I don't necessarily agree with that. The middle of the road dems supported the invasion out of cowardice. They feared being labeled as unpatriotic during a period where that was viewed as the worst thing you could call a politician. I believe many (including Hillary) felt it was the wrong thing to do but weren't willing to take a moral stand.

If that's true, don't you think that's even worse?

Yes

And really, exactly what Krauthammer was saying about her in the column.

Look, I think most of us can stipulate a strong preference for Clinton over Trump given that's the only real choice. If we do so, can we also agree that every criticism of Clinton isn't an endorsement of Trump? And if "Never Trump" is the best argument you can muster for a candidate, that isn't really saying much for him/her.


The feelings about these candidates among intelligent, educated people cuts across ideologies. I mean, Tall Midget is as left-wing as Krauthammer is right and they're both reaching the same conclusions regarding this election, albeit for perhaps somewhat different reasons.

For instance they were never taught that Columbus was a slave owner.

I recently saw that only 9 percent of the population voted for either Trump or Clinton during the primaries. For all of Trump's talk for it being a rigged system, he has a point in a round about way.

Yes

I don't necessarily agree with that. The middle of the road dems supported the invasion out of cowardice. They feared being labeled as unpatriotic during a period where that was viewed as the worst thing you could call a politician. I believe many (including Hillary) felt it was the wrong thing to do but weren't willing to take a moral stand.

This is going to reach a head pretty soon.

based on his voting record while in office I would say 25 against/75 for

This is going to reach a head pretty soon.

I'd like to send this one out to my man long time guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vx3_2ks5qQ

This is going to reach a head pretty soon.

Almost every public and private metric suggests Trump is headed for a loss, possibly an epic one. His frustrated demeanor on the campaign trail suggests he knows it. Yet even as he nears the end of his presidential run, his team is sowing the seeds of a new enterprise with a direct marketing effort that they insist could still shock the world on Election Day.

Beginning last November, then ramping up in earnest when Trump became the Republican nominee, Kushner quietly built a sprawling digital fundraising database and social media campaign that’s become the locus of his father-in-law’s presidential bid. Trump’s top advisers won’t concede the possibility of defeat, but they’re candid about the value of what they’ve built even after the returns come in—and about Trump’s desire for influence regardless of outcome. “Trump is a builder,” says Bannon, in a rare interview. “And what he’s built is the underlying apparatus for a political movement that’s going to propel us to victory on Nov. 8 and dominate Republican politics after that.”

If Trump wants to strengthen his hold on his base, then his apocalyptic rhetoric on the stump begins to make more sense. Lately he’s sounded less like a candidate seeking to persuade moderates and swing voters and more like the far-right populist leaders who’ve risen throughout Europe. Most Republican Party officials ardently hope he’ll go away quietly if he loses. But given all that his campaign—and Kushner’s group especially—has been doing behind the scenes, it looks likelier that Trump and his lieutenants will stick around. They may emerge as a new media enterprise, an outsider political movement, or perhaps some combination of the two: an American UK Independence Party (UKIP) that will wage war on the Republican Party—or, rather, intensify the war that Trump and Bannon have already begun.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

This is one of the best articles I've seen on the Trump Campaign. Great info on the people behind his social media fundraising campaign: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-10-27/inside-the-trump-bunker-with-12-days-to-go

Excerpt:

This is going to reach a head pretty soon.

An artificial intelligence system that correctly predicted the last three U.S. presidential elections puts Republican nominee Donald Trump ahead of Democrat rival Hillary Clinton in the race for the White House.

MogIA was developed by Sanjiv Rai, founder of Indian start-up Genic.ai. It takes in 20 million data points from public platforms including Google, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in the U.S. and then analyzes the information to create predictions.

The AI system was created in 2004, so it has been getting smarter all the time. It had already correctly predicted the results of the Democratic and Republican Primaries.

Data such as engagement with tweets or Facebook Live videos have been taken into account. The result is that Trump has overtaken the engagement numbers of Barack Obama 's peak in 2008 — the year he was elected president — by 25 percent.

Rai said that his AI system shows that the candidate in each election who had leading engagement data ended up winning the election.

"If Trump loses, it will defy the data trend for the first time in the last 12 years since Internet engagement began in full earnest," Rai wrote in a report sent to CNBC.

Currently most national polls put Clinton and the Democrats ahead by a strong margin. Rai said his data shows that Clinton should not get complacent.

But the entrepreneur admitted that there were limitations to the data in that sentiment around social media posts is difficult for the system to analyze. Just because somebody engages with a Trump tweet, it doesn't mean that they support him. Also there are currently more people on social media than there were in the three previous presidential elections.

"If you look at the primaries, in the primaries, there were immense amounts of negative conversations that happen with regards to Trump. However, when these conversations started picking up pace, in the final days, it meant a huge game opening for Trump and he won the primaries with a good margin," Rai told CNBC in a phone interview.

Using social media to predict outcomes of elections has become increasingly popular because of the amount of data available publicly. In September, Nick Beauchamp, an assistant professor of political science at Northeastern University, published a paper about his experiment applying AI to more than 100 million tweets in the 2012 election. He found that this closely mirrored the results seen in state-level polling.

"These results provide not just a tool for generating surveylike data, but also a method for investigating how what people say and think reflects, and perhaps even affects, their vote intentions," Beauchamp said.

Rai said his system would be improved by more granular data. He said that If Google was to give him access to the unique internet addresses assigned to each digital device, he could then collect data on exactly what people were thinking.

For example, Rai said if someone was searching for a YouTube video on how to vote, then looked for a video on how to vote for Trump, this could give the AI a good idea of the voter's intention. He added that there would be no privacy concerns as these internet addresses would be anonymized.

"Granularity of data will determine progressively lesser bias despite the weightage of negative or positive conversations," Rai wrote in his report, explaining how to improve the system.

MogIA is based on Mowgli, the child from Rudyard Kipling's novel "The Jungle Book." Rai said this is because his AI model learns from the environment.

"While most algorithms suffer from programmers/developer's biases, MoglA aims at learning from her environment, developing her own rules at the policy layer and develop expert systems without discarding any data," Rai said.

I have MANY years of experience in trying to appreciate steaming piles of dogshit.

An artificial intelligence system that correctly predicted the last three U.S. presidential elections puts Republican nominee Donald Trump ahead of Democrat rival Hillary Clinton in the race for the White House.

The last three elections were easy to predict.

I have MANY years of experience in trying to appreciate steaming piles of dogshit.

Hasn't the narrative for this one been that Hillary is going to win going away? That sounds pretty easy to predict to me.

Sillary has lost already and should be in prison for her transgressions against the USA. Remember 1980 and shout it out Republican ruler will once again put us on the track to success.

Sillary has lost already and should be in prison for her transgressions against the USA. Remember 1980 and shout it out Republican ruler will once again put us on the track to success.

what law did she break?