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And if the last bubble is

PeraclesPlease — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 20:39:58 +0000

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And if the last bubble is similar, she'll fall to 71% by election day - which are pretty good odds compared to previous election cycles. And her 5.6% leading polling margin is a winner for every election in 40 years.

If it makes you feel better, Huffpost has it 98% to 2%.

Remember, polls and predictions are like playing with Monopoly money.

Flavius... From Sam Wang at

oldenGoldenDecoy — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 15:22:08 +0000

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Flavius... From Sam Wang at PEC . . .

The thorn in "Click-Bait Nate" Silver's side.

election.princeton.edu/

~OGD~

Campaign thoughts from Tom

NCD — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 15:06:27 +0000

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Campaign thoughts from Tom Toles, 'When the only tool you have is an arsenal"

.....The darker side of this fear is that these very guns are going to be needed soon to fight the tyranny. Apparently, it’s the tyranny of a legally elected government in a democratic system, but details, details.

The idea is openly argued that armed insurrection is what the Second Amendment is really all about, and to have an insurrection, you need a tyranny to insurrect against, real or imagined. And more than a few are apparently feverishly imaginative. Gun ownership is starting to look more like arsenal-building, in that the average number of guns kept by households that own guns has doubled since 1994.

So the right is all dressed up for a revolution, and it only needs someone to give the signal. And there you have him, Donald Trump. He may lose the election, but hey, what’s an election to him? Rigged, is what. And when the election is rigged, what do you have? Why, a tyranny. And what do you do when you have a tyranny?

Nate Silver gives HRC an 81%

Flavius — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 13:34:51 +0000

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Nate Silver gives HRC an 81% chance which would be great if

he hadn't given her an 88% 10 days ago.

Republicans say liberals are

NCD — Thu, 27 Oct 2016 22:51:39 +0000

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Republicans say liberals are "going to open the door for people with malicious intent who would masquerade as transgenders to come in and actually take advantage and have access to our kids," so they pass birth certificate/gender police bathroom laws.

Then, exhibiting Orwellian doublethink, they prepare for civil insurrection if an avowed bragging serial sexual predator is not elected President.

Doublethink: the acceptance of or mental capacity to accept contrary opinions or beliefs at the same time, especially as a result of political indoctrination.