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He's incapable of "pivoting" for real. Whenever he acts halfway normal he follows it up with insanity. I suspect that sometime in the next few days he'll fire a gun into the crowd and piss on an American flag.

I liked her well enough and TB did some really good work but in hindsight, I can see Gloria was a Mary Sue.

It's my fervent wish that Trump's campaign is the end of Chris Christie's political career.

Tika's rocking her baby bump.

This is one of those things that really bring home how the 1% live in a completely different world. Two elderly white rich psychopaths working to make one of them POTUS. It's like some kind of weird horror movie.

And black soap actors of all ages said "Amen."

Trump is still hanging on to his claim that Obama founded ISIS. I'm kind of loving this. I feel like he's finally turned a corner where people aren't genuinely surprised anymore by his raving. The press has pretty much taken to treating him like Otis from The Andy Griffith Show. He's already preparing his sorry followers for his inevitable loss. From NPR: "All I do is tell the truth. And if at the end of 90 days, I've fallen short because I'm somewhat politically (incorrect) even though I'm supposed to be the smart one and even though I'm supposed to have a lot of good ideas, it's OK." He added, "I go back to a very good way of life."

I just keep remembering 2012 when the media was fapping itself over how close they thought the election would be. I remember NPR doing a whole piece on "What if this is 2000 all over again?" piece talking about how we might not know until the next day and how would recounts be done differently now, blah, blah, blah and then Obama had that [!@#$%^&*] in the can by like 10 PM Eastern. I do wonder if as we get farther away from the landline age, polling is just going to be less predictive.

I should clarify, I think Trump has ALWAYS been a malignant narcissist but narcissism is a personality disorder. I think that now he is *also* in the throes of dementia. I guess I mean, he's always been crazy but now I believe he's also sick.

Trump lies about everything. He even claimed that he told the RNC to have their convention in Ohio even though the site was selected long before he declared his candidacy. At this point, I think a cognitive exam is necessary because I suspect he's dealing with the onset of dementia. If he is, the stress of the next few months will only make it worse. Unfortunately, there's no way to force him to seek medical help.

That has been something that I thought of too. With so much hacking going on, a private server seems to be quite smart, because hackers would be less likely to find it. The .gov servers are exactly where they would look first. I actually feel for her because I've worked with computers and I know what it's like to have better stuff (security and software) on my system at home than my employer did. Not my current one but definitely past ones.

Considering that the DNC and her campaign have been hacked not to mention numerous government agencies, I consider Hillary the smart one in this. She should be having servers set up for half these folks. Trump's inviting hackers to attack this country actually pushed cybersecurity professionals to rally around her. https://www.wired.com/2016/08/dnc-breach-rallies-hackers-clintons-side-vegas/

Excellent. I was afraid he might actually quit but he's going to take this all the way and drag the party down with him. I hope they keep pushing him to further and further extremes so that he has a complete nervous breakdown the week before the election.

Here's my question though: If Scarborough known this for months, why is just NOW saying something? Because like a lot of the media, Joe was happy to fellate Trump for clicks/views/ratings but now he's looking at the possibility that history will remember him as the new Joseph Goebbels.

The only time Arizona has gone Democratic for president in years was Bill Clinton's reelection bid in 1996. This is a BIG deal. And Indiana, I think, is in play, too. Not only because I suspect Trump is too much for even Indiana's hardcore GOPers, but Pence wound up DESPISED by many there--even in his own party--after that so-called religious freedom law made the state a laughing stock for awhile, and his reelection bid for Governor before he was chosen by Trump was WAY more competitive than it usually would be (although I suspect John Gregg could still win it for the Dems there this year, even without Pence running now). Obama won it in 2008, so it's possible. Romney did win it in 2012, but Trump ain't Romney (stating the obvious FTW!). I have a Republican friend who owns a small business in Indianapolis and she loathes Mike Pence with a ferocity she rarely displays for other politicians of any stripe. I was shocked.

It's interesting to watch people finally realize that Trump is a unique enough threat to this country that desperate times call for desperate measures. First it was Ruth Bader Ginsberg even though she walked it back a bit. Then there's all those members of the military at the DNC, various billionaires (Bloomberg, Buffet, Cuban) piling on, now Obama calling Trump unfit, the VFW weighing in, etc... I saw on one news article someone complained that they'd like to see someone go after Hillary this way but Hillary isn't doing anything nearly this twisted. Hillary is a politician. Trump is a mentally ill sociopath who is tied to Putin. He's a genuine threat to the Republic. He's the equivalent of that security briefing Bush got that said "Bin Laden determined to strike in United States" and I'm happy to see that more and more people are taking him seriously as such.

He's setting up excuses for his inevitable loss. He's going to keep throwing out examples of people working against him as a way to build the "rigged" narrative.

I saw this online the day before and I laughed so hard! Between Sherrod Brown and Joyce Beatty I was a proud Ohioan.

The GOP is in its current position because everything they believe has been taken to extreme. The racism, the divisiveness, the fear mongering, the fact-averseness, etc... has all been taken to the nth degree and that brings you Trump advocating the Russians hack us while members of the military, faith leaders and Mike Bloomberg show up to the DNC.

It doesn't even occur to these people what lame attempts at a snap back this kind of thing is.

I'm just starting to sort through this stuff but it doesn't look to me like the organization wanted to use Bernie's religion. That was just an idea tossed out there by a staffer. Seeing as how it never happened that tells me that he got overruled. A lot of this freak out is about bad brainstorming. Frankly I'm glad to see there were some people who didn't want to treat him with kid gloves. This guy joined the party just so he could exploit its resources then spent his campaign railing against it and its key constituencies. Poor people don't vote, black people were in the tank for Clinton (which...umm yeah), the south was a waste of time. My biggest annoyance with this news is that it just makes the Berniacs go back to hashtagging all over the internet again.

I think the country is so polarized and Clinton is so polarizing it almost has to be. I hope not though. There are a lot of wildcards in this election so I think it's important not to take anything for granted. You've got Republicans who say they won't vote for Trump so the question is will they vote for Clinton, third party or stay home? On the other side you've got the bitter Berniacs who won't vote for Clinton. The same question goes for them, will they vote for Trump (I think that's a solid no) but they could stay home or vote third party. In both scenarios, it's down ballot candidates who get caught in the crossfire. Even if the Berniacs won't vote for Clinton, they could help flip Congress if they can see past their spite. Of course Trump could be a turnout machine for Latinos, Muslims, women, and LGBT but he's certainly a turnout machine for the white grievance crowd. At the end of the day the question will be which of these groups can or will cancel out the others.

Ted Cruz has no convictions. This is just him clawing at the spotlight. It's no different than his filibuster. The man has no concern for anything other than power. He's just positioning himself to consolidate power from the ashes.

That and the e-mails are the only thing they have, so I'm not surprised. On the business side, venture capitalist Peter Thiel, Where's Hulk? In their place are the party officials obligated to be at the Quicken Loans Arena You have to laugh. I see that Trump is picking a hardcore anti-gay anti-woman bigot as his VP - it's frightening to think this type of person is so close to being President. It's even more frightening when you consider that Trump has hinted that even if he wins, he might quit. Pence is essentially running for president now.

I think polling has become less and less accurate in this post landline age. Phone polls oversample the elderly and rural.