I'm taking a victory lap and ignoring all the other  incorrect forecasts I made.

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Tell me where I'm wrong.

Huma  could not have sent more than 24,000 emails to Hillary . Let's say

Col A           Col B

1200 days X 20/day =s  24,000

    or more likely either Col A or B or both is too high and the total will be no more than 12,000

don't make her wronger.

End of story.

She admitted she made a mistake.. OK

Comey  ruled it wasn't indictment- worthy. Doesn't become so because

Abedin also participated

Next question?

That was Nate Silver's comment.

It'll do.

or maybe 52/48 with Trump at 52.

I don't expect it to move the needle  but we don't need it to do.

So far so good. 

the Pence candidacy in 2020. 

If he hadn't ended with his moving right- to- life statement he might have also  provided a small gain for the ticket but,unfairly,  that sincere discussion will detract more from the Trump campaign than he assisted it with his polished performance. Fortunately.

and Trump won't have lost any of the people who are currently supporting him. 

She may have won some of the undecided. He won't have.

that's the title of a article/blog in Daily kos by Armando.

The FBI has released a report on Hillary's email "scandal". Armando goes through it point by point and comments.

If you're going to comment read that first. I haven't included a link- it's easy enough to go to Daily kos and I'm not sure about the propriety of linking to other paddlers in the Internet puddle.

It's on the opening page, on the right a few clicks down  under recommended

Read it and draw your own conclusions.

I was pleased.

On August 1 we knew all we were going to know about Trump and Hillary. And she had a comfortable lead.And Roger Ailes was running Fox.

On September 1 we knew the same things,  538 showed her lead had dropped to an uncomfortable level. And Roger Ailes  had fully joined the Trump team

Turning and turning in the widening gyre

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere

The ceremony of innocence is drowned.

The best lack all conviction, while the worst

Are full of passionate intensity.

 Yeats ,1919

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Letter to the Editor

A good mix of nuts& bolts and aspirations.

I won't go down the path of whether it would have been better with Bernie. What should concern us is whether she wants  what we want her to want.

And whether we think she can get it.

Well with respect to the second, probably not.  Probably no one  could. But at least as she leaves the starting gate tonight she's heading in the right direction.

It was more than "good enough" it was pretty darn good. If you'll pardon the intense language. 

if that's not allowable some one younger and wiser should delete it.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/7/28/1553546/-very-worth-reading-Andrew-Sullivan-live-blogging-night-3

nor as wide as a church door  but tis enough, twill do*

Night two  twill do.

As you think of Bill's reminiscence ,right now, you're smiling.   

Well at least I am. So that'll have to do. Do you remember anything about last week that makes you smile? Does "lock her up" do that? Or do you feel vaguely dirty? As if you see someone being beaten up, who deserved it. But enough already.

Despite where we started from, where we ended was quite OK.I'll take it !

I was started down this path by the juxtaposition of two OGD links included  in  Michael's Freak Out Thread :

 Al Franken's MSNBC interview and a  Hillary ad . Franken described Kaine as a "progressive Catholic" ; the ad purported to show the children listening to Trump's tasteless insults to women who'd  outraged him by expecting  him to answer questions.

 FBI director Comey contributed to Obama’s opponents in each of his  elections:  August 2008, $2,300 to John McCain ; 2012 ,$5000 ( the maximum )to Mitt Romney .Also $2,500 to Susan Brooks (Ind.), Brooks went on to win a House seat.

Bernie:

Burlington mayoral election, 1981

Bernie Sanders (I) – 4,330 (43.43%)

Gordon Paquette (D) – 4,320 (43.32%)

Richard Bove (I) - 1,091 (11.76%)

Joe McGrath (I) - 139 (1.50%)

 1983

Bernie Sanders (I) – 6,942 (52.12%)

Judy Stephany (D) – 4,086 (30.68%)

James Gilson (R) – 2,292 (17.21%)

 1985

Bernie Sanders (I) – 5,760 (56.09%)

Brian D. Burns (D) – 3,275 (31.89%)

Diane Gallagher (I) – 1,234 (12.0

at least so far.

Hillary's "arrogant,selfish actions "   (Maureen Dowd) "contaminated......Barack Obama etc. etc.etc." by not  volunteering that there were  110 emails  with classified information among those she turned over to State.

And "at least 3 " more classified emails among not turned over to State.

This is nonsense.

Neither State,the do nothing  Congress,  the FBI  nor us should be wasting time discussing 113 "classified" emails even if they were all classified for deep security reasons.

And maybe they were.

Or not.

of the officers who were killed  doing their job.

So have the families now waiting in anxiety for their wounded family member to recover.

My heart goes out to them all.

I always liked the Tom Lehrer lyric that went

We are the folk song army

Everyone one of us cares

We all hate poverty

War and injustice

Unlike the rest of you squares

Somehow I'm unpleasantly reminded of it by the ever popular insult war  between the Dagblog Sander-rites and Hillary-ites.