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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And while I know it will do no good (at least in the case of Blind Vlad Drkulec), I present to you evidence of......
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And while I know it will do no good (at least in the case of Blind Vlad Drkulec), I present to you evidence of......
And there's also the matter of over twenty million "lost" emails from the George W. Bush administration. W makes Hillary look like a piker when it comes to missing emails.
Utah is a close 3 way race between McMullin, Trump, and Clinton!
McMullin is on the ballot in 11 states. He has some support in Idaho and Wyoming.
Its over. What we are seeing is a historic collapse of biblical proportions on the part of the Hillary campaign. The drip, drip. drip of Wikileaks along with the chickens coming home to roost from the FBI rebellion against the corrupt justice department has all created a perfect storm that even a decent candidate would not be able to recover from. The only hope left is stuffing the ballot box with votes of dead people in key battleground states and bussing in people to vote from out of state as revealed in the videos of that Democratic party operative who visited the White House three hundred times but has nothing to do with the Democratic party leadership....
Its over. What we are seeing is a historic collapse of biblical proportions on the part of the Hillary campaign.
No, that's just more hyperbole. The election is going to be close, very close, whoever wins!
Vlad, would you care to give us your prediction on how many electoral college votes Trump gets?
Last edited by Bob Gillanders; Thursday, 3rd November, 2016, 02:22 PM.
No, that's just more hyperbole. The election is going to be close, very close, whoever wins!
Vlad, would you care to give us your prediction on how many electoral college votes Trump gets?
269 or more. 269 wins with a Republican Senate and House. It will be a narrow victory if it happens. Trump is only better because Hillary is so bad. I am not cheering for a Trump victory. It would have been nice to see how a more palatable Republican candidate might have fared against Hillary.
269 or more. 269 wins with a Republican Senate and House. It will be a narrow victory if it happens. Trump is only better because Hillary is so bad. I am not cheering for a Trump victory. It would have been nice to see how a more palatable Republican candidate might have fared against Hillary.
Oh, I thought you were predicting a landslide victory with your "biblical proportions" comment.
Anyway, if Republican voters (unhappy with both choices) were truly strategic (convinced Hillary will be indicted) then they should vote for her. They could then impeach her and be rid of both Clinton and Trump. :)
But then I guess you could make the same argument for the other side. Vote for Trump then impeach him after he loses the Trump University case.
Last edited by Bob Gillanders; Thursday, 3rd November, 2016, 03:18 PM.
The Republican party is a mess, it's time the party died off and something new came out of this. Changing demographics in the US ensure they can't win many more elections ( if any ) until they modernize their ideas.
The Republican party is a mess, it's time the party died off and something new came out of this. Changing demographics in the US ensure they can't win many more elections ( if any ) until they modernize their ideas.
Totally agree with this. They tried to reinvent themselves after the Mitt Romney loss in 2012, and came up with lots of action items but very little of it ever got off the ground.
In addition to the demographics, the other problem they face is that Democratic policies of higher government involvement in the economy actually do better than laissez-faire trickle-down policies centered around tax breaks to the wealthy. So it's hard to reinvent themselves economically, because their core idea that they cannot change simply doesn't do as well as they believe it does.
And so we continue to see them trying to survive by things like acting to deny minorities voting rights (by requiring the kind of IDs that minorities shy away from or can't afford.)
Only the rushing is heard...
Onward flies the bird.
Oh, I thought you were predicting a landslide victory with your "biblical proportions" comment.
Polls were showing that Hillary had a 12 or 14 point lead a couple of weeks ago in some cases. The election appears to be a toss up at the moment. This seems to be a slide worthy of a Stephen King villain's unravelling over the last fifty or one hundred pages of a five hundred or six hundred page book.
And so we continue to see them trying to survive by things like acting to deny minorities voting rights (by requiring the kind of IDs that minorities shy away from or can't afford.)
It is not a fair election if you don't monitor who is voting.
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