Trumpled (Alternative Leading)

[cookie2]

It's a bit embarrassing when you do a google search and find you've used the same terminology as a journo but.... :-[

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/a...r-invasion

Could he be going for gold?

[Lods]

Could he be going for gold?

He could be. ;D
He won't have much to do next week...there won't be too many Russian Track and Field athletes going around.

[DJC]

It seems like reality is starting to bite the Trump camp.  Not only is he slipping behind in the head to head polls but Clinton's lead in the Democrat held states is ballooning.  Unless Trump can make significant inroads in those states, Clinton is home and hosed.

Trump's pleas for Republican support are becoming more strident and the responses are becoming more negative. 

[madbluboy]

http://www.theage.com.au/world/bombshell...qyphf.html

[Mav]

From what I heard, these were all retrieved before the FBI ruled out prosecution, so that decision is not affected by these e-mails.  Their release to the public is the only new feature and what impact they will have on public opinion depends on what is in them.

[BleedBlue]

Crooked Hillary & Slick Willy for Prison.

[DJC]

The email scandal doesn't seem to be biting.  Multiple polls in the eleven "battleground" states have Clinton leading by 2-11% and the weighted average is Clinton 45.2% to Trump 39%.

Interestingly, nearly one in four voters polled say that they don't support Clinton or Trump. 

[Mav]

Not surprising, really, as it's a 'process issue'.  Those issues are less important to most voters than substantive policies.  At its worst, foreign spies might have hacked the emails but that can't be proved even if it can't be excluded.  But Russia and China are pretty good at hacking into government computers anyway, so there's nothing to say the emails would have been safe anyway.  It may be that she was partly motivated by the desire to use her mobile phone to process emails as she travelled and the government system was cumbersome.  Many suspect it was to avoid FOI access to the emails, though she denies that (and as it turns out, they have been released anyway).  The greatest problem has been that she's done a Fonzie by trying to justify herself.  Those attempts have failed badly and she has just dug a hole for herself.  It looks, though, that she has finally learnt her lesson and she is giving an unqualified apology.  When questioned about Colin Powell's denial that he told her to use her private email before she had already started doing so, she said she took full responsibility for her error and she wasn't going to try to shift blame.  If she keeps on doing that, she'll stop feeding the story.  It will still erupt as a story from time to time but she won't exacerbate the negative impact on her credibility by being evasive.

[Mav]

Trump is up against the clock now.  Deep into the last quarter, he's still several goals down.

There are only 70 days left until 8 November, but Minnesota opens early voting in just 26 days and 32 other States start voting shortly after that. 

He's still making unforced errors which will make it hard for him to rebound. 

Last week was all about a shift in immigration policy away from immédiate and permanent deportation of the roughly 11 million undocumented Mexicans before doing a U-turn and pledging to order mass deportation within an hour of becoming President.

Then he took to Twitter to celebrate the murder of a black NFL star's first cousin as he thought the fact she was shot to death in the street proves that he's right about blacks needing to vote for him.  After a couple of hours, he realised he had to tweet again to express his sorrow over her death!

Obviously, he wants to show moderate republicans and independents that he's a nice guy for whom they can safely vote but he keeps on stuffing up his lines.

[Mav]

Trump has accepted the Mexican President's invitation to meet with him in Mexico.  He's going there tomorrow, he says.  The circus continues...