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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Hold the phone...
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trumps-doing-worse-than-romney-did-among-white-voters/
it's almost like him becoming the republican candidate had more to do with fearmongering and the lack of an actually good candidate and less with the american people actually believing in his ideologies.
but yeah, it's seems like Trump is unlikely to pull a victory. Yes, he has some dedicated followers, but polls have been showing that Trump is losing traction. No to mention the revelation that a lot of the polls might have been hijacked towards Trump's favor anyway.
inb4 cynicism as this topic tends to lead itself to
edited 5th Oct '16 2:17:10 PM by EpicBleye
"There's not a girl alive who wouldn't be happy being called cute." ~Tamamo-no-MaePresident George W. Bush appeared, along with his wife Laura Bush and Elizabeth Warren, in a video with the cast of Hamilton and its related documentary encouraging citizens to vote.
The video doesn't actually say who to vote for, but the director and cast of Hamilton are outspoken Democrats, W. Bush has not spoken up for Trump, and I think we all know where Warren stands.
I remember hearing Bush was going to vote Clinton, but got sure it was fully confirmed.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/09/exclusive-george-hw-bush-to-vote-for-hillary-228395
Donald Trump is tearing the NFL apart
- 20 of 22 black NFL players plan to vote for Hillary Clinton.
- 2 of 22 black NFL players plan to vote for Donald J. Trump.
- 21 of 21 white NFL players plan to vote for Trump.
Those problems are already unfolding across the NFL. In mid-May, as Trump became the presumptive nominee, two NFC teammates—a right-leaning offensive lineman and a left-leaning linebacker—began to re-examine their friendship because of Trump.
They had known each other for four years. Their wives talked on occasion. Their kids sometimes played together. They sat next to each other in team meetings and went to dinner several times per month. They often joked that politics were off-limits because of their disparate viewpoints. Then, after their first offseason team workout in May, the lineman revealed he would be voting for Trump—and everything changed.
The linebacker, a Clinton supporter, began finding excuses for not going to dinner. The families stopped talking. When the lineman confronted his now former friend, he recalls receiving a blunt response: I can’t be friends with anyone who would vote for Donald Trump. I’m sorry.
edited 5th Oct '16 4:11:47 PM by BonsaiForest
I mean, they're not wrong. Republicans are all about eliminating taxes for the rich and pushing the burden onto the working class.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.They should do the same poll in the WNBA
.
Although I would be curious to know about the NBA, as more and more players have spoken against police violence, LeBron James among them (so it's hard to claim that "he did it because he wanted the spotlights").
From what I gathered, Trump has the support of Dennis Rodman. Clinton has Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson (♥), Jason Kidd and, to the surprise of absolutely no one, Jason Collins, the first NBA player who made his coming-out.
And I somehow doubt Trump will get D-Wade's voice considering his comments after Wade's cousin got shot.
Also, isn't the MLB heavily latino? I wonder how Trump fares there.
edited 5th Oct '16 4:44:10 PM by Julep
http://www.dailynewsbin.com/news/cnn-msnbc-fox-news-donald-trump-president-obama/26201/
Trump took the stage at a campaign rally on Wednesday at 3:17pm eastern time and began claiming that his running mate Mike Pence had the greatest performance in the history of VP debates, before quickly pivoting into a semi-coherent ramble about President Obama’s Iran deal. Trump’s lies about the deal were so blatant, and so unhinged, that CNN had cut away by 3:20pm – just three minutes after it began. Rather than shifting to any breaking news, CNN aired an interview with the director of a Broadway play.
Within five minutes of the start of Donald Trump’s speech, MSNBC and Fox News had also cut away from him to air an impromptu speech from President Obama starting at 3:30pm. The President gave a very brief statement announcing a new milestone in his Paris climate change accords, which was over in less than five minutes.
It’s not clear whether President Obama timed his brief statement specifically to preempt Donald Trump’s rally speech, nor is it clear whether all three cable news networks would have cut of Trump even if Obama hadn’t been speaking. But when the President finished his statement, Trump was still speaking at his rally – and none of the three networks went back to airing it.
As satisfying as that is... it's kind of coming too late. It would've shut him down during the primaries, but as things stand, what hurts him are reminders of how terrible he is. The less Trump shows up now, the more it sells the narrative Pence tried to make yesterday; the 'normal republican' Trump.
Though it does mean that Fox is less likely to favour him in the last debate.
Voting for a party that looks out for your financial interests isn't wrong per se. That's what poor people on welfare do after all. The issue is more that the Republican party is actively threatening the safety and civil rights of anyone that isn't a straight white male. By saying "I'm voting for them because they'll cut my taxes" you're essentially saying your money is more important than other people's lives.
edit: You can have that opinion if you want but be prepared for people, particularly minorities, to feel uncomfortable around you.
edited 5th Oct '16 6:39:21 PM by Kostya

Nice to see Trump's nonsense ruining the university I got my undergrad at
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