I should have said "majority or near-majority" or something along those lines.

The stuff with Paula Jones and Katherine Wiley wasn't alleged to have been consensual. What is claimed to have happened with Juanita Broaddrick (actual rape) definitely wasn't.

Might just a semantic thing here, but I understood you to be saying that if you support a racist person, you are supporting racism. By that logic, if you support a guy with a well-known track record of preying on women, it would seem that you support misogony. I don't agree with that, because I think a good number of…

Rasmussen had a great track record at the time, though. As did Gallup.I recall at the time that a lot of the mainstream conservative websites, like National Review (which were long dismissive of things like the "skewed polls" websites), were offering reasonable explanations why they though the election favored Romney,…

"If you're supporting a racist how can you not be a racist yourself?"

It was more complicated than that. Gallup used a traditional model of polling that focused on landlines, and showed Romney with a narrow lead. Other polls that used cell phones and online polling should Obama with a good-sized or narrow lead.

I got a problem with calling a majority of the American population in 2016 racist.

The point about the Muslim GOPers and black voters was simply to illustrate the cognitive dissonance, where angry people hear what they want to hear and downplay/ignore things they don't care for.

Some prohibitions are more sensible than others though. Arguments for legalizing marijuana have a lot more reasonable justifications than arguments for legalizing crystal meth. I know people who are generally for drug legalization that draw the line on meth, kinda like a lot of guns rights advocates are fine with not…

The U.S. seems to be on our way to banning cigarettes through gradual restrictions on their usage, with no real ill effects that outweigh the costs.

How does that contradict anything I said? He's the preferred candidate among GOP Muslims and the available polling data shows him doing better with blacks than most recent Republicans.

That's not how most voters think, though. Cognitive dissonance is strong among voters, and that is clearly on display with the Trump canidacy. I've seen enough interviews with everyday Trump supporters to believe a good many of him don't believe he actually means what he says. But they support him because he's…

The polls for Trump supporters are interesting. There is a chance he'll do better with blacks than recent Republican nominees. A majority of Muslim GOPers support him.

I am not voting for Trump. But If he's the GOP nominee, I would bet that he'll get over 40% of the vote. If there's a recession or a terrorist attack in the late summer or fall, I think he wins. For a variety of reasons, people are angry — which is why a billionaire and an avowed socialist are getting so much…

I'm sure your uncle and (especially) your father love you very much and have lots of good qualities.

I respect the AV Clubs entertainment reporting — it's why I visit daily. When they get into political commentary it becomes banal. I know exactly what the AV Club writer is going to think, and it's not going to be particularly insightful or unique.

Ditto. The death also made me wonder why I stuck with the series for so long.

Conversely, I stopped reading Batman comics when Damien Wayne was introduced to the series and beheaded a underutilized villain.

I stuck it out for some reason until Glen. That was enough for me, and I wished I had quit long before.

It's all a wonderful mess, which is why I get annoyed at people who try to designate white or black people as being responsible for a particular genre of American music. As one of the posts below suggests, even things like early blues and country are an amalgamation of influences.