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PoliGAF 2016 |OT15| Orange is the New Black

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Emarv

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Slacker said:
Saw the Trump cabinet stuff this morning. Priebus for Chief of Staff? Isn't that supposed to be someone the president knows and trusts? Does Trump not have any friends?
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a lot of that stuff is usually just fanfic type picks. nothing that will really come to pass. you're more likely to see a Corey Lewandowski chief of staff, imo
 
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sith ewok

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I just have to say thank you to everyone in this thread. I had been wandering lost out there, certain of a Trump win (I live in Wyoming where 98% of the vote will go to him so it's easy to see how my worldview could be skewed a little negative...) when I stumbled onto this thread. I have been lurking, reading every post for the last two or three weeks and it was almost like I found a new home on the internet. I learned a lot and gained a new addiction to hopium. Here's to queen (and hopefully taking the senate)!
 
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Xamtheking

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sith ewok said:
I just have to say thank you to everyone in this thread. I had been wandering lost out there, certain of a Trump win (I live in Wyoming where 98% of the vote will go to him so it's easy to see how my worldview could be skewed a little negative...) when I stumbled onto this thread. I have been lurking, reading every post for the last two or three weeks and it was almost like I found a new home on the internet. I learned a lot and gained a new addiction to hopium. Here's to queen (and hopefully taking the senate)!
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Welcome to poligaf
You can never leave
 
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Maxim726X

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NYCmetsfan said:
A cabinet.

I can literally see them not letting her form a cabinet until some unknown investigations go through
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Grym said:
At the very least it will ensure Supreme Court Justices are approved
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Yes, these are important. No question. Particularly SCOTUS appointees.

But when the next election rolls around, and people are blaming HRC for not getting anything accomplished... It will be because of the obstinate Congress. Just frustrating. We already know that she'll likely get nothing passed.
 
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gkryhewy

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Y2Kev said:
good job wikuhleak, no one gives a shit about u now
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geomon

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ACLU asks DOJ to investigate LePage over voting comments

The fliers make false claims about the requirements for voting in Lewiston, including that voters must pay money to change their licenses and re-register their vehicles in order to vote.

The fliers say students pay "usually hundreds of dollars in total" for re-registration and vehicle inspection fees.
ACLU leaders cited the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which prohibits intimidation and threats at the polls.

“The governor’s statement seems designed to make college students afraid to vote,” said Zachary Heiden, ACLU of Maine’s legal director. “Voter intimidation and harassment is illegal, and we call on the Department of Justice to investigate the intent of the governor’s comments.

“College students who live in Maine have the right to vote in Maine, and they are not subject to different laws than anyone else. Many of these young people are voting for the first time in a presidential election. The governor should be encouraging that civic participation, not doing everything in his power to undermine it.”
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Grym

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Maxim726X said:
Yes, these are important. No question. Particularly SCOTUS appointees.

But when the next election rolls around, and people are blaming HRC for not getting anything accomplished... It will be because of the obstinate Congress. Just frustrating. We already know that she'll likely get nothing passed.
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Agreed. It isn't close to an ideal scenario. But with the way things are going, I'll be happy with the minimal progress we do achieve (especially anything on the SCOTUS) and continue to work for more than that in 2 years. What else can ya do?>
 
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sazzy

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Cesare Borgia said:
It's over. Amazing seeing Reince bullshit about "secret polls." You can't win Michigan while getting slaughtered in Wayne, Washtenaw, and Genesee.
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Quick Reality check:

Its not over till everyone votes and the votes are counted.

Don't skip on voting.
 
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RastaMentality

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when the polling for the next VA senator gets close in 2017, this thread will go back to saying warren should've been chosen so a kennedy could've been her replacement!
 
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BiggNife

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Maxim726X said:
Again- What is 50 going to accomplish? It's not the super majority needed to get anything of value accomplished.

Nothing will change.
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50 will accomplish Hillary getting her own cabinet and her SC justices being approved.

That's a lot more than "nothing."
 
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GhaleonEB

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metalslimer said:
They can nuke the filibuster just for SC justices right? I don't see any reason not to at this point.
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They can, and they will. Reid has already put the wheels in motion. Dems are not going to let the GOP stonewall Hillary's SCOTUS nominees; they know it's where a huge proportion of any progress in her administration will come.

Maxim726X said:
Again- What is 50 going to accomplish? It's not the super majority needed to get anything of value accomplished.

Nothing will change.
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Cabinet. Judges. SCOTUS. Leverage against the House. It's bigly important. Huge!
 
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faisal233

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BiggNife said:
This is good to see, but just curious - does Larry Sabato have generally a pretty good rep?

Seems like I see a lot more talk about 538/PEC/Upshot than Sabato.
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538 is going to call ~360 EV for Clinton, get it right and outrage NeoGAF. You heard it here first.
 
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geomon

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Even Red State thinks it's over

A bunch of states have flipped back and forth in the last few weeks. The net result has Trump ahead in close states. Donald Trump leads Hillary Clinton in three of the four closest states, those with leads of 2 or less (NC, NH, NV), with Clinton ahead in Florida. That’s a lot of coin flips in his favor.

But despite being slightly ahead in many close states, Trump is still behind 297-241. That’s not winning. That’s losing, and hoping the polls are wrong. That’s failing to catch up even when Clinton had a week of bad email headlines.
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Roland_Gunner

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BiggNife said:
This is good to see, but just curious - does Larry Sabato have generally a pretty good rep?

Seems like I see a lot more talk about 538/PEC/Upshot than Sabato.
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Ten years ago Sabato was the best in the business at forecasting. At the Presidential level he's been passed by the data modelers but down ballot polling is of lower quality and the Center for Politics does more state level research so they're still a good resource for things like the senate, and especially the house.
 
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LegendofJoe

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cartoon_soldier said:
Clinton campaign needs a strong as fuck GOTV in NC tomorrow.

Like it has to execute at 100% efficiency.
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I wish I still lived in NC (if only to vote). My vote does fuck all to help push the country left on the national level in Arkansas. How can a state go from producing people like William Fulbright, Bill Clinton, and Blance Lincoln to freaking Tom Cotton?

Edit: As someone with several Persian-American friends and family/friends that were injured in Iraq the stunt he pulled with Obama's Iranian negotiations enraged me beyond belief.

It's too bad Connor Eldridge has no shot at unseating John Boozman. He's an awesome guy and he's worked as hard as you possibly can to win, but the odds working against him simply because he's a Democrat are too much to overcome.
 
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geomon

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Kurt Eichenwald: FBI Director James Comey Is Unfit for Public Service

James Comey should not simply be fired as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He must be barred forever from any form of public service.

In the last 10 days, Comey has whipsawed the election for president of the United States. Now we know he did it for no reason. When his agents found information that suggested there were emails on a laptop that might have relevance to the investigation of Hillary Clinton and her email servers, Comey did not wait until he knew even a scintilla of information before announcing it to the world. Reasonably, lots of voters assumed there must be a there there—who could imagine a person with the power of the FBI director would turn the election on its head for no particular reason, on the basis of nothing?

Then, Sunday, Comey handed down another missive from on high: Never mind. His agents had looked through the emails and decided they were piffle. His majesty, the FBI director, has not yet deigned to officially inform his subjects—the American people—whether the emails related to the Clinton case or what they were. (However, people involved in the case tell Newsweek that almost all of them were duplicates of what the bureau already had or were personal.) He just said “nothing to see here” and waived us on our way.

Well, forget it, Jim. We’re not moving on. America has just witnessed one of the most—if not the most—egregious abuses of power in the service of one man’s ego in its history. Joseph McCarthy and A. Mitchell Palmer at least believed they were fighting a Communist threat. Richard Nixon, in Watergate, at least had the motive of retaining power and covering up wrongdoing. But Comey—who I do not believe did this for partisan reasons—has no such motive. This was about him, about preserving his now forever-destroyed reputation, about preening with his self-satisfied standing as a maverick who acts based on what he thinks is right, regardless of others’ opinion. But there is a very thin line between being independent and being reckless. And Comey has demonstrated he does not know the difference.
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I said, damn!
 
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