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The guardian reports on a sobering event in Washington DC.
US police have arrested a man wielding an assault rifle who entered a pizza restaurant that was the target of fake news reports it was operating a child abuse ring led by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and her top campaign aide.
[...] The suspect entered the restaurant and pointed a gun at a restaurant employee, who fled and notified authorities, police said. The man then discharged the weapon inside the restaurant. There were no injuries.
[...] [Police] said the suspect during an interview with investigators revealed that he came to the establishment to "self-investigate" Pizzagate, the police statement said. Pizzagate is a baseless conspiracy, which falsely claims Clinton and her campaign chief John Podesta were running a child sex ring from the restaurant's backrooms.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Tuesday December 06 2016, @09:02PM
While it's clear that Trump got more coverage than Hillary did, it's not clear that that's why he won. My take is that there were lots of people who liked Trump (though even more hated him), but nobody really liked Hillary. So Hillary lost because a lot of people couldn't stomach voting for her. Many more people hated Trump than hated Hillary, but (nearly) nobody liked her. Both I and my wife felt it was a pity they couldn't both lose, but when we looked at the third party candidates they weren't any better (than Hillary).
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(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Tuesday December 06 2016, @09:53PM
You were far from alone in this [gallup.com]. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were both in the same league of being hated as Barry Goldwater and George McGovern. Doing some more digging, since Gallup started tracking this in 1956, this was the very first time that both party nominees had a net negative favorability rating - they were both hated more than they were loved, by substantial margins. And that was at the beginning of the general election. It got worse as the race wore on: By early November, both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton had approval ratings were around 40% favorable, 56% unfavorable.
They really both deserved to lose. And anyone who wasn't rooting for Team Democrat or Team Republican realized that.
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