cruz, GTFO. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cherry 1,302 Posted August 7, 2015 Cruz did good. Rubio did good. Paul looked like a prick attacking Trump and Christie. Christie looked shit outside of roasting Paul. Trump got hammered by hard questions that pertained to him as a person, not as a potential president. Carson did well IMO. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vin+ 3,121 Posted August 7, 2015 Trump is a panderer who likely only cares about winning. However, the way he answers questions; you can tell he isn't a politician, is somewhat nice. I was disappointed with Jeb. He seemed...uncomfortable. I dunno, something seemed off. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites