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What is it...36 states with GOP majorities? They need 38 to pass constitutional amendments. And they can do that without Congress, if they want.
 
The Democrats are complaining about Hillary . but this is what they really need to be complaining about. Their party is getting obliterated at the lower levels .. even a state like New York is a split legislature, Washington is close. There are really only 6 states they have in the bag .. the other 44 the GOP either controls or is within a few seats of flipping.
 
Yes, I completely agree. They have stopped working at winning at the state level, and that's murdering them everywhere else, especially the House, where the democrats get more votes in the house, but they get significantly less seats due to gerrymandering.
 
In a way it is the complete reverse from the 1970s/80s where Republicans had an big advantage in Presidential elections most years and were being gerrymandered out of the House/state legislatures ... Now it is pretty much the Dems have an advantage most years at President but that is really it ...
 
bearfan said:
Now it is pretty much the Dems have an advantage most years at President but that is really it ...
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Yes, pretty much. And the president is only a firewall against stuff, not an agent of change. The founders wanted change to come from the Congress and the States - that is why you can do constitutional amendments without the President's signature.
 
Trump's behavior in the past couple days seems to support the theory that he didn't really want the job to begin with.
 
He has looked blind-sided the after meeting with Obama and Ryan. We'll see I guess.

Still, whether it is 4 or god forbid 8 years. Trump has the opportunity to shape the Supreme Court for DECADES. He's already going to nominate one candidate and there is at least three about to die/retire. THAT'S why most people are losing their shit.
 
Money spent up to the end of October


Hillary


$1.3 B


$556 million
Hillary Clinton campaign

$544.4 million
Party and joint fundraising committees

$188 million
Super PACs



Trump

$795 M
$248.3 million
Donald Trump campaign

$486.7 million
Party and joint fundraising committees

$60.1 million
Super PACs
 
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FBI effort spent on Clinton to make her look bad while she hasn't done anything criminal > American citizen effort to understand policy of both candidates
 
Clinton deciding to try to hide from the Freedom of information Act, ignore record keeping directives and cover it up > trying to be at least a semi-honest person. The email deal is no ones fault but her own. Something she will have plenty of time to contemplate for the rest of her life.
 
bearfan said:
Clinton deciding to try to hide from the Freedom of information Act, ignore record keeping directives and cover it up > trying to be at least a semi-honest person. The email deal is no ones fault but her own. Something she will have plenty of time to contemplate for the rest of her life.
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Now that she lost I have a hard time defending her on anything. Blown out of proportion or not, the Email thing was a liability and she (and the Democrat party as a whole) knew it. That should've been enough for her to step aside. The only thing I can imaging keeping her from not running was her sense of entitlement to the position. A sense of entitlement that just cost them an important election/at least one supreme court judge. Liberals should resent Hillary far more than conservatives.
 
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