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General Election (US) predictions?

  • 30-10-2016 05:01PM
    #1
    Edups
    Closed Accounts Posts: 676 ✭✭✭Edups


    If trump loses his twitter is going to be the greatest soap opera I tell you what. What do you think? First Woman president of the US or will we see Trump building his wall?


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  • #2
    PirateShampoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,404 ✭✭✭PirateShampoo


    They are both complete idiots and both would be total liabilitys running the country.

    Generation Twitter is ****ed up.


  • #3
    Ted111
    Closed Accounts Posts: 990 ✭✭✭Ted111


    They're both token puppets for the Rothschild Lizard
    Bureau. So no difference.


  • #4
    B.A._Baracus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,249 ✭✭✭✭B.A._Baracus


    I say Clinton will win. Trump will get a good share of the votes so it won't be a total landslide. But she has it. Just my prediction.

    Kinda feel that while trump being "outspoken" brought him to the dance, but being too "outspoken" ruined his chances in the end.


  • #5
    LeinsterDub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,229 ✭✭✭LeinsterDub


    I'm voting for turd sandwich


  • #6
    Edups
    Closed Accounts Posts: 676 ✭✭✭Edups


    LeinsterDub wrote: »
    I'm voting for turd sandwich

    Giant Douche


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  • #7
    Didas
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 191 ✭✭Didas


    LeinsterDub wrote: »
    I'm voting for turd sandwich

    American slang is cringe


  • #8
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,007 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    I think at the moment trumps best case scenario is 268 electoral votes. He'd have to take a number of solidly blue states to win. That 268 is based on taking swing states. The one thing that could change it is if dem voter turnout is low and republican is high but even then there's enough solidly blue states to carry Hillary.

    I'm slightly addicted to this site right now.

    http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/?ex_cid=rrpromo


  • #9
    Elliott S
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,475 ✭✭✭Elliott S


    PirateShampoo wrote: »
    They are both complete idiots and both would be total liabilitys running the country.

    Generation Twitter is ****ed up.

    I can't fathom people putting them at the same level. What is THAT about? Clinton is massively flawed but at least she is qualified and feckin' understands the legal and governmental systems. Definitely not an idiot. Trump isn't necessarily an idiot either but he seems not too interested in understanding what the job will entail and is far too thin-skinned to be a politician. He wants to win this because he has a desperate need to be alpha in everything he does.

    My prediction: Clinton will win but it won't be a huge landslide.


  • #10
    cml387
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,958 ✭✭✭cml387


    I think that on the day of the election Graham Chapman will stride in front of the camera dressed as a British Army brigadier and say "I'm stopping this, it's getting silly"


  • #11
    Stigura
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,660 ✭✭✭Stigura


    I met Graham Chapman once. Decent enough chap. We talked about Basset Hounds.


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  • #12
    LeinsterDub
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,229 ✭✭✭LeinsterDub


    tonygun wrote: »
    American slang is cringe

    It's actually a South Park reference but I'm sure that's cringe too


  • #13
    Alf Stewart.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,789 ✭✭✭Alf Stewart.


    Alls I know is I will be happy as fcuk when its over, no matter who wins.


    Every paper and news site you look at, its covering the two of them.


    Just get it over with already.


  • #14
    Edups
    Closed Accounts Posts: 676 ✭✭✭Edups


    Alf Stewart. wrote: »
    Alls I know is I will be happy as fcuk when its over, no matter who wins.


    Every paper and news site you look at, its covering the two of them.


    Just get it over with already.

    I don't think it ends at election though.


  • #15
    Alf Stewart.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,789 ✭✭✭Alf Stewart.


    Edups wrote: »
    I don't think it ends at election though.

    The Trump v Clinton saga should definitely end at the election grand finale.


  • #16
    Edups
    Closed Accounts Posts: 676 ✭✭✭Edups


    Alf Stewart. wrote: »
    The Trump v Clinton saga should definitely end at the election grand finale.

    If trump loses I don't think he'll let it go.


  • #17
    Walter2016
    Closed Accounts Posts: 522 ✭✭✭Walter2016


    B.A._Baracus wrote: »
    I say Clinton will win. Trump will get a good share of the votes so it won't be a total landslide. But she has it. Just my prediction.

    Kinda feel that while trump being "outspoken" brought him to the dance, but being too "outspoken" ruined his chances in the end.
    Even with a total muppet, both sides are virtually guaranteed 40-45% of the vote due to party lines. - Trump will prove this right next week.

    In reality there's only 10-15% of votes up for grabs even with someone like trump.

    Funny, if republicans had any other candidate they'd probably be heading to the white house.


  • #18
    alchemist33
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,969 ✭✭✭✭alchemist33


    Alf Stewart. wrote: »
    The Trump v Clinton saga should definitely end at the election grand finale.

    It won't. There'll be court cases, investigations and probably civil unrest stoked by Trump if he loses.


  • #19
    Edups
    Closed Accounts Posts: 676 ✭✭✭Edups


    alchemist33 wrote: »
    It won't. There'll be court cases, investigations and probably civil unrest stoked by Trump if he loses.

    At the debates he made it fairly clear he won't accept it if he loses. No he didn't say "I won't" but when he was directly asked he refused to answer.


  • #20
    My name is URL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,568 ✭✭✭✭My name is URL


    Ted111 wrote: »
    They're both token puppets

    No puppet! No puppet!


  • #21
    twinytwo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,612 ✭✭✭twinytwo


    It goes to show that the presidency means nothing.

    Looking at some of the great presidents that have gone before. Its a shame that the republicans and democrats would quite literally destroy the office of the president by nominating two complete and utter tossers just so they would have a chance to win.

    If there was a point in history where a president should be allowed to have a third term it should be now.

    I mean how do you get to a point when the american people have to choose between Clinton and trump (how the **** did that ever happen). Both of them dishonest and corrupt to the core.

    But then i suppose wall street was never going to let Bernie win


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  • #22
    Autonomous Cowherd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,100 ✭✭✭Autonomous Cowherd


    In first with 'I think Trump will win'. I have a feeling in me waters :)


  • #23
    Elliott S
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,475 ✭✭✭Elliott S


    Autonomous Cowherd wrote: »
    In first with 'I think Trump will win'. I have a feeling in me waters :)

    You need to bet on it so!

    On that, Clinton is still the favourite but Trump's odds have shortened. He was 3/1 on Paddy Power yesterday.


  • #24
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 36,198 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    tonygun wrote: »
    American slang is cringe

    Using a verb as an adjective is worse.


  • #25
    Manic Moran
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 17,139 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manic Moran


    Walter2016 wrote: »
    B.A._Baracus wrote: »
    I say Clinton will win. Trump will get a good share of the votes so it won't be a total landslide. But she has it. Just my prediction.

    Kinda feel that while trump being "outspoken" brought him to the dance, but being too "outspoken" ruined his chances in the end.
    Even with a total muppet, both sides are virtually guaranteed 40-45% of the vote due to party lines. - Trump will prove this right next week.

    In reality there's only 10-15% of votes up for grabs even with someone like trump.

    Funny, if republicans had any other candidate they'd probably be heading to the white house.
    The same argument can be made for the Democrats. The fact that Clinton has even had this much trouble against Trump is an indictment against just what caliber candidate she is.
    My guess, people will vote for Clinton in order to keep Trump out, and then vote Republicans for congress to make sure she can't do anything. Then wait for the fun in four years.


  • #26
    A Little Pony
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,875 ✭✭✭A Little Pony


    Trump to win with the shy voter on polling day. Think America is sick of Clinton.


  • #27
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,723 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


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  • #28
    Autonomous Cowherd
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,100 ✭✭✭Autonomous Cowherd


    I think the liberal media vastly under-estimate the angry surge of the' Redneck Spring' (can I hereby stake some claim to that tag/label/epithet...you heard it here first)


  • #29
    Laois_Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,758 ✭✭✭Laois_Man


    People keep saying the Republicans are sure to have a good candidate next time. But they never do. They haven't had a decent candidate in over 30 years (despite having 2 President Bush's)

    But OP. Even if Chump does win, he won't be building that wall.

    I think its gonna be way closer than people think. I don't trust the polls and I think Trump voters are way more motivated to go out and vote and the vast majority of Clinton supporters are indifferent.


  • #30
    myshirt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,245 ✭✭✭myshirt


    Trump will win and it will be the biggest FU#K YOU to the system.

    Clinton is appallingly bad, appallingly. Such a disdain for anyone who is not educated or like her. Clever and coy marketing. I truly believe Trump when he says this woman has hate in her veins. Trump himself is a dangerous man, and no doubt is eyeing up the people he will sort out and all the wagons he will fix.

    How different things would have been had Romney got over the line.


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  • #31
    Cheerful Spring
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,893 ✭✭✭Cheerful Spring


    Julian Assange claims he has information that will soon be released that will have her arrested.

    Either way true or not? Hilary or Trump will make decisions that i feel will lead to global instability. I would not be surprised if the world is mess sometime during the middle of 2017.


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