Trump cheats at golf - the ONE and ONLY politics thread

Just a quick thing about Clinton, and this is less because I disagree with you and more curious about your answer. I have little doubt he would have attempted a third term had he been allowed, but given his scandles of his second term, would he have won? Congress bungled the Monica thing badly, but could that have weighed on voters? Then the Elian Gonzalez fiasco and some half measures when it came to dealing with al Qada. Would have Bill been able to win in 2000?

 

What I absolutely do NOT like is exit polling and reporting of early votes. That can bias the main Election Day.

 

E.J. checks in with your daily reminder that Trump = The Republican Party, 100 percent. The GOP MUST be held accountable for the misogyny, bigotry and racism that it has cultivated for years.

The ridiculous comparison of Al Gore to Donald Trump

As Trump has plummeted in the polls, more conventional Republicans who thought they could get away with supporting him have tried to pretend that Trump and his message were foisted on them from some distant planet.

On Thursday in Florida, President Obama called the GOP’s bluff. “Trump didn’t come out of nowhere,” he declared. “For years, Republican politicians and far-right media outlets had just been pumping out all kinds of toxic, crazy stuff. . . . Donald Trump didn’t start all this. Like he usually does, he just slapped his name on it, took credit for it, and promoted the heck out of it.”

 

FTFY ...

 

Deal with it ...

 

Because of the 2004 fiasco, when incomplete exit polls were leaked showing Kerry winning, the rules are very strict now. Data kept under guard. Topline numbers embargoed until a state's polls close. At 5 p.m., selected demographic and issue question results will be released. Of course, if you know how to read polls, this data is just as revealing. When exit poll in 2014 showed Obama's approval rating at 44 percent, a tough night for Democrats was inevitable, for instance. By the same token, when 2008 exit poll showed Bush approval at 28 percent, the show was over.
As for early results, results are released when polls close, period. Early voting data doesn't show actual vote totals, just how many Democrats, Republicans, women, etc. have voted.

 

Believe Rubio post-Trump at your own risk

"I’ve agreed with many (though by no means all) of these senators’ criticisms of administration policy. Obama’s premature withdrawal from Iraq, Afghanistan and other zones of crisis made the world more dangerous — and forced U.S. troops to redeploy into far less favorable circumstances than they left.

But as evident as Obama’s mistakes have become with time, it is even more obvious that the 2016 candidate most committed to the values these Republicans claim to cherish is Hillary Clinton. She believes in U.S. leadership and engagement on behalf of democratic allies.

Trump, by contrast, trashes the United States’ allies, speaks casually about the use and spread of nuclear weapons and admires the world’s most odious dictators, including Syria’s Bashar al-Assad and Russia’s Vladimir Putin.

What explanation can there be for Rubio’s support of such a man, beyond placing party over country and self-preservation over self-respect?"

 

Well, every Republican worth a shit speaks at convocation at Liberty University, where ... wait for it ... attendance is mandated.

 

I donated to Rubio's opponent, Patrick Murphy, just this weekend.