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Lol despite the desperate spin going on here, Hillary is killing Trump in the polls. Leading by double digits!
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/clinton-leads-trump-by-10-in-national-poll-227406
If crowded speeches were any indicator, Bernie would have won. They simply aren't an indicator of votes.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/08/clinton-leads-trump-by-10-in-national-poll-227406
If crowded speeches were any indicator, Bernie would have won. They simply aren't an indicator of votes.
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Bravo, so far, Hillary’s best speech! I agree with every word she said in her speech, she rightfully accused Donnie of mainstreaming the racist fringe, running a campaign based on hatred and fear, using dog whistle language and his disregard for the values that make our country great is profoundly dangerous.
Here are some of the best parts of the speech:
"From the start, Donald Trump has built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia.
He’s taking hate groups mainstream and helping a radical fringe take over one of America’s two major political parties."
"A man with a long history of racial discrimination, who traffics in dark conspiracy theories drawn from the pages of supermarket tabloids and the far reaches of the internet, should never run our government or command our military."
"If he doesn’t respect all Americans, he can’t serve all Americans!"
"Now, I know some people still want to give Trump the benefit of the doubt.
They hope that he will eventually reinvent himself – that there’s a kinder, gentler, more responsible Donald Trump waiting in the wings somewhere.
After all, it’s hard to believe anyone – let alone a nominee for President of the United States – could really believe all the things he says.
But the hard truth is, there’s no other Donald Trump. This is it.
Maya Angelou once said: "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."
"When Trump was getting his start in business, he was sued by the Justice Department for refusing to rent apartments to black and Latino tenants.
Three years later, the Justice Department took Trump back to court because he hadn’t changed.
The pattern continued through the decades.
State regulators fined one of Trump’s casinos for repeatedly removing black dealers from the floor. No wonder the turn-over rate for his minority employees was way above average."
"He promoted the racist lie that President Obama isn’t really an American citizen – part of a sustained effort to delegitimize America’s first black President."
"In 2015, Trump launched his own campaign for President with another racist lie. He described Mexican immigrants as rapists and criminals."
"We all remember when Trump said a distinguished federal judge born in Indiana couldn’t be trusted to do his job because, quote, "He’s a Mexican."
Think about that.
The man who today is the standard bearer of the Republican Party said a federal judge was incapable of doing his job solely because of his heritage."
Even the Republican Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, described that as "the textbook definition of a racist comment."
"This is someone who retweets white supremacists online, like the user who goes by the name "white-genocide-TM."
"His campaign famously posted an anti-Semitic image – a Star of David imposed over a sea of dollar bills – that first appeared on a white supremacist website.
The Trump campaign also selected a prominent white nationalist leader as a delegate in California. They only dropped him under pressure."
"Through it all, he has continued pushing discredited conspiracy theories with racist undertones.
Trump said thousands of American Muslims in New Jersey cheered the 9/11 attacks. They didn’t."
"His latest paranoid fever dream is about my health. All I can say is, Donald, dream on."
"It’s what happens when you listen to the radio host Alex Jones, who claims that 9/11 and the Oklahoma City bombings were inside jobs. He said the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre were child actors and no one was actually killed there.
Trump didn’t challenge those lies. He went on Jones’ show and said: "Your reputation is amazing. I will not let you down."
This man wants to be President of the United States."
"In times of crisis, our country depends on steady leadership… clear thinking… and calm judgment… because one wrong move can mean the difference between life and death.
The last thing we need in the Situation Room is a loose cannon who can’t tell the difference between fact and fiction, and who buys so easily into racially-tinged rumors.
Someone detached from reality should never be in charge of making decisions that are as real as they come.
It’s another reason why Donald Trump is simply temperamentally unfit to be President of the United States."
"And he’d ban Muslims around the world – 1.5 billion men, women, and children –from entering our country just because of their religion.
Think about that for a minute. How would it actually work? People landing in U.S. airports would line up to get their passports stamped, just like they do now.
But in Trump’s America, when they step up to the counter, the immigration officer would ask every single person, "What is your religion?"
And then what?
What if someone says, "I’m a Christian," but the agent doesn’t believe them.
Do they have to prove it? How would they do that?"
"Under Donald Trump, America would distinguish itself as the only country in the world to impose a religious test at the border.
Come to think of it, there actually may be one place that does that. It’s the so-called Islamic State. The territory ISIS controls. It would be a cruel irony if America followed its lead."
"Trump likes to say he only hires the "best people." But he’s had to fire so many campaign managers it’s like an episode of the Apprentice.
The latest shake-up was designed to – quote – "Let Trump be Trump." To do that, he hired Stephen Bannon, the head of a right-wing website called Breitbart.com, as campaign CEO.
To give you a flavor of his work, here are a few headlines they’ve published:
"Birth Control Makes Women Unattractive and Crazy."
"Would You Rather Your Child Had Feminism or Cancer?"
"According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups, Breitbart embraces "ideas on the extremist fringe of the conservative right. Racist ideas.
Race-baiting ideas. Anti-Muslim and anti-Immigrant ideas –– all key tenets making up an emerging racist ideology known as the ‘Alt-Right.’"
"The de facto merger between Breitbart and the Trump Campaign represents a landmark achievement for the "Alt-Right." A fringe element has effectively taken over the Republican Party."
He talks casually of abandoning our NATO allies, recognizing Russia’s annexation of Crimea, and of giving the Kremlin a free hand in Eastern Europe more generally.
American presidents from Truman to Reagan have rejected the kind of approach Trump is taking on Russia.
"This is a moment of reckoning for every Republican dismayed that the Party of Lincoln has become the Party of Trump. It’s a moment of reckoning for all of us who love our country and believe that America is better than this.
Twenty years ago, when Bob Dole accepted the Republican nomination, he pointed to the exits and told any racists in the Party to get out.
The week after 9/11, George W. Bush went to a mosque and declared for everyone to hear that Muslims "love America just as much as I do."
In 2008, John McCain told his own supporters they were wrong about the man he was trying to defeat. Senator McCain made sure they knew – Barack Obama is an American citizen and "a decent person."
We need that kind of leadership again."
Here are some of the best parts of the speech:
"From the start, Donald Trump has built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia.
He’s taking hate groups mainstream and helping a radical fringe take over one of America’s two major political parties."
"A man with a long history of racial discrimination, who traffics in dark conspiracy theories drawn from the pages of supermarket tabloids and the far reaches of the internet, should never run our government or command our military."
"If he doesn’t respect all Americans, he can’t serve all Americans!"
"Now, I know some people still want to give Trump the benefit of the doubt.
They hope that he will eventually reinvent himself – that there’s a kinder, gentler, more responsible Donald Trump waiting in the wings somewhere.
After all, it’s hard to believe anyone – let alone a nominee for President of the United States – could really believe all the things he says.
But the hard truth is, there’s no other Donald Trump. This is it.
Maya Angelou once said: "When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."
"When Trump was getting his start in business, he was sued by the Justice Department for refusing to rent apartments to black and Latino tenants.
Three years later, the Justice Department took Trump back to court because he hadn’t changed.
The pattern continued through the decades.
State regulators fined one of Trump’s casinos for repeatedly removing black dealers from the floor. No wonder the turn-over rate for his minority employees was way above average."
"He promoted the racist lie that President Obama isn’t really an American citizen – part of a sustained effort to delegitimize America’s first black President."
"In 2015, Trump launched his own campaign for President with another racist lie. He described Mexican immigrants as rapists and criminals."
"We all remember when Trump said a distinguished federal judge born in Indiana couldn’t be trusted to do his job because, quote, "He’s a Mexican."
Think about that.
The man who today is the standard bearer of the Republican Party said a federal judge was incapable of doing his job solely because of his heritage."
Even the Republican Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan, described that as "the textbook definition of a racist comment."
"This is someone who retweets white supremacists online, like the user who goes by the name "white-genocide-TM."
"His campaign famously posted an anti-Semitic image – a Star of David imposed over a sea of dollar bills – that first appeared on a white supremacist website.
The Trump campaign also selected a prominent white nationalist leader as a delegate in California. They only dropped him under pressure."
"Through it all, he has continued pushing discredited conspiracy theories with racist undertones.
Trump said thousands of American Muslims in New Jersey cheered the 9/11 attacks. They didn’t."
"His latest paranoid fever dream is about my health. All I can say is, Donald, dream on."
"It’s what happens when you listen to the radio host Alex Jones, who claims that 9/11 and the Oklahoma City bombings were inside jobs. He said the victims of the Sandy Hook massacre were child actors and no one was actually killed there.
Trump didn’t challenge those lies. He went on Jones’ show and said: "Your reputation is amazing. I will not let you down."
This man wants to be President of the United States."
"In times of crisis, our country depends on steady leadership… clear thinking… and calm judgment… because one wrong move can mean the difference between life and death.
The last thing we need in the Situation Room is a loose cannon who can’t tell the difference between fact and fiction, and who buys so easily into racially-tinged rumors.
Someone detached from reality should never be in charge of making decisions that are as real as they come.
It’s another reason why Donald Trump is simply temperamentally unfit to be President of the United States."
"And he’d ban Muslims around the world – 1.5 billion men, women, and children –from entering our country just because of their religion.
Think about that for a minute. How would it actually work? People landing in U.S. airports would line up to get their passports stamped, just like they do now.
But in Trump’s America, when they step up to the counter, the immigration officer would ask every single person, "What is your religion?"
And then what?
What if someone says, "I’m a Christian," but the agent doesn’t believe them.
Do they have to prove it? How would they do that?"
"Under Donald Trump, America would distinguish itself as the only country in the world to impose a religious test at the border.
Come to think of it, there actually may be one place that does that. It’s the so-called Islamic State. The territory ISIS controls. It would be a cruel irony if America followed its lead."
"Trump likes to say he only hires the "best people." But he’s had to fire so many campaign managers it’s like an episode of the Apprentice.
The latest shake-up was designed to – quote – "Let Trump be Trump." To do that, he hired Stephen Bannon, the head of a right-wing website called Breitbart.com, as campaign CEO.
To give you a flavor of his work, here are a few headlines they’ve published:
"Birth Control Makes Women Unattractive and Crazy."
"Would You Rather Your Child Had Feminism or Cancer?"
"According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups, Breitbart embraces "ideas on the extremist fringe of the conservative right. Racist ideas.
Race-baiting ideas. Anti-Muslim and anti-Immigrant ideas –– all key tenets making up an emerging racist ideology known as the ‘Alt-Right.’"
"The de facto merger between Breitbart and the Trump Campaign represents a landmark achievement for the "Alt-Right." A fringe element has effectively taken over the Republican Party."
He talks casually of abandoning our NATO allies, recognizing Russia’s annexation of Crimea, and of giving the Kremlin a free hand in Eastern Europe more generally.
American presidents from Truman to Reagan have rejected the kind of approach Trump is taking on Russia.
"This is a moment of reckoning for every Republican dismayed that the Party of Lincoln has become the Party of Trump. It’s a moment of reckoning for all of us who love our country and believe that America is better than this.
Twenty years ago, when Bob Dole accepted the Republican nomination, he pointed to the exits and told any racists in the Party to get out.
The week after 9/11, George W. Bush went to a mosque and declared for everyone to hear that Muslims "love America just as much as I do."
In 2008, John McCain told his own supporters they were wrong about the man he was trying to defeat. Senator McCain made sure they knew – Barack Obama is an American citizen and "a decent person."
We need that kind of leadership again."
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http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2016...slim-lead-over-Hillary-Clinton/4311472221679/
UPI/CVoter poll: Donald Trump maintains slim lead over Hillary Clinton
The online poll shows Trump with 48.52 percent to Clinton's 47.73 percent after both candidates edged up slightly overnight. Correspondingly, the percentage of "other" voters, defined as anyone who did not select Trump or Clinton, fell to its lowest level to date, 3.74 percent.
UPI/CVoter poll: Donald Trump maintains slim lead over Hillary Clinton
The online poll shows Trump with 48.52 percent to Clinton's 47.73 percent after both candidates edged up slightly overnight. Correspondingly, the percentage of "other" voters, defined as anyone who did not select Trump or Clinton, fell to its lowest level to date, 3.74 percent.
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May God bless America. Because now those blessings are needed the most.
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Most of the Trump supporters here are neither Americans...nor have the slightest clue about how American politics works.
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if anything, non American watchers are going to view and call it neutrally, sometimes you have to zoom out to get a better picture etc.
and American presidential politics are not that hard to understand at all.
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It will be released just before the 3rd presidential tv debate, normally a game changer in American elections. Interesting times ahead...especially the month of October. Opinion polls right now holds little meaning... Real stuff starts once the debates kicks in!
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The fourth largest, the 1.4 million member Teamsters union unanimously endorsed Hillary, the other three giants, National Education Association (almost 3 million members), AFSCME (1.6 million) Service Employees International Union (1.5 million), have already endorsed her. She was also endorsed by the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), which is a national trade union center and the largest federation of unions in the United State, it has 12 million active and retired members.
Teamsters Endorse Hillary Clinton for President
Clinton Will Be a Strong Voice for Working Families
(WASHINGTON) – Today, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters announced its endorsement of Hillary Clinton for president. The Teamsters General Executive Board unanimously voted to endorse the former senator and secretary of state.
“We are proud to endorse Hillary Clinton for President of the United States,” said Teamsters General President James P. Hoffa. “She is the right candidate for the middle class and working men and women across the country. She will stand strong for the workers of America by fighting to reject job-killing trade deals, enforcing labor laws and working to provide retirement security for millions of people who have sacrificed so much for the chance to retire with dignity.
“The Oval Office needs to be occupied by a serious candidate who understands what it means to govern responsibly,” Hoffa said. “Donald Trump supports national right-to-work laws that are proven to weaken the middle class and has a long track record of shipping jobs out of the country as a businessman. He is no friend to working Americans.”
Founded in 1903, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters represents 1.4 million hardworking men and women throughout the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. For more information, please visit
Looks like she got the scare of her life, maybe Donnie didn’t do his make up.
Teamsters Endorse Hillary Clinton for President
Clinton Will Be a Strong Voice for Working Families
(WASHINGTON) – Today, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters announced its endorsement of Hillary Clinton for president. The Teamsters General Executive Board unanimously voted to endorse the former senator and secretary of state.
“We are proud to endorse Hillary Clinton for President of the United States,” said Teamsters General President James P. Hoffa. “She is the right candidate for the middle class and working men and women across the country. She will stand strong for the workers of America by fighting to reject job-killing trade deals, enforcing labor laws and working to provide retirement security for millions of people who have sacrificed so much for the chance to retire with dignity.
“The Oval Office needs to be occupied by a serious candidate who understands what it means to govern responsibly,” Hoffa said. “Donald Trump supports national right-to-work laws that are proven to weaken the middle class and has a long track record of shipping jobs out of the country as a businessman. He is no friend to working Americans.”
Founded in 1903, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters represents 1.4 million hardworking men and women throughout the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. For more information, please visit
Looks like she got the scare of her life, maybe Donnie didn’t do his make up.
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No they aren't...They don't live here...they don't know about popular opinion among people....they have very limited ideas on the issues that effect the people...you can't "call" an election neutrally...supporting one candidate over another isn't calling it...and I have already had the conversation with your friend...he thinks if Trump looses it will mean Hilary has rigged the election...that shows a very deep lack of understanding of how the electoral system of the US works...and you giving into rally effect shows how little you know how American politics works.....it has been historically proven that rally turnout is never indicative of popular votes...and it has also been proven that popular vote does not guarantee a election....the college determines the final verdict.
31% of 2016 voters are ethnic minorities.
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and the flipside, that because (the domestic) issues do not effect them, they are far more likely to be non-partisan.
I like Trump, I'm not pretending to be neutral but there is clearly a bias in the way the US media is covering it with virtually all major tv networks and publications.
well argue that with him, them.
I have never posted anything about any rigged elections here.
sure, given Bernie (there is some talk of fraud there) and other past candidates who held big rallies but still lost, the crowds might not mean much after all, but you still have to admit the scale of those gatherings is quite impressive, Obamaesque even. He's beaten ZZ Top and Elton John etc for attendance records at some of those venues lol
I know, happened twice earlier, and it is a much harder path for a gop guy, but this race is so much fun.. 2 more months of shit-slinging e-mail leaking gossipmongering dirty tricks fun
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and the flipside, that because (the domestic) issues do not effect them, they are far more likely to be non-partisan.
I like Trump, I'm not pretending to be neutral but there is clearly a bias in the way the US media is covering it with virtually all major tv networks and publications.
well argue that with him, them.
I have never posted anything about any rigged elections here.
sure, given Bernie (there is some talk of fraud there) and other past candidates who held big rallies but still lost, the crowds might not mean much after all, but you still have to admit the scale of those gatherings is quite impressive, Obamaesque even. He's beaten ZZ Top and Elton John etc for attendance records at some of those venues lol
I know, happened twice earlier, and it is a much harder path for a gop guy, but this race is so much fun.. 2 more months of shit-slinging e-mail leaking gossipmongering dirty tricks fun
Umm aren't domestic issues a key factor in an election?? US media has something for everyone...there are enough pro-Trump outlets...Fox itself is a bigger entity than any main stream media....so the bias of msm against Trump is balanced out by the bias of Fox and other right wing media against Hilary...There was no fraud against Bernie...the only thing the email shows is that the Dems(Schultz and some key members) WANTED(no evidence of any action taken against Bernie) Hilary to win(Duh!!! Bernie isn't even a proper Democrat...he is a life long independent)...why is anyone surprised by this?? The republicans have been pretty open about not wanting Trump to win...it is pretty natural.
Trump isn't cut out to be president...just look at the Trump Pence 60 minute interview....it was cringe worthy.
Wall street bilderberg bohemian grove 9/11 rothschild koch brothers area 51 reptilians elites moon landing fluoride in water vaccination muslim brotherhood cia...beat that argument with your "logic" and "rational thought"...huh!
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the key factor in most national elections, but US foreign policy effects virtually everyone else, which is why the whole world is watching.
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No wonder more than 90% African-Americans are supporting Hillary.
THE AD It opens with white text set against a black backdrop: “Donald Trump’s Message to the African-American Community.” Mr. Trump is then shown, tieless in a suit and a white “Make America Great Again Hat,” repeating his “What do you have to lose?” line and depicting a grim state of life for African-Americans: “You’re living in poverty, your schools are no good, you have no jobs.”
That is followed by a clip of Mr. Trump at a rally in June, shouting, “There’s my African-American!”; scenes of violence against African-American protesters at his rallies; and a CNN report stating that Trump Management was charged in the 1970s with housing discrimination against African-Americans. The ad slowly builds to a one-word conclusion to Mr. Trump’s repeated question: “What the hell do you have to lose?” White text on black background answers: “Everything.”
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That is followed by a clip of Mr. Trump at a rally in June, shouting, “There’s my African-American!”; scenes of violence against African-American protesters at his rallies; and a CNN report stating that Trump Management was charged in the 1970s with housing discrimination against African-Americans. The ad slowly builds to a one-word conclusion to Mr. Trump’s repeated question: “What the hell do you have to lose?” White text on black background answers: “Everything.”
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2016 General Election: Trump vs. Clinton
Currently tracking 262 polls from 38 pollsters
This chart combines the latest opinion polls into trendlines using a poll-tracking model and is updated whenever a new poll is released.
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