Nevada caucus results: Trump poised for big night

cnn.com ^ | Maeve Reston

[SunkenCiv]

My pleasure, and thank you for the kind remarks. I almost missed some about the Oregon standoff that got grabbed, and all the religious caucus topics had to be sieved out. Sunken Sieve took care of the later.

[lewislynn]

Hard to say. If no fraud then yes it will happen but I wouldn’t put a bit of trust in the Nevada Republican party.

Trump said today that they're not going to have that caucus crap. He said people can just go in, vote and leave...Or you can stay around to watch over things...

[Charles Henrickson]

I have the opportunity to vote for a man who stands for all the things I believe in. That is Ted Cruz, the best I’ve seen since Reagan. I will gladly vote for him on March 15. Trump, on the other hand, disgusts me.

[ColdOne]

Your links are great. I thank you!!! ;)

[editor-surveyor]

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Pollutico is establishment all the way; of course they want to protect JEB’s replacement Rubio.
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[Jim Noble]

“he is an admitted, proud, serial adulterer”

Well then. Find out what kind of women he likes and send some to Ryan and McConnell. (Apologies to Abraham Lincoln).

[Salvation]

Oh, I check things out too.

[Las Vegas Ron]

Well, I was hoping for Cruz but it isn’t looking like it’s going to happen.

I will gladly vote for Trump, think of Hillary and her SCOTUS nominations.

I’ll gladly roll the dice with Trump vs going over the cliff with Hillary.

[Lurkinanloomin]

The sense they want to talk into us is that we can’t deport illegal aliens or stop them from coming in.
We need to be reasonable, rational, I forgot the other word Rubio used, and just abandon the rule of law and surrender the country.

[svcw]

They must be mythical demos?

[Cboldt]

-- Every single demo I have seen in a poll since summer has Trump supporters with more education. Cruz draws "no college." --

I've seen crosstabs that show either a Cruz or Rubio advantage among higher educated. The advantage was slight ...

Ahh, found it. Advantage to Rubio, and the threshold for getting the advantage was postgrad. I figure this group is weighted toward "elite/royalty" class.

South Carolina Republican exit poll results - WaPo

[DoughtyOne]

Okay, I think I'm fair game for a slam here, but here goes anyway.

I have seen it discussed why some folks find a person pretty or not. Sometimes it is very subtle. Something just clicks. It's generally something we can't put our finger on either. For instance, I'll watch someone say, "Oh she's amazing looking." I'll look and think, "Eh.."

The same sort of thing applies to trustworthiness. Beyond our conscious observances, there are little things we notice subliminally, that send messages to our perceptions center. Our perception is such that we don't trust someone. We don't always know why.

Enter Ted Cruz. I've seen a number of folks on the forum say they just don't trust the guy, and some of them attributed it to his look.

This morning there was a post on the forum about one of his campaign guys speaking out saying Ted couldn't win. There was a photo there that I found very interesting. At first it just reminded me of a deer in the headlights look. Either that or a look someone might make realizing a stark reality.

When I entered the thread and saw this photo, I had a very sharp reaction to it. I burst out laughing within a fraction of a second. I asked myself, why did I do that? So I started checking the photo out.

I searched on the internet until I found a large version of the photo. I blew it up. It turns out, even in the small version on the forum, I picked up on something subliminally that I wouldn't think I could see in the small version. Evidently I did.

I believe it has been proven that people can pick up on very small minutia in photos, and that minutia causes them to make snap decisions on trust, like, love, or kinsmen-ship. Can this person be trusted, a friend, a possible love interest?

I would urge you to look at this photo. I am posting it small. If you right click view, you'll see the full sized version and can even zoom in a little.

Check the angle of the nose. It's almost imperceptive, but it leans top left. Then notice the eyes. Although the face seems to be leaning top left due to the angle of the nose, the right eye is a bit lower than the left.

To confirm this I too the photo and pasted it in PC Paint.

I then drew a line at the bottom of the eyes across the screen. Sure enough, the right eye was lower than the left, despite the leftward lean of the nose.

So you place a vertical line up the nose leaning Left. You have a horizontal line going across that shows the right eye lower than the left.

Does this contribute to a perception that he is not trustworthy? Sounds crazy, but I do wonder. Is this something people are picking up on, but don't realize it?

Honestly I don't know. I just thought folks might find it interesting.

Just before I was ready to hit post with this, it occurred to me that this could actually be a tactic to make a guy look less trustworthy. If you doctored a photo just a little so someone wouldn't notice, could you instill mistrust in them due to the fictitious anomaly? Could this be a psyop tactic?

Enjoy...

[Nifster]

Nicely played

[svcw]

You are nuts.
Never happened.
Every teacher Cruz had said he was the brightest student they ever had.
O records do not exist.

[lewislynn]

Not at all uncalled for.

I believe it was Jedi jones that said Cruz's mailers in Iowa were acceptable because they needed to get conservatives minds right...or words to that effect.

Besides that, grow up.

[svcw]

Repeating the same thing over and over is a sign of mental illness.

[Lurkinanloomin]

LOL

[LS]

Stupid answer, typically one that doesn’t want to confront reality.