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HorseRenoir posted:Hillary's approval numbers always rise once she gets elected to a new position and people realize that she isn't a super-corrupt monster and the world didn't end. The important thing for her is to get Supreme Court justices and other federal judges on the bench. And that will require a Senate majority. I think if the Republicans keep the Senate this year, Hillary can be kept to a one term presidency, and absolutely nothing of value beyond vetoing Congress's lovely bills will happen.
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This is like in Arrested Development. The Republicans think an obvious idiot is smart, just because they have a British accent.
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Xae posted:So we've got a Sharia law praising, multiple divorcee, multiple adulterer, endorser and cameo star of pornography that is still enjoying massive support from the Evangelicals. The problem is that they hold Democratic candidates to a much higher standard of personal behavior, and the media gladly plays along as though a double standard doesn't exist. And it only works one way, because leftists don't so much buy into the existence of a strict "moral" code to hold the opponent to in the first place. This gives the Republicans a distinct advantage in appealing to the low-information voter, who decide who to vote for based on the general feelings they get from headlines and overheard conversations.
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Oct 1, 2016 15:52
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Josef bugman posted:http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/stop-whining-about-false-balance-w440228 quote:The people complaining about "false balance" usually seem confident in having discovered the truth of things for themselves, despite the media's supposed incompetence. They're quite sure of whom to vote for and why. Their complaints are really about the impact that "false balance" coverage might have on other, lesser humans, with weaker minds than theirs. Which is not just snobbish, but laughably snobbish. So, shut up.
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Oct 1, 2016 18:02
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Hodgepodge posted:I still don't like how she uses "being like Scandinavia" as some bizarre impossible ideal, but that's about the only bad part. Hillary should respond to this "scandal" by making it clear that the reason we have a major roadblock to universal healthcare and free college is that we have a significant number of Republicans in Congress. And if someone wants these things, maybe they should do something about that roadblock, so that the U.S. can become more like Scandinavia instead of being a special snowflake that can never have nice things.
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Oct 2, 2016 01:16
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I'm convinced now that Trump has been caught up in a 25 year long Brewster's Millions scenario, and his campaign is his last-ditch effort to blow through whatever wealth he has left.
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Oct 2, 2016 17:31
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Mel Mudkiper posted:As I have said before, I think Scott Adams is wildly insecure about being famous for a comic and desperately wants to be seen as
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Oct 2, 2016 20:00
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Endorph posted:hypothetically, what even happens if a third party candidate actually wins the election?
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Oct 2, 2016 22:24
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Conclusions posted:Does the Secretary of State even have the authority to order a drone strike?
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Oct 3, 2016 14:50
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greatn posted:Devil's advocate, doesn't arbitration have a useful societal function to keep the court systems from being more clogged than they already are? The problem is that companies are forcing people into mandatory arbitration processes, where they don't agree to it freely and they don't think it will be fair (and for good reason). It is especially egregious in a business that is a necessary service like banking, where people have no alternatives if every single company in the industry is unwilling to perform the service if the customer does not agree to arbitration terms that favor the company.
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Oct 3, 2016 15:30
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greatn posted:I don't wanna drone strike Julian Assange, but is there any way we could have one always following him around and he just catches it in the corner of his eye?
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Oct 4, 2016 11:50
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HannibalBarca posted:https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/10/04/how-well-do-you-know-the-vice-presidential-candidates-a-quiz/
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Oct 4, 2016 15:43
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http://edition.cnn.com/2016/10/04/politics/bill-clinton-obamacare-craziest-thing/index.html wtf Bill? Do we really need to shift focus from Trump's constant gently caress ups to Democratic self-goals?
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edrith posted:Jeezum crow
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Oct 5, 2016 13:47
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stay safe, everyone.
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iospace posted:https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/783661127536349184 
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Rinkles posted:There something to substantiate this?
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Oct 5, 2016 15:25
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Goatman Sacks posted:Strickland kinda hosed himself when he truthfully said Scalia dying was awesome.
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Oct 5, 2016 18:37
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Built 4 Cuban Linux posted:If Dems get 50 seats in the senate (+Kaine), would that be enough to get through all of Hillary's Supreme Court picks? or do they need a super majority?
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Pakled posted:Supreme Court appointments are by majority, not supermajority. Even a 50/50 split means we're getting a liberal justice.
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cant cook creole bream posted:Reminder that the only flaw in Clinton's debate seemed to be "over-preparedness". Hillary is not very good at conveying complex thoughts into words in the moment, and so relies a lot on rehearsed phrasing. It is obvious to everyone, which is what I think everyone meant by her being "over-prepared". And she is not good at reading the room to know that something like trumped-up trickle-down wouldn't stick, especially with her bad delivery. And even if she was cognizant that something probably won't work, I don't think she'd stray from the script anyway, because a poor delivery of a bad new catchphrase is better than stammering and pausing from trying to figure out what to say (Obama was the opposite - very good at thinking up something novel to say that perfectly fit the situation, but often had several seconds of awkward umm's and uh's before he could blurt it out). I don't mean that she should avoid rehearsed lines entirely. It was clear she had that Alicia Machado thing in her bag, waiting to be pulled out, and it went off perfectly. But the ability to adapt what she's saying on the fly is a definite weakness of hers.
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gradenko_2000 posted:1. Assuming for a moment that the Democrats take the Senate, what are the chances that some Democratic Senators will break ranks? Like, will there be a Lieberman expy that's going to gently caress over Clinton on a Supreme Court nomination? 2. I'm pretty sure that committee assignments are handled by vote early in the first day or two of the Senate session, so 50+Kaine should be sufficient to give Democrats the committee chairmanships and the majority leader. Young Freud posted:3) If the Dems take the Senate, either by majority or tie-broken by Kaine, does Mitch McConnell resign for getting the Senate Republicans in this mess? I think the best part of this whole election season will be seeing Trump's followers turn on him after he loses. I don't think he knows it's coming. He thinks they will keep following him to some new media network or whatever, when the reality is that he will be shunned and ridiculed mercilessly. And he will not take it well. The downfall will be beautiful.
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sarmhan posted:And again, town halls are Hillary's best format. It was her best primary debate, it's the event type she prefers to do on the campaign trail. She is good at listening to, emphasizing with, and speaking to people's problems. Formal debates are her weaker point, because she isn't great at delivering prepared lines. Even though Trump was a reality TV star, he basically just sat in a big chair and yelled at people. I don't think he knows anything about camera placement or how to be dynamic in a town hall setting. I think if he gets off the stool and starts making those hand-wavey motions of his while standing around without a podium or microphone in front of him, he's going to look like a mentally disturbed homeless person that people purposefully avoid eye contact with and walk past as quickly as possible.
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comingafteryouall posted:As a person who has never really lived near an NFL stadium, do they ever get used for things other than football games? I could maybe see a multi-use stadium that was booked up throughout the year being worth it.
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Bushiz posted:Trump could recover pretty easily by simply not having a disasterous performance on sunday, because expectations are so impossibly low right now. Like, if he just kept repeating the same three soundbites over and over and didn't dive for the world's most obvious bait the moment it showed up, we'd be back in the horserace by tuesday. Expectations are low, but Trump has to pull off way more than a "win" here. Hillary has to make a major error that's big enough to re-focus the media on her for the next few weeks. This means something damning coming out of the new leaked Wall Street transcripts, or her completely whiffing when Trump goes on the attack about Bill being a rapist and her enabling him. Already, the new wikileaks thing seems to be dying out, and I'm sure Hillary has been prepared for the Bill accusations for months. So Trump has quite a feat to pull off just to get back to where he was a few weeks ago when he was still projected to lose.
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Casimir Radon posted:I have a nondisparagement agreement and don't want Donald to take my alimony away.
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Tarantula posted:This thread usually moves pretty quick so hopefully I won't miss the answer, my mum became a U.S citizen a few years ago, she was born in the states but has lived in Australia her whole life, she's not sure how to go about voting, I assume it's some sort of postal vote?
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Oct 9, 2016 14:21
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D1E posted:I think this is actually a very important question. Somehow the optics of smiling warmly while shaking his hand then literally less than three minutes later advising Americans that he is a sexual predator entirely unfit for the office of the Presidency would seem... poor.  when shaking Trump's hand. Trump will try to say something nice, and she will remain silent. She then turns back to the crowd with a huge smile and more waving.
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Oct 9, 2016 17:30
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Furnaceface posted:Apparently not. But it is not unique to Americans. Wherever you live, you are surrounded by racist idiots. America just makes an entertaining show of it.
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Oct 9, 2016 23:55
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Josh Lyman posted:LOL gently caress you CNN, "we're just minutes away from the start of the debate", cut to a giant screen with the countdown still showing 39 minutes. Without a number to specify exactly how many minutes, the word "minutes" by itself can be anywhere between two and infinity minutes. In other news, we are all literally just seconds away from dying. The heat death of the universe is mere hours away.
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Oct 10, 2016 01:36
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I thought Trump's answer to the combo question in the beginning about whether he has committed sexual assault and also if he would keep us safe from ISIS was pretty good... ...what do you mean it wasn't a combo question? His answer makes no goddamn sense otherwise.
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Oct 10, 2016 03:51
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CascadeBeta posted:Edit: Also it's gross how quickly they got the tapes out of the way at the debate. That's not something you should be able to deflect. For example:
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Oct 10, 2016 13:20
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Kubrick had to make professional actors do 20 or 30 takes to get a menacing and hate-filled stare as perfect as this one.
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Oct 10, 2016 14:18
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Well, it's nice to see that he can project onto someone other than Hillary.
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Oct 10, 2016 23:29
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A Winner is Jew posted:I hope you fuckers have your doctor on speed dial
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Oct 10, 2016 23:37
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Father O'Blivion posted:Same old fisticuffs. Endangerment of lives to feed one's ego.
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Oct 11, 2016 11:24
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AMorePerfctGoonion posted:Does anyone know what happened to the allegations about Melania being an illegal immigrant? Last I heard she was going to give a press conference about it and then the issue was just ... forgotten. You'd think with all these attacks on WJC that Melania would be considered fair game now.
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Oct 11, 2016 11:27
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freebooter posted:Is there any movement whatsoever within mainstream politics to end the electoral college and make POTUS elected by popular vote? Because it's plainly loving ridiculous that only a handful of states matter. And it doesn't look to me like it would benefit one party over the other (the way weekend voting would benefit the Democrats, say) so I don't see why there'd be a partisan deadlock about it. Like, do you see anyone up in arms right now about superdelegates in the Democratic primary process? No, and you won't again for at least another four (probably eight) years, and even then only if it happens to be a close race. And that is something that can be changed by a small group of people just deciding to change it. Fixing the electoral college requires a constitutional amendment, and that's just not going to happen. If the 2000 election couldn't do it, nothing will.
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freebooter posted:Coming from a Westminster country the fact that you have a primary process at all is great, I think.
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Is this going to be a thing? http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fobs-hillarys-state-dept-gave-special-attention-friends/story?id=42615379 I feel like it has all of the ingredients for the Republicans and alt-right to rally around. I really don't have it in me for even more of this poo poo. This election needs to end.
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Nessus posted:Stop assuming the Republicans are ever acting in good faith with this poo poo. Because they aren't. Sure, if it's something new, give it a cursory look, but the heuristic of "a Republican's mouth is moving? Probably lies" has served me in amazing stead over the last few years. I just want to know if it's gaining traction.
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