Exit Polls: Voters Split On Whether Roy Moore's Accusers Are Telling the Truth, But 55% Say It's a "Minor" Factor or Not a Factor In Their Decision

Voters are closely split on the allegations against Roy Moore, per preliminary exit poll results—but 55% say they’re a minor factor or not a factor at all in their decision. https://t.co/qjWCbSoasd #ALSen pic.twitter.com/nox2oTfpvM
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) December 12, 2017

The partisan split among those showing up to vote today is Democrat 37%, Republican 46%, Independent 20%. This sounds a bit bad to me -- I'd expect the Republican affiliation to be higher, if Moore was going to win. I know that many people in the south still claim to be nominally Democrat or Independent while voting Republican, but still, I'd think this should be higher, were Moore going to win:

Early exits:

Party ID in #ALsen
Democrats - 37%
Republicans - 43%
Independents - 20%

Born-again or Evangelical Christian?
Yes: 43%
No: 57%

Abortion?
Legal: 40%
Illegal: 54%
— Brandon (@Brand_Allen) December 12, 2017

The "abortion illegal" number also seems low to me. You can't trust exit polls much, especially with a candidate perceived as disapproved by the media, but these polls don't look good to me for Moore.

Posted by: Ace at 07:14 PM

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1 Wut?

Posted by: Peaches at December 12, 2017 07:11 PM (14URa)

2 Which allegations? That he dated some teenagers, or that he assaulted one and might have known another that became an aspiring forger?

Posted by: OCBill at December 12, 2017 07:12 PM (df+Zi)

3 horde notified of new thread.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at December 12, 2017 07:12 PM (ILitO)

4 It's gonna be an early evening.

Posted by: lizabth at December 12, 2017 07:12 PM (p0fBx)

5 "Minor" factor.

ISWYDT

Posted by: Under Fire at December 12, 2017 07:13 PM (r9UYA)

6 Meh, I'm still saying it'll be 10-15% margin of victory for Moore.

Posted by: mugiwara at December 12, 2017 07:13 PM (pFSBP)

7 if Moore loses, will Trump have to resign?

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at December 12, 2017 07:13 PM (ILitO)

8 Go go Moore

Posted by: @votermom @vm pimping great books usually free or sale at December 12, 2017 07:14 PM (hMwEB)

9 Which allegations? That he dated some teenagers, or that he assaulted one and might have known another that became an aspiring forger?
Posted by: OCBill at December 12, 2017 07:12 PM (df+Zi)

The sexual misconduct allegations.
Don't you ever watch the news?

Posted by: Burnt Toast at December 12, 2017 07:14 PM (Eu5eZ)

10 I dunno if Moore will win, but I expect a narrow victory when all the fraudin' is done. Wide enough to cut off the recount calls, but narrow.

As for the party affiliation, not a concern. Not only is it like ace said (lots of Democrat registrations in the south but voting Republican) but Trump swept the state massively despite huge black turnout. Or, perhaps, because of it. And I strongly doubt that culturally, Alabama blacks are particularly concerned about a 30 year old man dating 16 year olds.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2017 07:14 PM (39g3+)

11 if Moore loses, will Trump have to resign?

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at December 12, 2017 07:13 PM (ILitO)

per the MFM? You betcha!

Posted by: BignJames at December 12, 2017 07:14 PM (1Oy/Q)

12 We all know that exit polls are infallible. Going to be an early night.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 12, 2017 07:15 PM (BoMuO)

13 The accusations against Moore have all fallen apart when examined -- not credible.

Even if Moore wins, so much damage was done with a few flimsy lies that they'll be back with more -- it's now a proven technique. In the absence of slander suits and disbarment for Gloria Allred and her ilk, what's the downside?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 12, 2017 07:15 PM (h3OTG)

14 Y'all did see that a Judge stayed the ruling that the polls had to save their data didn't you? They ruled they do not have to save the results.

Posted by: CSMBigBird at December 12, 2017 07:15 PM (xInes)

15 I recall a little over year ago when the vast majority of the exit polls had hillary a lock up for the win and everyone was telling Trump to pull out his concession speech?

Just sayin......

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at December 12, 2017 07:15 PM (+Dllb)

16 So will Jerry Seinfeld's candidate, Roy Moore, pull it out?

Roy was only 32 marrying a 17 year old, Jerry was 39. And they had been dating over a year, so that makes her 16.

And no, Jerry did not do 12 years in 'Nam.

But hey, Hollywood......................

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 12, 2017 07:16 PM (UsCnO)

17 ~~Exit Polling~~ Exit Trolling

FIFY

Posted by: H. Solo at December 12, 2017 07:16 PM (EzdLW)

18 I think these exit polls are all hooey. Moore by 10.

Why it's not 90 in Alabama I'll never understand.

Posted by: Under Fire at December 12, 2017 07:16 PM (r9UYA)

19 by the way, Keith Olbermann is still a twat.

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at December 12, 2017 07:16 PM (ILitO)

20 if Moore loses, will Trump have to resign?
Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at December 12, 2017 07:13 PM (ILitO)

And then Hillary automatically becomes president. It's in the bible or something, look it up.

I wouldn't worry, though, Rudy Ray Moore never loses.

Posted by: hogmartin at December 12, 2017 07:16 PM (y87Qq)

21 Seems to me that in a deep red state if most people are ignoring the sex stuff then Moore has it in the bag. Only if it is a big concern would it spell trouble for Moore.

Posted by: Vanceone at December 12, 2017 07:16 PM (HDMVB)

22 Abortion numbers look good. They vote single issue. If that holds, Moore wins by 54%.

The only number that concerns me is the ind vote. Does AL allow ind to vote in either primary? If so they are a lot of democrats register as ind.

Posted by: George at December 12, 2017 07:16 PM (sqE59)

23 Any word about voter fraud?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 12, 2017 07:16 PM (h3OTG)

24 So... Gonna be an early night then?

Mehopes that he wins over the margin of fraud.

Posted by: Mordineus at December 12, 2017 07:17 PM (cYvz+)

25
Yes, if Moore loses, Trump will have to resign because voters said NO to sexual misconduct.

And, yes, if Moore wins, Trump will have to resign because Trump is "normalizing" sexual misconduct.

Posted by: Half Senile Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 12, 2017 07:17 PM (LATmp)

26 all of those numbers seem to favor Moore, why the hand-wringing?

Posted by: Shoey at December 12, 2017 07:17 PM (bBE6d)

27 Moore is just like all of those other well known Republicans in power who have gone down in the past few weeks because they assault women.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 12, 2017 07:18 PM (BoMuO)

28 Counting margin of fraud, Moore +2.

Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at December 12, 2017 07:18 PM (klIx0)

29 Any word about voter fraud?

Not if we can help it

Posted by: The Dems at December 12, 2017 07:18 PM (EzdLW)

30 Fappers and rappers! Here comes the Judge!

youtube.com/watch?v=DvMBxlu62c0

Posted by: Judge Pigmeat at December 12, 2017 07:18 PM (A1FgP)

31 "Also. We'd like to thanks our Dear Friends, the Jews!"

Posted by: Mrs Roy Moore at December 12, 2017 07:18 PM (RzgQJ)

32 40 years ago. Only remembered once Moore couldn't be replaced by the GOP. The forger's stepson says she is a liar and he is voting for Moore.

I am calling bullsqueeze.

Posted by: DavidM at December 12, 2017 07:18 PM (LC5tJ)

33 17
Exit Polling Exit Trolling

FIFY

Posted by: H. Solo at December 12, 2017 07:16 PM (EzdLW)

Now that is what I call expertise.
It wasn't "entrance trolling" for a reason.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 12, 2017 07:18 PM (UsCnO)

34 >> Abortion numbers look good.

It is our Busy Season!

Posted by: Planned Parenthood at December 12, 2017 07:19 PM (RzgQJ)

35 The only exit poll that matters is what percentage of the dead still on the voter lists voted for Jones.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 12, 2017 07:19 PM (EoRCO)

36 The accusations against Moore have all fallen apart when examined -- not credible.

There's only one accusation that might be true, or might not. The girl who says she was 14 when he tried a sexual move on her. There are some very minor inconsistencies in her story, but after nearly 40 years you'd expect that.

But there's no evidence, and no supporting data. Just her word. He denies it. So what's that leave us with? Are we to simply assume he's a bad guy because a leftist newspaper prints a story meant to derail him? I don't think it will resonate with voters. But we'll see.

If he did what he's accused of with her, yeah the guy is scum. But I'm not going to simply believe her because she said it to the Washington Post a few weeks before the election and nothing at all for almost 4 decades before that.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2017 07:20 PM (39g3+)

37 It is our Busy Season!

Posted by: Planned Parenthood at December 12, 2017 07:19 PM (RzgQJ)

More tissues more bonuses!

Posted by: George at December 12, 2017 07:20 PM (sqE59)

38 Moore is just like all of those other well known Republicans in power who have gone down in the past few weeks because they assault women.

Oh, yeah. I heard about that. Didn't a bunch of Republican Senators and Congressmen have to resign because they sexually harassed their secretaries!

Oh, I know! They even paid them off to keep them quiet!

Conversations in Starbucks, every day.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 12, 2017 07:20 PM (BoMuO)

39 Roy will be along anytime to accept his Senate seat.

..he just had to stop by the Mall and grab a few things.

Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2017 07:20 PM (RzgQJ)

40 If Moore loses, I get to be the judge-person at Trump's Racist Sexist Homophobic Xenophobic Evil Nazi Harasser trial who bangs the giant gavel at the end and shouts "GUILTY!!".

Posted by: Joyless Behar at December 12, 2017 07:21 PM (t3F5b)

41 AL has a weird way of handling absentee ballots.

Absentees are counted only if their number exceeds the margin of victory in the election.

So if a candidate wins by 10,000 votes, absentee ballots are counted only if there are more than 10,000 of them.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at December 12, 2017 07:21 PM (398bZ)

42 How willing are Trump voters/ Republican voters / conservative voters / evangelical voters, et al, to answer questions from some dweeb conducting an exit poll? Doesn't past experience show they don't want to talk to exit pollsters?

Posted by: H. Solo at December 12, 2017 07:21 PM (EzdLW)

43 Roy will be along anytime to accept his Senate seat.

..he just had to stop by the Mall and grab a few things.

==

Posted by: runner at December 12, 2017 07:21 PM (QC/4S)

44 Is there any reason that Sessions himself can't just conduct an investigate into Ohr? Why the need for Sessions to appoint a special prosecutor?

Plus, isn't the IG report due before the end of the year?

Posted by: Tami at December 12, 2017 07:21 PM (Enq6K)

45 Senate Republicans will meet tomorrow morning to discuss next steps if Roy Moore wins tonight, multiple sources tell @LACaldwellDC and me.

Will need to discuss:
1) Ethics Investigation
2) Whether to include him in GOP policy discussions
3) Whether to seat him on cmtes

Suckers of the barbed cock they are.

Posted by: Under Fire at December 12, 2017 07:21 PM (r9UYA)

46 I will point out exit pollsters can only talk to people who will talk to them. I would imagine that many conservatives would not spit on the press if they were on fire so would likely be loath to talk to exit pollsters working for news organizations. Point is, their results are likely biased by participation.

Posted by: redbanzai at December 12, 2017 07:22 PM (FTXAT)

47 If he did what he's accused of with her, yeah the
guy is scum. But I'm not going to simply believe her because she said
it to the Washington Post a few weeks before the election and nothing at
all for almost 4 decades before that.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2017 07:20 PM (39g3+)

More suspiciously, they never came out in the 40 years Moore has run for office before?
Why?

Posted by: George at December 12, 2017 07:22 PM (sqE59)

48 Y'all did see that a Judge stayed the ruling that the polls had to save their data didn't you? They ruled they do not have to save the results.
Posted by: CSMBigBird

They have to save the normal paper ballots. Dems wanted them to have to save electronic results. Problem is, not all are electronic.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2017 07:22 PM (rXkis)

49 Abortion numbers look good.
It is our Busy Season!

Posted by: Planned Parenthood

Nothing else quite brings out the festive mood like a good D and C!

Posted by: Cecil Richards at December 12, 2017 07:22 PM (Tyii7)

50 There's only one accusation that might be true, or might not. The girl who says she was 14 when he tried a sexual move on her. There are some very minor inconsistencies in her story, but after nearly 40 years you'd expect that.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2017 07:20 PM (39g3+)

---

I recall the inconsistencies were more than minor, e.g. called her on her bedroom phone and she did not have one.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 12, 2017 07:23 PM (h3OTG)

51 22 Abortion numbers look good. They vote single issue. If that holds, Moore wins by 54%.

The only number that concerns me is the ind vote. Does AL allow ind to vote in either primary? If so they are a lot of democrats register as ind.

Posted by: George at December 12, 2017 07:16 PM (sqE59)

George et al,

In the state of Alabama, only those voters registered with a party may participate in its primary.

Posted by: Unwilling Participant at December 12, 2017 07:23 PM (YJvPy)

52 There'll be thousands of last-minute extra votes, showing ~~Al Franken~~ scratched-out and Doug Jones written-in, found in car trunks ...

Posted by: ShainS at December 12, 2017 07:23 PM (BiLU+)

53 Any word about voter fraud?

No, some squeeing about voter intimidation like police officers showing up at polls and claiming DMVs were shutting down in black areas the day before the election. Like there was gonna be this huge rush of people trying to get ID at the last minute because you know those negroes don't have ID like ~~decent white people~~, er I mean my fellow leftist colleagues at the news channel.

Seriously how racist do you have to be to think blacks don't have ID or know how to get it ahead of time? I mean... how do they think people drive or function in the modern world? Just because they are black doesn't mean they're living in a share cropper hut picking cotton and humming old timey gospel songs until the election comes along.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2017 07:23 PM (39g3+)

54 Right Wing registered Independent in the South checking in. This is very common down here.

Posted by: Monk at December 12, 2017 07:23 PM (g4lFK)

55 Huh. Interesting but I still think and hope Moore wins.

Posted by: IC at December 12, 2017 07:23 PM (XA2IV)

56 Trump endorsed Moore. Therefore, if Moore loses, it is a complete repudiation of the entire Trump agenda, and he should just do whatever Chuck Schumer wants from here on out, or resign and appoint Hillary president for life.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 12, 2017 07:23 PM (BoMuO)

57 If he did what he's accused of with her, yeah the guy is scum. But I'm not going to simply believe her because she said it to the Washington Post a few weeks before the election and nothing at all for almost 4 decades before that.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2017 07:20 PM (39g3+)

Not to mention that Luther Strange said they never heard one word of anything about this during the primary. Nada. Zilch. And they looked for anything to help them.

Posted by: Tami at December 12, 2017 07:23 PM (Enq6K)

58 Right Wing registered Independent in the South checking in. This is very common down here.
Posted by: Monk

==

what is, er..Monk

Posted by: runner at December 12, 2017 07:24 PM (QC/4S)

59 I wouldn't worry, though, Rudy Ray Moore never loses.
Posted by: hogmartin at December 12, 2017 07:16 PM (y87Qq)

Dolemite in Da House!

That Jones is a rat soup eating Mofo.....Can Ya Dig It?

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 12, 2017 07:24 PM (EoRCO)

60 14 year olds?

What the hell is wrong with Moore?

I don't date older women.

Posted by: Roman Polanski at December 12, 2017 07:24 PM (UsCnO)

61 Senate Republicans will meet tomorrow morning to discuss next steps if Roy Moore wins tonight, multiple sources tell @LACaldwellDC and me.

Will need to discuss:
1) Ethics Investigation
2) Whether to include him in GOP policy discussions
3) Whether to seat him on cmtes

Suckers of the barbed cock they are.
Posted by: Under Fire

Ethics investigation for shit that happened 40 years ago?

As a taxpayer, I demand an ethics investigation into EVERY swinging dick that used the slush fund to pay off sexual abuse claims currently.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2017 07:24 PM (rXkis)

62 it is infuriating to have the democrats' opening character assassination move to be a kill shot on a safe seat.

Posted by: porg herder at December 12, 2017 07:24 PM (TlvUt)

63 Voter ID FTW!

Posted by: Under Fire at December 12, 2017 07:24 PM (r9UYA)

64 Ready Roy?

I was born ready!

Posted by: Count de Monet at December 12, 2017 07:24 PM (QLvwG)

65 46 I will point out exit pollsters can only talk to people who will talk to them. I would imagine that many conservatives would not spit on the press if they were on fire so would likely be loath to talk to exit pollsters working for news organizations. Point is, their results are likely biased by participation.

Posted by: redbanzai at December 12, 2017 07:22 PM (FTXAT)

There is that. I wouldn't say a word to an idiot with a microphone. In a perfect world, I'd be making them eat it.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at December 12, 2017 07:24 PM (4ErVI)

66 >>Rudy Ray Moore never loses.

I have a copy of 'This Ain't No White Christmas' on white vinyl.

Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2017 07:25 PM (RzgQJ)

67 Independent usually means tea party republican disgusted with the GOPe. So, really the turnout is 37% Dem, 63% Rep.

Posted by: Al Gore's Turgid Chakra at December 12, 2017 07:25 PM (rXZX0)

68 How willing are Trump voters/ Republican voters / conservative voters /
evangelical voters, et al, to answer questions from some dweeb
conducting an exit poll? Doesn't past experience show they don't want to
talk to exit pollsters?
--

Our polls might possibly have been somewhat inaccurate in the past, but now, we're spot on.

Spot.
On.
Folks.

In fact, there is a 120% Roy Moore is going to lose and lose big. Guaranteed.

Posted by: CNN/MSNBC/Liberals Everywhere at December 12, 2017 07:25 PM (aT+Bx)

69 it's probably doubly infuriating for the GOP to be the democrats' hit squad on the follow up ... the investigation of shit what never happened.

Posted by: porg herder at December 12, 2017 07:25 PM (TlvUt)

70 Seriously how racist do you have to be to think blacks don't have ID or know how to get it ahead of time?

No, no, no. I'm not racist, I'm just saying what the Republicans are thinking. Stupid racist republicans.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 12, 2017 07:25 PM (BoMuO)

71 not for nothing tho, I ain't never seen no poller.

Posted by: porg herder at December 12, 2017 07:26 PM (TlvUt)

72 I recall the inconsistencies were more than minor, e.g. called her on her bedroom phone and she did not have one.

Well see I consider that pretty minor, because its a tangential issue where she got a phone call from and nearly 40 years later details are gonna be fuzzy. I mean, if you asked me about phone calls from 1978 I'm not gonna remember anything. If she's telling the truth otherwise, its meaningless. If she's lying about the events, meaningless.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2017 07:26 PM (39g3+)

73 31 > "Also. We'd like to thanks our Dear Friends, the Jews!"--

Posted by: Mrs Roy Moore

Once you get to Washington and hubby starts politicking on the national stage with the MSM attacking every utterance he makes you'll be singing a different tune, lady.

Posted by: Anonymous 7 at December 12, 2017 07:26 PM (ZZdXT)

74 >>No, no, no. I'm not racist

Some of your best friends are Races?

Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2017 07:26 PM (RzgQJ)

75 Also from those exit polls. Participants were split 48%/48% on the question of approving or disapproving of Trump. Trump won the state by 28 points and I do not think his support in the state has dropped that much so...

Posted by: redbanzai at December 12, 2017 07:26 PM (FTXAT)

76 Is it bad that if he loses, I'm just going to assume it's voter fraud before I assume the voters decided he's a scumbag?

Congrats, dems, you and your corrupt media and frankentrunks full of ballots and 'but ma russians!" have ruined elections forever.

Posted by: LizLem at December 12, 2017 07:26 PM (hvf9s)

77 Gonna be an early night?

Posted by: Simplemind at December 12, 2017 07:27 PM (ZuGkg)

78 If Moore wins this thing, the GOPe senators had best leave him the fuck alone if they know what's good for them. Endless investigations and petty slights? Better not. Better not.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 12, 2017 07:27 PM (h3OTG)

79 Exit poll says President Cankles JA is at 77%

Posted by: sofa saver at December 12, 2017 07:27 PM (4u7kU)

80 Well see I consider that pretty minor, because its a tangential issue where she got a phone call from and nearly 40 years later details are gonna be fuzzy. I mean, if you asked me about phone calls from 1978 I'm not gonna remember anything.

It's not a minor thing if you didn't have a phone.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2017 07:28 PM (rXkis)

81
I mean, if you asked me about phone calls from 1978 I'm not gonna remember anything. If she's telling the truth otherwise, its meaningless. If she's lying about the events, meaningless.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2017 07:26 PM (39g3+)

Do you remember if you had a phone? In 1978 a phone extension in a teenage girls bedroom would be memorable.

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at December 12, 2017 07:28 PM (lKyWE)

82 Well see I consider that pretty minor, because its a
tangential issue where she got a phone call from and nearly 40 years
later details are gonna be fuzzy. I mean, if you asked me about phone
calls from 1978 I'm not gonna remember anything. If she's telling the
truth otherwise, its meaningless. If she's lying about the events,
meaningless.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2017 07:26 PM (39g3+)

Maybe it is a girl thing but it would have been a huge deal to have your own private line (or even your own phone) in your bedroom back then. It is likely not something that would fade from your memory or that you would get wrong innocently.

Posted by: redbanzai at December 12, 2017 07:29 PM (FTXAT)

83 Meh.

All polls are bumwad, and cheap low-grade bumwad at that, all stiff and waxy and full of splinters.

We'll see what we see in a few hours.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 12, 2017 07:29 PM (HySvC)

84 Moore would never have been popular in the Senate no matter what was said about him. He's kind of a prickly pain in the rear end and a bit odd. So he won't be making a lot of friends. What he will be doing though, is not opposing Trump choices for judges.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2017 07:29 PM (39g3+)

85 FREEBIRD!

Posted by: MAGA at December 12, 2017 07:29 PM (LnOh3)

86 >>It's not a minor thing

Then I am not interested.

Posted by: Roy Moore at December 12, 2017 07:29 PM (RzgQJ)

87
46 I will point out exit pollsters can only talk to people who will talk
to them. I would imagine that many conservatives would not spit on the
press if they were on fire so would likely be loath to talk to exit
pollsters working for news organizations. Point is, their results are
likely biased by participation.

Posted by: redbanzai at December 12, 2017 07:22 PM (FTXAT)

There is that. I wouldn't say a word to an idiot with a microphone. In a perfect world, I'd be making them eat it.

Just the opposite for me. I would seek out the microphone, and sound like a male Rachel Maddow. OK, duplicate answer, sorry.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 12, 2017 07:29 PM (UsCnO)

88 @72, well I can remember that I didn't take calls in my bedroom as a teen because I didn't have a phone in my room. Even though I can't remember any specific phone calls from when I was a teen.

I think the point was that the small handful (what is it, two?) older teen girls whom he actually dated had said that their parents knew. The only way the 14-year-old's story is at all credible is if her parents had no freaking clue a 30+ man was trying to date her ... which is harder to believe if he's calling her home.

Posted by: sunny-dee at December 12, 2017 07:29 PM (QAOZh)

89 Seriously how racist do you have to be to think blacks don't have ID or know how to get it ahead of time?

No, no, no. I'm not racist, I'm just saying what the Republicans are thinking. Stupid racist republicans.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Dems been saying that for years.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2017 07:30 PM (rXkis)

90 >>
It's not a minor thing if you didn't have a phone.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2017 07:28 PM (rXkis)

Not to mention all of her diner inconsistencies. She's a liar. Her stepson called her a liar.

Posted by: Under Fire at December 12, 2017 07:30 PM (r9UYA)

91 She also said that he hit the button and locked the car door. Problem is, didn't have that back then.

Posted by: CSMBigBird at December 12, 2017 07:31 PM (xInes)

92 So if a candidate wins by 10,000 votes, absentee ballots are counted only if there are more than 10,000 of them.
Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at December 12, 2017 07:21 PM (398bZ)

In IL if a Republican wins by 10,000 votes, they count all 11,000 Democrat absentee ballots.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 12, 2017 07:31 PM (BoMuO)

93 Maybe it is a girl thing but it would have been a
huge deal to have your own private line (or even your own phone) in your
bedroom back then. It is likely not something that would fade from your
memory or that you would get wrong innocently.

Posted by: redbanzai at December 12, 2017 07:29 PM (FTXAT)

Great point.Back then, a private room line was as big as a new iPhone in 2007.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 12, 2017 07:31 PM (UsCnO)

94 Posted by: Roy Moore at December 12, 2017 07:29 PM (RzgQJ)

You're going to be awfully unhappy when the results are in, dude.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at December 12, 2017 07:31 PM (398bZ)

95 >>Not to mention all of her diner inconsistencies. She's a liar. Her stepson called her a liar.

That would be Beverly Nelson, the one with the yearbook.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2017 07:31 PM (/tuJf)

96 53
No, some squeeing about voter intimidation like police officers showing up at polls

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2017 07:23 PM (39g3+)

My polling place is at the township building, and the police station is right there.

Now why would the presence of police officers be "intimidating" if everything was on the up-and-up?

Posted by: rickl at December 12, 2017 07:32 PM (sdi6R)

97
Is this where one runs in circles in the new thread and whines about "no corgis! no corgis!" and then pees in the corner? 'Cause that gets really old ...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 12, 2017 07:32 PM (pNxlR)

98 Happy Hanukkah!

Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2017 07:32 PM (RzgQJ)

99 Posted by: LizLem at December 12, 2017 07:26 PM

If you really want to scare the Democrats, tell them youre gonna require an ID to vote and suspend federal funds to states who will not or cannot certify their voter rolls.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 12, 2017 07:32 PM (XGGts)

100 It is likely not something that would fade from your memory or that you would get wrong innocently.

Well yeah in 1978 that was like having a pony. It was really expensive too, though and I doubt single mom getting a divorce had the shekels to afford it.

That is a point.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2017 07:32 PM (39g3+)

101 It is our Busy Season! Posted by: Planned Parenthood at December 12, 2017 07:19 PM (RzgQJ)

Ben Carson had the best retort ever to PP loving SJWs:

"If it's not a human being, why are you harvesting organs from it?

Posted by: LizLem at December 12, 2017 07:32 PM (hvf9s)

102 Do you remember if you had a phone? In 1978 a phone extension in a teenage girls bedroom would be memorable.
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic

This.

Posted by: mpfs, Show me on the Muppet where Matt Lauer touched you at December 12, 2017 07:32 PM (79p/O)

103 92
So if a candidate wins by 10,000 votes, absentee ballots are counted only if there are more than 10,000 of them.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at December 12, 2017 07:21 PM (398bZ)

In IL if a Republican wins by 10,000 votes, they count all 11,000 Democrat absentee ballots.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 12, 2017 07:31 PM (BoMuO)

Cat Ass Trophy, you are missing your calling as a national consultant for the DNC.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 12, 2017 07:32 PM (UsCnO)

104 I still see the word "pedophile" in many, many places referring to Moore. He needs to sue the ass off of these fuckers. Every. Single. One.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at December 12, 2017 07:32 PM (/o9Qk)

105 With a rebel yell
She cried Moore! Moore! Moore!

Posted by: Blanco Basura - It's OK, I'm with the banned at December 12, 2017 07:32 PM (IcT7t)

106 >>You're going to be awfully unhappy when the results are in, dude.

Why? Will funny shit no longer be funny?

Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2017 07:32 PM (RzgQJ)

107 The Bradley Effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_effect

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 12, 2017 07:32 PM (h3OTG)

108 My GAF meter's broken over this.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at December 12, 2017 07:32 PM (2kiKp)

109 Not to mention all of her diner inconsistencies. She's a liar. Her stepson called her a liar.

She must be believed beyond question. Because vagina.

Posted by: Cecil Richards at December 12, 2017 07:32 PM (Tyii7)

110 Without definitive proof, allegations are just that, allegations. His accusers should have carted around mattresses.

Posted by: Concerned Peoples Front at December 12, 2017 07:33 PM (2X7pN)

111
She also said that he hit the button and locked the car door. Problem is, didn't have that back then.
Posted by: CSMBigBird

Maybe it was a Thunderbird.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 12, 2017 07:33 PM (IqV8l)

112 With the shit I have seen, if you don't show me pictures or vids I don't buy into any of this bullshit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at December 12, 2017 07:33 PM (aMlLZ)

113 3/4 of "independents" in Bama voted for Trump last year. 50% voted for Romney four years earlier.

So I'm not worried.

Posted by: Joseph Dickerson at December 12, 2017 07:33 PM (LDV7V)

114 Not to mention all of her diner inconsistencies. She's a liar. Her stepson called her a liar.

Different woman. That other woman is a blatant fabulist, utterly full of crap and easily discarded.

Now why would the presence of police officers be "intimidating" if everything was on the up-and-up?

The concern was that the cops like to show up and see if people who have outstanding warrants appear to vote. Which I consider solid police work, personally. But they thought it was voter intimidation.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2017 07:33 PM (39g3+)

115
Post election party at Gilli's!

Your own personalized Senatorial tramp stamp for just $19.99 is tonight's "can't miss" special!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 12, 2017 07:33 PM (pNxlR)

116 GOP talking about insanely high turnout in their districts.

Richard Baris (@Peoples_Pundit) December 12, 2017

Posted by: MISH McConnell at December 12, 2017 07:33 PM (y3aQB)

117 Florida Deplorable that still has a D for Democrat checking in.

Posted by: floridaceacker at December 12, 2017 07:34 PM (ykpj4)

118 Not to mention all of her diner inconsistencies. She's a liar. Her stepson called her a liar.

Posted by: Under Fire at December 12, 2017 07:30 PM (r9UYA)

Her mom kinda called her a liar too so there is that.

Posted by: redbanzai at December 12, 2017 07:34 PM (FTXAT)

119 Slappy Hanukkah, fellow Morons and 'Ettes.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at December 12, 2017 07:34 PM (Ckg4U)

120 Do you remember if you had a phone? In 1978 a phone extension in a teenage girls bedroom would be memorable.
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic

Especially when mom said she was FOS about having a phone in her room.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2017 07:34 PM (rXkis)

121 He needs to sue the ass off of these fuckers. Every. Single. One.
===
Totally agree. Ample evidence of malice. A veritable conspiracy.

Posted by: Simplemind at December 12, 2017 07:34 PM (ZuGkg)

122 97 *pees in the corner*

*guilty face*

Posted by: Johnny at December 12, 2017 07:34 PM (kUotE)

123 >>> Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at December 12, 2017 07:32 PM (XGGts)

I like how you think! Voter ID, the dem's boogeyman.

Posted by: LizLem at December 12, 2017 07:34 PM (hvf9s)

124 Do you remember if you had a phone? In 1978 a phone extension in a teenage girls bedroom would be memorable.

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic

This.
--

Yes and no.

My dad was self employed and we had freaking extensions in the basement, in the kitchen and in two bedrooms. One was mine.

Was that a huge deal? Meh.

Do I remember any specific conversations from 1978?

I don't remember specific conversations from six months ago.

Posted by: shibumi at December 12, 2017 07:35 PM (aT+Bx)

125 60: 14 year olds?

What the hell is wrong with Moore?

I don't date older women.

Posted by: Roman Polanski at December 12, 2017 07:24 PM (UsCnO)

I know, right?

Posted by: Woody Allen at December 12, 2017 07:35 PM (Mjus2)

126 So if a candidate wins by 10,000 votes, absentee ballots are counted only if there are more than 10,000 of them.

That is an odd system but I can understand its value. Probably why I read reports that big cities were seeing a huge increase in absentee ballot requests. Want to flood them with fake ones.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2017 07:35 PM (39g3+)

127 She also said that he hit the button and locked the car door. Problem is, didn't have that back then.
Posted by: CSMBigBird at December 12, 2017 07:31 PM (xInes)

Even if, how did she get into the back seat?

Posted by: Burnt Toast at December 12, 2017 07:35 PM (Eu5eZ)

128 Go after Allred

Posted by: Jean at December 12, 2017 07:35 PM (yM/Yl)

129 I still see the word "pedophile" in many, many places referring to Moore.

===========
The same was said about Mark Foley, and all he did was send weird suggestive emails to an ex-page.

Posted by: Concerned Peoples Front at December 12, 2017 07:36 PM (2X7pN)

130 Logic...

If the issue of Moore's past, true or not, is only a minor issue for the voters, then they are voting on other issues...

If Jones wins, it is because the people of Alabama really love the idea of unlimited abortion and open borders.

How does that make sense?

The only logical way for Jones to win is for the voters to think the accusations are true and they are disqualifying.

The exits have been crap for 5 election cycles now, why would they be getting better?

Posted by: Dave in Fla at December 12, 2017 07:36 PM (wfDW1)

131 Happy Hannakah to our Jewish friends

Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2017 07:36 PM (aC6Sd)

132 I still see the word "pedophile" in many, many
places referring to Moore. He needs to sue the ass off of these fuckers.
Every. Single. One.

Posted by: DangerGirl and her 1.21 Gigawatt SanityProd (tm) at December 12, 2017 07:32 PM (/o9Qk)

Yes he does... accusing someone of a crime without proof is per se slander.

Posted by: redbanzai at December 12, 2017 07:36 PM (FTXAT)

133 Easy prediction; Roy Moore will outperform his exit polls.

With all the stigma surrounding him, many of his voters will not want to admit voting for him.

Just like with Trump.

Posted by: JC at December 12, 2017 07:36 PM (3GSgE)

134 97

Is this where one runs in circles in the new thread and whines about
"no corgis! no corgis!" and then pees in the corner? 'Cause that gets
really old ...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 12, 2017 07:32 PM (pNxlR)

If you would get it correct, we could move on to the next phase.

But you have to get the starting part right first, dammit.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 12, 2017 07:37 PM (UsCnO)

135 and let us never forget that McConnell is to blame in this in so many ways. He loves losing senate races to show the base who is boss.

Posted by: porg herder at December 12, 2017 07:37 PM (TlvUt)

136 I had a phone extension in my upstairs room as a teenager because I ran the line myself. Wired into the phone company's box and ran a line up to my room. It was super easy back then. But that was mid-80s, in the late 70s not as common.

Plus it sounds like she had her own phone which was hella expensive before AT&T breakup.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2017 07:37 PM (39g3+)

137
Now why would the presence of police officers be "intimidating" if everything was on the up-and-up?

Juan Williams says that he (and all the black people he knows) are intimidated by the presence of police officers anywhere.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 12, 2017 07:37 PM (IqV8l)

138 Exit polls are....... bullshit.

Nobody is going to tell a hostile poll taker that they voted conservative. Who wants to get their car keyed or a baseball bat upside the head, ala Black Panther "pollsters."

Then there's the crowd that can't remember who in hell they just voted for.....

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 12, 2017 07:37 PM (7UW64)

139 Moore will win.

I'm willing to put a Twelve-Pack of whatever you want on the line for the first 1,000 callers.

...or just the first one to doubt me.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at December 12, 2017 07:37 PM (Ckg4U)

140 >>>>It is likely not something that would fade from your memory or that you would get wrong innocently.

Well yeah in 1978 that was like having a pony. It was really
expensive too, though and I doubt single mom getting a divorce had the
shekels to afford it.

That is a point.
.
.
.Having a phone in your own room in 1978 while in school would be like having a Ferrari parked in the garage, not some little detail anyone would forget about.

She lied and her mother called her out on that detail and she has disappeared from the public eye since her story started falling apart.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at December 12, 2017 07:37 PM (+Dllb)

141 I had to use the phone in my parent's bedroom, the kitchen or the hall.

Most families I knew only had one phone.

If I had a phone of my own in my bedroom I would certainly remember.

Posted by: mpfs, Show me on the Muppet where Matt Lauer touched you at December 12, 2017 07:38 PM (79p/O)

142 What do the exit poll numbers show for A Bag Of Dicks?

Posted by: Monk at December 12, 2017 07:38 PM (g4lFK)

143 How significant is "born-again"? As an agnostic I'd love to see Moore drop his 10 commandments monument on top of Jones' rancid skull. Too bad I don't live in Alabama. Most political secular people tend to be vile.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 12, 2017 07:38 PM (/qEW2)

144 We had one phone in 1978, and a fifty foot cord!

Posted by: Concerned Peoples Front at December 12, 2017 07:38 PM (9y70b)

145 128 Go after Allred
Posted by: Jean at December 12, 2017 07:35 PM (yM/Yl)

---

Just on its own merits. That piece of crap shyster has been asking for it for a long time.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 12, 2017 07:38 PM (h3OTG)

146 My dad was self employed and we had freaking extensions in the basement, in the kitchen and in two bedrooms. One was mine.

Was that a huge deal? Meh.

Do I remember any specific conversations from 1978?

I don't remember specific conversations from six months ago.

Posted by: shibumi at December 12, 2017 07:35 PM (aT+Bx)

You don't remember the conversations but you do remember where the phones were though.

Posted by: redbanzai at December 12, 2017 07:38 PM (FTXAT)

147
In '78 I was still fuming over the fact that my parents had waited until I went off to college five years earlier before they snuck a color TV into the house.

As for phones, there was one and it was in the kitchen and it was a wall phone with an extremely twisted cord.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 12, 2017 07:38 PM (pNxlR)

148 Predictit has Moore way up over Jones and surging.

https://tinyurl.com/y7v3gytg

Posted by: Reggie1971 at December 12, 2017 07:38 PM (AZD0r)

149 Do you remember if you had a phone? In 1978 a phone extension in a teenage girls bedroom would be memorable.

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at December 12, 2017 07:28 PM (lKyWE)

You couldn't just go to the store an buy a phone, you had to *lease* them from AT&T, and they had to do the wiring - they literally owned everything, including the wires in your wall.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at December 12, 2017 07:38 PM (2kiKp)

150 Oh look Karl Rove telling me it's going to be close. Ha.

Posted by: Simplemind at December 12, 2017 07:38 PM (ZuGkg)

151 look, for me, the story was too stupid to be real. "sure ms. mother of this 14 year old girl, let me...random courthouse stranger...drive your girl around while you do court stuff."

he admitted he dated the 17 year olds. Which ahem, most men would do.

Posted by: porg herder at December 12, 2017 07:38 PM (TlvUt)

152 14 year olds?

What the hell is wrong with Moore?

I don't date older women.

Posted by: Roman Polanski at December 12, 2017 07:24 PM (UsCnO)

I know, right?
Posted by: Woody Allen at December 12, 2017 07:35 PM (Mjus2)

Why spend time dating them. Just f em.

Posted by: D. Henley at December 12, 2017 07:38 PM (Mjus2)

153 >>Having a phone in your own room in 1978 while in school would be like having a Ferrari parked in the garage, not some little detail anyone would forget about.

I had a phone in my room then. Even had a tv.

Sadly, no Ferrari.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2017 07:38 PM (/tuJf)

154 >>>if Moore loses, will Trump have to resign?

Posted by: mallfly the Peach of Hoboken at December 12, 2017 07:13 PM (ILitO)<<<

1) Moore Loses
2) Trump resigns
3) ???
4) Hillary is President!
Whoopie!!!!!

Posted by: Sally Kohnhead at December 12, 2017 07:39 PM (WlG0e)

155 Exit Polling is virtue signaling.

Posted by: Monk at December 12, 2017 07:39 PM (g4lFK)

156 144 If I ever had to find my mom, I'd just follow that 50' cord.

Posted by: Johnny at December 12, 2017 07:39 PM (kUotE)

157 With the shit I have seen, if you don't show me pictures or vids I don't buy into any of this bullshit.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison

In light of the Kate Steinle murder and guilty walking, I honestly don't give a shit if Moore shot someone.

Way to go libs.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2017 07:40 PM (rXkis)

158 Moore needs to punch Turtle right in the nose as he walks in the Senate floor

Posted by: Jean at December 12, 2017 07:40 PM (yM/Yl)

159
Y'all have heard that Yertyl the Turtle is going to "leave it up to the women of the Senate" as to what to do regarding seating Moore when he wins, have you not?

That is one stinky baked cake.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 12, 2017 07:40 PM (pNxlR)

160 I had a phone in my bedroom.

Posted by: Zombie Alexander Graham Tesla at December 12, 2017 07:40 PM (Tyii7)

161 She also said that he hit the button and locked the car door. Problem is, didn't have that back then.

Different girl again. There were two major accusers and a buncha girls who said "yeah we dated at age 16-19 but he was a gentleman"

One accuser -- first one -- said she met him outside courthouse and talked on phone, met a few times, and at his house he tried the ol' Joe Pesci maneuver from Casino on her, while in his underwear. That seems oddly out of character but who knows.

The other is the "I brought my yearbook to the Olde Hickory House that nobody can remember me working at and he signed it, gave me a ride home, groped me and I either fell out or jumped out of the car and see this stuff he wrote, okay I admit I wrote part of it"

That last one is full of crap and can be utterly ignored.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2017 07:40 PM (39g3+)

162 It would be entirely righteous and appropriate for Judge Moore to ride his mount "Sassy" to Washington when he goes to take his seat...

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at December 12, 2017 07:40 PM (e9G8E)

163 >>I had a phone in my room then. Even had a tv.

You had your own room?

Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2017 07:41 PM (RzgQJ)

164 The Corman woman has accused multiple men of sexual improprieties.

My guess she gets off accusing men and seeing their lives get turned upside down.

Posted by: MAGA at December 12, 2017 07:41 PM (LnOh3)

165 She must be believed beyond question. Because vagina.

Posted by: Cecil Richards at December 12, 2017 07:32 PM (Tyii7)

Sweetie, I'm a woman, and sometimes I don't trust my own vagina.

Uh....wait....

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 12, 2017 07:41 PM (7UW64)

166
My dad was self employed and we had freaking extensions in the basement, in the kitchen and in two bedrooms. One was mine.

My dad worked for Lockheed and we had one phone in the house

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at December 12, 2017 07:41 PM (lKyWE)

167 The courts generally overlook slander in the course of a political campaign, but it has really crossed a line with Moore. Pedo, white supremacist who wants to go back to the days of lynchings. Totally out of bounds.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 12, 2017 07:41 PM (BoMuO)

168 Martha has Rove and Stirewalt on ... both would be thrilled to see Moore lose, as I view them. Stirewalt yesterday was talking up the Fox poll that said Moore was down 10.

15 minutes to go ... I wonder if they will be able to call it right away.

Posted by: illiniwek at December 12, 2017 07:41 PM (otAqJ)

169
I had a phone in my bedroom.
Posted by: Zombie Alexander Graham Tesla

Stop doing acid

Posted by: Mr. Watson at December 12, 2017 07:41 PM (IqV8l)

170
1) Moore Loses
2) Trump resigns
3) ???
4) Hillary is President!
Whoopie!!!!!
Posted by: Sally Kohnhead at December 12, 2017 07:39 PM (WlG0e)

And there, folks, is a primo example of a Kohn of Shame!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 12, 2017 07:42 PM (pNxlR)

171 I'm predicting the race is called 30 minutes after the polls close with Moore by 10.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 12, 2017 07:42 PM (oIVY+)

172 136 I had a phone extension in my upstairs room as a teenager because I ran the line myself. Wired into the phone company's box and ran a line up to my room. It was super easy back then. But that was mid-80s, in the late 70s not as common.

Plus it sounds like she had her own phone which was hella expensive before AT&T breakup.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2017 07:37 PM (39g3+)

I had a phone (extension) in my bedroom in the mid 70's. I was the last kid at home....think my mom got tired of me being on the phone in the kitchen. This was around '74/'75 ish.

Posted by: Tami at December 12, 2017 07:42 PM (Enq6K)

173 164 The Corman woman has accused multiple men of sexual improprieties.

My guess she gets off accusing men and seeing their lives get turned upside down.
Posted by: MAGA at December 12, 2017 07:41 PM (LnOh3)

Those who do things like that deserve some kind of karmic punishment. Like an overnight stay in a cell with a gang of inmates.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at December 12, 2017 07:42 PM (ujg0T)

174 We had one phone in 1978, and a fifty foot cord!

And it was always coiled up and tangled.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2017 07:42 PM (39g3+)

175 My dad was self employed and we had freaking extensions in the basement, in the kitchen and in two bedrooms. One was mine.

Was that a huge deal? Meh.

Do I remember any specific conversations from 1978?

I don't remember specific conversations from six months ago.

Posted by: shibumi at December 12, 2017 07:35 PM (aT+Bx)

You don't remember the conversations but you do remember where the phones were though.
Posted by: redbanzai

BOOM!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2017 07:42 PM (rXkis)

176 Moore campaign says rural numbers are breaking a record for a special election.

Moar!

Posted by: Monk at December 12, 2017 07:42 PM (g4lFK)

177
164 The Corman woman has accused multiple men of sexual improprieties.

My guess she gets off accusing men and seeing their lives get turned upside down.

Posted by: MAGA at December 12, 2017 07:41 PM (LnOh3)

So, the perfect proggie, then. Give me power, or give me more power.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 12, 2017 07:42 PM (7UW64)

178 14
Y'all did see that a Judge stayed the ruling that the polls had to save
their data didn't you? They ruled they do not have to save the results.
Posted by: CSMBigBird at December 12, 2017 07:15 PM (xInes)

That isn't true. They always save the paper ballots. The ruling was that digital images of each ballot taken by the voting machines must be saved which isn't technically possible on a day's notice.

Posted by: Brian in New Orleans at December 12, 2017 07:43 PM (rnXGe)

179 >> Stirewalt yesterday was talking up the Fox poll that said Moore was down 10.

Stirewalt is creepy.

Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2017 07:43 PM (RzgQJ)

180 My dad worked for Lockheed and we had one phone in the house
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at December 12, 2017 07:41 PM (lKyWE)

Back in the days when you had to pay the phone company PER PHONE, my dad made his own phones.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 12, 2017 07:43 PM (BoMuO)

181 Vic had a campfire in his room, so he could send smoke signals.

Just kidding. There was no fire when Vic was young.

Posted by: an indifferent penguin at December 12, 2017 07:43 PM (WlG0e)

182 >>You had your own room?

More like a pit under the basement stairs, really.

But it was well furnished.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2017 07:43 PM (/tuJf)

183 >>> Slappy Hanukkah, fellow Morons and 'Ettes.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at December 12, 2017 07:34 PM (Ckg4U)

I'm not Jewish but a blessed Hanukkah to you Slapweasel!

Haters guide to the Williams Sonoma catalogue came out today!! A beloved annual tradition, even if it is from Deadspin. Apparently you can buy a latke starter tin for $15. Something every Jewish grandma needs in their kitchen! Jewish morons take note!

https://tinyurl.com/y9r5selv

Posted by: LizLem at December 12, 2017 07:43 PM (hvf9s)

184 How is Karl Rove still alive? He looks like he swallows lard sammiches! I figured diabetes would have at least taken all his limbs and been renamed Matt!

Posted by: Concerned Peoples Front at December 12, 2017 07:43 PM (2X7pN)

185
Watching a Law 'n' Order rerun from '95 and who should appear thereon but ... Abe Vigoda!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 12, 2017 07:43 PM (pNxlR)

186 The reason it's difficult to trust exit polls is that "FOAD" is not reported as a percentage of responses.

That is ordinarily my response to pollsters that want to know how and who I vote for.

Posted by: Malcolm Tent at December 12, 2017 07:43 PM (lhOmp)

187 "Abortion Illegal" Is a high bar. I'd call myself "pro life" but won't go so far as absolute prohibition in all cases.

Posted by: forest at December 12, 2017 07:44 PM (/1c+O)

188 > "162
It would be entirely righteous and appropriate for Judge Moore to ride
his mount "Sassy" to Washington when he goes to take his seat."

What would really make an impression is if he rode his horse right into the Senate chamber.

Posted by: Anonymous 7 at December 12, 2017 07:44 PM (ZZdXT)

189 176 Moore campaign says rural numbers are breaking a record for a special election.

If that's true, it's over. Moore has always done better in rural areas.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at December 12, 2017 07:44 PM (398bZ)

190 I had a phone (extension) in my bedroom in the mid 70's. I was the last kid at home....think my mom got tired of me being on the phone in the kitchen. This was around '74/'75 ish.

Posted by: Tami at December 12, 2017 07:42 PM (Enq6K)

Ooooh, was it a pink princess phone? We all wanted one, you know.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 12, 2017 07:44 PM (7UW64)

191 What station are the MSM meltdowns occurring.? I want in.

Posted by: Monk at December 12, 2017 07:44 PM (g4lFK)

192 1) Moore Loses
2) Trump resigns
3) ???
4) Hillary is President!
Whoopie!!!!!
Posted by: Sally Kohnhead at December 12, 2017 07:39 PM (WlG0e)

And there, folks, is a primo example of a Kohn of Shame!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot

See. That is a full Kohn. Not some mamby-pamby millikohn.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2017 07:44 PM (rXkis)

193 37

Now why would the presence of police officers be "intimidating" if everything was on the up-and-up?

Juan Williams says that he (and all the black people he knows) are intimidated by the presence of police officers anywhere.

Why feeling so guilty?

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 12, 2017 07:44 PM (UsCnO)

194 150 Oh look Karl Rove telling me it's going to be close. Ha.

Posted by: Simplemind at December 12, 2017 07:38 PM (ZuGkg)

Rove should be placed over an open fire on a spit and when he's done, fed to the dogs.

Posted by: Under Fire at December 12, 2017 07:45 PM (r9UYA)

195 SWEET HOME ALABAMA

Posted by: MAGA at December 12, 2017 07:45 PM (LnOh3)

196 Ace thought Gillespie would win and he lost. Ace thought Trump would lose and he won.

Opposite effect in play here. I'm guessing Moore will lose by 30 points IYKWIMAITYD

Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at December 12, 2017 07:45 PM (+dsLj)

197 Ooooh, was it a pink princess phone? We all wanted one, you know.
Posted by: tcn in AK

I soooooo wanted one of those!

Posted by: mpfs, Show me on the Muppet where Matt Lauer touched you at December 12, 2017 07:45 PM (79p/O)

198 I had it kind of sweet in my teenage years. The upstairs was split into two rooms, one had my brother and my beds in it and the other we set up as kind of a mini living room/office. My brother had a killer stereo set up in it, and in the summer I could sit out on the nearly flat roof and read.

I miss those days. So many happy memories of being a youngster.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2017 07:45 PM (39g3+)

199 I remember when we got a second line just for the modem, because whenever someone picked up a phone it would break the data connection.

Posted by: Johnny at December 12, 2017 07:45 PM (kUotE)

200 Polls shmolls. I don't pay attention to any of them.

One of the problems of journalism is too much emphasis on the future on not enough on the past, which is what journalism is supposed to be. Too much of "Will this guy go to jail?" and "Who is going to win the big game?" and "Are we going to go to war?" That last one especially, since the media can't answer "Are we currently at war?" right.

How about the newsies focus on what happened and leave the forecasting to the weather guy?

Posted by: FireHorse at December 12, 2017 07:45 PM (zkGZ8)

201
184 How is Karl Rove still alive? He looks like he swallows lard sammiches! I figured diabetes would have at least taken all his limbs and been renamed Matt!
Posted by: Concerned Peoples Front at December 12, 2017 07:43 PM (2X7pN)

Special arrangement with RBG and the eugenics lobby for his bad faith effort to get Harriet Myers on SCOTUS.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 12, 2017 07:46 PM (pNxlR)

202 Meh.

I wouldn't waste my time taking an exit poll with these MSM dickweeds.

I suspect most conservatives won't either.

Posted by: naturafake at December 12, 2017 07:46 PM (NyJwR)

203 Y'all have heard that Yertyl the Turtle is going to
"leave it up to the women of the Senate" as to what to do regarding
seating Moore when he wins, have you not?

That is one stinky baked cake.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 12, 2017 07:40 PM (pNxlR)

Yertle is full of shit... SCOTUS ruled back in 1969 that Congress does not have the ability to not seat duly elected representatives unless they fail to meet the criteria laid out in the Constitution (Powell v. McCormack was the case title I think). So unless Yertle has credible evidence to show that a) Moore is not yet 30 years old b) Moore has not been a citizen for at least 9 years OR c) Moore is not a resident of Alabama, he is SOL on that.

Also Senate ethics rules do not allow Senators to be removed for behavior alleged to happen before they were Senators.

Posted by: redbanzai at December 12, 2017 07:46 PM (FTXAT)

204 Hannity has on a pollster who has a good record. His last tracking poll had Moore up by 7.

Posted by: kallisto at December 12, 2017 07:46 PM (tLRcG)

205 Ooooh, was it a pink princess phone? We all wanted one, you know.

And, how!

Posted by: Shemp Smith at December 12, 2017 07:46 PM (Tyii7)

206 Corfman blamed her drug use and psych probs on Moore even though court records show her problems started way before that

Posted by: sofa saver at December 12, 2017 07:46 PM (4u7kU)

207 Just because they are black doesnt mean theyre living in a share cropper hut picking cotton and humming old timey gospel songs until the election comes along.

======

Theyre not?

Posted by: Savannah Guthrie at December 12, 2017 07:46 PM (nILVB)

208 I had a phone in my room then. Even had a tv

Me too, but I was out of the Army 3 years already and in my own apartment.

Posted by: dartist at December 12, 2017 07:46 PM (nisXv)

209
SWEET HOME ALABAMA
Posted by: MAGA

Did Neil Young campaign for Doug Jones?

Posted by: Mr. Watson at December 12, 2017 07:46 PM (IqV8l)

210 -Posted by: LizLem at December 12, 2017 07:43 PM (hvf9s)

I'm not Jewish, either. I just like their women.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at December 12, 2017 07:46 PM (Ckg4U)

211 Ooooh, was it a pink princess phone?

I had a big black office phone from like 1960. The handset was heavy enough you could bludgeon someone to death with it. It sounded like a fire alarm when it rang.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2017 07:47 PM (39g3+)

212 Ooooh, was it a pink princess phone? We all wanted one, you know.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 12, 2017 07:44 PM (7UW64)

I think it was a princess phone but wasn't pink I don't think....looked like this only beige or off white:

http://tinyurl.com/y8qhj32s

Not like this princess phone:

http://tinyurl.com/ycrjxa8r

Posted by: Tami at December 12, 2017 07:47 PM (Enq6K)

213 Do you remember if you had a phone? In 1978 a phone extension in a teenage girls bedroom would be memorable.

Holy shit, we had the extra long phone cord you had to limbo under until 1994.

Posted by: no good deed at December 12, 2017 07:47 PM (eIQHF)

214 It would be entirely righteous and appropriate for Judge Moore to ride
his mount "Sassy" to Washington when he goes to take his seat."

Ride her into McTurtle's office and drop a giant horse duce on his desk. And let Sassy shit on the floor, too.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 12, 2017 07:47 PM (BoMuO)

215 .Having a phone in your own room in 1978 while in school would be like
having a Ferrari parked in the garage, not some little detail anyone
would forget about.
---

I had a phone in my room at that time. It was an extension. We had a bunch.

IIRC, it wasn't a that big deal to have extensions... but having your own line?

OMG. Impossible. Costly. Not done.

NO ONE had more than one phone line. Extensions, sure, maybe. But NOT private lines for the kid.

/so... in 1978 I was part of the 1%? I'm pretty sure no one in my family was aware of that.

Posted by: shibumi at December 12, 2017 07:47 PM (aT+Bx)

216 Huh, I had forgotten that Richard Shelby won in '92 as a Democrat.

This was retweeted by Ace Of Spades HQ Decision Desk:

https://tinyurl.com/ycbul8h4

"No matter how #ALSen tomorrow ends up, my favorite result there will always be 1992. Richard Shelby (Democrat back then) won by 32% and swept every county except... Shelby."

Posted by: ShainS at December 12, 2017 07:47 PM (BiLU+)

217 In 1978, we didn't have a phone. We used arrows and dynamite.

Posted by: Bo Duke at December 12, 2017 07:47 PM (t3F5b)

218 My family had a phone in the kitchen and extensions in my room and the rec room/basement. my mother was not above trying to listen in when I was on the phone with my boyfriend. Remember the telltale click when someone picked up another phone in the house?

I don't recall extension phones being at all unusual or extremely pricey- if they cost a lot of money, my dad wouldn't have had them. But I don't remember any conversations from 40 years ago either.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&V. at December 12, 2017 07:48 PM (P8951)

219 Hannity has on a pollster who has a good record. His last tracking poll had Moore up by 7.
Posted by: kallisto

Crap. I called 8.5

Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2017 07:48 PM (rXkis)

220 Weird, in all my years of voting I've never even seen an exit-pollster.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 12, 2017 07:48 PM (HySvC)

221 Juan Williams says that he (and all the black people he knows) are intimidated by the presence of police officers anywhere.

Why feeling so guilty?

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 12, 2017 07:44 PM (UsCnO)

Okay, so it's okay for black folks to be intimidated by police officers for no actual reason, but it isn't okay for a small white woman to cross the street to avoid a bunch of large, drunk black men on the corner. That would be racist.

And naturally, there are no black police officers anywhere, every.

Got it.

Man, the racist line moves every day, gotta keep up.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 12, 2017 07:48 PM (7UW64)

222
What would really make an impression is if he rode his horse right into the Senate chamber.
Posted by: Anonymous 7 at December 12, 2017 07:44 PM (ZZdXT)

Have it take a dump on Yertle's desk!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 12, 2017 07:48 PM (pNxlR)

223 I did have a big black and white television in my room.
I was one of those kids who couldn't sleep. I would stay up to watch Medical Center with Chad Everett at 10pm.

Posted by: mpfs, Show me on the Muppet where Matt Lauer touched you at December 12, 2017 07:49 PM (79p/O)

224 >>>>>>I had a phone in my room then. Even had a tv.

You had your own room?
.
.
.Word! We had a party line until about 1968-69ish and I shared a room with my brother until he joined the Navy in 1972.

Plus we had one phone in the house on the wall in the kitchen after we moved and lost the party line. Oh and we got an actual working TV in 1968. I fondly remember many a trip to the Radio Shack and the tube tester with my Dad trying to figure out which tube was bad.

Graduated to a color TV in my senior year in 75.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at December 12, 2017 07:49 PM (+Dllb)

225 Erin Burnett voice sounds like,she chocked eating a bag of dicks.

Posted by: Monk at December 12, 2017 07:49 PM (g4lFK)

226 How is Karl Rove still alive? He looks like he swallows lard sammiches! I figured diabetes would have at least taken all his limbs and been renamed Matt!
Posted by: Concerned Peoples Front at December 12, 2017 07:43 PM (2X7pN)

Karl Rove, on the weekends, does stunts for Michael Moore in gay movies.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 12, 2017 07:49 PM (EoRCO)

227 I remember when we got a second line just for the modem, because whenever someone picked up a phone it would break the data connection.

Yeah that was a major step in the 80s, the dedicated modem line. For your laser-fast 3600 baud modem to connect to AOL!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2017 07:49 PM (39g3+)

228 I'm not Jewish, either. I just like their women.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at December 12, 2017 07:46 PM (Ckg4U)

Glad someone does! Jewish men tend not to.

Posted by: CN at December 12, 2017 07:49 PM (5gaNQ)

229 Wow. We had a party line until '83 or so.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 12, 2017 07:49 PM (T4n7S)

230 Was is Stierwalt, Thiessen or some other perv that caught cheating on his wife? It was right after they were featured on the Real Estate show.

Posted by: Infidel at December 12, 2017 07:49 PM (EGFUD)

231 Alright! No asshole until next Tuesday unless it becomes permanent. [nudge, nudge, wink, wink]

Posted by: andycanuck at December 12, 2017 07:49 PM (QCX64)

232 >>I'm not Jewish, either. I just like their women.

They give the Best Take-Out!

Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2017 07:49 PM (RzgQJ)

233 We had a cordless phone in the 80s. Sometimes it would ring and you would hear the neighbors talking.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 12, 2017 07:50 PM (BoMuO)

234 Normal polls had Trump approval in Alabama about 55% or more, but exit polls had his approval at 48%.

Exit pollsters can take their polling, wrap it in fine barbed wire, and have it shoved right up their fucking asses.

Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at December 12, 2017 07:50 PM (+dsLj)

235 In 1978 a phone extension in a teenage girls bedroom would be memorable.

====

I had one then.

Posted by: Laurie Strode at December 12, 2017 07:50 PM (nILVB)

236 >>> Hannity has on a pollster who has a good record. His last tracking poll had Moore up by 7.
Posted by: kallisto
Crap. I called 8.5
Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2017 07:48 PM (rXkis)

You owe us all drinks then!

Posted by: LizLem at December 12, 2017 07:50 PM (hvf9s)

237 Did Neil Young campaign for Doug Jones?
Posted by: Mr. Watson at December 12, 2017 07:46 PM (IqV8l)

_______

The bastard probably did.

Posted by: MAGA at December 12, 2017 07:50 PM (LnOh3)

238 Where's Gumby?

Posted by: It's me donna at December 12, 2017 07:50 PM (O2RFr)

239
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 12, 2017 07:47 PM (BoMuO)

Muh bud!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 12, 2017 07:50 PM (pNxlR)

240 211 Ooooh, was it a pink princess phone?

I had a big black office phone from like 1960. The handset was heavy enough you could bludgeon someone to death with it. It sounded like a fire alarm when it rang.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2017 07:47 PM (39g3+)
---------
I hate the new electronic office phones. First, the handset is too light to slam down satisfactorily, and second they're too complicated. I have to get a secretary to help me with anything other than the most basic functions.

Posted by: Weasel at December 12, 2017 07:50 PM (Sfs6o)

241 Yeah that was a major step in the 80s, the dedicated modem line. For your laser-fast 3600 baud modem to connect to AOL!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2017 07:49 PM (39g3+)

Ooooh, You had AOL? I had Genie, then Prodigy.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 12, 2017 07:51 PM (BoMuO)

242 Born Again or Evangelical Christian?

Embrace the power of "and".

Posted by: Emmie -- please, no public display of insanity at December 12, 2017 07:51 PM (/A+Cl)

243 Ooooh, was it a pink princess phone?

I had a lavender one

Posted by: It's me donna at December 12, 2017 07:51 PM (O2RFr)

244 Karl Rove, on the weekends, does stunts for Michael Moore in gay movies.

============

Looks like he is full. Hopefully, he has a drain plug.

Posted by: Concerned Peoples Front at December 12, 2017 07:51 PM (2X7pN)

245 Seriously, how can a person possibly be a Christian without being born again?

Posted by: Emmie -- please, no public display of insanity at December 12, 2017 07:52 PM (/A+Cl)

246 >>I had a lavender one

PGIS had a Purple One.

Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2017 07:52 PM (RzgQJ)

247 234 Normal polls had Trump approval in Alabama about 55% or more, but exit polls had his approval at 48%.

Exit pollsters can take their polling, wrap it in fine barbed wire, and have it shoved right up their fucking asses.
Posted by: Froderick Wonkensteen at December 12, 2017 07:50 PM (+dsLj)

It would take a special case of dork to answer all the exit poll questions

Posted by: sofa saver at December 12, 2017 07:52 PM (4u7kU)

248 227 The 640×480 pron pics came in line-by-line. Kind of miss that excitement.

Posted by: Johnny at December 12, 2017 07:52 PM (kUotE)

249 We had one phone in the kitchen with a 2000 foot long cord. When my grandma died, we got another phone that we put in the den. I had a friend who had a phone in her room-- it was a big deal in 1977.

Posted by: LASue at December 12, 2017 07:52 PM (Mjus2)

250 I'm surprised trumps approval rating is so low there

Posted by: It's me donna at December 12, 2017 07:52 PM (O2RFr)

251 Oh, by the way -- New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (Democrat) is under investigation by the FBI.

I'm going to repeat this a lot. Please forgive me in advance.

Posted by: FireHorse at December 12, 2017 07:52 PM (zkGZ8)

252
What would really make an impression is if he rode his horse right into the Senate chamber.
Posted by: Anonymous

Not if he rode in back wards

Posted by: Jean at December 12, 2017 07:52 PM (yM/Yl)

253 Someone is mixing up "Southern Man" and "Sweet Home Alabama"

Neil Young did the first one. It wasn't very flattering to the men of the South.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at December 12, 2017 07:53 PM (wfDW1)

254 If you had Lt Governor Tina Smith as Franken's replacement, you win.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2017 07:53 PM (/tuJf)

255 Yeah that was a major step in the 80s, the dedicated modem line. For your laser-fast 3600 baud modem to connect to AOL!
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

I was running three 1200 baud modems on a Lane 9000 Telex Machine until Y2k for some work stuff.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 12, 2017 07:53 PM (rXkis)

256 I feel cheated. I was never allowed a phone in my room. We didn't get a color tv until I think '75.

Posted by: Infidel at December 12, 2017 07:53 PM (EGFUD)

257
Tell me when I can 'ment this:

Your Move, Mitch McConnell.

Posted by: Half Senile Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 12, 2017 07:53 PM (LATmp)

258 GEnie...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 12, 2017 07:53 PM (MINbv)

259 Neil Young is an asshole

Posted by: CN at December 12, 2017 07:54 PM (5gaNQ)

260 Cuomo is Italian for Corrupt.

Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2017 07:54 PM (RzgQJ)

261
Who will win the "cite Selma and the Edmund Pettis Bridge" sweepstakes among the MSM commentators tonight?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 12, 2017 07:54 PM (pNxlR)

262 I was the youngest so I was the remote control for the television in the living room.

Posted by: mpfs, Show me on the Muppet where Matt Lauer touched you at December 12, 2017 07:54 PM (79p/O)

263 Jake Tapper has aged 20 years the last 2 years. Good Lord.

Posted by: Monk at December 12, 2017 07:54 PM (g4lFK)

264 I'm predicting the race is called 30 minutes after the polls close with Moore by 9.5.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 12, 2017 07:55 PM (hyuyC)

265 When do the polls close?

Posted by: Jean at December 12, 2017 07:55 PM (yM/Yl)

266 Oh, by the way -- New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (Democrat) is under investigation by the FBI.

==

where is this from ? link ?

Posted by: runner at December 12, 2017 07:55 PM (QC/4S)

267 And of course GOPe couldn't wait to cuck in front of a microphone.

House slaves to the Dems or suffering Stockholm Syndrome to the Dems, something like that.

Their heads pop off the pillow in the morning and the first thought is how can they please master today.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at December 12, 2017 07:55 PM (4ErVI)

268
254 If you had Lt Governor Tina Smith as Franken's replacement, you win.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2017 07:53 PM (/tuJf)

MPLS Somalis riot in 5, 4, 3, ...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at December 12, 2017 07:55 PM (pNxlR)

269 Maybe he just stopped dyeing the mop. Jake's been jowly for years

Posted by: CN at December 12, 2017 07:55 PM (5gaNQ)

270 >>She must be believed beyond question. Because vagina.

Posted by: Cecil Richards

Meh. Her's ain't nothing special.

Posted by: Every Guy in Town at December 12, 2017 07:55 PM (2cuLk)

271 Polls are closed in about ten seconds.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at December 12, 2017 07:56 PM (Ckg4U)

272 Polls closing in Alabama.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at December 12, 2017 07:56 PM (398bZ)

273 I once had an extension in a teenage girl's bedroom. It was definitely memorable, IYKWIMAITYD

Posted by: SteveOReno at December 12, 2017 07:56 PM (2sCft)

274 Where's the plaid map of Alabama?

Posted by: logprof at December 12, 2017 07:56 PM (GsAUU)

275 And who here at the HQ didn't eagerly wait for the Fall Preview Issue of TV Guide?

Posted by: mpfs, Show me on the Muppet where Matt Lauer touched you at December 12, 2017 07:56 PM (79p/O)

276 265 When do the polls close?

Posted by: Jean at December 12, 2017 07:55 PM (yM/Yl)

'Bout 10 seconds.

Posted by: Tami at December 12, 2017 07:56 PM (Enq6K)

277 Ooooh, You had AOL? I had Genie, then Prodigy.

I think we started with Prodigy then AOL, then AT&T's service locally.

And yeah to my shame I remember finding and downloading all the celebrity nakey pics I could find, line by line as GIFs usually. Very low quality grainy pics and small. But Phoebe Cates in Fast Times was just as cute pulling that bikini off!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2017 07:56 PM (39g3+)

278 262 mpfs, Show me on the Muppet where Matt Lauer touched you

Kids these days don't believe there once was a knob you had to turn on the TV to change channel.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 12, 2017 07:56 PM (hyuyC)

279 .Word! We had a party line until about 1968-69ish and I shared a room with my brother until he joined the Navy in 1972.

Plus
we had one phone in the house on the wall in the kitchen after we moved
and lost the party line. Oh and we got an actual working TV in 1968. I
fondly remember many a trip to the Radio Shack and the tube tester with
my Dad trying to figure out which tube was bad.

Graduated to a color TV in my senior year in 75.

Pretty much the same here too. That one wall phone in the kitchen didn't get touched without a very good reason and don't spin that dial so fast! I doubt my parents would have gotten a color TV until much later if my brothers and I didn't buy them one for Christmas one year.

Posted by: dartist at December 12, 2017 07:56 PM (nisXv)

280 >>where is this from ? link ?

It's true. Been rumored for a while, saw a couple mentions of it yesterday. Hiring practices.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2017 07:56 PM (/tuJf)

281 Note how they fudged the question to get a higher number saying the allegations are PROBABLY/DEFINITELY TRUE instead of a straight true or not true.

Or at least that's what it looks like to me. But then I'm an uncomplicated person.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 12, 2017 07:56 PM (M06hO)

282 I was the remote control for the television"

We had pliers.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 12, 2017 07:56 PM (MINbv)

283 Horsepuckey.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at December 12, 2017 07:56 PM (oVJmc)

284 I had a surge milking machine in my bedroom

Posted by: sofa saver at December 12, 2017 07:56 PM (4u7kU)

285

Breaking Fake News: Woman Comes Forward To Say She Witnessed Roy Moore Throw Billy Joe McCallister Off The Tallahatchee Bridge

Posted by: Half Senile Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 12, 2017 07:56 PM (LATmp)

286 In 1978 a phone extension in a teenage girls bedroom would be memorable.

====

I had one then.

Posted by: Laurie Strode at December 12, 2017 07:50 PM (nILVB)

We had one phone in the kitchen with a 2000 foot
long cord. When my grandma died, we got another phone that we put in
the den. I had a friend who had a phone in her room-- it was a big deal
in 1977.

Posted by: LASue at December 12, 2017 07:52 PM (Mjus2)

======
It occurs to me that availability of phones and extension lines may have varied according to geographical area. I was just a little kid but I remember growing up in the South we had one phone in the kitchen (I also remember how the cord would get twisted and disturb my OCD soul until I unhooked it and untangled it).

Posted by: redbanzai at December 12, 2017 07:56 PM (FTXAT)

287 Make us proud, Alabamans!

Posted by: logprof at December 12, 2017 07:57 PM (GsAUU)

288 I wasn't allowed to touch the TV. Dad thought I spun the channel dial too fast and would break it.

Posted by: Weasel at December 12, 2017 07:57 PM (Sfs6o)

289 263 "Jake Tapper has aged 20 years the last 2 years. "

Hopefully, he can keep up the pace.

Posted by: OCBill at December 12, 2017 07:57 PM (df+Zi)

290 where is this from ? link ?

It's true. Been rumored for a while, saw a couple mentions of it yesterday. Hiring practices.

===

*files under MAGA, subsection WINNING*

Posted by: runner at December 12, 2017 07:57 PM (QC/4S)

291 I had a program that would print out a picture of a scantily clad Cheryl Tiegs using symbols on a dot matrix printer back in the early 80s. Hawt.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 12, 2017 07:57 PM (BoMuO)

292 Was is Stierwalt, Thiessen or some other perv that caught cheating on his wife? It was right after they were featured on the Real Estate show.

Posted by: Infidel at December 12, 2017 07:49 PM (EGFUD)

Wasn't it Ed Henry ? His wife is named Sheila Hung !

Posted by: The Jackhole Somewhere on fried to a crisp Ventura Highway at December 12, 2017 07:57 PM (M+Lyo)

293 HAve we won yet? I was eating dinner.

Posted by: grammie winger - stunned by Christmas at December 12, 2017 07:57 PM (lwiT4)

294 We got a color tv in time for the moon landing. That was a YUGE deal.

Posted by: LASue at December 12, 2017 07:57 PM (Mjus2)

295 Trump tweeted something horribly sexist and borders on sexual bullying and harassment, according to some chick who's from the same state and political party as the governor who's under investigation by the FBI.

Posted by: FireHorse at December 12, 2017 07:57 PM (zkGZ8)

296
After all we have witnessed these past 2-3 months, I cannot for the life of me see Moore losing this election.

It would make no sense to me at all, especially given the Trump factor, the distrust of the media factor and the Alabama factor with a Democrat running.

Just cannot see Moore losing this.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 12, 2017 07:57 PM (mbhDw)

297 I was running three 1200 baud modems on a Lane 9000 Telex Machine until Y2k for some work stuff.

Did the computers take punchcards too?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2017 07:58 PM (39g3+)

298 Neil Young? I don't need him around anyhow.

Posted by: CSMBigBird at December 12, 2017 07:58 PM (xInes)

299
Kids these days don't believe there once was a knob you had to turn on the TV to change channel.

Posted by: NaCly Dog

Shit, my brother and I were the remote until we moved out. (if we were home)

Posted by: Infidel at December 12, 2017 07:58 PM (EGFUD)

300 282 we had a pterodactyl.

Posted by: Fred Flintstone at December 12, 2017 07:58 PM (kUotE)

301 Come out and vote, church people! The perv needs your vote!

Posted by: grammie winger - stunned by Christmas at December 12, 2017 07:58 PM (lwiT4)

302

Judge Roy Moore is reported to have shot the sheriff. But he did not shoot the deputy.

Posted by: Half Senile Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 12, 2017 07:58 PM (LATmp)

303 In 1978, you still had to get your phone from the phone company. Don't remember too many long extension cords back in the day.

Posted by: OCBill at December 12, 2017 07:58 PM (df+Zi)

304 I had a surge milking machine in my bedroom

=====

Interested in selling it?

Posted by: Shep! at December 12, 2017 07:58 PM (nILVB)

305 Kids these days don't believe there once was a knob you had to turn on the TV to change channel.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 12, 2017 07:56 PM (hyuyC)

--I can't wait to see the look on my son's face when I have a chance to say "Don't touch that dial!"

Posted by: logprof at December 12, 2017 07:58 PM (GsAUU)

306 I was the youngest so I was the remote control for the television in the living room.

Posted by: mpfs, Show me on the Muppet where Matt Lauer touched you at December 12, 2017 07:54 PM (79p/O)

Lucky duck... I had to stand next to the tv and act as an extension of the rabbit ears.

Posted by: redbanzai at December 12, 2017 07:58 PM (FTXAT)

307 Well, I did my part and cast my vote for Moore. mrs cornbred couldn't be talked into voting for him (because she thinks he's an asshole, not because she thinks he's a perv) but at least she didn't cancel my vote.

Posted by: cornbred at December 12, 2017 07:59 PM (CpsN9)

308 217 In 1978, we didn't have a phone. We used arrows and dynamite.
Posted by: Bo Duke at December 12, 2017 07:47 PM (t3F5b)

We had one of the first answering machine in our neighborhood and that was in 1980 and that was a big deal because of the regulations on phones and AT&T. Didn't you have to buy your phone accessories thru AT&T

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 12, 2017 07:59 PM (dKiJG)

309 I have to get a secretary to help me with anything other than the most basic functions.
------
Weasel,
You still have an actual, real life secretary??? I thought they were extinct.
In other news...hubby didn't get either job he had on-site with last week..... this sux!!!

Posted by: linduh at December 12, 2017 07:59 PM (kufk0)

310
btw, why didn't he "shoot the deputy?"

What was the point of saying that?

Posted by: Half Senile Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 12, 2017 07:59 PM (LATmp)

311 Was is Stierwalt, Thiessen or some other perv that caught cheating on his wife? It was right after they were featured on the Real Estate show.

Posted by: Infidel at December 12, 2017 07:49 PM (EGFUD)

Wasn't it Ed Henry ? His wife is named Sheila Hung !

Posted by: The Jackhole Somewhere on fried to a crisp Ventura Highway

You may be right. He was married to an oriental.

Posted by: Infidel at December 12, 2017 07:59 PM (EGFUD)

312 228 I'm not Jewish, either. I just like their women.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at December 12, 2017 07:46 PM (Ckg4U)

Glad someone does! Jewish men tend not to.
Posted by: CN at December 12, 2017 07:49 PM (5gaNQ)

It depends. And no, I don't mean bubbie GILFs.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 12, 2017 07:59 PM (mbhDw)

313 CNN is about to have a freaking orgasm over this.

Posted by: Monk at December 12, 2017 07:59 PM (g4lFK)

314 Infidel

Looks like a lot of Morons were LARP remote controls back in the day. I was one.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 12, 2017 07:59 PM (hyuyC)

315 Where's Bill Wynn?

Posted by: It's me donna at December 12, 2017 07:59 PM (O2RFr)

316 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2017 07:56 PM (39g3+)

We probably talked to each other about stupid shit like this on Prodigy message boards.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 12, 2017 07:59 PM (BoMuO)

317 Kids these days don't believe there once was a knob you had to turn on the TV to change channel.

Posted by: NaCly Dog
________

Then came the clicker. Remember when they actually made a clicking sound? (A very loud clicking sound?)

Posted by: FireHorse at December 12, 2017 08:00 PM (zkGZ8)

318 301 Come out and vote, church people! The perv needs your vote!
Posted by: grammie winger - stunned by Christmas at December 12, 2017 07:58 PM (lwiT4)

--"Vote for the perv. It's important!"

Posted by: logprof at December 12, 2017 08:00 PM (GsAUU)

319 Gloopy-gloopy-gloo!

Posted by: Will Bynn at December 12, 2017 08:00 PM (oVJmc)

320 In the 70s in high school there used to be a dead number where a bunch of people could call in and talk at once. It would be like a party line with people flirting and talking shit. Kinda like her.

Posted by: freaked at December 12, 2017 08:00 PM (UdKB7)

321 Come out and vote, church people! The perv needs your vote!

Posted by: grammie winger - stunned by Christmas at December 12, 2017 07:58 PM (lwiT4)

I still haven't seen any evidence that Moore is a perv.

Posted by: redbanzai at December 12, 2017 08:00 PM (FTXAT)

322 scantily clad Cheryl Tiegs using symbols on a dot matrix printer"

Sigh. I do remember that.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 12, 2017 08:00 PM (MINbv)

323 In 1978, you still had to get your phone from the phone company. Don't remember too many long extension cords back in the day.

Posted by: OCBill at December 12, 2017 07:58 PM (df+Zi)
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We had a ranch house. Phone on the wall. That cord started in the kitchen and went half way to the neighbors. Avacado green.

Posted by: grammie winger - stunned by Christmas at December 12, 2017 08:00 PM (lwiT4)

324
nood

Posted by: Half Senile Soothsayer -- Fake Commenter at December 12, 2017 08:00 PM (LATmp)

325 Kids these days don't believe there once was a knob you had to turn on the TV to change channel.

Kids these days are confused by a walkman

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2017 08:00 PM (39g3+)

326 228 I'm not Jewish, either. I just like their women.
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at December 12, 2017 07:46 PM (Ckg4U)

I have a weakness for them too. In high school, her name was Bella.

Posted by: SteveOReno at December 12, 2017 08:00 PM (2sCft)

327 "--I can't wait to see the look on my son's face when I have a chance to say "Don't touch that dial!""
-Posted by: logprof at December 12, 2017 07:58 PM (GsAUU)

Even "Hanging-Up" on someone has become colloquial, as it used to be utilitarian.

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at December 12, 2017 08:01 PM (Ckg4U)

328 >>>>We got a color tv in time for the moon landing. That was a YUGE deal.
.
.
.We had to go to my Uncle's house to watch that in color. He had a huge TV set from Sears or Montgomery Wards that seemed about 10 foot wide with speakers on both sides of the screen.

About a dozen of us kids laying on the floor in front of that beast to watch Armstrong walk on the moon.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at December 12, 2017 08:01 PM (+Dllb)

329 In the 70s "when I was" in HS.

Posted by: freaked at December 12, 2017 08:01 PM (UdKB7)

330 >>btw, why didn't he "shoot the deputy?"

What was the point of saying that?

Because you could shoot a Sheriff is self defense, but a Deputy is off limits.

Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2017 08:01 PM (RzgQJ)

331 The new ~~phone~~ cookbook's arrived! The new ~~phone~~ cookbook's arrived!

Posted by: Navin Johnson at December 12, 2017 08:01 PM (sdi6R)

332 I did have a big black and white television in my room.
I was one of those kids who couldn't sleep. I would stay up to watch Medical Center with Chad Everett at 10pm.

Posted by: mpfs, Show me on the Muppet where Matt Lauer touched you at December 12, 2017 07:49 PM (79p/O)

Remember how the television stations would sign off at 12 or 1 a.m.? The flag waving and Star Spangled Banner playing. Then... the test pattern until morning.

Posted by: LASue at December 12, 2017 08:01 PM (Mjus2)

333 What would really make an impression is if he rode his horse right into the Senate chamber.

Posted by: Anonymous 7 at December 12, 2017 07:44 PM (ZZdXT)

================

He should name a horse Incitatus and run him against McConnell in the next primary ...

Posted by: ShainS at December 12, 2017 08:01 PM (BiLU+)

334 293 HAve we won yet? I was eating dinner.
Posted by: grammie winger - stunned by Christmas at December 12, 2017 07:57 PM (lwiT4)

_______

Cheese curds and brats

Posted by: MAGA at December 12, 2017 08:01 PM (LnOh3)

335 Karl Rove, on the weekends, does stunts for with Michael Moore in gay movies.

FIFY.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 12, 2017 08:01 PM (UsCnO)

336 *NOOD!*

Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at December 12, 2017 08:01 PM (Ckg4U)

337 LOL. Nia just said a woman got creamed in 2014.

Trump you magnificent bastard!

Posted by: Monk at December 12, 2017 08:02 PM (g4lFK)

338 320 In the 70s in high school there used to be a dead number where a bunch of people could call in and talk at once. It would be like a party line with people flirting and talking shit. Kinda like her.

Posted by: freaked at December 12, 2017 08:00 PM (UdKB7)

We had one here. Before it connected to dead air you could faintly hear kids screaming their numbers.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at December 12, 2017 08:02 PM (4ErVI)

339 We probably talked to each other about stupid shit like this on Prodigy message boards."

*raises hand*

Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 12, 2017 08:02 PM (MINbv)

340 I was the remote control for the television"

We had pliers.
---

When the tv started to go bad, Dad would slap it on the side with his open hand, and that would typically jiggle something back into place.

/I am so old.

Posted by: shibumi at December 12, 2017 08:02 PM (aT+Bx)

341 Kids today will never know the joy of exploring the UHF dial with rabbit ears and tinfoil to find new channels. Then the crushing disappointment to find out it is a spanish channel.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 12, 2017 08:02 PM (BoMuO)

342 Gahh we have to go to the nood to see whether Moore won? You blood-sucking Capatalist, Ace.

Posted by: Johnny at December 12, 2017 08:02 PM (kUotE)

343 We were selected to be one of the first HBO subscribers. I remember the box with 13 buttons if I remember it right. The monthly guide was printed on a large sheet of paper that came folded up.

Posted by: mpfs, Show me on the Muppet where Matt Lauer touched you at December 12, 2017 08:02 PM (79p/O)

344 I still haven't seen any evidence that Moore is a perv.

Posted by: redbanzai at December 12, 2017 08:00 PM (FTXAT)
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I haven't either. Truth be told, if he came sniffin around my teenage daughter when he was 30-ish, I would not be happy. but I don't see that he did anything illegal.

Just pointing out some of the tension that exists between evangelicals and this particular race.

Posted by: grammie winger - stunned by Christmas at December 12, 2017 08:02 PM (lwiT4)

345 Dammit willowed on the party line.

Posted by: freaked at December 12, 2017 08:02 PM (UdKB7)

346 304 I had a surge milking machine in my bedroom

=====

Interested in selling it?
Posted by: Shep! at December 12, 2017 07:58 PM (nILVB)

Pretty sure the farm is underwater in east TX, called Town lake

Posted by: sofa saver at December 12, 2017 08:02 PM (4u7kU)

347 Eventually a political party that kills its members unborn is going to run into a numbers problem.

That is certainly why they promote any and all immigration but even immigrants want children. Stupid Republicans GOPe types don't know or care enogh to exploit that and win.

I think its because they don't want to win and are comfortable coasting in the back benches so to speak.

Posted by: torabora at December 12, 2017 08:02 PM (6dFYM)

348
Weasel,
You still have an actual, real life secretary??? I thought they were extinct.
In other news...hubby didn't get either job he had on-site with last week..... this sux!!!
Posted by: linduh at December 12, 2017 07:59 PM (kufk0)
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I think we are supposed to call them Administrative Assistants now. Anyhow, she knows how to do conference calls and shit like that. She also helped with some Word stuff on the cookbook.
Awwwww, man! Dang It!

Posted by: Weasel at December 12, 2017 08:03 PM (Sfs6o)

349 I believe the original clickers emitted a tone (the click was a striker hitting a piece of metal to emit the sound) that was detected by a mike on the TV.

They only had off/on, up, down channel. 3 buttons. You had to adjust the sound yourself.

But I was only like 5 so I could be incorrect.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 12, 2017 08:03 PM (M06hO)

350 Nood, unplaid maps!

Posted by: LizLem at December 12, 2017 08:03 PM (hvf9s)

351 The most effective scenario is that Moore rides to Washington, enters the Senate building, trots down the hallways looking for McTurtle's office, busts the door down, "Sassy" drops a load there, then he rides to the
the Senate chamber and rears up like Roy Rogers mounted on Trigger.

Bonus points if he fires off a six-shooter into the rafters.

Posted by: Anonymous 7 at December 12, 2017 08:03 PM (ZZdXT)

352 https://tinyurl.com/y77qt35q

Link to Ala Sec of State election results.

Posted by: CSMBigBird at December 12, 2017 08:03 PM (xInes)

353 320: In the 70s in high school there used to be a dead number where a bunch of people could call in and talk at once. It would be like a party line with people flirting and talking shit. Kinda like her.
Posted by: freaked at December 12, 2017 08:00 PM (UdKB7)

We did that too. There was a dial tone and you'd have to yell your name and number in the breaks. Then call someone back. Nutso. I can't remember what we called it, but we thought we were being wild.

Posted by: LASue at December 12, 2017 08:04 PM (Mjus2)

354 Oh who cares about that dumb ol politics let's talk about how to power a reading light with 48 vac.

Posted by: freaked at December 12, 2017 08:05 PM (UdKB7)

355 >>>it is infuriating to have the democrats' opening character assassination move to be a kill shot on a safe seat.

They are burning through all their ammunition.

Posted by: Max Power at December 12, 2017 08:05 PM (q177U)

356 310

btw, why didn't he "shoot the deputy?"

What was the point of saying that?

Doesn't ANYONE do cocaine any more?

Posted by: Eric Clapton at December 12, 2017 08:05 PM (UsCnO)

357 The Sheriff shot the Deputy and then the guy shot the Sheriff.

Posted by: jakee308 at December 12, 2017 08:06 PM (M06hO)

358
Just pointing out some of the tension that exists between evangelicals and this particular race.

Posted by: grammie winger - stunned by Christmas at December 12, 2017 08:02 PM (lwiT4)

I hear ya but I think guy accused of being a perv by Democrats is way above guy who militates killing as many babies as possible on the evangelical scale.

Of course there is always the possibility that people who believe the slander say a pox on both your houses and don't vote at all but voting appears to be heavy so...

Posted by: redbanzai at December 12, 2017 08:06 PM (FTXAT)

359 As sure as Cadillacs have horns, ATT sold dynamite in Georgia. In 1978.

Would I lie to you?

Posted by: Boss Hogg at December 12, 2017 08:07 PM (t3F5b)

360 I ain't gonna mess with Lazrus. He's a danjers man. Lord, he's a danjers man.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Han didn't shoot first. ONLY Han shot at December 12, 2017 08:08 PM (T4n7S)

361 351
The most effective scenario is that Moore rides to Washington, enters
the Senate building, trots down the hallways looking for McTurtle's
office, busts the door down, "Sassy" drops a load there, then he rides
to the
the Senate chamber and rears up like Roy Rogers mounted on Trigger.

Bonus points if he fires off a six-shooter into the rafters.

Who said Superman died?

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 12, 2017 08:08 PM (UsCnO)

362 Exit Polls,

I was asked once to participate in an exit poll.

I was polite. I did not tell them what I thought of them.

I also did not answer any questions. Exit polls are a self selected sample, of a carefully scientifically selected sample of representative voters. IOW, magical BS.

Posted by: rd at December 12, 2017 08:08 PM (4dz1m)

363 339 We probably talked to each other about stupid shit like this on Prodigy message boards."

*raises hand*
Posted by: Anon a mouse at December 12, 2017 08:02 PM (MINbv)

Same here. Hell we had our own BBS

What's funny is that antennas are making a comeback with cord cutters, it was funny to read about these Millennials thinking it's some form of piracy.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 12, 2017 08:08 PM (dKiJG)

364 Does anyone know where the moral victory party for the dims is being held ??

Posted by: sofa saver at December 12, 2017 08:10 PM (4u7kU)

365 341
Kids today will never know the joy of exploring the UHF dial with rabbit
ears and tinfoil to find new channels. Then the crushing disappointment
to find out it is a spanish channel.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 12, 2017 08:02 PM (BoMuO)

So that is where illegals come from? UHF?

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at December 12, 2017 08:10 PM (UsCnO)

366 I guess exit pollsters don't tell you how many people say "Fuck OFF"

Posted by: sofa saver at December 12, 2017 08:11 PM (4u7kU)

367 Dang, there was a huge AA turn out

Posted by: Gonzotx at December 12, 2017 08:14 PM (s587h)

368 "Absentees are counted only if their number exceeds the margin of victory in the election."

Pretty common.

Posted by: navybrat at December 12, 2017 08:33 PM (w7KSn)

369 It's probably unlikely that Dems will work the system to 'find' uncounted ballots after the polls close in Alabama.

Posted by: torabora at December 12, 2017 08:51 PM (6dFYM)

370 With the latest outings of liberal perverts and Dems claiming the moral high ground The DNC are trying to combine the liberal and evangelical vote into a new contingency named the born yesterday vote.. LMAO

Posted by: Don't ride on the turnip truck with anyone elese but me at December 12, 2017 08:51 PM (U5Xeq)

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