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« on: August 18, 2016, 02:20:10 AM »

I have to admit I'm still worried. People in this country tend to vary charisma over all else, and that scares me about the debates. Also, there's no telling what the Breitbart crew will throw at her, and Trump isn't even airing ads yet (at least here in PA).
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« Reply #1 on: August 18, 2016, 02:29:54 AM »

There's always the chance that Hillary completely flubs a debate answer and Trump profits off of it without really "turning it around," but I think the chances of this are fairly slim and the chances of it flipping the election are even slimmer.
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« Reply #2 on: August 18, 2016, 02:33:54 AM »

Trump playing to the alt right/real white supremacists, what could possibly go wrong?!

But seriously, I'm not worried. He's "turned it around" so many times now, only to dig himself deeper. I guess he's looking at the polls and seeing that he has no chance, so maybe he feels as though he has nothing to lose by hiring the fascist Stephen Bannon. It's becoming clearer by the day that his strategy is to maximize turnout among his most loyal supporters/base of uneducated white working class populists (the so-called "Silent Majority" about which we hear Republicans so frequently pontificate as to why they lose elections) to make up for his impending enormous losses among, well, pretty much everyone else. These people supporting Trump really do believe that they are the majority, but come November, they're in for a rude awakening.
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« Reply #3 on: August 18, 2016, 02:44:45 AM »

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Yeah, super worried.
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« Reply #4 on: August 18, 2016, 02:49:33 AM »

I am very worried. If there is anything we've seen this campaign, you never know what can happen.
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« Reply #5 on: August 18, 2016, 02:54:51 AM »

I'm not worried about Trump turning it around, I'm worried about Clinton ruining it. Buddying up with the Alt-Right isn't exactly going to make for a winning strategy; so for him to win, she'd have to crash and burn.
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« Reply #6 on: August 18, 2016, 03:00:28 AM »

Somewhat worried.

Things are looking good right now, but 3 months is an eternity in politics.
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« Reply #7 on: August 18, 2016, 03:47:27 AM »

There is still about 11 weeks to go.
The lead by Hillary is safe for now .... but anything can happen.
So I'm cautious, but I feel confident that she will win come November.
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« Reply #8 on: August 18, 2016, 07:44:20 AM »

The Nervous Nellies are getting what they deserve.  They went into the tank for Hillary so they could elect The First Female President.  Never mind her character, never mind her actual behavior, never mind her personal integrity; IT'S HER TURN!

Any other Democrat would be beating Trump in a "no worries" fashion right now.  That the Clintonistas forced their scumbag liar on America is their own fault.  While I'm not part of the "LOCK HER UP!" crowd, what does it say about folks whom push a Presidential candidate for which there is a viable argument for locking her up?
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« Reply #9 on: August 18, 2016, 07:55:17 AM »

I'm not particularly worried.  Trump is pursuing a hopeless strategy.  The only thing that could derail Clinton is a major catastrophe, or maybe Wikileaks (though judging by what they've said so far about the upcoming leak, I don't think it'll be enough).
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« Reply #10 on: August 18, 2016, 08:02:04 AM »

I'm not particularly nervous about a candidate that currently only has between a 20-10% chance of winning.
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« Reply #11 on: August 18, 2016, 08:03:40 AM »

I'm not particularly nervous about a candidate that currently only has between a 20-10% chance of winning.

20-10% is a lot.
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« Reply #12 on: August 18, 2016, 08:10:16 AM »

Any non-zero probability of Trump winning scares me.

As of right now, I'd put the odds of a Trump victory at 10:1.  

However, should he win, the chances that he is not completely neutralized as President thanks to a scorched-earth campaign that destroys any chance of working with Congressional Republicans, plus a Democratically-controlled Senate... I'd also put at 10:1.  Which means a 100:1 chance of Trump winning and doing any real damage.

I'm still scared, though.
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« Reply #13 on: August 18, 2016, 08:36:24 AM »

I'm not particularly nervous about a candidate that currently only has between a 20-10% chance of winning.

20-10% is a lot.

Sure, but not compared to the last 4 cycles at this point.
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« Reply #14 on: August 18, 2016, 08:54:01 AM »
« Edited: August 18, 2016, 09:09:23 AM by Sir Mohamed »

Still somewhat worried, because if this thin-skinned faker with bigoted language would ever get in, it would be devastating. For America and the entire world. He’s totally unfit for the job. However, I see almost no real chance that he’s turning this thing around again and win in the end. Without a radical change in dynamics of this race, he’s fortunately done.
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« Reply #15 on: August 18, 2016, 08:54:56 AM »

Still somewhat worried. Hillary doesn't inspire confidence in her campaign, and even as my estimate of his chances continues to shrink, it also becomes increasingly obvious that he would be a far worse president than I had ever thought possible.

So I think there's a smaller chance or much, much worse Trump-related outcome.
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« Reply #16 on: August 18, 2016, 09:15:49 AM »

He is "Mr. Brexit" after all!

https://twitter.com/i/moments/766253899841929216
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« Reply #17 on: August 18, 2016, 10:07:16 AM »

Even a 0.1% probability of Trump winning would make me sick with fear. And it is a lot more than that. We are still before labor day. He could still very much win. God save us all!
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« Reply #18 on: August 18, 2016, 10:16:51 AM »

At this point, I'm more afraid of Russia than I am of Trump.
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« Reply #19 on: August 18, 2016, 10:38:11 AM »

Not worried at all. I'm hopeful that he will have a chance and win this.
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« Reply #20 on: August 18, 2016, 10:47:20 AM »

Even a 0.1% probability of Trump winning would make me sick with fear. And it is a lot more than that. We are still before labor day. He could still very much win. God save us all!
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« Reply #21 on: August 18, 2016, 10:48:35 AM »

The turning point in the campaign was the 2nd Amendment remark and no one can beat the Dems like Karl Rove can.  Unless, he places someone like that that have won successive campaigns, we will see the Free Fall of Trump and lose on Election Day.
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« Reply #22 on: August 18, 2016, 10:49:14 AM »

Somewhat worried, but if Clinton is still up by 7-8 points in mid-October, I won''t be worried at all.
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« Reply #23 on: August 18, 2016, 10:51:28 AM »

I am not the least bit worried, He is incapable of taking direction from people that know what their doing.
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« Reply #24 on: August 18, 2016, 10:52:57 AM »

Says who?
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