Trump cheats at golf - the ONE and ONLY politics thread

ROFLMAO. Now this is some good marketing!

 

That is outstanding, Neutral. Put those geniuses in the football ticket office!

 

That's so excellent.

 

I'm sure the improving economy was a factor as well. All I said was that the crime bill was effective.

 

Only a Michael Gee prediction that Trump will win would make me more convinced of a Trump loss:

 

If you're a liberal page designer at one of the New York tabloids, whom do you vote for?

 

I'm going to go with:
1. Regression to the mean
2. Stabilizing drug market
3. Improving economy
4. State-level crime efforts

Heck, I'd even argue for a aging population because older people are less likely to commit crime.

But mostly my point is that it's very hard to draw a line between any one measure and crime rates, since a very large amount of variables go into it. Also (as a secondary point), since most crimes aren't federal crimes.
It's possible that this had an effect. But I'm hesitant to say that it did. It's definitely not a point that I think can be stated with as much confidence as Cran stated it.

 

How the hell else are we going to compete with Trump/Putin 2016?

 

Which implies a causal relationship that I'm not as sure about as you are, I guess.

 

Hillary would never support bad legislation.

 

Their support of job-killing unions.

 

What people were saying "at the time" means little now.

There are unintended consequences sometimes, and the actions being "well intentioned" or "unanimously supported" don't absolve public figures of accountability.

Even the guy who signed the damn bill has said he regrets parts of it.