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OF COURSE there were neo-Confederate peckerwoods there.
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Yes you did. But why?
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@2 - Dinners and rallies are different events with different goals. All candidates do both.
Trump is scheduled to rub shoulders with Washington's ultra-wealthy conservatives today in additional to this.
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news…
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@2/3: you know (I hope) that Trump has no chance of getting Washington State's 12 electoral votes.
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"Interesting to see so many people engaged, excited and willing to wait all day to see Trump. "

Retirees and the unemployable are easily entertained.
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please ask follow ups of the dipshites "appalled" by Benghazi. what did HRC do, specifically?

they don't know.
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Sean Nelson: Trump can't win unless he wins all toss up states plus one or two light blue (like PA, VA, WI, & MI). He's nowhere near that. He very likely won't even win what Romney won in 2012. Even with the polls tightening, we can replace "be very afraid" with "cautious optimism" primarily because Mr. Trump has pissed off to many demographics to make a successful comeback.
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@7: Surely you can come up with better and more plausible stereotyping than that.
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Oh probably, Raindrop dear, but why bother? Hopefully a year from now Trump will be back to just being an operator of schmaltzy hotels, and all of these gullible people who support him will be back to responding to email phishing schemes.

But America always gets the president it deserves. If enough normal people sit the election out because they're "too busy", or because Clinton isn't exactly what they want in a president, we could end up with a President Trump. Which, when you think about it, would be pretty funny - and the people who support him would likely be the ones who would suffer the most.
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@11: Well, my goodness - I have to say, you're totally correct.
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@9 As much as I agree with your read of the current polls, I am still terrified that there's a 26% chance (in the FiveThirtyEight.com analysis) that Trump could win the necessary electoral votes outright to occupy the White House. And that he could raise an army of armed TrumpShirts to take over enough urban polling places to prevent a couple million Democrats from voting and thereby steal the election.

This needs to be a blow-out election. Trump doesn't just need to lose. He and his followers need to be humiliated in loss. His is a movement that needs to fade away.

So... hold your nose and vote for Clinton. More. Bite your lip and write a check to elect her and/or Democratic legislators. Sign up to knock on doors and work the phones to get out the vote. This isn't an election we can afford to let the likes of Trump win.
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@11 When we speak of Trump's followers, can we please spread the phrase, "gullible country trumpkins?"

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Ok for real what does the 8 of diamonds supposed to do for that guy?
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A year from now, hopefully, we will not have forgotten that a solid one third of American adults are unequivocally white supremacists.

For example, lets say a poll tells you that 60% of voters think affirmative action is unfair. In any discussion of what this voting bloc is telling you, and how to accommodate their point of view, and how to find a reasonable compromise with them, and so on, it should be well understood that half of this bloc is made up of white supremacists. The other half, perhaps, have philosophical or practical or legalistic objections to the policy. But the hard core half rejects it out of hand because they believe whites are the master race.

We need to get that through out heads. Stop treating the whole electorate as if it were made up of decent people who all want what's best for the whole country. Who can be persuaded to work for the good of the country when all is said and done.

Some of these people on the right are neocons and movement conservatives and they have a lot of ideas and principles about this an that. They're perhaps people we can all reasonably have a disagreement with. But their base of support, the solid foundation, is people who want, literally, apartheid. Or something worse. There's whole categories of arguments you don't bother making when talking to one of these people. There's whole categories of options that this group will never even consider.

When you're debating with them whether or not Barack Obama was born in the US, don't lose sight of the fact that most of those who think he wasn't born here actually don't even think he's fully human. Imagine how much time we wasted over the years, presenting, like naive fools, white supremacists, of all people, with a god damn long form birth certificate. As if they gave one fuck about what some piece of paper says about a man who is, anyway, not white.

This is the real American electorate. Not the one that gets played on TV. The real one has an agenda that has gone right over the heads of most of the mainstream for the last century.
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@8 "What did HRC do specifically?"

Watched them die.

Not that a piece of human garbage like you would care anyway.
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@16 I know Trump supporters who aren't unequivocally white supremacists. Equivocally, sure.

There's a sizeable voting bloc that either is unable/unwilling to recognize Trump as a bigot, or doesn't think that's disqualifying for the presidency. And yeah, I've got to admit I'd have guessed more like 20% than 40%.
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@17: nOW tHAT'S wHAT i cALL eDGY
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Dear god but I hate the way Twitter embeds into other websites. Scroll past the whole story, to start at the beginning. Now scroll partway up, to load more tweets, to scroll down, to load more tweets (etc, etc), scroll back up to read it all in order, but skip the first video, because that's the second part. Watching the video, a new tweet (about some baseball pitcher in 1988...?) comes in and its large image pushes the video off the screen. The second half of the video has no audio. How is any of this acceptable, Twitter?!
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Oh, Hey Zach. Husband material for sure.
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@20, yes a million.
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Anyone know if they sing the national anthem and recite the Pledge of Allegiance at Trump rallies?
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@24: They don't.
@13: Indeed, Hillary should be leading by double digits. It's too close for comfort. Listen to Joe and Mika give Hillary a wake-up call this morning on Morning Joe.
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@15, I was curious too. From the Googles:

"Powerful people make you sit up and take notice and that is certainly the experience with the Eight of Diamonds, also known as the card of fame and fortune."

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