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

Eh. It'll delude people into thinking he'll do great next time and fix ALL his problems. Hell, he probably thinks that.

which is why the morbs robot is so tedious

iatee you disappointed me til i got over it

The two best things anyone in this situation can do is a) throw something at Trump that'll wound his ego and stick in his craw and that he'll feel the need to respond to incessantly and b) do whatever you can to give Trump a false sense of confidence. Per point b), if he really does think the microphone was his problem in the last debate, watch him show up to the town hall even less prepared than before and probably comfortably going all-in on how awful and disgusting women are.

I figure there's already a 0% chance that he doesn't blast Machado next Sunday.

My microphone in the room, they couldn't hear me, you know, it was going on and off.

If the television audience heard everything (I did, down to the last sniffle) and if the live audience could hear him well enough to react to various zing lines, this still seems like nothing more than excuses for his poor debate performance.

If Hillary says "Donald thinks women are disgusting" at the next debate then he can either say nothing and let it stand, or say something like "No, I don't. My daughter has a great body". There doesn't seem to be a third option.

Or he could pull out of all remaining debates, citing conspiracy

That'd be great! Anecdotal accounts seem to agree that Clinton is at her best when she's communicating with people one-on-one, so 90 minutes of her doing just that without interruptions from a manic orangutan should do nothing but help her.

did "Nancy Reagan started a national conversation about AIDS" count as one-on-one?

yeah clinton has been doing one on one type stuff since the 70s. trump is barely human.

tiny detail that will surprise nobody: the kid who coined "don't tase me bro" has grown up into a trumpist:

https://twitter.com/TheAndrewMeyer

takes you back, doesn't it

Dollars to donuts lightsaber kid is firmly behind Hillary.

He's in for more tasing, if not shooting, in the new wild west that will be the Trump presidency. xp

Mainstream media cut my tough questions to John Kerry into a sound bite

https://twitter.com/mmurraypolitics/status/781887018951405573?s=09

early voting going on in iowa and florida. what a great time for trump to tank his campaign (again)

Of interest (Wake County includes Raleigh, the state capital; 2nd most populous area in the state, I gather):

https://twitter.com/gercohen/status/781844583110049792

Wake Co NC voted absentees 47 days pre-elex:
2016 1,739
D 42.4%
R 30.1
U 27.2

2012 185
D 32.4%
R 38.4
U 29.2

up 940%, 18% swing to D

https://www.statnews.com/2016/09/29/dana-farber-trump/

The annual fundraising bashes that Donald Trump hosted at his Mar-a-Lago Club for the renowned Dana-Farber Cancer Institute were showy affairs, complete with poolside champagne, flamenco dancers, and Tiffany party favors.

And his titles from Dana-Farber kept getting loftier: First, he was a Discovery Celebration Chair. Then a Grand Benefactor. Then a Grand Honorary Chair.

Those titles did not come at a cost to Trump because he himself has not donated to the cancer center in years. His foundation, which has not included any of his own money since 2008, has given the hospital $350,000 since 2010.

Yet Trump himself may have profited from the relationship: The hospital has paid Trump’s private club up to $150,000 a year since 2011, and once before in 2008, to host the fundraising gala.

“Oh Jesus,” said Dr. David Nathan, who served as president of Dana-Farber from 1995 to 2000 and now sits on the board of trustees. He burst into laughter when told by STAT about the relationship between the hospital and Trump. “My first comment is no comment.”

hippie punching is a national pastime

Man, yeah. I look forward each spring to the first hippie-punching of the season. This year, my knuckles smelled like patchouli and kind bud for a week.

the DNC was held not in spring but in July

Bernie rallies, yo

Why do you think the Lamestream Media wasn't covering them.

I haven't seen any coverage of Bernie rallies in months, fucking Lamestream Media.

Meanwhile in loon world:

https://twitter.com/mitchellvii/status/781945921412235267

I assume the dude is a bot but here's his site and 'our story'

https://yourvoiceradio.com/our-story/

Why shout alone at your television when you can shout to the world on radio?

Indeed!

why shout when you can siiiiiiiing

Indeed!

CNN headline writers having fun:

Donald Trump quintuples down

Warren's on a roll over at Twitter rn.

Oh God this is genius:

https://mobile.twitter.com/iamhappytoast

Warren's twitter makes everything worth it

Noseflags ftw.

"Meanwhile in loon world:"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wK00jIO1Go&feature=youtu.be

why didn't that show up? i'll try again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wK00jIO1Go

there. that's better.

https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/t31.0-8/14500544_10153968346568716_7091028838123692462_o.jpg

I liken it to a balloon er wait

love those nose flags

lol https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/donald-trump-appeared-in-a-2000-playboy-softcore-porn

Okay, definitive proof that was indeed a hardening. Time to start a new thread.

Had a dream last night that Trump made a cameo in Robocop 2 and I paid 5 bucks for the DVD from a budget bin for lolz...cover featured him in a tux by himself and gave him top billing.

Are you Michel Gondry or something.

https://media.giphy.com/media/l396WgWCEds2EMvCg/giphy.gif

amazed trump hasn't used that gif as proof of his appeal to black voters yet

Asked Friday by CNN's Jake Tapper why Trump's phone hasn't been taken away from him, campaign surrogate Sarah Huckabee Sanders replied, "I don't think we're -- anybody's taking anybody's phone away."

Genuine lol

Sarah Huckabee Sanders

perfect merger of campaigns

This video is sort of fascinating, watching her trying to spin things she obviously doesn't want to spin. She has one of the least convincing smiles of all time. The host obviously feels sorry for her, but you know, she could quit if she wanted to. I just want him to throw something else at her and see how she reacts.

http://edition.cnn.com/videos/tv/2016/09/30/trump-senior-adviser-twitter-tirade-sarah-huckabee-sanders-lead-intv.cnn

Latest quote-fest from Costa's team

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-bad-week-is-a-nightmare-for-the-gop/2016/09/30/e9290ad8-8727-11e6-92c2-14b64f3d453f_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_trumpgop-8pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

At an intimate fundraiser Wednesday for Rep. Joseph J. Heck (R-Nev.), who is running for the Senate, McConnell asked the group of about a dozen supporters how many of them think Trump can win. About half of the attendees raised their hands. But when McConnell then asked how many thought Trump would win, no hands went up, and the room fell silent, according to a person familiar with the scene who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a closed event.

re: wake county (nc) results, those are very small numbers in general and only list the affiliation of the absentee voters, not their actual votes. pretty stunned that that info is public tho!