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A look at the loons supporting him: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/10/donald-trump-supporters-trump-tower-214335?lo=ap_c1

I still wonder if he may pull a fakeout and be low-key, but I'm not sure he's capable, unless he's pumped full of tranquilizers. Apparently the GOP higher-ups are waiting for the debate to decide whether to support him. Craven to the end...

Deep down I wonder how Ivanka feels about all of this. The article you linked to a page or two ago mentioned that Conway's only real debate plans for Trump are to attack the Clintons, while other people wanted him to talk about policy or show contrition or what have you. Of course there's no point in trying to get Trump to do anything beyond ego and bile. He can't handle it.

I'd say I hope they lived to see the 1992 ATWT story but then I know some fans said that rewrote most of the Eldridge plot on OPW.

Thanks. I didn't even know they had a bigger budget - I sure didn't see it in the episode I watched, where I was sure at least one set was a redressed Hughes kitchen. I didn't know Sam Groom or Geraldine Fitzgerald were on the show. Another reminder of what Broadway lost when the NY soaps died.

I saw a poll (pre-tape) that had Iowa 4 points ahead for Trump. If he wins Iowa can this please be the death knell of the endless navel-gazing and masturbatory coverage over IA and NH voters and the endless, desperate parade of lousy candidates who camp out in those states for a year? I'm tired of the weird sense of entitlement doled out from voter bases that are more and more out of step with the country.

Internet comments sections are pretty much worthless, but I think they do reflect that both candidates are intensely hated and it's such a bilge that nothing much rises to the top. I was talking to someone at the store today who basically said she was repulsed by Trump but didn't really want to vote for anyone. That doesn't mean anything either, it's just anecdotal, but I think it does reflect one of the reasons why the average voter has not been able to flush him out of the race. I think Hillary will win, I no longer think anything out there is going to spring up and shock her (the most damaging leaks are probably over with), barring some type of terrorist attack I don't even want to think about so I won't. But I do think that a lot of people already saw the Trump of the tape as who he really was and are much more cynical than the press and the Beltway, which still has fantasies of Joe Sixpack and Soccer Mom Jane, realizes. I don't know how much it will move the needle this late in the day.

Ridiculous yet not exactly surprising. Just one poll, but it shows no real change in the race after the tape. The most interesting thing, and one that doesn't really surprise me knowing how much certain GOP voters prize loyalty, is that politicians who now dump Trump are seen more negatively than those who stand by him. http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/politico-morning-consult-poll-229394 Some people really are just stupid though. I was looking around to see some reactions to SNL's latest awkward attempt at political commentary, and most were anti-Trump, had always been, yet I saw one person saying things like, "It was 11 years ago," and, "He wasn't even married at the time - at least he didn't cheat like Bill Clinton." (he actually was married and he cheated on a previous wife, but let's just ignore that...). These are the types of zombies who will never go anywhere. I wonder if they are also the idiots who in that poll, (10%) actually said the video improved their opinion of him.

Never knew she did any of these.

They're craven sycophants. The dumbest of them all must be Ted Cruz, who completely destroyed any slim chance he had of 2020 and any shred of respect anyone ever had for him...all for it to be blown up a few weeks later. Desperate. Most of the people who endorsed him are not likely to pay any political price, because their careers are winding down or they're in safe seat, but I do hope the current polls are wrong and prize idiots like Kelly Ayotte (another media darling - I still remember when they gushed over how she was sure to be a future VP...funny how I don't hear that anymore) lose. They deserve it. Most disgusting of all is Mike Pence, hater of women and lgbt people, very proud of it, who is now a hero to the press and the bigot brigades because he fills the stern (white) father fantasies that drive everything they say or do.

Unfortunately I thought almost all of it was done the wrong way, from the Ben death fakeout, to the kidnapping/home invasion for Grant's return, to it becoming all about Pam's usual dramas, to sending the message that if you try to interfere with the case by talking to a relative of the accused, you'll get the result you want. There were some nice moments, like the bit in the last episode where Pam watched Johnny going off for a night out (the same way Paul had left before being murdered), but most of it left a bad taste in my mouth.

The use of the leaked e-mails as what is going to work against Hillary annoys me, because she said very little in those that should surprise or alienate any voter in such a high-stakes election, yet this is being spun as some type of "gotcha" moment in waiting. Her people must be on a knife's edge as he could go out there and spew bile, or just do his usual constipated pouting to try to show he's above it all, hoping the press will put her in the same box they put Kaine in - that she was in the gutter while Trump was above it all, blah blah blah. It's too bad she can't just skip the debate. I read that there is a way the GOP could take him off the ballot but they don't want to go that far. Not sure if it's true or not.

Kimmy Robertson looks about the same as she did 25 years ago.

Is this Marsha Clark at the start of the ad at 3 minutes?

Apparently he's staying to help "advise" Trump. Unless Trump really tanks the debate tomorrow (and unless he pisses on the audience I imagine he will be seen as doing well), I doubt Pence will go anywhere or even consider it.

Yes. His kids hate him. I'm surprised Billy Flynn said that about an NBC employee. I hope they won't can him. DAYS needs all the remotely hot guys they can get.

She's always been a twit who was overhyped by the press because she hangs out with their forever friends McCain and Graham. I loled when she said last week that Trump was a role model.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/gop-insiders-donald-trump-comments-women-229337 They said it better than I did. (the people who said "all straight men talk this way" made me wince - that's not true and it defames a lot of good men out there)

You can find some more old episodes here. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuSNh6YhlhUhMDAqXgaLDxQ

My favorite argument was from the head of the Washington State GOP, who said his comments were only made when he was a Democrat. http://komonews.com/news/local/he-was-channeling-bill-clinton-state-gop-chair-blames-democrats-for-trumps-comments

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8ZKZjptrSU

I've seen too many elections where horrific things are dismissed (2004 in particular) to believe it will be the deciding factor. There's a great deal of apathy out there, and beyond that, there are a great deal of people who will look at all of this and just say it's some "DNC plot" or "Clinton plot" or "media plot." They will handwave it. Not enough to give him a win (I think Hillary will win if things stay as they are), but enough to keep it close. I just no longer believe there is a moment that will sink Trump and cause people to run fleeing. He's said and done a million things in the last year and a half, from making perverted comments about his daughter to calling millions of people rapists to mocking the disabled to belittling a POW for being captured and tortured. People always say it's the end and then it never is. I never thought Trump would get the nomination. Once he did, I stopped believing that he would ever truly be routed. He is a representation of something ugly and nasty and sick in America. He feeds on it, and they feed on him. And they have a great deal of power. I don't believe I'm enabling anyone by posting my opinion on a message board. I doubt a voter here is basing their opinion on my comments. They can easily put me on ignore - I encourage them to do so if I am disturbing them.