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Archive of Articles for October, 2016

2016 Electoral Math -- A Very Wild Ride At The End

[ Posted Monday, October 31st, 2016 – 17:51 UTC ]

The 2016 presidential election has been the wildest rollercoaster ride I can remember, and it looks like the final week will be even wilder than anyone imagined. So welcome back to Electoral Math, where we try to make some sort of sense of the state-level polling, measured over time.

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Haunting Hallowe'en Nightmares For Left And Right

[ Posted Friday, October 28th, 2016 – 18:39 UTC ]

Yes, it's time once again for our yearly frightfest, where we toss out a spine-tingling nightmare for folks on both sides of the political chasm. Right and left will be quaking in their boots after contemplating the following twisted tales! [Cue: shrieking and chains clanking]

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Program Note

[ Posted Thursday, October 27th, 2016 – 19:49 UTC ]

No column today, sorry. Busy carving pumpkins for tomorrow's (rather early) Hallowe'en column.
But I would advise everyone to reload this page in their browser, otherwise you might not see our holiday header, above. Boo!
-- Chris Weigant
 
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If GOP Holds House, Clinton Investigations To Begin On Day One

[ Posted Wednesday, October 26th, 2016 – 16:57 UTC ]

While it isn't exactly certain yet that Hillary Clinton will be our next president, at this point it is worth contemplating what will happen after the election if she does win. I did so yesterday on the subject of Merrick Garland's Supreme Court nomination, but today the news centers on how a Republican House would react to a Clinton presidency. In a word: petulantly. They are now promising endless investigations of Hillary Clinton, as far as the eye can see.

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A Mountain Of GOP Hypocrisy, Dead Ahead

[ Posted Tuesday, October 25th, 2016 – 16:35 UTC ]

Assuming the polls are not "rigged," and barring any last-minute revelations in the campaign season, Hillary Clinton is going to be our next president. The chances of this becoming true have been increasing ever since the first general election debate, and they now seem to have crossed the borderline into near-certainty. If Democrats also pick up at least four Senate seats as well, we should all be prepared for a steaming pile of hypocrisy from Republican senators immediately thereafter, as they fall all over themselves in a rush to confirm Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court before Barack Obama leaves office.

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2016 Electoral Math -- Two Weeks Out, Clinton's Looking Good

[ Posted Monday, October 24th, 2016 – 18:49 UTC ]

Both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton had a mixed week in the polls. Some states strengthened for both candidates, and some states weakened. For the most part, though, the race remained essentially unchanged.

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Friday Talking Points [413] -- Bad Hombres And Nasty Women Unite!

[ Posted Friday, October 21st, 2016 – 17:01 UTC ]

So we had the final presidential debate this week, and Donald Trump went right on being Donald Trump, which should have surprised precisely no one by now. Our subtitle today, of course, refers to the two most amusing (or horrifying, take your pick...) things Trump said during the debate. Since then, both "bad hombres" and "nasty women" are trending online. Hey, when bad hombres and nasty women unite, anything could happen, right?

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Will Trump Lose It?

[ Posted Thursday, October 20th, 2016 – 16:20 UTC ]

OK, I fully admit that headline is nothing more than a bad pun. Will Donald Trump lose the election? At this point, the answer to that is "probably." But when he does lose the election, will Donald Trump completely lose it? That is the more pertinent question being asked now, as he's already signaling that he's not exactly going to take the loss graciously (as all losing candidates are indeed expected to do).

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Nasty At The End

[ Posted Wednesday, October 19th, 2016 – 22:10 UTC ]

Tonight was (finally!) the last presidential debate of the 2016 election season. I thought it was a better debate (if less entertaining) than the first two, personally. A lot of actual policy positions were discussed, the candidates interacted with each other without so much of the "everyone's screaming at once" interludes, and the moderator kept the subjects moving along at a good clip. So my overall impression of the final debate was that it was a lot more like a normal presidential debate than the previous two.

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Thank You, John McCain

[ Posted Tuesday, October 18th, 2016 – 17:09 UTC ]

Senator John McCain just got caught in a "Kinsley gaffe," which is defined as: "a Washington politician accidentally admitting an obvious truth." For which I'd like to thank McCain, because it could actually pave the way for Senate Democrats to combat Republican obstructionism in a very effective manner. McCain's gaffe was on the subject of the Senate's confirmation process for Supreme Court justices. He confirmed what some had already been suspecting -- if Hillary Clinton becomes president, the Senate Republicans might just band together to refuse to confirm anyone she names to the high court. Period.

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