Election 2016 (Page 53)

Mark, I just heard something interesting on the news.

They were saying that there is one Washington electoral voter (Bernie Supporter) who has vowed to not vote for Hillary and there's a second one who is considering the same.
That would be an interesting wrinkle for sure.

Even if this were to benefit Trump I would not approve of such a thing personally.  The rules are what they are and as an electoral you are representing many tens of thousands (if not hundreds) of voters.  It's not about you skippy. 

I wonder if the RCP average is onto something.  RCP had Romney up by 1% the week before the election but the overall victory was Obama by 5%.  In other words they were off by 5%-6% with the candidate with the big crowds making the difference for Obama.  This year Hillary is up by 2% nationally and 1% in Florida in the RCP averages.
I do agree that the Latino vote turnout has been hard for the pollsters to capture, but also the AA turnout. Did a quick google and Florida total population is 15% black and 23% Hispanic.

The good news is that we'll likely know early how the polls are really confirming.  If Florida is a 10% Trump then we know the polls are way off, or if they're a toss up or Hillary call then it will be over quick.

Should I start calling you guys Truth Deniers? :-D 

If you truly don't want to be a denier, I'd recommend this site: http://www.mostdamagingwikileaks.com

Just when you thought it was over.  Apparently this is part two of the original DNC leaks:
Today, Friday 22 July 2016 at 10:30am EDT, WikiLeaks releases 19,252 emails and 8,034 attachments from the top of the US Democratic National Committee -- part one of our new Hillary Leaks series. The leaks come from the accounts of seven key figures in the DNC: Communications Director Luis Miranda (10770 emails), National Finance Director Jordon Kaplan (3797 emails), Finance Chief of Staff Scott Comer (3095 emails), Finanace Director of Data & Strategic Initiatives Daniel Parrish (1472 emails), Finance Director Allen Zachary (1611 emails), Senior Advisor Andrew Wright (938 emails) and Northern California Finance Director Robert (Erik) Stowe (751 emails). The emails cover the period from January last year until 25 May this year.

https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/?q=%40releasedate+%222016-11-07%22&mfrom=&mto=&title=&notitle=&date_from=&date_to=&nofrom=&noto=&count=50&sort=0#searchresult

I'm also assuming there's a whopper in this one or tomorrow based on this tweet from Hillary's Communications Director earlier today. (hey, wait a minute... How does she know what's in the emails if they're fake?):

I don't have my head in the sand.  I just believe that Trump is worse.

Edit: and don't get me started on Assange.  His kind of "journalism" gets good people killed.

He did win the statewide High School vote, so he's got some support somewhere.   
http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2016/11/01/minnesota-high-school-vote-donald-trump/

(btw, seeing Trump beat hillary in High School polls all over the country is very encouraging about the future.

I'm not that old, but I remember when American journalists used to be like Assange.  Now they just take their talking points from the government and report what they're told to.  It's sad how we're creeping closer and closer to a third world dictatorship with state run media.  

As far as Trump being worse, I just don't see how anyone can make that argument.  Sure, he's said some bad words, but everything he's ever done was in his private and business life.  What Hillary has done has effected our entire nation and put us all at risk.  There's evidence to suggest that people have been killed based on her complete disregard for our nations secrets.
I try to keep things out of the religious spectrum for the most part here, but there are a lot of demonic influences over her and her campaign.  The stuff coming out lately about several people in her campaign going to spirit cooking events and the satanic, sadistic, and perverted pictures scattered throughout Podesta's house are freaking whacked out.
Even Beyonce the other day was wearing a satanic goats head ring during her performance for Hillary. 

I've always felt that Hillary was pure evil, but the I always thought it on a metaphorical level.  I'm starting to think it's true on a literal level as well.  

BTW, in the latest Wikileaks last night from the DNC there's talk of how they're going to label Trump as a sexual deviant with ties to the Russian very early in the campaign.  It's amazing how they could know all that stuff prior to all the women coming out.  Just saying. 

Curious what else is going to drop today, but a DDOS attack was launched earlier this morning from inside the US that dropped Wikileaks for an hour.  Twitter went offline for a while too.

Well, if you don't consider satanic ritual dinners as demonic then what would you consider them?

lol, head in sand confirmed. 

The only thing they had in common was that they'd both publish what they thought was right.  But if you go back to big names in American journalism, they vetted their sources, they respected the need to protect undercover agents and military personnel, and they did a lot of the hard work that no one wants to do to get headlines these days.

Assange is more like:

That is one thing that is somewhat conflicting for people.  The markets will stay propped up under Clinton by the government and Trump will let them fend for themselves which is how it should be.  The net of that though, is a pretty substantial drop in the markets being likely.

Trump isn't free market at all.  He's protectionist.  The market fears trade wars and tariffs *far* more than they fear the fed starting to raise interest rates.

I guess I don't see it this way because the media does do exactly what your image depicts when it comes to conservatives but they won't publish even the most blatantly bad and illegal things about the Democrats. 

For example they're all up in arms about wikileaks providing hacked emails and many are refusing to cover the story because they were illegally obtained.  Yet, it was front page and lead story all night when the illegally obtained/stolen Trump tax records were sent to them.  

If the media were fair and balanced then I'd be ok with more or less aggressiveness, but they are obviously just one sided and effectively an extension of DNC party which is not the role of the media in America.  

Just yesterday in the DNC Wiki dump there were numerous emails from CNN asking the DNC to provide questions and for other input on how to question GOP candidates.  It's as if they are working for the DNC which just isn't right. 

He is more accurately described as a fair trader.  He is for free trade, but when the free trade consists of us accepting products from foreign countries with zero tariffs or fees and they place large tariffs and fees in kid that is not free trade.

We watch CNN, MSNBC, and FOX.................we laugh at how blatantly biased MSNBC is.  CNN is a bit less biased, and FOX, ie Megyn Kelly, has been the least biased.  Kelly hates Trump and it's clear on her show, so at least their is some balance on FOX. 

I don't know how anybody can watch MSNBC and not laugh out loud. 

It doesn't matter at this point......It's all over but the crying now. 

We don't know how Podesta's emails were obtained either.  Could have been an IT worker in the campaign who had access to them.  Perfectly legal. 

Wait, we were talking about journalists before Assange, like Dan Rather's generation, ya?  And there's a big difference between Trump's taxes and classified military material.

Anyhow, Assange himself has even mentioned that Wikileaks probably has blood on its hands and that he feels it is worth it.  Who is he to decide?
  Esp when most (all?) of their leaks don't even involve his own country.  At least Snowden could be considered a whistleblower, although I think he was also unleashing a firehose when something small would've been sufficient.

Btw I'm laughing that my animated gif from Airplane is now covering this page.  Great start to a Monday

After Trump's surge in the polls last week I considered parking my investments into a high interest savings account until after the election.  

Did anyone play it safe and get out of the markets?

I do think Clinton will win and the markets will rebound on Wednesday, but I have read predictions of an estimated 10% overall decline if Trump wins, 3% of which has already occurred over the past few weeks and a further 5-7% drop shortly after election day.

What's that?  Like 1 1/2%?  

I find it dangerous to try to time the markets, especially with something like a 401K, so we're just riding out whatever chitstorm hits.