Democratic National Convention **live commentary thread**

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You do have equal pay for equal work.  Just go work those construction jobs and manual labor.  Hell, even the women in my dept get paid more than the men. 

Strawmen and anecdotal evidence FTW!

Seriously, women choose different fields than men. And where they do choose the same fields, they are paid the same or more.  If women were paid less, why not hire all women?  Wage gap is nonsense.

There are studies that show that you are simply wrong on facts.

There are official Bureau of Labor statistics showing that I'm right: https://www.aei.org/publication/new-bls-report-on-womens-earnings-much-of-the-17-gender-pay-gap-in-2014-explained-by-age-marriage-hours-worked/

'Much'.  The wage gap is smaller than is commonly advertised.  Its more like 90 cents to the dollar, but  it still exists.

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Early returns show the first night of the DNC gets higher ratings than the RNC. This doesn't include cable news though.

Fox News might very well tip the scales, I think.

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Who are the big shot speakers today?

Its really just Bill Clinton.  The next highest profile person in Nancy Pelosi.

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Do Maddow and Schmidt have no politcal sense whatsoever? How can they slam that speech. It so perfectly humanized Hilary and Maddow blasts it as antifeminist.

Are

you

kidding

me.

!!

Thankfully mostly liberals watch MSNBC.

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Bill's speech was great, but I was expecting him to be a lot tougher on Trump. I guess they're giving the responsibility for taking the sledgehammer to his face to Obama and Biden.

Yeah, Bill is in a unique position to humanize Clinton.  Obama and Biden will do excellently against Trump.