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[–]besttrousers"Then again, I have pegged you for a Neoclassical/Austrian." 15ポイント16ポイント  (1子コメント)

BRONZE THREAD

[–]urnbabyurnPezzonovante 3ポイント4ポイント  (0子コメント)

Yeah, or a commodity basket.

To be honest, these ST results are turning out to be less exciting than I had anticipated. My only hope at this point is to see Rove on Fox News having a meltdown over Trump winning and start denying the results because some suburb hasn't reported yet.

[–]besttrousers"Then again, I have pegged you for a Neoclassical/Austrian." 7ポイント8ポイント  (7子コメント)

I wrote the following on a friend's facebook wall, when they asked for reasons to support Sanders vs. Clinton. I was the only pro-Clinton comment.

I am very worried about the future of evidence-based policy in a Sanders administration.

Sanders has been promoting a an economic analysis of his policies that has a fiscal multiplier of 8.1, while the economic literature suggests that it is somewhere between 0.8 and 1.5 (http://econweb.ucsd.edu/.../res.../JEL_Fiscal_14June2011.pdf). Using a parameter that is 20 (!) standard deviations away from the empirical estimates is fairly absurd, and economists (including every former Obama Chief Economic Adviser) have written detailed explanations as to why (https://evaluationoffriedman.files.wordpress.com/.../rome..., http://www.nytimes.com/.../uncovering-the-bad-math-or...).

The Sanders campaign's reaction is to imply that the economists are being bribed (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQkdnAfasFA&feature=youtu.be) (he doesn't say by who - the Clintons? Wall Street? Neither are true).

I think one of the most important qualities a President should have is being able to weigh advice from different outside experts - even when they disagree with you. Sanders' manichaean worldview limits his ability to do this.

[–]EveRommelDAY TUK UR JOBZ, didn't want it anyways, already replaced[S] 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I'm sure the responses were either crickets or did you earn your shill card points for the day?

[–]vShockAndAwevSupply don't real 0ポイント1ポイント  (5子コメント)

Do you think we should put any weight on Clinton's scandals, constant flip flopping, and term as Secretary of State? Because I agree purely on policy (assuming her current policies are actually what she stands for which is a big assumption) she's much better than Sanders (and at this point just about the entire GOP field too), but I personally would rather see a Sanders victory due to those problems with Hillary.

Granted, I'm a registered Republican in a closed primary state so my vote will be to whoever looks like they have the best chance of stopping Trump (please don't be Marco "let me shut down Mosques/restaurants/public places where extremists might be gathering" Rubio).

[–]besttrousers"Then again, I have pegged you for a Neoclassical/Austrian." 3ポイント4ポイント  (4子コメント)

scandals

Honestly, the anodyne nature of the emails we've seen so far are probably the most encouraging thing. If I had to release every email I've sent in the last 4 years, you'd find much worse!

constant flip flopping

I have no idea what flip flops she did. Clinton seems to be fairly ideologically stable to me.

term as Secretary of State

Well, of course.

[–]jb4427 -1ポイント0ポイント  (3子コメント)

TIL being a former cabinet member...and a damn good one at that...disqualifies you from being president

[–]besttrousers"Then again, I have pegged you for a Neoclassical/Austrian." 0ポイント1ポイント  (2子コメント)

I assume /u/vShockAndAwev disagrees with "a damn good one at that". If so, that seems perfectly valid.

[–]jb4427 0ポイント1ポイント  (1子コメント)

I'm not sure how he could. She played a big part in repairing relations that the Bush administration destroyed.

[–]besttrousers"Then again, I have pegged you for a Neoclassical/Austrian." 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I don't know enough about FP to really judge her effectiveness here.

Do you think she did substantially better than the counterfactual (for example, a John Kerry or Bill Richardson Secretary of State?).

[–]jsmooth7 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

So many discussion threads to choose between today!

[–]PonderayFollows an AR(1) process 1ポイント2ポイント  (2子コメント)

So if things go as badly for Bernie as the polls are suggesting how long do you think he'll stay in the race?

[–]EveRommelDAY TUK UR JOBZ, didn't want it anyways, already replaced[S] 1ポイント2ポイント  (1子コメント)

Defiant till the convention?

[–]PonderayFollows an AR(1) process 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)

I don't think so. I think he'll feel a decent amount of pressure to drop out earlier to unify that's party for the general election.

[–]vShockAndAwevSupply don't real 1ポイント2ポイント  (2子コメント)

Being a right winger was a lot more fun when the biggest threat to the right was losing to Hillary, but still maintaining control of most local/state govs and congress.

[–]EveRommelDAY TUK UR JOBZ, didn't want it anyways, already replaced[S] 3ポイント4ポイント  (1子コメント)

This sub actually brought me more center than I used to be and I'm terrified of 3 of the 5 left and the other 2 are still frightening

[–]vShockAndAwevSupply don't real 1ポイント2ポイント  (0子コメント)

Same. Who's your candidate for GOP? I'm rooting for Cruz at this point as the lesser of the three evils that actually has a shot of winning the nomination.

[–]Vagabond21They call me "Bond" because the return on my comments is fixed. 0ポイント1ポイント  (0子コメント)