2016 Presidential Election Thread

Trump is bitching about the first debate moderator: "By the way, Lester is a Democrat. It’s a phony system. They are all Democrats. It’s a very unfair system."

There's only one problem: Lester Holt is a Republican.



http://time.com/4501616/donald-trump-debate-lester-holt-democrat/

So, are you going to church, I mean John Oliver, this Sunday?

There you go again claiming anyone who disagrees with you is scum. I guess it is just part of the mental defect which makes you the dysfunctional idiot we all know. I am not even voting for Trump but your derangement is obvious for all to see. Congrats on becoming what you claimed you hated.

That's exactly who I thought they were.
(well that and the ACTUAL deplorables at Stormfront and whatever, and the Pharisees - sort of his own 3 legged stool)

everyone knows my preference but even Gary has been saying for months that the only way he has ANY shot is to be in the debates. If they don't let him in the first one they are not going to change and what support he has will melt away. I sure hope he holds on to the magic-number 5% ...if that's not doable THIS year it will never ever happen.

That said, anyone in a swing state who hates one of the big two more than the other ought to suck it up and vote accordingly, leave the 3rd arty voting to the states not in doubt.

yeah, all those folks went 3rd party though - they still hate your orange monkey.

that's the sort of outcome that tells you that the LAT's unique controlled group poll model is wildly flawed.

Not only is that outcome nonsensical, but there's nothing that Millinials care about that happened to create a big swing like that.

Clinton's social media team has been pretty savvy, but they need these things on youtube where they can be linked

Maybe nothing works better against Trump than using his own words against him.

Yuuuuuuuuuuge

Gary Johnson has no shot even if he gets in the debates.

And Hillary is playing the racial card hard:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/vi...an_americans_killed_by_police_unbearable.html

"There is still much we don’t know about what happened in both incidents, but we do know we have two more names to add to a list of African-Americans killed by police officers in these encounters," she said. "It’s unbearable and it needs to become intolerable."

I haven't seen polls surging for any third party candidates. None of them are going to be in the debates. Believe it or not Trump's numbers have actually been going up.

Even NPR has been making fun of how hamfisted Hillary's outreach has been to millennials and how the numbers aren't going her way. They especially made fun of her "tell the world how much you love Hillary using just three emojies" campaign. The vast majority of posts on social mefia abput that campaign were negative.

She is just the worst possoble candidate.

Millennials might not be voting for Trump but if enough of them do not vote for Clinton in certain states it could cause those states to fall in Trumps lap.

Trump has edged up a bit - not as much as she has fallen off - but this link wasn't about the overall but about under 35's - in some places Johnson has more support in that age group than Trump.

In the overall, Trump still tends to fall in the 10-42% range, but she's gone from 46-48% at her best down to 42-43% herself...but in the overall, this hasn't helped the 3rd party people - that's only in the younger crowd.

that's a valid concern, and one of the reasons I think his support will bleed off - when it gets crunch time and they are faced with the possibility their state (say Florida) may go to Trump, they'll blink I think.

Politico: I Was RFK’s Speechwriter. Now I’m Voting for Trump. Here’s Why.

Paging @garamet

I was a Democrat all my life. I came to Washington to serve President John Kennedy and Attorney General Robert Kennedy. When the president was murdered and his brother struck off on his own, I joined his Senate campaign and staff as his legislative assistant and speechwriter, until his presidential campaign ended with his own assassination. I ran on a (losing) Democratic ticket in the New York state elections of 1970. When I was working to enact my own program of police reform in the 1980s and 1990s, then-Governor Bill Clinton was chairman of my National Committee for the Police Corps.

This year, I will vote to elect Donald Trump as president of the United States.

So profound a change, and a decent respect for old friendships, requires me to deliver a public accounting for this decision.

Here it is.​

And in what he says, it becomes obvious why he was RFK's speechwriter.

This especially caught my eye.

Scores of Democratic elected officials once spoke and worked tirelessly to end our disastrous war in Vietnam. Today there is only the voice of the marvelous Democratic member of Congress Tulsi Gabbard, a reservist who has twice deployed to Iraq and knows of what she speaks.​

Tulsi has courage, and lots of it, combined with clarity.

oh true, they are bungling the young vote pretty hard. But I've seen several examples of an ad like the one I posted above, or a tweet getting under Trumps skin.

But the under 35 crowd seems particularly aware of what they see as insincerity or cynicism on her part. Obama convinced young voters of his authenticity, and whatever else may be said of Hillary - THAT s not a trait she personifies.

Wait, whut?


He's voting for Trump because he's a peacenik who wants to avoid war?!!?!!




Okay dude, whatever.

Yup. If you recall, Hillary likes to bomb people and overthrow governments - especially if she can make millions from it. She armed ISIS and al Nusra.

@Nova; You really shouldn't be surprised about how dumb Trump voters are...
Or his staff...

Oh, stop pretending you cannot selectively edit video to get the exact same result for any politician or party on the planet. The real fool here is you because you want to take a n anecdote and project it upon a whole group as if it was a representative sample.

Yeah. We're deplorables. We're all ignorant racist xenophobic redneck misogynists.

Meanwhile the Hillary voters support serial rape, selling weapons to ISIS, supporting Boko Haram's 11,000 murders, the distribution of watered down drugs to Africa, the financial rape of Haitian earthquake relief, corruption at all levels of government, the use of the IRS as a political tool, and the selling of the US government to big oil and foreign dictatorships. Because Hillary voters are "smart".

Yes, yes you are...

I love how thoroughly I've gotten under your skin. Here, let me help -- the millennial comment was a joke, hence the line about participation trophies. When I call you and other racists scum, it's because you actually are scum. It's not about disagreement, it's about you being an abhorrent excuse for a human being.

But how do you come to the conclusion that @Dinner is a racist when he doesn't hate any race, only people of a particular interpretation of a backwards, totalitarian religion?

Christianity?

That is how the extremists think these days. You must be in 100% compliance with the hive mind and any varience means ypu are not of the body and so must be purged even if it meaans lying and making shit up. Gul, is the poster child of the modern left wing ideological extrenist and he feels lying for his cause is A. O. K.

We really, really need the liar rep icon for stuff like this. Dumb, fantasy world, facepalm all don't cut it.

Islam is not a race.

Neither is anything else. Racism is about treating groups of people as if they are.