BotoxAgent
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I hope your right. Media has been pretty maddening all year.
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I hope your right. Media has been pretty maddening all year.
Nobody needs to be calm when righteous anger is the actual appropriate response. Comey just used his power to give Trump a solid 72 hour news cycle. Because he is a Republican nutjob. The Senate fights are already close. If we lose even one point nationally, it could make us lose a close race or two.
Republicans already trying to get the country comfortable with eight justices. You want a Hillary presidency where from day one even Supreme Court nominations are a no go?
This is why fury is justified. No one yet has made a plausible argument that such a few point dip wouldnt put the Senate in jeopardy. Except "my gut says so.".
Republicans already trying to get the country comfortable with eight justices. You want a Hillary presidency where from day one even Supreme Court nominations are a no go?
This is why fury is justified. No one yet has made a plausible argument that such a few point dip wouldnt put the Senate in jeopardy. Except "my gut says so.".
hammysaurusrex
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Very pleased with how Hillary has managed this situation. The worst possible thing she could have done was immediately get defensive and evasive over the situation (even though she would objectively have every right to). Instead, she's simply letting Comey have the rope to hang himself.
Agreed. Sometimes anger is the appropriate response. To be an activist is to be furious.
It's not going to stop me from doing the real work, like a lot of us do. But damnit, I'm also going to call Republicans out whenever and wherever I can. They're a hateful, rancid, ass-backwards party. And they don't deserve the advantage of a calm response to everything they do.
Comey is a heel.
I'm piling the shade on Comey thick like he deserves, but I also don't think there will be a sizable swing because of this, especially in light of his memo being exposed. At best he comes off as a fool - even lazy students don't simultaneously have the gall to say "yeah I know my paper is poorly written but I'm turning it anyways" and the expectation that saying that will help in anyways - at worst he comes off as the partisan hack he is exposing himself to be.
I agree with this. Now it's Comey's job to prove that this is something people should care about - and he's already admitted he hasn't even looked at the evidence yet! Even Julian is more thorough than that!
NYCmetsfan
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And you've not made an argument why it will besides your gut says it will.
As Adam says. You want to fight to prevent it, fight to prevent it. Your ability to affect change hasn't changed since yesterday.
It'd been less than 12 hours and it seems clear clinton isn't facing the worst of this but we're fretting about an already in place tighting narrative?
wumster3000
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Clinton is held to a different standard remember.
Brawly Likes to Brawl
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Is there any video of her response?
DontBeThatGuy
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President of Cell Block C, maybe.
Sure, and some people are definitely overreacting. However, there's as much of a valid reason to be angry about something and express it here as there is to celebrate good news.
Basileus777
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They all decided to stay home after today.
Whoa, nice. Often? Were they in depth discussions or what?
Comey, the Republican fbi director nutbag loser, used his power to send a note that said they found more emails from Weiner and Huma which may or may not involve Hillary (who knows! Even he doesnt) and he was just "asking questions" 11 days out from election in unprecedented fashion (he himself admitted he didnt have to do it). But he totes has our best interest in hearts and didnt play to human natures biological drive to fill in blanks with imaginary knowns.
You should make a call for hillary and send ten bucks, that will make what Monster Comey did ok.
hipsterpants
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I just saw the quote in this CNN article but it also has the video.
Maybe I'm imagining things but it looks like Hillary has a got a "I've fucking got you now" kinda grin while reading it off.
User 463088
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Of course. And I wasn't reading anyone. But some people are getting incredibly upset, and I just don't think that's the best response. I don't have the right to dictate a response, of course, but I just don't like seeing people so upset. That's all.
Life, in and of itself, is a series of pain and misery. Nothing matters. Darkness comes for us all. Eat at Arby's.
About 150,000 Puerto Ricans registered in FL since 2012.
http://www.heraldcourier.com/news/h...cle_bfd6ef99-4f62-5034-b1c1-e2fb70dd99dc.html
Eat at Arby's.
http://www.heraldcourier.com/news/h...cle_bfd6ef99-4f62-5034-b1c1-e2fb70dd99dc.html
Eat at Arby's.
NYCmetsfan
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I like the beef and cheedar at Arby's
Officerrob
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I like Arby's
elvisaintdead
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Arby's slogan is "We have the meats"
shinra-bansho
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No we have had plenty of polls when this race was closer that showed we wouldnt win the Senate at a certain margin. If Hillary were to go from +6.5 average to, say, +4.5 nationally, based on past polling this year we would be perilously close to losing even a slim majority in Senate. That is the story the numbers have told throughout the year.
Margins matter. Comey is a monster and if he causes such a point decline, he is responsible.
Well this was way back, when Hillary and Obama were still Senators. We were pushing bills like the expansion for American Peoples with Disabilities act. We met with them, discussed why it was important and in some cases had individuals with us to explain why the act was important to them.
The best one was actually when we met Representative Kanjorski. He had an emergency vote on the floor and had to cancel. We were disappointed until one of his interns said Kanjorski asked him to give us a behind the scenes tour of the Capitol building. We got to go places waaay off the tour. That is how we ran into Pelosi. Intern went down wrong hall and Pelosi came out this one room with her entourage and she agreed to talk to us a bit.
Then we got told to go to the Rayburn room right off the voting floor. Some lady was singing in there, and Kanjorski met us personally there. Was awesome. Later we had a dessert ... A white chocolate shaped like the White House filled with mousse. Was amazing.
I still got pics of my old fatass at McCain, Hillary and Obamas senate office iirc. Lemme try to find them.
I thought it was a million Puerto Ricans hitting the state?
Everyone likes the beef and cheddar at Arby's.
hipsterpants
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if social media is any indication the story this weekend will be "what in the fuck was comey doing?"
That's because taste doesn't matter because life is just an endless abyss. So eat at Arby's. They have the meats.
Clinton's GOTV operation far surpasses Trump's, but her campaign infrastructure still lags Obama's. When I last checked a few weeks ago, she had near 300 fewer field offices than Obama. I assume she's opened more since then although she probably won't match Obama's effort. And that's a testament to Obama's masterful GOTV operation. It's become the paradigm of presidential campaigns. So I don't expect Hillary to match Obama. But that won't matter. Trump's relative lack of a GOTV operation is already hurting his campaign. Moreover, the distribution of the GOTV operations also bodes well for Clinton. Trump has most heavily invested in his PA operation. But Clinton has also invested heavily in PA, more than Obama in 2012, which has offset Trump's effort. She's led there comfortably since the convention. The same thing has happened in WI. I still don't understand why Trump has prioritized WI. Otherwise, Trump's campaign significantly lags Clinton in all of the remaining battleground states.
For those who think Trump will outperform the polls, consider that the polls don't factor his feeble GOTV effort. If either candidate outperforms the polls, it should be Hillary.
Sam Wang's model automatically calculates the effect of a 2% shift towards Trump on the Electoral College. And although 2% may seem small, it would be monumental at this point of the election. Under that scenario, Clinton would still win with 323 electoral votes. Will today's news shift the electorate by 2%? Not likely. Voters have already factored the e-mail scandal into their decision. It's old news.
We need a November surprise. October surprise is too passe now.
DrForester
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Would tax returns do anything? He's already admitted to being a tax dodger and it didn't really hurt his numbers.
balladofwindfishes
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Speaking of which, I can't believe he's actually managed to go the entire election without releasing his returns (despite saying he was going to)
Taxes with foreign govt involvement, sure. Regular tax cheat, no.
wumster3000
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What was Comey thinking? I read his statement and it's trash. Why did he do this at this time? There is no other reason that I can think of other than trying to influence the election. He found nothing and reported nothing. The media is trying to make something from nothing.
Really hard to say unless we actually saw them.
I want a november surprise as big as the election surprise albertans got in 2012 like in the last week or so of that election.
Yeah, that 1 million coming in sounded too high. There are 1 million total and 150k registered in the last 4 years. Nothing to sneeze at but not a deluge where Murphy is going to suddenly win.
ItWasMeantToBe19
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We need a NAMBLA donation, footage of Trump drugging and pimping and raping 15 year old girls, and the n-word tape.
Otherwise, Hillary might only win by 4.
Otherwise, Hillary might only win by 4.
Sets a bad precedent too. Will still be risky for a candidate, but now they can say, "Well Trump refused, so can I."
Box of Kittens
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The key is the Horsey Sauce.
CoffeeJanitor
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The Witcher 2 is completely overrated and absolutely no fun at all.
That's a little too much truth for NeoGAF.
Unless Comey brings out more information this will run out of steam, I think. Clinton drops from +6 to +4 at worst, little effect on the presidency, even less effect on the Senate as looking at the forecasts the Senate has been surprisingly independent of the horse race.
The House was never in reach anyway without another oppo.
The House was never in reach anyway without another oppo.
User 463088
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Arby's is good. Get you one of the Beef and Cheddars. It's got cheddar, beef and red ranch. Nice order of curly fries. Right now, they got this apple crisp that is LEGIT delicious. Seriously good.
But, as you eat, realize that your life is a series of unrelated events, in which nothing you say or think matters in the grand scheme of the universe's eventual heat death.
Eat at Arby's
With Clinton and the media essentially on the same side in pushing for more details about this investigation, I do believe all the pressure's going to be on Comey and the FBI and he's going to get roasted from all sides if he doesn't have some answers soon.
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