That wouldnât have a hope of turning it around mate, no shock factor.
Bandage, Romney won in 2012 by an almost 16% margin, most polls have Trump leading by around 5%. Itâs unlikely alright, but that swing is significant and would be a huge embarrassment to the top.
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It would be embarrassing. However the state is not âin playâ, as you said. He will win it, just not by as much as in the past.
Part of this is not Trump though. The state is becoming more purple, with hundreds of thousands of Libril California and Yankee transplants, combined with an ever increasing number of young Latino voters coming on line with each election cycle. The big cities in Texas all vote heavily Democrat, all went to Obama in last two elections. Houston elected a openly lesbian mayor.
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Oh shit, youâre not @Bandage, I was wondering why you were speaking in such an intelligent, knowledgeable way with excellent grammar and spelling.
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What is going to happen in senate and congress elections now?
The republicans will win
Senate - Looks like the Democrats will have a 1/2 seat majority . Even if it end up 50-50 Tim Kaine has the casting vote.
Congress - There is fuck all chance that the Democrats will gain control (they need a 30 seat swing). They will however likely reduce the Republicans majority in order to be in a better position in 2 years time. Their chances of doing that in 2018 will however be screwed by the worst satisfaction rating of any president ever with moves beginning to impeach President Clinton.
I know a lot of people in Michigan that are planning to vote for Trump and they donât necessarily agree with him. Theyâre not racist or redneck, theyâre actually pretty decent people and so after talking to a number of them I wanted to write this.
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Donald Trump came to the Detroit Economic Club and stood there in front of Ford Motor executives and said âif you close these factories as youâre planning to do in Detroit and build them in Mexico, Iâm going to put a 35% tariff on those cars when you send them back and nobodyâs going to buy them.â It was an amazing thing to see. No politician, Republican or Democrat, had ever said anything like that to these executives, and it was music to the ears of people in Michigan and Ohio and Pennsylvania and Wisconsin - the âBrexitâ states.
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You live here in Ohio, you know what Iâm talking about. Whether Trump means it or not, is kind of irrelevant because heâs saying the things to people who are hurting, and thatâs why every beaten-down, nameless, forgotten working stiff who used to be part of what was called the middle class loves Trump. He is the human Molotov Cocktail that theyâve been waiting for; the human hand grande that they can legally throw into the system that stole their lives from them. And on November 8, although they lost their jobs, although theyâve been foreclose on by the bank, next came the divorce and now the wife and kids are gone, the carâs been repoed, they havenât had a real vacation in years, theyâre stuck with the shitty Obamacare bronze plan where you canât even get a fucking percocet, theyâve essentially lost everything they had except one thing - the one thing that doesnât cost them a cent and is guaranteed to them by the American constitution: the right to vote.
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They might be penniless, they might be homeless, they might be fucked over and fucked up it doesnât matter, because itâs equalized on that day - a millionaire has the same number of votes as the person without a job: one. And thereâs more of the former middle class than there are in the millionaire class. So on November 8 the dispossessed will walk into the voting booth, be handed a ballot, close the curtain, and take that lever or felt pen or touchscreen and put a big fucking X in the box by the name of the man who has threatened to upend and overturn the very system that has ruined their lives: Donald J Trump.
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They see that the elite who ruined their lives hate Trump. Corporate America hates Trump. Wall Street hates Trump. The career politicians hate Trump. The media hates Trump, after they loved him and created him, and now hate. Thank you media: the enemy of my enemy is who Iâm voting for on November 8.
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Yes, on November 8, you Joe Blow, Steve Blow, Bob Blow, Billy Blow, all the Blows get to go and blow up the whole goddamn system because itâs your right. Trumpâs election is going to be the biggest fuck ever recorded in human history and it will feel good
Who wrote that? Absolutely bang on the money by the way.
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Iâm sure I read something similar from Michael Moore recently.
Michael Moore. The empire is about to crumble.
Not this election as trump patently doesnât want it and has insulted just enough sections of society to avoid it. Be interesting in four years though.
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Have you been following the SNL debate sketches? Obviously SNL are far from what they were, but every now and then, they hit it again.
Baldwin is good there, even if heâs just adding on a bit to his 30 Rock character. The states lost the opportunity of a lifetime when sanders was blocked by the dems. The ex middle class are gonna be in ever worse shape in the future, God knows who theyâll vote for then.
Poor old Hillary is just letting Mrs Obama do all the talking at her event tonight.
What a surprise!!
Since Dec 2014, the Clinton campaign and the DNC were in cahoots.
Poor old Bernie Sanders had the DNC working against him.
More votes lost for hillary.
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I like Michael Moore, he can be OTT at times but sometimes you have to hit people over the head to get their attention. As I have been saying since the campaign began, the parallels between this US election and Brexit are striking. Just as the political and economic policies in England resulted in a boom for residents of South East England and stagnation and decline for the rest of the country, the same is true in the US. The North East and West coasts are booming, driven by the technology and finance sectors, and the rest of the country, which relied on more traditional industries, has stagnated and basically been told to go fuck itself by Washington. Thatâs the dynamic behind the support for a political outsider like Trump, who, whether he can fix anything or not isnât the point, the point is he is the only one openly stating the system is broken.
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Actually much earlier than that. Hillary was also the chosen one in 2008, the DNC couldnât oppose Obama as to do so would be regarded as racist. Bernie was never going to be allowed become the candidate.