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Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush once described Asian Americans as the "canary in the coal mine" of the Republican Party, saying that if Republicans didn't make more of an effort to court the fastest-growing racial group in the United States, the party would pay a price at the polls.

Now a new report from the National Asian American Survey finds not only that Asian-Americans continue a steady drift away from the GOP, but that the party may be losing one of its most reliable ethnic groups.

Among registered Asian-American voters, the survey found Democrat Hillary Clinton had a four-to-one lead over Republican Donald Trump.

Alton Wang, a communications associate with the nonpartisan group APIAVote, said many Asian-Americans are increasingly turned off by anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric. More than one in five respondents were undecided. This is especially key, because swing states, including Nevada, Virginia and North Carolina, have sizable Asian-American populations with undecided voters.

On October 13 2016 00:33 Biff The Understudy wrote:

You better fucking do hinhinhin.

Nobody in Europe except for the usual suspects from the Front National and UKIP understands what's going on. People look at this elections and are totally, utterly baffled.

I live in Norway, and if Trump was to be rated on a scale from 0 to 100, I don't know anyone who would not simply give him 0.

On any given day in the United States, at least 137,000 men and women sit behind bars on simple drug possession charges, according to a report released Wednesday by the American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights Watch.

Nearly two-thirds of them are in local jails. According to the report, most of these jailed inmates have not been convicted of any crime: They're sitting in a cell, awaiting a day in court which may be months or even years off, because they can't afford to post bail.

"It's been 45 years since the war on drugs was declared and it hasn't been a success," lead author Tess Borden of the Human Rights Watch said in an interview. "Rates of drug use are not down. Drug dependency has not stopped. Every 25 seconds we're arresting someone for drug use."

Federal figures on drug arrests and drug use over the past three decades tell the story. Drug possession arrests skyrocketed, from fewer than 200 arrests for every 100,000 people in 1979 to more than 500 in the mid-2000s. The drug possession rate has since fallen slightly, according to the FBI, hovering now around 400 arrests per 100,000 people.

Defenders of harsh penalties for drug possession say they're necessary to deter people from using drugs and protect the public health. But despite the tough-on-crime push that led to the surge in arrests in recent decades, illicit drug use today is more common among Americans age 12 and older than it was in the early 1980s. Federal figures show no correlation between drug possession arrests and rates of drug use during that time.

But the ACLU/Human Rights Watch report shows that arrests for drug possession continue to make up a significant chunk of modern-day police work.

"Around the country, police make more arrests for drug possession than for any other crime," the report finds, citing FBI data. "More than one of every nine arrests by state law enforcement is for drug possession, amounting to more than 1.25 million arrests each year."

In fact, police make more arrests for marijuana possession alone than for all violent crimes combined.

On October 13 2016 00:37 LegalLord wrote:

I also have a friend who recently got promoted to NM. That is pretty consistent with what you describe here. I could definitely believe that there are less than 1000 people as good as he is at chess (perhaps corroborated by his actual chess results, lol).

Honestly chess loses a lot of its appeal when you realize that no matter how well you learn, someone could load up an easily available piece of software on a low-end mobile phone and have it kick your sorry ass to the curb. It gives the entire game a sort of "humans are obsolete at this task" that makes it interesting from a personal enjoyment perspective, but not from a "learn to be the very best" perspective.

On October 13 2016 00:40 KwarK wrote:
My bad. I took it as he didn't know of anyone in Norway who would support Trump.

On October 13 2016 00:37 LegalLord wrote:

I also have a friend who recently got promoted to NM. That is pretty consistent with what you describe here. I could definitely believe that there are less than 1000 people as good as he is at chess (perhaps corroborated by his actual chess results, lol).

Honestly chess loses a lot of its appeal when you realize that no matter how well you learn, someone could load up an easily available piece of software on a low-end mobile phone and have it kick your sorry ass to the curb. It gives the entire game a sort of "humans are obsolete at this task" that makes it interesting from a personal enjoyment perspective, but not from a "learn to be the very best" perspective.

On October 13 2016 00:37 KwarK wrote:

Brevik. Your move.

On October 13 2016 00:14 Danglars wrote:

I think you need to review the quote. Let me rephrase this in a way you might understand: Are you mad at Obama that his FBI and Justice department let a criminal go free? When you allege a miscarriage of justice, the plain meaning is under a different administration, the internal corruption wouldn't have held sway over the investigation. For the rest of it, people should open their ears to the part when Trump called for an independent investigator/special prosecutor. That point was the very one I wanted my elected representatives to push for when the story broke.

I even heard from people in this thread justifying giving Hillary preferential treatment before the law given its impact on the election process who admit a low-ranking official would be put on trial and deserve it.

I'd have a lot more sympathy if Democrats showed the same concern to abusing the legal process against people like David Daleiden, Scott Walker, and the broad threats of jail made against climate change deniers. If one shocks and offends and the other gets zero media attention and zero outrage, I'd say the real problem is partisanship.

On October 13 2016 00:57 Dan HH wrote:
https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/786213593750474752

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On October 13 2016 01:04 Gorsameth wrote:

Holy crap that sounded terrible...

Surely they can do better then that Oo

On October 13 2016 01:08 Biff The Understudy wrote:
So wikileaks now publishes indiscriminately private emails that contain no special scandal or revelation and that are given to them by a foreign power trying to temper with the election.

I mean, in what universe is that ok?

On October 13 2016 01:04 Mohdoo wrote:
Something about "Re: Risotto" just cracks me up.