KD, Trump increases Wealth of Workers Already
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He has other Currencies nose diving, making the US Dollar Stronger, putting more buying power into the hands of us, the workers, you know the class that the Dems forgot and lost the election because of and we are of all races.
42 percent of Woman voted for Trump, they saw thru the lies of Hillary/Obama/Polosi/Warren, did I forget any girls on my list?
Hillary Clinton’s lead in the popular vote over President-elect Donald Trump has surpassed 1 million, according to Dave Wasserman of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report.
As the final vote counts continue to trickle in a week after Election Day, Wasserman’s tally found that Clinton had 61,963,234 votes to Trump’s 60,961,185 as of Tuesday afternoon.
President Obama—who was inaugurated in January 2009 and will leave office in January 2017—has not yet seen a year in which real GDP grew by as much as 3.0 percent."
Hillary does not have a lead in the national popular vote, because there was no national popular vote. There was a series of State popular votes. Which Trump won, incidentally.
WP,,,,, HB is in stage three of loss of the Election. We should allow her to be as delusional as she needs to be to get thru this, after all This Was a Historic vote, not in the way she wanted.
Hillary had Obama and others, all the star power of the Dem world came out
She had 4 times the money She had the Press She had the ground game
She lost because of the shitty economy, 94 million people of working age without jobs, the crashing of Obamacare and low home ownership.
The message she had was elect me for more of the same, liberalism failed.
She won "the popular vote." She got the most votes." LOL @ Jane
OK, so what, "what difference at this point does it make"
CS gave us this, the Chicago Cubs were out scored in this years world series , yet, they won four games, the get the ring and the World Series trophy, the other team gets to be a foot note in history.
FBI Criminal Probe of Clinton Crime Family Foundation continues.
CH, I have a suggestion. The transition is interesting. He was against the Iraq war and he's considering a super hawk.
Note also how many people he's tossing out his team.
And how much resistance he is having from his unclear path compared to his campaign rhetoric. Since I can't post here on this fascinating process, it's more important to your poll that is obviously going to make right side happy. But it's not important. s
McCain is ripping into this.
Rand Paul and some others are at least going to be uncomfortable with Bolton or Giuliani.
Give it a thought. I would but not enough see it to make it work. I would be topped with some irrational cartoon.
The leading candidate to be Secretary of State is former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, one of Trump’s loyal supporters.
Trump is also eyeing former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, but he’s seen as a less likely option, and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker has long been mentioned as a front-runner for the job.
Treasury secretary
Steven Mnuchin, a 17-year-veteran of Goldman Sachs who now works as the chairman and chief executive of the private investment firm, Dune Capital Management, is the front-runner for the job.
Secretary of Defense
Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, a close Trump adviser who is taking a leading role in the president-election’s transition team, is the leading candidate for Secretary of Defense.
Former George W. Bush National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley and former Sen. Jim Talent (R-Mo.) have also been mentioned as potential candidates. Clinton’s CIA director, Jim Woolsey, is a darkhorse candidate.
Attorney general
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a Trump immigration adviser, is a rumored candidate for the job.
Sessions is also seen as a contender for AG.
Other possibilities: Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), a lawyer; and Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, though the controversy over Trump’s donation to Bondi could undercut her nomination.
Trump’s presidential transition team is also eyeing venture capitalist Robert Grady, a George H. W. Bush White House official with ties to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. And Trump’s son, Donald Trump, Jr., is said to be interested in the job.
Forrest Lucas, the 74-year-old co-founder of oil products company Lucas Oil, is also seen as a contender for Interior Secretary.
Meanwhile, a person who spoke to the Trump campaign told POLITICO that aides have also discussed tapping Sarah Palin for Interior Secretary. Trump has said he’d like to put Palin in his Cabinet, and Palin has made no secret of her interest.
Other possible candidates include: former Republican Rep. Richard Pombo, who chaired the House Natural Resources Committee from 2003 to 2007; former Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer; Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin; Wyoming Rep. Cynthia Lummis; and Oklahoma oilman Harold Hamm.
Agriculture secretary
There are several names being considered by Trump aides for Agriculture secretary, according to multiple sources familiar with the transition. The president elect has a deep bench to pull from with nearly 70 leaders on agricultural advisory committee.
The most controversial name on the transition’s current short list is Sid Miller, the current secretary of agriculture in Texas, who caused a firestorm just days ago after his campaign’s Twitter account referred to Clinton as a ‘c---.‘ Miller said it was a staffer mistake and apologized.
Other names include a sitting governor, Sam Brownback of Kansas, and three former governors: Dave Heineman (Nebraska), Sonny Perdue (Georgia) and Rick Perry (Texas). Also in the conversation are Charles Herbster, a Republican donor and agribusiness leader who chairs Trump’s agricultural advisory committee, and Mike McCloskey, a dairy executive in Indiana.
Bruce Rastetter, a major Republican donor in Iowa, and Kip Tom, a farmer who ran for Congress in Indiana this year but was defeated in the primary, are also among those being considered.
Other top Republican insiders expect that Chuck Connor, president and CEO of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, Don Villwock, president of the Indiana Farm Bureau and Ted McKinney, the current director of the Indiana Department of Agriculture in the Pence Administration, are also likely to be in the running for the post.
Billionaire investor Wilbur Ross, a Trump economic adviser, could fit the bill, is Trump’s leading contender for the job.
Dan DiMicco, the former CEO of steelmaker Nucor Corp and a Trump trade adviser, is another possibility, though he is expected to be tapped as U.S. Trade Representative.
Labor secretary
People tracking the transition say Victoria Lipnic -- the Commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission since 2010 who also served as an an assistant secretary of Labor for employment standards from 2002 until 2009 -- is the most likely candidate for Labor Secretary. The Romney transition team reportedly also considered her for a top Labor post back in 2012.
A possible private sector pick is Andrew Puzder, chief executive of CKE Restaurants, the parent company of Carl's Jr., Hardee's, Green Burrito and Red Burrito.
Health and Human Services secretary
Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), the chairman of the House Budget Committee and an early Trump backer, is being considered for Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Former Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is another possible candidates for the job.
Ben Carson, who had been mentioned as a possible HHS Secretary, has said he will not serve in the Trump administration.
Housing and Urban Development secretary
Trump supporters Bud Albright and Scott Keller have been reaching out to housing advocates to take their temperature on a HUD nominee.
Names being circulated include Pam Patenaude, the president of the J. Ronald Terwilliger Foundation for Housing America's Families, former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown and former New York Rep. Rick Lazio (R).
Transportation secretary
Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.), who just lost reelection bid, is interested in becoming Transportation Secretary. He told POLITICO recently that he’s talked to top Trump aides about the job, adding he’s received “encouraging” signs about his candidacy.”
Other possible candidate: James Simpson, the former commissioner of New Jersey's Department of Transportation and the former head of the Federal Transit Administration during the George W. Bush administration; and Mark Rosenker, the former chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board.
House Transportation Committee Chairman Bill Shuster told POLITICO recently he’s not interested in the job.
Energy secretary
Continental Resources CEO Harold Hamm has long been seen as a leading candidate for Energy Secretary. Hamm, an Oklahoma billionaire who has been a friend of Trump’s for years, has been the leading influence on Trump’s energy policy during the campaign. But Hamm has said he plans to stay at Continental.
If Hamm passes, Rep. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), a Trump energy adviser, could be offered the job, as could venture capitalist Robert Grady, though he could also be in line for Interior.
Kristine Svinicki, the sole Republican on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, is in the running for a high-level post at the Energy Department, potentially energy secretary, a source close to the Trump transition told POLITICO.
Indiana Rep. Luke Messer, a longtime school choice proponent, is a top candidate for Education Secretary. Messer told POLITICO in a recent interview that he’s open to serving in the position.
Another possibility is William Evers, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution who has worked on education matters for the Trump transition team. Evers worked at the Education Department during the Bush administration and served as a senior adviser to then-Education Secretary Margaret Spellings.
Also in the mix: Tony Zeiss, a former president of Central Piedmont Community College, one of the largest community colleges in North Carolina. He was president for more than 20 years before retiring in July.
Sources close to Trump’s transition also pointed to two long-shot candidates: Eva Moskowitz, a Democrat who founded the Success Academy Charter Schools and has clashed with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio; and Michelle Rhee, an education reform activist who formerly served as the chancellor of Washington D.C.’s, public schools.
Other potential candidates include: Former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, now the president of the Purdue University System; Gerard Robinson a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute focused on education policy; Tony Bennett, the former Florida Commissioner of Education and the former Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction; Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker; Hanna Skandera, the New Mexico Secretary of Education; and education activists Betsy DeVos; and Kevin Chavous.
Veterans Affairs secretary
The name most commonly mentioned for Veterans Affairs Secretary is House Veterans’ Affairs Chairman Jeff Miller, who’s retiring from the House and was an early Trump backer.
Homeland Security secretary
House Homeland Security Chairman Mike McCaul has said he’s interested in becoming Homeland Security Secretary. “I've expressed my interest, and I think the process is taking place,” McCaul told POLITICO recently.
Another potential pick: Rep. John Katko (R-N.Y.), the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee’s transportation security panel.
A long-shot candidate: David Clarke, the conservative Sheriff of Milwaukee County, Wis. Clarke has cultivated a devoted following on the right, and he spoke at the Republican National Convention in Ohio, declaring, "Blue lives matter." Christie is also seen as a possible DHS secretary.
Environmental Protection Agency administrator
Candidates for EPA Administrator include Mike Catanzaro, a George W. Bush-era EPA official and energy adviser to former-House Speaker John Boehner who is a top official on Trump’s transition team; Jeff Holmstead, another former Bush EPA official; and Venture capitalist Robert Grady, who was an environmental adviser for George H.W. Bush.
Myron Ebell, a climate skeptic who is running the EPA working group on Trump’s transition team, is also seen as a possibility to lead the agency. Ebell, an official at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, has come under fire from environmental groups for his stances on global warming.
Other potential candidates: Joe Aiello is the director of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection’s Division of Environmental Safety and Quality Assurance; Carol Comer, the commissioner of the Indiana Department of Environmental Management, who was appointed by Mike Pence; and Leslie Rutledge, the attorney general of Arkansas and a lead challenger of EPA regulations in the state.
Director of the Office of Management and Budget
Eric Ueland, a veteran Republican Capitol Hill aide and top staffer on the Senate Budget Committee who is working on Trump’s transition team, is seen as a possible candidate to lead the OMB. Former Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn is also seen as a potential OMB chief.
:Very organized process taking place as I decide on Cabinet and many other positions.I am the only one who knows who th finalists are!"
I just posted the list of just the top cabinet positions. Does anyone believe he has the ability to do that in just a week, that is occupied by multiple meetings and other activities. On top of that there is "The Plum Book" that lists every subordinate positions that need to have FBI background checks and approval by the Senate.
Seriously... I was organized when I worked, I expect that folks like ballsless, are also organized. But all of that and he's the only one who knows them all?
When Ansolabehere spoke to FactCheck.org, he said, “The Richman and Earnest study is an incorrect use of the survey that we manage, and a false claim of evidence of non-citizen voting. It’s a dangerous, stray false-fact.” When the authors of the ODU study were contacted, they replied, “[We] stand by our study, but we encourage people to read the critiques, too.” Before the election, FactCheck.org also reached out to experts to see what they had to say about Trump’s allegations of massive voter fraud. “[Trump’s] allegations are false. Fraud almost never takes place through in-person voting (and certainly not enough to swing an election),” said Heather Gerken, a professor of law at Yale Law School and an election law expert. “There have been astonishingly few examples, and with good reason. It is far, far, far easier to steal an election by bribing an election official or mail-in/absentee voting. Unsurprisingly, all the evidence of serious fraud concerns the latter sort.” So, if Phillips has hard evidence, then it may be the first. The interesting thing to note is that the 3 million illegal alien voters alleged by Phillips is very close to the 2.8 million maximum provided by the study. However, at this time it is impossible to make a direct comparison since the exact methodology for collecting voter data has not been revealed by VoteStand and True The Vote.
Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/3719036/3-million-illegal-immigrants-voted-gregg-phillips-votestand-donald-trump-final-popular-vote-count-2016-predictions/#HQJtW1Pp2xvYjr6m.99
When Ansolabehere spoke to FactCheck.org, he said, “The Richman and Earnest study is an incorrect use of the survey that we manage, and a false claim of evidence of non-citizen voting. It’s a dangerous, stray false-fact.” When the authors of the ODU study were contacted, they replied, “[We] stand by our study, but we encourage people to read the critiques, too.” Before the election, FactCheck.org also reached out to experts to see what they had to say about Trump’s allegations of massive voter fraud. “[Trump’s] allegations are false. Fraud almost never takes place through in-person voting (and certainly not enough to swing an election),” said Heather Gerken, a professor of law at Yale Law School and an election law expert. “There have been astonishingly few examples, and with good reason. It is far, far, far easier to steal an election by bribing an election official or mail-in/absentee voting. Unsurprisingly, all the evidence of serious fraud concerns the latter sort.” So, if Phillips has hard evidence, then it may be the first. The interesting thing to note is that the 3 million illegal alien voters alleged by Phillips is very close to the 2.8 million maximum provided by the study. However, at this time it is impossible to make a direct comparison since the exact methodology for collecting voter data has not been revealed by VoteStand and True The Vote.
Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/3719036/3-million-illegal-immigrants-voted-gregg-phillips-votestand-donald-trump-final-popular-vote-count-2016-predictions/#HQJtW1Pp2xvYjr6m.99
rather than you spamming the blog like a certain pederast, why don't you do what all the sad cool kids are doing and get yourself some crayons and a coloring book.
What is more troubling is that the head of the NSA said that the Russian government made a deliberate attempt to influence our election. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
ya know, i keep hearing this pablum repeated on the left, but it's totally devoid of any details.
we know that everyone and their brother hacked granny's shithouse server - the russians, chinese, israelis, and the list goes on and on. what's not discussed is EXACTLY what did they do with the info they collected that swung the whole thing to trump?
c'mon rog, give us the juicy details.
also - compare and contrast this apparently bogus claim with what 0linsky did to ACTUALLY influence the last round of israeli elections. we know for a fact that he sent people and piles of US taxpayer cash to influence THAT election and try and keep bibi from being re-elected.
it seems to me that those hypocrites who live in glass public housing should not throw stones.
AP has to joking, IF they are not then I am very happy Trump did this, hope he continues.
"NEW YORK — President-elect Donald Trump emerged from his New York skyscraper Tuesday night for the first time in days, moving about the nation's largest city without a pool of journalists on hand to ensure the public has knowledge of his whereabouts.
The president-elect spent about two hours dining with family at the 21 Club, a restaurant a few blocks from his Trump Tower residence. Journalists were only aware that Trump was leaving home when they spotted a large motorcade pulling away from the building."
Your ignorance and paranoia is unlikely to get any better.
Three million illegal voters, is totally nuts. There isn't a single credible source that backs up the rumor. It is the result of social media, that is changing politics. It went viral and you all bought in.
The head of the National Security Agency said Tuesday that the potential for Russia to harm the U.S. electoral process in the upcoming general election is a concern.
Cybersecurity officials have become increasingly worried about the issue in the wake of revelations that Russia-based hackers were behind two recent hacking attempts into state voter registration databases.
ne incident included stealing information from roughly 200,000 Illinois voting records. In another attempt in Arizona, cyber criminals used malware to try and breach voting records, forcing state officials to disable online voting registration for nine days as they investigated the unsuccessful hacking.
At least one official told NBC News recently that Russian intelligence agencies were part of the hacking attempts. Several other officials told NBC News that they haven't confirmed the Russian government's involvement, but remain concerned.
Related: Russians Hacked Two U.S. Voter Databases, Officials Say
During a Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., asked about the possibility that Russia "could somehow harm the electoral process" in his state and "disrupt the voting results in the upcoming election."
Admiral Mike Rogers, head of the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command, spoke about the disparate structure with some states voting manually and others electronically.
"But is it a concern?" McCain asked.
"Oh, yes sir," Rogers responded.
Neither Rogers nor Marcel Lettre, the principal deputy under secretary for intelligence at the Defense Department, would provide any specifics about the recent online intrusions in Arizona, citing the ongoing investigation.
And neither would say whether the cyber targeting was from a foreign nation state or not.
The FBI and DHS have an "aggressive" investigation underway, Lettre said.
While the current voter registration-related hacks are not currently considered a national security threat, there has been some conversation about elevating cyber attacks against U.S. state and federal electoral facilities to that level, officials said.
Rogers also acknowledged that ISIS continues to plan attacks on the United States.
The terror group "is the most adaptive target I have ever worked in 35 years as an intelligence professional," Rogers said.
Trump won the popular vote in the following 30 States with an average of 56.6% Ala., Alaska, Ark., Idaho, Kan., Ky., La., Miss., Mont., Neb., N.D., Okla., S.C., S.D., Tenn., Tex., Utah, W.Va., Wyo., Ariz., Ga., Ind., Mo., N.C., Mich., Fla., Iowa, Ohio, Pa., Wis.
These states apportioned all of their votes to Trump. Logic dictates that Trump won the Popular Vote. Of course, we can make up alternative definitions for "popular vote" which have nothing to do with the contest (such as this adding up of all of the margins that seems to be going around), but that's a meaningless puerile exercise, don't you think? The fact is, Trump won the popular vote in the States, having a majority of the votes for President.
I wonder, do any of those folks who are so impressed with the Democratic margin in California really believe that Trump wouldn't have invested more campaign resources there if it actually meant anything??
Adm. Michael Rogers, head of the National Security Agency and the U.S. Cyber Command, spoke at a Wall Street Journal forum on Tuesday, and much of the focus of his discussion with WSJ Deputy Editor-in-Chief Rebecca Blumenstein was about joining government and business to fight the scourge of cyber crime. The number of hackers is "so large and diverse" that it's difficult to identify the perpetrators, he said, but roughly two-thirds of them are criminals looking to earn money from stealing personal information, and the remaining third are state-sponsored hackers.
But Blumenstein also asked Rogers about WikiLeaks, and the slow and steady leak of emails stolen from Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta's gmail account. "There shouldn't be any doubts in anybody's mind: This was not something that was done casually, this was not something that was done by chance, this was not a target that was selected purely arbitrarily," Rogers said. "This was a conscious effort by a nation state to attempt to achieve a specific effect."
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Tuesday said he wants Senate hearings to investigate whether Russian President Vladimir Putin interfered in the U.S. election, casting doubts on President-elect Donald Trump’s desire to improve relations with Russia.
“Assuming for a moment that we do believe that the Russian government was controlling outside organizations that hacked into our election, they should be punished,” Graham told reporters on Capitol Hill. “Putin should be punished.”
U.S. officials have said the Kremlin was responsible for hacking into Democratic National Committee computers over the summer and releasing information that damaged Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
Graham, who was defeated by Trump during the primary, urged fellow Republicans to not “let allegations against a foreign government interfering in our election process go unanswered because it may have been beneficial to our cause.”
He said congressional hearings would include “Russia’s misadventure throughout the world,” including its military aggression in Eastern Europe and whether it committed war crimes in Syria.
Trump has repeatedly expressed a desire to cozy up to Russia. During the campaign, he called for closer relations with Russia in fighting the Islamic State and praised Putin for being a “stronger leader” than President Barack Obama.
Last week, Putin was among the first world leaders to congratulate Trump on his election, and Trump’s transition team has said that the president-elect is “very much looking forward to having a strong and enduring relationship with Russia.”
Graham on Tuesday pledged to work with Trump, despite their disagreements, but urged fellow senators to check Trump’s power.
“Clearly me and the Donald have issues, and I will do everything I can to help him because he will be commander in chief in dangerous times,” Graham said. “I worry about Russia.”
Be careful what you wish for. There was obvious and overwhelming evidence that Obama interfered with the Israeli election in an effort to beat Netanyahu.
Newest Count 62,414,099 Clinton 61,255,290 Trump 1,158,809 Difference Percentage 1.8%
Clinton beat Trump by almost 2%.
Votes from California and Washington not completed, will probably be 2.2%
Kennedy beat Nixon by less. There was fraud then. The graveyard vote in Illinois won the election.
I was nine. Bedtime was 9:30. My mother let me stay up until midnight. We didn't know until later on Wednesday. Nixon, who was aware of Illinois, but still conceded gracefully.
Early voting is not unconstitutional, but it is something that the States need to take a hard look at and probably fix. The several issues with it include: too much opportunity for fraud, difficulties and delays when the early voting process is not an organic part of the overall process, and the unequal opportunity for people who don't have the option. In general, anything that makes voting more convenient for some voters, that other voters don't have, potentially suffers from equal protection problems.
My proposal of encrypted voter id's eliminates the problem, or even the perceived need for early voting.
A three million vote differential in California, so what? It only tells you that one candidate had a bigger margin in two states than the other had in other states.
I recognize the need to bring Washington insiders in on the transition, and even at the highest levels of Administration. But it's making me uneasy that we're only seeing insiders and political (if somewhat fringe) types. One would have expected Trump to have a pool of talent to draw from, and failing that the capability of quickly locating top talent and bringing them aboard. Yet we haven't really seen that yet.
That the transition is apparently disorganized and already suffering from internal power struggles exacerbates that concern. I don't think that I can give Trump better than a failing grade in his job so far.
The sooner the Democrats realize and accept this, the better off we'll all me. The cold hard fact is, the Democrats LOST to Donald Trump. The American people voted, and rejected Clinton. No slight of hand with spreadsheets, no complaining about the media and the FBI, no conspiracy about Russian hackers, no daydreams about a coup in the EC can change that fundamental fact.
The Democrats need to face facts or they'll never be able to do anything about it. The problems: one, Hillary Clinton. Two, the Clinton's in general and all that goes along with them. Those are the easy parts, but not enough. Three, how did the policies, platforms and agendas wind up leaving large demographics feeling alienated? Fix the problems, and then see about the mid-terms, the next Presidential cycle, or even keeping Trump in check. Keep making excuses, pretending that Clinton somehow deserves some sort of influence or power, and these same defeats are going to be your "new normal."
She also lost because she went out of her way to not answer questions about anything. She went ten months without a press conference. She tried to run out the clock and it backfired.
wphamilton said... Early voting is not unconstitutional, but it is something that the States need to take a hard look at and probably fix.
For a presidential election, yes it is:
Article II Section 1:
The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.
There's a post devoted to that same subject in Truth in Common Sense.
The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.
The day refers to the votes cast by the Electors.
The States may choose their Electors in any way they want, as long as they're not violating clauses like "equal protection", "due process" and so on. In fact, the States aren't required by the Constitution to even let you vote, not that any state could get away with denying you.
Even if you believe that this clause means that every State must open polls on the selected Tuesday, it still doesn't mean that they cannot have polling on other days as well. In short, there is no good argument to be made for the unconstitutionality of early voting. There IS a good argument - in my opinion - that it's an otherwise bad idea.
KD LESS Blacks own homes today then 6 years ago
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Myballs said... She also lost because she went out of her way to not answer questions about anything. She went ten months without a press conference. She tried to run out the clock and it backfired."
I said HER and HER supporters spiked the ball at the 5 yard line, and Trump Team picked it up and took it 95 yards , past the press and the elites and into the End zone.
President Trump wishes you a profitable day, for you liberals that would mean you have to first get a job. Oh and when the income taxes and capital gain rates drop, Liberals continue paying today's much higher rates, less you be shown to be two-faced.
HB when does your flight out of the USA leave, you promised IF Trump won you would go, so go, stop lying.
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Getting on the same page, what has Trump done so far?
* dumped Christie
* took some phone calls
* ?
Made his anti-establishment supporters nervous by appointing Reince Priebus COS.
Put the liberal establishment in apoplectic shock by appointing Steve Bannon as chief strategist.
All in all a productive transition.
He has other Currencies nose diving, making the US Dollar Stronger, putting more buying power into the hands of us, the workers, you know the class that the Dems forgot and lost the election because of and we are of all races.
42 percent of Woman voted for Trump, they saw thru the lies of Hillary/Obama/Polosi/Warren, did I forget any girls on my list?
Hillary Clinton’s lead in the popular vote over President-elect Donald Trump has surpassed 1 million, according to Dave Wasserman of the nonpartisan Cook Political Report.
As the final vote counts continue to trickle in a week after Election Day, Wasserman’s tally found that Clinton had 61,963,234 votes to Trump’s 60,961,185 as of Tuesday afternoon.
They don't count.
Ben Carson will not take a position in the Trump cabinet.
Rand Paul won't support Giuliani or Bolton for Secretary of State.
LOL @ HB Daily
A week ago you said she would win in a Landslide, what office does she win, given the meaningless popular vote WIN?
DO you have a leaving USA Date you care to share with us bitch.
Ben Carson will not take a position in the Trump cabinet."
Yep, that is true, he helped Trump Win, he will continue to advise the President. A really good man that did good work to elected Trump.
Someone needs to tell HB he lost, badly, 306 to 222 , you know the real count.
President Obama—who was inaugurated in January 2009 and will leave office in January 2017—has not yet seen a year in which real GDP grew by as much as 3.0 percent."
Historic Failure, Legacy
Hillary does not have a lead in the national popular vote, because there was no national popular vote. There was a series of State popular votes. Which Trump won, incidentally.
She won "the popular vote." She got the most votes.
WP,,,,, HB is in stage three of loss of the Election. We should allow her to be as delusional as she needs to be to get thru this, after all This Was a Historic vote, not in the way she wanted.
Hillary had Obama and others, all the star power of the Dem world came out
She had 4 times the money
She had the Press
She had the ground game
She lost because of the shitty economy, 94 million people of working age without jobs, the crashing of Obamacare and low home ownership.
The message she had was elect me for more of the same, liberalism failed.
She won "the popular vote." She got the most votes." LOL @ Jane
OK, so what, "what difference at this point does it make"
CS gave us this, the Chicago Cubs were out scored in this years world series , yet, they won four games, the get the ring and the World Series trophy, the other team gets to be a foot note in history.
FBI Criminal Probe of Clinton Crime Family Foundation continues.
Obama to pardon Hillary.
Trey Gowdy picked for Attorney general!
What a great pick!
CH, I have a suggestion. The transition is interesting. He was against the Iraq war and he's considering a super hawk.
Note also how many people he's tossing out his team.
And how much resistance he is having from his unclear path compared to his campaign rhetoric. Since I can't post here on this fascinating process, it's more important to your poll that is obviously going to make right side happy. But it's not important. s
McCain is ripping into this.
Rand Paul and some others are at least going to be uncomfortable with Bolton or Giuliani.
Give it a thought. I would but not enough see it to make it work. I would be topped with some irrational cartoon.
wp,
the popular vote lead is approaching one million, and California is not done, where the lead will be increased.
k.putz, have you cheered the death of another liberal?
Donald Trump's Cabinet shortlist
By Andrew Restuccia
11/15/16 05:56 PM EST
Secretary of State
The leading candidate to be Secretary of State is former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, one of Trump’s loyal supporters.
Trump is also eyeing former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, but he’s seen as a less likely option, and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker has long been mentioned as a front-runner for the job.
Treasury secretary
Steven Mnuchin, a 17-year-veteran of Goldman Sachs who now works as the chairman and chief executive of the private investment firm, Dune Capital Management, is the front-runner for the job.
Secretary of Defense
Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, a close Trump adviser who is taking a leading role in the president-election’s transition team, is the leading candidate for Secretary of Defense.
Former George W. Bush National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley and former Sen. Jim Talent (R-Mo.) have also been mentioned as potential candidates. Clinton’s CIA director, Jim Woolsey, is a darkhorse candidate.
Attorney general
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a Trump immigration adviser, is a rumored candidate for the job.
Sessions is also seen as a contender for AG.
Other possibilities: Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.), a lawyer; and Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, though the controversy over Trump’s donation to Bondi could undercut her nomination.
Politico
Interior secretary
Trump’s presidential transition team is also eyeing venture capitalist Robert Grady, a George H. W. Bush White House official with ties to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. And Trump’s son, Donald Trump, Jr., is said to be interested in the job.
Forrest Lucas, the 74-year-old co-founder of oil products company Lucas Oil, is also seen as a contender for Interior Secretary.
Meanwhile, a person who spoke to the Trump campaign told POLITICO that aides have also discussed tapping Sarah Palin for Interior Secretary. Trump has said he’d like to put Palin in his Cabinet, and Palin has made no secret of her interest.
Other possible candidates include: former Republican Rep. Richard Pombo, who chaired the House Natural Resources Committee from 2003 to 2007; former Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer; Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin; Wyoming Rep. Cynthia Lummis; and Oklahoma oilman Harold Hamm.
Agriculture secretary
There are several names being considered by Trump aides for Agriculture secretary, according to multiple sources familiar with the transition. The president elect has a deep bench to pull from with nearly 70 leaders on agricultural advisory committee.
The most controversial name on the transition’s current short list is Sid Miller, the current secretary of agriculture in Texas, who caused a firestorm just days ago after his campaign’s Twitter account referred to Clinton as a ‘c---.‘ Miller said it was a staffer mistake and apologized.
Other names include a sitting governor, Sam Brownback of Kansas, and three former governors: Dave Heineman (Nebraska), Sonny Perdue (Georgia) and Rick Perry (Texas). Also in the conversation are Charles Herbster, a Republican donor and agribusiness leader who chairs Trump’s agricultural advisory committee, and Mike McCloskey, a dairy executive in Indiana.
Bruce Rastetter, a major Republican donor in Iowa, and Kip Tom, a farmer who ran for Congress in Indiana this year but was defeated in the primary, are also among those being considered.
Other top Republican insiders expect that Chuck Connor, president and CEO of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, Don Villwock, president of the Indiana Farm Bureau and Ted McKinney, the current director of the Indiana Department of Agriculture in the Pence Administration, are also likely to be in the running for the post.
Commerce secretary
Billionaire investor Wilbur Ross, a Trump economic adviser, could fit the bill, is Trump’s leading contender for the job.
Dan DiMicco, the former CEO of steelmaker Nucor Corp and a Trump trade adviser, is another possibility, though he is expected to be tapped as U.S. Trade Representative.
Labor secretary
People tracking the transition say Victoria Lipnic -- the Commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission since 2010 who also served as an an assistant secretary of Labor for employment standards from 2002 until 2009 -- is the most likely candidate for Labor Secretary. The Romney transition team reportedly also considered her for a top Labor post back in 2012.
A possible private sector pick is Andrew Puzder, chief executive of CKE Restaurants, the parent company of Carl's Jr., Hardee's, Green Burrito and Red Burrito.
Health and Human Services secretary
Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), the chairman of the House Budget Committee and an early Trump backer, is being considered for Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Former Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is another possible candidates for the job.
Ben Carson, who had been mentioned as a possible HHS Secretary, has said he will not serve in the Trump administration.
Housing and Urban Development secretary
Trump supporters Bud Albright and Scott Keller have been reaching out to housing advocates to take their temperature on a HUD nominee.
Names being circulated include Pam Patenaude, the president of the J. Ronald Terwilliger Foundation for Housing America's Families, former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown and former New York Rep. Rick Lazio (R).
Transportation secretary
Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.), who just lost reelection bid, is interested in becoming Transportation Secretary. He told POLITICO recently that he’s talked to top Trump aides about the job, adding he’s received “encouraging” signs about his candidacy.”
Other possible candidate: James Simpson, the former commissioner of New Jersey's Department of Transportation and the former head of the Federal Transit Administration during the George W. Bush administration; and Mark Rosenker, the former chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board.
House Transportation Committee Chairman Bill Shuster told POLITICO recently he’s not interested in the job.
Energy secretary
Continental Resources CEO Harold Hamm has long been seen as a leading candidate for Energy Secretary. Hamm, an Oklahoma billionaire who has been a friend of Trump’s for years, has been the leading influence on Trump’s energy policy during the campaign. But Hamm has said he plans to stay at Continental.
If Hamm passes, Rep. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), a Trump energy adviser, could be offered the job, as could venture capitalist Robert Grady, though he could also be in line for Interior.
Kristine Svinicki, the sole Republican on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, is in the running for a high-level post at the Energy Department, potentially energy secretary, a source close to the Trump transition told POLITICO.
Education Secretary
Indiana Rep. Luke Messer, a longtime school choice proponent, is a top candidate for Education Secretary. Messer told POLITICO in a recent interview that he’s open to serving in the position.
Another possibility is William Evers, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution who has worked on education matters for the Trump transition team. Evers worked at the Education Department during the Bush administration and served as a senior adviser to then-Education Secretary Margaret Spellings.
Also in the mix: Tony Zeiss, a former president of Central Piedmont Community College, one of the largest community colleges in North Carolina. He was president for more than 20 years before retiring in July.
Sources close to Trump’s transition also pointed to two long-shot candidates: Eva Moskowitz, a Democrat who founded the Success Academy Charter Schools and has clashed with New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio; and Michelle Rhee, an education reform activist who formerly served as the chancellor of Washington D.C.’s, public schools.
Other potential candidates include: Former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, now the president of the Purdue University System; Gerard Robinson a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute focused on education policy; Tony Bennett, the former Florida Commissioner of Education and the former Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction; Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker; Hanna Skandera, the New Mexico Secretary of Education; and education activists Betsy DeVos; and Kevin Chavous.
Veterans Affairs secretary
The name most commonly mentioned for Veterans Affairs Secretary is House Veterans’ Affairs Chairman Jeff Miller, who’s retiring from the House and was an early Trump backer.
Homeland Security secretary
House Homeland Security Chairman Mike McCaul has said he’s interested in becoming Homeland Security Secretary. “I've expressed my interest, and I think the process is taking place,” McCaul told POLITICO recently.
Another potential pick: Rep. John Katko (R-N.Y.), the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee’s transportation security panel.
A long-shot candidate: David Clarke, the conservative Sheriff of Milwaukee County, Wis. Clarke has cultivated a devoted following on the right, and he spoke at the Republican National Convention in Ohio, declaring, "Blue lives matter." Christie is also seen as a possible DHS secretary.
Environmental Protection Agency administrator
Candidates for EPA Administrator include Mike Catanzaro, a George W. Bush-era EPA official and energy adviser to former-House Speaker John Boehner who is a top official on Trump’s transition team; Jeff Holmstead, another former Bush EPA official; and Venture capitalist Robert Grady, who was an environmental adviser for George H.W. Bush.
Myron Ebell, a climate skeptic who is running the EPA working group on Trump’s transition team, is also seen as a possibility to lead the agency. Ebell, an official at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, has come under fire from environmental groups for his stances on global warming.
Other potential candidates: Joe Aiello is the director of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection’s Division of Environmental Safety and Quality Assurance; Carol Comer, the commissioner of the Indiana Department of Environmental Management, who was appointed by Mike Pence; and Leslie Rutledge, the attorney general of Arkansas and a lead challenger of EPA regulations in the state.
Director of the Office of Management and Budget
Eric Ueland, a veteran Republican Capitol Hill aide and top staffer on the Senate Budget Committee who is working on Trump’s transition team, is seen as a possible candidate to lead the OMB. Former Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn is also seen as a potential OMB chief.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/14/politics/trump-shortlist-national-security-worldview/index.html
CNN
They describe the infighting inside the Republican party is entertaining. Many of these who either didn't back Trump, or came out against Trump.
He doesn't want any of them, but that is a short list.
Trump Tweet:
:Very organized process taking place as I decide on Cabinet and many other positions.I am the only one who knows who th finalists are!"
I just posted the list of just the top cabinet positions. Does anyone believe he has the ability to do that in just a week, that is occupied by multiple meetings and other activities. On top of that there is "The Plum Book" that lists every subordinate positions that need to have FBI background checks and approval by the Senate.
Seriously... I was organized when I worked, I expect that folks like ballsless, are also organized. But all of that and he's the only one who knows them all?
Update on the popular vote from Cook Political Report
Clinton 62,318,079
Trump 61,166,0363
Differential 1,152,016
One man, one vote?
Nope, not here
Subtract three million votes from ineligible voters voting for Clinton
That's total bs.
Getting 3,000,000 people who know that it's a felony, to violate state and federal federal law for what?
That's been flying around the right wing world, but you are buying in....
http://www.infowars.com/report-three-million-votes-in-presidential-election-cast-by-illegal-aliens/
Infowars?
LOL
Google now
Not one credible link.
Not one
When Ansolabehere spoke to FactCheck.org, he said, “The Richman and Earnest study is an incorrect use of the survey that we manage, and a false claim of evidence of non-citizen voting. It’s a dangerous, stray false-fact.” When the authors of the ODU study were contacted, they replied, “[We] stand by our study, but we encourage people to read the critiques, too.”
Before the election, FactCheck.org also reached out to experts to see what they had to say about Trump’s allegations of massive voter fraud.
“[Trump’s] allegations are false. Fraud almost never takes place through in-person voting (and certainly not enough to swing an election),” said Heather Gerken, a professor of law at Yale Law School and an election law expert.
“There have been astonishingly few examples, and with good reason. It is far, far, far easier to steal an election by bribing an election official or mail-in/absentee voting. Unsurprisingly, all the evidence of serious fraud concerns the latter sort.”
So, if Phillips has hard evidence, then it may be the first. The interesting thing to note is that the 3 million illegal alien voters alleged by Phillips is very close to the 2.8 million maximum provided by the study. However, at this time it is impossible to make a direct comparison since the exact methodology for collecting voter data has not been revealed by VoteStand and True The Vote.
Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/3719036/3-million-illegal-immigrants-voted-gregg-phillips-votestand-donald-trump-final-popular-vote-count-2016-predictions/#HQJtW1Pp2xvYjr6m.99
When Ansolabehere spoke to FactCheck.org, he said, “The Richman and Earnest study is an incorrect use of the survey that we manage, and a false claim of evidence of non-citizen voting. It’s a dangerous, stray false-fact.” When the authors of the ODU study were contacted, they replied, “[We] stand by our study, but we encourage people to read the critiques, too.”
Before the election, FactCheck.org also reached out to experts to see what they had to say about Trump’s allegations of massive voter fraud.
“[Trump’s] allegations are false. Fraud almost never takes place through in-person voting (and certainly not enough to swing an election),” said Heather Gerken, a professor of law at Yale Law School and an election law expert.
“There have been astonishingly few examples, and with good reason. It is far, far, far easier to steal an election by bribing an election official or mail-in/absentee voting. Unsurprisingly, all the evidence of serious fraud concerns the latter sort.”
So, if Phillips has hard evidence, then it may be the first. The interesting thing to note is that the 3 million illegal alien voters alleged by Phillips is very close to the 2.8 million maximum provided by the study. However, at this time it is impossible to make a direct comparison since the exact methodology for collecting voter data has not been revealed by VoteStand and True The Vote.
Read more at http://www.inquisitr.com/3719036/3-million-illegal-immigrants-voted-gregg-phillips-votestand-donald-trump-final-popular-vote-count-2016-predictions/#HQJtW1Pp2xvYjr6m.99
Votestand.com started the rumor. Check out the website. There is just a guy with a web site.
What is more troubling is that the head of the NSA said that the Russian government made a deliberate attempt to influence our election.
NSA. Better than some idiot with a web site.
hey alky,
rather than you spamming the blog like a certain pederast, why don't you do what all the sad cool kids are doing and get yourself some crayons and a coloring book.
perhaps even a therapy dog.
It’s a dangerous, stray false-fact.”
As opposed to "true-lies"?
This tells me the 3,000,000 illegal vote figure is fairly accurate but the study's authors want to bury it in the name of political correctness.
Roger's TDS is getting debilitating. He sure doesn't take losing too well.
What is more troubling is that the head of the NSA said that the Russian government made a deliberate attempt to influence our election.
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ya know, i keep hearing this pablum repeated on the left, but it's totally devoid of any details.
we know that everyone and their brother hacked granny's shithouse server - the russians, chinese, israelis, and the list goes on and on. what's not discussed is EXACTLY what did they do with the info they collected that swung the whole thing to trump?
c'mon rog, give us the juicy details.
also - compare and contrast this apparently bogus claim with what 0linsky did to ACTUALLY influence the last round of israeli elections. we know for a fact that he sent people and piles of US taxpayer cash to influence THAT election and try and keep bibi from being re-elected.
it seems to me that those hypocrites who live in glass public housing should not throw stones.
AP has to joking, IF they are not then I am very happy Trump did this, hope he continues.
"NEW YORK — President-elect Donald Trump emerged from his New York skyscraper Tuesday night for the first time in days, moving about the nation's largest city without a pool of journalists on hand to ensure the public has knowledge of his whereabouts.
The president-elect spent about two hours dining with family at the 21 Club, a restaurant a few blocks from his Trump Tower residence. Journalists were only aware that Trump was leaving home when they spotted a large motorcade pulling away from the building."
CHT did you shut down the Child's Blog on this site?
I am wondering why HB is gone all Jane in her spamming.
RRB a fun fact for you and the moron leftist.
Cry Baby Leftist Wearing Baby Diaper pins
We actually had the President of the united States publicly email encouraging ineligible voters to vote, that there would be no repercussions.
Three million out of 120 million? Yeah it is likely true.
And we know none of them voted Trump.
Your ignorance and paranoia is unlikely to get any better.
Three million illegal voters, is totally nuts. There isn't a single credible source that backs up the rumor. It is the result of social media, that is changing politics. It went viral and you all bought in.
The head of the National Security Agency said Tuesday that the potential for Russia to harm the U.S. electoral process in the upcoming general election is a concern.
Cybersecurity officials have become increasingly worried about the issue in the wake of revelations that Russia-based hackers were behind two recent hacking attempts into state voter registration databases.
ne incident included stealing information from roughly 200,000 Illinois voting records. In another attempt in Arizona, cyber criminals used malware to try and breach voting records, forcing state officials to disable online voting registration for nine days as they investigated the unsuccessful hacking.
At least one official told NBC News recently that Russian intelligence agencies were part of the hacking attempts. Several other officials told NBC News that they haven't confirmed the Russian government's involvement, but remain concerned.
Related: Russians Hacked Two U.S. Voter Databases, Officials Say
During a Senate Armed Services Committee, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., asked about the possibility that Russia "could somehow harm the electoral process" in his state and "disrupt the voting results in the upcoming election."
Admiral Mike Rogers, head of the NSA and U.S. Cyber Command, spoke about the disparate structure with some states voting manually and others electronically.
"But is it a concern?" McCain asked.
"Oh, yes sir," Rogers responded.
Neither Rogers nor Marcel Lettre, the principal deputy under secretary for intelligence at the Defense Department, would provide any specifics about the recent online intrusions in Arizona, citing the ongoing investigation.
And neither would say whether the cyber targeting was from a foreign nation state or not.
The FBI and DHS have an "aggressive" investigation underway, Lettre said.
While the current voter registration-related hacks are not currently considered a national security threat, there has been some conversation about elevating cyber attacks against U.S. state and federal electoral facilities to that level, officials said.
Rogers also acknowledged that ISIS continues to plan attacks on the United States.
The terror group "is the most adaptive target I have ever worked in 35 years as an intelligence professional," Rogers said.
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/nsa-chief-potential-russian-hacking-u-s-elections-concern-n647491
Popular vote update:
Trump won the popular vote in the following 30 States with an average of 56.6%
Ala., Alaska, Ark., Idaho, Kan., Ky., La., Miss., Mont., Neb., N.D., Okla., S.C., S.D., Tenn., Tex., Utah, W.Va., Wyo., Ariz., Ga., Ind., Mo., N.C., Mich., Fla., Iowa, Ohio, Pa., Wis.
These states apportioned all of their votes to Trump. Logic dictates that Trump won the Popular Vote. Of course, we can make up alternative definitions for "popular vote" which have nothing to do with the contest (such as this adding up of all of the margins that seems to be going around), but that's a meaningless puerile exercise, don't you think? The fact is, Trump won the popular vote in the States, having a majority of the votes for President.
I wonder, do any of those folks who are so impressed with the Democratic margin in California really believe that Trump wouldn't have invested more campaign resources there if it actually meant anything??
I see Alky is going to float every wacko theory on why the Liberals Lost.
The message and policies are what lost the election.
You calling anyone else here ignorant is laughable. You couldn't keep up with me on your best day.
Adm. Michael Rogers, head of the National Security Agency and the U.S. Cyber Command, spoke at a Wall Street Journal forum on Tuesday, and much of the focus of his discussion with WSJ Deputy Editor-in-Chief Rebecca Blumenstein was about joining government and business to fight the scourge of cyber crime. The number of hackers is "so large and diverse" that it's difficult to identify the perpetrators, he said, but roughly two-thirds of them are criminals looking to earn money from stealing personal information, and the remaining third are state-sponsored hackers.
But Blumenstein also asked Rogers about WikiLeaks, and the slow and steady leak of emails stolen from Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta's gmail account. "There shouldn't be any doubts in anybody's mind: This was not something that was done casually, this was not something that was done by chance, this was not a target that was selected purely arbitrarily," Rogers said. "This was a conscious effort by a nation state to attempt to achieve a specific effect."
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Tuesday said he wants Senate hearings to investigate whether Russian President Vladimir Putin interfered in the U.S. election, casting doubts on President-elect Donald Trump’s desire to improve relations with Russia.
“Assuming for a moment that we do believe that the Russian government was controlling outside organizations that hacked into our election, they should be punished,” Graham told reporters on Capitol Hill. “Putin should be punished.”
U.S. officials have said the Kremlin was responsible for hacking into Democratic National Committee computers over the summer and releasing information that damaged Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
Graham, who was defeated by Trump during the primary, urged fellow Republicans to not “let allegations against a foreign government interfering in our election process go unanswered because it may have been beneficial to our cause.”
He said congressional hearings would include “Russia’s misadventure throughout the world,” including its military aggression in Eastern Europe and whether it committed war crimes in Syria.
Trump has repeatedly expressed a desire to cozy up to Russia. During the campaign, he called for closer relations with Russia in fighting the Islamic State and praised Putin for being a “stronger leader” than President Barack Obama.
Last week, Putin was among the first world leaders to congratulate Trump on his election, and Trump’s transition team has said that the president-elect is “very much looking forward to having a strong and enduring relationship with Russia.”
Graham on Tuesday pledged to work with Trump, despite their disagreements, but urged fellow senators to check Trump’s power.
“Clearly me and the Donald have issues, and I will do everything I can to help him because he will be commander in chief in dangerous times,” Graham said. “I worry about Russia.”
Three million illegal voters, is totally nuts. There isn't a single credible source that backs up the rumor.
You mean except for the Richman and Earnest study.
So was Hillary's reset with Russia also cozying up?
Seems to me that the US and Russia working together on anything is positive for the rest of the world. Only an liberal would not think so.
Be careful what you wish for. There was obvious and overwhelming evidence that Obama interfered with the Israeli election in an effort to beat Netanyahu.
Throwing stones at glass houses comes to mind.
Update on the popular vote from Cook Political Report
Clinton 62,403,469
Trump 61,242652
Differential 1,160,817
Coming from someone who believes early voting is un Constitutional.
That's the same cook report that predicted a Hillary win. Got it.
Newest Count
62,414,099 Clinton
61,255,290 Trump
1,158,809 Difference
Percentage 1.8%
Clinton beat Trump by almost 2%.
Votes from California and Washington not completed, will probably be 2.2%
Kennedy beat Nixon by less. There was fraud then. The graveyard vote in Illinois won the election.
I was nine. Bedtime was 9:30. My mother let me stay up until midnight. We didn't know until later on Wednesday. Nixon, who was aware of Illinois, but still conceded gracefully.
It fed his paranoia that lead to Watergate.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/133Eb4qQmOxNvtesw2hdVns073R68EZx4SfCnP4IGQf8/htmlview?sle=true#gid=19
The link is there ballsless.
Early voting is not unconstitutional, but it is something that the States need to take a hard look at and probably fix. The several issues with it include: too much opportunity for fraud, difficulties and delays when the early voting process is not an organic part of the overall process, and the unequal opportunity for people who don't have the option. In general, anything that makes voting more convenient for some voters, that other voters don't have, potentially suffers from equal protection problems.
My proposal of encrypted voter id's eliminates the problem, or even the perceived need for early voting.
A three million vote differential in California, so what? It only tells you that one candidate had a bigger margin in two states than the other had in other states.
Clinton won CA and NY by 4.5M votes. Trump won much of the rest of the country, including the 13 swing states by a million votes.
Its a certainty that CA and NY had many ineligible voters cast votes for Hillary. In NY, we don't need to show any ID to vote.
I recognize the need to bring Washington insiders in on the transition, and even at the highest levels of Administration. But it's making me uneasy that we're only seeing insiders and political (if somewhat fringe) types. One would have expected Trump to have a pool of talent to draw from, and failing that the capability of quickly locating top talent and bringing them aboard. Yet we haven't really seen that yet.
That the transition is apparently disorganized and already suffering from internal power struggles exacerbates that concern. I don't think that I can give Trump better than a failing grade in his job so far.
The sooner the Democrats realize and accept this, the better off we'll all me. The cold hard fact is, the Democrats LOST to Donald Trump. The American people voted, and rejected Clinton. No slight of hand with spreadsheets, no complaining about the media and the FBI, no conspiracy about Russian hackers, no daydreams about a coup in the EC can change that fundamental fact.
The Democrats need to face facts or they'll never be able to do anything about it. The problems: one, Hillary Clinton. Two, the Clinton's in general and all that goes along with them. Those are the easy parts, but not enough. Three, how did the policies, platforms and agendas wind up leaving large demographics feeling alienated? Fix the problems, and then see about the mid-terms, the next Presidential cycle, or even keeping Trump in check. Keep making excuses, pretending that Clinton somehow deserves some sort of influence or power, and these same defeats are going to be your "new normal."
Pence took charge of the transition team and immediately removed all the lobbyists. I think this is a good thing.
She also lost because she went out of her way to not answer questions about anything. She went ten months without a press conference. She tried to run out the clock and it backfired.
Coming from someone who believes early voting is un Constitutional
For "the chusing" of presidential electors, yes it is.
Any other election the states can pretty much do what they please.
I've notice you never even tried to rebut the argument.
Is the Washington swamp being drained?
Is the workers' paradise on the way?
When will factories start reopening all across the rust belt?
wphamilton said...
Early voting is not unconstitutional, but it is something that the States need to take a hard look at and probably fix.
For a presidential election, yes it is:
Article II Section 1:
The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.
There's a post devoted to that same subject in Truth in Common Sense.
Give it time James, we're still waiting for the seas to stop slowly rising and the change we've been waiting for.
The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.
The day refers to the votes cast by the Electors.
The States may choose their Electors in any way they want, as long as they're not violating clauses like "equal protection", "due process" and so on. In fact, the States aren't required by the Constitution to even let you vote, not that any state could get away with denying you.
Even if you believe that this clause means that every State must open polls on the selected Tuesday, it still doesn't mean that they cannot have polling on other days as well. In short, there is no good argument to be made for the unconstitutionality of early voting. There IS a good argument - in my opinion - that it's an otherwise bad idea.
Myballs said...
She also lost because she went out of her way to not answer questions about anything. She went ten months without a press conference. She tried to run out the clock and it backfired."
I said HER and HER supporters spiked the ball at the 5 yard line, and Trump Team picked it up and took it 95 yards , past the press and the elites and into the End zone.
President Trump wishes you a profitable day, for you liberals that would mean you have to first get a job. Oh and when the income taxes and capital gain rates drop, Liberals continue paying today's much higher rates, less you be shown to be two-faced.
HB when does your flight out of the USA leave, you promised IF Trump won you would go, so go, stop lying.
Did Whoopie go yet?
Just got done at the gym.
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