When will Hillary Clinton give up her candidacy ?

It is easy to visually see the difference in slopes of the GDP growth curve you posted both before and after the 2007 recession.

If there is a difference, it does not appear to be large.

A list of speakers' incomes

1) Trump $1.5 million per speech
2) Hillary $200,000 to $250,000
3) Bill Clinton $200,000
4) Geitner $200,000
5) Bernanke $200,000 to $400,000
6) GW Bush $100,00 to $150,000
6) Rice $150,000
7) Summers $135,000
8) Gore $100,000
9) Sarah Palin $100,000
10) Plouffe $100,000
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/washingtons-highest-lowest-speaking-fees/story?id=24551590#2

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I really want to see a careful analysis from political scientists backing up that claim, george. I really do.

What exactly is a "political scientist"? Are you one? Parados specializes in zeroing in on any favoravble single element of a question and implying, usually without evidence or comment,and often deceptively that it speaks for the whole. He did note the low number of bills submitted to the president, but failed to adress the either the cause for that or or the relative fractions vetoed. More to the point during his first term Harry Reid substantially eliminated the necessity of vetos by refusing to call votes at all in the Senate by legislation passed by the House by the Rpublican Majority there. Parados offered no quantification there. In the first term Obamacare was passed without a single Republican Vote in the House of Representatives and no negotiations with the minority party relative to its contents. That set the stage for all that followed. The divided Republican House did its part as well.

Free market conservatives don't turn a blind eye to political corruption simply because it involves monetary transactions.

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Free market conservatives don't turn a blind eye to political corruption simply because it involves monetary transactions.

Giving a speech is not corruption. And at least Bill & Hillary didn't refuse to pay the people who helped them write and research the speech, unlike that cheap, chiseling bastard Trump who pulled a disappearing act when the contractors who actually built his buildings handed him the bill.

How's that for a character issue? Oops, that's against the Republican, so it doesn't count.

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What exactly is a "political scientist"? Are you one?

So, george. There's no such thing as a political scientist? No such thing as scholarship in the field of American politics? That's such a pathetic dodge, particularly after making claims for which you cite no one and nothing.

Here's two political scientists, one with AEI and the other with Brookings. If you are not interested in learning, don't bother with this. If you are adamant about holding your fixed ideas, don't bother with this. And if that is the case, I see no reason why anyone here ought to bother engaging you on this matter from here on out.
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The Clinton campaign announced:

On the four- year anniversary tomorrow when the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals’ (DACA) enrollment began, Hillary for America is launching a national voter registration program, “Mi Sueño, Tu Voto” (My Dream, Your Vote), to organize DREAMers to mobilize their communities and ask voters to consider what is at stake for their families in November. “DREAMers have played a pivotal role in our campaign, advocating for families who constantly live in fear of deportation–so we’ve created a program that aims to turn these stories into action,” said Lorella Praeli, National Director of the Latino Vote. The program calls on DREAMers across the country to join the campaign’s grassroots efforts to secure commitments from their community to vote for their future in November.

“We founded this program on the premise that, one by one– through friends, families, co-workers or classmates– DREAMers’ futures would be considered on Election day, ” stated Praeli.” “We may not have the right to vote, but “Mi Sueño, Tu Voto” will help ensure that our stories are heard and it will send a clear signal to Donald Trump that we cannot be silenced,” said Astrid Silva, Nevada DREAMer and immigrant rights activist. Hillary for America will be holding events across the country this week, including in Florida, Nevada and North Carolina, to unveil the program. “Mi Sueño, Tu Voto” will also serve to remind voters of Donald Trump’s hateful and dangerous agenda, highlighting his pledge to eliminate DACA and deport millions of DREAMers and immigrant families.

Carlos Gutierrez, the former Secretary of Commerce under President George W. Bush, has joined the ranks of Republicans who are supporting Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton over Republican nominee Donald Trump.

Gutierrez said Clinton would “make a darned good president” and be better for the U.S. economy, calling Trump’s economic policies a “disaster” during an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper. While Gutierrez agrees with Trump’s free trade platform, he said the Republican nominee’s economic policies would harm the country.

“The economy’s important to me. His plan, I love the tax cuts, I’m a Republican, but then he has this sort of import substitution strategy, which is a strategy like an underdeveloped country, very poor countries think that way,” he said. “(The idea) that we have to substitute our imports. That would be a disaster.”

Gutierrez said he felt he couldn’t support Trump following his racially insensitive comments in June, including one about U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel. At the time, Trump demanded Curiel recuse himself from the fraud cases against Trump University because his campaign’s position on illegal immigration created an “absolute conflict” with the judge, who is of Mexican descent.

“That for me was the end of it,” Gutierrez said. “I don’t want to go back fifty years.”

You will indeed have to deal with this one, because it is the main issue I had in mind and noted. I suspect your understranding of Senate rules and the powers of the Majority leader with regard to the refferral of legislation to committees, amendments to pending legislation and the the scheduling of debate and votes is quite deficient.