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Blue Shoes's JournalMichigan Starts Recounting Presidential Ballots on Judges Order.
Source: Wall Street Journal
Michigan began a recount of presidential ballots on Monday after a federal judge ordered state officials to move forward with the effort without delay.
In an order issued Monday, U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith said the state must begin recounting ballots in the presidential race beginning Monday afternoon. Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein has successfully raised and paid the fee required to trigger a recount.
Read more: http://www.wsj.com/articles/federal-judge-orders-ballot-recount-to-proceed-in-michigan-1480952448
Progress is being made at least.
Trump Adviser Has Pushed Clinton Conspiracy Theories
Source: New York Times
Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice for national security adviser, has a well-established penchant for pushing conspiracy theories about Islamic law spreading in the West and the attack on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya. Less well noticed was his willingness throughout the presidential campaign to indulge in conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton.
Six days before the election, Mr. Flynn, the former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, tweeted a fake news story that claimed the police and prosecutors in New York had found evidence linking Mrs. Clinton and much of her senior campaign staff to pedophilia, money laundering, perjury and other felonies. “U decide,” Mr. Flynn wrote in the Twitter message on Nov. 2, though it appeared there was little doubt what he thought.
U decide - NYPD Blows Whistle on New Hillary Emails: Money Laundering, Sex Crimes w Children, etc...MUST READ! https://t.co/O0bVJT3QDr
— General Flynn (@GenFlynn) Nov. 3, 2016
Mr. Flynn’s month-old tweet is attracting renewed attention after a man fired a rifle on Sunday inside a Washington pizza restaurant that was the subject of false stories during the campaign tying it and the Clinton campaign to a child sex trafficking ring.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/05/us/politics/-michael-flynn-trump-fake-news-clinton.html?_r=0
Real great administration this is going to be...
Positive vs Negative campaign marketing.
Regardless of which candidate you feel matched up best vs Trump; there are other aspects of the campaign that need to be discussed.
One that I think has been sorely neglected has been the approach to how candidates presented themselves to the public on a slew of issues.
While Trump almost certainly wasted no time bashing Clinton whenever possible, what he did do was unanimously declare he would "do things"; build a wall, register all Muslims, etc. This is opposed to much of the Democratic, which centered around how awful every aspect of Trump was.
My assertion is that voters, particularly those who feel abandoned by economic changes, responded strongly to the candidate who promised action; whatever that may have been. The Democratic marketing of "Lets not do all of these awful ideas" was less resounding as these voters were looking for literally ANY change.
Another aspect of this difference in marketing strategy was that attacks on Trump objectively didn't motivate the Democratic base to GOTV. This was one of the lowest turnout elections in quite some time, and we ALWAYS win high turnout elections. Far more people agree with Democratic economic and social policies, they simply need to be galvanized to be driven to the polls and from the data this election has provided, its obvious negative marketing doesn't do that.
I think its more effective to play up what Democrats will do if elected (clean energy jobs, rebuilding infrastructure, strengthening social safety net) as opposed to simply saying were not the party of pussy grabbers, because all that statement says is that we're slightly better then pond scum which isn't particularly motivating.
Hello, everybody.
I've lurked around a bit and I finally decided to make an account. Since the election I've probably gone through about a gallon of whiskey and I figure being able to vent here will probably be good for my health.
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