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Hillary Clinton's ongoing struggle to deal with the revelation that she used a private email server during her time as secretary of state dominated the conversation about her presidential candidacy, and research suggests it might have doomed her campaign, according to a new study by a consortium of pollsters released over the weekend.

No surprises here, except that she got away with it.

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In the paper, presented at the American Association for Public Opinion Research's annual conference in New Orleans, pollsters and political scientists from Gallup, Georgetown University and the University of Michigan studied the daily Gallup tracking poll from July 10 to November 7, 2016. In particular, they zeroed in on one question: "Have you read, seen or heard anything about (Hillary Clinton/Donald Trump) in the last day or two?" They then zeroed in on the "yes" responses and categorized what, exactly, people said they had read, seen or heard.

More at the link....

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@Builder,

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Hillary Clinton's ongoing struggle to deal with the revelation that she used a private email server during her time as secretary of state dominated the conversation about her presidential candidacy, and research suggests it might have doomed her campaign, according to a new study by a consortium of pollsters released over the weekend.

No surprises here, except that she got away with it.

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In the paper, presented at the American Association for Public Opinion Research's annual conference in New Orleans, pollsters and political scientists from Gallup, Georgetown University and the University of Michigan studied the daily Gallup tracking poll from July 10 to November 7, 2016. In particular, they zeroed in on one question: "Have you read, seen or heard anything about (Hillary Clinton/Donald Trump) in the last day or two?" They then zeroed in on the "yes" responses and categorized what, exactly, people said they had read, seen or heard.

More at the link....

Huh? Comey's dirty trick on dealing with Clinton's email diverted the voters' attention. See how Trump "rumped" him? He pushed tRump to the throne, who in return dismissed him.

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@oristarA,

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Huh? Comey's dirty trick on dealing with Clinton's email diverted the voters' attention.

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Here's a clue for you; Hillary was well aware of her responsibilities to the nation while in the S0S role, and she's yet to stand trial for her con job on her boss, in the invasion of Libya, on false pretenses.

The intentional use of a private server she set up for herself, in the vain attempt to dodge the usual protocols, is another matter entirely, but clearly a breach of the rules she was well aware of.

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@oristarA,

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Comey ... pushed tRump to the throne, who in return dismissed him.

As I said when Snowden came out: from now on, intell agencies will make and break presidents.

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Deadly train crash adds to doubts about US infrastructure

NEW YORK: Only hours after a power outage in Atlanta paralyzed the world's busiest airport, a major train crash in Washington state on Monday raised fresh questions about America's aging infrastructure. [...]

"This is a symbol of a deeper malaise in American society that you simply have not for many, many years spent enough money on the basic infrastructure of the country," said Jacob Kirkegaard, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics.

"It is illustrating an accelerating decline of large public infrastructure in the US: highways, bridges, airports, tunnels, harbors, railways... which have not seen enough investments for decades," Kirkegaard added.

[...] "We are going to fix our inner cities and rebuild our highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, schools, hospitals," Trump said during his victory speech in November 2016.

"We're going to rebuild our infrastructure, which will become, by the way, second to none. And we will put millions of our people to work as we rebuild it."

US media have reported that Trump may finally unveil a long-awaited infrastructure plan early next year. The issue had been seen as a priority for former White House advisor Steve Bannon, who stepped down in August, but there has been little concrete activity since.

Kirkegaard is skeptical Trump will follow through, in part because of the effect of the massive tax cut plan that he and congressional Republicans have prioritized. The bill is near passage but does not include infrastructure funding. "What has happened since January? Nothing."

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https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/business/deadly-train-crash-adds-to-doubts-about-us-infrastructure-9508838

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@ehBeth,

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There are some great music and dance timing apps that help with this sort of thing.

I did not know that. If I'm to do a search, what terminology should I use?

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@glitterbag,

I have just contracted with an Eastern European bot-farm to give your post 10,000 thumbs up by noon my time.

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@glitterbag,

glitterbag wrote:

layman wrote:

Heh. Nice try, cheese eater.

"KEY TRUMP-RUSSIA LINK," I tellya!

Look at you!!!!! All this attention!!!!! People talking to you as if they give a crap!!!!! Enjoy it while it lasts, Princess.

LOL

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Voices From the Right - Michael Gerson (and he ain't messing around)

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But the larger point is this: Trump Republicans are willing to smear a man of genuine integrity, and undermine confidence in federal law enforcement, for reasons they must know are thin to the point of transparency. This is beyond cynicism. It is institutional arson. This is the profoundly anti-conservative strategy of Trump supporters against any institution (the courts, the media, law enforcement) that exposes the administration’s deception and corruption: Burn, baby, burn.

WP

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This is only tangentially relevant to this thread (by virtue of the fact that it involves sexual harassment by politicos). But I am compelled to ask those among you who like Kirsten Gillibrand a question. Or maybe two questions. Do you think that if Hillary Clinton had won, Kirsten Gillibrand would still have assumed the tough stance about the Clinton's treatment of women? Do you think that if Hillary was president, Gillibrand would still have led the mob that ran Al Franken out of the Senate? It's relevant to me because I kind of like Gillibrand, too - and the answers to those questions speak clearly to me about her integrity and character.
(Please spare me the nihilistic "it's all just politics and either way it doesn't matter". If nothing really matters, just shoot yourself - don't bother responding.)

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@Olivier5,

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The bill is near passage but does not include infrastructure funding.

We'll have a transportation network second to none, a 300 ship navy, and a battalion of marines on Mars — all paid for with tax cuts.

Good luck:

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After years of upbraiding and even threatening to abolish the Internal Revenue Service, Republicans must now depend on the agency to carry out their signature legislative accomplishment: a comprehensive revision of the tax code.

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Even before Congress began revising the tax code, the I.R.S. was struggling to keep up with an expanding workload. Since 2010, its budget has been cut by $900 million — or 17 percent, after adjusting for inflation — and its staff reduced by 21,000, or 23 percent. In the meantime, it has had to process roughly 10 million more individual returns.

NYT

On an unrelated note I heard some clueless official telling the BBC that Russia meddled in the 2016 election and spread disinformation to try to polarize society in western democracies. I don't know where they get off spouting these MSM lies. Oh, the person making the comments? — H.R. McMaster.

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@snood,

Really difficult one to answer, Snood. It would all be pretty speculative. For instance it would probably make a difference if Clinton won convincingly rather than in a squeaker, and whether there was any coattail effect and she had a congress she could work with. I don't know all that much about Gillibrand; I recall that there was some consternati0on and disappointment when Paterson nominated her to replace HRC in the Senate.

In my opinion, and that's all it is, I'll give her the benefit of the doubt in this case. I don't see that the effects of the Weinstein scandal would have been diminished with Clinton in the White House. I think the cavalcade of rogues would have played out much the same, with the serial abusers and rapists lumped together with the frat boys and "Copperfields", blanket condemnation in the media, and a few resignations. But there are no "if's" in history and safe assumption that the same conditions would be in place.

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska, – The elder son of former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin has been charged with assault and burglary in a violent confrontation with his father in which the two men struggled over a handgun at his parents’ Alaska home, court records showed on Monday.

According to the criminal complaint and supporting documents, Track Palin, 28, broke through a window of the house in Wasilla, Alaska, and scuffled with his father, Todd Palin, on Saturday night in a clash that stemmed from a family dispute over a truck.

Global

I'm oddly comforted to find a truck in this story.

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@snood,

First, I think there's a fair chance that if Hillary had won, there'd be no #MeToo movement right now. We can observe that this movement seems rather inevitable but we still have to account in some way for why it popped up now. The Women's March was a significant response to Trump in the WH. Gross, insulting, misogynist, and admitted sexual molester Donald Trump. And if Trump had not won, Sessions would still be in his seat and there'd have been no Roy Moore scandal. I think electing Trump - and keeping a woman out of the WH - was the likely catalyst for this thing tipping over right now.

It's impossible to answer what KG would have done as it would depend on circumstances. But perhaps you are asking whether her call (not just hers) for Al to go was a strategic decision that had to be made for the party or something else? Was her ambition the driving motivation? I don't think so but I might have that wrong.

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Appearing on Breitbart Radio on Monday morning, a reporter for the conservative website defended an article he wrote that posits that “feminists” are turning to witchcraft to combat President Donald Trump.

Using the Twitter hashtag #MagicResistance, tech writer Charlie Nash told Breitbart editor-in-chief Alex Marlow in all seriousness that feminism and witchcraft have become “increasingly entwined,” reports Right Wing Watch.

Raw Story

They have the best people over there at Breitbart.

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@snood,

I'm not so sure, as Bernie seems to be, that the election of Clinton would have changed this. The accusations against Harvey Weinstein began before the election. The New York Times published accusations against him in October, a month before the election. It hadn't enough impact or legs to have any effect on the election. Since that time, allegations have cascaded against Hollywood types, and it is worth noting that the first accusation against Franken came for his behavior before he entered the Senate. (However, one of the prominent accusations dates from a time when he was already Senator Franken.)

The Hollywood scandals which have grown up since the days before the election, I think, would have made it impossible to ignore the allegations against Franken, no matter who had won.

I think some perspective is needed, though. Clinton lost because she ran a crap campaign. She wasted a lot of time and the political capital of Mr. Obama on Florida, a state she didn't have a hope in hell of winning. Had she gone to Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania repeatedly before the election,and particularly if Mr. Obama had done so, at her request, she'd probably be president today. Furthermore, that carpetbagger Sanders went into a sulk after the Democratic convention, and did not get out there and vigorously campaign for the Democrats. Even had he not campaigned for Clinton, he might have gotten out the vote for Senate and House candidates.

Regardless of what any woman said before or after the election, Clinton lost. And regardless of what happened in the election, the Weinstein affair would have blown up in Hollywood's collective face late last year. All of which is, of course, only my never humble opinion.

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@snood,

No.

The entire sexual harassment movement was designed to take down Trump. It's being fanned by establishment Dem advocate-journalists.

People have been trying to sell the Weinstein story for years with no luck. Suddenly now, in an effort to snare Trump, the doors were open. Weinstein's formidable web of gatekeepers stopped protecting him, and Ronan Farrow's story was finally published.

I don't believe this sex assault tidal wave would have been allowed during a Clinton presidency. Clinton buddy Weinstein would still be in power.

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@Lash,

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The entire sexual harassment movement was designed to take down Trump

Was designed...let this sink in for a while.

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@hightor,

Yes. Do.

Why did myriad attempt to take down Weinstein fail for years...and suddenly the doors that were slammed shut open?

Snood,

I think this article has your answer on what Gillibrand would do during a Clinton presidency.

She made a bold statement that Bill Clinton should've resigned the presidency due to abuse of power re his affair with Lewinsky (not even the rape of Broaddrick), and then her staff walked that back.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/usnews/2017/nov/19/bill-clinton-sexual-misconduct-allegations-past

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, who has supported and accepted support from the Clintons, caused a stir last week when she said the then president should have resigned over his affair with Monica Lewinsky which the former intern has said was consensual but an abuse of power.

Gillibrand’s office said the senator was speaking about if Clinton were in office at this time. But revisiting the former president’s abuses remains a complex issue for many in the women’s movement as Hillary Clinton continues to assert that the accusations against her husband were “disproved”.

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@Lash,

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Why did myriad attempt to take down Weinstein fail for years...and suddenly the doors that were slammed shut open?

If you'd said that the movement was sparked by the Access Hollywood video and the crass behavior of candidate Trump I wouldn't have objected. I think it's an interesting question and I've heard some suggestions that Weinstein had become a significantly less powerful player in Hollywood, emboldening some of his accusers. I'm not a person who follows show biz to any degree, so I don't know if there's any truth to this. What I do know is that your attempt to link the situation to HRC and your suggestion of a conspiracy seems like too far a reach.

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