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by shas3 3678 days ago
It almost sounds like a farce: Clinton gets indicted or loses face due to incompetence relating to the e-mail server scandal, and in her place is elected The Donald, a man who has committed worse transgressions and has the potential to do even worse things when given power.

Frankly, she doesn't sound any more incompetent than even a typical old company c. 2010: think Target, Sony, etc. It would be sad, given that her opponent will likely be Trump, if this scandal sinks her candidacy.
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Shivetya 3678 days ago
While I care for neither she is the bigger danger because the anti-war left will be silent with her as will many other good activist groups like they are currently silent. A complicit and complacent press and Congress is the reason we have drones killing American's abroad, Manning in jail, Snowden in Russia, Libya in disarray, and a general mess in the Middle East to say the least about increased racial issues in the states. Identity based politics is poison and it shuts down too many groups.

Donald won't catch a break from ANYONE, it will be good to have nearly every group riding the Administrations ass every single day. Let alone he really isn't bound to one party or another and likely will go down the middle and get more things fixed than a party centric politician.

tl;dr the real threat Clinton poses over Trump is that press, Congress, and activist, will be silent against her.

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okaram 3678 days ago
Are you sure Trump wouldn't catch a break from anyone ? Have you seen how most republicans are now supporting him ? Do you think they won't support him if he wins ? why ?
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brandonmenc 3678 days ago
> The Donald, a man who has committed worse transgressions and has the potential to do even worse things when given power.

You are overestimating Trump and underestimating Hillary.

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toomuchtodo 3678 days ago
She has no one to blame but herself.
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bitJericho 3678 days ago
Worry not. Any democrat candidate on the ballet will beat trump. You can't win an election on the rich, white, male vote.
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seehafer 3678 days ago
Donald is a test as to whether or not you can win an election on white votes. The rich, white, male votes are probably the one cohort of whites he's least likely to get.
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chiaro 3678 days ago
Depends. You'd be right if you consider rich whites with a college degree, but I believe rich whites without one are more dependably Trump iirc.
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