It's the classic example of a loaded question (or complex question fallacy), a question that contains an assumption of guilt or that you can't answer without looking bad. Have you stopped beating your wife, yes is just as bad an answer as no.
The insinuation being that the liberal media will ask loaded questions to get answers that serve their liberal agenda.
Yeah, but too bad for Cruz that he's such an awkward weirdo that he turned it into something so creepy. A guy with his kind of "finesse" should really leave it alone.
The best part though was Hannity blaming the leftie media for the questions about Cruz's citizenship status, ignoring the obvious fact that the Republican frontrunner has been the one banging that drum.
I think I remember Nenshi being involved in the same thing. I think he got asked a loaded question and responded with "When did you stop beating your wife?".
It's basically a way of a mocking loaded questions to get a desired quote - "When did you stop beating your wife?" "I've never beat my wife!!!!". "Politician X claims he has never beaten his wife".
I think Cruz winning Alaska shows that the tide is finally turning against Trump. A lot of those Alaska voters probably watched the election coverage on TV before heading to the polls.
I think Cruz winning Alaska shows that the tide is finally turning against Trump. A lot of those Alaska voters probably watched the election coverage on TV before heading to the polls.
Yes, Trump winning 7 of 11 states today is the tide turning away from Trump.
I wish it was true, but seriously using 1 state as an example of the tide turning from Trump after he got 7 of 11 states is a horrible argument for that.
also the Alaska isn't finalized and Cruz is only ahead of Trump by 1.6% ....
edit - and looking at the results both Cruz and Trump have same amount of delegates from this Alaska race so far.
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The Machiavellian in me is supporting Trump knowing that this is the clearest path for Hillary to the White House and to fill potentially 3 Supreme Court seats in her presidency.
All this talk about how Trump somehow has a chance against Hillary is fanciful bubkis.
The Machiavellian in me is supporting Trump knowing that this is the clearest path for Hillary to the White House and to fill potentially 3 Supreme Court seats in her presidency.
All this talk about how Trump somehow has a chance against Hillary is fanciful bubkis.
Don't be so sure, Hillary is a lying quiff on the take and offers nothing new. The Donald will attack her and her non-policy's like nothing ever seen in election history.
Biden should have ran..he wouldn't have offered a whole lot more but he's not a crazy freak or a lying goof either. he would have won in a landslide.
The Donald's problem is everything about Hillary is already out there. All he'll use are e-mails, Benghazi and take some personal shots at her/Bill, but that's gonna get boring within a month at most. Since he obviously can't/won't talk about any of his plans in detail, be interesting to see how he can keep people interested for 7 more months (#### off...).
But a general should be pretty curious just from how different things could go relative to normal. I already said with Trump v. Hillary states like Texas and Georgia could be in play for the Dems because of the demographic make ups, but then again can't we speculate Trump could all of a sudden give the GOP more play in predominately white states too? Could New Jersey and Pennsylvania and some of the Northeast come into play? Could New York actually be possible? This election has already made very little sense, why not more chaos?
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Mainstream Republicans don't really like Trump, Independents really don't like Trump, and Democrats really really really don't like Trump.
The Super Tuesday voter turnout numbers do not appear to support your conclusion.
Around 8 million have voted in the GOP Primaries, and around 5 million have voted in the Democratic Primaries.
Even if some of the GOP voters are really Democratic ones who are simply voting to try to keep a particular candidate in the race, those numbers don't look like there is a lot of support for Hillary.
I think Trump will/would do terrible in debates against both Hillary and Sanders. The optics alone will hurt him.
His ranting works well when there's a whole bunch of candidates and really you just want to stand out. A 1-on-1 debate is a completely different scenario. Especially against a woman or a clearly older and smaller guy his usual style will only make him look like a shallow bully that has no respect or manners.
He'll be forced to change his style quite a bit, and I doubt he can handle a real debate against either Sanders or Clinton, who are both very smart and much more battle-hardened in politics. Trump seems like a rhetorical glass cannon, he can give a punch but he can't take them.
Heck, I wouldn't be surprised to see him have a complete meltdown, while trying too hard to dominate a debate.
I think Cruz winning Alaska shows that the tide is finally turning against Trump. A lot of those Alaska voters probably watched the election coverage on TV before heading to the polls.
Nah, it just shows that Alaskan voters want to support their Albertan-born near-neighbor.
(Or, more seriously, they think that Cruz will protect and support their oil industry)
I think Cruz winning Alaska shows that the tide is finally turning against Trump. A lot of those Alaska voters probably watched the election coverage on TV before heading to the polls.
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Nah, it just shows that Alaskan voters want to support their Albertan-born near-neighbor.
(Or, more seriously, they think that Cruz will protect and support their oil industry)
I think it shows that Alaskans truly love crazy.
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