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According to Gallup: “The share of Americans who favor legalizing the use of marijuana continues to increase. Today, 57% of U.S. adults say the use of marijuana should be made legal, while 37% say it should be illegal. A decade ago, opinion on legalizing marijuana was nearly the reverse – just 32% favored legalization, while 60% were opposed.”
If you’re interested in the presidential election, you might as well get up and leave, because I don’t have any observations to make on that.
— Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY), quoted by the Lexington Herald Leader, to an audience in his home state.
There’s a big Trump and a little Trump. The little Trump is frankly pathetic.
— Newt Gingrich, in an interview on Fox Business.
In the midst of our bountiful October harvest of Trump grotesqueries, the Russians and Julian Assange organized a WikiLeaks dump of private emails from the Clinton campaign. These revealed a shocking and scandalous fact about the former Secretary of State: she is a politician. Indeed, the documents represent one of the most reassuring moments of this calamitous campaign. The overwhelming impression is of the candidate’s and her staff’s competence and sanity–and something more: a refreshing sense of reality about the vagaries of politics.
— Joe Klein, in Time.
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Amount Google searches for the term “write-in” have surged, according to CNN: “The states with the highest rates of search are not battlegrounds, but Republican and Democratic strongholds. … As of Wednesday evening, three of the top market searches for “write-in” came in solidly Democratic states: Vermont, Delaware and New Jersey. Utah, a reliably red state that no Democrat has won since Lyndon B. Johnson; and Indiana, home to Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence, round out the top five.”
I’m not sure I believe it.
— Donald Trump, quoted the New York Times, on polls showing Hillary Clinton leading among women.
