Trump’s overall message does have a “burning down the house” vibe.
Yes, and that’s exactly the fire that Putin could be trying to ignite. Roger Stone was a partner in "Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly and we know about Paul Manafort’s Russian connections.
The best part is that they had just gotten his sorry ass out of a stuck elevator.
One thing I wonder: given their opposition now, what will the Republican establishment, and the party in general, DO if Trump wins? Become more like him? Because if so, that would certainly heighten the partisan divide to levels that are pretty rare, and I wonder how that would shake out.
Look again. Each number has only gotten higher for Clinton in the last hour or so. 
The most striking of which is the 82.2% Nowcast.
Wow, Trump is having a seriously bad week. Those numbers are rather staggering. 
You know, when people describe Trump as a “Nazi” or a “fascist”, I usually think that they’re being hyperbolic. Sure, he’s relying heavily on fear-mongering and racial scapegoating, but it’s not like he’s trying to undermine the democratic system with the threat of violence against his opponents.
Well, OK, he did express approval for violence against protestors at his rallies, and offered to pay the perpetrators’ legal fees. But it’s not like the Trump campaign is actually threatening violence if people don’t vote for him.
Holy shit :eek:
Never heard of Nowcast till today. Quick briefing from the community I trust? More or less.
And that’s just if Hillary straight-up wins.
Now imagine Hillary getting elected the way Dubya did.
Holy Shit! :eek: That was way more explicit than I expected.
When did aureole start looking like strips of masking tape?
I think the faithless voter will give Hillary a much larger margin that most predict. By faithless voter, I mean the voters who profess to support Trump, but in the privacy of the voting booth, they vote for Hillary, or a third party, or a write in. I don’t think it will even be close.
I really shouldn’t have looked at the comments. I mean, there was a solid majority mocking him, but just the few I saw who believed it wholeheartedly made me angry and depressed.
I’m glad, though, that their racism is out there for the world to see. I hope this election exposes even more, so the public can finally see the truth of what BLM and minorities and women have been telling them for years: prejudice is an ongoing struggle.
Yes, though if ever got bad enough arrest warrants were issued against a sitting President Congress would likely already be in the process if impeaching & removing him from office. A more plausible (or rather less implausible) scenario that SCOTUS issuing an arrest warrant would be the Vice-President & Cabinet invoking the 25th Amendment against the President’s will and the President refusing to accept it.
Also a President using his power to pardon to shield himself from criminal prosecution after leaving (or being removed) from office the backlash would be so severe we could see a constitutional amendment giving Congress the power to override executive clemency (say by 2/3rds majority in each House).
At least the dude half of that population is all for it if its two hot girls and they can watch, as long as nobody can prove they watched.
Yes he does. Or of an Anime. Oh dear.
Hey, it’s America, if it were one of the rags from across the pond you’d get the whole thing crystal clear in the inside pages. And the guys at Graphics were bored with the censor strips, they wanted to try out the pixellator tool.
People all over Europe are surely trying to find out if they have in some attic a January 1996 issue of Max. Watching eBay…
You’ll have to settle for me.
Nowcast is as opposed to a forecast, i.e. it’s a snapshot of what the data indicate would happen if the election happened right now today. The more sophisticated polling models try to smooth out short term influences like post-convention bounces or – hypothetically – an especially deranged diatribe by a racist warmongering lunatic that might be affecting people’s perception more right now than it might in November.
Susceptible to criticism on the grounds that, after all, the election is not happening right now. But more exciting because it reacts much more aggressively to what’s in the news, well, now, so it can plausibly show an 80% chance of a Hillary win where the longer term models show something more balanced.
In unrelated news, jesus fucking christ Donald Trump, the actual guy Donald Trump, is on an electoral map and I’m looking at it and it’s real and some states, any states at all, are going to actually flip in his direction. That’s the real story here.
When conservative figures get caught up in something like this, the line (among the religious right) is that it happened in the past and said figure has grown and changed as a person, and that Christian values are all about forgiveness.
I know, scary isn’t it. But, on the positive side, I live in Georgia, and I think this is the first time that Georgia has been PINK, not RED. Merely “leaning Republican” instead of “solidly Republican” is progress.
Still, Atlanta is a blue dot, and most of the rest of the sate is solid red.
Sure. Could be worse. Some part of me remembers what Donald Trump represented in, say, 2006, though. And the fact that we’re even here having this conversation at all – much less what the conversation actually is – is just… holy shit.