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The five most important questions guiding the final month of the campaign
« on: October 11, 2016, 10:34:00 pm »
The five most important questions guiding the final month of the campaign
By James Hohmann The Washington Post
Published Oct. 12, 2016

The chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, Greg Walden, told House members on a private conference call with Paul Ryan Monday that navigating this election is now like "landing an airplane in a hurricane."

Walden, a congressman from Oregon, said the ground is shifting quickly and urged members to keep conducting internal polls so that they have an accurate read of how vulnerable they might now be as the bottom falls out from under Donald Trump's campaign. "You have to trust the instruments," he said, expanding on the hurricane analogy.

It's still unclear whether Hurricane Trump is a Category 1 or a Category 5, or whether he might be a Category 5 today but weaken to a Category 2 by Nov. 8 in terms of the damage he could cause.

As Walden compared their party's nominee to a deathly storm system, NBC and the Wall Street Journal published a poll that put Hillary Clinton ahead in a four-way contest by 11 points with likely voters. She was up 5 points in their previous poll. Forty-one percent of respondents said Trump's comments on a 2005 video were "completely unacceptable." More than half disagreed with the statement that the tape was unimportant because it happened so long ago. While voters viewed Clinton more negatively than positively by 10 points in the poll, they viewed Trump more negatively than positively by 34....
Read more at http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1016/hohmann101216.php3#BG9YlVsICXcjW6pU.99
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Re: The five most important questions guiding the final month of the campaign
« Reply #1 on: October 11, 2016, 10:40:38 pm »
The most important question.

When will it be over?
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Re: The five most important questions guiding the final month of the campaign
« Reply #2 on: October 11, 2016, 10:47:30 pm »
Quote from: Idaho_Cowboy on October 11, 2016, 10:34:00 pm
The five most important questions guiding the final month of the campaign
By James Hohmann The Washington Post
Published Oct. 12, 2016

The chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, Greg Walden, told House members on a private conference call with Paul Ryan Monday that navigating this election is now like "landing an airplane in a hurricane."

Walden, a congressman from Oregon, said the ground is shifting quickly and urged members to keep conducting internal polls so that they have an accurate read of how vulnerable they might now be as the bottom falls out from under Donald Trump's campaign. "You have to trust the instruments," he said, expanding on the hurricane analogy.

It's still unclear whether Hurricane Trump is a Category 1 or a Category 5, or whether he might be a Category 5 today but weaken to a Category 2 by Nov. 8 in terms of the damage he could cause.

As Walden compared their party's nominee to a deathly storm system, NBC and the Wall Street Journal published a poll that put Hillary Clinton ahead in a four-way contest by 11 points with likely voters. She was up 5 points in their previous poll. Forty-one percent of respondents said Trump's comments on a 2005 video were "completely unacceptable." More than half disagreed with the statement that the tape was unimportant because it happened so long ago. While voters viewed Clinton more negatively than positively by 10 points in the poll, they viewed Trump more negatively than positively by 34....
Read more at http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1016/hohmann101216.php3#BG9YlVsICXcjW6pU.99

I see two questions begging answers. Where are the other three?
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Re: The five most important questions guiding the final month of the campaign
« Reply #3 on: October 11, 2016, 10:48:59 pm »
1. Are you insane?
2. WTF were you thinking?
3. What have you been smoking?
4. Are you kidding me?
5. When do I wake up?
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Re: The five most important questions guiding the final month of the campaign
« Reply #4 on: October 11, 2016, 10:50:13 pm »
Trump may go away,  but his voters aren't and the issues which vaulted Trump into prominence won't go away neither.

Next time, they'll be someone with more savvy. 
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Re: The five most important questions guiding the final month of the campaign
« Reply #5 on: October 11, 2016, 10:51:58 pm »
Quote from: skeeter on October 11, 2016, 10:47:30 pm
I see two questions begging answers. Where are the other three?
Yeah I noticed that. I'm not sure how the author was doing his math/formatting, but I didn't see an obvious five either.
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Re: The five most important questions guiding the final month of the campaign
« Reply #6 on: October 11, 2016, 10:56:45 pm »
Quote from: dfwgator on October 11, 2016, 10:50:13 pm
Trump may go away,  but his voters aren't and the issues which vaulted Trump into prominence won't go away neither.

Next time, they'll be someone with more savvy.

Thats the problem - a good chunk of that community doesn't want savvy.

Lets hope the more thoughtful among them take charge next time.
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Re: The five most important questions guiding the final month of the campaign
« Reply #7 on: October 11, 2016, 11:04:21 pm »
Quote from: dfwgator on October 11, 2016, 10:50:13 pm
Trump may go away,  but his voters aren't and the issues which vaulted Trump into prominence won't go away neither.

Next time, they'll be someone with more savvy.

You seem awfully confident that's there's going to be a next time; unless some miracle by the grace of God is given, we're not going to last another 4 years.
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Re: The five most important questions guiding the final month of the campaign
« Reply #8 on: October 11, 2016, 11:13:55 pm »
Quote from: dfwgator on October 11, 2016, 10:50:13 pm
Trump may go away,  but his voters aren't and the issues which vaulted Trump into prominence won't go away neither.

Next time, they'll be someone with more savvy.

There will be less of them in 4 years, with even less clout.
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Re: The five most important questions guiding the final month of the campaign
« Reply #9 on: October 11, 2016, 11:23:02 pm »
Quote from: RAT Patrol on October 11, 2016, 11:18:05 pm
Two words:  Tea Party.

Three words:  Internal Revenue Service

Get ready to be targeted.  Who gets targeted depends on who wins.  When character does not matter, this is how it works.

I don't anticipate that we will have the opportunity to 'vent' in this forum like we do now.  Conservative anything will be shut down. Christianity will continue to be under attack and those who try to claim rights under the Constitution will be considered terrorists.
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Romans 12:16-21

Live in harmony with one another; do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly, do not claim to be wiser than you are.  Do not repay anyone evil for evil, but take thought for what is noble in the sight of all.  If it is possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all…do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

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Re: The five most important questions guiding the final month of the campaign
« Reply #10 on: October 11, 2016, 11:24:08 pm »
Quote from: HonestJohn on October 11, 2016, 11:13:55 pm
There will be less of them in 4 years, with even less clout.

We'll see about that.
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Re: The five most important questions guiding the final month of the campaign
« Reply #11 on: October 12, 2016, 12:00:57 am »
Quote from: dfwgator on October 11, 2016, 11:24:08 pm
We'll see about that.

Good luck stopping the aging process.
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Re: The five most important questions guiding the final month of the campaign
« Reply #12 on: October 12, 2016, 12:31:56 am »
   Only 1 Question as I see it:

  1: Will WikiLeaks kill the Beast?  (Donald ain't gonna be able to do it)
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Re: The five most important questions guiding the final month of the campaign
« Reply #13 on: October 12, 2016, 12:40:23 am »
#6: Where's the nearest liqueur store.
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Re: The five most important questions guiding the final month of the campaign
« Reply #14 on: October 12, 2016, 12:41:22 am »
Quote from: corbe on October 12, 2016, 12:31:56 am
   Only 1 Question as I see it:

  1: Will WikiLeaks kill the Beast?  (Donald ain't gonna be able to do it)

All WikiLeaks is doing is telling everybody what they already knew in 1992, that the Clintons are slime.  And a Clinton has never lost an election since.
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Re: The five most important questions guiding the final month of the campaign
« Reply #15 on: October 12, 2016, 12:55:23 am »
Quote from: dfwgator on October 11, 2016, 10:50:13 pm
Trump may go away,  but his voters aren't and the issues which vaulted Trump into prominence won't go away neither.

Next time, they'll be someone with more savvy.

His voters are knuckledraggers.  They are about as organized as a monkey shit fight at the zoo.
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Re: The five most important questions guiding the final month of the campaign
« Reply #16 on: October 12, 2016, 12:58:47 am »
Quote from: Frank Cannon on October 12, 2016, 12:40:23 am
#6: Where's the nearest liqueur store.

#7:  Did medical marijuana pass?
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Re: The five most important questions guiding the final month of the campaign
« Reply #17 on: October 12, 2016, 01:09:00 am »
Quote from: RAT Patrol on October 11, 2016, 11:18:05 pm
Two words:  Tea Party.

About which the less said the better.  The Tea Party movement refused to organize -- grass roots agitation apparently being sufficient in their estimation to create a lasting political revolution.  In the event, they were wrong. 
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Re: The five most important questions guiding the final month of the campaign
« Reply #18 on: October 12, 2016, 01:09:19 am »
Quote from: dfwgator on October 12, 2016, 12:41:22 am
All WikiLeaks is doing is telling everybody what they already knew in 1992, that the Clintons are slime.  And a Clinton has never lost an election since.


   That's a great Encouragement to Debbie wasselman Schultz.
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Re: The five most important questions guiding the final month of the campaign
« Reply #19 on: October 12, 2016, 02:08:56 am »
Quote from: dfwgator on October 11, 2016, 10:50:13 pm
Trump may go away,  but his voters aren't and the issues which vaulted Trump into prominence won't go away neither.

Next time, they'll be someone with more savvy.

Many of them will realize they have been had.
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Re: The five most important questions guiding the final month of the campaign
« Reply #20 on: October 12, 2016, 02:22:51 am »
Quote from: geronl on October 12, 2016, 02:08:56 am
Many of them will realize they have been had.

Maybe.   But that doesn't mean they'll reconcile with the GOPe.  Many went with Trump because they figured there was nothing to lose.   So it didn't pan out this time.  It happens.   We bit our lip and went with Romney in 2012,  same result.
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Re: The five most important questions guiding the final month of the campaign
« Reply #21 on: October 12, 2016, 02:24:58 am »
Quote from: dfwgator on October 12, 2016, 02:22:51 am
Maybe.   But that doesn't mean they'll reconcile with the GOPe.  Many went with Trump because they figured there was nothing to lose.   So it didn't pan out this time.  It happens.   We bit our lip and went with Romney in 2012,  same result.

Hillary is the second most beatable candidate in history, she had no chance against a ham sandwich. Anyone but Trump - that bum on the corner- could have whipped her.
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Re: The five most important questions guiding the final month of the campaign
« Reply #22 on: October 12, 2016, 02:29:25 am »
Quote from: dfwgator on October 11, 2016, 10:40:38 pm
The most important question.

When will it be over?

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