Here's How Donald Trump Could Become President

[toubab]

Wealthy, super wealthy and highest are subjective valuations.

If I was on my other computer, I would post one of my eternal truisms and the nut of this one is, if you think it is okay to tax someone above your income level, then everyone below your income level will think that it is okay to raise your taxes.

What do you think we should do about the Gates and the Clintons using their foundations to avoid taxes and create a pool of wealth for their friends and family to draw down upon, possibly in perpetuity?

I'm against it, of course.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I'm against it, of course.

I wondered if you were channeling Trump...

 

[Sean Renaud]

Vote for Kronos. You have no choice.

I was hoping for Palpatine. Say what you want about the man, the Star Destroyers arrived on time.

I agree in general with Democrats probably a little more than with Republicans. Doesn't mean I'm voting for Hillary. Not a fucking chance of that happening.

I'm not sure if it is more or less with Democrats, mostly because I don't REALLY believe in Libertarians. I've met one genuine Libertarian in my life and the rest are Republicans who simply look at Palin, Bachman, and the nuts and refuse to associate with them. Or they really want to smoke weed.

 

[xbb]

Trump just called John Hinckley "David" twice.

In other news, Trump is 70 years old.

hey yo, NIGGER ELEMENT, tell us about the NIGGER house that was burned

 

[Hard_Rom]

Smoking pot were recreational use is illegal is about as libertarian as you can get.

 

[toubab]

USC/LA Times daily poll

http://96.127.53.23/election/

Trump 47.4

Clinton 40.1


Trump's lead grew a little, but not much. That's a good sign for Hillary. Things starting to level off. Her bounce could be showing up soon.

 

[toubab]

Interesting model

http://www.newsday.com/opinion/my-m...-chance-of-beating-hillary-clinton-1.12102905

"My model shows Donald Trump has an 87 percent chance of beating Hillary Clinton"


I remember this model being right about the popular vote winner over the last several presidential elections. Article says last five. Also says the model has been wrong only once going back to 1912.

One good thing about this prediction is it's set. Won't change. Can't.

 

[RobDownSouth]

http://www.newsday.com/opinion/my-m...-chance-of-beating-hillary-clinton-1.12102905

"My model shows Donald Trump has an 87 percent chance of beating Hillary Clinton"


I remember this model being right about the popular vote winner over the last several presidential elections. Article says last five. Also says the model has been wrong only once going back to 1912.

One good thing about this prediction is it's set. Won't change. Can't.

Interesting methodology. Presumes that the opposition party will win after a two-term presidency because voters are "tired" of the president's policies and demand change....this is why second-term approval ratings often crater for presidents (particularly for the Gipper and Dubya, less so for Clinton).

Except.....except....voter approval ratings for President Obama have remained remarkably consistent (45-52%) over the second term, and have fluctuated within a relatively narrow band.

I'm not sure the author's "one model fits all" in this screwball election season.

Of course, I'm not Queerbait, I could be wrong.

 

[toubab]

Interesting methodology. Presumes that the opposition party will win after a two-term presidency because voters are "tired" of the president's policies and demand change....this is why second-term approval ratings often crater for presidents (particularly for the Gipper and Dubya, less so for Clinton).

Except.....except....voter approval ratings for President Obama have remained remarkably consistent (45-52%) over the second term, and have fluctuated within a relatively narrow band.

I'm not sure the author's "one model fits all" in this screwball election season.

Of course, I'm not Queerbait, I could be wrong.

It is interesting methodology. I recall checking on the validity of the claims about the model's remarkable success (wrong only once) as a predictor of popular vote going back as far as 1912, and the claims were accurate. The only thing I can attribute it to is times change, but people don't. I actually thought the model might be wrong in 2012, at least up until the last week or two of that campaign, but it was right again.

 

[thør]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CogUqdBVMAEdJ8f.jpg

 

[Ishmael]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CogUqdBVMAEdJ8f.jpg

Where did you dredge that one up?

Ishmael

 

[thør]

Where did you dredge that one up?

Ishmael

Anonymous....

 

[Ishmael]

Anonymous....

Stupid morphing to moron. It does fit the premise under construction though. Time will tell if it sticks.

Ishmael

 

[thør]

Stupid morphing to moron. It does fit the premise under construction though. Time will tell if it sticks.

Ishmael

I'm not excited about the next 4 years......

 

[Ishmael]

I'm not excited about the next 4 years......

Nor I. But as AJ opined long ago, "This election is coming down to a choice between P T Barnum or a transgendered Richard Nixon." A poignant observation.

My reply was simple, "I'll vote for a clown before I vote for a criminal any day of the week."

Ishmael

 

[thør]

Nor I. But as AJ opined long ago, "This election is coming down to a choice between P T Barnum or a transgendered Richard Nixon." A poignant observation.

My reply was simple, "I'll vote for a clown before I vote for a criminal any day of the week."

Ishmael

What if both are criminals?

 

[BoyNextDoor]

You are not making a choice between two criminals. The choice is between Trump the snake oil salesman and potential despot and the leader of a party that wants to revitalize the middle class and that understands exactly what public policy is necessary to raise the tide that lifts all boats.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CogUqdBVMAEdJ8f.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CofEv-tUAAEPupb.jpg

 

[toubab]

Hillary's bounce makes its entrance on stage

http://96.127.53.23/election/

Trump 46.7

Clinton 40.6


It's amazing how predictable this stuff is, most of the time. People are so fucking predictable. Convention after convention. Election after election. Generation after generation. Like sheep. Or lemmings.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

What if both are criminals?

You take the criminal who did his misdeeds while not in government...

 

[Beco]

4 more years! 4 more years! 4 more years!

By ERIC MORATH and JEFFREY SPARSHOTT
Updated July 29, 2016 6:23 p.m. ET
790 COMMENTS
WASHINGTON—Declining business investment is hobbling an already sluggish U.S. expansion, raising concerns about the economy’s durability as the presidential campaign heads into its final stretch.

Gross domestic product, the broadest measure of goods and services produced across the U.S., grew at a seasonally and inflation adjusted annual rate of just 1.2% in the second quarter, the Commerce Department said Friday, well below the pace economists expected.

Economic growth is now tracking at a 1% rate in 2016—the weakest start to a year since 2011—when combined with a downwardly revised reading for the first quarter. That makes for an annual average rate of 2.1% growth since the end of the recession, the weakest pace of any expansion since at least 1949.

 

[Disgustipated]

By ERIC MORATH and JEFFREY SPARSHOTT
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Reported for cross-posting.

Hey, Medikated! Do you think Drumpf could do better over an 8-year stretch? A simple yes or no will do. No explanation needed.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

By ERIC MORATH and JEFFREY SPARSHOTT
Updated July 29, 2016 6:23 p.m. ET
790 COMMENTS
WASHINGTON—Declining business investment is hobbling an already sluggish U.S. expansion, raising concerns about the economy’s durability as the presidential campaign heads into its final stretch.

Gross domestic product, the broadest measure of goods and services produced across the U.S., grew at a seasonally and inflation adjusted annual rate of just 1.2% in the second quarter, the Commerce Department said Friday, well below the pace economists expected.

Economic growth is now tracking at a 1% rate in 2016—the weakest start to a year since 2011—when combined with a downwardly revised reading for the first quarter. That makes for an annual average rate of 2.1% growth since the end of the recession, the weakest pace of any expansion since at least 1949.

But you're not talking about how deep into the ditch that Bush drove us!!!

You wanted the economy turned around in 8 years, but the niggardly Republicans would not give us unlimited spending and debt! Every home owner knows that you have to take on massive debt to get anywhere in life!!!

 

[toubab]

USC/LA Times daily poll: Hillary's bounce continues

http://96.127.53.23/election/

Trump 46.6

Clinton 41.7


Trump's lead down from seven a couple of days ago to five today.

 

[Adre]

Since you're enamored of polls 2bob:



Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton held a 6- percentage-point lead over Republican rival Donald Trump, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll with new wording that was released on Friday, the day after she formally accepted her party's nomination for the Nov. 8 election.

Nearly 41 percent of likely voters favor Clinton, 35 percent favor Trump, and 25 percent picked "Other," according to the new July 25-29 online poll of 1,043 likely voters, which overlapped with the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia.

The poll has a credibility interval of 4 percentage points.

The presidential tracking poll reflects a slight change of wording from previous surveys, replacing the “Neither/Other” option given to respondents with just “Other.” An internal review had found the word “Neither” has, at times, siphoned support away from one or the other candidate. [nL4N1AB4I6]