2016 elections - because it's never too early

Started by merithyn, May 09, 2013, 07:37:45 AM

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garbon

Read my last link. Real thing is not much and Women's Equality Party isn't really much of a party.
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Admiral Yi

Exec summary is if 50,000 people vote for Hillary as candidate of blah blah blah that party maintains the right to stay on the ballot, without the need to collect petition signatures.

Jacob

Quote from: Admiral Yi on September 29, 2016, 11:55:46 AM
Exec summary is if 50,000 people vote for Hillary as candidate of blah blah blah that party maintains the right to stay on the ballot, without the need to collect petition signatures.

Thanks :)

Barrister

So the RCP average is trending up for Clinton as post-debate polls are starting to come in.

It's not overwhelming but there is movement there.
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Admiral Yi

I will relax once the polls get to 10% in the battleground states.

Any theories as to what Donaldo is hiding in his tax returns?

Barrister

Quote from: Admiral Yi on September 29, 2016, 12:32:50 PM
I will relax once the polls get to 10% in the battleground states.

Any theories as to what Donaldo is hiding in his tax returns?

1. He's not as rich as he says;
2. He doesn't pay any tax; and
3. How highly leveraged he is.
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alfred russel

Quote from: Barrister on September 29, 2016, 12:36:06 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on September 29, 2016, 12:32:50 PM
I will relax once the polls get to 10% in the battleground states.

Any theories as to what Donaldo is hiding in his tax returns?

1. He's not as rich as he says;
2. He doesn't pay any tax; and
3. How highly leveraged he is.

Also, 4) he doesn't donate much to charities.

If you amend #2 to "he doesn't pay much tax", I'd be stunned if 1 through 4 was actually not the case.
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Razgovory

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Apparently Newsweek supposedly has proof that Trump knowingly broke the Cuban Embargo in 1998

https://www.facebook.com/therachelmaddowshow/videos/10153958086534067/

Trump's a corporate fat cat and a crook. No doubt in my mind he would not do b.s. like this.

Trump must be a genius. Most billionaires simply lack mental acumen to micromanage decisions of their subsidiaries.

He's not a billionaire.  He plays one on TV.
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derspiess

Quote from: Jacob on September 29, 2016, 09:45:59 AM
Quote from: derspiess on September 29, 2016, 09:31:14 AM
The knock on Clinton is not that she tolerated Bill's infidelity, but that she enabled a sexual predator and allegedly threatened his victims.

She's got a little bit of a double-standard going herself.  A few months ago she said all rape victims should be believed.  So why doesn't she believe Juanita Broaddrick?

You're right. Clinton's campaign will collapse.

:lol:
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Eddie Teach

Sounds like all the pundits were full of hogwash about how low the bar Trump had to win the debate.
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Admiral Yi

Quote from: Peter Wiggin on September 29, 2016, 02:15:12 PM
Sounds like all the pundits were full of hogwash about how low the bar Trump had to win the debate.

If he had delivered a Sarah Palin performance, reciting safe, scripted responses, he might have been seen to win.

Barrister

Quote from: Admiral Yi on September 29, 2016, 02:50:56 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on September 29, 2016, 02:15:12 PM
Sounds like all the pundits were full of hogwash about how low the bar Trump had to win the debate.

If he had delivered a Sarah Palin performance, reciting safe, scripted responses, he might have been seen to win.

Agreed.  The bar was set very low for Donald Trump.  For example I've read plenty of reviews that said he was doing well, even beating Clinton for the first 20 minutes or so.  I completely disagreed, but that was the low bar at work.

The thing is that miraculously Trump managed to limbo himself under that very low bar to flub his performance.
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HVC

Trump doesn't have the personality type to weather the storm in a debate. He has to react and and strike back, and not doing so would probably give him an aneurism.  It's what got him this far, but it's also what will (hopefully) keep him from going any further.
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Eddie Teach

He was subdued, civil and most surprisingly of all, pink. He lost because people actually listened and thought Hillary made more sense.
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Tonitrus

I think another factor is that his style of debating worked quite well in the multi-person debates in the primary, but the same style is pathetic and near-useless in a one-on-one.

Kinda like using mob-style tactics against a single opponent.