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October 28, 2016 06:48 AM UTC

Open Line Friday!

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  • by: Colorado Pols

“Why do you need somebody…telling you Donald Trump doesn’t have a chance, it’s over, every negative they list, and it’s all because of polling data, and maybe their personal desire?”

–Rush Limbaugh, yesterday

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  1. Much as I dislike El Rushbo, he's got a point here. Polls today are all over the map. Complacency for the Dems is not an option. As the late and great one said (Yogi Berra), it ain't over until it's over.

    One possible savior for the Dems is all the early voting that has taken place. Much of that came around the last debate; and when Trump’s sexual misconduct was blowing much hotter as an issue. 

  2. Another day, another woman has come forward and accused the Drumpf of sexual misconduct….

    This time, it is the former Miss Finland. Do you think this latest accusation will affect his standing on the Big Line?

    If you are keeping score at home, I believe we are up to #11.

  3. Liz and Bernie have helped shift the Democratic party's priorities so that an Establishment candidate can win the presidency in an anti-establishment year (yes, R's are super stooopid.):

    Sanders' formal party allegiance doesn't matter a damn. He is a man with a substantial public following who, in the main, supports everything that the progressive wing of the Democratic party stands for and then some.

    Senator Professor Warren did not arrive at Harvard Law on a turnip truck. She knows that, if there's going to be a progressive power bloc within what may be a Democratic Senate majority, it is going to need Sanders and his supporters to reach its full potential. And Capehart's transparent attempt to make Warren into the de facto Democratic establishment candidate in a fanciful "battle" for leadership of this bloc is disrespectful to the political acumen of both senators. Everything will be fine. We're all mensches on this bus.

    And still I must ask the soon-to-be-senator-elect-again again – wtf? 

    Colorado’s two freshman senators, Mark Udall and Michael Bennet, are part of a self-described centrist group of 15 Democrats meeting regularly “seeking to restrain the influence of party liberals in the White House and on Capitol Hill,” according to an account in Roll Call

    The Republicans did fine with this all on their own. They plan to repeat this strategy for President Rodham Clinton. Bennet should renounce this Blue Dog Bullshit and get on board with what voters will have told our presidents to do these last 3 elections. Maybe someone with a blog or something can take up the issue. And he should remember who came to CO to help him and Hillary win the state: Liz and Bernie.

     

  4. Drip…drip…drip…

    FBI reopens Clinton email server investigation

    “In connection with an unrelated case, the FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear to be pertinent to this investigation,” Comey wrote in a letter to several House committee chairmen.

    Comey was briefed on those emails on Thursday, he wrote, and said he “agreed that the FBI should take appropriate investigative steps” to “determine whether they include classified information” and otherwise “assess their importance to our investigation.”

    He did not specify where the additional emails came from.

    […]

    Comey wrote on Friday that the FBI does not yet know if the new material is “significant” and did not specify a timeframe for investigating.

    3. Allow me to repost this:

      NBC’s Pete Williams reported that the investigation was not related to WikiLeaks or Russian hacking. Williams also reported the emails the FBI is investigating were not withheld by Clinton’s campaign and were not emails from Clinton.

      In July, Comey announced the FBI would not recommend criminal charges against the former secretary of state but called the handling of sensitive information “extremely careless.”

      Brookings senior fellow Benjamin Wittes posted a breakdown on Twitter of what Comey’s letter means.

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      Translation of Comey's letter: 
      We had a closed matter. 
      We received some new information. 
      We are reviewing it.
      I'm informing Congress.

      11:37 AM – 28 Oct 2016

       

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      I bet Trump thinks if they arrest HRC he gets the presidency by default.

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      1. That may be right.  They were found in an unfortunate place.  Kudos to the FBI, though.  Not sure I'd be willing to touch a device used by Anthony Weiner.

        New Emails in Clinton Case Came From Devices Once Used by Anthony Weiner

        Emails from Hillary Clinton’s private server were found after the F.B.I. seized electronic devices once shared by Anthony D. Weiner and his estranged wife, Huma Abedin, a top aide to Mrs. Clinton, federal law enforcement officials said Friday.

        The F.B.I. is investigating illicit text messages that Mr. Weiner, a former Democratic congressman from New York, sent to a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina. The bureau told Congress on Friday that it had uncovered new emails related to the Clinton case — one federal official said they numbered in the thousands — potentially reigniting an issue that has weighed on the presidential campaign and offering a lifeline to Donald J. Trump less than two weeks before the election.

        1. What kudos. Comey drops this bomb that may well be nothing in the last days of the election and he can't  give more details, either damning or "meh", because it's an ongoing investigation, leaving it unfairly hanging over the election  from now until election day. That being the case he shouldn't have said a damn thing until after the election.  Guess the GOP got to him over his disloyalty in refusing to go along with their desire to prosecute HRC in the first place. 

            1. Former prosecutors stunned that Comey has been and continues to be such an irresponsible ass hat about this matter. He'd better be updating his resume. He's going to need it.

              Some former prosecutors and Justice Department officials said the stir caused by the letter Comey sent Congress Friday announcing the FBI was examining new evidence relevant to the Clinton probe underscored the risks he took when he parted with the usual practice by publicly defending and explaining the FBI's work on the case, even though no charges were filed.

              "I got a lot of respect for Jim Comey, but I don't understand this idea of dropping this bombshell which could be a big dud," said former federal prosector Peter Zeidenberg, a veteran of politically sensitive investigations. "Doing it in the last week or 10 days of a presidential election without more information, I don't think that he should because how does it inform a voter? It just invites speculation … I would question the timing of it. It's not going to get done in a week."

              Nick Akerman, a former assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York, was more critical: "Director Comey acted totally inappropriately. He had no business writing to Congress about supposed new emails that neither he nor anyone in the FBI has ever reviewed.”

              Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/hillary-clinton-fbi-james-comey-disclosure-prosecutors-230467#ixzz4OQsaOFmL 
               

  6. Quick Analysis of Colorado Senate District 19 Ballot Returns as of October 28th

    Colorado Democrats and Republicans are locked into a fierce battle for control of the Colorado State Senate. One district that central in determining that outcome is Senate District 19. The race matches up incumbent Republican Senator Laura Woods against Democrat Rachel Zenzinger.

    As of this morning 22,569 ballots have been returned, of which 8,688 are from Democrats and 7,285 from Republicans for a Democrat lead of  1,403 more ballot returned. Similar to statewide returns, we find a higher percentage of active Democrats (29.2%) voting than a the percentage of active Republicans (25.6%).

    The overall ballots returned by party shows Democrat contributing 38.5%, Republicans 32.3%, and unaffiliated voters 28.0%. At this same time in 2012, Democrats contributed 35.3% of the vote, Republicans 39.5% and unaffiliated voters 24.4%.

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