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To: i-node who wrote (968637)9/30/2016 2:33:19 AM
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Clinton Campaign Considers Giving Up On Florida. More Swing State Losses To Follow? - DCWhispers.com

While putting on a brave “we won!” face following the first presidential debate, Hillary Clinton and her campaign is facing some very hard truths in the all-important swing state of Florida.

Namely, that Donald Trump is winning there – and winning big.



Concerns have mounted within the Clinton campaign regarding the looming “Florida problem” for several weeks, and most recently, and despite millions in spent advertising targeting the state, Donald Trump’s lead in Florida is now turning into domination.

Internal polling is said to show Trump nearing a remarkable DOUBLE-DIGIT lead in the Sunshine State over the former Obama Secretary of State and for the first time, Team Clinton has to face the very real possibility of curtailing the campaign’s until now, blank check spending habits as Trump begins to challenge Clinton in historically blue states like Michigan and Maine.



Days earlier, the Clinton campaign planned multiple events in Florida, (including still scheduled events by Michelle Obama) hoping to motivate what appears to be disinterested minority voters. And then, just yesterday, Hillary Clinton was a no-show at a planned event in Hollywood, Florida. The campaign gave no public statement regarding Mrs. Clinton’s sudden absence, but perhaps it was the embarrassment of only a handful of supporters showing up and being outnumbered by Trump supporters standing just across the street:



To: i-node who wrote (968637)9/30/2016 10:28:36 AM
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What? The Great Dying? Actually, we are pretty certain it was a catastrophic climate change. As to the exact nature of that change, the available evidence points to massive volcano eruptions that greatly increased the CO2 in the atmosphere. Now there might have been some other events that contributed to it, but that was the major driver.