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Eh, it'll matter to some degree. Less than the post-debate, sure, but some. Now whether it'll matter in the face of whatever else happens in the next month, that's a different question.

Pence dumping trump (or the other way around) would be pretty incredible, at the very least. The media/public reaction would be amazing.

E: That said, it looks like pence has tweeted stuff indicating otherwise. Oh well.

538's thingjigger.

And I'unno smj. I think the sniffling may cost the guy. Was listening instead of watching so I didn't see much of the body language but what I did seemed a bit more in favor of clinton, too. Low expectations being what they are, I can't say if that's going to lean things toward a win for clinton, but *shrugs*

And a bank robbery, apparently. Most of it's just reports and threats, though, yeah. So far.

... we're talking an american political party, here, and more than that the GOP. Somehow I doubt either of those are much of a concern :V

My position is that this type of conversation is relatively inconsequential compared to actual policies which Trump has proposed, and business practices he has enacted. The one person Trump claims to have groped is insignificant next to the millions who are facing deportation or being denied refuge that they desperately need, and the thousands who have been swindled out of their savings or provided services without compensation.

See, though, it's not inconsequential, at all. It may be relatively less consequential, but a person's character and specifically how they treat certain demographics of the population (in this case, roughly half of the bloody thing) is very, very relevant when you're talking consideration for a position that has significant influence on how said demographic is treated. The people trump groped may be insignificant, but the behavior that's displayed by him doing so isn't.

To take it somewhat towards the extremis, me going out and torturing and mutilating a kitten, even if it's just one kitten, is not something that people are going to look at without a great deal of askance. Particularly if it's when I'm well past middle aged, and frankly even if I'm just saying I'd do it. I may not have left a bleeding trail of millions of crippled kittens behind me but that doesn't mean it's not obvious there's almost certainly something seriously wrong with me -- and you damn sure wouldn't want to put me in charge of any pounds, vets, or anything to do with animals in general.

You can question all sorts of things related to most sorts of policy. You can't really question little Furry McNubless worming its way across the floor. And in this case, we got trump lusting after dismembered kitten limbs. Metaphorically. _Hopefully.

Eh, someone was stabbed to death and left with a clown mask on their head, more specifically. Actual clowns in the performance/job sense haven't seemed to be much involved save for being threatened by folks worried about these other chucklefucks, so far and so far as I'm aware.

But yeah, it's not just a case of people seeing clowns. There's people dressing up as clowns and then doing a fair amount of varying shit of varying degrees of (il)legality. The reaction is definitely excessive but it's not exactly unfounded.