That attack ad mostly makes me support Johnson more.

I have lost a lot of respect for and trust in our elections (as a lot of people have now). The whole thing is crooked and designed by politicians for politicians and their contributors. I don't have confidence that political solutions are possible for our once great country that is now controlled by mob rule. Good luck with Johnson. My interest in politics in the USA will die for good if Hillary is elected

Have you seen the latest polls? They haven't changed much since last week's Trump "revelations". And the Hillary camp has been dumping on Gary Johnson for some time.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/vide...

Johnson isn't going to cost Hillary the election unfortunately. Her team would just find some politically incorrect things he said or did years ago and knock him out like she is doing with trump

Many of tests are not really tested. Depending on the purpose, some only use a subset of the samples. In my experience, less than 50% of the random tests are actually ran through the lab. Specific, targeted tests are analyzed 100%.

Those women who are horrified by Trump, but NOT Bill or Hillary Clinton on the whole issue of sex, are really out there. What do they think Trump would actually do that Bill Clinton didnt already do 10x over??

BUt they still wouldn't get any traction because the voters understand the concept personally, so they won't be afraid.
Heck, 38% aren't afraid of Trump (but scarded to death of Hillary) and 44% aren't afraid of Hillary (but scared to death of Trump.) Voters can be irrationally fearless and fearful at the same time ;^) Its a crazy world, term.

They would use the fear of what would happen with his fingers on the nuclear trigger when he went for harder drugs in the future ( or the past). Its always the fear of "what if..." that they use. Cant refute it but it has its effect on voting.

The opposition would try and fail because we know the effects of the drug personally. (hypothetically of course ;^)

Funny. I remember a high school teacher who passed a drug test because he was stoned at the time of the test. (That was long ago. Likely testing is much better now.)

Having been around with the dinosaurs, I can remember in the mid 60's a mid size car cost like $3000. Same thing now costs $40,000 "dollars". Gold was $42 an ounce then, and $1300 now. Silver was $1.29 per ounce and now is more like $20. BUT that said, it happened slowly except for the late 70's when it reached 12% in one year. Now I would say its a covert 10% per year, and pretty stable at that.

I was implying that the opposition would engender the fear he MIGHT gravitate to harder drugs because he has a propensity for drug use. Not that he would of course, but MIGHT.

President would never have to submit to such a test !!!.. We ought to make teachers and school administrators submit the same drug tests that industry required. Almost ALL the academic people I know would flunk cold !!!

Because almost none of us have gravitated to cocaine or something else. Johnson didn't grow his company or run the state of New Mexico by being high all the time just as most voters who have used marijuana do not let it run their lives and ruin their businesses.

Does the president have to submit to drug testing? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!

Defintely! And we have not had a stable currency in years, unless a currency that continually declines in value (compared to goods and services) is considered stable. Its lost 2/3 of its value since 1980.

There you go. The same kind of emotional crap that Hillary used against Trump. She is circling the wagons around her for sure.

Absolutely. The difficult part is that we rely on a stable dollar on which to base decisions, or at least a predictable dollar. Doing business with an unpredictable currency is very difficult to say the least.

Here's one:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/07/us/...

The crooked establishment will simply continue to borrow when the tax money runs out. I base my financial decisions solely on whether they benefit me, since they will have no impact on what the crooked establishment decides to do.

Well, I hope that he IS a threat to her. My point was that one could gauge how much of a threat they saw by the level of their attempts to smear him.

I do think that the establishment, if threatened by a candidate. would be successful at painting Johnson as a druggie not suitable for the presidency. How do we know he wont gravitate to cocaine or something else???

I havent given up on him by any means. I am starting to prepare for Hillary win, if that happens. We will reduce our workforce by about 20% and transfer more work to china and automation before she gets a chance to enact $15/hr. Already we limit corporate profits to less than $50k a year to avoid the 35% income tax on income above that. That means cutting back on advertising and things that will expand the business. I am so DONE with financing this crooked establishment.

Good for them. I was always registered as Libertarian actually. But you have to admit Trump has taken this crooked expose to new heights.

I hear that Hillary's people are out in force bashing Johnson. This wouldn't be the case if he were not having an impact. If the polls are correct, he could cost Hillary the election. You're welcome.

In today's culture, previous pot smoking is no longer the serious issue that it would have been a few decades ago. Younger voters might even be turned off by a candidate that had never smoked pot.

Good point. Look at how few freedom oriented policies were advocated by trump and look at the degree ov vitriol he is getting.

I still give Trump a 50-50 chance of winning. His poll numbers seem to be holding up pretty well from the latest "scandal".