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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
CNN has a poll that has Trump and Clinton neck and neck in Georgia. I think talks of Trump's impending rebound have been somewhat overstated.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/03/politics/trump-clinton-georgia-arizona-poll/index.html
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How is the reputation of this guy?
edited 3rd Nov '16 6:21:29 PM by Rationalinsanity
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.Kurt did some respectable work while at the new york times (IIRC) but I don't recall him doing anything major as of late.
@early voting: certain states allow you to switch your vote and last I checked roughly 15 million votes had been cast but we're expecting more then 100 million this election, probably closer to 130.
Is using "Julian Assange is a Hillary butt plug" an acceptable signature quote?![]()
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Kurt's done a large part of Newsweek's investigative journalism on Trump, which has unearthed some pretty unsettling things about Trump.
edited 3rd Nov '16 6:47:21 PM by Krieger22
I have disagreed with her a lot, but comparing her to republicans and propagandists of dictatorships is really low. - An idiotSo, Rachel Maddow did some exclusive with Newsweek and their newest Trump bombshell. Apparently, the Russians are explicitly backing Trump, but stopped around the Khan attack because the Kremlin assumed that THAT was the killing blow and would force Trump to drop out or he'd collapse so utterly that any money spent would be wasted.
They turned out to be wrong and then resumed trying to subvert our democracy.
New Survey coming this weekend!OK, I just have to ask: Why does the Democratic Party have so much trouble getting a majority in either of the Congress's chambers, let alone both of them? What does the GOP have on them in Congressional elections?
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.It wasn't freshly brewed: they kept all their coffee in a storage tank that was far hotter than it needed to be, and frankly it was a miracle that no one had been seriously injured earlier (including the employees handling it). It was a pretty open and shut tort case of negligently endangering others that's gotten mutated into something by people who never actually read the details of the case. It was literally in my torts textbook back in school.
edited 3rd Nov '16 6:56:02 PM by Clarste
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... And Democratic voters think they're lack of participation in non-presidential elections is good, why? Do they seriously think that the POTUS is the end-all-be-all of politics in their country?
Also, why the hell is gerrymandering even legal in the first place?
edited 3rd Nov '16 6:57:24 PM by MarqFJA
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.Gerrymandering is an abuse of the powers of state governors to redistrict every ten years according to the census. It's so that congressional borders reflect population distribution. Seeing as the term was named after a Founding Father, the practice permeates American politics.
Democrats don't participate as much because the campaign groundgame is really poor in midterm elections, whereas the state-level GOP is basically an electoral murder machine.
edited 3rd Nov '16 7:06:23 PM by CrimsonZephyr
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."![]()
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They don't ban Gerrymandering it because until recently both sides did it relatively equally, if I recall Crash Course showed several states are still unfairly slanted towards the Dems. As for why the Democrats don't vote, I think the better question is why do Republicans vote. And it's because they have a stronger sense of duty, obligation, and a sense of spite. My mom lives in Westchester, a pretty liberal area in a pretty liberal state. Yet every November she'd go out and vote. She did it to stick it to the Dems, and because it was her duty. Dems by contrast don't believe in such things. They are driven more by logic and narrative. Logically they know voting in some areas is statistically useless, and will share and Adam Ruins everything vid to prove it. Republicans would consider such a vid blasphemous against our glorious exceptional American democracy, and go off to cast their "useless ballots." If there's one thing to admire about the Republicans it's that they are tenacious and dedicated, something Democrats could stand to learn from.
Now in order to get the Democrats to vote, they have to be inspired. They have to feel like there's a narrative, a real big story that they are being swept up in. Otherwise they'll get bored and just not vote.
I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.In other news, I voted today. Spent a bunch of time researching downballot races, ended up voting for a straight Democratic ticket anyway because (surprise!) the Democrats reflected my preferred positions much better than the Republicans. I sort of feel like I could have saved some time and just skipped straight to "vote for the person with the (D) next to their name".
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... OK, this is damn terrifying. Why the hell isn't anyone doing something to put those loons in a goddamn prison instead of leaving them flagrantly defy/subvert democratic principles and clear-cut court orders?
edited 3rd Nov '16 7:36:50 PM by MarqFJA
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.Going back to a previous topic, why are the FBI and police unions so full of Trump supporters?
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.Likely due to his opposition to the Black Lives Matter movement.
The Crystal Caverns A bird's gotta sing.

Actually, the FBI doing this stuff this late, when many have already voted, would seem to have very little effect on the outcome.
I mean, seriously, we don't get to change our votes once they're in, so why bother leaving something to just the week before, when many have already done the early voting?