Elections 2016 Presidential Election General Discussion v3
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How fucked in the head do you have to be to see this:
And believe it means this:
That's modern social justice in a nutshell.
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Mark Cuban really needs to go sit down somewhere. I've always liked the guy but he besmirching himself this election.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa.
There's an election this year?
There's an election this year?
Trump is doing everything right—including letting Jimmy Fallon mess up his hair
And the pièce de résistance happened Thursday night on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon." Trump not only cracked jokes and seemed self-deprecatingly likeable, he even (gasp!) let Fallon mess with his hair! Video of that hair tussle is already going viral on Internet, ("Jimmy Fallon" has been #1 trending on Twitter since), making the image something akin to Bill Clinton playing the sax on the old "Arsenio Hall Show" in 1992. Yes, both scenes are similarly intellectually meaningless, but they're still politically potent. And because Trump has been such a media punching bag and pariah, this moment could be even more helpful than Clinton's was 24 years ago.
Ten-point surges don't just happen overnight. It's much more likely that Trump's relative weakness in the earlier polls was a result of voters leaning towards him, but not being ready to say so... even to anonymous pollsters. But Trump's softened messages, Clinton's "deplorables" comment, and her medical scare with frightening video of her looking totally immobilized to go with it have all provided those voters the excuse to finally "come out" for Trump. This phenomenon is well named by Dilbert cartoonist and blogger Scott Adams, who calls these events the "fake because." They're "fake" because the voters were always going to vote a certain way, but highly visible episodes make it possible to say: "well, now I'm voting for candidate X because..."
This is more bad news for the Clinton camp, because this means the Trump surge is not the result of some kind of ephemeral or fickle trend. Instead it's more like the gates of a dam opening that cannot be closed. And it makes sense from another historical/logical point of view. Hillary Clinton has essentially had 24 years in the national spotlight to close the deal with the majority of the voting American public and she's never done it. Even at the zenith of her polling fortunes earlier this summer, she never broke into truly unbeatable territory on her own. She had been simply skating on the extreme unfavorable impressions for Trump, and now that we're seeing that erode, Clinton may be trapped for good.
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I don't really agree with the tone that this is the end of the election. It could be, but Trump has a penchant for doing incredibly stupid things that bog down his poll numbers. Credit to his two new campaign managers - Kellyanne Conway and Steve Bannon, they're doing an excellent job.
And the pièce de résistance happened Thursday night on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon." Trump not only cracked jokes and seemed self-deprecatingly likeable, he even (gasp!) let Fallon mess with his hair! Video of that hair tussle is already going viral on Internet, ("Jimmy Fallon" has been #1 trending on Twitter since), making the image something akin to Bill Clinton playing the sax on the old "Arsenio Hall Show" in 1992. Yes, both scenes are similarly intellectually meaningless, but they're still politically potent. And because Trump has been such a media punching bag and pariah, this moment could be even more helpful than Clinton's was 24 years ago.
Ten-point surges don't just happen overnight. It's much more likely that Trump's relative weakness in the earlier polls was a result of voters leaning towards him, but not being ready to say so... even to anonymous pollsters. But Trump's softened messages, Clinton's "deplorables" comment, and her medical scare with frightening video of her looking totally immobilized to go with it have all provided those voters the excuse to finally "come out" for Trump. This phenomenon is well named by Dilbert cartoonist and blogger Scott Adams, who calls these events the "fake because." They're "fake" because the voters were always going to vote a certain way, but highly visible episodes make it possible to say: "well, now I'm voting for candidate X because..."
This is more bad news for the Clinton camp, because this means the Trump surge is not the result of some kind of ephemeral or fickle trend. Instead it's more like the gates of a dam opening that cannot be closed. And it makes sense from another historical/logical point of view. Hillary Clinton has essentially had 24 years in the national spotlight to close the deal with the majority of the voting American public and she's never done it. Even at the zenith of her polling fortunes earlier this summer, she never broke into truly unbeatable territory on her own. She had been simply skating on the extreme unfavorable impressions for Trump, and now that we're seeing that erode, Clinton may be trapped for good.
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I don't really agree with the tone that this is the end of the election. It could be, but Trump has a penchant for doing incredibly stupid things that bog down his poll numbers. Credit to his two new campaign managers - Kellyanne Conway and Steve Bannon, they're doing an excellent job.
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Not really. It is more like a game show. "Who wants to elect a millionaire!"
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We all won that once the primaries wrapped.
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lol @ Don Lemon using all his adjectives in one tweet.
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Maybe we could have a new show, "America's dumbest voters".
But that already got won by Florida hanging chads
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Trump has done a masterful job of not being an idiot for two weeks now. I did not think that would happen, but he's listening to the people around him.
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Holy shit, that was glorious. The media got trolled into seeing Trump in a good light and are now playing defense for Clinton. CNN is PISSED!!!!
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