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    • …..shows no signs of being the next President of the United States.

      And I’m not talking about the voters.
      I’m talking about Trump. He doesn’t act like a guy who wants the job.
      …Just sayin’

        • Each day as it seems we hear more about the smokin gun of Hilliary. Now disclosed in the UBS email between Hilliary and bank officials (Swiss Bank) that donations to the Clinton Foundation by UBS who facilitated tax cheats received favorable treatment with the US Treasury Dept. Bill received 1.5 mil in speaking fees and the Clinton Foundation 600K as reported.

  3. Tick. Tick. Tick.:
    1. “But he is finally putting up ads. He’s paying for commercials.”
    (If he wanted to win, why wouldn’t he have done that in the beginning of the campaign?)
    2. “This election isn’t even started. It’s not even Labor Day!”
    (Hasn’t started? Early voting begins in 23 days. Again: 23 days.)
    3. “Trump will kill her in the debates.”
    (HC is a veteran debater. Trump has never debated one on one. Good luck with that one.)
    4. “Well, we’re gonna be saved by Wikileaks.”
    (Right. You think they’re not prepared? The FBI already cleared her, you know. You need a grand slam to win.)

    Enough of the rhetoric. Here are the numbers:
    Trump is performing poorly in both Colorado and Virginia and not yet making large Rust Belt (MI, OH, PA, WI) States competitive, it is hard to see the Republican nominee being able to put together enough electoral votes to win the White House. Even adding Florida, Ohio, Iowa and Nevada to Romney’s 2012 vote would leave Trump short of the 270 electoral votes he would need for victory.
    And Ohio? Trump is gonna lose Ohio cause Ohio Gov. Kasich thinks he is a fool.
    Trump loses Ohio? Ballgame. Over. Go home. Loser bench.

    Tick. Tick. Tick.

    • I know how to solve this problem Trump has.

      We need Pressanykey to start slamming up CCO Tweets.
      …just pile them the hell up, all day, nonsense CCO Tweets from Breitbart and InfoWars.

      That will do it.
      (You guys have a good day….)

        • Hillary has as many scandals as a cheap hotel mattress has bed bug One can not snuggle in her bed for 4 years without being infested.

      • Don’t look now Wayne but that pesky old right wing LA Times poll has Donald Trump up by 3 today.

  4. The tightening of the race is due to the third-party candidates pulling voters from Clinton. Nothing will stop the Trump fans from voting for the racism he embodies.

    • LKB, racism is a false narrative. Even you should know that. Try sticking with issues and not the left wing talking points.

      • Wow, Kenna James makes a lot of sense. I’d vote for her before Mrs. Clinton..

    • Yawn. I can always tell when a democrats is running low on their schtick because they they cry racism…and democrats know racism better than anyone.

      • Well. It’s damn hard to deny. Trumps followers are racists….his followers read Breitbart and InfoWars…both “white-focused media sources.”

        You are not slithering away from this I-E. It’s way too prominent among Trump followers, and Trump knows exactly how to aggregate those dumb-asses.

        It looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks: It’s a duck.
        It is racism.
        I am right, and you are not wrong…..you’re just denying it, cause you agree, and cause you’re too embarrassed to acknowledge it. (That’s why Trump’s dog whistles on this are so prominent.)

        • …and hey, it’s not illegal to think like a racist. You can do that.
          It does mean you keep losing elections though.
          No one respects racists. Can you tell?

        • Racist, dog whistle, Breibart, info wars, do you want to include Rush also?

          As I have said DB, you argue just like the liberal you have become. Looks to me like you’re the new Dixie Democrat.

          Your desperation does not give you permission to call me a racist especially when you have loaned yourself out a tool for Hillary and the party of KKK Byrd whom Hillary admires.

          Go whistle Dixie pale face.

          • I-E……blah, blah, blah.

            Everyone is disagrees with you is a liberal.
            And it appears, anyone who can recognize racism and is willing to stand up to it….is castigated as a liberal too!!

            (Of course include Rush Limbaugh. BTW….my God man, Byrd is dead. He’s a dead racist.)

          • Being as I am a conservative, most everyone who disagrees with me will be a liberal.

            And being as you are disagree with me and other conservatives and agreeing with the proud liberal posters, You are more liberal than conservative.

            It a common tactic to try to relegate anyone who disagrees with their ideology as a racist because they can not advance their agenda on it’s merits. Being as you can in no way explain or defend how working to make Hillary president will further conservative values, you are left to calling others racist and bigots because you can not present a a reasonable argument for your Johnson come lately values other than you hate Trump. Sorry, you lost the primaries and no matter who wins you have lost the election. It’s going to be a bitter four years for you.

          • Byrd is dead, but he is still esteemed by the democrats and Hillary, and now you have become a defender of him also.

            Win or lose, Trump has exposed the gangrene in the GOP. No true conservative would choose a proven and devoted liberal with an undeniable history of scandals and ineptness over a questionable conservative unless they are a closet democrat.

          • BTW……everyone who disagrees with you is a liberal. You even said so yourself.

            And you support that those who disagree with you are liberals by acknowledging how Pressanykey, JoeBiden and Al Sharpie……agree with you, so that MUST make you a conservative, and everyone else a liberal.

            B.S. 100% In fact…..that acknowledges you sit with the other racists. The crap you espouse is bigotry, not conservatism. Being a bigot IS NOT WHAT CONSERVATIVE MEANS.

            That YOU think so…….is laughable. A fat joke. Some racists are liberals. Some racists are conservatives. BUT being a racist and a bigot DOES NOT mean you are a conservative.

            (The race card is in play CAUSE TRUMP IS A FREAKING RACIST. Best evidence? The White Nationalists make up more of his followers than any other. It’s not “blue collar guys”……that lead the pack for Trump. It’s white nationalist bigots. THERE is your evidence. …..and I supported my point with evidence, Sir. )

        • “Trumps followers are racists….his followers read Breitbart and InfoWars…both ‘white-focused media sources.'”

          Are people who read ‘black focused’ (Essence, Ebony, Urban Belle) or ‘latino focused’ (Urban Latino, Fama, Somos Primos) or ‘other’ specific race/culturally focused media sources also racist, or is it just whitey?

          • EWTN is a Catholic network. They aren’t racists.
            They’re just a bunch of Catholics.
            There is a BIG difference DeltaB.

        • …..yep, I-E…..look.
          You’ve attracted cheerleaders for the racist cause.
          Trump has the same problem.

          • No, I have attracted A cheerleader for the truth and A false accuser who has nothing left but to call others racist when they are not.

            You, Half, and a few others were all over me to answer how my values would fair better under Trump, which I did, and I challenged ou and Half to explain how your values are going to fair better under Hillary, which you have not. You have not, because you can not. That is why you have had to resort to playing the liberal race card.

          • Cause my values are spoken by Johnson, the Libertarian. I’m voting for Johnson.

            Asked. Answered.

          • So you are pro-choice, Favor LGBT issues over religious freedom, and liberal immigration policies? Johnson leans progressive and weld is even more progressive, and your Johnson come lately #never Trump conversion will help put the most hyper liberal of all candidates in for four years.

            I at least made an attempt to explain what values I was concerned for and to explain why they would fare better under Trump. You just snarl “My values are spoken by Johnson” and call other bigots. What’s going to become of your values under Hillary pale face?

    • Funny how Kennedy swam home to his hotel to sleep and complained when a noisy guest woke him up at 3 am and Hillary went back to bed and slept while our Ambassador was calling for help.

      I guess those who support Hillary and think that they won’t be affected by her scandalous nature would jump off a building hoping that the law gravity would be suspended before they hit the pavement.

      But Trump will start a nuclear war yet Hillary who could not be trusted with EMails can be trusted with our nuclear codes. She will probably sell them to the Chinese.

      • INDIANA ENOCH…..yours is infantile schoolyard logic.

        Comparing email security and maintenance failures to a dangerous fool who even the Pentagon acknowledges should not have access to nuclear codes. Email to nuclear codes!!!!

        Pure and simple ignorance….that masks some dark cultural obsession.

        Yeah. You read that right. You deny it Indiana Enoch, but this all bigotry and culture war hate:

        “…and he piled upon the whales white hump, the sum of all of the rage and hate felt by his own race. If his chest had been a cannon, he would have shot his heart upon it.”

        • DON BECKER
          Once again like the Dixie Hillary-crat you have become you jump to hide behind every liberal tactic you can find.

          Who with a reasonable mind trust some on with more when the have proven they can not be trusted with less?

          Who with a reasonable mind believes that someone has shown herself to be opportunistic and scandalous believes that in four years she will not take advantage of the most powerful office to benefit herself and not cause harm to our nation?

          Go on and whistle Dixie with your desperation accusations of bigotry and cultural hate. Your a tool for the part of race repression and suppression. pale face. You’re being played like a fiddle.

          • Tell me again how a vote for Trump is the only way you can have a “voice”. Because it’s seems you use your “voice” already quite freely. That 1/3 part of agreement you have with Trump’s agenda? Still a vague black hole of a mystery….

          • No, I have explained answered that question enough and I am not going to keep answering until i say something you can twist into what you want to hear.

            It’s time you answered my question. How will conservative values fare under Hillary?

          • The same as they will under Trump.
            Seriously, Johnson wants to discriminate on a state level. He should be your guy.

        • Sorry I-E.
          Your arguments are all spear rattling. They never pierce the skin. Shallow. Evasive.

          “she gets some, she will want more….because she is bad.”

          That’s your argument! And you use it as license for anything that pops in your head.
          Last…….THIS DENYING THE RACISM element of Trump’s campaign – TOTALLY obvious and like catnip to the white nationalists who love him – is your undoing and bursts all of your credibility.

          I am right. You are wrong. By that…..I mean far more educated, family oriented voters agree with me…..and that will be PROVEN viewing results of the election.

          You will still deny…….but THAT is why you have been sitting on that losers bench. And why after the election, you will still be there.

          How’s that Tonto.

          • Cool, now you added educational elitism to your liberal repertoire. Man intelligent conservatives and republicans are voting for Trump because they are smart and know what will happen to true conservative values under Hillary.

            Johnson will not win and Hillary might, but you will still whistle Dixie that you somehow have won.

            Oh, I love the caps. Is that the parts where you are REALLY REALLY right?

          • INDIANA ENOCH…..:

            You did a good job explaining that.

            You’re wrong. And the election will prove that.

            But you did a good job…..Sir.

  6. The cities like Detroit and Chicago are the new Plantations, and for the last 30+ years their democrat political leaders have been their new Masters.

    When Donald Trump asked black voters, “what do you have to lose?”, is it any wonder that the question resonated with them?

        • That’s what I thought:
          “It resonated with them alright. Like, ‘Hmph. The Trump man suddenly likes black people?'”

          Look, Trump “outreach” to Hispanics and African Americans means:
          1. He knows there’s not enough angry white men to elect him. He needs more votes.
          2. He is desperate. Everyone that isn’t an angry old white man, he’s lost their vote. He’s looking in empty rooms for voters now labeled, “Black and Hispanic Americans for Trump.”
          3. Let me repeat: Those rooms are empty.
          4. The issue isn’t whether Trump is a racist. HIS FOLLOWERS are racists. The alt-right is not Republican, it is the next generation White Nationalist Party.

          Trump doesn’t want to be President.
          Pressanykey and JoeBiden are being USED. They’re too dumb to know it.

    • Ha Ha. If you only knew how that resonated with the black people that I know. They think Trump is CRAZY and they are right. You think that if Trump can go get a hair cut at a black barber shop that he will win over the black vote? Now that just absolutely NUTS.

      What have they got to lose? EVERYTHING! They will lost it all if a guy like Trump gets in the White House. The black women with a college degree think that Trump is NUTS. And most all black men will not vote for Trump. Hillary will sweep the Black and Latino Vote in a land slide.

  10. You guys are too mean and disrespectful for a learned discussion. That LA Times poll is interesting. I wonder who those 3,000 people they are tracking are and why they change their mind so much. They also need to include Johnson and Stein if they want a real calibration on what may actually happen.

    Change of subject. How many of you knew that 33% of the counties in the United States now have only on health insurance carrier in the ACA networks? That could turn to zero for many of those by November 1st if more insurers drop out. A link to the article that I learned that from is below.

    So how does a law that mandates that we purchase a product or face a fine work if there is no product available to buy like the case in Pinal County, AZ? Do such people get fined? If not can ACA’s mandate be enforced on the other 67% of the counties?. This is about to get real if a few more carriers drop out.

    It is nearly a prisoner’s dilemma. By now everyone with good sense knows that the ACA needs serious changes to be viable for much longer. Everyone also knows that the Republican congress is in no mood to bail out the ACA after the “pass it before we read it” debacle that was the equivalent of a big middle finger in their face. Congress is happy to repeal (and maybe replace) the ACA but no Democrat president will ever sign that.

    It looks like we are headed for a total meltdown unless reasonable people in congress and the White House consent to work together for a sane practical solution to the mess that has been made. What are the odds of this happening?

    http://reason.com/blog/2016/08/29/obamacare-has-both-a-policy-problem-and

    • “The health-care law has had unequivocal successes. In some areas, lots of insurers compete on the exchanges, which helps keep premiums low. In Cleveland and Los Angeles, the average premium for a benchmark health plan actually declined in 2016. The number of uninsured Americans continues to shrink, hitting 9.1 percent last year — the lowest level ever.

      The average premium for the people who receive tax credits – 85 percent of the people signed up through the exchanges — is just $106 per month. People who qualify for the income-based tax credits are largely sheltered from premium increases.”

      “Cigna, for example, has said it has filed to enter exchanges in three new states next year.”

      I can cherry pick like you can cherry pick but the only solution lies in the Republican Party trying to help make it work and they’ll never be willing to do that because the people they actually represent have no problem acquiring insurance.

      Here is the only replacement for ObamaCare the Pubs have come up with which is DOA to their own members;

      http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewherper/2014/01/28/the-proposed-republican-replacement-for-obamacare-is-a-big-tax-hike/

      Such a damn shame….

      • Here is another article on the successes of Obamacare. The conclusions are debatable but this was the first time I had seen the cost for each new person who got insurance calculated. At $297,000 per person for newly insured citizens that makes the $20,000 each that the City of Evansville pays look like a steal. I think they did the math right since it was just the cost divided by the newly enrolled people.

        http://www.realclearpolicy.com/blog/2016/08/30/obamacare_no_successes_to_build_on_1702.html

        • You article says ObamaCare was going to add $2.9 trillion to the national debt but ObamaCare is paid for. That’s why the Pubs are so upset about it because they don’t like to pay for anything. Borrow and spend, borrow and spend, start a war, borrow and spend on it. Create Medicare Part D, not one friggin penny of it paid for. Borrow another trillion.

          Here’s a couple links to look over Wallace but the Kaiser Family Foundation is the finest place to research any health care questions there is without any bullshit involved;

          On costs;

          http://obamacarefacts.com/costof-obamacare/

          On per capita spending;

          http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/health-spending-per-capita/

          I would vote for Larry Bucshon, who I despise, if he would come up with a legitimate solution to our health care inflation but that’s not what he was sent there to do….

        • Interesting. So the 2.6 billion, if it is the increase in Medicaid, must be for those who were found to be eligible for Medicaid which would not be the the whole 8.8 million. Many however would have their premiums subsidized which would mean the cost for the ACA would be more than the 2.6 billion. I don’t see how we can go back, and forward for the ACA will be a crash. I believe that Trump or Hillary we will have govi-care.

    • There is no way that I am trusting that poll, as I and everyone else know that both the LA Times and USC are ultra liberal institutions. We are being played along with this up one day down the next crap, but it is all made up and at their prearranged time we will see a miraculous blowout where Hillary jumps ahead by bazillions. Bank on it.

      What can you say about the Clintons? They can not be shamed because they have no morals. They are parasites infecting the Country.

      • By the way my dear Regulator, the unfulfilled promises and financial failures of the ACA have absolutely nothing to do with Trump. They are the product of the arrogance of Pelosi, Reid, and President Obama. I would like to see a practical solution that would provide healthcare to all of our citizens. This poorly thought out and horribly implemented piece of law known as ObamaCare will never ever deliver that without massive changes. Everyone who has cognitive abilities has known it for five years.

        • No you wouldn’t.

          This is the only thing you care about Wallace;

          “Another $318 billion is generated by having those who earn a gross income over $200,000 pay 3.8 percent of investment income toward Medicare’s hospital insurance.”

          This affects you. So your fellow Americans having or not having insurance can take a back seat.

          My neighbor died last week and I’m next. There are more important things in life when you get my age than your 3.8 percent.

          Later….

    • Now you know that answer as well as anyone else does. The taxes have not been sufficient to pay the fee. Either through borrowing, taxation, and through printing currency the costs have stacked up. The total of all government spending is not covered through taxation, at least it hasn’t been since a single year in the late nineties. It is immaterial though. If the cost has been $2.6 Trillion that is what it is. Whether it is paid for from revenue or debt does not matter. I believe the $2.6 Trillion is the cumulative cost for the program thus far. It is still an astounding sum for 8.8 Million people.

  12. What kind of person would deny health care to all the citizens? Some of the usual suspects actually palpably cheer for the bumps in the ACA implemention as they pop up. Specious, cherry-picked articles and links to back their retrograde position only further exposes them. The sabotage of the health care act at the behest of partisan governors and greedy insurance companies is very sad. The politicians who participate in the Repbublican’s back-door obstruction of the ACA aren’t fit for office. Their citizens bear the brunt of their malfeasance.

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