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Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

October 16, 2020 01:37 AM Forum: Politics

Poll watching

Posted By Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by James Brown
I like 538's model, but garbage in garbage out still applies.  538 now has Biden with a 87% chance of winning the EC.  This includes recent poll data showing Biden ahead in Georgia!  I find that data point hard to believe.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-election-forecast/georgia/

One thing is sure, if Trump actually loses a solid red state like Georgia, where he won by 5% last time, he is toast this time.  But I am skeptical.  Not sure if Greg has an opinion, but has Georgia possibly swung 7-10 points away from Trump?

Jim
Jim, don't underestimate a Trumptoid. With self made drop-off boxes sprouting everywhere in California with the explanation of "see you in court" "after the election" type deal and ploys to stop mail in balloting everywhere and bogus claims from Trump about "widespread" voter fraud, this election is well within the grasp of GOP's dirty tricks...

October 16, 2020 02:19 AM Forum: Politics

Barrett's Failures Of Disclosure's Pour In

Posted By Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by James Brown

This "allegation" of some sort of concealment is the thinnest of thin soup.   I'm still waiting for some 45 year old dude to tremble out of Feinstein's office with a tale of Barrett raping him in junior high.  

Jim

p.s.  The CNN article is thinner than the thinnest of thin soups.  Assuming Barret actually spoke at these events, she forgot to disclose 7 or so entirely innocent and appropriate student or faculty engagements over an 11 year period.  I can only imagine how many speaking engagements she did disclose.  Perhaps the undisclosed student scholarship symposium was a front for a violent anarchist cabal sworn to overthrow the union?

(CNN) Public calendars from the University of Notre Dame's law school show at least seven additional talks not listed on Judge Amy Coney Barrett's Senate paperwork, including one with the law school's anti-abortion group, according to a CNN KFile review.

Barrett, whose Supreme Court confirmation hearing to succeed the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is underway, is listed as participating in the newly discovered talks from 2004 to 2013.  The calendars list her as participating in a panel on religion in the public square, a speech to a student religious society, a talk with the law school's anti-abortion group, a roundtable on the Constitution, a faculty colloquium, a student scholarship symposium and an event sponsored by Notre Dame's Women's Legal Forum.

All of Barrett's events were listed on public calendars from Notre Dame, which CNN's KFile accessed on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine and on Notre Dame's website. Barrett is required to disclose to the Senate Judiciary Committee all public talks she has given in her professional career, according to a committee staffer. Similar types of events were disclosed on the paperwork she submitted.
If that's the case, then her office should respond appropriately. Thus far, it hasn't. I'd also recall my post to the following:

"Professor" Amy "failed" to disclose two talks she gave in 2013 hosted by two anti-abortion student groups on paperwork provided to the Senate ahead of her confirmation hearing to become the next Supreme Court justice. Must have slipped her mind, after all it's such a trivial issue:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/09/politics/kfile-amy-coney-barrett-roe-v-wade-talks/index.html
"CNN's KFile found a publicized talk that Barrett gave to coincide with the 40th anniversary of Roe v. Wade -- a seminar Barrett disclosed in her Senate paperwork -- was removed by the university from YouTube in 2014. A school spokesman told CNN the video is now lost." Geez...

October 16, 2020 02:31 AM Forum: Politics

Barrett's Failures Of Disclosure's Pour In

Posted By Rod Kaufman

Latest RCP betting odds average: Biden=65.4, Trump=34.8. 
Can't wait for Biden and Harris to tackle the court issue...

October 16, 2020 02:49 AM Forum: Politics

Barrett's Failures Of Disclosure's Pour In

Posted By Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by Darian Rachal

sleeping
Still waiting for you and Greg and Steve and Rich to stand together, shoulder to shoulder, at a packed Trump rally, in the front row. I'm not even asking that you become human props in Trump's background. 
Oh I know, I know, some polls were wrong in 2016 so all of them must be wrong in 2020...

October 16, 2020 01:48 AM Forum: Politics

Barrett's Failures Of Disclosure's Pour In

Posted By Rod Kaufman

"CNN had reached out to Barrett's chambers for comment about the omissions, but they did not respond. Barrett is required to disclose to the Senate Judiciary Committee all public talks she has given in her professional career..."
So much for transparency...
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/15/politics/judiciary-democrats-amy-coney-barrett-calendar-disclosures/index.html

October 22, 2020 09:59 PM Forum: Politics

Town Halls

Posted By Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by James Lacey


Ok. Let's make the families of the candidates an issue. Let's start by talking about the myriad of legal settlements and convictions against the company his kids run. Then let's talk about the $25Mn settlement against Trump University for fraud. How about the fact that Trump's kids are forever barred from running a charity in NY after they stole from cancer victims and veterans. Let's talk about all the favoritism shown to Ivanka Trump vis a vis Chinese trademarks. Why was Eric Trump recently deposed by NY authorities investigating the Trump organization for tax fraud? How about Don Jr. pleading the 5th during the Mueller investigation? Is that what innocent people do? How about Don Jr.'s role in the by now famous "If it's what you say it is, I love it!" Trump Tower meeting in the days before the 2016 election. Let's talk about Jared and Ivanka playing senior roles in the WH that they are not qualified for and without a proper security clearance. Let's talk about how many times they lied on their security applications. How about the fact that foreign intelligence officers openly bragged that Jared was an easy mark? Let's talk about Don Jr.'s affairs and broken marriage before finally settling on a Fox News personality for a mistress who herself is facing a charge of sexual harassment at work. There's a lot to discuss here. Are you sure we should go down this avenue?
Of timely interest to note is that The New York Post article, even considering the tabloid that it is, had a major problem with THEIR own reporters putting their names on that piece. Rupert eventually and evidently got someone's name on it, but that shows how bad that BS story really is:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-york-post-reporter-refused-to-put-name-on-hunter-biden-article-report-says

October 23, 2020 03:24 AM Forum: Politics

Town Halls

Posted By Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by Mel Maki
I also underestimated how much support Biden would have from major media players unwilling to cover it.
And he wonders why I call him a Melvin...

October 18, 2020 01:08 AM Forum: Politics

Best Political Cartoon Of The Week

Posted By Rod Kaufman

https://www.politico.com/cartoons/2020/10/01/matt-wuerker-cartoons-october-2020-000174?slide=0

October 18, 2020 01:43 AM Forum: Politics

Bill Maher On Amy Covid Barrett

Posted By Rod Kaufman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9bpDo5IgSw

October 20, 2020 12:01 AM Forum: Politics

TTFN

Posted By Rod Kaufman

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/09/how-the-faithful-voted-a-preliminary-2016-analysis/