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Plenty of states have open primaries for the presidency. It's pretty much discussed every time that some people from the other party would "help" the weaker candidates.

Says a lot about the potential in the event when Danish commentators talk about that it could be an event that Denmark could take part in (spoiler alert: not gonna happen any time soon ) ' Personally I enjoy it. Like @phelps I'm not a supporter of it taking the place of other Olympic events (if anything, it should be the normal mixed relay), but I absolutely don't mind the close racing that it creates.

This video is surely proving out to be right when watching the debate.

That moment where you're feeling disappointed that you don't get a world record!

Sure I will join I'll let @Wumo post the song.

There's just something beautiful about taking money while moving away from the principles accepted when joining.

But they surely enjoy the money from EU

May be true, but quite a lot of polling is questioning that. He has overtaken Biden in several polls on perceived electability and was the candidate most voters considered voting for in the post-NH debate poll from Ipsos and he is doing great against Trump in general election polling (though these aren't that useful at the moment). Corbyn lost just as much (if not more) due to his personality as the policy. Sanders is much stronger there. Meanwhile we also have to remember that the participation at the General Election is rather low (somewhere between 50 and 60 %). It's not so dangerous to scare some voters away if you get others to actually vote. Don't get me wrong, I am in no way saying that Trump won't win, I do question the chances to beat him as well, but there are still a ton of unanswered questions and others may end up differently than we think. No matter what, it would seem like the Trumpists will be there for the election in great numbers.

And by the way. Let's be realistic. If Sanders ends up as the president, everything he does would be baby steps . The senate will most likely still be republican (a small chance for 50/50 while something big would most likely need to come up to give majority without the vice president) and even if it ended up democratic, he would need support from people like Sinema and Manchin who I don't see supporting the most left-wing ideas of his campaign. At very best (for his ideas) he would in some Trump-like way make changes to the party that would mean possible major changes in his second term but I don't see that as very likely (though I admit that I'm in no way an expert). A congress with democratic majority is likely to happen again, but once again there would be plenty of opposition in the democratic party. It's not like USA would become a Socialist haven in 2 years if Sanders is elected. That is also what makes me not mind so much if he ends up winning the primary (though I believe I would personally vote for Buttigieg if I was in the US). I think more democrats would be ready to swallow their pride and vote for Sanders if he is the democratic nominee than Sanders supporters would vote for another democrat (especially if that democrat was Biden or Bloomberg).

The thing is. I'm a social liberal, not a socialist or a liberalist. I'm proud of our system (and before you write the same thing you do every single time, I do NOT believe that it can be copied 1:1 to a big country like the US), but I'm in no way a socialist (though some right wing people would surely say that I am, while others say just the opposite). In fact back in the days my most likely 2nd choice would have been the conservatives. I know that in most countries it's Socialism vs conservatism, but making liberalism the same as socialism is really wrong. And you're blaming the liberalists or progressives for the decline of the liberal democracy. The ones disassembling the liberal democracies (some faster than others) are conservatives like in Hungary and to some extent Poland.

And Bloomberg is in the Nevada debate. Warrens' response: Haven't watched the last couple of democratic debates, but I'll be watching this!

I feel like you're using liberal as liberally as the conservatives in the US use socialist or communist...

Another race just outside the podium for Hanna But a very fine race by Elvira. She is much behind on skiing, but it's a very fine debut.

I think this primary has just seen it's weirdest polling result (at least among those actually getting a mention by serious experts): Some company called Point Blank Political has a poll in Nevada saying that Tom Steyer is in the lead with 18,6%, Klobuchar at 2nd with 15,6% closely followed by Biden, Sanders and Buttigieg. I would not be the slightest bit surprised if they work with Steyer. But they are good enough to mention that all candidates in the top 5 are within the margin of error. Somehow FiveThirtyEight has it in their list, but I doubt that it effects their average much. Meanwhile a more known pollster (though with a B/C ranking in their system) has Buttigieg at above 15% for the first time in a Nevada poll. It also puts Warren at her highest in the State since november. while Biden drops below 15 % for the first time. Such a result would be good for both Buttigieg and Warren while it would be another terrible loss for Biden that could very well take him another step closer to dropping out. But well, it's a caucus and it's still a few days (and a debate) away.

And I agree (well, for me it's close between the mass start and the individual) and @Werloc could very much have my bow (if I actually had it anylonger) for the battle for the event. For others it's different, and the sports need fans and consider what helps here. Of course we traditionalists (in most ways at least) should fight for what we think is right. But do at least give a little thought to those who like it another way.

Wouldn't that mainly be bitching about VAR in the Premier League? That one's really about terrible implementation.

TV stations cares about viewer numbers! Without viewers, no commercial interest We can afterall see other events getting longer and longer (at least more cycling races are broadcasted in full length though I'm certain that many would say that there's nothing more boring than a 220km long sprinters stage) Even though Swedish biathlon experts are against getting rid of individual, they admit that it may be the most boring for many. Of course there's commercial interest here, but still ignoring everybody who feels that competitions are complicated/uninteresting or even talking down to them doesn't really change anything!

Nobody's trying to, but one thing is thinking so yourself, another is caring about others (once again, I don't disagree with you, but (apparently unlike you) I understand why others think otherwise.

Worrying about how it is to be a spectator is not BS! And it's not BS to think that it's complicated! Having been to time trials in cycling, I have no doubt that it's complicated to follow the same thing with several laps and adding the shooting. It's not like there are big screens everywhere and with athletes more or less constantly passing by, spending time with the live timing isn't necessarily possible. That's honestly where this site gets frustrating sometimes. We can all agree about the conclusion (remember, I'm strongly against how it's getting more and more about mass starts in and once again, I miss the good old individual 50km as well and I'm against cutting the individual in biathlon), but it becomes frustratingly automatic that because their ideas of a solution is bad, the reasoning is as well.

To be fair, I would have to agree about individual being complicated to the spectator. If you don't have some live results, I would guess that it's pretty tough to follow it. You can see if a biathlete is fas, but you have no idea whether he/she has missed 0 or 7 shots making it a medal contender or somebody outside top 60. Does't make me support cutting it, but I wouldn't discount that it may not be the most followable event for the spectators.

Well. Only 1/5 of Trump's campaign spending was his own money. Bloomberg's campaign is pretty much entirely own money (and way more than Trump ever spent). You could say that Bloomberg is campaigning like you would have expected Trump to, but not really like he did. There aren't really much alike other than being rich and a certain focus at the angry people in the country (Trump at those being angry for feeling forgotten and Bloomberg just everybody who wants Trump out of the White house). Another similarity (though not so much a matter of the 2 but more the other candidates) is that their road to the win is the infighting between the other candidates.

Looked like this:

Looks like they've been quick, yeah. It was OurMine. They got at least all Olympic pages and FC Barcelona. Looks like they even got Barca twice

Damn. Looks like all Olympic Twiiter pages (and plenty others) have been hacked

I'm absolutely no fan of the beer myself. Not even for the warm summer days that they should be really great for. But I've seen plenty of mentions of people drinking it by the Chinese embassies around the world.