Lets wait till we can insert "shows character" and lets see if we 'lose our shit' over it.


In other news, we have a Rep with integrity, anyone see Martha McSallys concession speech? well done that woman.

CNN sues President Trump and top White House aides for barring Jim Acosta as White House Press representative for CNN.

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Pass the popcorn!

I do not know if this approach could be successful but it will certainly keep the issue in front of the voters.

Let's face it: We will

I might be mis-reading you, so apologies if I go off into left field, but...

In this context, "winning" the popular vote = getting more votes than the other guy/gal, not necessarily a majority of the votes cast. It doesn't always mean you get enough electors in the Electoral College, as Clinton found out. Popular vote majority is not always equivalent WRT to electors (if by electors you mean Electoral College electors).

In some very populous states (California) you can rack up millions of votes, but whether you finish with 50% + 1 vote or 100% you still only get 55 Electoral College electors for that state.

Plurality "wins" too sometimes. Take Trump in the Republican primaries. He "won" 44% of the total primary ballots cast, which is not an absolute majority, but it was enough to get the delegates to secure the nomination. Dial it down to the state level. He "won" all 50 of South Carolina's delegates even though he only received 32.51% of the vote, which was a plurality - more than everyone else but not a majority.

Using your definition, he didn't "win the popular vote" in the primaries although all the news sources report it that way.

Some wikipedia thoughts:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United...lifornia,_2016
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Result...rimaries,_2016
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plurality_(voting)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majority

I assume that Acosta could well sue for defamation and have a pretty strong case. Accusations of assault or manhandling, whatever Sanders' precise allegation was, are demonstrably false and damaging to his reputation.

I was disappointed. I really thought her dog was going to chip in with some thoughtful insight.

That was nice, but they're politicians and supposed to appear as decent human beings, behaving in a generally accepted way when their rivals win. Like in sports. We don't really believe Serena was happy for Osaka, do we?

The way I see it - that should be the norm not the exception and we should discuss about totally different things of their campaigns.

I totally agree, it should be the norm, sadly the norm is petty namecalling and lying about voter fraud and refusing to concede, Roy Moore still hasn't.

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Who votes in the Electoral College electors in the different states? (Those 55 people in California for example).

Taking California again: If the Californian people vote for .... Kennedy (let's keep personal actual preferences out of the discussions, LOL), Kennedy gets 55 votes and all of these electors (blue or red) MUST give their vote for Kennedy?
Why must they even vote as the result should be 55 points for .... the red or the blue candidate.

Did trump really confused the baltic with the balkans?

Tis complicated. The Constitution says that it's the Electoral College that chooses the president, based on the votes cast by the population. Some old posts of mine a few years back that might help:

* Disclaimer - popular vote as I wrote it in this context means plurality, not absolute majority

Yes, apparently back in April.

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-confu...goslav-1210939

Coincidentally I read in the same Newsweek that you linked, Fox News has boycotted Twitter for the last four days! A great loss for the world

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It is claimed Fox News managing editor Greg Wilson emailed staff members telling them to also not tweet from personal accounts.
So much for the First Amendment

Edit: Luckily Fox News still reports on Trump's tweets.
So this is a one way boycott, reading tweets and reporting on them is OK but writing them is not?

They really are a strange organisation

In his annual speech on 1st Jan 2018, N.Korea leader Kim re-emphasised his focus on the weapons programme, but implied the country still has a few stages left to go before achieving its ambitions.
North Korea must "mass-produce nuclear warheads and ballistic missiles and speed up their deployment", he said.

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N. Korea mass producing and deploying nuclear warheads and ballistic missiles is not bad?

Balticum responsible for war in Balcans. According to genius Trump!

Yeah true, the shock of it would kill some

Fox News legal commentator Andrew Napolitano on Tuesday said that rival network CNN may have a "very good case" in its lawsuit against the White House over the Trump administration's decision to revoke reporter Jim Acosta's press pass.

Speaking with host Stuart Varney on the Fox Business Network, Napolitano said that CNN's legal team would prevail against the Trump administration "quickly."

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It is on Fox News so it must be true

FOX News has no need to read Trump's Twitter. Trump emails his tweets to FOX for approval before tweeting them.

Allegedly.

Hmmmm, from your source: << "please refrain from tweeting out our content from either section accounts or your own accounts until further notice.">>
My boss can tell me not to talk about internas too, specially if it's a limited time for a certain company reason.

There is certainly no chaos in the White House

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Following Session's firing President Trump appears poised to make more high-level staff changes in his administration.