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The Bern Report reports
Dr. Rick Hardy and Dr. John Hemingway have been leading Mock Presidential Elections [at Western Illinois University] since 1975. During that time, students who have participated in these mock elections have chosen the winning party with 100% accuracy and have an astonishing record in selecting presidential winners.
On the Democratic side for the Primaries Sanders won[1] by close to a 2 to 1 margin over challenger Hillary Clinton.
[...] After nominating Sanders, the student Democrats put him up against Jeb Bush, who received the Republican nomination, with Bernie winning the electoral college by nearly a 4 to 1 margin and a decisive win for the popular vote.
This simulation always takes place the year before the presidential election year, and three months before the actual Iowa caucuses. The genesis of this mock presidential election began at the University of Iowa in 1975 with two political science doctoral students, John Hemingway and Rick Hardy. In that year, students selected Jimmy Carter over Gerald Ford--long before anyone really knew of Jimmy Carter.
In the years that followed, Rick Hardy expanded the format and engaged thousands of students at the University of Missouri-Columbia where students registered a perfect record of selecting the subsequent winning presidential party. In 2007 and 2011, Hardy and Hemingway teamed up again to conduct a massive campus-wide simulation at Western Illinois University. In 2007, Western students selected Barack Obama as president at a time when no one thought he could win! And, in 2011, students narrowly re-elected President Obama.
[1] Content is behind scripts.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 15 2015, @01:02AM
...and immediately institutes reeducation camps for anyone who doesn't follow a Judao-Christian religion.
...and concentration camps for the root-of-all-evil types--y'know, those Secular Progressives. [google.com]
OBTW, anyone who has been paying attention for the last week has seen the unraveling of Carson's giant string of lies. [google.com]
the GOP takes [the general election] because independents are pretty fed up with Obama after eight years
Yeah. That having-healthcare-coverage-for-the-first-time-in-ages thing really put folks off of Progressives.
...and going for the party of the batshit insane let's-undo-everything-that-worked-for-decades-and-be-obstructionist-for-anything-else is what free thinkers have on their minds.
...and having a guy as president who, apparently, doesn't even -know- when he's lying is such a great leap forward.
-- gewg_
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday November 15 2015, @02:49AM
Troll harder, slappy. That's a bet not how I'm voting. I'm going Clinton but would love to see Sanders in office. I always vote for who will burn the nation to ashes the fastest so we can get started rebuilding.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Anal Pumpernickel on Sunday November 15 2015, @09:49AM
I'm going Clinton but would love to see Sanders in office. I always vote for who will burn the nation to ashes the fastest so we can get started rebuilding.
I don't think Sanders is even capable of screwing the nation up faster than Clinton. For that, you want someone who is a proven warmonger and will support the continued violation of our constitution and liberties (mass surveillance, the drug war, etc.). I guess Sanders qualifies in a few ways, but nowhere near as much as Clinton.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 15 2015, @04:52AM
I don't see Carson achieving any of those things - nor even trying them. Where are you getting that?
I'm not a party voter, and eight years ago I was interested in Obama - and what sealed the deal was McCain picking Palin. But having seen what Obama brings to the party, I'm really not sure I want more. Universal health coverage? Great. Next time, can we have it in a form that doesn't force people to pay for coverage they can't afford to use? That'd be lovely, thanks. Totally feckless handling of the Middle East? Marvellous, let's have more of that, without the fecklessness. Boosting and cheerleading for the continued gutting of civil rights? Great - uh, except I want those back.
And so on.
Progressivism was necessary in 1890, and cool in 1960, but has outlived its usefulness as a coherent ideology. Let's move to something else now, please and thank you.