More than two weeks have passed since the stolen messages were released online, but Hillary Clinton's lead in the RealClearPolitics poll average - http://www.realclearpolitics... moreMore than two weeks have passed since the stolen messages were released online, but Hillary Clinton's lead in the RealClearPolitics poll average - http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton-5491.html - has widened slightly. WikiLeaks tried to take down a candidate with embarrassing private emails and failed. At this point, it's only getting play on Breitbart and Drudge, which are so full of impotent rage that normal people don't read them.
Since he refused to say whether he would accept the verdict of a democratic election, they're trying to equate what Gore did in the aftermath of the contested 2000 election with wh... moreSince he refused to say whether he would accept the verdict of a democratic election, they're trying to equate what Gore did in the aftermath of the contested 2000 election with what Trump is doing. But that's like analogizing a fire marshal investigating the cause of a blaze to an arsonist.But Trump's election-rigging actually are nothing new have a long history. Part of his rationale rests on accusations that the media are stacked against him. This has been a staple of Republican talking points since the days of Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew. And his insistence that Democrats win elections through "voter fraud," mostly in large cities and minority neighborhoods, is the groundless rationalization they've used for years to justify laws aimed at disenfranchising those inclined to vote against them. In fact, voter suppression is a much bigger danger to our democracy than any vanishingly small amount of fraud. less
If Trump and Bernie says the system is rigged and many of their followers believe it then why not racist, sexist and phobic too as others have always said?
