The Democratic Safe House

[Willtor]

It hurts journalistic credibility to call the race the day before a major primary. I say this as someone who thinks they were technically correct and it didn't matter how much Bernie turned out the vote. But by reporting it when they did, they disenfranchised a lot of people as evidenced by the record number of newly-registered Democrats and the sub-2008 voter turnout in California.

Bad journalists. I don't like to attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence, but this was pretty blatant.

 

[stamperben]

Yeah, math counts.

 

[Willtor]

Clinton was in line to win the overall nomination, but I think AP (or whomever) wanted to close out the primaries with a solid final Super Tuesday that would undermine the Sanders momentum narrative and make her look less controversial among Dems than she is.

The entertaining consequence was #GirlIGuessImWithHer.

 

[FreeinChrist]

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Yeah, math counts.

They are still counting. There is nothing devious there.

 

[cow451]

Anybody notice that Donald Trump won just 75% of the GOP votes in CA?

 

[FreeinChrist]

So maybe folks voted in the Republican primary and voted for down ticket candidates and not for Trump?

 

[JustOneWay]

This graph sums up what a Trump administration's proposed policies would do the the economy, according to Moody's Analytics.

https://www.economy.com/mark-zandi/documents/2016-06-17-Trumps-Economic-Policies.pdf

Mr. Trump’s economic policy proposals should be considered through this lens. He has suggested that he might be willing to bend his position on taxes and perhaps tariffs. He has even intimated that his policy statements are simply a negotiating stance—he is asking for a lot more up front than he
ultimately expects to get. Having said this, what he is asking for isfiscally unsound. His tax and spending proposals will result in very large deficits and a much higher debt load

The upshot of Mr. Trump’s economic policy positions under almost any scenario is that the U.S. economy will be more isolated and diminished.

We had hopey changey... They have dopey changey!

 

[Arcangl86]

Does anybody remember what thread somebody kept trying to use an example of how Christians bakeries were not discriminatory because they wouldn't deny a birthday cake?

 

[Willtor]

Does anybody remember what thread somebody kept trying to use an example of how Christians bakeries were not discriminatory because they wouldn't deny a birthday cake?

Lol! I don't remember this, but please repost if you find it.

 

[Arcangl86]

Lol! I don't remember this, but please repost if you find it.

I need to find it now because i just found a story about a bakery that refused to make a birthday cake for a lesbian.

 

[FreeinChrist]

Has anyone seen Keith Olbermann's video about if Trump would pass an insanity test? It was rather scary.

I have been totally enjoying Steven Colbert lately!

 

[iluvatar5150]

ugh Hillary's speech suuuucks. She sounds like the uninspired wooden boobs the Republicans use for a warmup act in the 7:00 hour.

 

[FreeinChrist]

I'm enjoying it though she started off slow.

 

[FreeinChrist]

I really enjoyed Janet Granholm.

 

[cow451]

ugh Hillary's speech suuuucks. She sounds like the uninspired wooden boobs the Republicans use for a warmup act in the 7:00 hour.

Hillary's biggest deficit is that she is a terrible campaigner and speech-maker.

 

[FreeinChrist]

The rest of the convention was great for the most part.

Hillary could be a better speaker but I think the important thing for a President is good decision-making, and drawing people together, and diplomatic skills.

Trump would be a disaster for America. I really liked Michelle Obama's speech, President Obama's speech and some of the shorter things like:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/khizr-khan-donald-trump-muslim_us_579ac886e4b0e2e15eb551c5

“You have sacrificed nothing and no one,”

 

[Shiloh Raven]

I am honestly asking, what are the odds for a third party candidate to win the presidential election? I am sure it would be a total shock. I am also rather confident that both Clinton and Trump (and many of their supporters) would scream foul, particularly Trump and his campaign minions. But is the possibility of a third party candidate winning the election even feasible? I decided to ask my question here in this thread because I would like to avoid going around in circles with Republicans over my question right now.

 

[FreeinChrist]

It is really unlikely.

Trump scares me. He is totally unfit in temperment and knowledge of world affairs and has no diplomatic skills that are visible. He is a horrible example to children, and insensitive to others.

 

[Shiloh Raven]

I am in complete agreement with you about Trump. Honestly, I am more concerned about him and his minions bringing total devastation in their wake then I am concerned about Islamic extremism or any other threat to America. I think he, along with many of his devoted followers, pose a much bigger threat to national security and freedom.

 

[Evan Jellicoe]

I am a long-time Republican voter who has decided to vote Democratic this year. I have a number of carefully-thought-out Biblical reasons for choosing to do so. However, I’m not going to go into them yet. Instead, I want to make an observation. (Or a couple of them).

1) It seems to me that with politics in general, self-identified Christians seem just as enthusiastic as anybody else when it comes to hating the opposition rather than respecting them and giving fair reasons why they disagree. I try not to be that way.

2) Although I can get almost anybody in a Sunday school class to agree with the proposition “God is not a Republican,” I find it hard not to see a tendency to regard anybody who votes Democratic as not really a Christian (because, you know, abortion. . .)

3) I found myself a bit surprised that the Democratic safe house thread here has about half the number of views and replies as the Republican safe house. I mean, that many?? Maybe this place will turn out to be a little more balanced than I thought it would be.

Anyway, I’m pitching my tent here for as long as I’m welcome.