2016 General Election Thread

[Malcolm]

I bet a dollar Romney could jump in right now as an independent and win.

No, but I bet that Bloomberg could have

Yeah, except he's only slightly less of a commie than Bernie.

[Leisher]

At the end of his campaign Bernie proved himself to be a massive sellout.

[Malcolm]

Arkansas "accidentally" makes thousands ineligible to vote.

[TheCatt]

538 predicts 337 to 201. I'm guessing Trump loses AZ, SC, and GA.

353 to 185 is latest update. AZ flipped to Clinton. GA is tight

[Malcolm]

If I were Hillary, my new election goal would be "flip Texas while keeping Illinois, Cali, NY, and Florida."

[Alhazad]

If I were Hillary, my new election goal would be "flip Texas while keeping thousands of stolen children's souls from fleeing my body."

[Leisher]

If I were Hillary, my new election goal would be "flip Texas while keeping thousands of stolen children's souls from fleeing my body."

I laughed.

[Leisher]

Curt Schilling announces he'll run for president.

[Malcolm]

He has no money.

[Vince]

On voter fraud.

[Malcolm]

More reasons why Gary is screwed.

He needs 15 percent in national polls to be included in the main presidential debates in September and October. As of now, most polls give him less than 10 percent.

Hmm, I wonder why...

On Monday, Johnson said his campaign has attracted 40,000 people so far who pledged to donate at least $15 to his effort on Aug. 15, when he is trying to create a "money bomb"--a single day when he hopes he can announce a multi-million dollar fund-raising haul. He would use the money to finance campaign ads and to strengthen his state-by-state organization.

The amount of cash you need to net 15% on average, even including the shittiest polls someone could possibly pull out of their ass, is staggering and I don't think "multi-million" is implying enough zeroes.

[Leisher]

I'll give him $15 for that and my vote.

[Malcolm]

You'd have a better chance for a real impact if you bought $15 worth of lottery tix and gave the winnings to Gary.

[Malcolm]

Latest update:
Mrs. Bill with 360 electoral votes. Billionaire Carrot Top in a distant second with 177. Yet again, he's got nothing but Texas ... which is the only place netting him a double digit gain besides Tennessee. He's ahead in all the crappy midwest and southern states that sum to shit.

[Leisher]

A lying, bigoted sack of shit thinks Trump is intentionally throwing the election.

Also, while I don't think Trump will win, I still believe the polls are completely wrong.

Here's my thinking:
1. Nobody, and I mean nobody, is excited to vote for Hillary. Her supporters staying home cannot be overlooked.
2. Trump supporters are going to vote. That can't be undersold. It won Obama his elections.
3. If you were a Trump voter, but not one of the nutjobs, and a survey taker called your home, would you tell the truth about who you're voting for? Human nature says "no". That's the big problem with using shame as a weapon. You then lose your ability to track those who oppose you.

Again, I still think Hillary wins because she's the lesser of two evils, as if that's a good thing, but if you think people won't vote in private against what they say in public, you're insane. I think the election will be closer than people think.

The worst part of this all, imho, is that it'll all be blamed on Trump. The fact that is being forgotten here is how pissed off American voters are with the current folks in charge. You, Malcolm, are fighting a personal war on Trump here while ignoring the person on the other side who has legit commited treason among other scandals and crimes. The Republican party is pretending that all the Trump voters are just being assholes instead of addressing the concerns that made them shit on all the other candidates. The Democrats' PR branch, the MSM, is too busy rolling in the shit Trump creates to really focus on what a horrible candidate HIllary is or the overall anger in the country by voters on both sides of the isle. Even the Democrats are too busy enjoying their layup to wonder why so many of their voters are either not voting or voting Trump in protest.

[GORDON]

I think Trump is an idiot. I think Hillary is actively evil.

[TPRJones]

I think Trump is also actively evil. But his idiocy and incompetence makes him potentially less harmful in the long run.

[Vince]

Republicans always want to say the polls are wrong and always are shown the day after the election that they weren't. For the last two elections Republicans said that people were lying to pollsters because they didn't want to be perceived as racist. Turns out the polls were pretty close to being spot on. I agree with Steve Deace on this one. If we're still looking at a 7-9 point spread come November, then this will probably blow out to a 10-15 point loss. Why hold your nose and vote for someone that is against your principles when it isn't going to make a difference anyway? Lose and give up your principles, or lose and keep your principles intact?

Trump's campaign has now entered the Hospice Phase. He knows he's dying and wants to surround himself with his loved ones.

[Leisher]

I don't know why anyone is voting for either of these two. One's an idiot, the other is a criminal. What a choice!

In other news, and oddly can only be found on Fox News and blatantly conservative outlets... Cokie Roberts says all Trump voters are "morally tainted".

I guess you'd have to be to vote for an asshole like Trump as opposed to voting for a clean, upstanding, not a single scandal in her past citizen like Hillary.

[Alhazad]

I don't know why anyone is voting for either of these two. One's an idiot, the other is a criminal. What a choice!

You're legendary in your insistence that voting is a sacred duty. Are you finally giving that up in the face of overwhelmingly shitty choices, or are you just mocking people who are voting 'for' Hillary or Trump instead of against them?