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Bojana Krsmanovic
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Miss Popularity... RESULTS
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The "What Are You Thinking About Right Now?" PIP
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This seems like a good time to mention that there is are still Republicans who claim Barack Obama isn't a real American in the eight year of his presidency.- Football
Probably was rushed back once too many for his own good. Also got a lot of miles on his legs as a teenager, which isn't very good for having a lengthy career either.- The "What Are You Thinking About Right Now?" PIP
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The Paris accords are a global failure.- The "What Are You Thinking About Right Now?" PIP
He got more of the Latino vote than Romney in 2012, which is crazy when you think about it.- The "What Are You Thinking About Right Now?" PIP
I think by the time of the Paris accords, it was already too late to a certain extent. We still had the opportunity to limit the effects a bit if we had fully hit the brakes on our carbon emissions with the deal reached there. The deal we got instead will fall well short of realizing even a best case scenario.- The "What Are You Thinking About Right Now?" PIP
Unless you are a member of a targeted minority, you will probably not feel an immediate impact to your life, other than the abolition of Obamacare. Marriage equality might be repealed but I very much doubt even a conservative SC would dare to touch Roe vs. Wade. The immediate impact will probably be much greater abroad, more for what Trump won't do (supposedly) than for what he will do. If he is true to his word, he might become the first isolationist American president since the 1930s.- The "What Are You Thinking About Right Now?" PIP
It's too late to do anything about that anyway. The Paris accords are a joke. At best, the difference between Trump and Clinton was a few decades before the really bad effects start to impact our daily lives. It's pretty scary to think what will happen once the mass migration starts, considering the chaos created in Europe by just a couple of million Syrian refugees.- The "What Are You Thinking About Right Now?" PIP
I don't believe in protest votes and I struggle to think of any example in the modern era where they led to significant improvements in the lives of the people who had made said protest vote. I never said anything about the intelligence of Trump voters and I would appreciate if you do not imply that I did. The DNC obviously has a lot of soul-searching to do.- The "What Are You Thinking About Right Now?" PIP
Only half of the people eligible to vote have voted. Turn-out is way down compared to the previous three elections. It seems like a lot of people weren't very enthusiastic about either of these two candidates, which sort of makes sense.- Lorena Rae
Are these pictures on Nelly's main site? I can't seem to find them.- The "What Are You Thinking About Right Now?" PIP
The real question of Donald J. Trump's presidency will be what happens to his supporters once they find out that a lot of his campaign promises were based on magical thinking. It's not out of the question that they don't care. Brexiteers have come back on a lot of their promises without there being any real blacklash from the Leave voters.- The "What Are You Thinking About Right Now?" PIP
Clinton came to this thing with 23+ years of baggage. I personally believe some of it was unfair, but the DNC should have taken into consideration how she was starting out with a very negative image compared to a more unblemished candidate. But I personally think her biggest problem is that she isn't a great campaigner. Which has nothing to do with her being a woman and everything to do with her not being able to personally engage the electorate the way her husband and Obama can. But there are certainly female politicians who have this skill. e.g. Nicola Sturgeon in Scotland.- The "What Are You Thinking About Right Now?" PIP
The thing is, Trump can't really do much about the job thing unless he truly goes all protectionist on the US economy. The irony is that would make a lot more sense if unemployment was higher than its current 4.9%. International market capitalism really only works well for any individual country if its unemployment rate approaches 0%. In any other scenario, it's better to make your own shit. And the US is one of the few countries in the world which has the scale, power and wealth to actually put the theory into practice. But again, this would make more sense if the unemployment numbers were at their 2008 levels. Also, blue-collar manufacturing jobs will mostly disappear in the West in the next couple of decades, courtesy of the technological realities. That isn't something Trump can do anything about, unless he forces US businesses and manufacturers to hold back progress. I doubt that will happen.- The "What Are You Thinking About Right Now?" PIP
Trump got his votes predominantly from white men and white women (in that order). He was most popular with affluent white men. Turn-out was generally down across all demographics.- The "What Are You Thinking About Right Now?" PIP
Well prior to this election cycle, I would have suggested Elizabeth Warren, but she might not have hurt her chances with her associating with Clinton in this election.- The "What Are You Thinking About Right Now?" PIP
Hillary looks set to win the popular vote and could have won this thing if not for a handful of very close Trump wins in swing states. A woman other than Clinton (one who does not come with all the pre-existing baggage) can definitely win a presidential election.- The "What Are You Thinking About Right Now?" PIP
He could have easily lost. Some of the races were very tight. Clinton's problem seems to be that people weren't really very enthusiastic enough to come out and vote for her. This was the lowest turn-out since 2000.- The "What Are You Thinking About Right Now?" PIP
I don't expect this to set into motion the Apocalypse, but it's equally naive to believe this won't have a rather big impact internationally, if he carries out even a portion of his campaign promises. This isn't reserved just to Trump BTW, had Clinton won we would have seen some changes too, though likely less dramatic. e.g. the Iran deal was probably going to end up in the waste bin regardless of whether the US elected Trump or Clinton.- The "What Are You Thinking About Right Now?" PIP
A Trump presidency will definitely cause some great shifts internationally. Expect Russia to throw their weight around more in terms of their influence on European politics. Expect China to set their eyes on more blatant sea territory grabbing actions in the direction of the Philippines, possibly Vietnam. This won't be a comic book instant-disaster, it will work more subtly and incrementally. NATO is out of the door in its current incarnation, which ironically is not great news for the Brexiteers.- The "What Are You Thinking About Right Now?" PIP
Reposted from the Hillary Clinton topic: The long-standing effects of this cannot be overstated. This is almost certainly the end of NATO as we know it. Russian influence in Europe will become much greater. Obviously the DNC underestimated just how many people truly loathed Clinton. I think the lesson here is not to nominate a candidate who has a large section of the electorate already against him/her, even if the reasons for that dislike might not all be entirely fair. A purely tactical error that was made by the Clinton campaign was the manner in which they totally alienated the so-called Bernie Bros. I believe a lot of them stayed home yesterday and a decent amount of them went even further and voted for Trump instead. I think they will soon find out that the scorched earth tactic is a lot more fun in the movies/comic books they so like than it is in real life. - The "What Are You Thinking About Right Now?" PIP