Billy86 wrote: » Oh yeah it wasn't saying he got prostitutes or hung around or anything, it's just such a bizarrely stupid story to go into given the context.
aloyisious wrote: » A side-issue of the Alabama voting was taken to court yesterday. Montgomery County circuit court judge Ashley Shaul issued an order to the Alabama Sec of State to retain for 6 months and not destroy the voting digital images as the state usually does after the election has passed. The actual ballot papers are digitally scanned first before being destroyed, and following the count of the digitized records to see who won, they also are destroyed leaving no records at all of the ballots. It seems the Dept of Homeland Security has Alabama as one of the states liable to have its voting system hacked and interfered with, and with no digitized records kept of the count, anything online would be open to adjustment.http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/12/judge_orders_alabama_not_to_de.html#incart_m-rpt-2 The paper link for articles, incl a video on what Alabama Counties to watch on election night.... http://www.al.com/birmingham/
Captain Obvious wrote: » Was that judgement not overruled by the Alabama Supreme Court?
everlast75 wrote: » If (and here's hoping!) Moore loses the election today, will DT delete the tweets endorsing him as he has done before to other "losers"?
Alabama's top election official estimates that turnout for the hotly contested U.S. Senate election now underway will likely be around 18 to 20 percent of registered voters. Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill tells The Associated Press there's also a chance that turnout for the special election could be as high as 25 percent.
Professor Moriarty wrote: » Looks like The Donald stole the tweet machine from Kelly's locker again:Lightweight Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a total flunky for Chuck Schumer and someone who would come to my office “begging” for campaign contributions not so long ago (and would do anything for them), is now in the ring fighting against Trump. Very disloyal to Bill & Crooked-USED!
Captain Obvious wrote: » Alabama's top election official estimates that turnout for the hotly contested U.S. Senate election now underway will likely be around 18 to 20 percent of registered voters. Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill tells The Associated Press there's also a chance that turnout for the special election could be as high as 25 percent. Captain Obvious wrote: » That's pathetic for such an important election. Is those numbers are true then is signals very bad news for the DNC. If they could mobilise the vote they would wipe the floor but this is a total failure. If Moore wins, then a massive part of the blame goes to those that didn't bother to vote
Captain Obvious wrote: » That's pathetic for such an important election.
Leroy42 wrote: » Captain Obvious wrote: » Is those numbers are true then is signals very bad news for the DNC. If they could mobilise the vote they would wipe the floor but this is a total failure. If Moore wins, then a massive part of the blame goes to those that didn't bother to vote I dunno - if turnout is so low, does that mean that people who can't bring themselves to support Moore, but can't stomach voting for a Democrat, are staying at home? One can only hope.....
Captain Obvious wrote: » Is those numbers are true then is signals very bad news for the DNC. If they could mobilise the vote they would wipe the floor but this is a total failure. If Moore wins, then a massive part of the blame goes to those that didn't bother to vote
Schorpio wrote: » Leroy42 wrote: » I dunno - if turnout is so low, does that mean that people who can't bring themselves to support Moore, but can't stomach voting for a Democrat, are staying at home? One can only hope..... Maybe, but what surely there is more than 10% of them that are against Moore (I'm basing that number of a 50/50 split of the vote). There must be more people in the state that are not particularly political (so not always R or D no matter what) that could be mobilised to vote to stop Moore. If the DNC cannot do a better job, how do they expect to win the seats they need to gain control. It won't be done utilizing the normal voters
Leroy42 wrote: » I dunno - if turnout is so low, does that mean that people who can't bring themselves to support Moore, but can't stomach voting for a Democrat, are staying at home? One can only hope.....
Leroy42 wrote: » Captain Obvious wrote: » Is those numbers are true then is signals very bad news for the DNC. If they could mobilise the vote they would wipe the floor but this is a total failure. If Moore wins, then a massive part of the blame goes to those that didn't bother to vote True, but then again nothing else was expected in Alabama which is pretty much the heart of the Cult of (R) - if Ronald Reagan who they worship so much were magically cloned a few months back and was running in Jones' place as a Democrat, those same people would still be staying at home. Voting for a pedophile may be enough to put some of them off voting, but it definitely isn't going to be enough to make them vote AGAINST their (R)eligion, because that's just not allowed. Sure it was just a bit of repeated kiddie fiddling, with multiple victims over several years. It's also why we've seen Moore disappear almost entirely in the last two or so weeks and the Republican party coming out to endorse him again etc... the mindset that it's not the candidate you are voting for, it's the letter beside their name. That said, Jones really is not a great candidate for the area - as I said even Ronald Reagan (D) would be a poor candidate for Alabama on the basis of not being part of the cult, but given how much impact the attack on education and critical thinking has had on the people of Alabama, getting someone who dresses like them or used to work in a blue collar job and has a beard would make a notable difference, probably moreso than anything to do with financial or cultural/societal policy. Which is every bit as pathetic as it sounds. Either way, the letter (R) will win the election today - just because there's a pedophile hiding behind the letter (R) does not stop the fact that it is the letter (R).
Pelvis wrote: » Does anyone else think he's implying something unsavory here???
Professor Moriarty wrote: » That's exactly the question being asked in the American media.
Leroy42 wrote: » Captain Obvious wrote: » Is those numbers are true then is signals very bad news for the DNC. If they could mobilise the vote they would wipe the floor but this is a total failure. If Moore wins, then a massive part of the blame goes to those that didn't bother to vote It's not just down to voter apathy. Vote suppression tactics have been open and blatant in the last few years in Alabama: Im the 10 counties with the highest proportion of minorities, the state closed driver's license offices in eight. The other two remained open because it might be too much to explain, I suppose, for Alabama not to have driver's license offices in Montgomery or Selma. Maybe the governor didn't intend to target minority citizens with the closures, but ultimately his intent is beside the point. The effect was the same, and the reaction was as swift as it was predictable. Alabama again became a national embarrassment. The NAACP sued and the United States Department of Transportation investigated. Last month, the latter of those two legal actions concluded. "Based on its investigation, DOT has concluded that African Americans residing in the Black Belt region of Alabama disproportionately underserved by ALEA's driver licensing services, causing a disparate and adverse impact on the basis of race," the department said. http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2017/01/as_it_turns_out_bentleys_drive.html This was done almost immediately after passing a law requiring voters to have... photo I.D. Guess which party runs Alabama?
Im the 10 counties with the highest proportion of minorities, the state closed driver's license offices in eight. The other two remained open because it might be too much to explain, I suppose, for Alabama not to have driver's license offices in Montgomery or Selma. Maybe the governor didn't intend to target minority citizens with the closures, but ultimately his intent is beside the point. The effect was the same, and the reaction was as swift as it was predictable. Alabama again became a national embarrassment. The NAACP sued and the United States Department of Transportation investigated. Last month, the latter of those two legal actions concluded. "Based on its investigation, DOT has concluded that African Americans residing in the Black Belt region of Alabama disproportionately underserved by ALEA's driver licensing services, causing a disparate and adverse impact on the basis of race," the department said.
The Backwards Man wrote: » I often think his tweets must be a major dilemma for non-anglophone media, do they quote him verbatim and make it look like they've mistranslated, or clean it up and make him sound coherent?
Tell me how wrote: » They're wasting their time asking it. We all assume he was insinuating something but he and SHS can laugh and say it is the fault of the media for trying to portray him in a poor light. They can say that it is the media which is making the insinuation by suggesting it and deny that anything other than interpreting the phrase as a figure of speech is not the fault of the president. 60 more seconds off the clock, next question please.
B0jangles wrote: » It's not just down to voter apathy. Vote suppression tactics have been open and blatant in the last few years in Alabama:http://www.al.com/opinion/index.ssf/2017/01/as_it_turns_out_bentleys_drive.html This was done almost immediately after passing a law requiring voters to have... photo I.D. Guess which party runs Alabama?
Leroy42 wrote: » Yeah I get all that, which is why the next question should be "Well what did he mean" And the next should be "Did he mean she was looking for extra tax cuts" It really is not that hard to pin them down once they actually put their minds to it.
Billy86 wrote: » Alabama election is today, and to help clear Roy Moore's name last night apparently a friend of his at a rally told the anecdote of that time we wound up in a child brothel, but only by accident! It's amazing how frequently this has needed to be said in the last 12 months, but I'm not even joking - https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/roy-moore-vietnam-brothel_us_5a2f5432e4b046175432cce3
Leroy42 wrote: » Is those numbers are true then is signals very bad news for the DNC. If they could mobilise the vote they would wipe the floor but this is a total failure. If Moore wins, then a massive part of the blame goes to those that didn't bother to vote
MadYaker wrote: » That’s a fcuking stupid question for someone to ask. What sort of answer were they expecting? It’s unlikely you’re going to see a collective effort from the WH press core to make life difficult for SHS in the press conferences. With this administration they will just remove press passes from people they don’t like.
Tell me how wrote: » That's exactly what did happen here though. One journalist asked a follow up question which SHS refused to answer, because she was moving on but the next journalist said that she'd take it up and asked the same question. i wonder what the tension between the journalists in the room is like given that you have CNN sitting beside Fox and so on.
