If Obama won Ohio and Florida last presidential election, why does Hillary have to flip them to her favor?
Obama wasn't supposed to win Ohio. Karl Rove had epic meltdown when Fox News called Ohio for Obama. No Republican has ever won the presidency without Ohio. Once Ohio went to Obama, and Florida got called for Obama, the election was over Mitt Romney. History could repeat itself in 2016.
Filibuster in the Senate. Foot dragging on judicial nominations. Passing legislation that appeals to the base but has poison pills that won't attract Democratic votes. Etc., etc., etc.
Our government is designed to stop the passage of legislation so that people can be allowed to live their lives peacefully, without the interference of the government.
When the government got shut down for 16 days in October 2013, I was laid off specifically because of the government shutdown and out of work for eight months. The Republicans agreed to same budget deal that they would have gotten if the House Republicans have followed "regular order" without shutting down the government. That government action (or inaction) interfered with my life. Ironically, it got me a government IT job.
The congress has been the only thing standing in the way of letting Obama ruin us further and fundamentally change everything that made the US great to begin with.
Yet it was the Republican Party that made Obama one of the most powerful presidents in U.S. history by not doing their jobs and abandoning the power of the purse.
I'm no fan of Republicans but she mishandled top secret data.
Mishandling classified data, by itself, is not a crime. It's certainly grounds for discipline, which is what the State Department IG will be looking into now that the FBI have finished their investigation.
Even military darling General Patreus got nailed when he did it on a much smaller scale and with far less exposure.
Patreus mishandled classified data AND gave it to his lover (a journalist). That's a crime for which he pleaded guilty.
This whole thing smacks of two tiered law.
Because it is. An indictment requires criminal intent. None was found regarding Hillary's email server.
So you are saying Trump has Florida and Ohio, unless Hillary can flip them? Keeping states is easier than flipping them in my opinion.
Keep in mind that the 2016 electoral map is nearly identical to the 2012 electoral map (where Obama became the second president since Eisenhower to be reelected with a 51% majority). Florida and Ohio went Democratic in 2012. If these two states flip for Hillary, she wins the election outright. Otherwise, she will need to flip two or three other battleground states to win.
Of course. She's a politician. Political appointees have historically more leeway than civil workers inside the government and civilians outside of government.
The electoral map disagree with you. Hillary needs to flip two states, probably Florida and Ohio, to win the election. Trump will have to flip over quite a few more states to come in striking distance of winning the election.
Nothing wrong with maintaining the status quo. I just hope that enough seats flip in Congress to prevent Republicans from obstructing Hillary for the next eight years the same way they obstructed Obama for the last eight years.
You do realize 56% of Americans think she should have been charged?
Is that polling of opinions based on media reports or the law? According to the media reports, Hillary is guilty as sin. According to law enforcement officials, there isn't enough evidence for a successful criminal case.
Well, this time the State Department Inspector General, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation did the investigation, not Republicans, and they did find a few damn things.
You must have missed the House Republican Benghazi report that cleared Hillary of any wrongdoing, as previous investigations have already proven.
Ending one of the longest, costliest and most bitterly partisan congressional investigations in history, the House Select Committee on Benghazi issued its final report on Tuesday, finding no new evidence of culpability or wrongdoing by Hillary Clinton in the 2012 attacks in Libya that left four Americans dead.
The Republicans have spent millions of tax dollars on investigating the Clintons for the last 30 years that have consistently failed to prove a damn thing.
I finally replaced the nine-year-old system I built for Windows Vista. Went from a quad-core processor, AMD 690 motherboard and 4GB DDR2 800MHz RAM, to AMD eight-core processor, AMD 760 motherboard and 8GB DDR3 1600MHz RAM. Windows 10 had no problem adjusting to the new hardware. I'll probably keep this system for another nine years before I upgrade again.
That idiot couldn't even spell IRQ, let alone configure interrupts.
Or pulling out the ISA cards one by one to check the jumper settings for the interrupts. That was in the days before plug-and-pray USB became more widely available.
Because dubbing sucks, and subtitles suck even more.
I love Japanese anime because the dubbing and subtitles can vary widely in meaning. One character in "The Ghost in The Shell" describes the major as "tough broad" in audio but the subtitle says "dyke". Makes me wonder how Scarlet Johansson will play the major in the live action movie.
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How do adult Pokemon players interact with children Pokemon players?
http://www.threepanelsoul.com/comic/this-doesn39t-happen-to-ash
But since you're shilling for them, you don't have a choice, I suppose.
You're right. I don't have a choice. Trump will be a horrible president in comparison.
If Obama won Ohio and Florida last presidential election, why does Hillary have to flip them to her favor?
Obama wasn't supposed to win Ohio. Karl Rove had epic meltdown when Fox News called Ohio for Obama. No Republican has ever won the presidency without Ohio. Once Ohio went to Obama, and Florida got called for Obama, the election was over Mitt Romney. History could repeat itself in 2016.
Well, pretty much the SAME thing the Democrats do when they had congress and Reps had presidency?
The Democrats are willing to COMPROMISE. The Republicans can't COMPROMISE because that will get them voted out of office.
How did republicans obstruct Obama for 8 years?
Filibuster in the Senate. Foot dragging on judicial nominations. Passing legislation that appeals to the base but has poison pills that won't attract Democratic votes. Etc., etc., etc.
Our government is designed to stop the passage of legislation so that people can be allowed to live their lives peacefully, without the interference of the government.
When the government got shut down for 16 days in October 2013, I was laid off specifically because of the government shutdown and out of work for eight months. The Republicans agreed to same budget deal that they would have gotten if the House Republicans have followed "regular order" without shutting down the government. That government action (or inaction) interfered with my life. Ironically, it got me a government IT job.
The congress has been the only thing standing in the way of letting Obama ruin us further and fundamentally change everything that made the US great to begin with.
Yet it was the Republican Party that made Obama one of the most powerful presidents in U.S. history by not doing their jobs and abandoning the power of the purse.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/04/barack-obama-gop-most-powerful-213814
Hell, look how much a challenge a self proclaimed Socialist did in the primaries??!?!?
You do realize that "Socialist" is an empty label that doesn't mean anything?
I'm no fan of Republicans but she mishandled top secret data.
Mishandling classified data, by itself, is not a crime. It's certainly grounds for discipline, which is what the State Department IG will be looking into now that the FBI have finished their investigation.
Even military darling General Patreus got nailed when he did it on a much smaller scale and with far less exposure.
Patreus mishandled classified data AND gave it to his lover (a journalist). That's a crime for which he pleaded guilty.
This whole thing smacks of two tiered law.
Because it is. An indictment requires criminal intent. None was found regarding Hillary's email server.
It's on YouTube.
I supposed that's the new legal standard for the millennial generation.
So you are saying Trump has Florida and Ohio, unless Hillary can flip them? Keeping states is easier than flipping them in my opinion.
Keep in mind that the 2016 electoral map is nearly identical to the 2012 electoral map (where Obama became the second president since Eisenhower to be reelected with a 51% majority). Florida and Ohio went Democratic in 2012. If these two states flip for Hillary, she wins the election outright. Otherwise, she will need to flip two or three other battleground states to win.
That sounds like she's getting special treatment.
Of course. She's a politician. Political appointees have historically more leeway than civil workers inside the government and civilians outside of government.
The DNC just lost the election IMHO.
The electoral map disagree with you. Hillary needs to flip two states, probably Florida and Ohio, to win the election. Trump will have to flip over quite a few more states to come in striking distance of winning the election.
Nothing wrong with maintaining the status quo. I just hope that enough seats flip in Congress to prevent Republicans from obstructing Hillary for the next eight years the same way they obstructed Obama for the last eight years.
You do realize 56% of Americans think she should have been charged?
Is that polling of opinions based on media reports or the law? According to the media reports, Hillary is guilty as sin. According to law enforcement officials, there isn't enough evidence for a successful criminal case.
Just trying to balance the claims here. Repubs are nowhere near innocent.
Here's a list of current Republican scandals..
http://www.democratichub.com/conservative-controversies-list?ctv=scandals
Sorry, no, they've consistently failed to make it *stick*. They've proved plenty.
That's not going to prevent Hillary from being the next POTUS.
Well, this time the State Department Inspector General, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation did the investigation, not Republicans, and they did find a few damn things.
You must have missed the House Republican Benghazi report that cleared Hillary of any wrongdoing, as previous investigations have already proven.
Ending one of the longest, costliest and most bitterly partisan congressional investigations in history, the House Select Committee on Benghazi issued its final report on Tuesday, finding no new evidence of culpability or wrongdoing by Hillary Clinton in the 2012 attacks in Libya that left four Americans dead.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/29/us/politics/hillary-clinton-benghazi.html
The Republicans have spent millions of tax dollars on investigating the Clintons for the last 30 years that have consistently failed to prove a damn thing.
These Republican manufactured scandals never result in jail time.
I finally replaced the nine-year-old system I built for Windows Vista. Went from a quad-core processor, AMD 690 motherboard and 4GB DDR2 800MHz RAM, to AMD eight-core processor, AMD 760 motherboard and 8GB DDR3 1600MHz RAM. Windows 10 had no problem adjusting to the new hardware. I'll probably keep this system for another nine years before I upgrade again.
The Q1 report for the following year will probably suck donkey balls.
Did the Seagate stock price go up because of the layoff or that the S&P 500 broke records today?
That idiot couldn't even spell IRQ, let alone configure interrupts.
Or pulling out the ISA cards one by one to check the jumper settings for the interrupts. That was in the days before plug-and-pray USB became more widely available.
I need both a Standard and Phillips screwdriver.
What?
The flat end and cross end screwdrivers. Don't they teach kids anything in school these days?
Because dubbing sucks, and subtitles suck even more.
I love Japanese anime because the dubbing and subtitles can vary widely in meaning. One character in "The Ghost in The Shell" describes the major as "tough broad" in audio but the subtitle says "dyke". Makes me wonder how Scarlet Johansson will play the major in the live action movie.