GutsOfThor
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PoliGAF 2016 |OT9| The Wrath of Khan!
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Care to do a brief summary? I'd appreciate it!
Ignatz Mouse
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I know you've already been heckled, but for reference (and I think most people here know this) the tweets written specifically by Clinton have a " -H" at the end.
This is not a secret.
Is this image on the Huffington Post front page photoshopped?
I mean...either it's photoshopped or that is a smaller person's hand pointing, right?
What the hell? Why am I only now realizing that these jokes had a basis of truth to them?
Y'all think marcobot could've come up with that on his own?
SolidSnakeUS
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I'm pretty sure that's not legal. If it is TECHNICALLY legal, then it's just skeezy and wrong as fuck.
nature boy
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Poll from yesterday has Clinton +3 in Arizona, 45-42.
RustyNails
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CNN about to do a segment on Donald Trump's hands?
Word. That is all types of crooked.
FloydtheFathead
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Yup apparently.. I just saw the promo.. Cue angry Trump tweets
User 463088
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From an FEC perspective, it's legal. I'm not sure about like...consumer protection laws. It's gross as fuck.
I just got a phone call from Strickland's people asking me to donate. I sent a bit there way, but it's a damn waste. Fuck.
Ignatz Mouse
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I'm not that surprised at the big lead Clinton has in the polls, as I expected her to at least semi-dominate from the convention onward. It's just the fact that Trump pulled ahead at all briefly, and now she's leading by even more than I expected.
If it weren't for her dip and his bounce, I probably wouldn't be all that surprised. But such a huge swing in so short a time! My only latent Diablosing is that if the polls could swing this fast, that they could swing back. But I don't think so. I think there's a reverse-bandwagon effect going on and it won't be all that close again, even after a correction.
If it weren't for her dip and his bounce, I probably wouldn't be all that surprised. But such a huge swing in so short a time! My only latent Diablosing is that if the polls could swing this fast, that they could swing back. But I don't think so. I think there's a reverse-bandwagon effect going on and it won't be all that close again, even after a correction.
Ignatz Mouse
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It's not just the small hands, it's the contrast with the big head.
Holy shit. What a scummy operation
The contrast between the two campaign messages. Wow.
"Crooked Hillary"
smh. both parties are the same though
Oh I know, I live in Portland.
It looks like Trump's whole west coast swing is for fundraising and limited to $5000/plate rubber chicken dinners.
Though I am serious in saying that the first west coast state to flip would be OR, if such a thing were going to happen. The electorate is incredibly white compared to CA and HI and skews lower income than WA last I checked.
SolidSnakeUS
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Hehehe... propane.
whyamihere
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Keepin' It 1600: Pfeiffer thinks it'll be Obama 12 + NC, and HRC + 6
theprodigy
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"and that's why Oregon is just the worst"-cdyhybrid
As if cdy needed a justification for Oregon bashing.
I live in Portland as well. The one thing that could flip this state red is if enough former Bernie bros decided to not vote for Hillary. We have a remarkable echo-chamber around here pushing political ignorance on the far-left. It's in the state's culture to be 'different'.
I doubt that'll happen though. Trump scares people here all the same.
I doubt that'll happen though. Trump scares people here all the same.
At this point Trump's only black supporters are Ben Carson, that black sherrif who spoke at the RNC, and Diamond and Silk.
Assuming Trump loses in November (which is becoming a safer and safer bet to make), what kind of legacy will he have among the GOP?
I wonder if they're gonna see him as some kind of shyster who tricked the base into nominating him, but he might be their Savanarola, a fanatic who they regretfully agreed to follow in desperate times.
I wonder if they're gonna see him as some kind of shyster who tricked the base into nominating him, but he might be their Savanarola, a fanatic who they regretfully agreed to follow in desperate times.
and Katrina Pierson
Also live in Portland and before the conventions was a little worried it would go red a few weeks ago. The Bernie love and Hillary hate ratio is a higher in this state and thought if Trump could get a good chunk of Bernie supporters would make it possible for him to win the state.
Of course he didn't just fail to flip the switch at the convention to a general election candidate but even created a trumpster dumpster fire making his entire campaign too hot to handle for even staunch Republican loyalists.
Of course he didn't just fail to flip the switch at the convention to a general election candidate but even created a trumpster dumpster fire making his entire campaign too hot to handle for even staunch Republican loyalists.
Maybe Stacey Dash.
whyamihere
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I don't think there was any chance of Oregon going red. Portland is a lot more than white millennials (though there are a ton of white people in Portland). Bernie or Bust just isn't that big of a movement.
Ignatz Mouse
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The first one. Shyster is a lawyer though. "Fraud" is the word you are looking for.
I think his legacy is that the GOP will recognize that they are very susceptible to a social conservative and populist white nationalist, since populist white nationalism is what a good portion of their base truly identifies with.
A GOP candidate who dog whistles the white nationalist message, but keeps the social conservative and populist views would have a very good chance of winning the nomination. The GOP obviously wants to figure out how to stop that because what they truly care about is fiscal conservativism, and Trump has shown that the GOP base doesn't really give two shits about fiscal conservatism.
So yea, I think he is more of a Savanarola, but a Savanarola that laid bare key differences in the conservative coalition that a more competent politician could take advantage of and maybe ride into the presidency.
I don't know if the GOP party is going to identify with because they have been denying that their base is largely made up of white nationalists for a long time now.
Amazing.
DrForester
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2020's GOP Nominee will run on the platform of "Least I'm not Trump".
Though, given his ego, I wouldn't be surprised if he tries again, and his base is dumb enough to vote him in again.
god, could you imagine? it would be glorious
User 85168
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This is such a non story, but I love to laugh at Paul Ryan.
Trump is not dumb enough to try to get the GOP nomination again. If he won the republican nomination in 2020 also he will get crushed worse in the 2020 general than in this election.
FloydtheFathead
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I don't think we could go through such fuckery if he decided to actually try again
Oregon might go red, but not in the GOP way
Looks like the leadership has switched to the ending phase of the campaign already. Long term damage control.
DrForester
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Poodlestrike
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Okay, uh, is this real?
And did it get posted?
tl;dr: Gov. of Missouri got called to serve in court as a public defender in response to his increasingly severe budget cuts to the PD's office.
2016 is the Year of Fuckery.
And did it get posted?
tl;dr: Gov. of Missouri got called to serve in court as a public defender in response to his increasingly severe budget cuts to the PD's office.
2016 is the Year of Fuckery.
Pretty much, but that won't be for another month if it does happen. It's part of why I wish he was doing all this in October when it's too late for them to do anything.
The Gop can't catch a break this year.
Manmademan
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has this one been posted?
http://billypenn.com/2016/08/04/latest-poll-hillary-clinton-is-up-40-points-in-the-philly-suburbs/
I'm hoping this year will be the last of the "PA is a swing state!" nonsense...but I know it won't be.
http://billypenn.com/2016/08/04/latest-poll-hillary-clinton-is-up-40-points-in-the-philly-suburbs/
I'm hoping this year will be the last of the "PA is a swing state!" nonsense...but I know it won't be.
hipsterpants
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Would ditching Trump and focusing on down-ballot actually change much given the increase in straight-ticket voting? Also considering how his supporters would totally turn on the party.
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