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General Election Thread: Two Weeks Out

Did Trump ever end up building that tower in Chicago from the first apprentice season?
 
bobknightfan said:
Kaepernick has a tough life. This country has really screwed him over big time because he is black.
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So he must have personally suffered (not saying he hasn't) to use his public position to speak out on behalf of others who are suffering? I guess Trump better shut up about helping the working class, in that case.

Kaep's message on voting is disappointing.
 
bobknightfan said:
Kaepernick has a tough life. This country has really screwed him over big time because he is black.
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You have to realize - he is trying to tell the youth that you must take a stand. Kneel for the national anthem, riot do what it takes to get attention for social injustices but don't vote or take part in local governments or elections. what a douche.
 
I think he's just a douche mad he's not a starter and that his teammates don't like him.
 
Kaep has started the last 3 games.
 
That's why I propose the minorities tour of America. One of the biggest things for people is fear, and people fear what they don't know. Just like that article it's easy to vote against things that don't have any effect on any person you actually know. It makes no sense that the place where immigrants, homosexuals, transgender, Muslims, minority's etc.. all live is cities and in those cities the vote goes blue.

So minorities tours of American will connect people to rural towns. Sinking spring Ohio meet your new resident Jamal, a gay black man he will be with you for a few weeks until Zaniah a female Muslim immigrant takes his place, a few weeks later Kim a transgender female.
 
LadyDeac03 said:
Interesting take

http://www.rollcall.com/news/opinio...-the-midwest-the-real-bubble-is-rural-america
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"When you grow up in rural America, denying rights to people is an abstract concept. Denying marriage rights to gay people isn’t that much different than denying boarding rights to Klingons. "

I grew up in rural North Carolina, and while I don't entirely agree that it's a completely abstract concept, they certainly don't have any experience to combat what they hear from their news networks of choice. Which is why I was prompted to post this in the "how did this happen" thread:

Demonwolverine said:
People who don't work with or live around minorities, Muslims, powerful women, transgenders or homosexuals got told by their televisions that these are threats to American values.
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LadyDeac03 said:
Interesting take

http://www.rollcall.com/news/opinio...-the-midwest-the-real-bubble-is-rural-america
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This is the correct take. This is the take I posted from a GQ article right before the election and posted about right after. This is my experience as well -- I grew up in a tiny, rural town in Wisconsin. There were two black kids in my town, and they were adopted by a white family. No gay people (or there were but no way they were coming out). No Muslims. Very few hispanics. Republican local and state government. Lower-middle class.

I know these people very well. I'm sure my 4000 person hometown went heavy Trump.
 
buckets said:
Did Trump ever end up building that tower in Chicago from the first apprentice season?
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yes, it's right on the water. gorgeous building.

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Now just imagine that overlooking the Rio Grande.
 
How Trump out did Bush and Romney with white evangelicals.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/11/16/the_god_that_failed_132363.html

In 2004, white evangelicals were 23 percent of the electorate, and they cast 78 percent of their vote for fellow evangelical George W. Bush. In 2012, they were 26 percent of the electorate, and gave Mormon Mitt Romney 78 percent of the vote. In 2016, Donald J. Trump, a thrice-married man who bragged about sleeping with married women and whose biblical knowledge at times seemed confined to the foibles of the two Corinthians, won 81 percent of their vote. Notwithstanding the fact that I have been assured repeatedly that these voters represent a shrinking demographic and that Republicans had maxed out their vote share among them, they were once again 26 percent of the electorate. ...

Second, you may wonder why this group voted in historic numbers for a man like Trump. Perhaps, as some have suggested, they are hypocrites. Perhaps they are merely partisans. But I will make a further suggestion: They are scared.

Consider that over the course of the past few years, Democrats and liberals have: booed the inclusion of God in their platform at the 2012 convention (this is disputed, but it is the perception); endorsed a regulation that would allow transgendered students to use the bathroom and locker room corresponding to their identity; attempted to force small businesses to cover drugs they believe induce abortions; attempted to force nuns to provide contraceptive coverage; forced Brendan Eich to step down as chief executive officer of Mozilla due to his opposition to marriage equality; fined a small Christian bakery over $140,000 for refusing to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding; vigorously opposed a law in Indiana that would provide protections against similar regulations – despite having overwhelmingly supported similar laws when they protected Native American religious rights – and then scoured the Indiana countryside trying to find a business that would be affected by the law before settling upon a small pizza place in the middle of nowhere and harassing the owners. In 2015, the United States solicitor general suggested that churches might lose their tax exempt status if they refused to perform same-sex marriages. In 2016, the Democratic nominee endorsed repealing the Hyde Amendment, thereby endorsing federal funding for elective abortions.
 
RaleighDevil said:
How Trump out did Bush and Romney with white evangelicals.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/11/16/the_god_that_failed_132363.html

In 2004, white evangelicals were 23 percent of the electorate, and they cast 78 percent of their vote for fellow evangelical George W. Bush. In 2012, they were 26 percent of the electorate, and gave Mormon Mitt Romney 78 percent of the vote. In 2016, Donald J. Trump, a thrice-married man who bragged about sleeping with married women and whose biblical knowledge at times seemed confined to the foibles of the two Corinthians, won 81 percent of their vote. Notwithstanding the fact that I have been assured repeatedly that these voters represent a shrinking demographic and that Republicans had maxed out their vote share among them, they were once again 26 percent of the electorate. ...

Second, you may wonder why this group voted in historic numbers for a man like Trump. Perhaps, as some have suggested, they are hypocrites. Perhaps they are merely partisans. But I will make a further suggestion: They are scared.

Consider that over the course of the past few years, Democrats and liberals have: booed the inclusion of God in their platform at the 2012 convention (this is disputed, but it is the perception); endorsed a regulation that would allow transgendered students to use the bathroom and locker room corresponding to their identity; attempted to force small businesses to cover drugs they believe induce abortions; attempted to force nuns to provide contraceptive coverage; forced Brendan Eich to step down as chief executive officer of Mozilla due to his opposition to marriage equality; fined a small Christian bakery over $140,000 for refusing to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding; vigorously opposed a law in Indiana that would provide protections against similar regulations – despite having overwhelmingly supported similar laws when they protected Native American religious rights – and then scoured the Indiana countryside trying to find a business that would be affected by the law before settling upon a small pizza place in the middle of nowhere and harassing the owners. In 2015, the United States solicitor general suggested that churches might lose their tax exempt status if they refused to perform same-sex marriages. In 2016, the Democratic nominee endorsed repealing the Hyde Amendment, thereby endorsing federal funding for elective abortions.
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I have no doubt they are scared -- scared they will not be able to tell other people how to live their lives.
 
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