August 25, 2016

Lesbian Farmers Attack!

August 25, 2016 Buck Banks

Conservatives still like to call him a foreigner,
But what they really fear is Obama the Reformer.
During his last months in office,
He’ll topple the right-wing edifice,
By filling the Midwest with FEMA-funded lesbian farmers.

Dems Have a Better Than Even Chance to Win Senate

August 25, 2016 Buck Banks

60%

The Upshot’s new Senate election forecast gives Democrats a 60% chance of winning control of the chamber in November. Included within this 60 percent is a 17% chance that the Senate ends up evenly split with a Democratic vice president providing the tie-breaking vote.

Sean Hannity Is One of Trump’s Biggest Supporters at $31 Million

August 25, 2016 Buck Banks

$31 million

Amount of free advertising Fox News host Sean Hannity has given Donald Trump’s campaign, according to an analysis by liberal watchdog Media Matters.

Conway: Trump Is Actually Winning the Campaign

August 25, 2016 Buck Banks

Donald Trump performs consistently better in online polling where a human being is not talking to another human being about what he or she may do in the election. It’s because it’s become socially desirable, if you’re a college educated person in the United States of America, to say that you’re against Donald Trump.

— Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway telling the UK’s Channel 4 that Donald Trump is actually winning the election, but every poll is wrong because Trump voters are undercover.

Major Flaw in Trump’s Plan to Court Minority Votes

August 25, 2016 Buck Banks

The main difficulty Trump faces in dispelling the impression that he is a racist is that Trump is, in fact, a gigantic racist.

— Jonathan Chait

Maybe Hillary Doesn’t Understand ‘Conflict of Interest’

August 25, 2016 Buck Banks

85

“Of 154 people from private interests who met or had phone conversations scheduled with Clinton while she led the State Department donated to her family charity or pledged commitments to its international programs… Combined, the 85 donors contributed as much as $156 million. At least 40 donated more than $100,000 each, and 20 gave more than $1 million,” AP reports.

If the Election Were Held Today …

August 25, 2016 Buck Banks

95%

If the presidential election were held today, Clinton would win the key swing states of Florida, Ohio and Virginia, according to the Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation project. It also says that Clinton has a 95 percent chance of beating Trump. That’s out in front of most probability indicators. (Predictwise: 79 percent. FiveThirtyEight: 84.4 percent.)

Day: August 25, 2016

Lesbian Farmers Attack!

Dems Have a Better Than Even Chance to Win Senate

60%

The Upshot’s new Senate election forecast gives Democrats a 60% chance of winning control of the chamber in November. Included within this 60 percent is a 17% chance that the Senate ends up evenly split with a Democratic vice president providing the tie-breaking vote.

Sean Hannity Is One of Trump’s Biggest Supporters at $31 Million

$31 million

Amount of free advertising Fox News host Sean Hannity has given Donald Trump’s campaign, according to an analysis by liberal watchdog Media Matters.

Conway: Trump Is Actually Winning the Campaign

— Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway telling the UK’s Channel 4 that Donald Trump is actually winning the election, but every poll is wrong because Trump voters are undercover.

Major Flaw in Trump’s Plan to Court Minority Votes

The main difficulty Trump faces in dispelling the impression that he is a racist is that Trump is, in fact, a gigantic racist.

— Jonathan Chait

Maybe Hillary Doesn’t Understand ‘Conflict of Interest’

85

If the Election Were Held Today …

95%

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

— Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) on the “resign or be fired” ultimatum from the GOP’s Freedom Caucus just 174 days into his tenure as sp[eaker, reported by Punchbowl News.

“Trump’s head slowly dropped, his eyes closed. It jerked back upward. He adjusts himself. Then, his head droops again. He straightens up, leaning back. His head droops for a third time, he shakes his shoulders. Eyes closed still. His head drops. Finally, he pops his eyes open.”

— Law360 reports from the second day of Donald Trump’s “hush money” criminal trial.

— Jonathan Last

“He’s f**king crazy! The press often will ask me if I think Donald Trump is crazy. And I’ll say it this way: I don’t think he’s so crazy that you could put him in a mental institution. But I think if he were in one, he ain’t getting out!”

— New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R), quoted by the Associated Press two years ago. Sununu is now backing Trump for president.

— North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) described his loving approach to disciplining misbehaving children, WUNC reports.

Numerati

50 of 96

New York Times: “Of the 96 possible jurors brought into the room, more than 50 raised their hands to say they couldn’t be fair. They were immediately excused.”

20%

$3.5 billion

39%

$71 million