(October 7, 2016 at 9:49 pm)KUSA Wrote: Bill Clinton survived more than that.

There's a big difference between a philanderer and a man who gets kicks from sexually assaulting women. And Clinton not being able to keep it in his pants is nowhere near as bad as what Trump, by his own admission, does.

(October 8, 2016 at 9:13 am)Tazzycorn Wrote:

(October 7, 2016 at 9:49 pm)KUSA Wrote: Bill Clinton survived more than that.

There's a big difference between a philanderer and a man who gets kicks from sexually assaulting women. And Clinton not being able to keep it in his pants is nowhere near as bad as what Trump, by his own admission, does.

Not to mention that it happened when he was already POTUS.

(October 7, 2016 at 10:55 pm)Bella Morte Wrote: Can we have him?

Why would you want him? He is a disgusting pig.

And people are acting like this is surprising when people have been trying to tell the country that this is the kind of person Trump is. He is a poor excuse for a human being. This is why I actually stop being friends with Trump supporters. This isn't a difference in opinions this is someone supporting a horrible man that is sexist and racist and they think it is ok that he leads our country... I have no time in my life for people like that. Now at least the country is starting to open their eyes.

(October 8, 2016 at 2:21 am)KevinM1 Wrote: Unfortunately, with our ADHD 24 hour news cycle and the built-in political reset with the Sunday shows, I anticipate this will be forgotten by the masses by Tuesday at the latest. I'd like to be wrong, but reality sucks sometimes.

It'll be a little longer than that. The Clinton campaign will keep this one going for a while, and the debate this week will put it on national display. This is a big one. This is video of Trump himself saying extremely vile things. This will be there for the next month.

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(October 8, 2016 at 9:24 am)mlmooney89 Wrote:

(October 7, 2016 at 10:55 pm)Bella Morte Wrote: Can we have him?

Why would you want him? He is a disgusting pig.

I give you:

Bella Morte's posting history.

(October 7, 2016 at 10:43 pm)AFTT47 Wrote:

(October 7, 2016 at 10:04 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Hardly surprising. Almost wish this came a little later in the campaign.

Me too. I'm hoping they can't actually replace him at this late a date. I'm thinking you would go through court battles in every state and there just isn't time. The Republicans have nothing to lose at this point though. As one Republican strategist put it, "I think the wheels just fell off."

It's well past the time for any putative replacement to be put on ballots in 36 states by well before today. Therefore if Trump were pushed, his name would still be on the ballot paper, and the RNC would probably have to try and get their voters to put his replacement in as a write in candidate. Nine states prohibit write in candidates, 34 more require that the candidate register as one usually by declaration, with the dates for declaration in some states likely to have already passed.

Also the Republicans own rule 9 (which allows for replacements) over whether Trump could be pushed if he doesn't want to go, so it's probably too late to rules lawyer.

Plus you've the problem of all the campaign ads being already booked, Republican donors likely not wanting to dig into their pockets again and wholesale changes of literature, ground messages and GOTV work means that if the Republicans were willing to change at this stage it would be an unholy mess for them, and probably mean a massive split in the party before the election.

(October 8, 2016 at 9:24 am)mlmooney89 Wrote: Why would you want him? He is a disgusting pig.

Fangirl of guys like that. She only looks at what she wants to see. Their populous appeal to easy solutions. Never at the whole package. Polish a turd the right way and she's all for it.

(October 8, 2016 at 9:27 am)mlmooney89 Wrote: And people are acting like this is surprising when people have been trying to tell the country that this is the kind of person Trump is. He is a poor excuse for a human being. This is why I actually stop being friends with Trump supporters. This isn't a difference in opinions this is someone supporting a horrible man that is sexist and racist and they think it is ok that he leads our country... I have no time in my life for people like that. Now at least the country is starting to open their eyes.

This has really driven a wedge between my sister and myself.  She has had a tough life, never finished high school and had kids early - several.  She has received public assistance but has also worked hard.  Owned and ran a couple restaurants, salting loads of cash away off while paying starvation wages.  She has become a bigot and misanthrope generally.  She is depressed, suffers from stress and prefers alternative medicine.  Feeling bad for her I've tried to connect with her around our mutual appreciation for gardening.  But politically she just listens to Rush L. and such like.  

I finally had to detach from her Facebook feed.  So awful.  Makes it really hard to enjoy what limited connection we had knowing how vile her thoughts are.  Don't know what comes next for us but I sure don't look forward to seeing her.

(October 8, 2016 at 9:04 am)Tiberius Wrote:

(October 8, 2016 at 4:56 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: The fact that Trump has gone up slightly in the polls tells you all you need to know about the American electorate.

There are no poll results from after this video emerged. Poll results usually take a few days to come out. Since the debate two weeks ago, he's been on a downward trend in both national and state polls (the state polls are more important):

http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016...promo#plus

I think yesterday he had a slight uptick in some state polls, but that was likely due to some small recovery from the past few weeks, and not related to his comments.

Probably true. However I am still expecting the polls to go up for him given past performance.

FNC is reporting a committee in the RNC has been placed on standby, and their function is to select a new candidate for the presidency.

FNC pundit seems to think there is no way with the existing rules for the party to delete Trump, but should he bail, the process to jinn up a name to replace him with has started.