Youseff wrote:Trump should pick Kaitlyn Jenner as VP, crazy idea yes, but he would out-left the Left. Would love to see Libtards do their best to be tolerant while attacking the people they claim to be standing up for.

JUburton wrote:

Doll Is Mine wrote:I read somewhere that if Hillary wins VA and FL, it's over.

Not exactly, but it would be quite close. This isn't a perfect tool (missing MI, ME-02) but it's useful to see the different permutations.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016 ... ctionfront

Longtime state Sen. Stuart Ingle (R) recalled how Johnson, soon after taking office in 1995, mostly shrugged and stared during their first meeting together. As Ingle asked Johnson questions about his agenda, Ingle said, Johnson’s most common refrain was, “I don’t know.”

At the end of the meeting, Ingle said, Johnson revealed the one position on which he would hold firm: The state’s budget should not grow. And if legislation to do so passed, the new governor added, “I will veto it.”

Over the next eight years, New Mexico lawmakers would struggle to work with a governor who paid little attention to details. Those who worked closely with Johnson, then a Republican elected as a political novice vowing to shake up the established order, recall a chief executive who would speed through meetings and often preferred to discuss his fitness routine than focus on the minutiae of policymaking.

Johnson’s seemingly dismissive approach garnered him the nickname “Governor No.” In his first year in office, he vetoed 47 percent of the bills the legislature passed. Lawmakers took Johnson to court at least three times for overstepping his bounds — and won.

“A know-it-all dictator,” is how the late state representative Jerry Lee Alwin, a conservative Republican, described Johnson to the news media at the time. “He just doesn’t listen.”

Johnson shrugged off the criticism. He noted that any lawmaker was able to come speak with him during his “Open Door After Four” sessions, which offered any member of the public — not just politicians — a chance to make an appointment.

Those sessions were held once a month. Meetings lasted no longer than five minutes — a sufficient amount of time, Johnson said, for him to grasp the issues.

“I can figure things out; I have good instincts,” he told The Post. “I think I was born with an overdose of common sense.”

Monkeyboy wrote:

JFLNYC wrote:Which reminds me of a line I think of whenever Trump or one of his surrogates speaks. It's from Lawrence of Arabia and it's spoken by Dryden, a diplomat played by Claude Rains. He says this (I may be paraphrasing a bit): "A man who tells lies, like me, merely hides the truth. But a man who tells half-lies, has forgotten where he's put it."

Soren wrote:

Youseff wrote:Trump should pick Kaitlyn Jenner as VP, crazy idea yes, but he would out-left the Left. Would love to see Libtards do their best to be tolerant while attacking the people they claim to be standing up for.

is this a parody or what

Earlier in the evening, Ms. Ayotte — a freshman Republican in a tight re-election race — seemed less sure on that point.

“I think that certainly there are many role models that we have, and I believe he can serve as president,” she said of Donald J. Trump during a debate with her Democratic challenger, Gov. Maggie Hassan.

That led to jeers on social media, and a bit of confusion — Ms. Ayotte has yet to officially endorse Mr. Trump, although she has said she would vote for him.

“I misspoke tonight,” Ms. Ayotte said in a statement several hours later. “While I would hope all of our children would aspire to be president, neither Donald Trump nor Hillary Clinton have set a good example, and I wouldn’t hold up either of them as role models for my kids.”