Discussion: Trump Says Race-Baiting VA Guv Nominee May Save 'Statues/Heritage'

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Racists tend to support other racists.

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Don’t underestimate the rallying power of “enh, maybe, who knows ¯_(ツ)_/¯” when it comes to heritage.

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Headline should read:

Race-Baiting Trump says Race-Baiting VA Guv Nominee May Save ‘Statues/Heritage’

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two words: Bonwit Teller

The only consistencies in Trumpworld are racism and self-aggrandizing grift.

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Again with the statues/heritage crap? Can’t you finally pull you racists heads out of your mythical Southern Heritage asses.

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he might even save our great statues/heritage!

All Trump has to do is blow that dog whistle just a little louder and all the bigots will go deaf! And have no health care to pay for hearing aids!

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Ed Gillespie will turn the really bad Virginia economy #'s around, and fast. Strong on crime, he might even save our great statues/heritage!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 26, 2017

If Trump's lips are moving or his hands are typing he's lying.

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Donnie would have “shown up”, but he must have had a bone spur.

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When race baiting, is it better to use fish heads or chicken offal? or is it more like baiting flies, where one would do best with manure?

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Having followed this race closely and having contributed to Ralph and a bunch of folks downticket, I think Northam is going to win this race by 3 pts. Looking at the county results from 2013-Gov and 2014-Sen races, the margins are remarkably similar. It’s really about differences in turnout per county that mark the difference between the narrow wins for both Dems. I think Northam will benefit from the anti-Trump mood where the anti-Obama mood in 2013 (ACA insurance exchange launch fuck up) and 2014 (general racist idiocy of GOP + MSM) burdened T-Mac and Warner. The internals of the credible polls taken in this race show Northam hitting over 40% of the white vote and average out at somewhere near 42%-43%. If that holds up on Election Day, then Northam will win by over 5+ points.

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I agree—3 to 5 point margin seems not only doable but highly probable.

The rural right-wing vote won’t overcome the urban moderate-to-liberal vote.

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Seems to me this is politics as usual in the state for lovers. Ken Cuccinelli was a more convincing right winger than Gillespie and he went down. It seems Trump’s performance in office is starting to outrun his rhetoric as an electoral influence.

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In all fairness to der Furor, New York City was home to a lot of copperheads during the Civil War. Indeed, the city’s mayor, Fernando Wood, was one of them. So when he talks about a heritage of treason, he’s not totally off the wall.

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By Jonathan D. Salant
NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
TRENTON – Hillary Clinton is favored to become the first female U.S. president by both political prognosticators and those who bet with their wallets.

Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight gave Clinton a 71 percent chance of occupying the Oval Office, her highest percentage since Oct. 31. He made her the favorite to win both Florida and North Carolina, two states that Donald Trump cannot become president without carrying. Silver’s statistical model never showed Trump leading, though he did have the two candidates in a virtual dead heat at the end of July.

“Clinton is probably going to win, and she could win by a big margin,” Silver wrote.

The New York Times Upshot, which has been more bullish on Clinton’s chances, made her an 84 percent favorite to win. And Charlie Cook, editor of the Cook Political Report, said a path to victory for Trump was “barely visible.”

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I’ve not been digging into the polling on this race, I am afraid to say. So thanks for the analysis. I have been growing a bit worried at the overall trending I’ve been seeing for the past month or so.

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Trending has gone up for Northam over the past 2 months. This was a tied race until early September.

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Trump’s approval in Virginia is horrible. Every time Trump touts Gillespie he reminds Virginia voters that Gillespie is a Trumpster.

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The ‘models’ predicting a Clinton win were right on the popular vote. Not so right on the Electoral College.

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