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65%
Of Democrats say they will definitely vote — well below their average for the prior four presidential elections (77%), whereas the 76% of Republicans saying they will definitely vote is only a bit lower than their prior average (81%).
“Amid the news frenzy leading up to the first general election debate of 2016, fewer U.S. adults rate themselves highly likely to vote for president than did so in September of each of the past four presidential election years.” — Gallup
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84 million
“According to Nielsen, the debate averaged a total of 84 million viewers across 13 of the TV channels that carried it live. Many millions also watched the debate via live streams on the web,” CNN reports. “Nielsen’s 84 million total counts people who watched via traditional TV channels at home. People who watched the debate at parties, bars, restaurants, and offices were not counted. Neither were C-SPAN viewers. This means the actual total audience is even higher.”
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80%
Of insiders — “with equal numbers of Democrats and Republicans responding to the post-debate survey — said Clinton did the better job at the debate, including 99 percent of Democrats and 57 percent of Republicans. Only 21 percent — 1 percent of Democrats and 43 percent of Republicans — picked Trump as the winner,” reports Politico.
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29.5
The BMI of a man who is six feet, three inches tall and weighs 236 pounds — Donald Trump’s height and purported weight — according to the Mayo Clinic’s Body Mass Index Calculator. According to Mayo, the threshold BMI score for obesity is 30, so Trump — who routinely criticizes women like former Miss Universe Alicia Machado when they gain weight — is just half a percentage point below obese, making him, by his own standards, a fat pig.
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63%
Of voters who tuned in to watch said Hillary Clinton was the winner of Monday night’s debate, while just 27% said they thought Donald Trump had the better night, according to a CNN/ORC Poll of voters who watched the debate. A Public Policy Polling survey of debate watchers shows Clinton won 51% to 40%.
Poetic Justice
It’s clear that he’s a race-baiter
As well as a confirmed woman-hater.
But we learned that Trump,
After Monday night’s stomp,
Really isn’t much of a debater.
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The fact that Donald Trump’s doing so well, it proves that I’m winning. I am winning.
— White supremicist David Duke, quoted by the Los Angeles Times.
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I guess I’m having an Aleppo moment.
— Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson, after he struggled to name a single foreign leader when asked who his favorite was during an MSNBC town hall, NBC News reports.
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If you’re a Republican who has been clinging to the wan hope that Donald Trump might somehow, in his eighth decade on Earth, develop into a plausibly competent president of the United States, the first debate should have been your moment to abandon ship. Trump displayed the factual command of a small child, the emotional stability of a hormonal teen, and the stamina of an old man, staggering and losing the thread as the 90 minutes wore on.
— Jonathan Chait
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Clinton retains her composure under pressure. She’s tough. She doesn’t back down. Trump responds to criticism with the petulance of verbal spit wads. That’s beneath our national dignity. When the president of the United States speaks, the world expects substance. Not a blistering tweet.
— The Arizona Republic, endorsing a Democrat for the first time since the newspaper’s founding in 1890.
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Now, whether that was Russia, whether that was China, whether it was another country, we don’t know, because the truth is, under President Obama we’ve lost control of things that we used to have control over. We came in with the Internet, we came up with the Internet, and I think Secretary Clinton and myself would agree very much, when you look at what [the Islamic State] is doing with the Internet, they’re beating us at our own game. ISIS. So we have to get very, very tough on cyber and cyber warfare. It is — it is a huge problem. I have a son. He’s 10 years old. He has computers. He is so good with these computers, it’s unbelievable. The security aspect of cyber is very, very tough. And maybe it’s hardly doable.
– Donald Trump’s Sarah Palinesque word salad response to a question about cybersecurity during the first 2016 presidential debate.
Infografix
Trump needs a nickname
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Gee, it seems like only seven. But then, for me it is …
I seem to recall the initial reports on the weaponized anthrax back during the G. W. Bush administration being one of the first postings on this site which, at least in my memory would put you beyond 8 years. I guess my memory is suspect. I seem to recall the anthrax possible attack down in Florida that brought you to my attention.
We launched on January 25, 2005, five days after Bush’s second inaugural.
No problem. I guess my memory is off. What an auspicious date, five days after George W. Bush’s 2nd inaugural. I still remember being depressed to no end at that time. I found it hard to believe George W. Bush won, but is was the incessant warmongering and the pushing of terror, terror, terror that let them win the day back then.
Jan. 20, 2005 — a day that will live in infamy.
I want to say you let me on board in March. And Buck, I thought you and I started together.
Trish, you and I started together on Blogger in December. We switched to WordPress, which took a while and and then we had our first posts at the end of January.
Congrats! I’ve been reading here since fall of 2006 or early 2007. Even though I seldom comment.