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April 5

berni Sanders

Did bernie Sanders win Nevada? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:6000:fa01:2900:f81f:5116:4d4f:b5e6 (talk • contribs)

According to Democratic Party presidential primaries, 2016, he did not. Ian.thomson (talk) 01:35, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

Hillary did: [1]. StuRat (talk) 01:37, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

See Nevada Democratic caucuses, 2016. Like most states, Nevada is not winner-takes-all. The vote split 47%-53% to Hillary, but both walked away with a decent number of delegates (20 to Hillary, 15 to Sanders). Smurrayinchester 08:26, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

True, but at this point Sanders needs to consistently win far more than half to catch up. So, in that sense it's a loss for Sanders, too. Heck, Sanders could win every primary from here on, and still lose overall, if he doesn't win by wide margins. StuRat (talk) 16:56, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

Yeah, which is another reason why talking about "winning states" isn't really very useful. Sanders just "won" Wisconsin, but only narrowed Clinton's lead by 9. Smurrayinchester 09:26, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

Success of trump

Why is Donald Trump so popular among Republican voters? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.158.90.229 (talk) 01:35, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

Trump isn't all that successful among Republican voters. The main advantage he has is that the anti-Trump vote is split among several candidates, so none of them gets more votes than Trump. However, Trump may not get a majority, either, in which case there will be a contested convention, and it's entirely possible that the anti-Trump coalition will align behind one candidate and beat Trump there. StuRat (talk) 03:14, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

• For a relatively balanced and well-sourced discussion, see Donald Trump presidential campaign, 2016, particularly the "Support Base" section. For the anti-Trump Republicans that StuRat mentions, see Stop Trump movement. Smurrayinchester 09:05, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

Actually, that section provides absolutely zero explanation. Saying that some of his supporters are white or lack college degrees is not actually explaining why they feel as they do. I think this is a frustrating aspect of coverage for all the candidates in the U.S., because even as people are bombarded with politically correct statements about race, we're also bombarded with dismissive and purely stereotypical statements that we're only for Bernie because we're white, only for Clinton because she's a woman, only for Trump because we're uneducated. What we actually believe, what we actually see and experience and care about doesn't even have a place in the discussion! We're just products stamped out on some assembly lines, each with its predetermined role and purpose, and the political beliefs expected for those roles are written down somewhere in the specifications. Wnt (talk) 17:47, 6 April 2016 (UTC)

I suspect the largest contingent of the Trump base is anti-immigrant voters. Those have gained the upper hand at times in the past, in various parties. This is a bit at odds with the Republican establishment, where businesses want to keep immigration illegal, but not actually stop it, as that would deprive them of the cheap labor, with no legal rights, which they want. StuRat (talk) 00:30, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

Compare Pat Buchanan and the Reform Party. [2] Wnt (talk) 02:58, 7 April 2016 (UTC)

Basketball buzzer beater: The "zone"

I know of a US high school basketball game in the 1960's when a player attempted a potentially game-winning field goal as the clock expired. He tossed the ball toward the basket before the buzzer sounded, but it was still several feet from the goal when the buzzer sounded.It went in. The officials ruled, and the losing coach agreed, that the shot failed to score because it had to be "in the zone," meaning in an imaginary cylinder extending upward from the rim, when the buzzer sounded. The 2016 NCAA championship game was won by a shot made by Villanova with about 0.7 seconds on the clock, and the time expired when the ball was several feet from the basket. It still scored and won the game. In the Buzzer beater article and the article about basketball rules, I see no reference to there being a different rule for high school ball, or ever having been any rule other than that a scoring goal had to leave the shooter's hands before the buzzer sounds. Was there ever a buzzer beater rule which called for the ball to be above the basket when time expired? If so, when did it change? Edison (talk) 13:43, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

In the official rules, what you're calling "the zone" is usually called "the cylinder", meaning the imaginary cylinder extended from the outer edge of the rim up an indeterminate distance. The only rules I know of where the cylinder come into play are goaltending and basket interference. Otherwise, I am unaware of last-second shot rules where it currently comes into play. All rules state only that the ball needs to have left the shooter's hand before the clock expires. It may have changed in the past, but perusing several sites which list important rules changes: [3], [4], [5] I can find no examples of the rule ever having been as you state. Now, even knowing that, the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence, and the rule may have existed on the HS level in the 1960s. AFAIK, there was not even necessarily homogenization among state HS basketball rules back then; the National Federation of State High School Associations has existed since the 1920s, but I don't know what level of coordination existed in the 1960s, or if state associations all even used the same rule book back then. --Jayron32 16:38, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

They still don't. Only 8 states require shot clocks according to shot clock (Maryland only requires it for girls). Sagittarian Milky Way (talk) 17:45, 5 April 2016 (UTC)

My signature

How do I personalize my signature with colors, different fonts, and such? I have tried to create my signature and then copy/paste it, but it always changes back to the same font and black color. 16:54, 5 April 2016 (UTC)Elsa Enchanted (talk)

See Wikipedia:Signatures. It's all there in gory detail. Have fun! --Jayron32 18:07, 5 April 2016 (UTC)