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October 28, 2024 01:07 AM Forum: Politics

"Harris says violent crime is down. Trump says it's up. Here's a fact check."

Posted By Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by Richard Davis
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2024/10/16/stealth_edit_fbi_quietly_revises_violent_crime_stats_1065396.html

Crime is up. They lied, but then you believe anything they tell you.
They didn't lie although anything you read that doesn't fit your narrative is immediately condemned by you as a "lie".
The overall trend for violent crime is down and a spike is not unusual in a short term analysis:

"In 2023, the FBI recorded a rate of 363.8 violent crimes per 100,000 people, down from the 2022 rate of 377.1 violent crimes per 100,000 people."

"The agency revised the violent crime rate between 2021 and 2022."

"Previously, the figures showed a 2.1% fall over this period, now the agency says there was a 4.5% rise."

"The FBI did not publicise this change, which has led to some criticism."

"Ames Grawert, a crime researcher at the Brennan Center for Justice, told BBC Verify that the revision was "likely the result of a change in the way FBI collected crime data in 2021".

"Nothing here undermines confidence in the 2023 data”, he argues."
"However, Trump is making a comparison with a year when violent crime - as measured by the survey - was significantly lower."

"What do longer term crime trends show?

"FBI data shows the rate of violent crime fell by a quarter over the past two decades."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4glxxreed7o

October 28, 2024 04:24 PM Forum: Politics

"Harris says violent crime is down. Trump says it's up. Here's a fact check."

Posted By Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by Richard Davis
Communist in California wrote:   

"The agency revised the violent crime rate between 2021 and 2022."

"Previously, the figures showed a 2.1% fall over this period, now the agency says there was a 4.5% rise"



Glad that you, through your very own link CONFIRMED that under Biden, violent crime is UP and that the title of this thread you started contradicts itself, when you say Harris says violent crime is down when it went UP under her Vice Presidency. 

Let me reiterate what YOU wrote:    under Biden, violent crime is UP

Its good that you confirmed she was wrong and Trump is right.  smile
Hey COLORADO TRUMP "JD" PUTIN-COMMUNIST SUPPORTER:

YOUR READING COMPREHENSION SKILLS REMAIN IN THE TOWNHALL TOILET. THE OVERALL TREND IS DOWN AND THAT'S THE POINT. 
TO SAY OTHERWISE IS LIKE SAYING COLORADO IS THE EVANGELICAL CAPITAL OF AMERICA WHEN JUST COLORADO SPRINGS HAPPENS TO BE...

October 28, 2024 12:34 AM Forum: Politics

"Harris says violent crime is down. Trump says it's up. Here's a fact check."

Posted By Rod Kaufman

" Both candidates are citing different federal statistics that measure violent crime; Trump cites a Justice Department survey, while Harris cites FBI data on crimes reported by police departments."

"Crime researchers tell CBS News that while both are valuable metrics, the FBI data Harris cites is more reliable, and she is correct that it suggests violent crime is at a near 50-year low."


https://www.cbsnews.com/news/violent-crime-rate-trump-harris-fact-check/

October 28, 2024 01:59 AM Forum: Politics

Professor Allan Lichtman Stands By His Prediction: Immediately Faces Violent Threats From MAGA

Posted By Rod Kaufman

"Former Romney adviser: Harris will ‘win fairly comfortably’"

"GOP strategist Stuart Stevens suggested in a recent interview that Vice President Harris is running what looks to be “the best presidential campaign ever.”

“Harris is going to win fairly comfortably. I think Harris is gonna win by a larger margin than 2020. [Republicans are] gonna say this election was rigged, and the Republican Party is going to fail again. And it’s going to be very, very ugly,” Stevens added later.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4951697-stuart-stevens-mitt-romney-adviser-kamala-harris-2024-election/

October 28, 2024 03:38 AM Forum: Politics

Professor Allan Lichtman Stands By His Prediction: Immediately Faces Violent Threats From MAGA

Posted By Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by Richard Davis



And is this supposed to mean something?  

You run around desperately trying to find the most irrelevant people in the nation and then you post their thoughts here.

Has anyone ever heard this guy's name, ever in life? LOL  tongue
"Stuart Stevens is one of the Republican party's most successful campaign strategists with a career spanning decades"

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/tag/stuart-stevens

"This Bush and Romney Campaign Vet Is Extremely Bullish on Kamala Harris’s Chances"

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/how-kamala-harris-wins

October 28, 2024 10:42 PM Forum: Politics

Professor Allan Lichtman Stands By His Prediction: Immediately Faces Violent Threats From MAGA

Posted By Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by James Brown

I don't buy this above quote.  Do you?  While the race is going to be extremely close, the polling averages and major polling models show Trump creeping slightly ahead.  Still well within the MOE for the swing states.  

The only way Harris wins "comfortably" is a significant polling error in her favor.  That outcome seems unlikely to me given the polls under-polled Trump in 2016 and 2020.  I know they are implementing fixes this time, but I sure do not anticipate a large error in Harris's favor, specifically a large over-polling of Trump.   Jim

p.s.  Nate Silver has Trump ahead in the EC race 55 to 45, his biggest lead since September.  The average in the betting markets is 60/40 in Trump's favor.  The RCP averages of polls have Trump slightly ahead in all 7 swing states.  It is possible to predict a Harris win, but to win comfortably?  That is unlikely.   Unless one considers Harris winning all swing states by less than 1% or so "comfortable."  This is the second most likely outcome from Silver's model, after Trump winning all 7 swing states of course.
I don't buy this above quote.  Do you?

Nope, I've been saying all along I expect Trump to win. I just posted it to trigger Rich which it obviously did. And he obviously has the ample time to respond to it despite claiming to be super busy being the prodigious woodworker he claims to be...

Catch his nazi-style MAGA bash at Madison Square garden on youtube or the news? Quite reminiscent of the nazi rally there in 1939. I wonder if Fred Trump was really there. I've seen comments that he was...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ue7GcpUj9A&t=466s

October 29, 2024 12:56 AM Forum: Politics

Professor Allan Lichtman Stands By His Prediction: Immediately Faces Violent Threats From MAGA

Posted By Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by Richard Davis


Hey Communist, there is absolutely not a thing you post which would trigger me.  

But you are free to dream.  smile

And this bit of moronic stupidity that you posted is great indication that you are off the charts unhinged and deranged:

Catch his nazi-style MAGA bash at Madison Square garden on youtube or the news? Quite reminiscent of the nazi rally there in 1939.

Really?  Reminiscent of the 1939 Rally?  Were you there in 1939 freakshow?   LOL!   

And yes with all those Israeli flags at the rally, that sure is Nazi like isn't it?

Has anyone nearby in your vicinity told you lately that you're a mental midget? 

Oh you don't say?

So there were 3 people at Starbucks who talked to you for 3 minutes, then put on shirts and asked for selfies with you, as they wore shirts which said "I'm with stupid" that had an arrow pointing to you?  

Is that what happened?

How about Jimmy Carter's political rally at MSG?  Was that Nazi like as well?   tongue
"How about Jimmy Carter's political rally at MSG?  Was that Nazi like as well? "

No, of course not, no doubling down on the "enemy within", no proclamations of mass deportations, no overtly racist statements with a cheering crowd in the background, to name just a few that you're defending.

Obviously, the Trump "JD" Putin communist supporter is just fine with all of it...

October 29, 2024 07:55 PM Forum: Politics

Professor Allan Lichtman Stands By His Prediction: Immediately Faces Violent Threats From MAGA

Posted By Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by Richard Davis



Oh, are you speaking about Abe Lincoln who spoke about the enemy within?  You remember don't you, when Abe Lincoln actually shut down entire newspapers back then during the civil war for criticizing him and rounded them up for speaking out against the gov't?.   

You remember that right?  

Or were you speaking about Franklin Delano Roosevelt who spoke about the enemy within, and how he also jailed the reporters who criticized him?  

Or were you speaking about Barack Obama who put newspaper reporters in Jail, those guys like James Rosen?  

I guess those guys were Nazis, right?

But wait a minute, which party has ACTUAL Nazis in it, those Nazis who are Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, AOC, and others?

Gee, that would be leftist Democrats.  

Those Nazis above Are STILL in YOUR Congress.  Those Nazis supported the Hate filled River to the Sea crowd on College campuses, who are the Nazi students.

Anything you would care to say about YOUR Nazis?  Do you want to Defend again, YOUR Nazi Ilhan Omar?

Is there anything You would care to say to Ilhan Omar who once said about the Jews "they're all about the Benjamins", repeating her Nazi like Trope about Jewish people?  

Did you want to condemn her or SUPPORT her again as you did before? 

Tell me does Your support of an open Nazi Ilhan Omar indicate that you are simply naive and ignorant or just plain stupid?  smile
I'm not going to jump through all your hoops to refute your lies other than to say that Abraham Lincoln was addressing an insurgency and a civil war. It's a safe bet whose side you'd be on...

October 29, 2024 08:31 PM Forum: Politics

Professor Allan Lichtman Stands By His Prediction: Immediately Faces Violent Threats From MAGA

Posted By Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by James Brown

I agree that this race is too close to call with polls, but polls are the best tool we have.  In 2016 and 2020 the polls underestimated Trump's support.  This means Trump wins in 2024, unless the pollsters have overcorrected on some combination of the factors James mentions.

Nate Silver warns us not to trust our "gut instincts."  But in the same article, he discloses that his gut says Trump.  Bottom line, this is a 50/50 race and the winner of PA has a real leg up on winning the EC.
I keep seeing this over and over in the media:

"Christian nationalists may elect Trump. And that has me worried."

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2024/10/25/trump-christian-nationalism-evangelical-voters/75649516007/

That, and the following statement from a democratic strategist: "Trump gets to be lawless while Harris has to be flawless."

October 30, 2024 12:03 AM Forum: Politics

Professor Allan Lichtman Stands By His Prediction: Immediately Faces Violent Threats From MAGA

Posted By Rod Kaufman

I'll let the liberal redneck explain it to Richie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr7f8-M-N1s