[Mike91]

Polling showed that she was vulnerable in most of those states. They had her ahead but most of them were within the margin of error.

[LuLuDrops]

Kentucky's first GOP Governor in a long time promised a bathroom law, but now backed down.

McCrory ha legacy

[Delilah.]

yeah they were arrogant lol

they were more focused on a blowout than a win i think

[Lord Blackout]

Originally posted by Mike91

Polling showed that she was vulnerable in most of those states. They had her ahead but most of them were within the margin of error.

It still showed her +7/6 in those states vs. +1/-1 in the states she was campaigning in. Didn't she have her biggest rally in PA the day before election night? Look how that turned out.

[LuLuDrops]

Republican gay rights activist targets Mormon church’s tax-exempt status

http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2016/12/r...exempt-status/



I wouldn't try it with Scientology though, now that's some next level shhh

[Lord Blackout]

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Trump thanks blacks for not voting: "The African-American community was great to us...they didn't vote, & that was almost as good for me"
@nwarikoo 6h6 hours ago
Trump on elex: "The African-American community was great to us...if they had any doubt, they didn't vote, & that was almost as good for me"

[LuLuDrops]

For the love of God, someone please bring the Voting Rights Act back

[LuLuDrops]

Add Missouri to the list of states. Its voter law was approved by referendum and the 8th Circuit of Appeals Court is probably the most conservative in the country.

https://ballotpedia.org/Missouri_Vot...ndment_6_(2016)

BernBern dragged the law:

As with similar voter suppression measures around the country, this one is backed by Republican state legislators with the hope of disenfranchising up to 200,000 Missouri voters. Those voters include many eligible voters who are less likely to get a drivers license like students, poor people and people of color. It also includes veterans, as a veterans ID would not count for the purpose of voting.
The reality is we have virtually no voter fraud in America. Missouri has had just 2 cases of voter fraud in the last 7 years. What is the fraud is that Republican legislators, in order to help their chances at the polls, are changing laws that disenfranchise thousands of voters.

Measures like Amendment 6 have no place in our democracy.

It's only going to get harder to vote from here on out since Kennedy sides with the states on this issue.

[Lord Blackout]

Originally posted by LuLuDrops

For the love of God, someone please bring the Voting Rights Act back

https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/st...41301033111552

Congrats protest voters

[LuLuDrops]

Originally posted by Lord Blackout

https://twitter.com/ThePlumLineGS/st...41301033111552

Congrats protest voters

We're DOOMED Midterms, 2020...adopt me Scandinavia

[rivers]

Originally posted by LuLuDrops

Republican gay rights activist targets Mormon church’s tax-exempt status

http://www.lgbtqnation.com/2016/12/r...exempt-status/



I wouldn't try it with Scientology though, now that's some next level shhh

It's kind of ridiculous how much the Mormon church is worth compared to their actual membership (practicing Mormons)

[Sunshine.]

the LDS Church has argued that it has stayed on the right side of the law. They claim political neutrality, while also arguing that they maintain the right to speak on issues with “significant community or moral consequence.”

Kii. Nope.

They gonna have to choose. Spiritual welfare or public policy. It's not that hard. If you want to organize, you can do it out from behind the facade of a tax-exempt church. Else you risk putting that church in jeopardy.

The church wasn't even going to desegregate in the 70s until the US put financial pressure to remove their tax exempt status.

[LuLuDrops]

Originally posted by Sunshine.

Kii. Nope.

They gonna have to choose. Spiritual welfare or public policy. It's not that hard. If you want to organize, you can do it out from behind the facade of a tax-exempt church. Else you risk putting that church in jeopardy.

The church wasn't even going to desegregate in the 70s until the US put financial pressure to remove their tax exempt status.

I read about that, a mess

[LuLuDrops]

Now I read European institutions got warnings about hackings ahead of time. What is it with people avoiding hints this year?

[rivers]

Originally posted by Sunshine.

Kii. Nope.

They gonna have to choose. Spiritual welfare or public policy. It's not that hard. If you want to organize, you can do it out from behind the facade of a tax-exempt church. Else you risk putting that church in jeopardy.

The church wasn't even going to desegregate in the 70s until the US put financial pressure to remove their tax exempt status.

The Mormons remind me of Trump in a way. They deny any criticism and ugly past of their church. Their church history is so flawed. If any Mormon did unbiased research, they'd leave. I know plenty of smart and great Mormons but the fact that they believe Joseph Smith, etc., leaves me baffled.

[midnightdawn]

President-elect Donald J. Trump’s transition team has circulated an unusual 74-point questionnaire at the Department of Energy that requests the names of all employees and contractors who have attended climate change policy conferences, as well as emails and documents associated with the conferences.

In question after question, the document peppers Energy Department managers with pointed queries about climate science research, clean energy programs and the employees who work for those programs. More broadly, the questionnaire hints at a significant shift of emphasis at the agency toward nuclear power, and a push to commercialize the research of the Energy Department’s laboratories, long considered the crown jewels of federal science.

Energy Department employees, who shared the questionnaire with The New York Times and spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly, described the questionnaire as worrying. Mr. Trump has just tapped Scott Pruitt, the attorney general of Oklahoma and a climate change denialist, to head the Environmental Protection Agency, and the president-elect has made it clear he intends to roll back eight years of regulatory efforts by President Obama that aimed to control planet-warming emissions.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/us...ransition.html

[Lord Blackout]

Nnn at queen Jill roughing Hillary up for not standing up for herself

[LuLuDrops]

Originally posted by midnightdawn

President-elect Donald J. Trump’s transition team has circulated an unusual 74-point questionnaire at the Department of Energy that requests the names of all employees and contractors who have attended climate change policy conferences, as well as emails and documents associated with the conferences.

In question after question, the document peppers Energy Department managers with pointed queries about climate science research, clean energy programs and the employees who work for those programs. More broadly, the questionnaire hints at a significant shift of emphasis at the agency toward nuclear power, and a push to commercialize the research of the Energy Department’s laboratories, long considered the crown jewels of federal science.

Energy Department employees, who shared the questionnaire with The New York Times and spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly, described the questionnaire as worrying. Mr. Trump has just tapped Scott Pruitt, the attorney general of Oklahoma and a climate change denialist, to head the Environmental Protection Agency, and the president-elect has made it clear he intends to roll back eight years of regulatory efforts by President Obama that aimed to control planet-warming emissions.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/us...ransition.html

So basically the Green Party's nightmare and a nightmare for anyone worried about the environment...

[Jacketh]

Originally posted by Lord Blackout

.It's not arrogant. It's all the polling that showed her safe in those states. Polling that every campaign that preceded hers relied on. The same polling showed her dangerously in dead heat in the swing states post-Comey which is why she spent most of her time there. Like, come on, we all thought the blue wall was safe. .

Originally posted by King Maxx

I don't think they were arrogant. Like Wisconsin, Michigan, and PA were suppose to be blue.

All the prominent polls and data suggested so. I don't even think Trump thought he would win.

Look at Brexit, though. That wasn't meant to happen and was a polling error. Look at the Conservative majority in the UK last year that was horrendously wrong. Look at the 2012 election - okay, not as extreme, but certainly wasn't as close as it should have been.

Polls can be wrong. Data is often wrong. Shocks do happen. Nothing is certain in uncertain times. Bill Clinton knew this when he was warning about that Blue Wall (despite how safe it apparently was), and someone with Clinton's experience and team should have thought it too. I'm not blaming her for thinking it was at stake, I'm blaming for her for thinking it was absolutely secure. To not visit WI once is quite frankly laughable.

And yet, I was absolutely destroyed in here a couple of months back for making a comparison to Brexit and was told that US polls are far more accurate. It was this overconfidence that led to the Clinton campaign not having enthusiasm or fight.

Donald Trump to be fair to him, was making speech after speech and was flying all over the place trying to improve his chances in any state. He was laughed at when he was in MI and the likely path for him was trying to get NV+NH, yet it was ultimately him laughing at the end. Clinton instead, was too busy sending her surrogates all over the place. It didn't work. People don't care about Tim Kaine. People didn't care about Beyonce. People didn't care about Joe Biden saying he wanted to punch Trump. They (the ones who decided this election in that Blue Wall) wanted hope, energy, and someone would fight for them. And that wasn't Clinton.

[LuLuDrops]

31.8% - lowest in decades for GOP. So proud of my state, I predicted that he'd be lucky to get 1/3 and I was right She also flipped Orange County so once again the elite areas preferred her. Won't affect who's President, but if y'all want to come out West, you're more than welcome