I DON'T KNOW WHERE THE BOTTOM IS • US presidential elections part VIII

Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump Jan 20
D.C. Media wants me to give big speech in freezing cold!! Voters know #Mar-A-Lago much nicer. #MakeAmericaGreatAgain

pat toomey is now against the tpp

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/8/17/1561007/-White-People-LOVE-Trump-s-Speech-to-Blacks

this made me laugh pretty hard

would love to see an inner city tour with Sheriff Clarke and Ben Carson at his side

Yes, black audiences are super-eager for a speaking tour by that GOP candidate they almost unanimously rejected!

Interesting take on the Trump misinformation bubble

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/mapping-the-trump-hate-bubble

Sheriff Clarke

man, this confused me

Short, simple, and dead-on.

http://newrepublic.com/minutes/136127/election-really-isnt-hillary-clinton

Clinton has become a background character in her own historic election.

@BenjySarlin
Campaign source: Trump "deeply unhappy for weeks" now "finally embracing the fact that he knows better than they do"

whew at last

Professionals built the Titanic and amateurs built the ark, yanno.

Campaign source: Trump "deeply unhappy for weeks" now "finally embracing the fact that he knows better than they do"

seems like he's confused manafort having poor instincts (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/paul-manafort-unhappy-campaign_us_57b490f7e4b0edfa80daabf5?al2y5n7w790wqxgvi) with his having good instincts. the one does not imply the other except in the mind of a 2 year old.

didn't know manafort had stood athwart the taco bowl yelling stop

absent useful detailed polling, the best guess for chances in the house are probably the betting markets (lol), e.g. http://predictwise.com/politics/2016-congress-house, which gives the democrats an 18% chance of a majority.

this is just the best election ever

OTM

i love the idea of like 3 or 4 adults arguing over the taco bowl photo before it was tweeted

then going w it

sry you included that.

this is amazing

https://twitter.com/DylanByers/status/766021779361968128

loool

so that's trump's new campaign mastermind?!

A sneak peek at Trump's debate tactics imo

"Says who!"

"I know you are, but what am I?" didn't test well. They're saving "I'm rubber, you're glue" for the crucial home stretch after Labor Day.

this is amazing

https://twitter.com/DylanByers/status/766021779361968128

― soref, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 21:23 (18 minutes ago) Permalink

is this real life?

there we go again

I hadn't met Michael Cohen yet. Oh he's going to be a treat to have making the rounds.

Charles McCullough // Aug 17, 2016 at 9:02 am

Total BS. This poll is a poll cat if you know what I mean. It stinks to high heaven. When a real and accurate poll was taken with a sampling of over 100,000 people Donald Trump was on top of Hillary by double percentage points. http://mediamatters.org/video/2016/08/16/fox-s-steve-doocy-so-if-election-were-held-today-according-zip-app-donald-trump-would-win/212427 This has Trump 60 percent higher than Hillary.

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Sam Wang // Aug 17, 2016 at 9:12 am

i sincerely hope that each and every one of these vile schmucks is haunted by the ghosts of this campaign for the rest of their days.

Blah. Sam's response was "Clip and save". Made me lol.

Also the poll his reader cited is described as "not a poll" by its creator in the article he copied

Xpost

First time I've ever heard of the word "psychographic".

Advertising buzzword since I went to journalism school in the 80s.

Sorry, that looked snarky in print. Not intentional.

Interesting point:

https://twitter.com/IshYimini/status/766034151426367488

Manafort may be sidelined, but his VP pick is there to stay. Neither Lewandowski nor Bannon wanted Pence.

A Clown Car Full Of Bingos

^^^^ Should be the title of the next election thread. Bonus if it includes "psychographic"

This might be my favorite still shot from Mr. "Says Who"

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CqGEtqfW8AA8KTC.jpg:large

Lewandowski wanted Ted Nugent for VP

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Dude looks like:

http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.2229481.1432142919!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/article_750/michael-mcdonald.jpg

The anchor's face and head movement are priceless.

that dude is most punchable human I've ever seen

The anchor's face and head movement are priceless.

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 22:39 (24 minutes ago) Permalink

i love her exasperated "some of them... all of them" after he asks "which polls?"

even breitbart's poll had hillary ahead

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CqGHBfSXEAAVRUd.jpg

I hadn't realised that Cohen was the same guy from this story:

Cohen added that there is no such thing, legally, as a man raping his wife. “You cannot rape your spouse,” he said. “There’s very clear case law.”

That is not true. In New York, there used to be a so-called marital rape exemption to the law. It was struck down in 1984.

Trump’s lawyer then changed tactics, lobbing insults and threatening a lawsuit if a story was published.

“I will make sure that you and I meet one day while we’re in the courthouse. And I will take you for every penny you still don’t have. And I will come after your Daily Beast and everybody else that you possibly know,” Cohen said. “So I’m warning you, tread very fucking lightly, because what I’m going to do to you is going to be fucking disgusting. You understand me?”

“You write a story that has Mr. Trump’s name in it, with the word ‘rape,’ and I’m going to mess your life up… for as long as you’re on this frickin’ planet… you’re going to have judgments against you, so much money, you’ll never know how to get out from underneath it,” he added.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/07/27/ex-wife-donald-trump-made-feel-violated-during-sex.html

Sounds like a real class act. Really makes you feel bad for the rest of humanity that these guys are "the best people."

I think I saw Psychographic Bingos open for the Jesus and Mary Chain back in 85

Gonna be an even longer campaign season, so long, the longest, no season longer ever, etc.

sez who

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/election-update-why-clinton-doesnt-have-this-race-locked-up/

Can answer this for you in three words, Harry - because it's August.

I always kind of hate Presidential candidates being described as "winning" or "losing" prior to the mailing of absentee ballots/commencement of early voting - polls do give a reliable indication on who will win but it doesn't mean they're currently 'winning', they're just forecasts. so naturally Hillary doesn't have it "locked up" yet.

xpost haha yeah they've had so many pieces that boil down to basically that. i like how in their roundtable chats the moderator guy keeps trying to get a juicier version of the story out of them and it just goes nowhere.