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Sanders is currently beating Trump 49.7% to 40% in polls.[1] Admittedly it is a long way to November, but with all the stuff Trump has said and done, the campaign against him practically writes itself. He has his own party calling him a liberal democrat while there's an endless number of clips of his incessantly racist, sexist, jingoist comments, on top of zero experience in government and four past bankruptcies. Cruz I'm less sure about (Sanders still has 3% lead, and 5.3% over Bush, -1% to Rubio), but I'll gladly take that even money bet if it ends up being Trump vs. Sanders. :)

A far worse scenario is that it ends up being Sanders vs. Trump vs. Bloomberg, Bloomberg siphons disproportionately more votes away from Sanders, and we do end up with a President Trump - plus Republicans retain control of Congress and Trump gets to appoint the next SCOTUS justice. A Trump presidency with control of all three branches of government would be scary indeed.

[1] http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/ge...

I have heard it argued that Trump's negafive publicity and overreaching plans ("Build a wall! Make Mexico pay for it! Shut down the Internet!") aren't meant to be serious solutions as much as they are meant to get attention. Nobody's building a wall, but they're damn well talking about immigration now.

I really wish people would quit with the "Trump scary" thing. Lots of people agree with a lot of what he says. He isn't manifestly wrong on everything. Because you have a different opinion doesn't make it a fact and it is becoming paraded around like one.

The scary parts, for me, are when he talks about things like Mexico "sending their rapists here," climate change being "invented by the Chinese to hurt US manufacturing," wanting to bring back torture and do "a hell of a lot worse than waterboarding," feeds the birther movement by claiming that Obama isn't a US citizen, responds to religious extremism by saying "you have to take out their families" and defends the tactic of "murdering women and children."

I don't know how else to respond except to say that I strongly disagree, and think many other people would find the idea of him leading three unified branches of government scary as well.

Sound bites taken out of context are pretty easy to do with Trump.

But this is hardly the place for political flame wars.

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