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

which rock do your parents live under?

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which rock do your parents live under?

One where they're either watching NCIS reruns or going to church group meetings.

My parents have never voted for anything but Republicans and they have said repeatedly that they will never vote for Trump. And they know exactly how the GOP arrived at this shitball because I've been telling them for 25 years what was headed down the track.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/11/07/06/2E321DB300000578-3308061-image-a-73_1446879446689.jpg

Insta Dolly

http://www.kmov.com/story/32807204/12-year-old-running-trump-campaign-office-in-colorado

In one of the most important counties in swing state Colorado, Donald Trump is relying on 12-year-old Weston Imer, who runs the Jefferson County operation for the Trump campaign.
"Watch for me - 2040," Imer said. "And Barron Trump, if you are watching, in 2040 I'll take you as my running mate."

the video is really something

recently realized that i more or less thought joe scarborough and sean hannity were the same person

Hi don!

Xp

Hawaii Republican Party Chair
could there be a more thankless job in american politics
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was driving through rural east tennessee this weekend and spotted a "county democratic headquarters" in a little shack behind a Shoney's. so, yes.

i imagine they spend a lot of time playing checkers and shrugging their shoulders.

Hadn't looked at this in awhile:

https://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cid=N00000019&cycle=Career

big law firms reppin hard on that list

and sumner redstone! (via "national amusements")

Caught some right-wing radio out of Buffalo today. Two developments:

1) With a slight uptick in Trump's direction, polls are now credible again, something to bring up.
2) Julian Assange is a persecuted truth-teller.

skadden arms just luv democracy

Can't rep for Tennessee, there are a bit more Democrats in local politics than you might think in Kentucky. They still control the KY House at the state level.

2) Julian Assange is a persecuted truth-teller.

That's funny. Assange has said they're working on a Trump record dump just like Clinton's.

from last week re: Louisiana

http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/stephanie_grace/article_7b906ea8-6625-11e6-b74b-475b8c2d6a05.html

if Trump dies during the campaign his supporters will probably ask "WHERE'S THE DEATH CERTIFICATE"

Those Trump tweets....

Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 3h3 hours ago
The @WashingtonPost quickly put together a hit job book on me- comprised of copies of some of their inaccurate stories. Don't buy, boring!

Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 3h3 hours ago
.@AnnCoulter's new book, 'In Trump We Trust, comes out tomorrow. People are saying it's terrific - knowing Ann I am sure it is!

there are probably 3 paragraphs about how sexy Dick Cheney is

"That's funny. Assange has said they're working on a Trump record dump just like Clinton's."

Find it unlikely Assange does anything to Trump. Wikileaks Twitter courts Trump supporters hard.

Yeah, probably.

People are saying it's terrific

Trump in close communication with all the reviewers and Coulter family members who have advance copies.

does anybody buy Ann Coulter books or do they just spontaneously generate out of thin air when affluent white people start acting racist and smug in public

Oh hey, Don's back!

dandy!

https://johnlaurits.com/2016/08/16/why-arent-americans-more-infuriated/

hooray for html tag/font abuse

And for bad analogies.

If there was actually a thorough investigation of the contest, the allegations in that post would fall apart. Laurits makes sure to write - in bold - that the mails are from January to May, to make it seem as if the DNC were cheating from the beginning, but every mail in the Snopes article linked is from April at the earliest, that is, after it was pretty obvious that Sanders was losing, and after Sanders had begun claiming DNC and Hillary were colluding. As a matter of fact, the very first incriminating email is from Debbie Wasserman Schultz writing an email about Sanders conceding, sent after the New York primary and the ACELA primaries, where really, he had not a chance in hell.

Also, the mails are from the period where Sanders had already declared war on the DNC. For instance, some are from when the chairwoman of the Nevada Democratic Party were receiving death threats over lies which Sanders then went public and repeated. I'm not surprised that people in the DNC would try and discredit what the Sanders camp were saying in that situation, and that does not mean they were pro-Hillary.

For anyone wanting daily reassurance from the polls, Princeton Electoral Consortium have now decided to switch to a low-variability model, as this election cycle looks just as partisan and stable as any since the mid-'90s. This has the effect of narrowing their banding, so now a Clinton win is at 91% (random drift) / 95% (Bayesian). EV estimate at 341-197.

The consensus seems to be that the national polls are narrowing a bit, but the state-level polling isn't shifting.

Meantime in randomness

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/anti-trump-operatives-targeted-in-online-catfishing-scheme-227288

here's where Trump's $100,000 donation to the flooding victims went:

http://www.dailynewsbin.com/news/donald-trumps-donation-to-louisiana-flood-victims-actually-went-to-an-anti-gay-hate-group/25798/

An anti gay-hate group?

no you guys don't get it, "an anti-gay hate group" is the name of his dog. typical MSM distortion, sad!

Oh...my god. That's amazing, and I hope it gets widely reported. The takeaway is either that a) Trump is pretty much a piece of shit or b) Trump is a complete fuck-up (or...possibly both?). I don't see any other way to spin that.

it's not proven yet - that website is not exactly reputable. may have happened but let's wait until someone that isn't Occupy Democrats or CoolLiberalOpinionz4U runs it: http://www.snopes.com/donald-trump-donated-100k-la/

It's pretty amazing to me how he can't seem to do anything right - he goes to the floodsite despite explicitly being asked not to, spends less than a minute handing out something they don't need, and has his entire donation go to ONE GUY who happens to be rich already. But at least he's not GOLFING!!!

All about the optics. It's what you look like you're doing and the volume at which you say things that matter.

Yeah, I don't want to smear the name of the good people at, ah, dailynewsbin, but the evidence seems to be the the "group called the Greenwell Springs Baptist Church" is actually a church, made of baptists, based in oh you get the idea.

Feels before reals though

My stepmother, who knows Louisiana far better than I do, claims Livingston Parish (where most flooding occurred) is the spiritual home of the modern KKK in Louisiana. So it doesn't surprise me at all that Trump's money went to a hate group.

joe biden is having sex with hillary clinton

that's what's in the emails

pictures please

it's an open secret in washington

Not that Hilary Clinton, though. The other one. The one you're not supposed to know about.

"Hay baby,

Sry for concussion last night (thought my Ford Focus had more room).

Love

J-Biddy"

My former neighbor was from just outside Livingston Parish. She and her even more elderly mother were wonderful people, every single one of their relatives I met was a casual racist and homophobe in a way that I'd never encountered in real life.