I've had people say it's a hardening, actually ~ US presidential election 2016 part 9/11 never forget

/I have no fucking idea what is making so many people want to vote for Trump in the first place/

we have several thousand posts that might be helpful in this respect

538 currently giving Trump 30% is something that's happened just in the last couple of days! For the last few weeks he was mostly in the 10%-20% range, which is more realistic imo.

Trump does not have a 1 in 3 shot. The electoral math is awful for any Republican, much less one whose appeal primarily rests with white nationalists and angry people who don't know they're white nationalists.

He's gotta win Florida AND Pennsylvania AND Ohio and and and to win

the odds of *all* of the necessary states breaking for him are v v low if he can't even bother to field GOTV operations

if the initial "basket" remark was not a tactical error, why did she semi-back off it the next day? Or is this the Vulcan Chess Meme she has inherited from Obama?

right, and he did it instantly! There's no reason to think an even bigger crisis would be to his advantage, he would react in the same predictably crass/stupid/inappropriate self-aggrandizing and exploitative way.

Bannon and Conway seem to have at least partially muzzled him - for example he didn't tweet out anything awful when Hillary fainted

though tbf I'm starting to think there's something behind the campaign's sudden shift from "all health records should be public!" to "the candidates should have some privacy!"

xxp that's true, but if swing states break, they break in the same direction on average.

those three states aren't like three independent coin tosses, where the chance of all three comping up heads is 1/8

they are more like three tosses of the same unfair coin.

but yeah, needing to win any of them (i.e. clinton) is a better situation to be in than needing to win all of them!!

I'm no fan of Chuck Todd-ian political chessboard action, but that deplorable line turned out to be a bonanza for Clinton. Pence was on the Hill uester4getting clobbweed by colleagues.

can you really not figure that out Morbz. she backed off of it because she doesn't want to double-down on offending voters whose votes she might be able to get. which is reasonable from her standpoint. it's not a tactical error in that it didn't actually hurt her significantly - GOP ops didn't successfully capitalize on it, nobody whose votes might have been swung actually appear to have cared, it's not really an indefensible statement etc.

xxp

She didn't back off.

she said "ok, not half"

She should've said they're all deplorable.

if the initial "basket" remark was not a tactical error, why did she semi-back off it the next day? Or is this the Vulcan Chess Meme she has inherited from Obama?

I think saying "half" was a mistake and that is the part she backed off of. the actual statement was brilliant but if I told you why I'd sound like the fucking Dilbro

Bannon and Conway seem to have at least partially muzzled him

anybody wanna put money on Trump tweeting something terrible about Colin Powell within the next 24 hours

xp
She didn't really back off, saying she shouldn't have said "half" is the flimsiest of non-apologies. She left open the possibility that it's more than half.

that's a silly interpretation

(of her intent, not reality)

and really it's insane how much this has brought out in people. half the right-wing people on my FB don't want to talk about the election at all while the other half are seriously advocating genocide against Muslims and posting daily links to shit like "Muslim preacher molests 3-year old girl". you didn't see too much of that before.

I think the "not half" was intended to mollify the offended, and amuse the non-offended.

I can see Trump putting Powell on blast for Iraq and bullshitting again about never supporting it xp

uester4getting clobbweed

i think i got a spam email from this guy yesterday

lol

dying @ "clobbweed" apparently being a word Alfred's phone is autocorrecting to

Heh

https://twitter.com/alivitali/status/776151773836873729

the "not half" remark was really smart imo and can be easily interpreted as "more than half", probably if you're not white tho. i think it's breaking in her favor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt8DoNerIPY

nytimes front page helpfully informs that on dr oz trump's weight is revealed as 267 pounds, which makes him obese. an obese 70 year old man. unfortunately he's also taking a statin so, if they are effective, he might not have the heart-attack im hoping for anytime soon.

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell offered up his unfiltered view of the Clintons in newly leaked emails from Powell’s personal account that were dumped online in a password protected database that was accessed by TPM on Wednesday.

“I would rather not have to vote for her, although she is a friend I respect,” the retired four-star general wrote of Hillary Clinton in a July 24, 2014 email to business partner Jeffrey Leeds, published by the anonymous site DC Leaks. “A 70-year person with a long track record, unbridled ambition, greedy, not transformational, with a husband still dicking bimbos at home (according to the NYP).”

Asked about the authenticity of that email, Powell wrote to the New York Post, “Jeez, don’t remember this one. Best to ignore., (sic) don’t you think?”

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/colin-powell-leaked-emails-clintons-unfiltered-opinion

the "not half" remark was really smart imo and can be easily interpreted as "more than half", probably if you're not white tho. i think it's breaking in her favor.

Trump supporters are literally buying "I'M DEPLORABLE" T-shirts so yeah this is a big win for Hillary

Trump is doing best in Ohio, Iowa, Nevada, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Maine. If he wins it will be because he flipped the midwest, and the people who are afraid of hispanics in Nevada. I have no idea if those states are enough for a win, though, and I don't think he'll win them anyway. But those are the states that depress me when I look at the 538 map.

I have no idea if those states are enough for a win

they are not

dying @ "clobbweed" apparently being a word Alfred's phone is autocorrecting to

― frogbs, Wednesday, September 14, 2016

you don't even wanna know all the synonyms for "twaddle" my phone's got saved

you can add Florida, Iowa, Arizona, New Mexico, to that list and he STILL wouldn't have enough

xxp

Trump supporters are literally buying "I'M DEPLORABLE" T-shirts so yeah this is a big win for Hillary

Yeah my only (afaik) Trump supporter friend just posted a FB meme with Leonardo DiCaprio toasting "Here's to all us deplorables."

I wasn't really impressed with Eichenwald's piece.. I guess I was hoping he had secretive info about Russians financing TrumpCo but its basically a ton of shitty licensing deals with shady developers and alot of hyperventilating about conflicts of interest..

― carthago delenda est (mayor jingleberries),

you're right -- he should've deleted it

@dick_nixon
You like to think Powell isn't mean because he's black and he speaks well and he served a long time. My God, what do you think it takes?

yeah it's really something symptomatic of people who spend way way too much time in online echo chambers and have no clue how their "ironic" racism is seen to the world at large. like none of these people believe they actually have racist tendencies and are unable to speak in anything other than memes. so they give the "deplorable" thing a ton of attention which leads low-information voters who are otherwise sensible down the path where they learn that many Trump supporters are violent assholes and literal Nazis. what's better I think the Clinton campaign was at least somewhat aware that this was gonna happen? I dunno but I've never seen so many people willingly own themselves like this

the question i ask myself as i hit fp for the 100th time xp

i expect you do not understand the nixon twitter.

or history, or politics, possibly how to work a zipper...

is Morbz spitting dope rhymes now

the fact that colin powell uses "dicking" to refer to casual sexual intercourse makes me like him a lot

nobody watched this.

it matters less who watches and how they responded as to how the media spin it. the bush/gore debates were wins for gore in overnight polls, but once the press corps had spun its silvery story, gore had "sighed over and over" or told several new "lies" - stories that sharpened perceptions of gore as a condescending, untrustworthy elitist

538 gives Trump over 35% in his polls-only, that's a high for him (outside of that RNC week)

I know electoral math and all that but this is seriously terrifying me right now, since the Clinton health thing hasn't even really hit the polls yet

like now Trump's up 5 in the Ohio? what the fuck

the same way they have a Republican governor

you realize 35% is still comparatively low odds right

(why am I holding your hand like this)

YOU REMEMBER THAT GEORGE W. BUSH, A MAN-IDIOT, BEAT AL GORE FOR THE PRESIDENCY RIGHT

actually he didn't