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Yeah she's gonna a tough time working with Dennis Hastert, Bob Livingston, Henry Hyde and the rest of the impeachment gang.
Exactly. Hillary may very well be a bad president but at the end of the day (or four years) we can survive that. This country has survived bad presidents before. I'm not sure this country can survive what Trump would do. I'm voting Hillary not because I believe in her but because it's the primary way to avoid Trump getting into the White House. Four years from now hopefully there's a stronger candidate who can defeat her and push this country into a more forward thinking position. But for now, this is where we're at so this is what we need to do in my opinion.
What major gun control was pushed?
How do you explain why there are many more GOP controlled states than Democratic in terms of Governors/Legislature?
Republicans are much better at getting the vote out in non-presidential elections. It's a serious weakness for the Democrats.
Need to collate your predictions in this thread.
Also the timing went perfectly for them. In 2010 they had a wave of support thanks to the angry Tea Party folks and the fact that the economy was still in recession. So they swept into majorities just in time to receive the 2010 Census information for redistricting, which then allowed them to shape state districts to their advantage (same as they did with the federal ones at the same time). It was really a perfect storm for them.
I also believe that the Republican economic mantras of lower taxes and lower spending are more attractive on a state level- and unlike in Washington, GOP governors actually DO cut spending.
Yeah I was watching John King on CNN last night with his little map and I was laughing thinking about how they were oooh'ing and ahhh'ing over key counties in key states when we're being told that it's a blowout. CNN was the same network that had Cohen being raked for the 'Who says?' comment just a day before and now it's, 'gosh which way will Fairfield County fall?' They want a horse race, they all want a horse race.
Old folks. They vote, it's what they do.
That hunger for ratings will help the turnout, hopefully, so that's a good thing.
Hey, man, I think Riversco said this already.
It's starting to feel like a tv show again. Is it a tv show?
Agree. Comparatively speaking, the Democratic party in 2016 seems less left of the people than in 2009 D.
Trump is Palin.
I might be losing track of what is real and what shtick. If this is straight up, ok sounds interesting but if Palin was going to be transcendent for the GOP they should have left her in the AK statehouse to marinate and improve. Instead they threw her into the arena, she went bonkers from the pressure and then quickly became a media hound with a personal agenda - just like Trump. In the end she abandoned making AK a better place, so fundamentally she was screwed up and the whole image was false. If the GOP wants to be better they need to pick good people.
Maybe, or it could be too late. Everybody already knows who/what he really is. It's not like he's some unknown climbing onto the big stage. If he manages to put on an act for three months, he might get a lot of praise from establishment GOPers and media, but I'm not sure the voters will be fooled.
Combined with this barrage of anti-Hillary advertisements and Trump has got a pulse.
It's too late, I agree. He's said too much crazy stuff that he can't take back.
Says who? I see narrowing polls. Trump can debate policy with the best of them.
He's facing someone that a majority of the population think is abhorrent and she will come across like fingernails on a chalkboard in debates. If he tones it down he will be fine.
I absolutely agree. Obama never learned to play hardball - he tried to romance the Republicans from the beginning, but they had already decided to stonewall everything he tried. Hillary won't make the same mistake of thinking she can just persuade - she knows how to play hardball and will.
I hate to say this but Em is right here. That Pew poll should be a jolt for the good guys, as is the fact that Trump has now lowered the bar for himself so much that simply acting like a semi-decent human being could give him a bump. Also there's so much abnormal stuff in play in this election that I'm not sure information about polling for past elections at various points is all that instructive. This isn't over yet. There are two factors working in Clinton's favor- ground game and the fact that she should be able to crush and expose him in the debates- but pretty much everything else from here on it will work in Trump's favor since he's lowered the bar so much.
How many times can we read the same statement in a calender year?
The desperate clinging to the debates is the best schtick yet from the Trumpkins IMO. Then again, they might not actually know that name calling and rambling incoherence isn't an effective strategy to win independent voters.
Then I think there is going to be a big clash between Bannon and Conway soon. She is the one who got him to do the "regret" speech. I imagine Bannon was
and 
when Trump was giving that speech.
Well, technically she was at 89.2% on 14 Aug and is only at 86.5% today. So I guess it is narrowing lol
It is for the best that Manafort resigned, but isn't the damage done?
Saints c'mon man
I knew it!).
