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NRaleighLiberal

(60,014 posts) Fri Jun 16, 2017, 10:45 PM Jun 2017

Slate's Impeach-O Meter now a coin flip - 50% chance!

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/06/16/today_s_impeach_o_meter_trump_traps_himself_further.html

Today’s Impeach-O-Meter: The President Traps Himself Further

By Jeremy Stahl

lots of text to read, and the rationale, at the link

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Slate's Impeach-O Meter now a coin flip - 50% chance! (Original Post) NRaleighLiberal Jun 2017 OP

British and Irish bookies are putting the impeachment (ie by the House) odds about the same muriel_volestrangler Jun 2017 #1

I keep thinking of that guy who Cha Jun 2017 #2

muriel_volestrangler

(101,316 posts)

1. British and Irish bookies are putting the impeachment (ie by the House) odds about the same

Reply to NRaleighLiberal (Original post)

Sat Jun 17, 2017, 04:17 AM

Jun 2017

I think they are taking it seriously now.

https://www.oddschecker.com/politics/us-politics

Trump To Be Impeached By The House In His 1st Term between 4/5 and evens - with bookies' profit that's about 50% chance.

Trump To Be Convicted By The Senate In His 1st Term 7/2 - about 20% chance, so they don't think there's much chance of enough Republican senators losing their seats or voting to convict him.

Cha

(297,240 posts)

2. I keep thinking of that guy who

Reply to NRaleighLiberal (Original post)

Sat Jun 17, 2017, 04:23 AM

Jun 2017

predicted trump would win.. also saying afterwards that trump would be impeached.

I sure as hell didn't want to believe he would win. but here we are.

"Prediction prof: Trump will be impeached"

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“Taking time out of preparing to become the world’s most powerful leader, he wrote me a personal note, saying ‘Professor — Congrats — good call,’” Lichtman writes in “The Case for Impeachment,” an advance copy of which was shared with POLITICO. “What Trump overlooked, however, was my ‘next big prediction’: that, after winning the presidency, he would be impeached.”

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/trump-impeachment-professor-allan-lichtman-237181

Then evidently we get the crooked asshole pence.

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