U.S Election 2016

[denphone]

Originally Posted by Kursk

Mick: 1
Sneering know-it-alls: 0

Congratulations on Mick for his spot on prediction but for you.

[Kursk]

Originally Posted by Damien

Classy as always Kursk.

Oh come on, he's been berated for weeks. You got it wrong, again; have the magnanimity to admit it.

Thank goodness Mick is an admin and can speak his mind with impunity.

Originally Posted by denphone

Congratulations on Mick for his spot on prediction but for you.

No personal attacks please. If you can't stand the heat (and we all know you can't) stay out of the kitchen.

Originally Posted by Kursk

Oh come on, he's been berated for weeks. You got it wrong, again; have the magnanimity to admit it.

I did. In the quote you posted. You responded by getting personal which isn't something I did with Mick or other people I disagree with.

And yes people get elections wrong. This was a close election, Clinton is even on track to win more votes or at least close to it. A few shifts in a few places that we're having a different discussion today.

[MalteseFalcon]

I also called a Trump win if you remember a long time ago. Honestly, I thought over the last week that he had lost the election though. I told a manager at work that there was no way America would vote for a female president and I was right.

[denphone]

Originally Posted by Kursk

Oh come on, he's been berated for weeks. You got it wrong, again; have the magnanimity to admit it.

Thank goodness Mick is an admin and can speak his mind with impunity.



No personal attacks please. If you can't stand the heat (and we all know you can't) stay out of the kitchen.

Its not a personal attack at all as you seem to like to give it out to many posters on this forum but sadly you cannot seem to take it as l used something from the smilie list which is allowed on this forum from what l know to show what l thought of your sneering know it comment as that was pretty uncalled for in my opinion.

[Kursk]

Originally Posted by Damien

And yes people get elections wrong.

It's not the 'getting it wrong' that matters; it's the 'I am so right' before the event

Remoaners: 0
Democrats: 0

Brexiteers: 1
Republicans: 1

Originally Posted by MarkC1984

I also called a Trump win if you remember a long time ago. Honestly, I thought over the last week that he had lost the election though. I told a manager at work that there was no way America would vote for a female president and I was right.

Careful, you'll get a reputation as a swivel-eyed loony conspiracy theorist with racist tendencies and a low level of education. You are right though

[nomadking]

Originally Posted by Kursk

Careful, you'll get a reputation as a swivel-eyed loony conspiracy theorist with racist tendencies and a low level of education. You are right though

Isn't that a description that applies to the States that voted for Clinton?

[Mr K]

Have to hand it to Mick, he obviously knows the US very well. Don't think I realised how much Clinton was hated. If only Sanders had got the ticket then who knows ?

As for the outcome, God help us, and i don't even believe in God, but he's worth a shot !

[Kursk]

Originally Posted by nomadking

Isn't that a description that applies to the States that voted for Clinton?

Only an expert can answer that question; one will be along soon .

Originally Posted by nomadking

Isn't that a description that applies to the States that voted for Clinton?

You can find exit polls here : http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2...xit-polls.html

[Gavin78]

He's all pre-election talk I wouldn't worry about it

[MalteseFalcon]

I've been called worse at work so that wouldn't actually bother me.

I wonder just how many people in America think elections work like this girl did?

https://notalwaysright.com/big-bother/5677

What annoys me most is that the pound has barely recovered against the dollar

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Anyway only three years until the start of the Democratic primaries! If we're still here by then

[heero_yuy]

Originally Posted by Gavin78

He's all pre-election talk I wouldn't worry about it

Similar things were being said about Reagan when he was first elected:

Steven Hayward, author of “The Age of Reagan,” recalls the rhetoric:

Democratic Rep. William Clay of Missouri charged that Reagan was “trying to replace the Bill of Rights with fascist precepts lifted verbatim from Mein Kampf.” The Los Angeles Times cartoonist Paul Conrad drew a panel depicting Reagan plotting a fascist putsch in a darkened Munich beer hall. Harry Stein (later a conservative convert) wrote in Esquire that the voters who supported Reagan were like the “good Germans” in “Hitler’s Germany.”...John Roth, a Holocaust scholar at Claremont College, wrote: “I could not help remembering how 40 years ago economic turmoil had conspired with Nazi nationalism and militarism—all intensified by Germany’s defeat in World War I​—to send the world reeling into catastrophe. . . . It is not entirely mistaken to contemplate our postelection state with fear and trembling.”

Source

Didn't come to pass then either. Any plans he has have to be ratified by Congress and the Senate. They tend to have a moderating effect as Obama found out.

[thenry]

Talking of Obama. Does this mean he's gone down as the worst President?

https://youtu.be/XvgnOqcCYCM

Out the horses mouth