2016 Presidential Election Thread

Lemme know when there's concrete evidence.

Oh dear God! You mean there is actually a woman out there who was willing to marry him?

The CIA, DIA, and other agency directors are having to deal with that concrete evidence and are working on damage control, since they think Hillary's secret server was a catastrophic breach of US intelligence.

It is hard for me to get excited about any of them.

Posted by Berkeley Breathed:

Today in the Republican war on women, literal war on women:
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Mike Huckabee, Republican presidential candidate, won't rule out employing U.S. troops, FBI to stop abortion

Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee indicated Thursday that if elected, he wouldn’t rule out employing federal troops or the Federal Bureau of Investigation to stop abortion from taking place in the United States.

Though the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against bans on abortion, Huckabee said past presidents have defied Supreme Court rulings.
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Lindsey Graham gets John McCain's vote.

The latest entry into the race.

An actual clown in the Oval Office would be fitting

Now Trump's Phone Number Gets Published
Gawker got hold of the Donald's digits, would like you to call him

Oh, Donnie, you goin' down, schmucko...

The perfect campaign song.

Desperation, thy name is Ted Cruz:



Now there's a guy who just doesn't get it. Every bacon lover should be offended by the abuse of bacon; every gun lover should be offended by the abuse of the gun, not to mention the clearly unsteady shooting. Just because all his voters love guns and love bacon doesn't mean he should be mixing the two together like that. That video is like learning your voters like cars and candy and responding by putting sugar in your voters' gas tanks.

It's a bit of a stretch to say that anything about Chris Christie is about the Presidential election, but . . . :
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Christie booed mercilessly — twice — at the Haskell

OCEANPORT — It was one long happy celebration at Monmouth Park for the great American Pharoah's latest victory. At least, that is, until Gov. Chris Christie stepped into the Winner's Circle to present the trophy.

And then, the record crowd of 60,983 booed.

Long.

Loud.

Sustained.

Maybe he should have hung around Bill Murray.

The cheering resumed as trainer Bob Baffert and owner Ahmed Zayat addressed the crowd and talking about their famous horse. Then Christie's name was mentioned again, and the booing started anew.

So not even the popular Triple Crown winner, which went off as such a heavy favorite that a $2 bet won 20 cents, could improve the popularity of the Republican presidential candidate in his home state.
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Trump leading by double digits ahead of first debate. http://onpolitics.usatoday.com/2015/08/03/poll-trump-debate-format/

Glenn Reynolds had a reader survey. The results are:

That line was stupid in 2012 and it doesn't sound any more clever today. Come up with some new material please.

Looks like his readers are pretty far removed from mainstream America.

Scott Walker gets punked in New Hampshire:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...nked-at-a-new-hampshire-pizza-shop/?tid=sm_fb

That's almost as good as the "Ask him about the Hughes loan" Nixon got punked with in one of his campaigns.

Local Mass Pol Takes on Jindal over Sanctuary Comments

Hillary might go to jail - from the Washington Post, the same paper that took down Nixon.

@gturner goes Jar-Jar on Hillary...again. It must be Tuesday. Film at 11...

Republicans are desperate to get into the debates and are saying all sorts of stupid shit in a desperate attempt to spike their poll numbers.

An unscientific survey you say? Gee, like that means jack shit.

Unfortunately for gturner and the hack hired by the Post's opinion editor, it was legal to hold the e-mail off site, and of course a Secretary of State would receive classified e-mails. More hysteria over nothing for the hope that the mere claim is enough to tarnish.

The Dowager Empress of Chappaqua is being rejected by white women, says the WSJ polls

A new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll suggests she may have a tough time pulling it off. Mrs. Clinton is losing ground with white women and many other important slices of the electorate, the poll shows, amid a spate of reports about her email practices, speaking fees and foreign donations to the Clinton Foundation.

In June, 44% of white women had a favorable view of Mrs. Clinton, compared to 43% who didn’t. In July, those numbers moved in the wrong direction for Mrs. Clinton: Only 34% of white women saw her in a positive light, compared to 53% who had a negative impression of her, the poll found.

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Mrs. Clinton, of course, is a white woman. She was raised in the suburbs and earned both college and law degrees. She’s fared well among voters with a similar background in past polls, but this month’s survey shows that’s no longer the case.

In the first three months of the year, suburban women by a margin of 18 points had a positive view of Mrs. Clinton. In July, those numbers took a dramatic turn for the worse. By a five-point margin, suburban women had a negative view of Mrs. Clinton.

Among white women with at least a college degree, 51% had a positive view of Mrs. Clinton and 38% a negative as of June. In July, those numbers had turned to 43% positive and 47% negative.​

But she still leads Sanders, so unless the Democrats wake up, the Republicans will get to pick the next President.

Um, no. Sandy Berger got a couple years probation for only five instances of that same offense, having plea bargained down from a felony, and had his security clearance stripped and had to give up his law license.

And of course the e-mails are just the tip of the iceberg. As has always been true, "follow the money." That leads to massive evidence that the Clinton Foundation is engaged in illegal racketeering, influence pedaling, and massive corruption that sold US national interests to the highest bidder.