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Post by FLORIDA HERD FAN on Jul 14, 2016 15:27:24 GMT
I'll start paying attention to polls again around this first of September.
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Post by tigercpa on Jul 14, 2016 16:04:10 GMT
The NeverTrumpers still aren't giving up. The rules committee is meeting today. They claim to have the votes to free delegates to vote as they like on their FIRST ballot. A recent court ruling said states CANNOT force voting rules on a political party. It just MIGHT happen. Meanwhile, Rasmussen releases a poll giving Trump a BIG lead in a nationwide poll. Mort Blackwell is a member of the RNC's standing Committee on Rules and he is not a fan of the #nevertrump movement...Ben Jacobs just reported that he came out of the meeting just now with a smile on his face.
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Post by FLORIDA HERD FAN on Jul 18, 2016 23:47:28 GMT
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Post by Bevo on Jul 18, 2016 23:54:31 GMT
give it up, Herd.
You're anti-Trump shtick is becoming more and more irrelevant.
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Post by FLORIDA HERD FAN on Jul 19, 2016 1:35:15 GMT
Looks like I struck a nerve. Too bad. So sad.
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Post by Bevo on Jul 19, 2016 1:54:05 GMT
Looks like I struck a nerve. Too bad. So sad. Yea, that's the ticket. whatever dude... You're just making yourself look petty. that's advice from a friend. Take it, I or leave it.
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Post by FLORIDA HERD FAN on Jul 19, 2016 3:53:30 GMT
I didn't mention Trump's name, and the article did not accuse Trump of being complicit in this abuse of power.
The rules require a roll call vote upon the request of a majority of 7 state delegations. They claimed to have had the majority of 10 state delegations. We might not ever know because of the the acting chair cut the mic of the delegate requesting a roll call vote.
One thing I do know is that it is the party unity cannot be commanded from the podium.
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Post by Hero on Jul 19, 2016 4:10:34 GMT
One thing I do know is that it is the party unity cannot be commanded from the podium. The people involved in this crap have interest in neither party unity nor the will of the voters.
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Post by FLORIDA HERD FAN on Jul 19, 2016 4:39:12 GMT
Some had expressed a desire for party unity. Others may have been like me, irreversibly opposed to Trump (and Clinton). It has come out that at least one Trump thug, Rick Gates, participated in threatening and strong-arming delegates, who clearly had every right under the rules to require a roll call vote. Now we are learning that the convention secretary was hiding backstage with security guards at the doors to prevent a delegate from filing the requests of 9 delegations calling for a roll call vote (a total of 11 delegations had written requests, 7 are required). "Yahoo News saw Rick Gates, a deputy to Trump adviser Paul Manafort, berating a young delegate from Virginia named Tommy Valentine. “I’m gonna remember how Virginia was an embarrassment at the national convention,” said Gates, who was “identified as an agent of a Ukrainian oligarch” in a 2011 racketeering lawsuit that also named Manafort. Valentine recounted the confrontation moments later. “I was asking, ‘Are you threatening me, personally, or my state?’” Valentine told Yahoo News. “[Gates] was saying how if Trump becomes president… he’s going to remember what happened in Virginia during the convention. And I just said, ‘Well, that’s corrupt politics that Trump is embracing. He’s going to punish states because they didn’t vote according to his standards?’” www.yahoo.com/news/chaos-on-the-floor-in-cleveland-how-an-insurgency-erupted-and-was-crushed-by-the-rnc-020846375.html
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Post by Hero on Jul 19, 2016 5:11:15 GMT
Some had expressed a desire for party unity. Unity by saying screw the will of the voters. Sure, fine, right.
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Post by tigercpa on Jul 19, 2016 6:15:09 GMT
I watched most of the opening events live this morning. Overall I'd say a good opening for the GOP.
Sheriff Clarke, fresh off of his beatdown of CNN's Don Lemon (if you haven't seen that video, google it), continues to impress. A lot of red meat for the base, but the strategic message was clear.
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Post by tigercpa on Jul 19, 2016 10:12:11 GMT
Trump leads in the most contentious bellweather counties in the US.
TAMPA, Florida — New polling from some of the most contentious battleground counties in 2016 finds overall support for presumptive Republican Presidential Nominee Donald J. Trump.
Hillsborough County, FL: Clinton 40% / Trump 43% (Trump +3) Jefferson County, CO: Clinton 39% / Trump 40% (Trump +1) Watauga County, NC: Clinton 39% / Trump 46% (Trump +7) Sandusky County, OH: Clinton 31% / Trump 42% (Trump +11) Luzerne County, PA: Clinton 32% / Trump 55% (Trump +23) Loudon County, VA: Clinton 44% / Trump 41% (Clinton +3) Washoe County, NV: Clinton 36% / Trump 48% (Trump +12)
Unfortunately, my county is the only one he does not lead....too many metrosexuals, workers addicted to the government tit, and Marylanders who ran from high taxes.
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Post by FLORIDA HERD FAN on Jul 19, 2016 10:25:25 GMT
Hero: "Unity by saying screw the will of the voters. Sure, fine, right."
The majority of the voters voted against Trump.
There is a procedure under the rules that allows delegates to require a roll call vote. They followed the procedure and more than fulfilled the requirements.
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Post by FLORIDA HERD FAN on Jul 19, 2016 10:41:47 GMT
In fairness, shouldn't Melania Trump give credit to her speechwriter, Michelle Obama?
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Post by tigercpa on Jul 19, 2016 14:03:05 GMT
In fairness, shouldn't Melania Trump give credit to her speechwriter, Michelle Obama? /photo/1 Ask the next question - where did Michelle Obama steal it from?
These are generic platitudes that we've heard all our lives...politicians throughout history, thousands of high school valedictorians each year, parents, grandparents.
keep your word, respect others, teach your children - Does Michelle Obama own the copyright on these generic ideas and ideals?
Another media tempest in a teapot, to try to distract people from the facts that Hillary got chopped off at the knees last night.
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