What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[11B4V]

Don't ever let the Mono's of the world tell you that your vote doesn't matter. The Virginia legislature just flipped because of one vote.

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/365664-dem-appears-to-win-recount-in-key-virginia-house-race-by-single-vote

Dem appears to win recount in key Virginia House race by single vote

By Reid Wilson and Brandon Carter - 12/19/17 03:58 PM EST   271comments

Virginia Democrats have claimed at least half the seats in the state House of Delegates after a recount on Tuesday, giving the party a seat at the table in the lower chamber for the first time in two decades.

In a recount Tuesday, Shelly Simonds (D) gained a net of 11 votes, enough to hand her victory over incumbent Del. David Yancey (R) by a single vote. Simonds' win in the 94th district, which covers part of Newport News city, makes hers the 16th Republican-held seat that Democrats picked up in last month's elections.

The new result will leave the House of Delegates split at 50-50, erasing Republicans' slim 51-49 margin after the November elections, with one recount pending.

In that recount, in the 28th district, Republican Bob Thomas leads Democrat Joshua Cole by 82 votes. The contest was marred by an error that handed a small handful of voters ballots from the wrong district, and Democrats have threatened legal action.

Democrats won all three state executive offices in November, by wider than expected margins.

Yancey was one of 17 incumbent Republicans who represented districts Hillary Clinton won in the 2016 presidential contest. Clinton beat President Trump in the district by a 49 percent to 44 percent margin. Sixteen of those 17 seats flipped party control in November.

"Anywhere in Virginia that Hillary Clinton did well in 2016, Republicans did poorly in 2017. It was an enormous blue wave that didn't care about campaign messages or issues really," said Tucker Martin, a longtime Virginia Republican operative.

Martin said the results should be a wake-up call for his party heading into next year's midterm elections.

"These primarily presidential year Democrats were there to send a message, via proxy, to the president. And they did. These results should be one heck of a warning to the national Republican Party in advance of 2018," Martin said.

A Virginia circuit court will ratify the recount results on Wednesday. Neither campaign challenged any ballots reviewed by the Newport News Board of Elections, making ratification almost certain.

In a statement, the Virginia Republican party conceded it lost its majority in the House of Delegates.

"After a close recount it appears the citizens of the 94th District have elected Shelly Simonds to the Virginia House of Delegates, pending confirmation by a three judge panel," the statement read. "We congratulate Delegate-elect Simonds and welcome her to this historic body. We also thank Delegate David Yancey for his distinguished service."

Once Simonds is seated, and if Thomas holds his slim lead in the 28th district, the House would be locked in a 50-50 split. There is no tie-breaking vote, so Democrats and Republicans would have to come to a power-sharing agreement.

"We are ecstatic to welcome Shelly Simonds to our caucus," House Democratic leader David Toscano said in a statement. "We are one vote closer to expanding Medicaid and extending access to affordable health care to nearly 400,000 people."

Outgoing Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D), a proponent of expanding Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, included an expansion in a budget request released this week. His successor, Gov.-elect Ralph Northam (D), also backs expanding Medicaid.

Republicans hold a 21 seat to 19 seat majority in the Virginia state Senate. Senate seats next come up for election in 2019.

Ah, not so fast.

http://beta.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-pol-virginia-statehouse-election-recount-20171220-story.html

[CountDeMoney]

Why not.

TO BREAK A TIE FOR THE WILD-CARD TEAM

Two Clubs

1.  Head-to-head, if applicable.
2.  Best won-lost-tied percentage in games played within the conference.
3.  Best won-lost-tied percentage in common games, minimum of four.
4.  Strength of victory.
5.  Strength of schedule.
6.  Best combined ranking among conference teams in points scored and points allowed.
7.  Best combined ranking among all teams in points scored and points allowed.
8.  Best net points in conference games.
9.  Best net points in all games.
10.Best net touchdowns in all games.
11.Coin toss.

[DGuller]

http://beta.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-pol-virginia-statehouse-election-recount-20171220-story.html

"It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes."

[derspiess]

Where was that level of snark from you guys when Franken won by recount?

[Habbaku]

http://beta.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-pol-virginia-statehouse-election-recount-20171220-story.html

"It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes."

In this instance, it appears to be precisely the issue of the people not voting.

[Valmy]

Where was that level of snark from you guys when Franken won by recount?

On the old board. Deleted forever unfortunately. But it was intense.

[Ed Anger]

Why not.

TO BREAK A TIE FOR THE WILD-CARD TEAM

Two Clubs

1.  Head-to-head, if applicable.
2.  Best won-lost-tied percentage in games played within the conference.
3.  Best won-lost-tied percentage in common games, minimum of four.
4.  Strength of victory.
5.  Strength of schedule.
6.  Best combined ranking among conference teams in points scored and points allowed.
7.  Best combined ranking among all teams in points scored and points allowed.
8.  Best net points in conference games.
9.  Best net points in all games.
10.Best net touchdowns in all games.
11.Coin toss.

12. Winner of one game of War in the Pacific

[Razgovory]

How demeaning.

[jimmy olsen]

Why not.

TO BREAK A TIE FOR THE WILD-CARD TEAM

Two Clubs

1.  Head-to-head, if applicable.
2.  Best won-lost-tied percentage in games played within the conference.
3.  Best won-lost-tied percentage in common games, minimum of four.
4.  Strength of victory.
5.  Strength of schedule.
6.  Best combined ranking among conference teams in points scored and points allowed.
7.  Best combined ranking among all teams in points scored and points allowed.
8.  Best net points in conference games.
9.  Best net points in all games.
10.Best net touchdowns in all games.
11.Coin toss.

Has the NFL ever had to go past 5? That seems like one that would be definitive 999/1000.

[CountDeMoney]

Way to go, fellas.  America First, baby.  Winning!

Protectionism doesn't pay
America's Department of Commerce imposes a tariff of 292% on Bombardier's C-Series jets
But Boeing is the real loser from the decision
The Economist
Gulliver
Dec 20th 2017
by C.R.

A YEAR ago Dennis Muilenburg, the chief executive of Boeing, the American aerospace giant, had a big problem. Tweets written by Donald Trump, America's newly elected president, were hitting Boeing's share price. Their value was initially lifted by the new president's promise of extra spending on defence. But in December last year Boeing's shares fell after a tweet from Mr Trump suggested that an order for new presidential planes worth $4bn should be cancelled. The newly-elected president then picked a fight with its rival Lockheed Martin over its new fighter jet; Boeing's executives were left in fear of being the next target in his gunsight.

And so, it seemed, Mr Muilenburg came up with a plan: snuggle up to Mr Trump's "America First" agenda to avoid the flack. Boeing started to stress in its press releases how many American jobs it was creating; it asked to president to unveil the first 787-10 jet produced in February and in April it filed a trade case against Bombardier, alleging that its Canadian rival has received unfair subsidies from Britain and Canada for the development of its new C-Series jetliners.

But as Gulliver pointed out in September, regarding its accusations against Bombardier, Boeing had taken off on a flight of hypocrisy against its rival. The American giant itself has received billions of dollars of state assistance, from generous military contracts placed by the federal government to $8.7bn in handouts from the Washington state government. And it has not made planes the size of the ones Bombardier wants to export to America since 2006. Pursuing the case would alienate Boeing's international customers and would do more damage to Boeing than good, Gulliver warned:

    Canada has also threatened to cancel a likely $5bn order of military jets from Boeing if the American company prevails against Bombardier; Britain could follow its lead. Several airlines, fearing less competition among planemakers, are unhappy with Boeing's behaviour and privately threaten to shun its jets if it continues to bully its smaller rival. This may be the trade case that ends up costing Boeing much more than it has to gain.

That is exactly what has happened. Even though America's Department of Commerce ruled in Boeing's favour today—setting tariffs of 292% on imports of the C-Series from Canada—it is a Pyrrhic victory. In October Bombardier gave away half the C-Series for free to Boeing's arch-rival Airbus, weakening the American firm's position in market for smaller jetliners considerably. Then, in early December Canada announced that it was not going to proceed with an order for 18 Super Hornet fighter jets made by Boeing, losing the firm up to $6bn in revenue. A week later, on December 13th, it received another slap in the face, this time from Delta, America's second biggest airline, which shunned Boeing's 737 MAX aircraft in favour of buying 200 aircraft from Airbus, its arch-rival from Europe, worth around $25bn at list prices. Bosses from other airlines have also told Gulliver that they plan to favour Airbus's jets in the near future until Boeing stops "bullying" Bombardier, which they suspect the American giant wants to destroy in order to protect its market power.

Airlines and flyers realise that they benefit from more competition in the market for jetliners, as it increases innovation and lowers the cost of buying aircraft. Aviation executives think that Boeing is attempting to destroy the competition with trade cases against both Bombardier and Airbus. But worse of all, in the process of pursuing these, it is hurting its own shareholders and employees by alienating its international customers. The company itself predicts that around 80% of orders for civil jetliners over the next twenty years will be from outside America. But they won't stick around to buy from Boeing if it continues to follow a nationalist agenda. As Adam Pilarski, the former chief economist of McDonnell-Douglas (now part of Boeing) astutely notes, if the global aerospace giant wants to "act like a little whiny American company", it will eventually end up as small as one too.

[11B4V]

#MAGA 

[HVC]

Don't pick on Canada, everyone loves us.

[CountDeMoney]

Don't pick on Canada, everyone loves us.

I just don't understand how these people actually believe this is how the modern global economy works.

[frunk]

Wait, other countries respond to protectionism with protectionism?  Let me get on the phone to the president, he should be informed!

[HVC]

I think it's because they grew up in a business culture that was created with a post war, fractured and relatively poor Europe and a under developed Asia (save for Japan). They think that America gave up its position rather then other countries taking it.