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		By: Christopher Winter		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher Winter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2016 19:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So, SN, which segment of Interstate 295 is Trump going to slap his name on?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_295]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So, SN, which segment of Interstate 295 is Trump going to slap his name on?</p>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_295" rel="nofollow ugc">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_295</a></p>
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		By: Christopher Winter		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Christopher Winter]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2016 19:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/hes-a-state-democratic-elector-but-robert-satiacum-says-he-wont-vote-for-clinton/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;The &lt;i&gt;Seattle Times&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/A&gt; reports that there are two of them, although the other one is not as firm in his position. His name suggests that his family immigrated from Europe, so he seems equally misguided about Trump.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/hes-a-state-democratic-elector-but-robert-satiacum-says-he-wont-vote-for-clinton/" rel="nofollow">The <i>Seattle Times</i></a> reports that there are two of them, although the other one is not as firm in his position. His name suggests that his family immigrated from Europe, so he seems equally misguided about Trump.</p>
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		By: jane		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[jane]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2016 15:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My husband heard that there is a Democratic elector in Washington who has announced his intention to be faithless and vote for Trump because he feels Clinton has not done enough for Native Americans.  (He may not be literate enough to have read about what Trump has said about Native Americans.)  If Clinton won 270 to 268, which is a real possibility, that one man would personally give the nation to Trump.  I am not confident that even a single Democrat would have both the ability and the backbone to do whatever was necessary to prevent him from casting his vote.  NBC is not even mentioning this, so I don&#039;t know whether it is a false internet rumor or whether they are trying to hush this up while party leaders try to make him see reason.  Does anyone know?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My husband heard that there is a Democratic elector in Washington who has announced his intention to be faithless and vote for Trump because he feels Clinton has not done enough for Native Americans.  (He may not be literate enough to have read about what Trump has said about Native Americans.)  If Clinton won 270 to 268, which is a real possibility, that one man would personally give the nation to Trump.  I am not confident that even a single Democrat would have both the ability and the backbone to do whatever was necessary to prevent him from casting his vote.  NBC is not even mentioning this, so I don&#8217;t know whether it is a false internet rumor or whether they are trying to hush this up while party leaders try to make him see reason.  Does anyone know?</p>
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		By: zebra		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[zebra]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2016 14:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[@ A Siegel #7,

This is the kind of question that is answered by &quot;internal polling&quot;-- meaning, polling that is paid for by the campaigns rather than given away for free.

What the media reports is mostly not detailed and usually sensationalized beyond the significance of the data.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@ A Siegel #7,</p>
<p>This is the kind of question that is answered by &#8220;internal polling&#8221;&#8211; meaning, polling that is paid for by the campaigns rather than given away for free.</p>
<p>What the media reports is mostly not detailed and usually sensationalized beyond the significance of the data.</p>
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		By: A Siegel		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[A Siegel]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2016 13:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[How does one account for votes already cast?  And, for trends that break from past in that early voting?

In terms of polling, there seems (that 2.5% toward Clinton) to be an under polling of Hispanic Americans yet there seems to be significant increases in their voting compared to past.  Some states have seen, if I understand correctly, more Hispanic early voters than the total number of Hispanic votes in past elections.  

The already-cast votes are &#039;in the bank&#039; and should &#039;count&#039; more in a polling environment than prospective votes (what % say Saturday that they will vote Tuesday but end up not doing so ...?).  Thus, how to account for this?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How does one account for votes already cast?  And, for trends that break from past in that early voting?</p>
<p>In terms of polling, there seems (that 2.5% toward Clinton) to be an under polling of Hispanic Americans yet there seems to be significant increases in their voting compared to past.  Some states have seen, if I understand correctly, more Hispanic early voters than the total number of Hispanic votes in past elections.  </p>
<p>The already-cast votes are &#8216;in the bank&#8217; and should &#8216;count&#8217; more in a polling environment than prospective votes (what % say Saturday that they will vote Tuesday but end up not doing so &#8230;?).  Thus, how to account for this?</p>
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		By: Mr G.J.A.M. Bogaers		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mr G.J.A.M. Bogaers]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2016 10:44:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dear friends, if the people of the Netherlands and the former Dutch Caribbean would have a say in who is becoming next wordleader, a vast majority of Dutch of all walks of life and descent would all vote for Mrs. Hillary Clinton. Trump is proven part of a very rightwing group, Altright, Breitbart, (discriminators, racists). Choose for a free and better life,  and happiness. End suppression. Please vote for the better candidate. Make use of your voting rights. Go and vote. We light a candle for this. Laren NH, Monday 7th. November 2016, 11.21 AM Dutch time.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear friends, if the people of the Netherlands and the former Dutch Caribbean would have a say in who is becoming next wordleader, a vast majority of Dutch of all walks of life and descent would all vote for Mrs. Hillary Clinton. Trump is proven part of a very rightwing group, Altright, Breitbart, (discriminators, racists). Choose for a free and better life,  and happiness. End suppression. Please vote for the better candidate. Make use of your voting rights. Go and vote. We light a candle for this. Laren NH, Monday 7th. November 2016, 11.21 AM Dutch time.</p>
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		By: dean		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[dean]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2016 19:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Re: &quot;See No Evil&quot; - sn, I assume you mean.

I would suggest he is an outlier even to the extreme right. 

He has stated that women should be restricted to having children and nothing more, and shouldn&#039;t talk about anything other than that and keeping house. He has stated that people who aren&#039;t his color and his religion should not have the same rights as others in terms of jobs, freedom to worship, movements, etc., and while I recognize the current republican nominee agrees with that, I know a good number of his supporters locally (some very vocal supporters) who don&#039;t, which indicates that the subset of trump supporters nationwide who disagree than that is large enough to be meaningful. 
He&#039;s spoken poorly of religious leaders in general (all religions except his brand of Catholicism are &quot;false&quot; anyway) and stated that the current pope is terrible and doesn&#039;t understand Christianity. Again - a religious stance far from that of the right wing.
His level of dislike of science is on par with theirs (his famous &quot;Nobody should spend any time or money on research in anything unless there is an immediate application&quot; being the most direct comment on it he could make). He also believes the use of birth control is a direct assault on him and &quot;harms him daily&quot;, so he does have that ignorance in common with the right as well. 
I&#039;m not sure how he squares that with his claimed that he solved the Halting Problem, but ...


So sn is something of an odd duck: vile racist, misogynist, religious bigot - lots of things driving the Republican party now, but he does lean to preferring dictators over duly elected governments. 

He would be perfectly happy running a torture chamber for the church during the Inquisition, or commanding a unit in the SS tasked with &quot;cleansing&quot; rural Russia during Operation Barbarossa (those commies are really bad, right?) in WWII. 

His opinions are a super-set of those the leaders of the right now embrace. I am afraid, if they win, they will expand their levels of hatred and insanity to include his.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Re: &#8220;See No Evil&#8221; &#8211; sn, I assume you mean.</p>
<p>I would suggest he is an outlier even to the extreme right. </p>
<p>He has stated that women should be restricted to having children and nothing more, and shouldn&#8217;t talk about anything other than that and keeping house. He has stated that people who aren&#8217;t his color and his religion should not have the same rights as others in terms of jobs, freedom to worship, movements, etc., and while I recognize the current republican nominee agrees with that, I know a good number of his supporters locally (some very vocal supporters) who don&#8217;t, which indicates that the subset of trump supporters nationwide who disagree than that is large enough to be meaningful.<br />
He&#8217;s spoken poorly of religious leaders in general (all religions except his brand of Catholicism are &#8220;false&#8221; anyway) and stated that the current pope is terrible and doesn&#8217;t understand Christianity. Again &#8211; a religious stance far from that of the right wing.<br />
His level of dislike of science is on par with theirs (his famous &#8220;Nobody should spend any time or money on research in anything unless there is an immediate application&#8221; being the most direct comment on it he could make). He also believes the use of birth control is a direct assault on him and &#8220;harms him daily&#8221;, so he does have that ignorance in common with the right as well.<br />
I&#8217;m not sure how he squares that with his claimed that he solved the Halting Problem, but &#8230;</p>
<p>So sn is something of an odd duck: vile racist, misogynist, religious bigot &#8211; lots of things driving the Republican party now, but he does lean to preferring dictators over duly elected governments. </p>
<p>He would be perfectly happy running a torture chamber for the church during the Inquisition, or commanding a unit in the SS tasked with &#8220;cleansing&#8221; rural Russia during Operation Barbarossa (those commies are really bad, right?) in WWII. </p>
<p>His opinions are a super-set of those the leaders of the right now embrace. I am afraid, if they win, they will expand their levels of hatred and insanity to include his.</p>
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		By: Brainstorms		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brainstorms]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2016 16:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&lt;blockquote&gt;maybe even demands that right wingers overlook the flaws ( See No Evil) in their candidate&lt;/blockquote&gt;

That&#039;s a presumption.  Perhaps the right-wingers actually &lt;i&gt;prefer&lt;/i&gt; the flaws (and let&#039;s face it, evidence suggests this is the case) because they &lt;i&gt;embrace&lt;/i&gt; the &quot;evil&quot; as a life philosophy.  

After all, what is &quot;evil&quot; to left-wingers may be &quot;goodness&quot; to right-wingers, because what is &quot;goodness&quot; to right-wingers is certainly &quot;evil&quot; to left-wingers.  

It all depends on which &quot;religion&quot; one follows in life.  One&#039;s politics is a perfect reflection of that.  And vice-versa.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>maybe even demands that right wingers overlook the flaws ( See No Evil) in their candidate</p></blockquote>
<p>That&#8217;s a presumption.  Perhaps the right-wingers actually <i>prefer</i> the flaws (and let&#8217;s face it, evidence suggests this is the case) because they <i>embrace</i> the &#8220;evil&#8221; as a life philosophy.  </p>
<p>After all, what is &#8220;evil&#8221; to left-wingers may be &#8220;goodness&#8221; to right-wingers, because what is &#8220;goodness&#8221; to right-wingers is certainly &#8220;evil&#8221; to left-wingers.  </p>
<p>It all depends on which &#8220;religion&#8221; one follows in life.  One&#8217;s politics is a perfect reflection of that.  And vice-versa.</p>
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		By: SteveP		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[SteveP]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2016 14:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Let&#039;s step back in time to the Neanderthal past to gather some insight into the etiology of some curious current behaviors.  

The Right Wing Authoritarian Father Worshiping Mind Set (RWAFWMS) allows, maybe even demands that right wingers  overlook the flaws ( See No Evil)  in their candidate because they are essentially deifying their candidate.  The RWAFWMS can be  very useful in stressed settings.   Some groups of simians have had to depend heavily on the uncontested leadership of the number one ape. Their group does not benefit from constant contention, they cannot afford the time and energy needed to select the perfect ape leader. One thug leader is pretty much as good as the rest when it comes to rallying support and resources to build a defensive wall around the compound, so let&#039;s not waste time looking for the perfect Mister Universe.  The ability of a nest of Neanderthals  to consolidate around and worship their small handed divinity was probably an important trait for the survival of the species at some point. Hence the resonance between dimple minded  ( as opposed to pimple minded ) right wingers and the Rump monster. It is the re-enactment of a scene from the simian past.  Does the small handed divinity  have to adhere to the rules established for the rest of the tribe?  Of course not! He is a god! He doesn&#039;t have to treat other decently, act civil, obey the law, follow convention,respect others. He is our god and he hates the &quot;other&quot; tribes. All is Right. 
   
Of course, the priesthood that coordinates the “worship”  of the divine leader may have a larger “hand” in the workings of the tribe than flock realizes. But the dissection of that role is a story for another day.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let&#8217;s step back in time to the Neanderthal past to gather some insight into the etiology of some curious current behaviors.  </p>
<p>The Right Wing Authoritarian Father Worshiping Mind Set (RWAFWMS) allows, maybe even demands that right wingers  overlook the flaws ( See No Evil)  in their candidate because they are essentially deifying their candidate.  The RWAFWMS can be  very useful in stressed settings.   Some groups of simians have had to depend heavily on the uncontested leadership of the number one ape. Their group does not benefit from constant contention, they cannot afford the time and energy needed to select the perfect ape leader. One thug leader is pretty much as good as the rest when it comes to rallying support and resources to build a defensive wall around the compound, so let&#8217;s not waste time looking for the perfect Mister Universe.  The ability of a nest of Neanderthals  to consolidate around and worship their small handed divinity was probably an important trait for the survival of the species at some point. Hence the resonance between dimple minded  ( as opposed to pimple minded ) right wingers and the Rump monster. It is the re-enactment of a scene from the simian past.  Does the small handed divinity  have to adhere to the rules established for the rest of the tribe?  Of course not! He is a god! He doesn&#8217;t have to treat other decently, act civil, obey the law, follow convention,respect others. He is our god and he hates the &#8220;other&#8221; tribes. All is Right. </p>
<p>Of course, the priesthood that coordinates the “worship”  of the divine leader may have a larger “hand” in the workings of the tribe than flock realizes. But the dissection of that role is a story for another day.</p>
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		By: Brainstorms		</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brainstorms]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2016 03:04:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Thanks! I needed a good laugh...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks! I needed a good laugh&#8230;</p>
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