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September 27, 2016

Photos: Russ Feingold, Sen.Tammy Baldwin rally for early voting in Madison, WI....




http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/govt-and-politics/photos-russ-feingold-tammy-baldwin-rally-for-early-voting-in/collection_ffc3bd99-8c42-520d-b7e1-fa7c4202c3b5.html



Photos: Russ Feingold, Tammy Baldwin rally for early voting in Madison




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Sep 26, 2016

Madison area Democrats rallied with Feingold and Baldwin at the State Capitol Monday morning before heading to the City-County Building to cast their ballots in the 2016 election.
September 27, 2016

Vice President Joe Biden Just Dropped 40 Seconds Of Hell On Donald Trump

Source: politicususa





Vice President Joe Biden Just Dropped 40 Seconds Of Hell On Donald Trump

By Jason Easley on Tue, Sep 27th, 2016 at 1:40 pm






Vice President Biden completely demolished Donald Trump in just forty seconds while campaigning for Hillary Clinton in Pennsylvania.

Video:

While campaigning in Philadelphia for Hillary Clinton, Vice President Biden said, “But every president I have served with, including the Republicans, has had a moral center about what it was to be an American. About what we are supposed to. About what basic fundamental rights are. But I mean it. This guy. Think about it. Can you imagine Ronald Reagan, the most conservative president we’ve had in a long time? Can you imagine Ronald Reagan, can you imagine him saying it’s good business to take advantage of people’s misery? Rooting for that misery.”

Vice President Biden is the perfect surrogate to..........................

Read more: http://www.politicususa.com/2016/09/27/vice-president-joe-biden-dropped-40-seconds-hell-donald-trump.html



You go Joe.

Show the world what a sewer jerk that Donald is!!!
September 27, 2016

Obese and out of shape himself #DonaldTrump is delusional! Mocking a beautiful woman.





Rocky ?@Rocky1542 3m3 minutes ago

Rocky Retweeted Joey

Obese and out of shape himself #DonaldTrump is delusional! Mocking a beautiful woman. #NeverTrump #pig #unfit4POTUS



Joey
?@60th_Street

Alicia Machado was only 18 years old when @realDonaldTrump publicly ridiculed and body-shamed her.




Shamed and Angry: The Beauty Contestant Donald Trump Mocked for Her Weight


By MICHAEL BARBARO and MEGAN TWOHEYSEPT. 27, 2016






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Alicia Machado, who won the Miss Universe pageant in 1996, was photographed in May of this year in Los Angeles. Credit Emily Berl for The New York Times

For 20 years, Alicia Machado has lived with the agony of what Donald J. Trump did to her after she won the Miss Universe title: shame her, over and over, for gaining weight.

Private scolding was apparently insufficient. Mr. Trump, at the time an executive producer of the pageant, insisted on accompanying Ms. Machado, then a teenager, to a gym, where dozens of reporters and cameramen watched as she exercised.

Mr. Trump, in his trademark suit and tie, posed for photographs beside her as she burned calories in front of the news media. “This is somebody who likes to eat,” Mr. Trump said from inside the gym.

On Monday night, Hillary Clinton turned Ms. Machado’s pain into a potent political weapon on the biggest possible stage........................


September 27, 2016

Prediction Markets Score the Debate a Rout: Clinton Over Trump



TWEET:
The Upshot ?@UpshotNYT 41s41 seconds ago

Bettors saw the debate as an overwhelming victory for Hillary Clinton. A shift like that is very unusual.







Prediction Markets Score the Debate a Rout: Clinton Over Trump



http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/28/upshot/prediction-markets-score-it-a-rout-clinton-over-trump.html?smid=tw-upshotnyt&smtyp=cur&_r=0

Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers SEPT. 27, 2016


According to the people who put money on the line in the political prediction markets, Hillary Clinton clearly won the first debate.

Here’s why the markets are a useful scorekeeper. ........................



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A group playing debate bingo in Austin, Tex., on Monday night. Credit Ilana Panich-Linsman for The New York Times



I watched Monday evening’s debate in split-screen, tracking movements in political prediction markets as the two candidates went back and forth. During the 90 minutes of the debate, nearly $1 million was traded on the prediction market at BetFair.com. Bettors liked what they saw from Mrs. Clinton. The first major shift in the odds occurred within the first half-hour, and the odds of a Clinton presidency continued to rise as the debate went on. At no point did the markets move in Donald J. Trump’s favor.

When he boasted of his temperament, the audience laughed, and the market tilted further against him.

All told, Mrs. Clinton’s odds of winning the election rose from around 63 percent in the minutes before the debate started to 69 percent by the end. Likewise, Mr. Trump’s chances of winning the White House declined by five percentage points. Other prediction markets, such as PredictIt, showed an even larger move against Mr. Trump.

The value of the dollar relative to the Mexican peso — which has come to be the financial price most closely associated with Mr. Trump’s electoral fortunes — also fell sharply during the debate, perhaps a sign that traders don’t believe that Mr. Trump will get a chance to raise trade barriers with Mexico.............................
September 27, 2016

Fox News is on the suicide watch list after Hillary Clinton hammered Donald Trump in the first pres




TWEET:

Bipartisan Report ?@Bipartisanism 1h1 hour ago

FOX News Goes BALLISTIC In Response To Hillary’s Debate Win, Denial Everywhere (VIDEO) http://bipartisan.report/2016/09/27/fox-news-goes-ballistic-in-response-to-hillarys-debate-win-denial-everywhere-video/



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http://bipartisanreport.com/2016/09/27/fox-news-enters-fantasy-land-makes-wild-excuses-for-hillarys-debate-win-video/




OX News Enters Fantasy Land, Makes WILD Excuses For Hillary’s Debate Win (VIDEO)
By Gloria Christie -
September 27,

Fox News is on the suicide watch list after Hillary Clinton hammered Donald Trump in the first presidential debate Monday night. When Fox comes down on its own presidential candidate, you know things are really, really bad.

Co-hosts Megyn Kelly and Bret Baier fumbled around for something positive to say after Trump’s debate disaster. Kelly said that this was “a fiery debate,” then she said:


‘The debate did not want for electric moments.’


Brit Hume pointed out all the places where Trump ran into trouble:

‘He was very aggressive, ran into trouble on the birther issue. He had a very hard time with that and a very hard time with his tax problem.’


Hume continued, pointing out the candidates’ expressions while they were listening to the other person:
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September 27, 2016

Thats why they're called troll polls..........




Kurt Eichenwald ?@kurteichenwald 30m30 minutes ago

Kurt Eichenwald Retweeted Boston Bobblehead

Folks who asked: This is nonsense. These are self-reporting, online polls. Statistically meaningless. Thats why they're called troll polls.


He was responding to these type idiot tweets!!


Boston Bobblehead
?@DBloom451

Millions of VOTES and... Yep! #TrumpWon 😎 This has gotta be DEVASTATING to poor Hillbots cuz, ya know, #Science!


https://twitter.com/DBloom451/status/780779977642041345








September 27, 2016

VP Joe smacks Dumbo Donald a new one...




Hillary Clinton ?@HillaryClinton 23m23 minutes ago

"I'm glad Trump found out that Crimea was part of Ukraine. By the way, I heard he was on the verge of acknowledging gravity." —@JoeBiden
September 27, 2016

"By the end of the 95 mins, Trump was reduced to a sputtering mess blathering about Rosie O’Donnell"





Alex Burns Verified account
?@alexburnsNYT

@jpodhoretz: "By the end of the 95 mins, Trump was reduced to a sputtering mess blathering about Rosie O’Donnell"

Author said Hillary was boring. Well, I think she was bored with Trumps lack of brain power!!

She was prepared and she had to go up against a blabbering idiot. Boring for anyone with an intellect who wanted to engage the electorate!



http://nypost.com/2016/09/27/trumps-debate-incompetence-a-slap-in-the-face-to-his-supporters/


Trump’s debate incompetence a slap in the face to his supporters


By John Podhoretz

September 27, 2016 | 12:27am

Photo: AP



Hillary Clinton was boring and exceptionally well-prepared. Donald Trump was exciting but embarrassingly undisciplined. He began with his strongest argument — that the political class represented by her has failed us and it’s time to look to a successful dealmaker for leadership — and kept to it pretty well for the first 20 minutes.

Then due to the vanity and laziness that led him to think he could wing the most important 95 minutes of his life, he lost the thread of his argument, he lost control of his temper and he lost the perspective necessary to correct these mistakes as he went.

Methodically and carefully, Hillary Clinton took over. Her purpose was to show she was rational and policy-driven, the kind of person who could be trusted to handle a careful and delicate job with prudence and sobriety — and that he was none of these things.


And she succeeded. By the end of the 95 minutes, Trump was reduced to a sputtering mess blathering about Rosie O’Donnell and about how he hasn’t yet said the mean things about Hillary that he is thinking.

Most important, he set ticking time bombs for himself over the next six weeks.......................

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