July 15, 2016 - Pensito

North Carolina Law Might Suppress Presidential Votes

July 15, 2016 Buck Banks

29,000

Number of votes that “might not be counted in this year’s Nov. 8 presidential election if a federal appeals court upholds the 2013 law,” a Reuters review of Republican-backed changes to North Carolina’s voting rules finds. “Besides banning voters from voting outside their assigned precinct on Election Day, the law also prevents them from registering the same day they vote during the early voting period.”

Clinton Pulling Ahead in Key Battleground States

July 15, 2016July 15, 2016 Buck Banks

45% to 40%

Hillary Clinton’s lead over Donald Trump in a new Greenberg Quinlan Rosner poll. A new set of Wall Street Journal/NBC News polls shows Hillary Clinton leading in four key swing states: Colorado (43% to 35%), Florida (44% to 37%), North Carolina (44% to 38%) and Virginia (44% to 35%).

Trump Explains Why Palin Isn’t on GOP Convention Program

July 15, 2016 Buck Banks

She was asked. It’s a little bit difficult because of where she is. We love Sarah. Little bit difficult because of, you know, it’s a long ways away.

— Donald Trump, explaining why Sarah Palin isn’t included in the official list of speakers for the Republican National Convention next week, quoted by the Washington Examiner.

This Anti-Trump Ad Might be the Best One Yet

July 15, 2016July 15, 2016 Trish

Most of the anti-Trump ads I’ve seen miss the mark, for me anyway. As I watch, I never think, “Now THIS will sway the people who really hate Hillary, and make them vote for her despite their objections.” And this spot, made by the founders of ad agency Goodby Silverstein & Partners, Jeff Goodby and Rich Silverstein, doesn’t either. But it comes close.

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Day: July 15, 2016

North Carolina Law Might Suppress Presidential Votes

29,000

Clinton Pulling Ahead in Key Battleground States

45% to 40%

Hillary Clinton’s lead over Donald Trump in a new Greenberg Quinlan Rosner poll. A new set of Wall Street Journal/NBC News polls shows Hillary Clinton leading in four key swing states: Colorado (43% to 35%), Florida (44% to 37%), North Carolina (44% to 38%) and Virginia (44% to 35%).

Trump Explains Why Palin Isn’t on GOP Convention Program

She was asked. It’s a little bit difficult because of where she is. We love Sarah. Little bit difficult because of, you know, it’s a long ways away.

— Donald Trump, explaining why Sarah Palin isn’t included in the official list of speakers for the Republican National Convention next week, quoted by the Washington Examiner.

This Anti-Trump Ad Might be the Best One Yet

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“If you are committing fraud against the American people, all of us in public leadership should be trying to stop it and throw you in prison for enriching yourself off the American taxpayer.”

— Vice President JD Vance, on Fox News.

“Your generation has a great bullshit meter, because you’re fed bullshit online all day. And the Democratic Party brand right now is so bullshit.”

— Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D), quoted by The Atlantic, speaking to college students.

“We are done, Americans are done with endless conflict in the Middle East, spending trillions of dollars, American lives… this is insane and we have to call it for what it is.”

— Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), on CNN.

Numerati

+175,000

“The U.S. State Department announced on Monday that it has revoked more than 175,000 visas during President Donald Trump’s administration so far,” Fox News reports.

$4,600

11

30%

A new American Research Group poll finds just 30% of Americans say they approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president and 67% say they disapprove.

61% to 35%