So, whoever runs her twitter feed has just been let off the chain after "delete your account", huh? This should be interesting...
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So, whoever runs her twitter feed has just been let off the chain after "delete your account", huh? This should be interesting...
I would be amazed at this point if trump lost the election by 15%+ because of the way he is running his camapign so far, but sadly that's unikely to happen.
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nature boy
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So 3 out of the 5 living Republican presidential candidates will not support Trump.
(And the other 2 are not exactly ecstatic).
(And the other 2 are not exactly ecstatic).
Citizens United strikes again.
Unless it turns out he was embezzling somehow or they murdered someone...she's survived way, way worse. I'm sure it'll be fine.
Their chief mistake was overestimating their base. Progressives always knew a huge chunk of GOP voters in general and tea partiers in particular were, to put it bluntly, rubes filled with racial resentment who were ripe for the picking by a racist populist. But we'd long assumed that the GOP establishment knew that too, and had been cynically exploiting them with their dog whistles.
Turns out they didn't fully realize it at all... until it was way too late.
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BREAKING NEWS (NOT):
Officerrob
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Much smaller Trump crowd in Richmond tonight than the usual Trump event
DrForester
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Would it be a mistake for Hillary to pick a woman as VP?
It sucks, but reality is, sexism still exists in this country. Will a woman in the #1 and #2 spot discourage some people?
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I don't think having a man subordinate to Hillary would really turn sexists around on her ticket though. In fact, it might be "worse" from a certain perspective...
No. It's only gaining traction among those already convinced that Hillary is a master criminal.
I don't think it would discourage certain people *more* than having Barack at the top of the ticket did.
Hillary's winning white women by a big margin. A woman actually might be the better option- just double down on it.
sunshine and gasoline
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The people that would be frothing at the mouth at having females as the President and the Vice President would probably also be raging at just having a female be the president. Won't make much of a difference in my opinion.
I thought trump still has the majority of the support of white women.
On balance, I'd say yeah. It'd cause a LOT more of the ugly parts of the country to come out.
The rationale behind it is that 1) maybe it causes Clinton to gain ground among white women (Romney won white women but Trump is quickly losing ground), and 2) having two women on the ticket could really set Trump off and make him go crazier and meaner, turning more independents off.
I starting to really think she's not gonna be it. All of this pressure and media, I think Clinton and Warren will strike a deal for what they want her role to be this fall and after the election, but that her team will still go in a different direction.
balladofwindfishes
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It's a Friday, and I haven't seen it reported anywhere besides the crazy houses.
whyamihere
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How can Hillary interview VP picks when the FBI hasn't even interviewed her?
It's sad to say, but I do think this view should be considered when picking the VP. It is partially why I think Perez or Bacerra would be better picks (in addition to the fact that it would expand the demographics of the ticket to break multiple boundaries).
nature boy
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No, the pros far outweigh the cons.
The only issue with Warren IMO is lack of foreign policy experience (in the event she becomes POTUS).
I'm a little worried that having interns help her run her twitter like "the kids do" might blow up in her face if this kind of stuff becomes a regularity. I don't wanna see the young people she's trying to court turn even farther away from her because Hillary's attempts to get their attention are so transparent.
ABC News just did a large segment on it. It sounds pretty damning IMO. It'll definitely be an issue after Trump's speech Monday.
Finally they're calling the Pocahontas comments by the racism it obviously it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...805d22-2f1f-11e6-9b37-42985f6a265c_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...805d22-2f1f-11e6-9b37-42985f6a265c_story.html
Spoiled Milk
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Trump's the nominee so we can get away with whatever the fuck we want this cycle. Seriously. We could have a trans vice presidential pick and we'd still win.
balladofwindfishes
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ffs the original source is Citizen's United lol
Joe Shlabotnik
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"You're British mate and can't vote"?
Honestly, and this may be because I'm bored at work, but I think the question is thread worthy.
The primaries are over, so the thread doesn't have to turn into a Hillary v Bernie shit fest. And it's genuinely remarkable and worth discussion that we could have an all women ticket this election.
Nothing will make Trump double down on his misogyny and lead even more women to Clinton than this. Let it happen. Like has been said before, might as well double down on the female vote because I doubt it'll make a difference among sexist men since a woman will be leading it anyways.
As long as they don't start posting for her using any kind of slang ever, I think it could be ok. Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if her camp was just surprised at how widely positive the first one was. Now they're maybe testing the waters to see if this is something they can keep going or if it was a one time thing.
The idea that there's at least one person on her staff whose job is in part to talk shit at Donald Trump over Twitter is kind of hilarious though. Someone's getting paid for this, you guys.
He's 76 years old.
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Nina Turner apparently deciding to ignore what's going on and attack Warren.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/06/san...doesnt-get-brownie-points-for-slamming-trump/
This is why you don't have true believers as campaign surrogates.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/06/san...doesnt-get-brownie-points-for-slamming-trump/
This is why you don't have true believers as campaign surrogates.
Yeah, I know... a dude can dream, can't he?
theprodigy
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Trying to hold onto his spot at the DNC and not kill Sanders every time he sees him.
ItWasMeantToBe19
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Hillary is slaughtering with college educated white women, but is struggling with white women with low levels of education.
Uneducated white women she is struggling with. Not sure how the Dems should appeal to that group. Really struggling with obesity and mental illness and drug addiction, but still voting GOP.
I don't think that there's something else Jeb or Rubio could have done along these lines. I think it's about the audience. Everyone running against Trump tried mocking him and dismissing him as unserious and crazy. It didn't work because in the primary there was no constituency ready to jeer along with the candidates. I mean, Clinton's basic approach in her speech was just to start quoting Trump and inviting the audience to laugh. Jeb couldn't have gotten away with that because his audience also kinda wants to build a wall and ban Muslims from the country - the Republicans had to be really careful in criticizing Trump not to come off as actually opposed to the basic ideas behind what he was proposing, except on things like free trade where what the rest of the Republicans wanted was just very unpopular. If Jeb had tried "delete your account" Trump would have done exactly the same thing to him that Clinton did to Trump - at his next rally he'd have brought up that Jeb replied to his criticism of W by tweeting back "delete your account" and doesn't that just show that he has no answer? And the crowd would have jeered at Jeb and all of us here would have laughed at Jeb being all "how do you do, fellow kids" on Twitter and at Trump bullying him.
Clinton's relying on there being a very large number of people who already believe that Trump is an evil clown. Democratic trolling of Trump is effective because Trump can see that lots of people are laughing at him and he can't bully these people because the sorts of crowds that he can generate to defend himself are easily dismissed by the people laughing as dumb racists.
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Yeah I don't think putting Kaine or Perez is all of a sudden going to win over white male voters.
Oh I know, but they have some very damning emails talking about Cheryl Mills pushing for the appointment at the request of the Clintons. No smoking gun, but enough smoke to make it an issue.
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