Month: July 2016
Sounds Like an Endorsement to Us
We have got to do everything that we can to defeat Donald Trump and elect Hillary Clinton. I don’t honestly know how we would survive four years of Donald Trump as president.
— Sen. Bernie Sanders, quoted by the New York Times.
Clinton Maintains Edge Over Trump
42% to 37%
Hillary Clinton’s lead over Donald Trump nationally, according to a new Economist/YouGov poll. Interesting: “Clinton still needs to solidify the Democratic Party. In this poll, just 53% of Democratic primary voters who favored the Vermont Senator for the nomination say they will vote for Clinton in a four-way race.”
2016 Prez Election Reflects Record Gender Gap
24.4 points
The average gender gap in 22 national polls since Hillary Clinton effectively sewed up the Democratic nomination on June 7, and the median gap is 26 points, slightly ahead of the exit poll era record set in 2000, according to Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball: “With four months to go in the 2016 general election campaign, national polls suggest that it’s quite possible that the Hillary Clinton-Donald Trump clash may well set a new record for partisan differences between the sexes.”
Trump’s Hitlerian Rise Is Attributable to Mainstream GOPers
Like Hitler, Trump is a radical, authoritarian figure who lies outside the normal parameters of his country’s conservative governing class. Thus, there is a parallel between the two men’s unexpected rise to power that is worth considering: Why would traditional conservatives willingly hand power to a figure so dangerous that he threatened their own political and economic interests? Why, having failed in their halfhearted efforts to nominate an alternative candidate during the primaries, don’t they throw themselves behind a convention coup, a third-party candidacy, or defect outright to Hillary Clinton? Why do so many of them consider Trump the lesser rather than the greater evil?
— Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine/h2>
Report: Ivanka Played Shill in Her Father’s Trump Baja Resort Scam
After winning a behind-the-scenes power play in which she ousted campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, Ivanka Trump has assumed a larger role in her father’s presidential campaign.
This change has heartened worried Republican elites. Ivanka’s public persona is a stark contrast from her father’s. He is a hotheaded, conspiracy-theory spouting vulgarian. She is poised and comes off as smart and cool. He is a world-class con artist. She seems to be squeaky clean.
But an investigation by the Los Angles Times into one Donald Trump’s many failed real estate ventures found that Ivanka, along with her brother, Donald Jr., played a supporting role in one of her father’s cons, a real estate deal in Baja, Mexico, that plundered the life savings of hundreds of unwitting condo buyers from Southern California.
Un-Indicted, Not Innocent
She should have known the cover-up would come back to bite her,
And the investigation would make Hillary look like a liar.
According to the FBI’s Comey,
She’s neither innocent nor not-guilty,
It’s no exoneration, but hey, at least they didn’t indict her.
