2016 Postmortem

DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Fri Sep 2, 2016, 06:59 AM Sep 2016

Guess what the GOP is going to do for the next nine weeks?

Yes, There Is a Clinton Double Standard

Anyone writing sentences like ‘nevertheless fuels the perception that the Clintons may have…’ might want to stop and think about whether they are reporting news or innuendo.

MICHAEL TOMASKY

09.02.16 1:00 AM ET

When Clinton “scandal” stories hit, bogus or not, the polls tighten. So guess what the GOP is going to do for the next nine weeks?

It’s Labor Day weekend, and the polls have tightened in the last week. Donald Trump has done nothing to earn this, of course. His schizophrenic jaunt from Mexico to Arizona—I love the Mexican people! I love them so much I’m creating a police force to send them home to Mexico!—was a mess.

That great Mother Jones expose on how foreign-born girls working for the Trump modeling agency worked in the United States illegally—for a man who wants to throw the illegals out—was jaw-dropping. It would have finished him off, in a rational world.
And yet he’s closer than he’s been for months. Why?

Because Hillary Clinton is more unpopular than she’s been in a long time—or ever, if you believe the spin on the the new Washington Post/ABC poll. In that one, she’s 15 points underwater. Other recent polls have been both better and worse—she’s minus-17 in YouGov/Economist but only minus-8 in Fox. But the picture is pretty consistent overall, and it’s bleak.

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Guess what the GOP is going to do for the next nine weeks? (Original Post) DonViejo Sep 2016 OP

Goes along with Trump's throw her in jail, people eats it up though there isn't a reason. Thinkingabout Sep 2016 #1

This is a VERY clear pattern Cosmocat Sep 2016 #2

So true jehop61 Sep 2016 #3

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)

1. Goes along with Trump's throw her in jail, people eats it up though there isn't a reason.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Sep 2, 2016, 07:16 AM

Sep 2016

Cosmocat

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2. This is a VERY clear pattern

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Sep 2, 2016, 07:54 AM

Sep 2016

1) Republicans acting like complete jackasses and blaming the person they act like jackasses about for it.
2) The media obediently forwarding whatever bullshit the republicans are losing their shit over and validating it not calling it for the bullshit it is.
3) The simple minded dolts in this country not having the common sense to see what clearly is happening and coming away from it thinking "gee, Hillary/Obama/whatever Democrat did something again."

We will NEVER get to the point we could be at as long as this country continues to indulge conservatism like this.

jehop61

(1,735 posts)

3. So true

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Sep 2, 2016, 09:59 AM

Sep 2016

Just this a.m., CBS aired a story of how Clinton was keeping reporters off her campaign plane. They spent several minutes decrying this. Then ended up with a quiet "Donald Trump also doesn't allow reporters on his plane" . What?

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