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| Pollsters wrong in 2024: | 42.0 / 55.0 | -13.0 |
| Pollsters right in 2024: | 45.8 / 51.0 | -5.2 |
 | GOP | DEM |
| Democrats +3 | 216 | 219 |
The Hedgehog Report - Phoenix Edition 
21 responses to “Thanks to DW (and despite me), HHR is back as a polling site.”
You are both doing well with the site. You should maybe include some legal analysis type posts, Bl. Just a thought.
-Tina
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Thanks….hopefully the HHR polling aggregator will take off a bit. I don’t know of any other page on the internet that so simply compares the average gap for each state, based on polling, against the electoral votes needed to win.
Now all we need is some polls…(there aren’t any this morning.)
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Thanks, Tina. Here is a start. The cases against Trump are politically motived BS. Fani Willis and her boyfriend should be kicked off the Georgia case. However, even if that happens, that case will still go forward with a new prosecution team.
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From the previous thread…
I have been a Trump supporter this entire cycle. Sue me.
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I’ve read that her office can’t prosecute a case she’s been booted from. The case would be assigned to another jurisdiction.
Not sure how true that is…
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Bitter, last night’s anonymous posts had some that sounded to me like NYC, and some Corey (Cory?), Robbie’s cohort.
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I think it was NYC. Not sure about Corey.
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Cory was the Canadian communist who absolutely hated the USA. His writing style was easy to spot. He was last heard from on election night 2016.
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There was also Corey, who was a tag team with Flyboy well after 2016. An alleged Republican, perhaps from Illinois. That’s who the poster resembles, imo.
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Sorry Chicon no offense intended.
You were AWOL for awhile, that is my excuse.
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Understood. No worries.
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Kommie Kory was a Kanadian Kommunist who was math challenged and was famous here for stating that candidate preference percentages could add up to 104% due to “rounding”. His last words here on election night 2016 were “I’m nervous”… never to be seen again.
Corey the Biden Troll is a self loathing sanctimonious Jew who actually thought Jay Cutler was a great QB instead of a whiny crybaby who passed for a lot of yards in meaningless games and in garbage time but was never up to winning games when it counted, instead blaming others for the losses.
The Biden Troll also claimed abortion was the most important issue to him but then voted for Biden and the its entire agenda including the advocating of partial birth abortions and beyond birth infanticide.
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Yeah, the fact the poster chose to post 30 meaningless and vapid posts in a row about TV ads was kind of typical of the Biden Troll. Also the fact he attacked people for spending too much time observing ads but then spent a lot of time researching all this data on “whiteness” in them.
But it wasn’t sanctimonious enough to be him, he would have spent more time on how superior he was for supporting Biden.
NYC was anti-woke, he wouldn’t be defending wokism on TV.
And that was not Amoral Scumbag’s M.O., which is to post some quote from a TDS moron or leftist garbage he picks up at CNN or MSNBS then say “see, they agree with me”.
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However, even if that happens, that case will still go forward with a new prosecution team.”
Yeah, but it won’t go forward before the election.Disqualifying Willis means her whole office is disqualified. A new team would have to be put together, review the evidence, decide on what charges might be dropped or modified, prepare for trial, etc.
Even NBC says that will lead to big delays.
“If a Georgia judge signs off on a bid to disqualify Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from her racketeering case against former President Donald Trump and numerous co-defendants, it could delay any trial until well after the 2024 election — and possibly scuttle the charges altogether, legal experts told NBC News.
For a new prosecutor to take over the sprawling 15-defendant case would be a “massive undertaking,” said Amy Lee Copeland, a defense lawyer and former federal prosecutor in Georgia, adding that the theoretical new prosecutor could decide to amend the charges or even “decide not to pursue it.”
“Under a 2022 Georgia law, when a district attorney is disqualified, the case is referred to the executive director of the Prosecuting Attorneys’ Council of Georgia, who is tasked with finding another prosecutor for the case.
From the horse’s mouth, “you have to look at the case as if you are starting from scratch”
“If Judge McAfee signs an order disqualifying DA Willis, it becomes incumbent upon me to select a special prosecutor and appoint a special prosecutor,” the council’s executive director, Pete Skandalakis, told NBC News.
Skandalakis, a former district attorney, said his office would “begin by looking for who has the resources and capability — not only personnel and expertise but also financial” to handle such a case.
“The bigger the case, the more expense is involved,” he said. He would also be mindful of “geography — who’s closest to the site” — and “who has an extremely high caseload and who has a light caseload.”
“You’re looking for someone who’s a neutral arbiter and can make decisions based upon the evidence,” and ideally someone who wants to take the case, Skandalakis said.
“As I read the statute, a DA cannot refuse an appointment, but it’s best to find somebody willing to take on the assignment,” he said.
In addition to various DA’s offices, Skandalakis could choose to keep the case himself, assign it to the state attorney general’s office or appoint a private lawyer as special counsel, but he said financial constraints make the last option unlikely.
“If I were to appoint a private lawyer, the statute constrains me to pay the hourly rate of an elected district attorney, which is about $70 an hour, and I can’t pay for him or her to hire an investigator” or other help, he said.
He said whoever takes over the case would be able to use the investigative work that’s already been completed by the DA’s office, but they’d also have the ability to do additional investigative work and to use — or discard — some or all of Willis’ indictment.
“You have to look at the case as if you’re starting from scratch,” he said.
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In other words this case would going to trial in 2025 earliest, maybe never. I would imagine there will be all kinds of motions related to the other defendants who already entered pleas alleging
Plus, this trial is designed to keep Trump from office. After November, win or lose, the driving force for these joke charges is gone. Skandalakis (I wonder if starting your name with “skandal” is good for an lawyer) is already talking about costs, which will be horrendous for a Trump trial.
In my view, for all practical purposes, a Willis disqualification would effectively end this circus.
That being said, this judge is under tremendous pressure to give her a pass and is up for re-election in a very liberal area. So disqualification is no given.
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other defendants alleging prosecutorial misconduct
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“this judge is under tremendous pressure to give her a pass and is up for re-election in a very liberal area. So disqualification is no given.”
This is the money shot. We’ll see what he does, but I’m not holding my breath.
I would think a decision against disqualification would be appealed, and those proceedings would come before the trial. It’s unlikely that case goes to trial by November, imo.
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I am certain that the ads are already made in the event that no trials are ongoing on Election Day.:
(Video of J6 riots)
(Black and white picture of Trump yelling)
Donald Trump ordered an attack on the most sacred traditions of America when his insurrectionist mob attacked the Capitol on January 6, 2021 – something that never happened during the Civil War. Not even Hitler attacked Washington.
Now, he is finally facing justice in trials across the nation. However, the Supreme Court that he corrupted cannot be entrusted with ending Donald Trump’s assault on democracy.
Only YOU can save America from Donald Trump.
Vote Democrat.
*I’m Joe Biden and…I’m Joe Biden.
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That article, while descent, also fails to note the senate investigation, which can Dq fani and any other investigations if the ag and hee haw (both useless) get involved
—Tina
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https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/iowa-poll/2024/03/05/iowa-poll-donald-trump-holds-big-lead-over-joe-biden-in-likely-2024-presidential-election-rematch/72774826007/
-Tina
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