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Formal confirmation that women do not like Grab-Her-By-The-Gate.

But more importantly, a dark bargain has been struck. 2016 es morte.

That article is about Trumps poor standing with women in general, not just after the tape.

Some change is fundamental.  Some problems are fundamental.  Some things are beyond increments.  You can't build a tower on a foundation that isn't designed to support it, no matter how slowly you add bricks.

But you dont just add bricks, you replace them too.  Take healthcare.  If we were starting from scratch a single payer system would make sense.  But right now we have an employer based system where the federal government is setting the guidelines and the federal government is underwriting the individual market.  If more people switch to the individual market then we end up with a system where the feds are controlling the standards and the finances and the insurance companies have just been cut down to just underwriting.  Add a public option onto that and you have a single payer system in everything but name.  It would take decades of gradual change to get us there but it's doable.

I wonder if the flip-flopping will hurt them, or if the core Republicans just don't care that much as long as they end up however the voter wants them?

In a sane world flip-flopping is like the worst of all things to do.  But this is Trump's world now so it'll probably make them win.

Couldn't find it, but then how the hell is it a round number?

Because they just indexed it so it wont stop being a round number until next year.

You are not making incremental changes for the better. You are cementing a status-quo.

Every good change ever has come from incrementalism.  Abolition, suffrage, civil rights, progressive taxation, social security, medicare, medicaid, S-CHIP.  Every one of these was watered down in the first draft and improved later on.  And currently we are in the middle of Obamacare which was watered down at first but which can be improved right now.  And this clinton tax credit is an example of "improved later on".  You just keep making additions and fixes and eventually you fix the problem.

Hell Bernie Sanders was calling for a "revolution" and he was still talking about incremental changes.

Her proposition probably don't even account for the inflation since this law passed.

The tax credit was in fact indexed to inflation last year.  I know this because instead of "probably" researching this I actually googled that shit.

(because the trending news are currently focused on Trump engaging in open civil war with the rest of GOP, and also on fake Clinton scandals, to avoid looking "partisan"), but it's there.

Because that's what people read. 

Quote from: mainiac on October 12, 2016, 08:22:32 am

Clinton released a major child poverty proposal yesterday.  How many people read about it?  How many people read about what racial slur Trump tweated at breakfast?

Is this proposal modest?

You have swiftly incited me to anger, sir.

Clinton released a major child poverty proposal yesterday.  How many people read about it?  How many people read about what racial slur Trump tweated at breakfast?

They actually liked his style.  And of the people who participated in the republican primary, they were the largest chunk.

He got a plurality but not a majority in the republican primary and that was against a field whose unfavorables make Hillary Clinton look like the second coming of Pericles.  Even Marco Rubio has slightly worse favorability then Clinton right now despite much lower recognition (which makes it harder to have as many negative opinions).  And he's the popular one.

Primaries also bring out the most radical, extreme and downright weird voters.  The other candidates also put up no opposition to Trump allowing him to skate by until he had accumulated enough delegates that partisanship kicks in.

So yeah there are millions of wanna be Trumps out there but I still think it's mostly the partisanship.