The Whore of Babble On has certainly been quiet this election. Not that I’m complaining, but it appears that the Donald used her and put her up wet. Something that a Palin is quite familiar with, of course.
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Excellent! And I hope to see more stories like this, of people standing up to Trump everywhere he opens his hateful mouth and spews. Oh, I guess I could have just said “everywhere.”
By the way, note that Maine is overwhelmingly white, still about 95% as of the most recent Census. But I suspect to a certain percentage of Mainers – namely LePage’s base – even that 5% nonwhite population is considered way too much, and the modest growth is seen as an existential threat. The fact that the nonwhite folks in this case are Muslim immigrants from Africa as well enables the likes of Trump and LePage to frame it as a immigration/terrorrism issue, but I’m pretty sure if there was an influx of African-Americans from elsewhere in the U.S. that would freak out the Trump-LePage crowd in Maine just as much. But I believe that crowd is clearly in the minority in the state, and I predict that Trump will lose Maine handily.
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Trump is starting to lose his base. Interesting paragraphs in the linked article:
"The data so far for this past week show Trump has lost ground even among some of the groups that have given him the strongest support. More than 1 in 5 white voters soured on him, for example, as did a similar share of voters older than 65. In both groups, only about half as many voters moved in Trump’s direction.
“Even white voters without a college education, who have formed the core of Trump’s support, shifted against him in the past week. About 1 in 5 of those blue-collar, white voters moved away from Trump this week, compared with about 1 in 10 who moved toward him. …”
Trump loses ground among key voter groups, tracking poll finds
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Crimea is not a state.
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I hope one of her options is being flexible. Team Clinton seem to have thought through their battle plan. Great. However, the military has a saying: your enemy has a veto on your plans. As chaotic Team Trump is, he is crazy as a fox and she ought to be flexible enough to respond or not. One of her greatest vulnerabilities is her own tendency to shoot herself in the foot.
Exhibit A: the server and emails. Exhibit B: her over lawyerly way of explaining things which tends reinforce parsing reality.
Both Trump and Clinton have weaknesses, and this campaign may be based who is who better able to keep their most glaring weaknesses checked.
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So TPM embraces horserace journalism.
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Kornacki on the Maddow show did a breakdown of the support coming out of PA and Clinton has amazing support in Philadelphia and its suburbs. trump leads nowhere which would make a pithy sticker.
@antisachetdethe To call it a “media obsession” trivializes the real underlying problem which has its origins in his great brain.
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I would bet every penny I have—I think we’re all doing that, willing or no—on Hillary’s mix of strengths and weaknesses compared to Trump’s. She has certain distinct weaknesses, and a number of tremendous strengths. He has one or two strengths—celebrity, and a born bully’s sense for vulnerability—along with a mix of weaknesses that would put a less fortunate person in an institution. He’s crazy, in a word, and not that goddamn bright. And he’s entirely unable to keep the crazy checked. Complacent? No. Not me. But I think I have my money on the right pony here.
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By attacking the Kahn’s, and by implication–and it the case of some of is supporters directly–their son, Trump has alienated many veterans. The steady stream of retired generals and national security professionals endorsing Hillary also undercuts his base.
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And a great headline for an article about battleground state polls!
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Most of the areas where Trump leads in PA have more resident bears than people. Just sayin’. : )
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Trump’s winning at the leather bars?
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I live in Minnesota, whose Somali population he just slandered. Some young men have wanted to join islamist groups, but a tiny number compared to the many who become part of our communities. I know it’s not news, but Trump is a useless bigot.
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Well, it’s post-convention time in a race where one of the racers is Donald Trump. We’re not talking about the Lincoln-Douglas debates here. Trump has no positions. The horserace is the only game in town. I don’t like it any more than you, but if the GOP in general and Trump in particular all live in a post-policy world I don’t see what TPM can do about it.
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Republican strategist on Donald Trump
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Jill Stein: Clinton is not the solution to Trump
No, but vaccines that wipe out nasty Green fungus are.
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A Democratic State Senator from Maine, bravely standing up to the hate-filled campaign strategy of Donald Trump and the Republican Party.
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State of insanity, state of denial, state of panic…
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“I have states that no other Republican would do well in that I think I’m going to win,” Trump told The Washington Post this past week. “But I don’t want to name those states.”
Donnie, Russian states don’t count.
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I’ve been force-fed a diet of Trump for over a year now. He is not crazy like a fox. He is crazy like a crazy person. He’s madder than Mad Jack McMad, winner of last year’s Mister Madman competition.
Dallas proved to me that a funky bounce here or there and Trump could still win, but it won’t be because some cunning plan of his came together. He is almost as hapless an observer in all this as I am.
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