The 2016 US American Election Thread

[GGG]

Originally Posted by Parallex

See, the thing is I don't think he has 40 million committed followers. Trump, to most of those people, is just the new hotness. Once he becomes the old hotness (and doesn't have cable news reporting on him 24/7) that 40M number is going to go way way down and those people will just migrate onto the new new hotness. Look at Sarah Palin... she was the new hotness once, now she stands in a corner jumping up and down yelling "look at me!, look at me!".

Sure he could launch Trump (Breitbart) News Network... by the time it actually got off the ground he'd be yesterdays man, even then it'll just be taking a small slice out of an ever shrinking pie that would collapse under the weight of the overhead until it became a pitifully low quality fringe product.

As with everything Trump I would assume he will license his name to Breitbart in exchange for an ownership stake and allow those investors to take the risk for the money while also drawing a huge salary for a weekly show. Then when they run out of money they will declar bankruptcy and trump will walk away with the cash from his Salary and a few hundred million in tax write offs without ever having any of his own capital at risk.

[Swift]

Just reading that tomorrow night, both candidates will attend the annual Al Smith dinner where they will sit at the same table and are expected to deliver comedic monologues. That should be awkward!

[photon]

Sarah Palin is another Trump guest. Thanks John McCain.

[Drak]

Originally Posted by photon

Sarah Palin is another Trump guest. Thanks John McCain.

The Goon Squad intimidation factor.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by Cameron Swift

Just reading that tomorrow night, both candidates will attend the annual Al Smith dinner where they will sit at the same table and are expected to deliver comedic monologues. That should be awkward!

I can just see how awkward that would be

Trump - "Hillary sucks"

Crowd laughs

Trump - "That's not the joke, she's a whore too"

Crowd laughs but more awkwardly.

Trump - "But the new news is she crossed the road to get to the other side"

Crowd silent

Trump - "Cause she's a cow"

[Senator Clay Davis]

Bringing Palin as a guest strikes me as something someone from SNL suggested to him. At the very least we know we're getting a Tina Fey appearance this weekend.

[Senator Clay Davis]

And I wasn't aware of this until today, but Obama's half brother is a Hamas supporter. So the GOP candidate for President is bringing as a special guest someone who wants Israel destroyed. The cycle of absurdity is almost complete in this election

[DuffMan]

Originally Posted by photon

Sarah Palin is another Trump guest. Thanks John McCain.

Trump is the new Palin

[bob-loblaw]

How many guests can they bring to the debate? Is Trump setting up a circus tent for all of his?

[calgarygeologist]

Is Mcenany wearing a leather dress tonight? Outside of a jacket, gloves, shoes or bondage gear leather really shouldn't be clothing.

[RougeUnderoos]

Trump's mock debate challenger was Chris Christie. Seems like an odd choice. Like asking your pool boy if he agrees that you look great in your new Speedo. Not going to get much in the way of pushback.

Now imagine Chris Christie in that Speedo. Terrible.

Oh geez, I'm sorry, but I did and need to pass it on.

[driveway]

I know it's debate night, but Vox.com has a great article about what Clinton voters look like, something that's been under-reported compared to the (mostly very good) looks at what Trump voters look like.

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politi...ilent-majority

Clinton’s core coalition is composed of racial minorities and well-educated women, especially unmarried ones.

Clinton also enjoys the support of more than 70 percent of LGBTQ Americans and is trouncing Trump with Jewish voters by higher margins than any 21st-century Democrat.

Clinton led in the Democratic primary from the first day to the last, and has consistently led in general election polling since the beginning of the campaign. Yet the Clinton voter has not made the same kind of impression on the media, in part because the new silent majority voter offers less visible evidence of being fired up and the new silent majority’s signature politicians — Clinton and Obama — do not do grand performance of anger, even at a time when rage is all the rage in American politics.

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Clinton’s silent majority values competence and experience, and recognizes that it’s no coincidence the first plausible woman president had to be the most well-qualified candidate in generations and equally un-coincidental that in the hands of her enemies her great asset has been relabeled as a weakness.
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Clinton’s coalition is under no illusion that all is well in America, but it does believe the country is improving in important ways. It’s skeptical of the impulse to flip the table over and hope for the best, and absolutely allergic to the view that the current version of the United States is a fallen one and the country reached its peak in the days of Mad Men and union factory jobs.
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There is not necessarily a “typical Clinton voter” in the sense that an older, white working-class person is a typical Trump voter and a young white college graduate was a typical Bernie voter. As a mid-30s, non-observant Jewish college graduate, I’m a very typical Clinton voter. But so is my older gay neighbor, and the black mom living a few houses down, and the house next door of single women roommates. The affluent DC suburb of Arlington County will deliver Clinton a hefty haul of votes, but so will the small, slightly-poorer-than-average city of Richmond, Virginia, and rural, poor areas like Holmes County, Mississippi, and Starr County, Texas.

You can’t profile “Clinton Country” or the “Clinton voter” as a single kind of person or place. Clinton Country, instead, is like America itself — vast and diverse, incorporating a staggering range of disparate individuals and localities that do not have an enormous amount in common beyond allegiance to a common set of political ideals.
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Trump voters were surprised and alarmed to learn that Obama could win reelection with scant support from people like them, and have reacted with the Trumpian primal scream. To turn things around in the future they’ll have to learn the lesson that Hillary and Bill Clinton learned 44 years ago as organizers for George McGovern — just because the noise is on your side doesn’t mean the votes are.

[direwolf]

Ok, here we go.

[GGG]

This should be at the mgm

[DuffMan]

What happened to illuminati?

[GreenLantern2814]

US political adds are absolutely gross. I resented the #### out of Harper for dragging us down into the muck with the childish Trudeau adds a year+ out.

And these goddamn cheerleaders in the press. You are not hype men. This is Roger Millions Gene Principe level nonsense. You are covering the ####ing presidential debate. Act accordingly, my god.

[direwolf]

It'll be interesting to see how Chris Wallace handles Trump's constant bulls---.

[Drak]

Hillary has worn a colour of the American Flag to each debate.

[GreenLantern2814]

Why does Trump always look like he's staring into the sun ?

[nik-]

god I'd love for them to just answer the question for a change

edit: oh man ... Xanax Trump it is tonight.