2016 Election rigging possibilities

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http://www.npr.org/2016/08/07/488893858/...-democracy

I don't think it will be anywhere close enough that the question of rigging matters very much.  Past ones seemed more concerning.

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This whole POTUS election is like watching an extremely long and bad B-movie unfolding without the gang of Mystery Science Theater 3000 around to relieve the agony.

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http://www.npr.org/2016/08/05/488825863/...c-advisors

Since I'm  thinking one thread on the election is more than enough, as shocking as some of the campaign has been so far, and political things usually barely interest me. In that case, I'll just add something else here.  It seems to me the best economic advisors would be people who actually are involved in the intimate workings of the economic matters involved in providing goods to the economy, like manufacturing or retail CEOs, or even senior engineers and others from fields of science, rather than Wall Street or real estate tycoons.

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 It seems to me the best economic advisors would be people who actually are involved in the intimate workings of the economic matters involved in providing goods to the economy, like manufacturing or retail CEOs, or even senior engineers and others from fields of science, rather than Wall Street or real estate tycoons.

On one hand it's not that surprising that a candidate would go the cronyism route in regard to advisors, cabinet prospects, etc. But given that only three months away Trump is acting even more erratically like an adolescent boy trapped in a 70 year old man's body, it just increases the apprehension.

That he's gathering teams that might finally formulate schemes with actual details of how he's going to accomplish his claimed goals punctures the hypothesis that he's deliberately trying to lose the race (because getting the nomination was as far as he ever intended to go successfully). As if the whole run of the last year was purely for the sake of ego, of proving he could capture that, where literally winning POTUS itself could now only be possible as a terrifying accident (for him, not just the US and world if the latter are fretting).

Except that regardless of whether or not he is serious about going all the way, that kind of "terrifying accident" could still very much happen. As bad as Trump is doing in the polls, as much he outlandishly tries to sabotage himself again and again in the home stretch...

It often looks like Hillary's cred is being propped-up and held together with utility wire and Elmer's glue. Even with the short span she merely has to survive ahead, observers keep wondering if she can navigate through that mine-field of past troubles and potential mishaps. Plus, something out of the unexpected blue could happen, like a health-related crisis for her.

This race is such a crazy cartoon of the boasting Hare taking taking two steps back with every step forward, but with the fragile Tortoise having to lug around political life-support strapped to her shell, that people are going to be chewing their fingernails right down to finish line, whichever side they're rooting for.

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On one hand it's not that surprising that a candidate would go the cronyism route in regard to advisors, cabinet prospects, etc. But given that only three months away Trump is acting even more erratically like an adolescent boy trapped in a 70 year old man's body, it just increases the apprehension.

That he's gathering teams that might finally formulate schemes with actual details of how he's going to accomplish his claimed goals punctures the hypothesis that he's deliberately trying to lose the race (because getting the nomination was as far as he ever intended to go successfully). As if the whole run of the last year was purely for the sake of ego, of proving he could capture that, where literally winning POTUS itself could now only be possible as a terrifying accident (for him, not just the US and world if the latter are fretting).  

Except that regardless of whether or not he is serious about going all the way, that kind of "terrifying accident" could still very much happen. As bad as Trump is doing in the polls, as much he outlandishly tries to sabotage himself again and again in the home stretch...

It often looks like Hillary's cred is being propped-up and held together with utility wire and Elmer's glue. Even with the short span she merely has to survive ahead, observers keep wondering if she can navigate through that mine-field of past troubles and potential mishaps. Plus, something out of the unexpected blue could happen, like a health-related crisis for her.

This race is such a crazy cartoon of the boasting Hare taking taking two steps back with every step forward, but with the fragile Tortoise having to lug around political life-support strapped to her shell, that people are going to be chewing their fingernails right down to finish line, whichever side they're rooting for.

There is indeed considerable alarm about candidate Trump.  People are quite concerned with his relatively reckless manner of speaking.  Even if he were to totally alter his way of talking and become more reticent, it has already more than sufficiently indicated the big danger of having him as President.

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-...story.html

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It is rigged already, just look at the candidates that are going to run. they both aren't liked by the majority of the voters but yet there they are. Sad but true.