She likely needs to win in Pennsylvania to win, and opposition to fracking would cost her votes there.

Attitudes in the state are changing, but not yet at the point where she can openly oppose fracking and win.

This was likely prepared well before the debate, and timed to reach a large audience.

He’ll spout words, likely ones which make it clear he’s going to make good on his side of the oil industry’s billion-dollar bribe.

Making that clear to people is likely a big deal

Version 1:

• The world is going to end real soon
• they expect to be raptured away to Heaven
• God put stuff on the earth for us to use up before the rapture

Version 2:

• Somebody else is going to suffer because of the environmental damage
• Hurting other people shows how masculine and powerful I am
• I profit from the damage
• Damage = good

There’s a significant impact from the higher temperatures.

It’s not just the management history, though that doesn’t help.

That’s a very plausible claim, but difficult to prove

A fair-sized chunk of this fall’s electorate was too young to vote in 2016, and doesn’t have a real sense of how awful he is, or how much has deteriorated over the past few years.

A lot of people don’t pay much attention until shortly before the election.

His age and mental capacity can weigh on folks when he can’t give a decent explanation of what he’s going to do on a particular topic.

Mental capacity.

He’s very good at tossing out free association, and showing that he’s in touch with the latest racist meme.

Anything else? Not so much.

Also, they’ll borrow huge amounts of money so the handful of people making 10 million can pay 500k less in taxes.

I’d love to get rid of PG&E and have a publicly-owned utility instead, which doesn’t charge the @#$@#% markup the PG&E gets to in order to pay an ever-increasing dividend.

Which is why lobsters have been shifting northward, with populations rising on the north edge of their range, and declining on the southern end.

Not exactly what we want humans to be forced to do.

Gift link giving everybody access. You can edit this into the original post.

Per the article, they’ll go where people want; not automatically down into “it’s God’s plan”

Thanks. I somehow missed the copy-paste

Two ways:

• If Republicans control both houses of Congress, they can simply change the law via reconciliation
• He can tie up the spending in pointless bureaucratic procedure indefinitely

Or, in this case, not being batty enough.

They did just act; a bunch of Republican activists got outed as Russian tools in the process.

Just one smallish outlet where the founders were Russian agents and the staff had a very flimsy pretext about who was paying them