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Jeanne_S
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My thoughts exactly!
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Ridgerunner
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Maybe it’s just here, but I also see more and more French on labels. I don’t know who that’s for; residents of Maine, perhaps? Or it simply could be that some of the products one sees (particularly mechanical devices) are sold internationally and perhaps English, Spanish and French in combination communicate to almost everybody.
Of interest, one does not see Chinese on labels, possibly indicative of the difficulty of selling into the Chinese market. Kind of ironic because so many of those things are made in China.
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Ridgerunner
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Perhaps as a “politically correct” thing, but it’s very difficult for a country to be fully bilingual. They found that out in Ukraine where, for a time, both Ukrainian and Russian were “official” languages. Now, keeping in mind that the two are largely mutually intelligible and that most Ukrainians are bilingual anyway, they finally abandoned it because when you have “official” languages, everything has to be in both languages, including the laws and the courts. The court system was made unnecessarily expensive because of it.
A more simple expedient is what we have now, and have always had. When a person can’t speak English in Court, a translator is provided. That’s the way it is now in Ukraine, as I understand it. If a Russian speaker simply can’t understand without a translator, one is provided. But not everything has to be in both languages; all testimony, transcripts, court records, forms, procedures, decisions, etc.
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_Abyssinia
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sallybutler
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I think it is partly a result of NAFTA making trade between Canada, the US and Mexico easier. If you are going to sell to all three countries, doesn’t it make sense to provide documentation and labeling in all three languages.
This is not new. Maybe because I took French in high school, I try to read the French instructions and labels. I’ve been doing this for a good 30 years. Especially with hair products.
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FireAnt
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I seem to remember that many thought there was little difference in 2000. And then Bush proved otherwise by starting the Iraq War, which I’m sure a President Gore would have never started.
Is there a reason that you think Clinton would be as bad as Trump?
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Sy_Noe
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Doesn’t mean a hill of beans. Another has Clinton up by 6.
cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-leads-by-two-points-in-one-poll-hillary-clinton-up-six-points-in-another/
OTOH instead of focusing on the nationwide vote in various polls, here is where the rubber meets the road:
Despite tightening polls, Hillary Clinton still maintains a significant lead over Trump, according to the newest NBC News battleground map. Clinton stands at 272 electoral votes. Surpassing the required 270. Trump is only at 174, and 92 are in the tossup column.
Which means as of right now, even if Hillary Clinton were to lose all of those in the tossup column, FL, OH, NV, IA, NC and GA, she would still be elected President of the United States.
So while Clinton isn’t ahead by as much as she was last month, she still exceeds the 270 electoral votes needed for victory. And perhaps more notably, Trump hasn’t added anything to his column.
nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/first-read-despite-tightening-clinton-maintains-battleground-lead-n643291
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_Abyssinia
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She gets to 272 because they are giving her states like Pennsylvania, New Hampshire and Michigan among others. Consider that an +8 Clinton turned into a +2 Trump lead in the CNN/ORC poll at the national level. If that can happen at the national level it could happen at the state level. Very credible polling firm, Emerson polling, in their poll had Trump behind in Pennsylvania by 3, and Michigan by 5: thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/293697-poll-clinton-leads-trump-in-pa-mi-dead-heat-in-oh
These are not insurmountable.
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kat07
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Hillary is at an advantage when it comes to electoral votes, but right now it means nothing.
In 10 states, which hold 168 electoral votes, neither candidate has a lead of four percentage points or better.
Hillary leads by four points or more in 20 states plus the District of Columbia. Together they add up to 244 electoral votes, 26 shy of the 270 needed to win.
Trump leads by at least four points in 20 states as well, but those add up to just 126 electoral votes.
There is a close race at hand, the swing states (OH, WI, PA, MI, WI, VA, FL IA, CO, NH) will decide who wins.
In 10 states, which hold 168 electoral votes, neither candidate has a lead of four percentage points or better.
Hillary leads by four points or more in 20 states plus the District of Columbia. Together they add up to 244 electoral votes, 26 shy of the 270 needed to win.
Trump leads by at least four points in 20 states as well, but those add up to just 126 electoral votes.
There is a close race at hand, the swing states (OH, WI, PA, MI, WI, VA, FL IA, CO, NH) will decide who wins.
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Sy_Noe
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The RCP average is +6.5 in PA for Clinton and an even larger average lead in MI of +7.3.
Incidentally CNN, the news organization whose single poll you cited showing the slimmest of leads for Trump, is actually in line with NBC’s assessment of the actual Electoral College map.
And as far as percentages nationally, Obama won nationally in 2012 by only 4% but scored an Electoral College landslide. Bush only won nationally by 2% in 2004. And he didn’t even win nationally in 2000.
And Hillary seems to be playing the long game. Spending time fundraising last month was an example of that. We shall have to wait and see if it pays off for her in the homestretch. Plus she is known to have a better ground game in place for a general election which is not the GOP primary. She has 51 field offices in FL for instance. Trump otoh has 1 in Sarasota.
tampabay.com/news/politics/stateroundup/while-hillary-clinton-touts-51-florida-field-offices-donald-trump-still/2291861
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_Abyssinia
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One campaign field office and yet in the polling it’s as close as it is? Wow.
The RNC is opening nearly 100 field offices, by the way, in the swing states: thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/294260-gop-to-open-98-field-offices-in-effort-to-boost-trump
But how many times, including perhaps by myself, what is commented regarding Trump’s poor ground game in the primaries, yet he is the nominee right now for the Republican Party, not one of the people who may have had a much better ground game and who may have spent much more money than Trump.
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_Abyssinia
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The Real Clear politics average for the Pennsylvania primary was off by 14.2 points on their average for Donald Trump compared to the final result: realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/pa/pennsylvania_republican_presidential_primary-3788.html
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_Abyssinia
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Sy Noe pointed out by citing an article in post #330 that Clinton has 54 field offices in Florida to Trump’s 1…
yet:
I’m surprised New Jersey and Rhode Island are this close given they are blue states:
yet:
twitter.com/ppollingnumbers/status/773531745585094656
I’m surprised New Jersey and Rhode Island are this close given they are blue states:
twitter.com/ppollingnumbers/status/773546304832151552
twitter.com/ppollingnumbers/status/773546433664389121
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Jeanne_S
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From what I have read and heard,HC draws maybe 150 give or take to her rallies.People just aren’t that enthused about her.Her trust quotient is in the tank.
Donald Trump,when he stays on message is reigniting an enthusiasm of hope and encouragement for the changes needed to get our country moving forward again. It isn’t over until it’s over.
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