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If that was indeed a fusion weapon, then North Korea may have just handed the presidency to Trump.

I seriously doubt that the American population is that gullible. On top of that hispanics and blacks hate him. Those two groups represent a large voting block. Other groups like woman, muslim, and asians don't appear to like him very much so I don't see how he is going to win.

As do most of the US allies:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/114003

Ummmm and women as well, as he is horribly sexist.

Black voters seem likely to vote in higher numbers for Trump than any other Republican as do working class White Democrats. That isn't to say Trump will win those demographics, but 20% of the Black vote should be enough for any Republican to win nationally when the Republican average is 5% lately.

Hispanics don't vote in large numbers and Chicanos -- the only category Trump might be especially unpopular with -- overwhelmingly don't live in swing states or turn out to vote. Muslims don't make up a large voting block and already are overwhelmingly Democrats.

I'm not predicting a Trump victory, but you are far too sanguine about his chances and the underlying demographic realities.

Well,every vote Trump looses counts. The White vote is not one unified voting block that will vote republican. You have his main supporters that will vote for him no matter what and then you have everybody else. Not every republican will vote for him. Unless he can unify the white vote, doubt it, then how is supposed to win?

I guess the newspaper articles claiming you need certain percentage of Hispanics to win the presidency have lied. I will not debate you on this point since I'm no expert. Add to the fact that he has pissed off more people than just Latinos and his chances appear slimmer. But maybe I'm just misinformed.

The fact that the measurements we got so far show it matches their previous detonation makes me wonder if it was an H-Bomb, or at least if it was a successful one. Since they have a fission bomb as part of the core, it could just be a failed H-bomb or, as someone else said, an attempt at a tritium enriched bomb.

As far as U.S. presidential politics goes, meh, it's 10 months from the election, we don't even know who the candidates will be for either (especially the GOP), and the only people who should be sweating are S. Korea and Japan.

If causality works like that, perhaps may mom could be also become President.

How so? So Trump can aggressively address a nuclear armed country. This is ridiculous line of thinking. Only thing he will be good for is making empty threats like Kim Jong. And will surely get US isolated by those rhetorics.

He'll make empty threats, which will get him votes. OvidStavrica never said he was the best candidate to deal with the situation.

Trump will just say he's going to bomb NK flat and that'll energize the base that thinks Obama is a total coward for not killing all of those filthy foreigners already.

The real question is whether there are enough people who will follow his kind of pandering. It seems obvious that the guy has absolutely no principles. He will say anything. I don't think there are enough of of them. If there are enough of them then I'm being stupidly naive and have not read the mood of the country correctly. If so we are all fucked, white, yellow, brown, black.

That assumes (a) that the US population wants a nuclear war and (b) the electoral college math has changed. I doubt North Korea and their routine blustering will have an effect on either.

It's far more of an issue for the region.

Wow. I merely identified a possible voter inflection point based on current events --and I was hoping for an insightful, or at least informed, response.

For those of you who apparently missed the "American Politics" course in your higher education, Democrats have been better at resolving domestic challenges while Republicans have done better on international issues.

Si tacuisses, philosophus mansisses.

Not to be too cynical (which I doubt is possible when it comes to US politics) but I suspect that there will be no lack of demagoguery on either side of the aisle this year, irrespective of the actions of North Korea.

Right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxIsuY_wnQ0

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