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PoliGAF 2016 |OT12| The last days of the Republic

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Wilsongt

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Meh. Someone posted this article on Facebook:

http://wearechange.org/study-finds-without-election-fraud-sanders-won-landslide/

I stated that there wasn't any fraud with the primary, and that Democrats need not fall into the same trap as Republicans of thinking fraud is rampant. I got this response:

Unfortunately, we can not no longer categorize Citizens as "Democrats versus Republicans." If the Democrats had no fraudulent actions, then their actions should have been cleaner, as it relates to Senator Sanders. The Democrats left a messy, messy paper trail. Now, Citizens can CHOOSE to hush, look the other way, vote for Clinton, and support the Party....But I simply do not feel that any Sanders' Supporters are wrong in feeling like this. I've witnessed the cheating on a micro (local) level, so I could only imagine it on a macro level....Ballot tampering happens and what you say, "oh well, they wouldn't have won anyway." It's not right. Even if I have no chance of winning, it's NOT the Democratic Parties' responsibility to disqualify me before the voting population does..If he had no chance of winning as the Democrats denoted in their email, then why were they intimidated by him? Just let him lose graciously, but with dignity....I was never a Sanders' Supporter. I never donated one dime to him or even signed up for his email list, but I see their point. And I share the sentiments that we deserve FAIR elections across the Party lines and throughout our voting system
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Revolver

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Still with the 22 suicides a day.

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Diablos

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Joeytj said:
Florida Governor Dick Scott just said this about the voter registration period and Hurricane Matthew:

"I'm not going to extend it... everybody has had plenty of time to register"

Well, this won't go well for him.

Even South Carolina is extending it.
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Fuck off, Governor Scott.
 
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Wolfgunblood Garopa

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I really dug this clip from an interview with Zachary Quinto.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HKV4Eaq2ao

He elequently describes how I think of the Trump phenomenon. I'm not concerned about Trump winning as that's not going to happen, but about what it means for the future. What if somebody slicker who had charisma, who talked intelligently and had actual convictions, were to run on a similar platform or even a much more deliberately hateful one? Trump lowered the bar to the point that I don't know if any of us can anticipate what could be next.
 
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Revolver

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Claiming he got such tough questions unlike Hillary that gets asked softball questions like "How will you fix the economy?"

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Joe Shlabotnik

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Wolfgunblood Garopa said:
I really dug this clip from an interview with Zachary Quinto.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HKV4Eaq2ao

He elequently describes how I think of the Trump phenomenon. I'm not concerned about Trump winning as that's not going to happen, but about what it means for the future. What if somebody slicker who had charisma, who talked intelligently and had actual convictions, were to run on a similar platform or even a much more deliberately hateful one? Trump lowered the bar to the point that I don't know if any of us can anticipate what could be next.
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Trump parlayed his brand and some kind of dumbfuck carny huckster charisma into a Presidential run. I don't want to completely dismiss the sentiments his run has stirred up because I understand being concerned about them, but I don't really think a "slicker Trump" can exist.
 
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Retro

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Iolo said:
If I got to ask a question at the town hall I would probably ask what books they read in the last year, and what they thought and learned.
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Yeah, about that...

Donald Trump doesn’t read much. Being president probably wouldn’t change that.

Trump’s desk is piled high with magazines, nearly all of them with himself on their covers, and each morning, he reviews a pile of printouts of news articles about himself that his secretary delivers to his desk. But there are no shelves of books in his office, no computer on his desk.

...

He said in a series of interviews that he does not need to read extensively because he reaches the right decisions “with very little knowledge other than the knowledge I [already] had, plus the words ‘common sense,’ because I have a lot of common sense and I have a lot of business ability.”

....

Trump’s approach goes beyond the chief executive manner of Reagan or the younger Bush. “We’ve had presidents who have reveled in their lack of erudition,” said Allan Lichtman, a political historian at American University, citing Warren Harding and Lyndon Johnson as leaders who scoffed at academics and other experts. “But Trump is really something of an outlier with this idea that knowing things is almost a distraction. He doesn’t have a historical anchor, so you see his gut changing on issues from moment to moment.”

One day last month, Trump had a visit from a delegation of prominent executives in the oil, steel and retail industries, and one of the executives told Trump that the Chinese were taking advantage of the United States. “He said, ‘I’d like to send you a report,’ ” Trump recalled. “He said, ‘I’d love to be able to send you’ — oh boy, he’s got a lengthy report, hundreds of pages. . . . I said, ‘Do me a favor: Don’t send me a report. Send me, like, three pages.’ ”
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Meanwhile, in the land of Not Going with your Gut... Well... there's a lot of authors and books listed if you want to see for yourself. Also, this choice quote;

But when asked about the book he read most recently, he answered like this: “I haven’t read a book in so long because — now I read passages, I can’t read, so I read chapters, I just — I don’t have the time. You know, when was the last time I watched a baseball game?. . . I would love to sit down and read a book, but I just don’t have the time anymore.”
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We already know he can't sit still and focus for 10 minutes.
 
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Vahagn

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what's up with Teresa may basically giving a full throated endorsement of liberalism with some anti-immigrant sentiment Mixed in?
 
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metalslimer

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Yep, I'm convinced now he is actually much worse at that style of communication ( I can't believe that's even possible). His body lanaguage was awful without the podium make him look more reasonable. All of this was also without anyone challenging him on anything he said. Can you imagine what he will look like out standing up on the stage when one of the moderators actually challenges him.

Hilary is going to get hid much harder in this debate, but I actually think this will go so much worse for Trump than the first debate did.
 
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ItWasMeantToBe19

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Vahagn said:
what's up with Teresa may basically giving a full throated endorsement of liberalism with some anti-immigrant sentiment Mixed in?
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She's appealing to racist poor white people since she has the rich in the bag because Corbyn is a real Socialist.

You don't need to want to cut taxes on the rich while slashing welfare to get the votes of the rich when your competition probably would like to seize the means of production.
 
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Wolfgunblood Garopa

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Joe Shlabotnik said:
Trump parlayed his brand and some kind of dumbfuck carny huckster charisma into a Presidential run. I don't want to completely dismiss the sentiments his run has stirred up because I understand being concerned about them, but I don't really think a "slicker Trump" can exist.
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It's hard to imagine who that would be, but the absurdity of the Trump campaign has been eye opening. He is so dumb, so full of shit in such obvious ways, Republicans are so spineless, the media so distrusted due to conservative opinion news... maybe a rich psychopath without Trump's flaws or even someone operating in the interests of a foreign government could take advantage of what has been exposed here.
 
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Vahagn

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ItWasMeantToBe19 said:
She's appealing to racist poor white people since she has the rich in the bag because Corbyn is a real Socialist.

You don't need to want to cut taxes on the rich while slashing welfare to get the votes of the rich when your competition probably would like to seize the means of production.
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I mean, did you listen to her Keynote at the conference? Peggy Noonan and Joe Scarborough are super excited about "intelligent" conservatism where basically her entire argument was that Government is a force for good, that has to level the playing field, that climate change is real and the Paris agreement is a good thing, that funding to the NHS should INCREASE drastically, that any person, especially rich person, who dodges taxes will be pursued and prosecuted, that any financial advisor or CPA who helps will ALSO be pursued and prosecuted. That social justice is important, and white privilege exists, and that Government is a force for good, don't forget, it's a force for good. That the government should invest in affordable housing, infrastructure, regulation.


I mean, I felt like I was listening to Obama with a few anti-immigrant, pro-Brexit, anti-Labor comments haphazardly thrown in.
 
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Aaron Strife

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Iolo said:
Is one day a trend now, Nate Silver?

Here's the gap starting 9/19. It's essentially constant.
52374 -- 9/19
53558
52581
51537
51610
50941
50703
52650
56817
56454
53614
54549
54551
52821 -- 10/6

Maybe we can show a trend with another 7-14 days of gaining 2000 per day.
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I mean that's fair, I was literally only looking at yesterday compared to today.

Important to keep in mind though that both parties have only mobilized their GOTV efforts recently. We'll get there.
 
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newshinycd

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metalslimer said:
Yep, I'm convinced now he is actually much worse at that style of communication ( I can't believe that's even possible). His body lanaguage was awful without the podium make him look more reasonable. All of this was also without anyone challenging him on anything he said. Can you imagine what he will look like out standing up on the stage when one of the moderators actually challenges him.

Hilary is going to get hid much harder in this debate, but I actually think this will go so much worse for Trump than the first debate did.
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Exactly. I've been saying this all week. Trump will be completely removed from his safe space, and everyone who watches will get to witness it.
Hillary might get hit a bit harder maybe, but I think she'll do better in the town hall. I can't remember who said it, but she does better at town hall debates compared to regular debates.
 
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Kaban

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PPP Ohio

HRC: 44
DT: 43

In Head-to-Head

HRC: 48
DT: 47

Taken from Oct 5-6

Hillary now up to 87.1 on the NowCast
 
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Bronx-Man

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Assuming Hillary wins with Obama 2012 + NC, she gets 347 and Trump just barely goes over 190. Add that with a potential 6+% difference in the popular vote, the GOP would get utterly demolished this year.
 
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BronzeWolf

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Will someone in the GOP say "The american public has spoken and we need to look at our strategies so that we grow closer to the american electorate"?

Have they ever said something akin recently?
 
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Y2Kev

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Bronx-Man said:
Assuming Hillary wins with Obama 2012 + NC, she gets 347 and Trump just barely goes over 190. Add that with a potential 6+% difference in the popular vote, the GOP would get utterly demolished this year.
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I don't think Shitlary Cunton will get Iowa. But probably the rest.
 
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