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I guarantee that she does not know a single Trump voter. Problem with the writing and talking heads: they observe the common folk from a distance, but they do not live in the world like we do.

Hillary Clinton to use larger podium than Donald Trump at first debate to make up for height disadvantage

I think this is about the scourge of Heightism. Better to make Trump stand in a hole in the stage. Harrison Bergeron deal.

Related, The Road To Equality

All students must be equal. Same with tennis players - that would help me.

We Misled You’: How the Saudis Are Coming Clean on Funding Terrorism

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Hillary Clinton to use larger podium than Donald Trump at first debate to make up for height disadvantage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8qo-uiAq58

#1 Zachriel on 2016-09-26 08:26 (Reply)

I'm sure the Clinton camp will do anything they can to give the (old) woman some sort of advantage. Are there hidden handles in her podium to help hold her up?

#2 JC on 2016-09-26 08:54 (Reply)

exchange bewtween
Blogger Jupiter and Sofa King ..
Jupiter
"... As best I can tell, the whole concept of policy-wonk-as-qualification is a relatively modern invention, circa Woodrow Wilson I guess. It became popular in era of command economies, when everyone assumed that a technocrat would make the best national leader.

It is this very consensus that is expiring and providing the base of support for Trump."

Sofa King:Good point. But what many overlook here, is that different voters have very different perceptions of what makes a good President. Potential Hillary voters are mostly concerned with what is in it for them. Will the government pay for my birth control? My abortion? My Obamaphone? My idiotic grant proposal? My Section 8 apartment? My Climate Change Conference in Rio? My Billion-Dollar Alternative Energy Racket?

At the retail level, a lot of this goes back to the 19th Amendment. Apparently, a substantial fraction of American voters are more concerned with who pays for their birth control (Hint, why not that guy there between your knees?) than with how many terrorists the government settles in their neighborhood. Really, that young terrorist next door looks kind of dreamy. But I'm not ready to have his baby yet.

#3 From the Althouseblog on 2016-09-26 09:42 (Reply)

re Hillary Clinton to use larger podium than Donald Trump at first debate to make up for height disadvantage

A similar tactic was used by the NoKos at the peace talks during the Korean War.

In at least one publicity photo, the legs were shortened on the chairs the Americans sat in so their overwhelming height advantage over the Koreans wouldn't be so obvious.

One wonders what percentage of the electorate will vote for Trump because he is the taller candidate?

Obviously the Clinton camp thinks there is at the very least a subliminal advantage in height.

#4 feeblemind on 2016-09-26 11:28 (Reply)

Re: A Sour Surprise for Public Pensions: Two Sets of Books

Pension funds are in serious trouble. After eight years of essentially 0% interest rates, it is impossible to maintain the 7 - 8% per annum gains needed to remain viable - and that's for the ones that are fully funded. There are lots of under funded pension funds (Illinois comes readily to mind) that are disasters.

#5 mudbug on 2016-09-26 11:45 (Reply)

Re: Canada national identity

If you look at the Anglosphere in terms of a family, The US, Canada and Australia are the sons, to a lesser extent India and South Africa the daughters.

The US being the oldest son, is the wealthiest, the strongest, went through a rebellious stage early but largely came hoe to take over the family business.

Australia is the youngest son, willing to work where and when needed, but always more willing to go to the beach.

Canada, by contrast seems to have a national middle-child complex. They don't want to define themselves as a lesser copy of their parents or older brother, but everyone, including themselves keeps making the comparison.

#6 Another Guy named Dan on 2016-09-26 14:02 (Reply)

I liked the photo in the Elizabeth Drew essay of Hillary standing in front of a stained glass window. I makes her look so...holy. And she has ...what's the word?...worked so hard all these years, but she gets no credit. And the part about Americans not being ready for a woman president or even candidate. It's so true. Just think of how badly those sexist conservatives mistreated Maggie Thatcher in the 1980's.

Back to reality. There is going to be something about pollutants and poorer areas, which tend to be minority areas. The suburbs have been inhabited more recently, so there's not going to be much buildup. Cities had more polluting industries, higher population densities, and more corrupt governments. As soon as people made a few bucks in those polluting jobs they tried to move out, or at least get the wife and kids out into a better space, even if Dad went into the city every day. And those people had generally cleaned up their spaces better than the ones who couldn't find their way out. That's not cause, but byproduct. That's a pretty dilute racism at that point.

Dilute racism. Homeopathic racism. Oh yes, I have to think that through and write that up. Free to steal it, any of you.

#7 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2016-09-26 15:08 (Reply)

re HRC

Patterico found some graphics up showing what each candidate needs to do tonight to win the debate.

Trump must:

1) Stop lying

2) Show humility

3) Fill in the gaps in his policy proposals

Hillary must:

1) Sell her presidency

2) Be the Clinton who shines in a smaller crowd

3) Get those jokes off, adding levity

Methinks the media has set a much lower bar for Clinton than they have for Trump as a baseline for success tonight.

http://patterico.com/2016/09/26/debate-prep-big-media-seems-to-think-trump-lies/

#7.1 feeblemind on 2016-09-26 15:54 (Reply)

That list for Hillary looks like a low bar at first glance, but historically, she has only been able to accomplish those things among people who already support her. They will of course claim that she has done exactly that. The jokes will be simple meanness, devoid of wit but delivered with the required tone, and her own people will laugh.

I grant, however, that she sold her presidency years ago. So she has accomplished step one.

#8 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2016-09-26 16:15 (Reply)

Riots

Riots
Tulsa- black,population 62,000
Charlotte- black population- 506,000, enough to reach critical mass

#9 FRP on 2016-09-26 22:27 (Reply)

Speaking as a native of the Tulsa metro, it's much more complex than that.

For one thing, we aren't the south and don't have the baggage that comes with it. We also don't have the ethnic/tribal mentality that seems to feed racial (not necessarily racist) divisions of the north. There's no such thing as an ethnic neighborhood in Tulsa. This is the land of suburbs and small towns. People don't even live in our inner city. It's dead after 5:00 pm.

Another, Charlotte riots were fed by outsiders. They didn't show up in OK. I'm not exactly sure why, but the article gives one good example. There's nothing to gain politically by Dems. in OK. Absolutely no way a Dem. will win a single county for president in Oklahoma. BLM and Soros would be wasting there money here.

These are just a couple of examples, not a complete argument. There are other factors that I am still sorting out because I've thought about this a lot since both incidents happened and still haven't made up my mind.

Honestly, I don't think many people around here think of this as a racial incident. It's an encounter with the police that has many aspects, including the absolute fact that it could have been avoided if the man would have just done what the cop was telling him to do.

#9.1 Jack Walter on 2016-09-27 01:11 (Reply)

Drew: "She’s worked so hard and so long to be the first woman elected president. She’s by far the more prepared, the smarter, the harder worker, yet she’s hit so many headwinds that, though she’s still favored to win, the election is more in doubt than it was on Labor Day."

I can't stop laughing. Let me fix that for you:
"She's ridden Bill's sleazy coattails for so long, and had to pretend to care about women's rights while putting up with a sexual predator because he can get her jobs. She has bungled operations from the Whitehouse Travel Agency to Benghazi and has found it REALLY hard to remember which lies she told to whom. The morons like me can't understand why those dolts in FlyOver Land don't feel the same sort of tingle down my leg when she speaks in that screechy, entitled whine of a voice. We're doing everything we can to bury her scandals while hurling mud at her opponent, but she isn't ahead by 50 points like she should. Sexism! Bigotry! Racism!"

There. I translated it for you, Drew. Don't bother sending me cash for fixing your mistake. It's what I do.

#10 Dangerous Dean on 2016-09-27 00:23 (Reply)

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