Carly Fiorina suspends presidential campaign

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#1 Allicrombie
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Who's next to be voted off the island? Christie? Carson? Scott Bakula?

Let's be honest, she was only running to bash Hillary anyway, since it's much less awkward if a woman does it, right? O.O

-----From CNN-------

Carly Fiorina is ending her bid for the Republican presidential nomination.

The former Hewlett-Packard executive announced the decision on Facebook Wednesday after finishing seventh in New Hampshire's primary.

"While I suspend my candidacy today, I will continue to travel this country and fight for those Americans who refuse to settle for the way things are and a status quo that no longer works for them," Fiorina said in a post.

The writing was on the wall after she didn't qualify for last week's ABC News debate, and a last-minute campaign on her behalf to allow her in was unsuccessful.

Fiorina's best moments of the campaign came in the first two presidential debates.

She shined in the "undercard" for the first debate, hosted by Fox News, earning enough of a bump in the polls to make the cut for the main stage in the second debate, hosted by CNN.

And then she handed in a strong enough performance in that debate to rise into the top-polling tier of GOP candidates.

Those poll bounces didn't stick, though -- fading slowly as Donald Trump dominated media attention, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz courted evangelicals and hard-line conservatives and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio worked to consolidate establishment Republicans.

Fiorina also found herself facing a barrage of criticism from Planned Parenthood and its allies after her characterization during one debate of the undercover videos assailing the organization's handling of fetal tissue proved inaccurate.

Her campaign was built on the argument that -- as a woman with a lengthy private-sector resume -- she was the Republican best suited to take on Hillary Clinton in a general election.

Fiorina's willingness to attack Clinton -- she once invited media to a press conference outside the same hotel in South Carolina where Clinton was holding an event just minutes later -- could keep her in the running for the vice presidential nomination.

Fiorina's disappointing performance in Iowa -- she received 2% support there -- was punctuated by her decision to skip her caucus-night party there, citing a snowstorm ahead, and head straight for the airport for her flight to New Hampshire.

The 2016 race was Fiorina's second bid for political office. She previously for California's Senate seat in 2010, but lost by 10 percentage points to incumbent Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer.

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#2 horgen  Moderator
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Oh no. What will the republicans do now? :P

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Meh.

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I'm gonna go buy some HP toner and totally not sniff it in her honor.

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@Allicrombie said:

Who's next to be voted off the island? Christie? Carson? Scott Bakula?

I wonder if kids these days know who Scott Bakula is without having to google it?

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She is a pretty awful person.

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@servomaster said:

She is a pretty awful person.

She should have been crucified by the media the moment it turned out that she was a complete liar about the supposed live baby being harvest on surgical table video..

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@crimsonbrute: Quantum Leap is on Netflix... and still great, I would hope they know. I think Enterprise was on there for a bit too.

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@MuD3:

Very good on Quantum Leap, but he was miscast on Enterprise.

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@MuD3 said:

@crimsonbrute: Quantum Leap is on Netflix... and still great, I would hope they know. I think Enterprise was on there for a bit too.

he's currently on TV

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@sSubZerOo said:
@servomaster said:

She is a pretty awful person.

She should have been crucified by the media the moment it turned out that she was a complete liar about the supposed live baby being harvest on surgical table video..

You know social cons don't use their brains or accept blame when in the wrong.

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Ben Carson is next if my crystal ball is to be believed.

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She kind of creeped me out.

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I didnt even know she was still in it. I didnt see her last debate.

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@Archangel3371 said:

She kind of creeped me out.

Yeah there's something sinister about that face.

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It's this woman's fault

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#18 CommandoAgent
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@Allicrombie said:

I'm gonna go buy some HP toner and totally not sniff it in her honor.

We should be happy that shes no longer in charge of HP. She almost ruined the company.

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who? =P