“Whenever the race tightens, we get people protesting that the popular vote doesn’t matter because it’s all about the Electoral College, and that Trump has no path to 270 electoral votes. But this presumes that the states behave independently from national trends, when in fact they tend to move in ta…”— Nate Silver, fivethirtyeight.com
“It’s only when you find yourself describing someone who really is the definition of an extremist — who really is, essentially, in my opinion, a fascist — that you recognize that the language that you’ve used in the past to describe other people was hyperbolic and inappropriate and cheap.”— Howard Wolfson, nytimes.com
“And this is a two-way street. Republicans paint a broad spectrum of Democrats as socialist kooks, and Obama has been as strong a magnet for hyperbole as any politician in my lifetime. Let us not forget Dinesh D’Souza’s 2010 book ‘The Roots of Obama’s Rage,’ or Newt Gingrich’s assertion that ‘only if…”— Frank Bruni, nytimes.com
“In Commentary, Noah Rothman has repeatedly examined this subject. He wrote back in March that when ‘honorable and decent men’ like McCain and Romney ‘are reflexively dubbed racists simply for opposing Democratic policies, the result is a G.O.P. electorate that doesn’t listen to admonitions when the…”— Frank Bruni, nytimes.com
“I worked on the presidential campaign in 2004,’ Howard Wolfson said, referring to John Kerry’s contest against George W. Bush. He added that he was also ‘active in discussing’ John McCain when he ran for the presidency in 2008 and Mitt Romney in 2012. ‘And I’m quite confident I employed language tha…”— Frank Bruni, nytimes.com
“Conservative commentators and die-hard Republicans often brush off denunciations of Donald Trump as an unprincipled hatemonger by saying: Yeah, yeah, that’s what Democrats wail about every Republican they’re trying to take down. Sing me a song I haven’t heard so many times before.”— Frank Bruni, nytimes.com
“Texas, in particular, can cause a potential Electoral College-popular vote skew because of its large and growing population. If the Democrat goes from losing Texas by 15 percentage points to losing it by 5 points instead, that produces a net gain of about 0.6 or 0.7 percentage points of the popular…”— Nate Silver, fivethirtyeight.com
“Who shows up at the opening of a nursery school opened to care for AIDS patients, demands to speak as if he were an honored guest, and then leaves without ever offering a donation? The man who would eventually become the current Republican nominee for president.”— @LOLGOP, nationalmemo.com
“Vasquez Moctezuma is frank in her assessment of her family’s legal status, since her parents are not eligible for DACA and continue to work without documentation. ‘We are breaking some laws just by being here illegally, but we bind to the laws here,’ she said. ‘We pay our taxes every year, like any…”— Farai Chideya, fivethirtyeight.com
“Gabriel Sanchez, a professor of political science at the University of New Mexico and a principal at the opinion research firm Latino Decisions, said Latinos are more enthusiastic about voting this year than in 2012, having been mobilized by Trump’s comments targeting Mexicans. He added that the Rep…”— Farai Chideya, fivethirtyeight.com
“Baby Boomers are entering retirement in a state of actual bankruptcy. 54% of those over the age of 55 have less than one years worth of savings to their name, that is a problem, especially when this is the only country where you have to pay up to 10 times as much for simple medicines as you would pa…”— Peter Theil, youtube.com
“In the wealthy suburbs of Washington DC, people are doing just fine where I work in Silicon Valley, people are doing just great. But most Americans don't live by the Beltway or the San Francisco bay. Most Americans have not been part of that Perspective. It shouldn't be surprising to see people voti…”— Peter Theil, youtube.com
“It surprises me that anyone would say that you’re beyond the pale for taking the position that’s held by half the country.”— Peter Theil, vanityfair.com
“A spokesperson for the Trump campaign did not return a request for comment on whether Trump voted for Bush or why he gave different answers to the question at different times.”— Andrew Kaczynski, cnn.com
“In a 2009 radio interview with Don Imus uncovered by CNN's KFile, Donald Trump claimed he did not vote for President George W. Bush. Four years earlier, in an interview on Fox News following the 2004 presidential election, Trump said the exact opposite: that he did vote Bush despite his opposition t…”— Andrew Kaczynski, cnn.com
“The fact is that Hillary embodies so many of the values that we try so hard to teach our young people. Advocating for kids with disabilities, fighting for children's health care as First Lady, affordable child care in the Senate. Hillary has been a lawyer, a law professor, First Lady of Arkansas, Fi…”— Michelle Obama, twitter.com
“A review of Trump's many decades of abusing the judicial system, ignoring judges, disregarding rules, destroying documents and lying about it is not simply a sordid history lesson. Rather, it helps explain his behavior since he declared his candidacy. He promised to turn over his tax returns and his…”— Kurt Eichenwald, newsweek.com
“These startling revelations changed nothing, however, because there was no trove of documents. The Trump records had been destroyed. Despite knowing back in 2001 that Trump might want to file a lawsuit, his companies had deleted emails and other records without checking if they might be evidence in…”— Kurt Eichenwald, newsweek.com
“This behavior is of particular import given Trump’s frequent condemnations of Hillary Clinton, his Democratic opponent, for having deleted more than 30,000 emails from a server she used during her time as secretary of state. While Clinton and her lawyers have said all of those emails were personal,…”— Kurt Eichenwald, newsweek.com
“Over the course of decades, Donald Trump’s companies have systematically destroyed or hidden thousands of emails, digital records and paper documents demanded in official proceedings, often in defiance of court orders. These tactics—exposed by a Newsweek review of thousands of pages of court filings…”— Kurt Eichenwald, newsweek.com