Month: October 2016

 
From Scott Crass at The Moderate Voice:

Geographically, the state that most fascinates me at the Presidential level is Pennsylvania. With four sundry regions both culturally and politically, the Keystone State is as different as Northern and Southern California. But it still contains 20 electoral votes that matter.

At the national level, Pennsylvania has been faithfully Democrat – it has not voted Republican for the Presidency since 1988 and that year, George H.W. Bush’s margin over Michael Dukakis was a mere 51-49%. In fact, even in the 1984 Reagan landslide, it gave the President just 53%, less than monolithically Democratic New York.

This year, Republicans are hoping to flip the state and while, they have certainly succeeded in putting it in play, most analysts think the odds of Donald Trump actually winning it are a stretch.

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From Iron Knee at Political Irony:

Donald Trump walked right into a trap set by Hillary Clinton at the debate, and now that he was caught like a deer in the headlights calling former Miss Universe Alicia Machado “Miss Piggy” and “Miss Housekeeping” (both sexist and racist!), Trump can’t stop himself and is doubling and even tripling down.

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• Last Of The Millenniums briefly delves into whether Trump is taxed.
   
• At The Moderate Voice Evan Sarzin compares Trump late night madness to Nixon’s conversations with paintings and suggests his plans to attack Clinton for her husband’s infidelity are just part of the madness.
   
• Iron Knee at Political Irony takes Donald Trump to the Escher Inn for a change in perspective.
   
• The Big Empty brings us 10 instances in which a Presidential candidate broke federal laws and screwed over ordinary citizens.
   
• driftglass finds self-deception and self-immolation in the conservative edge of bothsiderism.
   
• Infidel753 brings us an update of his own medical condition, still improving after a brief scare, international reaction to the Hill-Don-1 debate, and a promise, once the election is over, to continue the fight against the real world wide villain.
   
• James Wigderson continues his campaign against University suppression of conservative free speech. Uncharacteristically, however, the usually diligent James leaves a few things out (last item).
   
• Yellow Dog at Blue in the Bluegrass explains with scientific precision how privatization kills.
   
• nojo at Stinque suggests that those who grew up in the 60s amid social change do not appreciate just how hard it is to attain even small measures of social justice.
   
• Max’s Dad has a list, with links, of one-trick pop hits, from 30 – 45 years ago. Appeals to my generation, I suppose.
   
• When I want to get depressed over media trends outside of balanced-beyond-truth news outlets, I just contrast the History Channel with what used to be the History Channel. My friend Michael John Scott at Mad Mike’s America thinks about “fluff-filled, nonsense ridden pseudo-source of reliable weather reporting” that has replaced the Weather Channel.
   

A Billion a Million and One Lives

A Commander-in-Chief who can send people into harms way should know that life is to be valued.

Will we elect a President who values life?

One secret answer is hidden between the pages of their Foundation papers.

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