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Old 07-19-2016, 03:05 PM
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Queen’s guitarist Brian May said in June, after Trump used the anthem to mark his victory in the final round of Republican primaries, that Queen was “taking advice on what steps we can take to ensure this use does not continue.”

“Regardless of our views on Mr. Trump’s platform, it has always been against out policy to allow Queen music to be used as a political campaigning tool,” he added.



that's from an article talking about this:





Gavin Newsom (lt governor of California)
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It's important to note that tonight's RNC convention ended with a song, We Are the Champions, sung by a gay man, Freddie Mercury. Freddie Mercury died of AIDS in 1991. His music was played at a convention where the most anti-LGBT policy platform was adopted, just today. His music, which he famously labored over, which was intricate and complex, was played at a convention where Mike Pence, a man who has spent his political career actively looking for opportunities to pass laws that would give others the legal framework to discriminate against LGBT people, sat comfortably in a VIP box. I'm not sure what Freddie Mercury would think of his music being played at the RNC convention, but I do know that if he weren't a famous rockstar, he would have probably been greeted by a wall, a really high wall, because he represented everything that Mike Pence and Donald Trump are scared of.
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Old 07-19-2016, 04:12 PM
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Old 07-19-2016, 05:20 PM
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John Kerry went into his convention with a lead of about 3 percentage points in 2004, but lost to George W. Bush. And in 2000, Bush had about a 4-point lead on the eve of the conventions, but lost the popular vote to Al Gore. (Bush won the Electoral College, of course.)
Bush won in 2000, virtue of his brother's state (no recount and hanging chad ballots and of course SCOTUS)
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Bush won in 2000, virtue of his brother's state (no recount and hanging chad ballots and of course SCOTUS)
Thanks. I must have missed that.
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Thanks. I must have missed that.
I laughed !
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Thanks. I must have missed that.

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