I think there's some validity to your theory, but with blame shifted to the sites that poorly interpreted the polls.

So I know I'm not on your level, but to me it seems like 50.8% means that more people chose her than chose him.

Which again leads to my original question, if HRC is such a horrible candidate, and she got more votes than DJT, then what does that say about him?

Also pretending that voting third party didn't mean you were in effect voting for Trump is some willful ignorance if you ask me.

1 person = 1 vote

Please explain which 'social programs' the 'lefties' want that you object to, and why?

Also, what do you think each of those programs cost yearly, and how do they compare to other programs that you support?

So candidates would have the gall to spend more time in the places where all the people live? Oh the horror.

aww poor boo

that's not how you negotiate. you gotta say "YES, i advocate new york and california decide all voting from now on", and start negotiations from there. cuckservatives can't abide going along with something some liberal suggests, so you gotta let them find the middle ground for themselves. this whole 'start out from a reasonable position' is a big flaw in dem political strategy because we're not negotiating with rational people, they're lizard-brained morons and we need to start treating them as if they're animals because that's how they consistently behave.

the base wants social programs, yet we lose because we don't listen to the base by bitching about wanting social programs.

The term limit question is an interesting one. Why have a law that forces out a good lawmaker after eight or 12 years or whatever? Elections are supposed to be used to send home the bad lawmakers. And I guess I would have been fine with 12 years of Obama. So I wouldn't mind a provision to allow for a third term in the case of the President.

Who would even argue against this? I have suggested banning men from voting, but if the above is more viable politically, I'll take it.

weren't presidential term limits put into place by conservatives reacting to the massive popularity of FDR's New Deal?

no. we want all votes to count equally.

or, why is that any worse than florida, ohio, michigan and pa decide the president currently? why do votes in those states count much more than in states like CA or TX?

also, do you understand where the electoral came from and why it exists? here, I'll help, its bc of slavery.

Not a specific social program referenced, but it sounds like if you aren't working you should be starving and homeless.

Someone unpack this, pretty sure there's gold here. Dude really keeps his ear to the ground wrt hairdressers and secretaries.

There's already a mountain's worth of data on that if people will bother to go and seek it out and read it.

his posts are legit bizarre. its like a random combination of pieces of deplorable talking points so they make even less sense than usual. just repeated non sequitors. pretty impressive really.

I support term limits for president because the alternative increases the risk of authoritarianism to a degree I find unacceptable. And I also think that the job is simply too demanding for anyone to do it for more than eight years.

I do not support terms limits for judges, although I might support a mandatory retirement age. Mandatory retirement age might be OK for Congress as well.

I am not at all convinced that term limits would significantly increase the diversity of perspective in Congress. In most districts and states, I suspect that you would just find party loyalists waiting in line for their turn, which is pretty much what you have now.

One other reason for opposing Congressional term limits is that a lot of new members and Senators seemingly feel the need the do a lot of dickwaving the first few years to show that they will not be pushed around (i.e., they will not compromise).

allowing corporate persons the right to "speech" dilutes the volume of individuals' speech, so I'm actually advocating for stronger freedom of speech

Mandatory retirement age is a good idea, term limits are bad and more importantly the idea of term limits being good is giving into right wing framing that there's something inherently corrupt about government service.

That's it. I'm moving to Wyoming

i don't think 'why do you hate FREE SPEECH' was meant to be taken at face value lol. probably 100% of people ITT and every sane person in the world is on the same side of this issue.

Bingo. Fly said it more succinctly than I did and the bolded is super important imo.

Term limits for POTUS only. No on mandatory retirement age. If lifetime appointments for judges are a problem, then just make the appointments less than lifetime. For elected officials, if people think they are too old, then they don't have to vote for them.

I listened to an interview on NPR yesterday with Ursula Wilder, a CIA psychologist who counsels spies heading to or returning from their assignments. The specific topic was about why spies spill their secrets. But at one point, she made the following statement about the personality characteristics of spies:

"There are in the personality (of spies) three broad areas that recur over and over again in cases of captured spies when they're studied. One is psychopathy, which is a ruthless, kind of cruel approach to life, and narcissism, which is egocentrism - that acute sensitivity to negative feedback. And the last is immaturity. And in cases of espionage, we see these strains in the personality appear over and over again."

If I hadn't know who she was or what she was talking about, I would have thought it was someone describing Trump's main psychological characteristics - to a "T".