Countdown to Extinction: The 2016 Presidential Election

[Spineur]

Thanks to Trump, Mexican are going to be instantaneously richer: tomorrow the Mexican peso is going to be skyrocking through the roof.

[PerfectWagnerite]

Like Trump's plans for defeating ISIS, they're kept nice and safe so that the "enemy" can't find out about them.

Oh man, Hillary must be so happy she is doing backflips...

I am just fascinated by this:

http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/
If you are a betting man The Don has no chance... He is getting trounced in EVERY swing state.

There are also some strange distributions, like IN red but OH and IL are solid blue. VA is blue but WV is as red as it gets.

[Karl Henning]

Ohio is still pale blue.  Definitely hangs in the balance.  But Clinton has many paths to an electoral majority without the Buckeye State;  El Tupé has none.

[Karl Henning]

The polls do not yet account for any fallout from the Washington Post's explosive disclosure on Friday of a tape from 2005 in which Trump made a variety of lascivious comments about women, including bragging about being able to get away with groping women because he was "a star."

[Karl Henning]

Almost nobody in the Republican Party is defending Donald Trump right now, in the wake of a new Washington Post report showing him speaking in very lewd terms about women in 2005.

And the denunciations that have rolled in so far are coming from all sides of the party — from those who support Trump to those who have long opposed him to those close to him who are offering platitudes about how what he said was wrong, but that he's still better than Hillary Clinton.

[PerfectWagnerite]

Ohio is still pale blue.  Definitely hangs in the balance.  But Clinton has many paths to an electoral majority without the Buckeye State;  El Tupé has none.

except Hil has a 18 pct lead in OH.

[Karl Henning]

except Hil has a 18 pct lead in OH.

Here's hoping that stays strong!

[Karl Henning]

It's a matter of time;  it would be a strong statement if the flip is this Election Day.

[Karl Henning]

The GOP's biggest fear appears to be coming true: Independents ditching Donald Trump

[Spineur]

Just watched Robert de Niro video on Donald Trump.  Waouh ! Some people are really getting pretty mad !
Exactly what happened when Berlusconi got caught with an underage girl.
Despite his denegation, I think he will have to quit very soon and leave Pence in the front seat.  This may actually be a big blow to Hillary.

[Herman]

Something happened in my life and it's called maturity. Some people age but they don't grow up.

Yeah, and one of those is going to get your vote to handle, among other things, the nuclear codes.

[Karl Henning]

Something happened in my life and it's called maturity. Some people age but they don't grow up.

I do think that quite the perfect indictment of El Tupé.

[Madiel]

Trump is trying to say that the 2005 video is not representative of who he is. The thing is, there are a long list of incidents over the campaign that will confirm for people that it's exactly who he is. His language about women has been like this a lot.

https://driftingthrough.com/2016/10/06/an-open-letter-to-donald-trump-from-some-angry-women/

[André]

Just watched Robert de Niro video on Donald Trump.  Waouh ! Some people are really getting pretty mad !
Exactly what happened when Berlusconi got caught with an underage girl.
Despite his denegation, I think he will have to quit very soon and leave Pence in the front seat.  This may actually be a big blow to Hillary.

TicTac USA, Melania Trump and John McCain are not exactly pleased either...

[Brian]

Looks like this might be the breaking point - approx. 20 Republican leaders, including John McCain, John Thune, and Kelly Ayotte, have un-endorsed Trump and some have even asked him to quit.

Of course, there's no way he will quit, right?

[Karl Henning]

He won't quit, and the RNC really cannot compel him to quit.

I don't think Pence will really fare much better against Clinton;  even against the ideal GOP candidate, the electoral map is a challenge;  and once the campaign is focused on bringing to the public's attention greater color on Pence, I do not imagine him attracting more Independents than has El Tupé.

[Madiel]

No, but he would at least attract more Republicans. The ones who are currently planning to stay at home.

[Parsifal]

Trump, who opened his campaign by characterizing Mexicans as "rapists," is now heard on tape boasting that he can commit an act which, I am sure, meets the criteria for felony sexual assault in all 50 states with impunity because he is "a star." The irony!

[San Antone]

Trump, who opened his campaign by characterizing Mexicans as "rapists," is now heard on tape boasting that he can commit an act which, I am sure, meets the criteria for felony sexual assault in all 50 states with impunity because he is "a star." The irony!

What's ironic is how the Democrats who didn't think Bill Clinton's actual sexual assaults: Kathleen Willey, Paul Jones, and Juanita Broderick (all these women accuse him of assault or rape, not just an extra marital affair, of which he also had plenty) were disqualifying acts, are all now are shocked, shocked, at Trump's dirty mouth. 

I do think Trump is disgusting; but really.  Methinks the WPost and NYC and all the the rats fleeing Trumps leaky ship protest too much.

The hypocrisy is staggering.

[Madiel]

Or maybe the world's changed in the last 20 years.

Nah, that COULDN'T be it.

Also, I really like how you talk about "actual" assaults before getting around to throwing in the word "accused". Which is it? I'm not saying that these things definitely didn't happen. What I'm saying is that you've got allegations against Bill Clinton and you're comparing them to verified words out of Trump's mouth. Sure, action versus words is important, but so is alleged versus proven.