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October Surprise 2016

Countdown With Keith Olbermann, S2E195: Trump Is Losing His Mind (And The Election)

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  • SPECIAL COMMENT: Trump is losing his mind.
  • If Joe Biden gave a speech in which he claimed everybody agreed he was in full robust mental health because he’d passed a test administered by Doctor Anthony … Hopkins. Or Anthony Bourdain … or Anthony Michael Hall — any Anthony except the doctor who gave him the theoretical test, Doctor Anthony FAUCI. If that had happened to Joe Biden there would be nothing else on television or the internet.
  • But Trump has gotten away with it in part because he is so crazy, so loudly, so often, that it all runs together and, perversely, each Trump mental disaster stops seeming like it’s part OF a sequence. Each Trump mental disaster REPLACES the one before it. I have a thought experiment about that to underscore how that’s even MORE true than you or I might assume it is.
  • But the second half of the headline? That he’s losing his mind AND the election? New Ipsos poll for Politico yesterday: ONE THIRD of all voters say they are now LESS likely to support Trump. Among independents, same number, a third, less likely to vote for him; only 12% of independents say MORE likely to vote for him.Ipsos also dug a little deeper. Are the convictions IMPORTANT in your decision whether or not to vote for Trump? 22% say the convictions ARE important AND make them less likely to vote for him.
  • He’s losing. And Biden has finally called him a “convicted criminal” in an official campaign ad. Next? The President saying it himself. I think that is also coming.

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  • THINGS I PROMISED NOT TO TELL: The almost certainty that Turner Sports is about to lose the NBA reminds me of the summer Ted Turner almost got the rights to the NFL. Not the games — the entire league.