University of Nevada POTUS debate at 9pm ET **live commentary thread**

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Somebody remind me...how on earth did Trump win the primaries?

Because the GOP base is crazy and the other candidates sucked.

The other candidates were mostly legitimate.

GOP primary voters are crazy, that's how Trump won.

It's funny to see a berniebro calling the other candidates legitimate, when none of the GOP candidates would consider Bernie to be as such. In any case, they only got elected in the first place due to the tea party wave by pandering to the crazies, so yank is correct.

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Of course Trump is losing (he always does), but just not as spectacularly as I'd think.

This is more line with his normal performance.

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PRESIDENT CLINTON 2017-2025 LET THE ERA OF PROSPERITY BEGIN!

She's only getting 1 term.

Like I said, she will probably be not unlike 41.

41 lost because of Perot, she is more like 43, remember, W. lost the popular vote.

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People here exaggerate Reagan, he is nothing like JFK, he was just in the right place at  the right time. Carter's cowardice over Iran cost him his re-election, and Bush Sr. was also trailing Dukakis until Willie Horton. Then for his reelection bid, Bush got hammered by Perot.

Obama is more like JFK, creating a new coalition based on demographics, Biden would've been the LBJ, had he run, Hillary is in a different set of circumstances.

Reagan didn't create anything new, he just ran with Nixon's coalition.  Big difference between that and what Obama, JFK and Nixon did.