The Next President of the United States

[Marky147]

[DMorgan]

These Trump surrogates really are the gift that keeps on giving

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/donald-trump-betsy-mccaughey-beyhive-beyonce-a7356961.html?cmpid=facebook-post

[Pinchop73]

Hypocrisy isn't even a thing anymore

[The Camel]

Russell Brand is back from a long break with his take on the second Presidential debate.

Fantastic stuff.

[Woodsey]

Fantastic? lol Can't see that, Brand is a twat, not as big an arsehole as Trump, but a total twat in his own unique way nonetheless, I simply can't take him seriously, although I think he desperately wants to be taken seriously on political stuff these days, yeah right mate 

Had to laugh when he started talking about the the 'Phatic' stuff. Jesus effing Christ is there is a bloke who speaks more meaningless bullshit gibberish in between a decent joke every five minutes than Brand? 

Fair enough he wasn't like that on this vid but that is his trademark.......

[MintTrav]

The election is looking lost for Trump.

                        Clinton  Trump
Forecast            346      192                 Clinton +154

Clinton Best      381      157                 Clinton +224
Trump Best       272      266                 Clinton    +6

http://electiongraphs.com/


However, his position may be even more ominous than that............

[MintTrav]

It's slipping away from Trump even more.

Utah and Alaska are usually safe Republican States (neither has voted Democrat in the last 50 years), but polls just in show them looking vulnerable.

30-40% wins are standard for Republicans in Utah. Romney won by 73% to 25% last time, the biggest winning margin in any State, not just in that election, but for anyone in any State since 1984. Trump's crudeness and lack of religion have never been liked much by the Mormons, but he had leads of 12-15% in polls a month ago. In a poll out today, Clinton and Johnson are exactly where they have been throughout, but Trump has lost his lead entirely to Independent Evan McMullin (from Utah and, like Romney, a Mormon). Suddenly, Utah is a three-way marginal.

26% Trump
26% Clinton
22% McMullin
14% Johnson
  1% Stein


Republicans generally win Alaska by about 20%. Polls in early Sep showed Trump ahead by 8%, 10% and 18%. Now, two released last weekend showed him with much-reduced leads, again losing support to third parties:

37% Trump
34% Clinton
10% Johnson
  2% Stein

36% Trump
31% Clinton
18% Johnson
  6% Stein

These polls were all taken between the two debates and before the release of the Trump tape. While it seems unthinkable that he wouldn't win either of these States (though the outflow to McMullin in Utah might continue), they might be a foretaste of worse-than-expected support to come in States he should win but which could get away from him. McMullin is a Republican who left to oppose Trump - it's not inconceivable that Republican voters nationwide might suddenly see him as an acceptable recipient of their vote.

[Doobs]

Hypocrisy isn't even a thing anymore

Research isn't even a thing anymore

[MintTrav]

ISIS will take over the USA if Clinton wins.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/trump-isis-will-take-over-this-country-if-hillary-clinton-wins/

[MintTrav]

Effect of the Trump tape:

One group carried out polls in Wisconsin over the weekend after the tape came out.

On Thursday, Trump was one point ahead (admittedly, that was dubious as Clinton was never going to lose Wisconsin). By Sunday, she was nineteen points ahead in the same poll.

It is depressing that all the other terrible things said by Trump washed over people's heads, but this relatively trivial thing makes such a difference. At least it means that the madman won't be in charge of the world.

https://law.marquette.edu/poll/2016/10/12/press-release-title/

[MintTrav]

At a Trump rally:

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[neeko]

I see trump has got his lawyers to send a letter to he New York Times, threatening them with a libel suit. I hope they reply with "we refer the gentleman to Arkell v Pressdram"

[TightEnd]

Time magazine has updated its August cover for this week

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[TightEnd]

The New York Times ‏@nytimes

Our presidential forecast, updated http://nyti.ms/2ehBz1l 

[The Camel]

Mint Trav, which is the first state to declare on election night usually?

And roughly what time GMT?