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[RedKing]

Jesus wept....please tell me Donald Trump said something today stupider than this thread derail.

[mainiac]

Still, capitalizing it does make it confusing so shifting it around probably woulda helped.

Yes, that's the point.

[misko27]

Jesus wept....please tell me Donald Trump said something today stupider than this thread derail.

Well, there's the Donald here, managing to mess up a practice Town Hall debate run and populated entirely by people sympathetic to him. If he can't handle that, the next debate (which is a Town Hall debate populated by uncommitted voters) will be a rough time for him.

[mainiac]

If Donald Trump does in fact implode and sanity returns to America, the town hall is the most likely time for it to happen.  This is given a little bit of a boast given that Clinton is hyper prepared for this environment from her years of "card table time".

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Laurie Rubiner, who served as Clinton’s legislative director from 2005 to 2008, recalls being asked to block out two hours on the calendar for “card-table time.” Rubiner had just started in Clinton’s office six weeks before, and she had no idea what card-table time was, but when the boss wants something put on the calendar, you do it.

When the appointed day arrived, Clinton had laid out two card tables alongside two huge suitcases. She opened the suitcases, and they were stuffed with newspaper clippings, position papers, random scraps of paper. Seeing the befuddled look on Rubiner’s face, Clinton asked, “Did anyone tell you what we’re doing here?”

It turned out that Clinton, in her travels, stuffed notes from her conversations and her reading into suitcases, and every few months she dumped the stray paper on the floor of her Senate office and picked through it with her staff. The card tables were for categorization: scraps of paper related to the environment went here, crumpled clippings related to military families there. These notes, Rubiner recalls, really did lead to legislation. Clinton took seriously the things she was told, the things she read, the things she saw. She made her team follow up.

Her process works the same way today. Multiple Clinton aides told me that the campaign’s plan to fight opiate addiction, the first and most comprehensive offered by any of the major candidates, was the direct result of Clinton hearing about the issue on her tour. “Her way of dealing with the stories she hears is not just to repeat the story but to do something about the story,” says John Podesta, the chair of Clinton’s campaign.

[Sheb]

I can picture the massive boner mainiac had reading that quote.

[mainiac]

Anyone have a favorability rating of Clinton post-first debate? I'm curious to what degree her favorabilty has improved versus whether Trump's simply fell further.

Depending on how much you want to smooth you can say her approval ticked up a couple points since the debate or that a trend of improvement that was already underway continued:
smoothing
less smoothing

Either way she's at about 43.5% positive 53.5% negative.

[Frumple]

It usually isn't, from what I recall. Debates matter but they don't often cause really big shifts.

[smirk]

Jesus wept....please tell me Donald Trump said something today stupider than this thread derail.

Well, there's the Donald here, managing to mess up a practice Town Hall debate run and populated entirely by people sympathetic to him. If he can't handle that, the next debate (which is a Town Hall debate populated by uncommitted voters) will be a rough time for him.

“I said forget debate prep. I mean, give me a break,” Trump said at one point. “Do you really think that Hillary Clinton is debate-prepping for three or four days. Hillary Clinton is resting, okay?”

Heheh, oh, Donald. You're not really real, are you? You're like a hallucination in a fever dream. I'll be glad when you're gone, but there'll be just a hint of regret, too...

[mainiac]

It made a larger dent in the polling than it did in her favorability polling.

In the polling it was massive.  Looking like 4 maybe 5 points.

[nenjin]

It made a larger dent in the polling than it did in her favorability polling.

In the polling it was massive.  Looking like 4 maybe 5 points.

Stop talking about your H-Boner like that maniac.

[Sheb]

I'm so disappointed: I've got a funding presentation on monday and there is no way I can go Trump drinking game for the second debate.

[mainiac]

Take sleeping pills in the morning so you can stay up all night.

[Strife26]

I'm so disappointed: I've got a funding presentation on monday and there is no way I can go Trump drinking game for the second debate.

That sounds like a lack of motivation or dedication to me! Where's your sense of civic responsibility?

[MetalSlimeHunt]

It's a shame not a lot has happened in-between. The only things to add to the drinking game are "Trump knows he's fucked", "That Mexican Thing", and "Hurricane Matthew controversies".

Oh, and the Honkening, but I doubt they'll mention it.

[mainiac]

I'm so disappointed: I've got a funding presentation on monday and there is no way I can go Trump drinking game for the second debate.

That sounds like a lack of motivation or dedication to me! Where's your sense of civic responsibility?

I believe about 6,000 kilometers to the east.