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I hope the irony is not lost that the so-called moderate Republicans (unofficial motto: "you just think everyone who disagrees with you is racist") are the group with the most egg on their face this election cycle after the guy who cut out the middleman of discussing policy and went straight to the dog whistling beat out 16 candidates (most of whom had presumably more conservative bonafides) to win the party's nomination.
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Non-bold prediction: we are about to witness the ugliest week in the history of American politics.
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So wait a minute, I thought the polls were rigged? (and you are still losing in most polls)
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What the Early Vote in North Carolina Means: A Daily Tracker
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10-30-2016, 03:31 PM | #4559 | |
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Well, moderate Republicans didn't support this guy, so yeah, I think they have a right to be upset if the left lumps them in with racists.
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10-30-2016, 03:54 PM | #4560 |
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Ehhhh...probably a semantics argument over what I meant there. That's not part of what I was talking about.
Assuming HRC wins, absolutely. But this week holds the title for a week.
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Well there is certainly an unbiased source. I wouldn't trust that bunch of clowns to define the word dictionary. Left-wing lunatics with too much time on their hands and not much indication of the damned fraction of the sense to do anything useful with it.
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10-30-2016, 07:50 PM | #4562 |
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Google alt-right and you can find a Breitbart article where Milo says the same thing, but with waaaay more words.
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10-31-2016, 05:10 AM | #4563 |
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So I stupidly allowed myself to be dragged into a Facebook political argument with...a Trump supporter.
(not what y'all expected huh...)
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What's important to note about NV is that Dems are pounding Republicans in early voting in Washoe County, where Reno is. And if the Republicans are losing in Reno, there's no chance Trump wins NV, and the Senate seat probably goes Dem, too.
Basic thumbnail sketch of NV - It's Las Vegas, which is heavily (D) against the rest of the state, which is (R).
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If this late game FBI thing costs Clinton the election, it's gotta rank high among the all time greatest flops.
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It would be absolutely shocking if it somehow could, so I suppose on the remote chance it happens, sure.
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I expected the race to widen into a 10+ point lead, not tighten back to a 3-4 pt lead. I was wrong.
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Yeah, I was expecting that this would be the week that the "rats" (mainly nose-holders who were voting for him because Supreme Court/abortion) would see 6-12 point lead and start abandoning the sinking ship and turn it into a blowout. ("Well, if it's a sure thing he's gonna lose, at least I can tell my kids I didn't vote for that jerk!")
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I still think the electoral college path looks really bad for Trump and his weak ground game is already hurting him with early votes, but I'm certainly less confident than I was a week ago.
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Oh, I still think he's a long shot, but I think it might be close enough for the die-hards to decide it was rigged.
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The various shares of Trump/GOP/nonwoman/Pence have been creeping upward...now in the 31-33c range.
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How has this not been posted yet? Clinton knew at least two of the questions posed to her at a debate thanks to the moderator from CNN.
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If Trump wins a lot of the reason will be the GOP elected officials playing a game similar to the suing foreign governments debacle. You can see in the reaction to Comey's letter that a lot of them don't want Trump to win, but they're hoping they can count on others to save the country while they play to their base.
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I'm sympathetic to Comey. I think it was a damned if you do or don't.
Overall, I'm okay with Comey disclosing however I do feel that he should have been more definitive in saying "nothing has been found, don't draw any conclusions, it could well be nothing, it may not have anything on Hillary" etc. and "I am just giving you a FYI". Last edited by Edward64 : 10-31-2016 at 07:22 PM. |
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Has she tried the questions/positions thing on isidewith.com Even this late in the process (and having already voted), that might be interesting for her. See if there was a candidate that she matched better than she guessed, worse than she guessed, etc etc. Just a thought.
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Not directed at me, but ... The thing with this is, what constitutes a battleground state is largely a function of the national spread. If it narrows only a little more, he doesn't have to win any blue states. A bit more than that, and he only needs most of the battlegrounds, and then weather/turnout plays a part in key areas, etc. I'm still pretty confident Clinton will win but if -- and it's a big if -- the trend continues the same the next week as it has the last week. On election day it would be a 2-point gap, maybe 3 at most. That's still enough to say Clinton wins most of the time ... but not enough to make it a sure thing. That's really the worry I think. And at that point a few battleground states are leaning Trump, and states like Colorado become battleground or slightly leaning Hillary ... the landscape is just different than being +7 like it was not long ago. . Last edited by Brian Swartz : 10-31-2016 at 09:28 PM. |
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That's the two things I am still not grasping. Not winning any blue (dark or light) and only winning most of the battlegrounds still will not get to 270. Also, I still don't see the correlation between national numbers and percentages in battleground states. It would make sense if the pollings were only in those states but a majority of the population lives in CA, NY, IL and TX and those are not going to flip under any reasonable circumstances. Bush43 said it best when asked about winning percentage (vs. Kerry) - if it mattered, than he would have spent much more time getting the vote out in Texas. |
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Of the states he's not currently ahead on 538 (who has a cautious polling model, but still is not pro-Trump in any way shape or form) he needs to carry FL, NC, NV and then either PA or NH & CO.
I think with the trend and the early polling figures out of FL he's going to win that one. NV is a toss up, and the numbers in NC look decent for Hilary but with African-American early turnout down from what Obama did, I don't think she can be comfortable there either. I can easily see him carrying the first three. The second part is where it gets difficult and she has a bit of a firewall but I agree with Brian that if the current trend keeps up into next week this thing is going to be way, way closer than anyone thought it would be. And another Hilary bombshell or some bad polling in a key state could be worst case scenario for the Dems. 538 has a 25% chance and until they are majorly wrong I still trust their methodology. At this rate it could be as high as 35 or 40% chance by election day. |
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By my count, Trump gets to 266 if he wins every state that 538 either has him ahead, and all the states they have him losing by 1.4% or less. That's pretty close. So one more push from here and he's got a great shot at 266 (and 538 probably doesn't have all the data from the recent email stuff).
2016 Presidential Election Interactive Map But then as Bucc said, he needs one more state that is pretty solid blue right now, with a week to go. But there's a group of 5 states that 538 has Clinton up between 4.6% and 5.5% (Colorado, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, New Hampshire). It wouldn't take a huge swing from to put one of those in play. But you can see why Clinton is still the big favorite. If Clinton gets a swing her way, she wins by a ton, if Trump gets another swing his way, it's just close. But if we believe 538's overall number at the moment, 25%ish shot for Trump, that is too close for comfort to me. That is not a huge longshot, that is an ordinary NFL comeback, maybe down 10 points in the 4th quarter. Last edited by molson : 10-31-2016 at 10:34 PM. |
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