Posted on 09/19/2016 6:17:42 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
This fight isn’t going as planned. The conventional wisdom, as August drew to a close, was that Donald Trump’s campaign was in free-fall. Some of Hillary Clinton’s supporters had even begun to anticipate a landslide like 1964, when Lyndon Johnson crushed Barry Goldwater by 61-to-38 percent.
What a difference a couple of working weeks have made. Slumped in the Democratic corner, her haggard visage being fanned by anxious trainers, is Clinton, candidate of the status quo. Impatiently bouncing off the ropes on the other side of the ring is the overweight, orange-featured personification of very, very risky change. The status quo’s margin of advantage suddenly looks much smaller than anyone thought in the dog days of summer.
In the 13 most recent national polls, Clinton is ahead in just seven, and by margins of between one and five percentage points. The latest LA Times poll has Trump ahead by six points. Even the closely watched New York Times/CBS News poll of likely voters has the race tied, taking into account the substantial numbers of votes likely to go to the Libertarian and Green candidates....
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“When did Trump get overweight? Did it happen overnight because he looked fine to me last week.”
He suddenly gained 75 pounds when HRC was filmed collapsing.
Last week’s physical indicated that his BMI is slightly under the level classified as obese.
What people are missing is that he likely wears a bullet proof vest in public now, which obviously adds a lot of weight.
Hillary’s doctor didn’t disclose her height and weight.
“My son is 6’3” and 226 pounds and he runs marathons. On that size frame with broad shoulders 236 is a good weight.”
Mine is a mountain biker at about the same numbers. Brutal sport.
Watch Trump. He is vigorous. When that guy jumped the fence and came after Trump, Trump turned around and started for the guy—SS grabbed Trump and stopped him. Trump’s an alpha dog still in his prime.
>>> When did Trump get overweight?
It’s called body armor.
Well, there is a problem with the latter, and it's that those most affected by 0bamacare have discovered that (1) that "coverage" has higher deductibles and co-pays than they can afford and so is no protection at all, and (2) that going without is no longer an option without justifying themselves to the IRS, which they never had to do before. So, maybe a talking point for the Beltway political wonks but not much of a sales point for the poor suckers who actually have to live it. And as it happens, we vote.
I don't think there has been any turnaround within the last two weeks, only that the numbers have forced the media and the campaign teams to admit, however grudgingly, what has been the case for some time. But Ferguson does get one thing brutally correct, and it's that Hillary has essentially bowed out of active campaigning. Whether it's one disease or another or the battery that drives her running out of evil, she isn't campaigning for office, she's rutting for money and hoping her team can cheat her way through the debates and the election. It's been done before, viz the last election, but it doesn't look like the low-energy approach is going to work out this time in the face of a high-energy opponent and his even higher-energy supporters.
Hell, a 3 day colon cleanse will lose you 12 lbs
I will reiterate one more time. Hillary Clinton's absolute best shot at achieving her lifelong goal would have been, not in 2008, but in 2004.
Given the acrimony of the results of 2000, she likely would have won going away had she faced G.W. Bush then. But fate, in the form of the events of 9/11/2001 intervened. Had 9-11 never happened, she would have become President in 2004, there is absolutely no doubt in my mind.
She will go to her grave cursing the name of Osama Bin-Ladin, who was the architect of the string of events which would, at the end of the day, deny her her cherished goal. The fact that it was her husband's administration which allowed OBL to continue to roam free is another delicious irony...
the infowarrior
Lol Trump is nowhere close to 6-3.
He was measured 6-2 in the army and has shrunk to 6-0. He looks that next to measured athletes.
I love the man and the 236 pounds is legit but not the stated 6-3.
He is 6’2” and 236#’s according to his most recently released physical. That is technically over weight by about forty or so pounds. However, it is not exactly morbidly obese. The ‘ideal’ weight is supposedly 185#’s.
Ms. Clinton on the other hand is 5’4” and 210#’s. Eighty pounds of which is cankles!
I’m 6’3” and I was 236. I looked fat and felt fat.
Lost 30 lbs and feel much better. Wish I could quit smoking, and I would be good.
My son is 6’3” and 226 pounds and he runs marathons. On that size frame with broad shoulders 236 is a good weight.
Maybe the Hillary folks judge weight based on the wimpy pajama boy sizes.
I’m 6-3 and I’d be chubby at 226 with a good sized frame
Remember that this comes from the WORTHLESS Boston Globe and is authored by the grossly anti-Serbian pro-globalist Niall Ferguson!!!!
What do you expect?
Trump's campaign has never been in free-fall. But, the press keeps trying to tell us that it is, producing polls showing that it is and hoping to get traction. But they can only lie for so long before they have to start admitting some of the truth. The problem is that journalism should not have to be hyphenated, but it is - advocacy-jornalism (making up the facts and hoping they will stick), invetigative-journalism (finding out the facts) and reportorial-journalism (simply reporting true facts as you run across them and not defying common sense). Another part of journalism is some judgment and taste as to which issues are important and which facts are most important surrounding those issues.
But all we have now is propaganda - and it is not even good propaganda - we know it is a lie because lips are moving, ink is spilled on paper and type appears on computer screens.
In 2004, her vote for the Iraq war kept her from running.
All the leading dems that year were bashing Bush and the war.
As long s we are considering 'what ifs' I have long contended that had Al Gore conceded in 2000 (as Nixon did in '60) then he would have been the Democrat nominee in '08.
Nixon was smart enough to know the damage to the country that a recount would have caused. Gore? Not so much.
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