Uh-oh -- all signs point to Obama/Clinton moving to annex Canada!
After closing the gap on Hillary Clinton in the polls, Donald Trump is closer to taking the White House today than he has ever been before. But there is one way the Democrats could virtually ensure their party's hold on the presidency — making Canada the 51st state. That's obviously not going to happen. But Canadians would be among the most reliable Democrats if, well, they were Americans instead. Polls have long showed Canadians expressing greater support for Democrats than Republicans. One recent survey gave President Barack Obama an approval rating of 80 per cent among Canadians, a score he has not managed south of the border since the first months of his presidency in 2009.
This affinity with the Democratic Party has continued throughout the current election campaign. Two polls conducted in recent months by Abacus Data and Mainstreet Research have shown that 73 to 80 per cent of Canadians would vote for Clinton, the Democratic presidential nominee, if they had the chance. Just 15 to 20 per cent would cast their ballot for Trump. Nowhere in the country would Trump be considered even a competitive candidate. His best score in the Abacus poll came in Alberta, where just 26 per cent of voters would support him. Trump is deeply unpopular in Canada. The Mainstreet survey gave him a favourability rating of just 15 per cent, with 75 per cent of Canadians saying they hold an unfavourable view of the Republican nominee. Clinton, on the other hand, scored a favourability rating of 62 per cent, against 24 per cent unfavourable. Clinton would love to have those numbers in the United States. Recent polls suggest that anywhere from 50 to 60 per cent of Americans hold an unfavourable view of her.
If Canada were a U.S. state, it would carry an enormous weight in the electoral college, as well as in the base of the Democratic Party. Not since 1964 have the Democrats won a state with at least 80 per cent of the vote (though the party routinely wins Washington, D.C., with well over that level of support). The electoral college, which decides U.S. elections, awards each state in the union a number of votes equal to the size of its representation in Congress. Each state has two senators, as well as a number of members of the House of Representatives, which is based on population. If Canada were the 51st state, it would have enough electoral college votes to put it somewhere between California and Texas. And with Clinton taking around 80 per cent of the vote, Canada would be the most reliably blue state in the union.
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Unagi wrote:We call it Canadian cause you guys like it so much (from what I've been told) - so deal with it!
Can anyone blame us? We heard Canadians would pay high prices for bacon so we took some ham and started calling it bacon. Most of them still haven't figured it out.....
The product may have arisen from a unique form of back bacon which emerged in Southern Ontario called "peameal bacon", which is unsmoked wet cured pork loin trimmed like "Canadian bacon" and traditionally rolled in ground dried yellow peas to extend its shelf life. Today it is generally rolled in yellow cornmeal.
"The world is suffering more today from the good people who want to mind other men's business than it is from the bad people who are willing to let everybody look after their own individual affairs." - Clarence Darrow
The Communists, who for decades ran their own candidates for president and vice president but supported Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, don’t just like Hillary and Bernie. The party also gave a big thumbs-up to Clinton’s running mate, Tim Kaine.
“He’s a great choice,” wrote staffer Larry Rubin on the first day of the convention. “Kaine pushed the political envelope of Virginia, an erstwhile red southern state, in a progressive direction – and won! He was elected mayor of Richmond, then governor of the state and then senator. Everyone agrees: he’s a sincere, nice guy.”
Joseph Farah, the founder of WND.com and a former revolutionary communist himself in his youth, said the CPUSA’s coverage was so effusive in its enthusiasm it put MSNBC to shame.
“Back in the day when Stalinists Gus Hall and Angela Davis were regularly nominated by the party as presidential and vice presidential candidates every four years, the U.S. Communists actually had beefs with the Democrats,” he said. “But, in recent years, the party ceased those efforts in favor of a united front with the Democrats, with whom they have very few differences, if any.”
So much for Putin and Russia wanting Trump to win......
The Communists, who for decades ran their own candidates for president and vice president but supported Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, don’t just like Hillary and Bernie. The party also gave a big thumbs-up to Clinton’s running mate, Tim Kaine.
“He’s a great choice,” wrote staffer Larry Rubin on the first day of the convention. “Kaine pushed the political envelope of Virginia, an erstwhile red southern state, in a progressive direction – and won! He was elected mayor of Richmond, then governor of the state and then senator. Everyone agrees: he’s a sincere, nice guy.”
Joseph Farah, the founder of WND.com and a former revolutionary communist himself in his youth, said the CPUSA’s coverage was so effusive in its enthusiasm it put MSNBC to shame.
“Back in the day when Stalinists Gus Hall and Angela Davis were regularly nominated by the party as presidential and vice presidential candidates every four years, the U.S. Communists actually had beefs with the Democrats,” he said. “But, in recent years, the party ceased those efforts in favor of a united front with the Democrats, with whom they have very few differences, if any.”
So much for Putin and Russia wanting Trump to win......
"The world is suffering more today from the good people who want to mind other men's business than it is from the bad people who are willing to let everybody look after their own individual affairs." - Clarence Darrow
There are so many things wrong with his "comparison" that there really isn't any reason to even acknowledge it. I don't think that Rip is that stupid. He knows that there is nothing there. So that brings us back to my first statement.
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So much for Putin and Russia wanting Trump to win......
Aside from the fact that Communist Party here has about zero influence on anything...Russia is not communist (for that matter, neither was USSR, communism was the goal but the country was socialist). Russia now is arguably more capitalist than the US. So...what's your point?
So much for Putin and Russia wanting Trump to win......
Aside from the fact that Communist Party here has about zero influence on anything...Russia is not communist (for that matter, neither was USSR, communism was the goal but the country was socialist). Russia now is arguably more capitalist than the US. So...what's your point?
There are so many things wrong with his "comparison" that there really isn't any reason to even acknowledge it. I don't think that Rip is that stupid. He knows that there is nothing there. So that brings us back to my first statement.
My boss forwarded this to me this morning. Predictable, but I still got a chuckle out of it.
Dear Abby,
My husband hasn't worked for the last 14 years. All he does is get dressed in the morning and hop in his fancy car to visit his cronies. I know he's cheated on me many times with younger women and some girls who could be his granddaughters. He smokes fancy cigars and drinks the most expensive wine and booze day and night. We sleep in separate beds because he's always telling me he knows I`m a lesbian and my varicose veins and big bottom turn him off! Should I clobber him with my frying pan, or should I leave him, Abby? Your advice would be appreciated .....
Mad as Hell.
Dear Mad as Hell,
You don`t have to take that kind of treatment from any man. I suggest you pack your bags and move out a.s.a.p. Don't resort to clobbering him with the frying pan, and try to act like a lady!
Remember ......you`re running for President of the United States, so try acting like it!
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I spent 90% of the money I made on women, booze, and drugs. The other 10% I just pissed away.
I can't imagine, even at my most inebriated, hearing a bouncer offering me an hour with a stripper for only $1,400 and thinking That sounds like a reasonable idea.-Two Sheds
tjg_marantz wrote:You idiot, some people might be browsing from work and trying to stay away from anything that might be nsfw.
Hillary Clinton is definitely not suitable for work. However, I am sensitive to excessive liberal panty waddage and have edited the post. Just because I have the freedom of speech to post Hillary in a hot swimsuit doesn't mean that I should. I take your feedback at face value, except for the idiot part because I assume it's not personal as explained earlier in this thread. Mormon.
I'm just grateful he didn't post a nude photo of Trump just to prove that there's no problem down there. If there's one thing (and only one thing) I'll take Trump's guarantee on, it's that.
Defiant wrote:I'm just grateful he didn't post a nude photo of Trump just to prove that there's no problem down there. If there's one thing (and only one thing) I'll take Trump's guarantee on, it's that.
Point of order; Hillary was not nude. She was in a swim suit. Liberal OUTRAGE somehow turned it into her being nude and me being an idiot.
msteelers wrote:Remember when the conservatives on this board actually added to the conversation? Good times.
Now we'll be told that we forced them to extremes with our bias and groupthink.
Then they'll post another Jones/Beck/Limbaugh-sourced conspiracy supported by pictures from the wrong time and place and debunked by Snopes two weeks before.
Then there will be eight months of Congressional hearings about the pictures.
msteelers wrote:Remember when the conservatives on this board actually added to the conversation? Good times.
Conservatives are outnumbered and ridiculed here. There is never any meaningful dialogue. Just liberals being jackasses to conservatives most of the time. Why do you think so many stay away?
Because they act like weapons-grade morons. Don't want to be ridiculed? Don't act like a moron. I'd think after a decade+ of using GG/OO people would have figured that out by now.
Because they act like weapons-grade morons. Don't want to be ridiculed? Don't act like a moron. I'd think after a decade+ of using GG/OO people would have figured that out by now.
Okay, I'll bump my post where I tried to open a meaningful dialogue.
Smutly wrote:Okay, I'll bump my post where I tried to open a meaningful dialogue.
If you post nine pants-on-head ridiculous contributions and then become indignant when you finally post a single serious inquiry, you probably need to work on your ratios.
Smutly wrote:Okay, I'll bump my post where I tried to open a meaningful dialogue.
If you post nine pants-on-head ridiculous contributions and then become indignant when you finally post a single serious inquiry, you probably need to work on your ratios.
Work on "this". As long as you attack in packs and treat people like assholes, you reap what you sow.
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