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PoliGAF 2016 |OT12| The last days of the Republic
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shinra-bansho
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Why are people so invested in defending trash Nate's trash model.
User 463088
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HE IS NOT FIT TO SPEAK THE NAME.
There goes Ohio.
whyamihere
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The GOP in California is about to get decimated even more than they normally are.
I'm ready.
Top post on r/politics right now:
Marijuana legalization is leading in every state where it's on the ballot in November.
Marijuana legalization is leading in every state where it's on the ballot in November.
Conversely I am kind of tired of people deriding Silver as "Trash Nate"
Yes, his punditry sucks, and he's a bit full of himself, but his models have been pretty reliable in the past.
I think PEC is better but I don't think it's worth dismissing 538 entirely.
Aaron Strife
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We might be able to score some congressional districts.
Spoiled Milk
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banefirelord
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I'm quitting my non-paying exploitative tech-bro startup job in an hour, PoliGAF...give me strength.
I'm fully expecting Massachusetts to legalize it, and once it's legal I'm growing my own. Can't wait.
it blows my mind that CA hasn't decimated the GOP on the congressional level, is the gerrymander that strong or is it more to do with a rural-urban divide?
My sister-in-law (used to smoke weed regularly, went to UCSC) voted yes in 2010, planning on no this year. My father-in-law was no in 2010 and still no this year. Husband was yes in 2010 and leaning yes this year. I don't care either way. I want prop 67 (plastic bag ban) to pass. Husband is no on that, sister and father-in-law are yes on it. Dunno about other family members.
RastaMentality
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What about the death penalty?
Honestly people say this every election cycle but I never felt this way with the Bush elections or the Obama elections. I just feel like the country won't be able to move on from this cycle because it's true, there is truly a crazy segment of the population that refuses to live in reality...
Finale Fireworker
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You are beautiful and strong. Become the change you with to see in yourself. You can do this. In fact, I am from the future, and it is already done. Your future self says this was the best decision you ever made. There is nothing to fear.
I don't know. No one is talking about it. I know for sure my husband is for repeal, father-in-law no. Mother- and sister-in-law probably yes.
shinra-bansho
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His punditry sucks and his model is showing itself as hypersensitive and pointless. The race was not a DEAD HEAT a little over a week ago to being a near 80% chance of her winning.
That is just stupid. That is not a forecast.
Can't untrash.
I calls em like I sees em.
That is just stupid. That is not a forecast.
Can't untrash.
I calls em like I sees em.
Democrats already have 72% of seats in California (39/14 split), and there are opportunities to claim three more seats this year, maybe even four if Republicans collapse. The only thing that Republicans have left in the state is seats in Orange county, San Diego suburbs, some in the Central Valley/Inland and one seat out of two in Northern California (although the Democratic seat stretches all the way down to Marin). They're basically extinct.
People joke that Trump is lodged in with the Confederacy and Goldwater with the Atlantic's endorsement, but that's pretty damn true. A Trump Administration is probably one of the five greatest threats in American history.
I imagine a world where I can take a blunt break working my 9 to 5. It's beautiful.
I imagine a world where I can take a blunt break working my 9 to 5. It's beautiful.
True, but they'll be feeling the loss when they lose the Supreme Court for a generation and all of the shady shit they've done like sanding down the VRA and Citizens United (not to mention the court potentially addressing Gerrymandering) starts to curb their gains there too.
The point is, demographics are no longer in favor of the current Republican Party, and this will only get worse and worse for them in more and more places. If the argument is that America benefits from a conservative party as some kind of check, I can't see them exerting that kind of power if they're watered down to nothing but an angry, uneducated rural minority.
I've long said.. the night of November 8th is going to make a lot of people snap. The unthinkable (well, to them) is going to happen.
CitizenVectron
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I don't know if you fully understand how legalization works...
Alcohol is also legal, but you can't get drunk at lunch. The same will be true for pot, and drug testing (and the resulting terminations) will still be legal.
whyamihere
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$5 each to Cortez Masto, Ross, McGinty, Kander, Hassan, and Hillary. Feeling good.
BlastProcessing
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One of the most solemn and important rituals in American politics is the concession speech. I am not hopeful the Trump can meet that moment.
I expect violence to be honest. A lot of it.
Yikes, I didn't even think about this...even if Hillary wins everyone loses if Trump can't step away with dignity.
Someone here said Pence would have to do it. Like a reverse McCain-Palin.
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thezerofire
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I've been reading too much @onlxn, I had a dream where he refused to concede and was also surrounded by clowns
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It feels like the VP debate didn't even happen. No one gave a shit. Status quo is bad for Trump. The clock keeps ticking.
BrokenFiction
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I'm glad it did, for the mountains of video ammunition it gave HRC to use in commercials.
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So, I haven't really had time to track much of the coverage of the race today, but it seems like Pence won the debate, yet Kaine won the post debate coverage in terms of what people are talking about.
I laughed quite a bit when I saw Trump criticize Kaine for interrupting Pence during his time.
I laughed quite a bit when I saw Trump criticize Kaine for interrupting Pence during his time.
Yep. A lot of jobs will still prevent you from being able to smoke.
For where I work, no one actually cares if anyone smokes weed, outside of work obviously. It's an insurance issue though, for the employees not the employer.
Get injured = drug test
Positive = no insurance coverage
Also you lose your job, so now you've lost your income and you're injured.
Hard to really tell when it comes to Congressional elections but Issa is threatening to sue his opponent over his ads, so that might tell you something.
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/us-politics/sd-me-issa-ads-20161004-story.html
BotoxAgent
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But I bet Trump is very pleased that his debate had much higher ratings than Pence's. lol
Pretty much. Low viewership, hurricane, kind of a tie=collective meh.
"If you love your daughter you'll vote for Trump."
My god shit like that makes my blood boil.
As Olbermann said yesterday, refusing to accept the results of the election would be the most un-American thing any Presidential candidate has ever done in US history. I'm not sure anyone can survive something so absolutely horrendous, even Trump. As long as the election is not close ala Bush/Gore I think he will concede, or at least have Pence do it for him.
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