HAS ANYTHING CHANGED FOR FEMALE POLITICIANS?

Great read in the New Yorker.

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/has-anything-changed-for-female-politicians?mbid=gnep&intcid=gnep&google_editors_picks=true

Familiar echoes in the candidacy of Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to Congress.

It's a long article, but the very best part comes the the final paragraph.

A little more than a year before she dies alone, in a retirement home in Carmel, California, Rankin tells a journalist that “if she had her life to relive, she’d do it all again.” She adds, “But this time, I’d be nastier.”

Someone please explain the "Gina" comment

I had to sit through a corporate shindig and didn't get to watch the debate. But, reading the debate comments, it kept coming up.

What was that about?

Trump to Rebrand new hotels

The announcement by the Trump Organization comes as marketing and travel experts have suggested that the Republican presidential nominee’s bombastic rhetoric and polarizing presidential campaign has tarnished his businesses.

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Bookings at Trump’s hotels were down 59 percent during the first half of 2016, according to the travel site Hipmunk. Meanwhile, foot traffic to Trump-branded hotels, casinos and golf courses has slipped up to 24 percent since the businessman announced his bid for the presidency in June 2015, according to newly released data from the location-based app Foursquare.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/conspiculously-missing-from-donald-trumps-new-venture-his-name/2016/10/17/939964de-946d-11e6-9b7c-57290af48a49_story.html

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I'm not heartbroken at all.

Willie Geist

I always thought you were a lightweight. But you calmly took down goolianie this morning.

I would have gone off on him, but calm took down crazy. Easily and with grace.

Thank you Willie.

Link to Obama speech?

Does anyone have a link to Obama's speech from last night.

I was at a ballgame and missed it.

Thanks in advance.

The MSM is going to crucify him

After this speech. They have already started.

Since I can't watch multiple sources at one time, post what you are seeing right now on tv or online.

CNN: paranoid all out declaration of war. Couldn't have assaulted her....just look at her. Really.

Good thing he held himself up as a martyr. They just might grant his wish.

Donald announces "Major Speech" at noon in FL

This oughta be........interesting??

Wait.....what was the question?

Once he starts rambling, I forget what it was.

Russia is new to nukes???

Got his hotel ad in, I see.