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I disagree. Mainstream Media in the US is really behaving bad here. I mean these women suddenly coming forward less than a month before the Election and they have had all the time in the World to come forward, why wait now?
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They've presumably come forward because of the tape. I think the media have only done a bad job in the sense a lot of this stuff about his taxes, his treatment of women and so on should have come up in the primaries but they treated him as a showman and didn't do their jobs.
Clinton by comparison has been at the top of politics for 20 years. First Lady, Senator and Secretary of State so she has been rather heavily vetted already.
It's probably not the end of it. Trump is 70 years old and has not had his background looked at that closely. The media didn't do their jobs in the primaries and nor did his Republican rivals (what the hell they were doing is a valid question too) but now everyone is looking at everything.
By the way Trump banned his campaign from doing their own opposition research into him. If they had then they would be better prepared.
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If indeed these so called allegations are true, which I don't think they are at ALL.
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OK but it's harder for him to make a convincing denial when there is a tape of him bragging of that kind of behaviour.
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Despite all the crap being thrown at Trump, I would not write him off. He has almost twice as many facebook followers than Hillary has and most of my American friends are voting for him, they cannot stand Hillary to be President, with them suggesting, she is, as 'bent' as they come.
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Corbyn has more Facebook friends than the entirety of the Tory Party. All of Twitter loved Miliband. I would trust polling numbers, fallible as they are, over internet followers.
Besides Trump is a made-for-internet candidate. He loves insulting people, he speaks in quips, goes on about women, muslims and minorities. His campaign is the living embodiment of a Internet comments section.
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The Democrats can see the video from 11 years ago has had zero impact on Trumps popularity.
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It really has had an impact. The first debate is when things started going bad for him but the video sent the campaign tumbling. His main hope is probably something big comes up against Clinton but that's harder to achieve given how long she has been around. It would have to be a deadly Wikileaks e-mail or she collapses or something.
Look at the polling average here:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epo...nton-5491.html
It's a big drop
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So, just you watch it, we're a few days away from the next and final debate.
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Well I will watch it. If the last year has told us anything it's that surprises can happen. However I think he needs a game changer and I don't know what that would be.
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BTW Trump is currently on a Tweet rant again. Saying the election is rigged. Look more and more like he won't concede should he lose. This could get nasty.