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Home Front: Politix
SHOCK POLL: Astounding Percentage of Democrats 'Happy' About Trump's COVID Diagnosis
[PJ] When news of Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis broke, many unhinged liberals took to Twitter to express joy, and even wish death upon the president.

It would be nice to believe that unhinged liberals on social media aren’t representative of the whole Democratic Party, but sadly, according to a new Morning Consult poll, they might actually be pretty darn close.

According to the newly released poll, 41 percent of Democrats are "indifferent" about Trump’s positive COVID-19 diagnosis, while a staggering 40 percent responded that they were "happy" about it. Republicans, however, were mostly "sad" (55 percent) and "worried" (51 percent).

Thirty-one percent of Democrats actually claimed to be "excited" at the news.

Excited? Is Trump Derangement Syndrome in the Democratic Party so bad that many Democrats are happy and excited about his diagnosis?

Posted by: Besoeker || 10/03/2020 05:32 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Except for Michael Moore.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/03/2020 5:42 Comments || Top||

#2  Depressing, yes, and even alarming; but hardly "shocking." Anyone who expected anything better simply hasn't been paying attention.

Posted by: Dave D. || 10/03/2020 6:33 Comments || Top||

#3  After more than four years of the Dems spying on Trump, a coup d'état, the Russian-collusion-delusion, an investigation based on fiction, an impeachment attempt, constant bombardment by a party obsessed with TDS, a complicit media, it is not shocking in the least.

I'm shocked that these criminals have not had to stand and face lady justice.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/03/2020 8:35 Comments || Top||

#4  Not surprising. Most are evil or brainwashed.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/03/2020 9:20 Comments || Top||

#5  They're going to be even happier when they find out the doctors are cloning him just in case.
Posted by: gorb || 10/03/2020 9:37 Comments || Top||

#6  Assuming all goes well this could be good for the country. Remove a lot of the Covid=Death fears. Only problem is proximity to election day.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/03/2020 9:59 Comments || Top||

#7  Astounding number of peoples' first experience with someone having the COVID is with Trump.

As the ones I come across, call it an aggregate of some 40, but half are parrots, half are widow wishers, and only 1 was like "Hey, this isn't good for both security and for voting reasons."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/03/2020 10:43 Comments || Top||

#8  I'm happy they are stupider than me. No law can change that.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/03/2020 10:46 Comments || Top||

#9  All COVID religionists should take care to re-hydrate in the case of increased spontaneous ejaculations.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/03/2020 11:01 Comments || Top||

#10  When I saw that slime ball kurva Joy Reid in that Michael "Slim" Moore link, I hit the back button immediately.
Posted by: Clem || 10/03/2020 11:43 Comments || Top||

#11  "Shocking" to the PJM writer maybe.

They're not real bright over there.

(Yes I know it's just clickbait "ZOMG, you guys!" type rhetoric.)

Truth be told, if I heard that Obama or 'Beest or any of the other swamp creatures had Chinavirus, my feelings would range from indifference to happiness as well.

Of course, Xi and the IC seem to have made sure that no major figures on the left have gotten it so far.
Posted by: charger || 10/03/2020 12:22 Comments || Top||

#12  Did the donks send an infected person to deliberately interact with Trump?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/03/2020 12:38 Comments || Top||

#13  Chrissy Wallichinsky. His mouth was open more than Trump's and Bidet's combined...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/03/2020 14:12 Comments || Top||

#14  Nothing new. Heard the cheers break out when it was announced Ronald Reagan got shot.
Posted by: Lemuel Flereck8330 || 10/03/2020 14:45 Comments || Top||


Mayor Lori Lightfoot Dresses as ‘Rona Destroyer' to Unveil Chicago's Halloween Guidelines
[Breitbart] Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot (D) has unveiled the coronavirus guidelines for safely celebrating Halloween in the city, all while dressed as the "Rona Destroyer."

Lightfoot’s remarks on the newly implemented rules for the season came on Thursday during a press conference, where she entered wearing a red cape featuring the words "Rona Destroyer," a black mask, and a laminated photo of Clorox wipes draped across her stomach.

"This year more than ever it is important to celebrate Halloween safely and responsibly," Lightfoot said.

Public Health Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady also attended the press conference dressed as a "Rona Destroyer" and provided health tips fro celebrating Halloween safely.

In accordance with wearing a mask, the city is asking residents who want to give out candy to leave a sign on the door or an outdoor light on while keeping proper distance and providing hand sanitizer. Trick-or-treaters are also asked to travel in groups of six people or less and have been warned to not stick their hands into bowls of candy. The city also asks that trick-or-treaters wait until they are home to eat the candy.

In the announcement, the city made it clear that "large or small" house parties are not permitted and insisted that haunted house attractions should not operate.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/03/2020 05:15 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Not the bee!
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/03/2020 5:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Didn't they end this in elementary school as degrading to a child's development? Oh, wait, these are 'adults'.

BTW mayor, you've made it 'trick or treat' every night in some of your neighborhoods.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/03/2020 7:22 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: Frank G || 10/03/2020 7:27 Comments || Top||

#4  Funny how America's two main financial centers, NYC & Chicago, are run by two mental case (swept in by the electorate, of course.
Posted by: Clem || 10/03/2020 8:01 Comments || Top||

#5  Some thoughts on the COVID crisis.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/03/2020 8:15 Comments || Top||

#6  "Rona the Destroyer?" I'm without appropriate words--at least appropriate for posting.

Besoeker, The guy in the vid has a lot of good points.

Posted by: JohnQC || 10/03/2020 9:05 Comments || Top||

#7  Like the Census Cowboy, gonna ride this horse to death.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/03/2020 11:49 Comments || Top||

#8  A little late, perhaps, with our great national holiday only a month away, but what the hell... Happy Yelloween!

A nation a-shiver. "Malaria?
A civil war? Terror?" "No, scarier,
So please bear in mind,"
Scream the blind to the blind:
"Only YOU can prevent mass hysteria!"
[masked Smokey morphs into panda]
Posted by: Hupoper Big Foot9776 || 10/03/2020 13:44 Comments || Top||

#9  Veering even further OT... tickled to see again eeeevil Snyder's Smokey the Bear Sutra, read with great enjoyment back in Katrina days and inexplicably forgotten since.
Posted by: Hupoper Big Foot9776 || 10/03/2020 14:11 Comments || Top||

#10  Clean toilets will make Chiraq safe again...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/03/2020 22:46 Comments || Top||


Democrat Chris Murphy: 'No Business Should Proceed' in Senate After Trump Coronavirus Diagnosis
[BREITBART] Sen. Chris Murphy (D., Conn)
...Junior senator for life from Connecticutt, foreign policy mastermind, a fast friend and a sympathetic ear to mullahs, ayatollahs, and similar riff-raff. The indigestable boilerplate on his website sez he has has dedicated his career to public service as an advocate for Connecticut families, which means approximately nothing. He's been a strong voice in the Senate fighting for job creation, affordable health care, education, sensible gun laws, and a forward-looking foreign policy. You can guess what that mess actually means, though the voters of Connecticutt can't...
(D-CT) wrote in a statement Friday that "no business should proceed" in the Senate, which would include the confirmation of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, until the Senate understands the scope of the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
spread in Washington, DC.Murphy released a statement after President Donald Trump
...the Nailer of NAFTA...
and First Lady Melania Trump tested positive for the coronavirus, as Breitbart News reported.

He contended every person in Congress needs to get tested to find out the scope of the spread of the coronavirus in the Capitol and no business should continue until everyone gets tested. This would include the confirmation of Judge Barrett to the Supreme Court.

Murphy wrote, "Everyone in the Capitol complex needs to be tested. Every Republican Senator or staff member who was in close contact with Trump needs to quarantine. No business should proceed in the Senate until we understand the scope of this crisis."



Posted by: Fred || 10/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [20 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It has become obvious since Trump's diagnosis that people with the democrat co-morbidity are at risk for brain damage if they talk about COVID-19.

My go-to for shutting up democrat droolers who are suffering breathlessness over Trump's diagnosis: "Maybe it's time to just put down everyone who tests positive. It's the only way to be sure."

"We should probably go back and surrender to Germany since Roosevelt had polio."

You should see some of the blank looks those lines generate.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/03/2020 0:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Care to put that up for a vote, (minority) excrement-for-brains?
Posted by: magpie || 10/03/2020 1:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Consultation: "Sure, I'm Doctor Sean."
"As am I, sir! I'm sure we'll get on."
"A drop of the pure
For the Orange Man's cure?"
"And a shamrock?" "Sure, Doc Leprechaun!"
Posted by: Hupoper Big Foot9776 || 10/03/2020 14:38 Comments || Top||

#4  "Sure, a drop," even.
Posted by: Hupoper Big Foot9776 || 10/03/2020 14:43 Comments || Top||

#5  And re #1, just wrote "BOO!" in orange hi-liter across mask of the day. Always fun making new friends.
Posted by: Hupoper Big Foot9776 || 10/03/2020 14:56 Comments || Top||

#6  OK, I'll jump. I find it amazingly hard to believe that 4 weeks before election, right before confirmation hearings, Trump and his staff get infected. After all these months, it happens now? Figure the odds and the dems are all over it, were ready for it. And I thought Hillary was a killer...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 10/03/2020 21:08 Comments || Top||

#7  Case western venue had too many vectors around.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 10/03/2020 21:17 Comments || Top||

#8  SCWRU U alumnus says it was the Presti's donuts...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/03/2020 22:28 Comments || Top||


Michigan Supreme Court rules against Whitmer on emergency powers
[FREEP] The Michigan Supreme Court issued a split decision late Friday that ruled against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer
...Her Excellency, the dictator of Michigan, 2020 Dem VP contender...
in a battle over her power to extend emergency declarations used to mandate COVID-19 restrictions over the last five months.
The court's decision throws into question dozens of orders issued by Whitmer related to the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
pandemic, appearing to void them.

"Today’s Supreme Court ruling, handed down by a narrow majority of Republican justices, is deeply disappointing, and I vehemently disagree with the court’s interpretation of the Michigan Constitution. Right now, every state and the federal government have some form of declared emergency. With this decision, Michigan will become the sole outlier at a time when the Upper Peninsula is experiencing rates of COVID infection not seen in our state since April," Whitmer said in a statement late Friday.

"It is important to note that this ruling does not take effect for at least 21 days, and until then, my emergency declaration and orders retain the force of law. Furthermore, after 21 days, many of the responsive measures I have put in place to control the spread of the virus will continue under alternative sources of authority that were not at issue in today’s ruling."

In the 4-3 ruling, the court determined the governor did not have the authority under state law to issue any additional emergency declarations pertaining to the pandemic after April 30. That was the last date when the legislature allowed the governor to declare an emergency.

"The governor’s declaration of a state of emergency or state of disaster may only endure for 28 days absent legislative approval of an extension. So, if the Legislature does nothing, as it did here, the governor is obligated to terminate the state of emergency or state of disaster after 28 days," said the majority opinion, written by Judge Stephen Markman.


Posted by: Fred || 10/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Translation from this cvnt's patois: "F you, bitches, I AM the law here!"
Posted by: Vernal Oppressor of the Hemps9740 || 10/03/2020 0:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Long story short:

A 1945 law says the Governor can do emergency stuff for however long.

A 1976 law says the Governor can do emergency stuff, but only for a month. Then approval of the Legislature is required to extend the emergency.

Governor Dearest was using the 1945 law as cover for her various decrees. The court said, "Nope. That's unconstitutional under Michigan law."
Posted by: SteveS || 10/03/2020 0:48 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ A 1976 law says the Governor can do emergency stuff, but only for a month. Then approval of the Legislature is required to extend the emergency.
Now that would be an Amendment to the US Constitution that I would like to see enacted!
Posted by: magpie || 10/03/2020 1:18 Comments || Top||

#4  Too late as the damage is done and there will be another ‘stay’ for additional reviews........
Posted by: Airandee || 10/03/2020 7:35 Comments || Top||

#5  So any fines, license terminations, et al since the 30 days was up have no legal basis.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/03/2020 9:58 Comments || Top||

#6  She can always transition to "mature pr0n..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/03/2020 10:44 Comments || Top||


With crime soaring, Minneapolis City Council flips on 'defund the police'
[NYPOST] Months after caving to riotous mobs, the members of the Minneapolis City Council are complaining about the city’s crime surge and insisting they never really meant it when they voted to defund the police department.

Councilman Phillipe Cunningham says the defunding measure is "up for interpretation," the New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...

reports, and now the council’s majority has "interpreted that language differently."

Council President Lisa Bender claims, "Our pledge created confusion." Maybe she’s confused, since she’d earlier been accusing cops of intentionally avoiding making arrests or otherwise enforcing laws.

Indeed, much of the council complained to Police Chief Medaria Arradondo about the rise in carjackings, robberies, assaults and shootings. "Residents are asking, ’Where are the police?’  " noted Councilman Jamal Osman, saying citizens "rely on MPD. And they are saying they are nowhere to be seen."

Arradondo, while vowing "to be responsive," said about 100 officers have quit or taken leaves of absence, more than twice the usual rate. (He didn’t bother blaming the council’s defunding vote.)

Just as in New York, the residents of Minneapolis are learning that "violence interrupters" are no help: To keep the peace, you need police.
Posted by: Fred || 10/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [15 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Too little, too late. You think the cops are gonna come back out and risk their freedom and jobs for your sorry asses?

You reap what you sow.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/03/2020 0:06 Comments || Top||

#2  "We need to save our phony baloney jobs!"
Posted by: charger || 10/03/2020 0:23 Comments || Top||

#3  As long as they defund only the Praetorian Guard - I mean the protective details for the mayor and city council, I'm fine with it.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 10/03/2020 0:24 Comments || Top||

#4  Polling must be terrible, eh?
Posted by: magpie || 10/03/2020 1:31 Comments || Top||

#5  they never really meant it when they voted to defund the police department

Nikita Khrushchev 1956 "Some mistakes were made".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/03/2020 5:37 Comments || Top||

#6  My schadenfreude gauge has broken....does that make me a baaad person?
Posted by: AlanC || 10/03/2020 9:15 Comments || Top||

#7  Unexpectedly®
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 10/03/2020 12:30 Comments || Top||


Rochester, NY Mayor Warren indicted
[FOXNEWS] Mayor Lovely Warren was indicted Friday on campaign finance charges stemming from her re-election campaign three years ago, officials said.

Monroe County District Attorney Sandra Doorley announced that Warren is facing two felonies, including scheme to defraud in the first degree and violation of election law. Also charged were Warren’s campaign treasurer, Albert Jones Jr., and the treasurer of her political action committee, Rosalind Brooks-Harris.

Warren has not been arrested but will be processed, Doorley said. If convicted, she would be removed from office.

“This could be a long process and we anticipate that there could be challenges along the way so I don’t think this will be anything resolved quickly,” Doorley said during a news briefing.

Warren has called the investigation a “political witch hunt." Her lawyer did not return messages from Fox News seeking comment.

Specifics about the ongoing investigation were not revealed but the charges focused on Warren's first term in office from November 2013 through November 2017 in which she raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for her re-election, RochesterFirst.com reported.

Doorley said the city's first female mayor and others took steps to evade contribution limits.

The New York State Board of Elections has been investigating the mayor over financial interactions between a political action committee that supported her re-election and her campaign committee. At one point, the Warren for a Stronger Rochester PAC transferred $30,000 from the group to Warren's committee, Friends of Lovely Warren, according to 2017 expenditure reports obtained by the news site.

Under state rules, PACs and committees are forbidden from coordinating. Warren claims the funds were mistakenly placed in the PAC account.

The indictment comes as Warren, a Democrat, faces political turmoil over the city's handling of the death of Daniel Prude, who suffocated in March while in police custody.
Posted by: Fred || 10/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [18 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Rayciss aw de way dahn...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/03/2020 3:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Warren has not been arrested but will be processed, Doorley said. If convicted, she would be removed from office.

Gee, really?

BTW, I don't think that slime ball ex-mayor from Bal'mer, Catherine Pugh, has reported to prison yet.
Posted by: Clem || 10/03/2020 7:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Her parents had a weird sense of humor when naming her.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/03/2020 9:08 Comments || Top||

#4  Credit to Fox. It took them 10 paragraphs to mention that Warren was a Democrat.
Posted by: Clem || 10/03/2020 13:58 Comments || Top||

#5  Remember "Lovie" Smith? It's pronounced like "loogie...":
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/03/2020 22:54 Comments || Top||


De Blasio stakes his ‘whole legacy' on reopening New York schools [Really? WHOLE legacy? Come on...]
Posted by: Clem || 10/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Legacy refers to his wife's mountain of baksheesh piled up during Wilhelm's misrule
Posted by: Flomosing Munster3580 || 10/03/2020 0:40 Comments || Top||

#2  Legacy? I gotta a feeling, NYC will want to forget about him ASAP once he leaves (is removed) from office.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/03/2020 8:46 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Anti-Netanyahu protesters attacked as rallies break out across Israel
[JPost] - A handful of protesters reported having been attacked by people outside of demonstrations on Saturday night as rallies began throughout the country against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's "failed" leadership.

A woman was attacked by a man who was opposing the protests in the Ramat Hachayal neighborhood of Tel Aviv on Saturday evening. The attacker had been walking through the area where tens of protesters had gathered with his wife and child and attacked the protester and her husband, injuring both. He took the horn that the woman had been blowing into and pushed it into her face, cutting her across the cheek, and broke a flag over the head of her husband. Both were evacuated from the protest and taken to seek first aid.

In Ness Ziona, one man attempted to fight with protesters, allegedly because they were making too much noise. He ignored police, who instructed him to stand by, and so he was arrested.

Another couple of men in Hadera claimed that the protesters in their area were making too much noise and proceeded to assault the protesters. They only stepped away when police was called to the scene and got involved.

Protesters throughout the country reported that they had been verbally assaulted by passersby, including those that drove by them. Demonstrators in Rishon Lezion reported that a vehicle repeatedly drove by and compared them to "Nazi Germany."

Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/03/2020 14:23 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He took the horn that the woman had been blowing into and pushed it into her face, cutting her across the cheek, and broke a flag over the head of her husband.

Just a guess, but blowing it into his face?
Posted by: Frank G || 10/03/2020 16:59 Comments || Top||

#2  That would be SOP Frank, and I might do something a bit similar given the same set of circumstances.

So many of these folks are floppers anyway.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 10/03/2020 17:44 Comments || Top||


Government
Trump tweets: I am feeling well!
[Arutz 7] President Donald Trump wrote tonight on Twitter that he is feeling well.

"Doctors, Nurses and all at the great Walter Reed Medical Center, and others from likewise incredible institutions who have joined them, are amazing", the President wrote, "Tremendous progress has been made over the last 6 months in fighting this plaugue".

"With their help, I am feeling well", he added.
Well, if he's back to tweeting
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/03/2020 14:03 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Watch: Medical update on Trump's status

Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/03/2020 14:22 Comments || Top||

#2  "I don't want to go on the cart. I feel happy!"
Posted by: jpal || 10/03/2020 15:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Another of his ugly, impolitic tweets...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/03/2020 15:49 Comments || Top||

#4  Treatment options have improved dramatically since the start of the year.
Posted by: Speng Snaviting6874 || 10/03/2020 17:36 Comments || Top||

#5  Indomitable.

As opposed to Charlie McGropey, the child-hair-sniffing marionette
Posted by: Deadeye Ebbereque6645 || 10/03/2020 18:06 Comments || Top||

#6  Well, so much for HCQ.
Posted by: Clem || 10/03/2020 18:21 Comments || Top||


Trump is being taken to Walter Reed
  • [Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] President Donald Trump is being taken to hospital for COVID-19 treatment 'out of an abundance of caution', the White House revealed Friday evening

  • Trump and Melania announced they tested positive in the early hours of Friday morning and were self-isolating in the White House

  • The First Lady on Friday tweeted that she had mild symptoms but was 'feeling good'

  • The President has not tweeted since Friday at around 1am when he announced his diagnosis

  • He was due on a 12.15pm conference call with governors but was replaced by Vice President Mike Pence

  • Trump was 'lethargic' on his way back from a fundraiser in New Jersey on Thursday night, sources say

  • He also fell asleep on Air Force One on Wednesday evening which is highly unusual for him

  • Trump's campaign have now canceled the remainder of their events

  • The Cleveland Clinic - where Tuesday's debate was held - say they have traced 11 cases to the event

  • On Thursday morning, Trump was told that Hope Hicks had tested positive with the virus, reports claim

  • He still traveled to Bedminster, NJ, for a fundraising event in his golf club where he came into contact with 100 people and raised $5million

  • Ivanka, Barron and Jared Kushner have all tested negative, as has Vice President Mike Pence

  • Joe Biden, Trump's 77-year-old election opponent who he debated on Tuesday, has tested negative
Courtesy of g(r)omgoru: President Trump given experimental antibody cocktail
Posted by: Fred || 10/03/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  More Whitehouse staff and Senators are have Covid as well as DC media personnel.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebbereng3110 || 10/03/2020 0:47 Comments || Top||




#5  No line at Vegas on fatso Chris Christie.....
Posted by: Clem || 10/03/2020 13:50 Comments || Top||

#6  Is it odd that the infected from the debate seem to be from one
political party so far? If you wanted to disrupt the Presidential campaign and put the ACB confirmation at risk by incapacitated Senators, could you do it any better than this?
Just hate coincidences that have a clear benefit and providential timing.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 10/03/2020 16:51 Comments || Top||

#7  Democrat reports suppressed.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/03/2020 17:53 Comments || Top||

#8  If Trump received oxygen, he isn't experiencing a "mild" form of COVID-19. Which means he'll battle fatigue for months on end. Forget about campaigning.

I have no idea what this means for the elections.
Posted by: European Conservative || 10/03/2020 18:02 Comments || Top||

#9  Don't try. It's the Daily Mail, which is starting to make Weekly World News look professional
Posted by: Frank G || 10/03/2020 18:15 Comments || Top||

#10  ^ dream on

He'll be fine and back on the trail with plenty of time left to put the boot into his pansy-puppet opponent.

Turnout will decide the election. The last 2-3 weeks of the campaign determine the degree of turnout.

Republicans have registered 10x as many new voters this year in the battleground states as Democrats have. This is true especially in Pennsylvania, also pronounced in Florida. And yet none of this massive registration / turnout advantage is reflected in the polls-- none of it. Ergo the polls are entirely useless, and underestimate Trump's likely share of the vote by anywhere from 5 to 10 points, depending on the geographic area sampled.

It would be incredibly foolish in any year, but especially in 2020, to think that today's news is in any way a good predictor of what will happen a month later on Election Day. The really important indicator is new voter registration data.
Posted by: Anguter Panda8468 || 10/03/2020 18:17 Comments || Top||

#11  If the Daily Mail does a story on Bat Boy, then I know we're in trouble.
Posted by: Clem || 10/03/2020 18:24 Comments || Top||



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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.

Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.

Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has dominated Mexico for six years.
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