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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
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Technically, she did speak on the issue through her campaign manager.
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Ugh, is there anything Trump related that is not riddled with corruption and incompetence?
Even that new D.C. hotel was overbudget and a year behind schedule, made with cheap Chinese steel, lost both of the high-class restaurants it was going to have on the first floor thanks to Trump's idiotic xenophobic racist remarks on the campaign trail, and couldn't fill all the rooms even after slashing the rates in half!
And millions of Americans want this guy to be POTUS?! *head meets desk*
edited 2nd Nov '16 12:54:49 AM by M84
Disgusted, but not surprisedMark Cuban reckons there are more important things than retaining Dallas Mavericks fans
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It looks like white supremicist groups are getting organized about poll-watching
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It can't be fake I saw it on my uncle's facebook feed!
Oh lord the comments, those who took the bait fell for it and the rest of the Trumpteers still claim this is what his happening in the US. The only way you can put sense in the heads of those people is if you write "sense" in a hammer and bash their heads with it. I can't tell if those people are dense on purpose or that fucking stupid.
edited 2nd Nov '16 7:47:18 AM by AngelusNox
Inter arma enim silent leges
7 days, folks. Well, more like 14, accounting for the week or so after that the internet has a collective aneurysm. But after 7 days you can start to sleep easy, after 14 days things settle back down to "normal", for the time being. We ride out the last few weeks of Obama, and then god knows what happens from there.
Police shot in Iowa
: Two officers were killed in ambush shootings; a suspect has been identified and taken into custody. Before the right-wing media starts masturbating to #BLM hate, it's a white dude. I wonder how that fits their narrative.
edited 2nd Nov '16 7:42:57 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"PA is going to be more of a swing state now and going forward (assuming demographic dynamics don't change wildly) - David Wasserman at 538 pointed out back in May that the state has been sliding towards Republican for the past six elections (the state has gone Democrat save in '84, but by smaller margins on average)
. He cites Western PA going more and more Republican as the reason.
It will probably still go Clinton this time around, but going forward it may not be such a lock for Democrats.
edited 2nd Nov '16 8:05:49 AM by megarockman
The damned queen and the relentless knight.538:Yes, Donald Trump has a path to victory
Who is in charge of stopping that sort of thing? Is that an FBI thing, or what?
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.The Democrats have been training a fleet of lawyers to go to polling stations and help prevent voter intimidation.
538 is full of shit. Lawrence O'Donnell reported last night on MSNBC
that surveys of early voters in Florida show Hillary Clinton winning them by over 50 points — that's her margin, not her percentage of the total vote. What makes this happen is 28% of Republicans crossing party lines to vote against Trump. (Notably, they are not doing the same in the Senate election, indicating that they remain loyal to their party in a broader sense.)
If that turns out to be accurate and representative, this is going to be a legendary blowout.
Lawrence also interviewed a former intelligence officer who believes Trump to have been actually compromised by Russian agents, not merely shilling for Putin out of an overweening affection for autocrats.
edited 2nd Nov '16 8:34:24 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Pound by pound, even if Hillary's emails were illegal, Trump's still comes off as worse.
Here is a list of all the shady things Trump did, which are illegal.
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Yes, but when the media is paying Silver reverence as some kind of latter-day prophet, he has a responsibility for the consequences of what he says. In particular, he knows damn well that the media will seize on any opportunity to play up the horse race, and even direct the narrative to make it seem closer than it is.
edited 2nd Nov '16 8:46:01 AM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"

Like I said. Forced to choose between her allies and her conscience. I didn't foresee this.
Say to the others who did not follow through You're still our brothers, and we will fight for you