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Comey has now cleared the air for Hillary. Twice. Once 2 weeks before her convention, the other 2 days before the general election. What was his thinking about how Republicans would react on those?
you see...places take what yhey have said...and check the facts and come up with stats for it.
He gave an almost unprecedented press conference to appease Republicans when he closed the case, but can't be bothered to write a couple more clarifying sentences in a letter to Congress a week before the election?
I'm just asking you what he was thinking on those 2 occasions? We know what he was thinking how GOP would react on the 'Update' letter right? I'm guessing he thought they would lose their sht over those statements, which they did.
This doesn't really answer my question. People are blaming the letter for being confusing. Also, I missed his letter to his employees....anyone have a link?
My POV is much larger than this election cycle AND I haven't ever really compared the two to each other. I think that's a fruitless endeavor. I can't imagine a bar to be set any lower by doing that.
It sounds like that fbi office was leaking to rudy and was going to leak further, so comey got out in front of it. I still lean towards trying to respect the institutions and processes that we have. Comey seems decent enough. I think the letter was too vague though and this result should have happened earlier. The damage has been done but it looks like she should be ok ....
I can't believe you would say this after she not only visited Ohio this weekend but also brought along a bona fide American hero and icon, J.R. Smith.
Ok but I still don't understand. I'm not denying that Clinton lies. She does. But to me, it doesn't seem like she lies any more than any normal politician. And the data seems to support that.
I don't think I understand the PA transit strike thing. First of all Hillary should win that state going away. Secondly I would think people staying home from work would help turnout? I also hope the authorities don't do any strikebreaking just for the election.
Poor people without cars. Walking to work and back getting home late and tired. Traffic etc.
My comments weren't about the act of lying....they were about her honesty and they weren't in comparison to anyone or anything else. My comment was more in the character context than anything else. How many lies a person tells is virtually impossible to know unless you're following them around all the time, so these lists end up being "things they've lied about in public" sorts of metrics. Not much interest to me.
My initial comment.....The Commish said:
Thanks, I guess I think of polling stations being fairly close to home, but I guess the transit is important. Anyway glad to hear it's settled.
I don't think Clinton will win the state going away. Western Pennsylvania is basically West Virginia with an NFL team.
The linked speech is of a Hispanic gentleman who got "into a tent with white nationalists". Fernando Cortes, a Mexican, was the keynote speaker at an event the Southern Poverty Law Center would deem white nationalist.
Elderly and poor especially impacted with the buses. All running today though on alternative schdules but normal tomorrow.
That's generally not true in high density cities like Philly...though I agree with every thing else you wrote.
Thanks...that's what's posted above. Thought there was more given your comment. I just don't see the perceived confusion or admission of wrong doing that the spin cycles have produced. To me, it's all political
Huge sigh of relief for the Clinton campaign (and McGinty and other PA Dems) I think.
My take is that he was in charge of a long investigation that had serious implications for the election so he gave a press conference to explain his decision to close the case. Democrats didn't like the press conference but most reasonable people accepted the reasoning behind it.
Be specificCNN. What a joke. I don't care what side of the aisle your on, do journalism a favor and never watch this weak production ever again.
When Gore won the popular vote over Bush in 2000, the difference was less than 1%. I don't think Hillary can win the popular vote by 2% or more and not win the electoral college.
Finally, something you and I can agree on.
He's also a racist and just like them he wants Hispanics out of the U.S.
They don't want anybody staying home, thinking it's over. And closer is better for ratings. Are you really not catching on to how this works?
Best thing about canceling cable is that I don't get sucked into watching cable news.
I dunno. I think there's some weird factors at work here. Most of Clinton's popular vote gains over Obama 2012 are in states that won't affect the electoral college. She'll outperform Obama in Texas (by a mile) and California, but it won't matter, and it likely won't matter in Georgia or Arizona either if she's only winning by 2-3% overall. Meanwhile Trump's non-college white coalition has outsize influence in the electoral college swing states.
They also didn't think Clinton would get a bump after the first debate. Haven't watched them since.
WWE has more integrity than CNN.
Well, I'm not smart enough to understand the math. Those that do assert that if Hillary is winning by 2% or more, she's winning the election. But you may be right that they're relying on assumptions from previous years that don't apply. We'll see.
The math is not complex. It is unlikely you can win by 2% and lose the election, but very simple to show it could happen. It all depends on how the votes are distributed.
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