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    @Bonseff:

    The Republicans/Tea-Party are going to win Congress, and win big.

    Many massively rich people who donate to the Republican candidate for president every election have openly stated that they won't be giving any money to Trump. They're going to have a little extra political money kicking around. Some won't use, but many likely will. They're still interested in influencing politics, they just don't want to give it to Trump.

    So where will they donate? Not to Hillary, of course, except in maybe a few rare cases. No, they're most likely going to give a good chunk of that money to various Republican/Tea Party Senators and Congressmen.

    Consider, for example, a ten million dollar donation. Normally that would help a presidential candidate, but certainly not guarantee a win. Meanwhile, a hundred thousand could likely buy the election for any House/Senate candidate. So you've got to figure that a $10M savings in Trump donations could result in up to 100 senate or congress races going to Republicans/Tea Party. Now, it's likely going to be fewer than that, but you get the idea.

    This is yet another reason why it's so important to vote for Hillary (as if you needed any more reasons!) No matter what happens with Trump, Congress is going to be a majority Republican/Tea Party. And you don't want to live in an America with Trump as president and a Republican/Tea Party majority in the House and Senate. It would be madness.

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    • From what I've read the House is going to stay in Republican hands for the near future. The Senate is likely to flip back to the Democrats this year.yuekit
    • The Senate is decided by such a small number of races, you can be sure there will be huge spending on both sides.yuekit
    • Yes we need more corruption n more neocon policies.yurimon
    • Yurim-yawn.
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    • Would you hire a bank robber to be bank manager? or you can be easily programmed out of making ethical choicesyurimon
    • Better than hiring a demented clown to replace the manager, just because the bank got robbed.monospaced
    • Using your analogy, that's pretty much what you're arguing here.monospaced
    • Word, yuekitBonSeff
    • Cmon yuri mon, don't be a yurimoron.yuekit
    • More like yurimOFF am I right guys?
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    • Got to rise out of that primate level mental state, achieve enlightenment and oneness with the world.yuekit
    • Would love to see Paul and Rubio get kicked to the curb.BonSeff
    • Trump = primate level
      Not Trump = human level      yuekit
    • Thats your assumption, based on discriminationyurimon
    • support corruption!
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    • Are you suggesting that political donations from private citizens counts as corruption?
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    • ^oh my naive friend how deep have you looked what info have you examined?yurimon
    • condescending as fuckmonospaced
    • don't you mean political donations from private well funded billionaires?
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    • Condescending cause he hasnt looked deep into the clinons and talks like a leading expert of how good they are?yurimon
    • no, because you are calling people naive and constantly questioning and judging people's knowledgemonospaced
    • its true. he hasnt really stepped up with anything indepth for many years or more maybe few posts. high school level current eventsyurimon
    • its ok he doesnt want to explore a subject deeper yet talk like he does.yurimon
    • you are hilariousmonospaced
    • Either no one can contribute, or everyone can. You can't single out billionaires. Although, I think there should be extreme limits on campaign donations.
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    • im saying you havent done your research on her. period,yurimon
    • how low mentioning her period!!!! so sexist.fadein11
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