john_L
August 21, 2016, 1:58am
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JohnT:
No. None of the mothers I know think any better of Trump because he took advantage of a tragedy for a photo-op.
Of course, I know **wealthy **and/or educated mothers.
sounds like true Hillary supporters.
john_L:
2 sides.
Are you going to reply to every freaking post?
john_L
August 21, 2016, 3:10am
744
nope … but gonna reply to your question .
JohnL, what the hell are you talking about? Please, for the love of all that’s holy, stop being so fucking cryptic and/or lazy with your replies. Here’s what you should shoot for: complete sentences, with an actual noun and a verb; capitalization; punctuation; fully formed words.
I’m glad you’re here. I really, really want to understand the mind of a Trump supporter, but I can’t wrap my head around your posts most of the time. And I feel like there are so many of your posts these days that I can’t escape them in any of the political threads I’m following. Seriously, are you posting from a flip phone?
john_L
August 21, 2016, 4:10am
746
Happy_Lendervedder:
JohnL, what the hell are you talking about? Please, for the love of all that’s holy, stop being so fucking cryptic and/or lazy with your replies. Here’s what you should shoot for: complete sentences, with an actual noun and a verb; capitalization; punctuation; fully formed words.
I’m glad you’re here. I really, really want to understand the mind of a Trump supporter, but I** can’t wrap my head around** your posts most of the time. And I feel like there are so many of your posts these days that I can’t escape them in any of the political threads I’m following. Seriously, are you posting from a flip phone?
no.
i’ll be happy to explain any posts you can’t get your head to wrap around.
OK, what does “2 sides” mean? Coleslaw AND baked beans?
The demographic that is represented by flood-victim whites in Louisiana both hate and fear HRC. Nothing she does or doesn’t will change that. Her best strategy is to not pander to them, to let them stew in their own body fluids. Their hate is destructive to themselves only, not to her.
adaher
August 21, 2016, 10:48am
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Obama, after consulting with his poiltical team, has decided to pander however.
It’s appropriate for a president to visit a natural disaster site. But not when the governor says that it’s best to wait. So he waited, and then he’ll go.
In what way? By not going? Sending FEMA? How?
adaher
August 21, 2016, 11:24am
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By going after saying it would be best for him not to. However, an esteemed liberal poster already delivered the administration’s spin, saving us the trouble of tuning into the press conference.
He didn’t say he wouldn’t go, just that he wouldn’t go when his security would interfere with rescue and relief.
It’s frustrating, I’m sure, but all you can do is continue to lead by example, and pray that one day others show the same level of objectivity and refreshing lack of partisanship that are synonymous with the name adaher .
john_L
August 22, 2016, 12:30am
756
crucible:
The demographic that is represented by** flood-victim **whites in Louisiana both hate and fear HRC. Nothing she does or doesn’t will change that. Her best strategy is to not pander to them, to let them stew in their own body fluids. Their hate is destructive to themselves only, not to her.
only problem w/ that is that Baton Rouge is 55% black.
Hillary’s campaign is confident enough of winning Va. and Colo. that it will run no ads there: http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/22/politics/hillary-clinton-campaign-ads/index.html
She’s also extended her lead in Ohio: Poll: Hillary Clinton extends lead in Ohio - CBS News
JohnT
August 23, 2016, 5:14pm
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Hillary opens up a 16-point lead in Virginia.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/swing-states-2016-election/2016/08/poll-virginia-clinton-trump-227315
Asked whether their backing of either major candidate is more because of their support of either Clinton or Trump or their disdain for the alternative, a plurality of Clinton voters (49 percent for Clinton to 38 percent against Trump) suggested the former, while the reverse held for Trump voters (49 percent against Clinton to 35 percent for Trump).
JohnT
August 23, 2016, 10:04pm
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Nationally, Hillary leads Trump by 12 points in Reuters/Ipsos poll of likely voters:
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton leads Republican rival Donald Trump by 12 percentage points among likely voters, her strongest showing this month, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Tuesday. The August 18-22 poll showed that 45 percent of voters supported Clinton, while 33 percent backed Trump ahead of the Nov. 8 election.
**Clinton, the former U.S. secretary of state, has led Trump, a New York businessman, throughout most of the 2016 campaign. But her latest lead represents a stronger level of support than polls indicated over the past few weeks. Earlier in August, Clinton’s lead over Trump ranged from 3 to 9 percentage points in the poll. **
The poll also found that about 22 percent of likely voters would not pick either candidate. That lack of support is high compared with how people responded to the poll during the 2012 presidential election between Democratic President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney. “Those who are wavering right now are just as likely to be thinking about supporting a third-party candidate instead, and not between Clinton and Trump,” said Tom Smith, who directs the Center for the Study of Politics and Society at the University of Chicago.
JohnT
August 23, 2016, 10:18pm
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Hillary beginning major outreach to disaffected Romney supporters
Already, Clinton’s team has won over business executive Meg Whitman, a close friend of Romney’s who was a major part of his political finance team. The Democrat has also hooked Romney finance council members David Nierenberg and Harry Sloan, the latter of whom wrote a $33,400 check for Clinton and the Democratic Party.
Jim Cicconi, an AT&T executive and veteran of both the George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan White Houses who is now supporting Clinton, told POLITICO he is planning to host an event for Clinton along with some of his Democratic colleagues. Until now, he has largely been involved in policy, not fundraising, discussions with the Democratic campaign.
“I certainly did my best to raise some money for Romney and contributed,” he said, and now “I will certainly be making some calls and sending some notes out” for Clinton.
“If Trump’s team had been organized, effective, or putting the party and winning above pettiness, they would have immediately worked — after he became the Republican nominee — through a list of his opponent’s supporters,” explained Republican lawyer Charlie Spies, Romney’s chief financial officer and counsel in 2008 before helping launch his super PAC in 2012. “Instead, they did not. They also made clear: Mr. Trump does not reach out to people, you’re either on board or you’re not.”