US Politics Mega-thread - Page 4417

On July 23 2016 10:07 Plansix wrote:
It is easy to go up and down on this map based on specific state polling, rather than national polls. Trump didn't go up, Clinton just lost votes to third parties over the last 10 days, which is not insane based on last times data. Also the convention has not happened yet.

Trump tanked like 13% in slight over 10 days before the rally. Its a roller coaster.

On July 23 2016 10:09 GGTeMpLaR wrote:


On what you linked he went up 20% too

On July 23 2016 10:10 LegalLord wrote:
That was a solid enough convention for Trump and I think it will give him a reasonably strong boost for the next week. The question is, how much of that support will stick, and the answer is that no one really knows.

On July 23 2016 10:11 Plansix wrote:

And he lost 13% right before that. He started at 33% and tanked to 21%.



And the people who decide elections have historically made up their mind in the 4 weeks of the election.

On July 23 2016 10:17 GGTeMpLaR wrote:


10 days ago he was at 20% with clinton at 80%, now he's at 40% with clinton at 60%

It's obviously extremely volatile right now and so what you see today isn't really necessarily reflective at all what it will be in November

That's the take away from this

The White House on Thursday announced an array of new initiatives aimed at clinching one key goal in a transition away from burning fossil fuels — switching the nation’s millions of drivers from gas guzzlers to electric vehicles.

The key to this transition? Installing a widespread national network of electric vehicle charging stations that will allow potential drivers to get around a key psychological problem: “range anxiety.” At present, many people are justifiably afraid that they’ll run out of charge on their EV far from a station where they can repower its battery. We know it’s easy in most places to find a gas station, but we don’t know as much about charging stations. And without that assurance, EV sales will continue to be held back.

To change this, the White House announced a new designation of up to $4.5 billion in Energy Department loan guarantees to support new types of EV charging infrastructure, plans to designate and develop key electric vehicle “charging corridors” across the country, plans for the government itself to procure large numbers of electric vehicles and research initiatives at the Department of Energy and its laboratories to improve EV charging technologies.

The array of initiatives “serves the goal of providing consumers with more comfort that they will be able to move across regions and across the country in their electric vehicles,” said Brian Deese, a senior adviser to President Obama, on a call with reporters.

At the same time, the White House announced that some of the country’s largest power companies and automakers — ranging from Duke Energy to the Southern Company, and from Ford to Tesla — had signed on to a joint statement pledging to “drive the market transformation to electric vehicles by making it easy for consumers to charge their vehicles.”

The partnership signals that even as Tesla and other automakers build more electric cars, companies like Duke, the country’s largest electric utility, are taking steps to create more facilities to accommodate them. Duke recently announced a plan to offer cities in North Carolina $1 million to develop charging facilities, even though there are only about 4,700 EVs in the state right now, the company’s Randy Wheeless said in a recent interview with The Washington Post.

On July 23 2016 10:03 GGTeMpLaR wrote:
Wow she tanked 20% in 10 days?

On July 23 2016 11:36 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
But does nothing to benefit the rust belt.