You really think she wants open borders? She wants to expand free trade -- usually a Republican plank in non-bizarro years. I looked at it and was not filled with confidence compared to my preferred vendor, 538. Tipp does its own polling, so its beholden to its own data. 538 is an aggregator and does no polling, so they can stand apart from the polling and grade them in a disinterested way. Tipp is probably fine for a poller -- 538 grades them an A- -- but they can't draw on as much data as an aggregator can. 538's publication also has a lot more snap, I have to say, though they are built specifically for retail consumption. I feel like you're being obtuse about the legislative process. There is more to being a Senator than sponsoring bills. And, you don't really become a bill-sponsoring machine until you have seniority and maybe some chairmanships. Here's an article about the big legislators and why they are: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/05/which-senator-has-passed-the-most-laws/455952/
Your daily chuckle: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/01/28/upshot/donald-trump-twitter-insults.html?_r=0
You see that, sheeple? Donald Trump is STANDING AND SITTING NEXT TO BLACK PEOPLE. What racist has ever done that?
Let it sink in folks. It's coming. 5. Trump shocks the world In a stunning rebuke of elites, Donald Trump edged out Hillary Clinton for the presidency last night, jolting world markets and sending shock waves across a beleaguered political establishment. Trump captured 294 electoral votes, flipping Florida, Iowa, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin to the GOP column. With millions of votes left to tabulate in California and New York, Clinton was on track to win a worthless popular vote plurality. After one of the worst polling misses of all time, election “forecasters” and experts were left scratching their heads. Trump credited his “Silent Majority” for swarming polling places and himself for leading a blue-collar revolution. Indeed, turnout among whites without a college degree surged from 55 percent in 2012 to 64 percent in 2016, and Trump carried them by 35 percentage points. Validating the “shy Trump voter” theory, Trump defied expectations by nearly tying Clinton among whites with a college degree. Democrats faulted third-party “spoilers” and a lack of enthusiasm among their base for Clinton’s loss. Latinos voted for Clinton by 47 percentage points, but their turnout barely increased over 2012. Meanwhile, African-American turnout fell to 56 percent from 63 percent four years ago. Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson, Green Party nominee Jill Stein and Independent Evan McMullin combined for 11 percent, severely eating into Clinton’s margin among millennials. Down ballot, Republicans easily held the Senate, sweeping all seven races rated as “toss-ups” by the Cook Political Report for a 53-to-47 seat majority — just one seat down from their current tally after losing seats in Illinois and Wisconsin and gaining Nevada. Democrats gained a paltry five House seats, leaving Speaker Paul Ryan with a solid 242-to-193 majority and stirring talk among disappointed Democrats that it’s time for fresh leadership to replace Nancy Pelosi. Several high-ranking Democrats, haunted by the prospect of reliving their 2000 nightmare and noting that Trump was on track to receive fewer than 45 percent of all votes cast, called for the abolition of the Electoral College. Meanwhile, in his victory speech, Trump immediately praised the integrity of the vote, congratulating state and local officials on their “tremendous” work to ensure a fraud-free election.
Hey, @RocketsLegend and @tmacfor35, did y'all get your signed Trumpketeer book? You paid for it... Trump’s Donors Paid For His Jetliner, His Hotels And Now, His Books Nearly $300,000 of small donations went to “Art of the Deal” publisher. 10/24/2016 08:00 pm ET | Updated 25 minutes ago S.V. Date Senior Political Correspondent, The Huffington Post donaldjtrump.com WASHINGTON ― Donald Trump used small donors’ money to buy nearly $300,000 worth of books from the publisher of his Art of the Deal last month, continuing a pattern of plowing campaign money back into his own businesses. The Oct. 15 Federal Election Commission filing for Trump Make America Great Again Committee does not specify which books in particular were purchased, but the committee’s own website suggests it was Trump’s 1987 business bestseller. “I’ve signed an out-of-print, hardcover copy of ‘The Art of the Deal’ just for you, because I want you on board with Team Trump!” Trump wrote in an Aug. 2 fundraising email, which went on to offer the book for a minimum donation of $184. Trump’s statement calling the book “out-of-print,” repeated on the committee’s website, however, is false. The Art of the Deal had a new paperback edition printed last October, and the hardcover is currently in print and available from Random House and retail booksellers. Barnes and Noble, for example, sells it for $22.35. donaldjtrumpcom GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump claims on his web site that his book, The Art of the Deal, is out of print. It is not, and is available both from his publisher and booksellers. Federal Election Commission Records show that his fundraising committee purchased $300,000 worth of books in August and September. The Trump Make America Great Again Committee is a joint fundraising operation between the Trump campaign and the Republican National Committee. An RNC spokeswoman referred a question about the books to the Trump campaign, which did not return phone calls and emails requesting comment over a period of days. Random House representatives also did not respond to Huffington Post queries. While a second joint Trump-RNC committee concentrates on large contributions, the Trump Make America Great Again Committee focuses on small-dollar donations using online and direct-mail fundraising. As of Sept. 30, 77 percent of all the money it raised came from donors who have given less than $200. According to the committee’s Oct. 15 FEC filing, it paid Penguin/Random House $91,866 on Aug. 30, $98,975 on Sept. 1, and another $98,975 on Sept. 22. The purpose for all three was listed as: “Collateral: Books.” The publishing house has printed five titles by Trump, including How to Get Rich and Think Like a Billionaire. The biggest seller, though, was The Art of the Deal, which was published in 1987 but has remained in print ever since. Trump frequently boasts about it in his campaign speeches, and it is the only one mentioned on the Trump fundraising website. At the standard bulk discount offered by publishers, Trump’s fundraising committee could have purchased some 17,000 copies of the hardcover edition. Under a typical publishing contract, that quantity would generate over $70,000 in royalties, which Trump would have to split with his co-author. According to Trump’s financial disclosure statement filed in May, Trump received between $50,000 and $100,000 in royalties for that title over the previous year. Federal Election Commission Donald Trump reported royalties between $50,000 and $100,000 in the previous year on the financial disclosure statement he filed with the Federal Election Commission in May. The Daily Beast previously reported that Trump spent $55,000 in money from his own campaign to buy copies of his latest book, Crippled America, which was published by Simon and Schuster. Copies were distributed to GOP delegates attending the summer convention in Cleveland. The purchase of books is just the latest example of Trump using donors’ money to purchase goods and services from his own businesses and generating personal profit for himself. Trump houses his campaign headquarters in Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan, where the campaign pays $169,758 a month for office space at about $100 per square foot. (The Clinton campaign, in contrast, rents two floors in a Brooklyn Heights office building for about $32 per square foot.) Trump paid his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach $423,373 on the same day in May that his campaign finalized a deal with the RNC that began bringing him hundreds of millions of dollars of outside donations ― even though the only events he’d held there were two victory parties and an afternoon news conference two months earlier. He could have held those three events at nearby hotels for a total of about $40,000. In July, Trump’s campaign sent $48,240 to his Westchester County golf course. The only event it had hosted for him was a June 7 victory party. Trump could have used a ballroom at a nearby Marriott hotel for less than half that much. And Trump’s insistence on using his own personal Boeing 757 jet is now costing taxpayers millions of dollars extra. Because Trump’s Secret Service detail is making up a large percentage ― and on some days even a majority ― of the flying passengers, the agency must pay a proportionate share of the $10,000-an-hour flying costs. Had Trump chosen to charter a more suitable airliner that would accommodate his staff, his security detail and his traveling press corps, as both Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and previous GOP nominees have done, he could have driven down the costs for everyone. Trump’s staff has defended his decisions to spend more at his own businesses rather than use less-expensive alternatives by pointing out that he is contributing $2 million a month to his own campaign. That $2 million figure, however, is dwarfed by the many tens of millions of dollars per month coming to Trump’s campaign from both large and small donors. Do you ever feel like you've been played?
I don't feel played at all. There are no surprises with Trump. He's a passionate patriot who is running for President to help the people. He spent a 100,000,000 of his own money on this campaign. He didn't have to do this. His intentions are clear. The Democratic (liberal)Party is comparable to the guy who keeps taking back his cheating girlfriend over and over again. 8 years of continuous wage decreases, a health plan that is failing considerably and the creation of ISIS. Yet you keep voting for the same thing. You have been duped to think you are voting intelligently in my eyes! I won't criticize, but I just don't understand it. Had the republicans done this, I would have been voting democrat this year with no issue.
Except, he hasn't spent $100,000,000 of his own money on the campaign. You've been played again. The truth is just a Google away... Chances are, his total worth is less than that, but because he is too embarrassed about it to release his tax returns, we'll never know for sure.
See you can't even respond to my post. You are just throwing conspiracies and ignoring the facts. End of the day you are so worried about Trumps personal life and utter non sense that you fail to accept what the Democratic Party has been the last 8 years. It's been an absolute failure. How sad that in the most important election in American history the biggest story has been Trump's conversation 11 years ago while being taped. Not Clinton's deletion of emails, Not her emailing classified information on her private personal account, Not her foreign donations in to the Clinton Foundation, Not the Iran deal. She actually has proof on the record that she can't handle the job. For having the "more intelligent voters" the dem party sure isn't showing it right now.
President Barack Obama's approval rating stands at 55% in a new CNN/ORC poll, the highest mark of his second term, and matching his best at any time since his first year in office.
For the record, the only people are saying Democrat supporters are smart are the supporters..... Behind the scenes, the Democratic Party refers to them as ignorant. We all saw that Newsflash.
Was this before or after Obamacare came out and says it's going to increase by 25%? Was this before or after decreased wages? http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2016...hange-anything-americans-want-revolution.html Weird your poll doesn't check out.
