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How the Clinton-Trump Race Got Close
NY Times Opinion Pages ^ | 9-30-2016 | Paul Krugman

Posted on 09/30/2016 5:10:45 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot

Monday’s presidential debate was a blowout, surely the most one-sided confrontation in American political history. Hillary Clinton was knowledgeable, unflappable and — dare we say it? — likable. Donald Trump was ignorant, thin-skinned and boorish.

Yet on the eve of the debate, polls showed a close race. How was that possible?

After all, the candidates we saw Monday night were the same people they’ve been all along. Mrs. Clinton’s grace and even humor under pressure were fully apparent during last year’s Benghazi hearing. Mr. Trump’s whiny braggadocio has been obvious every time he opens his mouth without reading from a teleprompter.

So how could someone like Mr. Trump have been in striking position for the White House? (He may still be there, since we have yet to see what effect the debate had on the polls.)

Part of the answer is that a lot more Americans than we’d like to imagine are white nationalists at heart. Indeed, implicit appeals to racial hostility have long been at the core of Republican strategy; Mr. Trump became the G.O.P. nominee by saying outright what his opponents tried to convey with dog whistles.

.... as recently as August Mrs. Clinton held a commanding lead. Then her polls went into a swoon.

What happened? Did she make some huge campaign blunders?

I don’t think so. As I’ve written before, she got Gored. That is, like Al Gore in 2000, she ran into a buzz saw of adversarial reporting from the mainstream media, which treated relatively minor missteps as major scandals, and invented additional scandals out of thin air.

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To: Sir Napsalot
Monday’s presidential debate was a blowout, surely the most one-sided confrontation in American political history. Hillary Clinton was knowledgeable, unflappable and — dare we say it? — likable. Donald Trump was ignorant, thin-skinned and boorish.

That statement is a whole pasture of bullshit. It ranks right up there with Comey saying that he and the FBI are honest people. It cannot be considered to be a lie, because a lie has some believable aspects to it. Therefore it gets classified as pure unadulterated bull shit.

21 posted on 09/30/2016 5:35:01 AM PDT by sport
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To: bigtoona

Since the tax filings Clinton have made have ALL had to be refilled due to “errors” (as in, she got caught) for YEARS it has to be pointed out that the “filings” she released is, in all probability, fiction.


22 posted on 09/30/2016 5:35:25 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: knarf

LIBs like this krugman degenerate are insufferable. They are truly mentally disturbed and full of hate. One can only hope that these malignancies lose not only this election but also lose their positions of authority and responsibility. LIBs are useful to ridicule and laugh-at...that is it. They are today’s freak show.


23 posted on 09/30/2016 5:35:36 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: Yo-Yo

As long as it is working they will play it.


24 posted on 09/30/2016 5:36:14 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Mark17; AlexW; Berosus; buwaya; dagogo redux; DFG; Doofer; Fai Mao; knarf; LadyDoc

ping


25 posted on 09/30/2016 5:36:22 AM PDT by knarf
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To: Sir Napsalot
.. Hillary Clinton was knowledgeable, unflappable and — dare we say it? — likable ..

Here you go, Paul. Stay comfortable, while attending your mistress:


26 posted on 09/30/2016 5:38:19 AM PDT by Byron_the_Aussie (Globalism = Terrorism)
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To: knarf

Americans recognize we have a demographic that is destroying the country but we keep hoping we can save the country without resorting to simply slaughtering them like rabid dogs.


27 posted on 09/30/2016 5:38:31 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

In an earlier age, I picture a clueless twit like Krugman in a tumbrel wondering how the peasants be so unappreciative.


28 posted on 09/30/2016 5:39:05 AM PDT by Flick Lives (TRIGGER WARNING - Posts may require application of sarcasm filter)
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To: bigtoona

but at least she released her taxes!
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Do her taxes openly acknowledge the Clinton Family Foundation “benefits” as income? I didn’t think so.


29 posted on 09/30/2016 5:43:04 AM PDT by Neidermeyer (Bill Clinton is a 5 star general in the WAR ON WOMEN and Hillary is his Goebbels.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

I want some of those drugs the NYT writer was on.

Keep that idiot away from anything requiring greater than a grade school knowledge.


30 posted on 09/30/2016 5:45:07 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Sir Napsalot

My question for anyone: What is the current estimate of the Paul Krugman IQ?

My best guess is somewhere in the min-80’s. Maybe as high as 87.


31 posted on 09/30/2016 5:47:57 AM PDT by InterceptPoint (Ted, you should have endorsed. Big mistake.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

I talked to my 13 year old granddaughter yesterday, and asked her who all the kids were supporting. I was surprised when she said everyone she knew was supporting Trump. When I asked her why, she said “Hillary is a liar, lies all the time, and Trump loves America.”


32 posted on 09/30/2016 5:49:52 AM PDT by euram
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To: Sir Napsalot

I’m amazed by how many people make their choice for president based on how has the most or best debate zingers.


33 posted on 09/30/2016 5:55:41 AM PDT by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat.)
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To: bigtoona

What’s up with Hellary’s comment that “the next 40 days will decide the next 40 years”? What does she mean by “the next 40 years”?


34 posted on 09/30/2016 6:00:52 AM PDT by combat_boots (MSM: We lie to you sheep at the slaughterhouse to keep you calm during slaughter)
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To: Sir Napsalot

It is going to be so much fun to watch these folks flail and rage when they aren’t running the country.


35 posted on 09/30/2016 6:02:27 AM PDT by BRL
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To: Sir Napsalot

Hillary likeable? Krugman must be on some heavy meds!


36 posted on 09/30/2016 6:02:51 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: bigtoona

The most one-sided debate I ever witnessed was the first Romney / Obama debate. Obama lost the debate and gave a pitiful performance for a sitting President.

Obama lost the debate, Romney lost the election.


37 posted on 09/30/2016 6:15:21 AM PDT by No Socialist
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To: euram

Thank you! A glimmer of HOPE.

Not all school kids are as brainwashed as the 20-something college kids.


38 posted on 09/30/2016 6:19:34 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = USSR; Journ0List + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey)
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To: Sir Napsalot

we Need to find Out what reality bending drugs Are being Handed Out in The NYTs Editors Conference Room

This Editorial Has no Basis in Reality - could Be a Onion article


39 posted on 09/30/2016 6:27:44 AM PDT by vooch
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To: combat_boots

What does she mean by “the next 40 years”?
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She will appoint commies to the USSC who will serve for approx 40 years.


40 posted on 09/30/2016 6:31:58 AM PDT by Neidermeyer (Bill Clinton is a 5 star general in the WAR ON WOMEN and Hillary is his Goebbels.)
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