Sweet!
With three weeks left Hillary needs to expand the fight to insure a bunch of Senate candidates win and to put the house in play. She needs to give the Republicans an electorial defeat they will remember for generations to come. Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan need to rue the day they decided to hurt American just to make sure Obama didn’t win a “victory.”
Wonderful trend, but complacency is our collective enemy.
Get out and vote, and make sure you bring all your dead relatives with you.
Tomorrow night’s debate looms large in the Senate races.
If Trump comes out shouting his lunatic assertions that the entire thing is “rigged by the International Jewish Bankers” and “THOSE INNER-CITY PEOPLE” (Blacks and Hispanics) will be “cheating” to “steal the election” (as it appears he will) it will suck the Republican Senatorial hopes down into the swirling toilet with him.
There won’t be enough room in the lifeboats for the Republicans to jump ship to get away from him with only 3 weeks to go. If he DOESN"T come out and spit fire and brimstone, his own supporters will be furious with him. He has no choice but to triple-down on the crazy, and there is no way out for the Republican Senators in tight races.
Clinton needs to be calm, cool, and presidential in the face of a raging, racist, lunatic hurling obscene insults to her face (and a hostile crowd since it is sponsored by FOX News) and that won’t be easy, but I think she will pull it off.
Better men than Trump have tried to knock her off course and have failed.
48 hours. That is all the Republicans have left before The Orange Buffoon totally implodes and sucks them all into the void with him.
We need to keep our foot on the gas and GOTV to ensure a massive defeat for not only The Orange Shitgibbon, but for all the cowardly Republicans who let him become their leader AND the feckless MSM who sat back and cynically worked to make money off of one of the most dangerous men to ever run for President.
And, you can trust the Monkey, they always survey well ; )
No lead is safe and HRC needs to keep the pedal to the metal. We need the Senate back in Dem control, and of course taking the House would be the trifecta of all time. Get family/friends to the polls on Nov 8 (or in the case of Trump’s recommendation, Nov 28).
Good. Never touch a monkey you don’t trust.
I’ll bring all of my ancestors back to the neanderthal age. On 2nd thought, some of them might (be) like Trump…
Still think a much bigger landslide is in play because married women support for Hillary is being underreported in all the polls.
Nate Silver had a link to a poll over the weekend that showed married women underreporting their husbands’ Trump vote by significantly less than the married men thought their wives were voting for Hillary. So the men overreported by 12% their wives’ support for Trump contrary to what the wives told pollsters while the married women over reported their husbands’ support for Hillary by 8%. The poll concluded that wives were more likely to tell their husbands they were supporting Trump to keep peace in the family, while fewer husbands told their wives incorrectly they were voting for Hillary for the same reason.
This indicates more married women (and other long time dating women?) are likely to vote for Hillary in the privacy of the voting booth than the husbands and hence pollsters think.
Look for a landslide in the 55-39 range with the remainder to third parties, and a commensurate EV landslide of 400+ EVs for Hillary.
Thank goodness the GOP and the Fates are so hell bent on keeping the Repuplican party out of the White House.
Without the combo of Caribou Barbie and the financial crisis, we might have had to wait decades for our first African American president. Without Romney’s 47% gaffe coming to light, Obama might have been limited to one term. And without Trump’s absurdly unqualified candidacy, 20 years of GOP mud slinging combined with Assange’s WikiLeaks vendetta would probably have kept our first Madame President out of the White House and placed a pig with a whole lotta lip stick on him in there instead.
Phew.
Something that makes me a little less nervous: TPM’s polltracker has Hillary at 270 counting only the states in which she has a lead of 5% or more. Time to run the board.
Both of the marrieds in this household have already voted and for Clinton, but I do think that with some exceptions, namely trump followers, women identify with another woman finally breaking the ultimate American glass ceiling with the added bonus attraction that we finally have a candidate for whom women’s issues are going to be a priority.
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women identify with another woman finally breaking the ultimate American glass ceiling
[/quote]Hillary is going to break that ceiling but by walking softly and possessing the biggest brain.
Ho would’ve head butted the ceiling then sued the architects for it’s integrity.
The trick to Hillary’s presidency, like Obama’s, will be to pay attention. She won’t be banging gongs or tooting her own horn but the progress will be on the move.
Hey, just like the design. Whooda ever thunk it?
I realize now with Trump’s rigging the election comments, Hillary needs to not only win which she is going to do. Hillary needs to win big. She needs to win all the battleground states and a red state such as Arizona. This would give her 352 -186 electoral votes. That would pretty much clamp down on the election fraud comments. This would annoy Trump knowing he did worse then McCain and Romney and by taking a red state such as Arizona and all the battleground states. Trumps rigged BS will be just that.
Last hurdle for her is tonight’s debate which will be useful for only one purpose, to give trump chance to pound her on emails and Bill. She has her responses planned, I’m sure, but it’s too bad the big brain has to go up against the brain free.
Earnest Hillary will be much better for the nation than the country thinks now. By the time her first four years are done I would not be surprised if her favorability level is double what it is now.
That’s exactly what she’s doing. She’s now, as some of us predicted, spending ad money in states where she probably won’t win but she’s using that money to bolster down ballot candidates. There’s no one on the face of this planet, other than Barack Obama, who understands the necessity of taking both the Senate and the House. More and more each day, I’m hearing talk of Republicans losing the House. The presidency, Senate, and SCOTUS are already gone. The only question left is who’ll control the House.
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Last hurdle for her is tonight’s debate
[/quote]Yes, and thank you for reminding me.
The joy is also in watching the race not just the winning.
The anticipation is getting to me, I must admit ; )
Trump is so pathetic. If he had a shred of competence, he’d be trying to exhibit his worthiness but all he has is all he ever had. Petty, shallow, mindless, derogatory crap.
He hasn’t lost sight of the goal, he never had the goal of the job of POTUS. He only wanted the blue ribbon and a few more paintings of himself hung strategically along his path to the balcony.
Our challenge now, is to run up the score, to pound the aggressor into oblivion and to neuter the know nothings.
It may not always be cool to gloat but all rules have exceptions : )
Right, on one hand, she has some really big shoes to fill while on the other, she just has to do her job. If she overachieves all the better but just keeping the nation afloat and prosperous would suffice.
I think she is magnanimous enough to chart her own course but wise enough to lean on the successes that have preceded her.
And don’t forget, with Hillary comes Bill and family. I like Chelsea too and the grandbaby will grow up right in front of us just like Obama’s girls.