Romney carried the state by 22 points in 2012. The most recent poll by SUSA/KSN (8/3-8/7) shows Trump up by just 5.
We will not win there, but even a single digit spread at any point over there is quite a piece of news…
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Seriously, this makes my afternoon. I love it! I’m holding my head up high. Smiling. We’re doing well – and we deserve to do so well, because we have put forward a strong candidate, one who is a real problem solver, one who listens, does her homework and triple-checks things before moving forward. Plus, I think once people listen to her (actually to her), do a little research on their own, they will come to have more trust in Hillary.
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Yep, and we WILL do well. Our Commonwealth is becoming a piece of firewall and we will work hard to keep it that way, you guys will carry your Commonwealth… and we will elect her and lot of down ballots!
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I was reading the comments for the Trump VA rally. If you want a good laugh, go there. Hilarious.
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Too bad TPM doesn’t replace the link to the live stream with a link to the video clip after the event is over. Nothing to see here.
She obviously knows water is a major issue in Iowa. The Des Moines Water Works has had to file a precedent-setting law suit against 3 rural counties which have sent toxic levels of nitrates to the river from which 500,000 people draw for their water supply.
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ah, but it looks like he will have to work to keep Kansas; burning his resources!!!
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Yep. KS, UT, AZ, GA… and not just force him to stretch thin… the way things stand now, we have a real shot in the latter two!
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Is he burning his resources or just hoarding them? He isn’t buying advertising and he doesn’t have a ground game. Where, exactly, is he spending all of the money he’s raised lately?
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If his previous FEC reports are any indication, I suspect the money goes to Trump Organization… so he’ll get the loan he’s temporarily forgiven repaid, and then some.
But the RNC and state parties, which find themselves doing the heavy lifting for the incompetent standard bearer, will have to have some of their resources burned, I think.
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Haha. One of these days Colorado is going to shut off the spigot to the Colorado River and every state down river is going to be screwed…just kidding.
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LOL. Seriously, though, what the heck would CA do if, when that water pact is up, Colorado decides it’s in their best interests to utilize their river as they see fit? California has been waist-deep in dry dirt for a long time. They’ve passed up several opportunities to start seriously dealing with this issue, but due to cost, they always passed. They’ve waited far too long. Later down the road, when that (four state??) water pact is up, I wouldn’t blame Colorado if they said all bets off. All the western states needed to have been planning for this decades ago. That said, I don’t want to see anyone harmed, of course. I am a Californian at heart and will be til the day I die, so I really want them to deal with this issue in an adult way. They also need to slap their greedy agriculture industry and force them to adopt water-saving systems, drip irrigation, etc. Yes, force them. There is no reason most of what’s there today can’t still stay and share so long as they all start adopting current technology. Sorry, folks, it’s gotten more expensive, yes – but it will get that much more so in five years. Bite the fucking bullet now.
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We’re assuming that he’s even making a half-hearted attempt to campaign and win in those states. His ground game sucks bigly. He’s taken in money, but made no ad buys. He flies back home every night, puts up the press and hangers-on in Trump properties, then charges the campaign for the rent and even for his time (something like $6K per campaign speech).
At some point one has to wonder whether there’s any strategy beyond recycling donations into his pocket.
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b.cat: My understanding is that the water rights to the Colorado river are constantly being renegotiated by the states that are impacted. It’s not a static “one year rules type of thing.” And that is probably a good thing because the climate and weather fluctuates, as we all know.
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I figured the RNC would at least try but maybe they’ve just given up and stopped struggling, like drowning victims.
A little history and what’s coming. First read about it in the Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein seven/eight years ago.
Bechtel vs Bolivia: Details of the Case and the Campaign
In 1997 the World Bank informed Bolivia that it was making additional aid for water development conditioned upon the government privatizing the public water systems of two of its largest urban centers, El Alto/La Paz and the city of Cochabamba. In September 1999, in a secret process with just one bidder, Bolivia’s government turned over Cochabamba’s water to a company controlled by the California engineering giant, Bechtel.
Within a few weeks, Bechtel’s company raised water rates by an average of more than 50%, sparking a citywide rebellion that has come to be known as the Cochabamba Water Revolt. In April 2000, following a declaration of martial law by the President, the army killing of a seventeen-year-old boy (Victor Hugo Daza), and more than a hundred wounded, the citizens of Cochabamba refused to back down and Bechtel was forced to leave Bolivia.
Bechtel Group recovered and with George Shultz (remember him) pushing for war in Iraq, Bechtel Group received a $700 million contract right after the invasion 2003.
Water Privatization is a BFD. Your concerns are real.
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There are already people whose lives have been affected because of a shortage of water, but other than CA, they don’t live here.
We’ve been hearing about people buying water rights in South America when Bush was prez.
Meanwhile, in Africa, people actually are scrambling for water.
Maybe, just maybe, they’ll figure this out. But you and I will be long dead.
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Thanks. It’s been sometime now, but IIRC, it used to be a pact that was to last for many years (for some reason–and I really can’t think of why–but 40 years sticks in my head … I think that’s way off, but); I knew it could be renegotiated should there be drought, etc., because even a drought might not be the whole region-wide but just a portion or, yes, the whole area. I love the Western United States – it’s such a beautiful section of the world. Right now, here in Virginia, we’ve been very fortunate with regards to rain and having enough to go around. I miss the Hetch Hetchy water – it is delicious. The water here isn’t bad–as average American cities’ tap water goes, we’re pretty good–but it’s nothing compared to The City’s water.
Thanks, Darcy. Uraguay is going through something similar. Believe it or not, the Bush family bought up a bunch of water rights there – and, yes, without the locals’ knowledge. This was a few years back, don’t know how things are playing out there … but for awhile, it didn’t look good. I am one who fully believes water rights should almost NEVER be sold to private entities. Such a natural resource should remain in sole custody of the municipality. Period. There can, of course, be contracts for infrastructure, etc., but that should never ever involve turning over the actual rights to any private entity.
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If he’s hoarding them, he’s waited too long. Clinton has already booked all the ad time for the fall campaign. he’ll be stuck spending it on ball caps to hand out at his rallies