Clinton vs. Trump: The Coming Landslide

[madbrian]

Outrageous comments about Obama and Clinton made by Trump's former butler and current historian at Mar-A-Lago.  Any chance the media will hold Trump to the same level of scrutiny as associates of other candidates?

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/05/trump-butler-anthony-senecal-facebook-kill-obama

[South Florida]

These next 6 months are going to be weird.  I feel like I'm having a strange dream.

[madbrian]

Trump seems to be getting very defensive about his tax returns.  Clinton should clobber him on this relentlessly.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/trump-tax-rate-223156

[HorseTears]

I like this Bill a lot more than the red faced, snarling one we've seen on the trail recently.  Glad Hillary finally got him sorted out.  I thought he handled the situation really well and I love the last point he made about the importance of listening to those we may have disagreements with.  

[StageManager2]

Trump pretended to be a fictional publicist and vice president of his company, in order to brag about himself:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/donald-trump-alter-ego-barron/2016/05/12/02ac99ec-16fe-11e6-aa55-670cabef46e0_story.html

[SNAFU]

This really is not surprising, he does after all constantly refer to himself in the third person. God, I find everything about that man repulsive. I have felt this way well before his running for President.

[PalJoey]

 

Helping to defeat Trump...some Republicans?

 

WASHINGTON POST: Inside the GOP effort to draft an independent candidate to derail Trump

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-the-gop-effort-to-draft-an-independent-candidate-to-derail-trump/2016/05/14/1b04682e-1877-11e6-924d-838753295f9a_story.html?

 

 

[Jordan Catalano]

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/279930-nevada-dem-convention-devolves-into-chaos#.VzeXQyV0FmQ.facebook

Sanders' supporters are going to be remembered as a national embarrassment and nothing but a joke when this whole thing is said and done.

[South Florida]

Trump and Clinton voters are the embarrassment.  Nothing they've done or been wrong about seems to faze you guys.  

[Jordan Catalano]

[qolbinau]

Jordan Catalano said: "http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/279930-nevada-dem-convention-devolves-into-chaos#.VzeXQyV0FmQ.facebook

Sanders' supporters are going to be remembered as a national embarrassment and nothing but a joke when this whole thing is said and done.

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I doubt anyone will remember them. They'll just remember that Sanders was before his time when the USA eventually implements the policies he described in another 1-2 decades. 

[South Florida]

Average dumb.

[madbrian]

qolbinau said: "...They'll just remember that Sanders was before his time when the USA eventually implements the policies he described in another 1-2 decades."

Perhaps, but given where we are right here and right now, the only way that will happen is if the Dems unite behind Clinton and defeat Trump, then come out to vote in non-presidential elections to take back state legislatures, senate seats, governors' houses, etc.  THAT could be Bernie's true legacy.

[madbrian]

As I and others have said, focusing on polling right now is premature.  That said, it's difficult to ignore.  So, if you are going to look at the info, it's important to understand the data and sources.  In other words, 538 is indispensable.  They rate and rank the pollsters, and weigh them for their cumulative predictions.  They evaluate them based on their methodologies, and show any lean over time.  Must read for wannabe wonks.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/interactives/pollster-ratings/

[Borstalboy]

There have been vispers that Trump is mentioned in the Panama Papers over 3,000 times.

 

But the American public is so apathetic, the real question is will anyone care or is it like Hillary's emails?

[Jordan Catalano]

I don't think most of America knows about the Panama papers, so I doubt they'd care much if there is a "bombshell" in them about Trump. I think most people have accepted that nothing will hurt him. He's been accused of everything from money laundering to rape and his supporters still love him. 

[HorseTears]

I think part of his success in that area has been his constant reinforcement of the distrust of, quote, "the media".  As though thousands of different outlets are part of some shadowy cabal conspiring to destroy white, working class Americans.  He already knows that they distrust "the media" and by basically telling them that everything they read or see in "the media" is a lie, he's made himself virtually indestructible to these constituencies.  

[javero]

Judge rules in favor of House Republicans in Obamacare lawsuit

The ruling will likely be appealed.  At issue here really is what some consider to be the unchecked use of executive orders that has been commonplace since FDR.  Several members of congress have POTUS-envy.

[Borstalboy]

Ah, yes.  Curse the media that made you.  There are a LOT of problems with the media as this race has repulsively revealed, but lack of Trump coverage sure ain't one of them.  I am so sick of the bastard, I can't take anymore.

[madbrian]

The question isn't the quantity of the media attention given to Trump, but the quality.  He's gotten tons of free media exposure with very little scrutiny.  In my opinion, America's obsession with reality TV has inured many to Trump.  We've been overrun by Dance Moms, Housewives, Kardashians, Hell's Kitchen, etc., that too many people find his behavior acceptable.

[Jordan Catalano]

Let's not throw Hells Kitchen into the mix. lol

[South Florida]

You gals and guys should do what Clinton has, forget the primary, if he dosen't come along he's an asshole, and stop trying to tell us in the Bernie camp that we're being unreasonable, we've given up, we stopped giving money, we want her over Trump so get off the subject please, and start talking to your Bernie crazies.

[mar6411]

That string of words you just posted does not form any kind of coherent thought and I'm not sure what you are trying to say - if anything.

[South Florida]

Lay off Bernie supporters like she has.

[Jordan Catalano]

This is how I picture South Florida at the keyboard.

[mar6411]

Thanks for that picture - it will come to mind often.