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If people giving a shit about presidents keeping their promises is the result of Trump's ascendency, then he'll have accomplished the impossible.

 

I think Creosote's point isn't that Trump won't be able to keep his promises, but that he has made contradictory promises.

 

You're right. No one ever called out anyone for lying on the campaign trail before now. It's not fair.

 

Re: campaign promises

Studies show an average of 67 percent of campaign promises are kept. I will be interested to see if Trump hits that.

Trust Us: Politicians Keep Most Of Their Promises

 

Who, YF?

 

244) “If I become president, we’re all going to be saying ‘Merry Christmas’ again.”

247) “We will be one people under one God.”

 

I love how the WaPo is now trying to debunk their own article about illegal voting from 2014.

Here's what they published then:

In a forthcoming article in the journal Electoral Studies, we bring real data from big social science survey datasets to bear on the question of whether, to what extent, and for whom non-citizens vote in U.S. elections. Most non-citizens do not register, let alone vote. But enough do that their participation can change the outcome of close races.

Our data comes from the Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES). Its large number of observations (32,800 in 2008 and 55,400 in 2010) provide sufficient samples of the non-immigrant sub-population, with 339 non-citizen respondents in 2008 and 489 in 2010. For the 2008 CCES, we also attempted to match respondents to voter files so that we could verify whether they actually voted.

How many non-citizens participate in U.S. elections? More than 14 percent of non-citizens in both the 2008 and 2010 samples indicated that they were registered to vote. Furthermore, some of these non-citizens voted. Our best guess, based upon extrapolations from the portion of the sample with a verified vote, is that 6.4 percent of non-citizens voted in 2008 and 2.2 percent of non-citizens voted in 2010.

Could non-citizens decide the November election?

Here's the disclaimer they recently added to it on their website:

Note: The post occasioned three rebuttals (here, here, and here) as well as a response from the authors. Subsequently, another peer-reviewed articleargued that the findings reported in this post (and affiliated article) were biased and that the authors’ data do not provide evidence of non-citizen voting in U.S. elections.

 

No. my point is he did, and still does, have the fundamental understanding of the world of someone running for second-grade class president.

 

Do you think that "millions" of people voted illegally for Hillary Clinton?

 

You're a curious one to be scolding others. Clean up your own house -- like maybe five posts where you aren't taking pot shots at someone else.

 

Rush isn't on until noon. Won't know 'til 12:25 or so.