StrangeSox

QUOTE (iamshack @ Oct 8, 2016 -> 11:57 AM) No, it doesn't. You are absolutely correct. But there are a whole lot of women enabling him which is just a fact, and that needs to be part of the discussion. I really don't see how it does. Here's some more background on this story. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/dona...-hot-mic-936343 It's about a women who rejected Trump's gross advances rather than enabled him, and now multiple other women who are coming forward or who already have come forward who were on the receiving end of the same sort of behavior in the past.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Oct 8, 2016 -> 11:33 AM) Well, this is taking it a bit far. And I know this won't be a popular statement, but the women he encounters don't help themselves any by treating him with such reverence and respect because of his power and money. I'm sure you'll say that is victim shaming or whatever the term is, but let's face it, he wouldn't get away with this bs if women weren't falling at his feet all the time. Melania is a clear example. Let's call a spade a spade here. Do any of us think a woman like that would even be seen with a guy that looked and behaved like the Donald if he was just some middle class regular guy? No, it's what he's admitted to and women have accused him of in lawsuits before. And that sort of victim blaming shouldn't be popular. It doesn't matter how those women might respond to wealth or fame- it doesn't give someone like Trump carte blanch to sexually assault them, which is what he describes doing is. And you don't need to be as wealthy as Trump to get away with this, balta already referenced the Stanford swimmer case.

He's been accused of that exact behavior by actual women before, but this isn't the first time you've dismissed women being sexually assaulted.

The worst part isn't even the crude language, it's the admission that he sexually assaults women seemingly regularly.

There's a deposition from a lawsuit against Trump from several years back alleging this exact behavior. https://twitter.com/jonswaine/status/784497...src=twsrc%5Etfw A candidate for the President of the United States admitting to serial sexual battery on tape. This election just needs to be over already. edit: It's too bad none of the 16 other GOP candidates could be bothered to do any opposition research on Trump whatsoever during the primaries! edit2: it turns out that Trump was right all along...this is too much winning, please, Mr. Trump, I can't handle all of this winning...

Can't, ballots are already finalized in pretty much every state.

And video surfaced of Trump's 1993 testimony against allowing Indian casinos in which he says he didn't think they even looked Indian https://twitter.com/Khanoisseur/status/7844...src=twsrc%5Etfw This is gonna be a looooong month.

remember when a Putin stooge was running Trump's campaign?

Given the deluge of stories coming out already, and given that it's only 10/7, my guess is they've got recordings of Trump saying much, much worse than even that. edit: October Surprise is more like October Advent Calendar this year Trump camp's response is, uh, lol Ryan's timing this campaign has been impeccable. oh maybe he's going with to stop Trump from grabbing women "by the p****"

Trump still insisting that the Central Park Five are guilty http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/trump-...ticle-1.2821286 here is the ad he originally took out in the NYT calling for their execution

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Oct 7, 2016 -> 10:52 AM) Hm. I do look at 538 periodically - I must have missed that few days or whatever it was. I don't remember if it was their NowCast which is intentionally overreactive to new polls or if it was their polls-plus model, but one of them did have Trump at 55% to win right before the first debate.

QUOTE (brett05 @ Oct 7, 2016 -> 10:25 AM) At one point in the past three weeks Trump was leading the Electoral College. He has since the past couple of days closed up some races. In Nate Silver's panic-driven forecast for a very brief period, but in the rest of the aggregators, he wasn't. The last couple of days have had increasingly good polls for Clinton, and really the last couple of weeks have pushed her back into the 75%+ column in all of the aggregators.

QUOTE (illinilaw08 @ Oct 7, 2016 -> 10:21 AM) I don't think you understand how much that would cost. The tax code, health care, probate, the bankruptcy code (just off the top of my head) would all need to be changed to accommodate that. And sometimes, the laws regarding married couples make sense! Take the probate code for instance. If you are married and don't have a will, your estate passes to your spouse. That makes sense! It's easier to just understand and recognize the distinction. The State is involved with marriage. So are different churches. The State cannot mandate that the Catholic Church perform the sacrament of marriage between two guys, two gals, or even two people who haven't gone through all the hoops the Catholic Church makes people jump through before they will allow the marriage to take place. By the same token, however, the State cannot deny the equal protection of the law to same sex couples. It would be quite dumb to take all the time and expense necessary to change all the laws just because a certain portion of the population can't recognize the distinction between marriage, the religious sacrament, and marriage the civil contract. Right, marriage the civil contract is just a big bundle of stuff that you'd otherwise have to do piecemeal and for a lot more money and time.

QUOTE (brett05 @ Oct 7, 2016 -> 09:42 AM) I have stated that Hillary won the debate. Joe American thinks Trump has. Trump's only goal was to look Presidential and for the most part he did that. This Sunday will be very interesting as Trump continues to close leads on Hillary. No. No no no no no. That is exactly the point. Actual, legitimate polls show that "Joe American" thinks Clinton won the debate handily. Only garbage online polls had Trump winning, and again the legitimate polls found that people absolutely did not think he looked Presidential. You're still not showing that you actually understand the problem with the online polls you keep referring to. And as NSS pointed out, he's not leading in the polls. He's losing--bigly. He was losing by a little less in mid-September, but Clinton's reopened her large lead.

Speaking of local elections, the Cook County clerks office has put together "starter packs" to help encourage and guide people who might want to run for local offices. http://www.oakpark.com/News/Articles/10-6-...ing-candidates/ It helps them identify what offices they may be eligible for, and it helps them through the paperwork process.

QUOTE (brett05 @ Sep 27, 2016 -> 10:37 AM) And how many of those were one on one? That's right...Zero. You are right. I did find a couple more that favored Hillary. 90+% of the polls favor Donald. Deny the truth all you wish my friend. See this post really gives the impression that you don't really understand. You seem to think or at least thought that us dismissing the online polls was wishful thinking, that Trump actually won that debate and that the election is his for the taking.

White Stripes with a new t-shirt featuring some prescient lyrics

right wing has degraded into unskewing hurricanes now also ties into the lol online polls discussion

so sorry man

QUOTE (brett05 @ Oct 6, 2016 -> 01:08 PM) For which there is no evidence of "stuffing." There were posts on pro-trump message boards directing people to go vote at those polls. Regardless, you're still missing the underlying problem with self-selected polls. They're basically guaranteed to not be a representative sample of the population at large, as opposed to scientific polls which attempt to be. Those online polls are a result applicable only to the people who sought out and voted in those polls and you can't extrapolate those results to any larger population group. Scientific polling attempts to get a sample whose demographics closely resemble the population of interest at large. Building out the model of what the expected voter demographics will be is inherently subjective, but the results are still at least somewhat representative whereas those online polls aren't and never could be.

With the double points promotion they gave me and my A-List Preferred bonus, I'm basically getting buy-one-get-one-free flights from Southwest right now. Buy one get two if you count the companion pass for my wife.

The Tampa Bay Times with a timely endorsement of Clinton filled with many charts illustrating how things have improved under Obama http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/editorials...esident/2296789

He's such a policy wonk! *produces budget with fantasy numbers copy- pasted from the heritage foundation that results in sub 2% unemployment * *skips leg day*

Oh most definitely, but it's harder to separate yourself from Trump when you keep supporting him like that.

QUOTE (RockRaines @ Oct 6, 2016 -> 11:08 AM) The GOP is already starting to disconnect from him so they can hopefully keep congress and start to pass Ryan's agenda. Its a smart move. On the other hand, Ryan just announced that he's hitting the campaign trail with Trump.