This is the best quote and hoped-for plan to emerge from this knuckle-dragging circus freak show. The two best performers, Bernie and Jill, have been carefully ushered to the sidelines and their cheerleaders alternately condemned, ejected, or solicited as circumstances demanded.

My vote is for Jill but hope that Trump will win, so that the drainage project can begin.

exactly how I feel to a T.

interested to see what time this morning the AP calls the race for clinton.

He timed the escalation of Iraq fighting Just Exactly Perfect. On election eve half the news was about driving the boogie men ISIS out of Mosul. Be afraid. Vote your fear. Goebbels would be in awe.

We won't have any way to accurately measure most of those things.

but has a fact-filled article (whatever the basis of the "facts) on who is "data-collecting" today, with links embedded. If anyone cares to follow.

I will not be voting until this afternoon. I checked, still listed as registered (but Democratic, not Green, as my county has not updated older registrations since January, 2016). #DemExit in July. I will vote Stein, also anti-Schumer for the Green woman. Then, I don't know.

My daughter's dog is unwell. Intestinal blockage. In this AM (second time) for another Xray to see if it's budged (not complete blockage yesterday). The thousands of $$$ for tomorrow's egg harvest from daughter may end up being spent on veterinary bills, not student debt. Shit happens. I feel awful about the situation, happened to a previous dog of ours, $10K for one botched surgery followed by a second and a week in doggie ICU. He survived. I am not sure that daughter knows all the financial details of what her parents did for our Zamster. Please don't let that happen.

1. The Democratic Party has permanently alienated a part of its reliable base. I refer to Bernie voters who saw the rancid, cheating underbelly of the DNC exposed and who want nothing to do further with a party with virtually no guiding ethos except to win at any cost. Some of these folks may turn out today to vote against Trump but they consider it their last final hurrah for the Party. Others will stay home or vote for Jill. Big backfire on the whole Bernie Bro strategy which morphed into the just as cataclysmically stupid "basket of deplorables" strategy. I don't recall any campaign anywhere that relied on insulting and stigmatizing voters as opposed to the candidate.

2. I echo DallasDoc that Hillary will have a very rough time, in particular if Dems don't take the Senate. Republicans are ready, willing and able to hold hearings and besmirch her legitimacy from the getgo.

3. I don't trust the polling regardless of who it favors or by how much. As an example, in the last Virginia Senate elections,Senator Mark Warner was supposed to have a double digit advantage over Ed Gillespie to retain his Senate seat. He won by a percentage of 1 percentage point. This was predicted by literally no one.

4. Speaking of Virginia. I live here. Virginia keeps being put in the Democratic column but I think it will go Trump.

5. The Celebrity factor. Minnesotans elected Jessie Ventura and Californians elected Arnold Schwarzenegger. Both were the result of the populace's disgust with business as usual and both states are considered generally liberal yet they both elected celebrities with no experience in government to their state's highest office. I don't see any reason why this same zeitgeist couldn't be translated to the National stage.

6. Speaking of Zeitgeist and point #5, the general disgust with politics and politicians could easily translate to what Michael Moore called the "Biggest F!@K You!" vote in history.

7. Change election as defined by David Axelrod. I think he says a winning candidate has to be seen as either the change or the cure. Aside from gender, HRC does not offer change nor is she seen as the cure, since she is the third Obama term. Note - Bernie would have been seen as both the change and the cure despite running as a Democrat.

8. Democrats were put in a box after having two terms with limited notable successes, the most public one, Obamacare being seen as going down the tubes as we speak. Obama gave a rousing speech about how great things are, i.e. unemployment down, wages going up, etc. which only made him look out of touch since unemployment is down generally because long-term unemployed are no longer counted or people are underemployed or over-employed (2 part-time jobs, etc.) and the labor participation rate is way way down. Wages going up slightly after years of stagnation is good, but they have a long long way to go before making up the stagnation.

9. Hillary has an enthusiasm deficit and a fatigue factor exacerbated by the 20 month slow rolling email scandal and pay for play perceptions which cause some percentage of the electorate to view her as unethical at best or criminal at worst. She seems to be an advocate of extra-judicial killings (wanting to drone Assange for example) and displays an an uncomfortable comfort with engaging in military misadventures. On the other hand Trump has demonstrated the moral failings of racism, sexism, xenophobia, religious bias, ignorance, narcissism, bullying, sexual harassment, unethical business practices, etc. etc. This is why most people consider both candidates as unthinkable, but yet they are forced to vote for one or the other. So, all voters for the most part are holding their noses.

10. I think the beltway may be underestimating the gun vote. This segment is a lot bigger than people seem to realize and they seem to believe for whatever reason that Hillary wants their guns.

Summation - I think this election comes down to which candidate do people fear more? Because of his overt idiocies, I think more people fear Trump more than they fear the more covert failings of HRC. Yet at the same time, the Change factor and fear and alienation and visceral hatred of Americans for their political system which they blame for their current economic despair tilts it towards Trump and his anti-trade pact stance factors in here. Trump is the id vote and Hillary is the ego vote. IMO at this time and place I think the id will override the ego and hate for the system will overcome fear of a specific individual. Democrats chose to run the only candidate with enough baggage to sink them in a battle with an overtly explicitly unacceptable opponant. Trump will be elected as the FU candidate.

There, I said it. Please understand a Trump victory is not my hope but it is my expectation. Let's hope I'm wrong and the pollsters are right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPU_7DEwPuM

You'll see some of my cousins too

Or something like that.

Anyway, if the republicans need 30% of NYC to win the state, that means that Hillary needs about 2/3 of NYC. Ajamu and Jill have been really working the Bronx. If the Republicans watch the polls closely enough, maybe we can get enough of the votes to deny Her Majesty that prize.

damn, damn, damn. wish i had known that yesterday when filling out my absentee ballot. just saw a link on Jack Pine Radicals to a certified list of write-in candidates that included Sanders. when did this happen? i thought the candidate themselves had to declare as a write-in candidate. wish i had known yesterday. i had not read anything about Sanders being a write-in candidate for CA. granted i unsubscribed from him when he endorsed Clinton.

shit.

http://elections.cdn.sos.ca.gov//statewide-elections/2016-general/list-w...

and it is starting to look as though The $Hill might lose -- what a concept! The talking heads and DC Establishment are in total denial --
The DNC could have had a sweep of the executive office, Senate, downstate ballots, etc. if they had decided ("elected") to follow the "will of the people", as clearly expressed during the primaries (i.e., Bernie Sanders and progressive down-ballot candidates); except that these were suppressed (much of the time).

Instead, the Wasserman-Schultz wing of The Party (formerly known as "Democrats") decided to shove The $Hill down our throats, because it "... was her turn"; and also because the money just kept rolling in -- from Wall Street, hedge funds, Clinton Foundation "supporters", wherever.

Eat $Hit, DNC, $Hill, and Wasserman-$chultz --