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2016 Presidential Election Thread: TRUMP vs. Hillary SMACKDOWN 2016 Presidential Election Thread: TRUMP vs. Hillary SMACKDOWN
View Poll Results: The 45th President of the United States of America will be
Hillary
332 46.63%
TRUMP
190 26.69%
In to watch it burn
161 22.61%
Bastard
73 10.25%
im tryin to tell you about ****in my wife in the *** and youre asking me these personal questions
57 8.01%

10-31-2016 , 10:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Noodle Wazlib
Alt-right deplorable on twitter, thinking I'm jewish, said he couldn't wait to add me to the piles of bodies in the ovens

Just the best people!
Wouldn't be the least bit surprised if trump tweeted something like this.
10-31-2016 , 10:35 PM
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Originally Posted by cookies4u
link? i clicked the first 3 links on google for "politico podcast" and don't see it. one of them has something from them called Nerdcast but last episode was 4 days ago.
Pretty sure it's not the 10/28/16 podcast, the most recent. http://www.politico.com/tag/nerdcast
10-31-2016 , 10:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Gizmo


I love how they probably tried to find the best picture of DT and the worst of HRC and... that pic of donald makes him look more Pepe than ever.
I think they have to use pictures that donald trump himself thinks he looks good in unless Donald is in what newt gingrich called "big donald trump" mode and then he allows kelly ann conway and milo to make suggestions.
10-31-2016 , 10:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Kirbynator
couldnt they just put an ad of literally 2 seconds/2 seconds sounds clips of trump contradicting the thousands things he's said in the past 5 years, for like 2 minutes straight?
The general concept of pointing out Trump's lies and contradictions has done nothing to shake his base thusfar, or convince all that many undecideds to jump on board the Hildawg train, so I doubt it'll start working eight days from the finish line.
10-31-2016 , 10:37 PM
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Originally Posted by 425kid
If Trump were to get in serious legal trouble for tax evasion or his charity or whatever then I'm definitely of the opinion that Hillary should pardon him.

Obviously thats not the case for treason/espionage but nobody should go to prison for something that would have been ok if they hadnt run for president
One time!
10-31-2016 , 10:37 PM
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Originally Posted by simplicitus
lol A+
10-31-2016 , 10:39 PM
the 'nothing trump does or says harms him, he is teflon don' line is just a myth i think

he doesnt have the worst favourables in the history of everything by accident

he's not a massive dog in a 2 horse race by way of happenstance
10-31-2016 , 10:40 PM
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Originally Posted by HastenDan
Sources?
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Originally Posted by HastenDan
Link to sources and these natsec journos?
Little Danny is so FURIOUS that I slandered Daddy Trump he's gone with the rare double "source for this claim" lol
10-31-2016 , 10:41 PM
could wikileaks be more obvious about it now

jesus ****? its like its coming straight out of RT america
10-31-2016 , 10:41 PM
? Weird, I am not furious at all. I am legitimately curious as I have not seen that story anywhere, and I read a lot of places I would think that story would have surfaced.
10-31-2016 , 10:45 PM
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Originally Posted by cookies4u
link? i clicked the first 3 links on google for "politico podcast" and don't see it. one of them has something from them called Nerdcast but last episode was 4 days ago.
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Originally Posted by simplicitus
Pretty sure it's not the 10/28/16 podcast, the most recent. http://www.politico.com/tag/nerdcast
ya I couldnt find it on Politico either. It is in my podcast feed on my iphone. probably will come up on the site tomorrow.
10-31-2016 , 10:45 PM
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Originally Posted by seattlelou
I believe the Clinton campaign determined that this was not effective as too many people picked the position they liked and assigned it to Trump.
You could easily do this with nonpolicy stuff. Like you could play his "Russia, who said Russia had anything to do with it?" next to his clip calling on Russia to hack Hillary Clinton's emails one month earlier. You could play his "November 28th" clip. It would not be hard to make Trump look like a stupid buffoon in an ad. He is a stupid buffoon. But idk, people like his stupidity; he's an idiot just like them, so relatable. The kind of delicate flower white voters Clinton has to court would probably take such an ad personally, like it was calling them stupid. Besides, the Daily Show, John Olliver, Samantha Bee, SNL, and others already fill this role. I don't think pursuing the "Trump's a moron" angle any further is a winning strategy, sad as that is for me to say.
10-31-2016 , 10:48 PM
he has pam bondis vote so i would discontinue ads in florida
10-31-2016 , 10:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Biesterfield
Highly recommend the new Politico podcast. Had 2 data analyst guys on: one D and one R. Final third is the good stuff on early voting. Highlights:

- D guy says their modeling shows Clinton with a 5.7% lead nationally. R guy did not volunteer a number
- Both agreed that North Carolina is toast. By toast, I mean that Ds have it on lockdown
- Both guys argued that Florida was moving their way, so mixed bag there
- R guy said Iowa and Ohio are looking good for them, D guy seemed to agree
- D guy said approx 8% of all voters are really undecided. After that just comes down to turnout
- Multiple times R guy extolled the virtues of a proper data analytics team i.e. subtlety implied that the Trump data team is bad and/or nonexistent
FWIW, I had 8% entirely pre EMAILS and am fairly sure they cost about 1-2% off the top on the R side, so I'm now right around 6% myself

Unless we get yet another November surprise or the Russia thing goes somewhere, agreed on the rest of this too

needless to say, this means Hillary wins approx high 9x% of the time
10-31-2016 , 10:52 PM
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Originally Posted by simplicitus
10-31-2016 , 10:54 PM
10-31-2016 , 10:54 PM
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Originally Posted by FlyWf
Burr, North Carolina. He also said he would refuse to confirm any SCOTUS justices for her.
How is a statement like that not grounds for impeachment? If I say I'm not going to do one of the requirements of my job because I don't like the CTO I'm working at McDonalds, how can these guys say the same thing?
10-31-2016 , 10:54 PM
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Originally Posted by HastenDan
? Weird, I am not furious at all. I am legitimately curious as I have not seen that story anywhere, and I read a lot of places I would think that story would have surfaced.
Same source as every fact. Do you even Lenny Letter?
10-31-2016 , 10:55 PM
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Originally Posted by BAIDS
hoya, will you stop with the hillary is the worst politician ever stuff

ill tell you who is a worse politician, mark sullivan

who is mark sullivan? he's the guy who ran against adrian smith for the right to represent nebraska's 3rd congressional district in 2012. he lost the race by 48 points: 26-74. he is an actual bad politician

hill won her two senate races and she's probably about to become president. she is not a bad politician. she is not negligent, stupid politician. she is not inhumanly stupid. you are massively overplaying your hand
I think people like cphoya are mad she can't expand the Obama coalition, but her coalition is pretty much the same but like slightly less African American with Hispanics filling that gap and a bit more educated/female. I don't think these voters automatically go for blanky mcdemocrat.
10-31-2016 , 10:56 PM
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Originally Posted by adanthar
FWIW, I had 8% entirely pre EMAILS and am fairly sure they cost about 1-2% off the top on the R side, so I'm now right around 6% myself

Unless we get yet another November surprise or the Russia thing goes somewhere, agreed on the rest of this too

needless to say, this means Hillary wins approx high 9x% of the time
Early voting guy on Lawrence O'Donnell tonight said +C stuff about NV, CO, & pointlessly VA, but his take was NC was it was closer to a mixed bag and may under perform polls.
10-31-2016 , 10:56 PM
So if Trump wins the election ikes gets to come back, right?
10-31-2016 , 10:57 PM
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Originally Posted by BAIDS
the 'nothing trump does or says harms him, he is teflon don' line is just a myth i think

he doesnt have the worst favourables in the history of everything by accident

he's not a massive dog in a 2 horse race by way of happenstance
It's a total myth. He would have a really good chance of winning this election if it wasn't for all the things he says and does.
10-31-2016 , 10:59 PM
Burr was up by like, half a point or close to it going into today, too.
10-31-2016 , 11:00 PM
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Originally Posted by simplicitus
Famous con law prof, Akil Amar, on Comey and emails:

Attorneys general have always been law-trained, and so have all the dedicated civil servants of both parties who occupy top positions in the Justice Department. By contrast, most FBI officers have no legal training, and these officers, while typically earnest and hardworking, are disproportionately right of center. Unlike America’s first AG and every AG since then, America’s first FBI director, the infamous J. Edgar Hoover, was not law-trained. True, Comey himself is a lawyer, but not a great one. He knows enough law to be dangerous but not enough law—especially not enough constitutional law—to be sound or wise. He fails to understand his proper place in the constitutional system, as one carefully designed cog within a larger piece of legal and constitutional machinery. There is no evidence that he is a hack or a clown. But there is reason to think that he’s a bureaucratic blockhead and constitutional lightweight who (as with many bureaucrats) fails to understand the proper limits of his authority, formal and informal. In particular, he somehow sees himself as a freestanding and independent constitutional officer positioned between the president and Congress. He is no such thing. He is a statutory officer entirely within the executive branch of government headed by the president of the United States and no one else—a statutory officer nested within a Justice Department that also answers directly to the president as a constitutional matter.

Longish article is at slate.com, not sure how to link from phone.
Problem is Comey served as the AG's number two before becoming FBI director so the concept of him being a law ignorant FBI agent doesn't hold up.
10-31-2016 , 11:01 PM
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Originally Posted by bundy5
So if Trump wins the election ikes gets to come back, right?
That wasn't the bet, so no.

      
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