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Dewey, Cheatum, and Howe.



Edited, Aug 17th 2015 2:36pm by lolgaxe

He can, however, blame the Chinese. Which, while not entirely wrong as to source, it's a red herring.

I expect polls to hit the 30%s.

The GOP is in a panic over Trump. State parties in Virginia and N. Carolina are looking into changing their ballot access rules so that anyone who wants to be on the GOP ballot must pledge to support the GOP nominee and not make a third party run. The GOP couldn't corner him during the Fox News debate so they're scrambling for any alternative to stop a disaster.

Edited, Aug 25th 2015 8:51am by Jophiel

It's like the Titanic, except the iceberg is running for President.

I salute his commitment to personal responsibility. And his pumping a quarter of a million dollars into the local economy.

Imagine if he somehow didn't win his senate job.

It's like the Supernatural episode "Yellow Fever", where bullies are infected with a spiritual disease that literally scares them to death.

Trump, easily. I know you'll try to find equivalencies and stuff but Clinton polling 20 points ahead of her competition and beating every GOP challenger in general election polling is in no way "worse" than Trump dominating the GOP polling, driving the election conversation, forcing the candidates to take views based on what Trump is saying and a fear of a third party candidacy that's making states consider changing their ballot procedures.

But, sure, Clinton "should" be winning by a million-thousand points so that's totally the same thing.

Edited, Aug 25th 2015 7:34pm by Jophiel

Well, at least he's consistent with the "They SHOULD be winning by a hundred points -- this is a huge crisis for them!" routine. Remember when Obama twice lost the election because he wasn't leading by the margins Gbaji said were required?

Trust me Smash. No one is more dismayed at the rise of Trump than I. The guy's a walking caricature of disaster, yet somehow keeps polling well. I keep waiting for people to realize he's not really a valid candidate and move on. Hopefully, that'll happen sooner rather than later.

Scarily, it would actually be a tough call for me if the general actually came down to Clinton vs Trump. Actually, not really. As much as I utterly despise Clinton, I'd probably vote for her because I'm not one of those bleating people who blindly complain about "establishment candidates". I actually think they're far better in office than the outsiders that people think will swoop in and do a better job. Clinton would be a terrible president, but she probably wouldn't break things too badly. She just wouldn't make things any better (much like her husband), and the problems of today would be pushed down the road to tomorrow (just like her husband did). That's "bad", but not "really bad". Trump would fix things the way a bull fixes a china shop. He'd be as bad for this country from the Right as Obama has been from the Left. And that's not what we need at all.

I think Trump qualifies as an agitated bull. If we're following the analogy anyway.

My favorite is when GOP campaign leadership is asked if they would whether to see their candidate go against Clinton or Sanders/Biden/Warren, they always say Clinton, yet they always say positive things about the latter and attack Hillary. Now that is some horrible reverse psychology.

Media hype aside, HRC has been seen as the front runner for years and is being pounded daily. Everyone else, except maybe Bush and Trump, have basically been given a by. Once the field reduces down to a more manageable size, the dirt will come and everyone poll numbers will take a hit. So, for HRC to be ahead now, essentially with her "worst" dirt, that's actually a good sign.

Man, I really hope the general election is Trump vs Clinton so I can watch Gbaji support Hillary.