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28 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

FDR is the Democratic standard though, and Bernie is similar to him in many ways. But yes, Obama carried Biden to victory. Biden is voted against the democrats quite often, but sure Sanders is the odd man out. It’s whatever the party never changes. Today was the last ever election I vote as a Democrat. I will support individual candidates from different parties, but from here on out, I’m a officially a green voter. I actually want to investigate making a state senate run in 22 for them, if I’ll be eligible.

Oh yes, we even have streets named after FDR in Poland which you might find amusing. He sure gained all the applause from the post-market crash recovery in the 30s. This being said, Yalta Conference was his worst moment, he struck down British Empire but laid a foundation for the Iron Curtain.

PS. If FDR was still alive in the summer of 1945 I'd say you don't drop the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima. That was Truman's no-nonsence hardball. The biggest what if for me is what if Truman was there in Yalta rather than FDR. He'd probably see through Stalin's bullshit one way or another.

Okay, history lecture over!

6 minutes ago, Dolby said:

To be honest, this shows that Biden is indeed the best candidate. His numbers are impressive in 2 of Bernie’s key demographics: Very liberals and Independents. Even in young people, his numbers are not that bad, second best behind Bernie. 

Well, when Barack Obama says "Sanders is too far left" you better take notice. Obama is the best President the Democrats have had since Harry Truman

Biden is projected to win Massachussetts.

Elizabeth Warren can't even win her home state. Hell, even Walter Mondale won Minnesota

Just now, Olympian1010 said:

We allow that quite often in the general election quite often too. As I said, California believes in the power of democracy (even if the rest of the country proves the opposite of that tonight)

Well, accepting the majority's vote is supposed to be a sign of democracy?   Bickering whether Cal democracy is different or better than the rest of US democracy sounds... ahem... non-democratic

3 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Yep, it’s all over. The fucking asshole moderates have won yet again. They sure do love to fuck this country over. I need to stop being hopeful for real change in this country because people aren’t educated. 

It goes with party lines. Sanders sits as Independent in Congress, right? He might side with Dems in voting but they don't trust him to be the big horse in the White House race.

We have something like this in Poland, an MP runs for office from a certain's party list and is a member of the parliament club if he gets elected but he's not a member of the party itself. Sanders strikes me like a guy who's on the party election list but not a member of the party itself. And party officials will indeed backstab him if he grows too big.

LA County will allow voting to continue after the 8pm deadline due to long lines. USA must be the only country who allows such thing? Thankfully this isn't the general election.

CNN labels Massachussetts as 'Very Liberal'. How come Biden beats Sanders there?

Biden is projected to win Minnesota. This must be an upset?

Minnesota is supposed to be a liberal state? I'm kinda lost why that is, there's nothing but snow out there and it's just a posh version of Wisconsin?

Biden is projected to win Alabama, Tennessee & Oklahoma. Sanders is projected to win Colorado.

7 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Becuase my generation (and a good portion of the millennials) are done with the mainstream. Mainstream has got us nowhere in the last 3 decades. We need radical change in this country, in order to save it.

The question is whether mainstream allows the millenials to run mainstream out of business? US politics is old money, Ivy League and big ego. Rebels are destined to fail.

The only way to blow this up if there's a third main party on the scene that will unsettle the 150+ years of GOP/Dems dominance. That's the radical change neccessary.

3 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Yeah there’s states that matter, and then there’s Mississippi, Arkansas, Kanas, Wisconsin, etc. All these primaries have done is alienate voters left and right. The infighting between progressives and moderates is reaching critical mass right now. At this point, a Moderate is a just as much as my “enemy” as a conservative. I will downright refuse to vote for Biden over Trump because they represent the same ideas to me. The party needs Sanders, but they’re not listening to the people who will decide the next 3/4 decades of elections.

I told you like 6 months ago all this Dems in-fighting is completely useless and only helps the sitting President. They should have had these 3-4 primaries last fall and now there should be an official nominee in heads-up poker versus Trump already.

I wonder how many Dem voters will refuse to vote for Sanders over Trump like you will refuse to vote for Biden? (despite some polls showing beating Trump is more important than the candidate's views). The split within the party is another great boost for Trump yet I feel like it's underestimated in the big picture. He's upset the mainstream odds vs Hilary Clinton already and he might well do this again esp. if Biden voters won't vote for Sanders or vice versa.

13 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Because California and Texas make up right around 25% of the United States total population . California has the same population as the 22 smallest states combined.

Yes, I was a little sarcastic there   I told you before the only party primaries should be held in Texas, California, Florida and maybe Illinois. Who wins two out of three or 3/4 gets the official nomination. Everything else simply generates costs and hollow media attention (hell, media talk about politics all year anyway so they don't need all these primaries tbh). Everyone would get to vote in the only voting that matters in November.

Biden is projected to win Virginia and North Carolina, Sanders is projected to win Vermont (duh!).

Why I get a feeling this 'Super Tuesday' is only about Texas and California though?

Yeah, Olympics are way too important so the other global championships would have to work around the postponement - the last Olympics which took place outside of the usual window was Sydney 2000 (September) and let's say athletics would probably move their WChamps to September next year and just make the Diamond League finish way earlier instead.

Johanna Larsson (tennis) has retired at the age of 31.

She fell out ouf WTA singles Top 200 but still had a chance to play the doubles at the Olympics.

17 minutes ago, LowerSaxony said:

 

Because the super dysfunctional US election system punishes that party which splits first.

Americans think their democracy is the best in the world though?

16 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

That is correct. MotoGP is though, so it should most definitely be in the list (it's a gazillion times bigger than Moto2 and Moto3 combined after all).

But we're talking about events? The FIM Qatar Grand Prix itself isn't cancelled or postponed!

6 minutes ago, Sindo said:

 

But Moto2 and Moto3 are not cancelled, as far as I understand.

Yep, Moto2 & Moto3 teams are in Qatar already because their pre-season testing happened one week after MotoGP testing. Qatar GP will go ahead only without MotoGP.

2 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

 

Well there's a name I've never heard of...to Google!  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lechia

It's basically the same as some German clubs using the old Prussian name Borussia. We have clubs called Lechia in Poland instead

6 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

Any Klobachar will drop out of the race in order to give Biden a better chance on Super Tuesday. I hate that the party is going to try everything they can to fix this election for Biden. Progressives can’t ever get anything in this country. Thank the powers that be for California.

How about starting a new party then?    Political parties split and form a new body all the time in the world. Why can't USA do that?

Well, Poland is still called Lechistan in some countries so let's don't get overexcited by the Holland/Netherlands deal

1 minute ago, hckosice said:

 

200 IM  + 4x200 and 4x100medley relays

Relays are not individual events

12 minutes ago, Dunadan said:

 

Methinks yes, and even more for Ainslie, at best you can consider it in the "same" event if an event is replaced by another one, which is not the case here.

Well, in wrestling you can distinguish two styles (but not for women) but yeah, if we go purist then different weight classes are different events.

Finn replaced Firefly as the dinghy class in 1952 so Elvstrom had no choice like Ainslie.

2 minutes ago, Dunadan said:

In the same event? If you managed to find five at least one of them is wrong 

Ben Ainslie and Kaori Icho must be among the six

Only Oerter, Lewis and Phelps did it in the same event.

Elvstrom and Ainslie in two different sailing classes (but still the same sport) and Icho in two different weight classes. That is all.

Question is whether a different weight class in a combat sport is a different event? Methinks not.

Al Oerter (duscus, 1956-68).

Who's next?