Monday, October 31, 2016

The 2016 election and now the FBI with Barry Casselman, The Prairie Editor


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Guest: Barry Casselman, The Prairie Editor........we will look at the state of the 2016 race now that FBI Director Comey has made a very important announcement.............and other thoughts about the 2016 campaign...............


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Sunday, October 30, 2016

The week in review with Bill Katz, the editor of Urgent Agenda


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Guest: Bill Katz, the editor of Urgent Agenda.............we will discuss the state of the 2016 after the latest news from the FBI.........how damaging is this to the Clinton campaign............plus the latest from Obama Care premiums across the country....................The Clintons and corruption is in the news daily with the Wikileaks.........and other stories of the week...


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The Trump campaign, Wikileaks and other stories


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The Trump campaign:

Guest: Professor Daniel Bonevac, Professor of University of Texas...............we will review his article about Mr Trump......what's like to be a conservative professor in today's university environment............where is the campaign today with less than two weeks ago...........The Clintons and corruption are back in the news with the Wikileaks....................Cubs vs Indians in The World Series...........and other stories of the week.........



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Mosul Iraq & national security issues of the week with Barry Jacobsen




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Chile, Venezuela, El Chapo in Mexico & US elections




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Are the Democrats victims of their identity politics?

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God only knows where the new FBI intervention will take us.  I don’t know for sure, but I can safely say it is not the Clintons’ destination of choice. 
Since this private server story broke in 2015, I have asked the same question: how can the Democratic Party allow this woman to get nominated?  Didn’t someone at the party headquarters connect the dots and realize what Mrs. Clinton did?  After all, we are talking about a secretary of state using an unapproved server to conduct the diplomatic business of the U.S. 
So why didn’t a group of senior Democrats go to the Clintons’ residence and quietly call on Mrs. Clinton to drop out?  Remember when a group of GOP senators paid a visit on President Nixon in the summer of 1974 and told him to resign?
Instead, the party circled the wagons and invested itself in a Clinton, or the first female presidency.  Even Senator Sanders, who should have argued the national security risks of a private server, just said he was sick and tired of hearing about the emails. 
Where are the Democrats today? 
First, Mrs. Clinton’s judgment is under the microscope again, from the private server to surrounding herself with people with little regard for national security issues.  Have you seen what they say of Mrs. Clinton in these leaks?  My guess is that Bush 41 or Bush 43 staffers were not speaking that way of their bosses.
Second, the Democrats are now victims of their focus on identity politics:
a) Not one of them had the courage to call out President Obama on Obamacare.  They had to know that the numbers would never add up. 
b) Not one had the courage to call on Mrs. Clinton to drop out over her total disregard for national security.
Why didn’t one Democrat stand up against Obamacare or call on Mrs. Clinton to put country over party?
The answer is identity politics.  They were afraid of criticizing the first black president’s signature legislation or call on the first potential female president to drop out.
Forty-one years ago this month, Bill Lee, who was known as a junk ball pitcher, gave up a three-run home run to Tony Perez in game 7 of the 1975 World Series.  Bill said later that he lived by the junk pitch and would die by the junk pitch.
Let’s paraphrase Lee and say this: the Democrats live by identity politics and will now die by identity politics.
The Democrats put race and gender over common sense and now have to live with high premiums and a candidate no one trusts.
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Saturday, October 29, 2016

The FBI and the 2016 election with Frank Burke, author and businessman


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Guest: Frank Burke, author, businessman and contributor to American Thinker, joins me for a look at the latest FBI intervention in the 2016 campaign......what does it mean.......is this the October surprise that neither side was expecting...........and other thoughts about the 2016 campaign..........


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The Obama administration forgets about the law at the UN

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This week, the Obama administration did not show up for the UN vote against the Cuba embargo. It went like thisas reported by the New York Times:
Making a bit of history, the United States on Wednesday abstained for the first time in an annual General Assembly condemnation of the half-century-old American trade embargo against Cuba.
The abstention — a break from the “no” vote the United States delegation has always cast — was another important signal by the Obama administration of its intention to fully repair relations with Cuba, including an end to the embargo.
The reconciliation began two years ago when President Obama abandoned the policy of his predecessors to isolate the Castro government in Cuba and moved to restore diplomatic ties with the island nation of 11 million.
The United States and Cuba formally re-established embassies in each other’s capitals in July 2015, ending more than more than five decades of Cold War-era enmity. 
But the embargo, which can only be rescinded by Congress, remains in force.
Yes, the embargo remains in force because it is the law of the land. This is why only Congress can rescind it!
Let’s recall a bit of history about the embargo:
Following the events of 1961–62, economic and diplomatic isolation became the major prongs of U.S. policy toward Cuba. 
This continued even after the Soviet Union’s collapse. 
Washington strengthened the embargo with the 1992 Cuba Democracy Act and 1996 Helms-Burton Act (PDF), which state that the embargo may not be lifted until Cuba holds free and fair elections and transitions to a democratic government that excludes the Castros. (Raúl has said he will leave office in 2018.) 
To be fair, honest people can disagree about the embargo. I’ve had disagreements with other Cubans or Cuban Americans. The disagreements are not generational. In other words, some Cubans of my parents generation believe that the embargo should end and some Cuban Americans like me believe it should stay.
The bottom line is that the Obama administration is mocking U.S. law and the Congress in front of the world.
Why doesn’t President Obama call on Congress to end the embargo? At the same time, why didn’t he demand reforms from Cuba, or the prerequisites required by law to end the embargo? Most of all, why didn’t he call on the Cuban government to settle the claims of U.S. citizens for property stolen years ago?
As a U.S. citizen, I find this astonishing. I find it remarkable that the U.S. government would pander to governments at the UN over Cuba.  


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Hispanics and the 2016 vote with Michael Bargo, author.



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Friday, October 28, 2016

The Trump campaign and Wikileaks with Professor Bonevac


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Guest: Professor Daniel Bonevac, Professor of University of Texas...............we will review his article about Mr Trump......what's like to be a conservative professor in today's university environment............where is the campaign today with less than two weeks ago...........The Clintons and corruption are back in the news with the Wikileaks....................Cubs vs Indians in The World Series...........and other stories of the week...


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WikiLeaks is today’s version of the blue dress that didn’t go to the cleaner!


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The younger readers may not remember Monica and the blue dress that she saved in the closet. God only knows what Monica was thinking but it did prove that then President Clinton was lying through his teeth about their “encounter” in the Oval Office. Then President Clinton survived conviction in the U.S. Senate, in large part because unemployment was low and everyone was enjoying the returns on their mutual funds.
Frankly, the Clinton team thought that they get away with it until the blue dress returned to the story.   
Well, something similar has happened to the Clintons in 2016. They tried to get away with it, but this time a “leak” showed them up to be a couple of serial liars.
This week, we learned more about this criminal enterprise headed by a former president and secretary of state. As a Mexican friend told me yesterday, these Clintons are making our politics look clean and honest.
We learned from Wikileaks that there were serious concerns in house about that private server:
Attorneys wondered out loud in questions passed along in a 2015 bombshell email to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign why Clinton inexplicably sent secure documents on a private email server and then further deleted documents without consulting anyone, as such a move “smacks of acting above the law.”
The email, leaked by WikiLeaks as part of its release of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s correspondence, dates back to June 21, 2015, and discusses in unusually frank detail the scandalous nature of Clinton’s use of a private email server.
The email contains several questions from other lawyers passed along from Erika Rottenberg, a lawyer with extensive experience in the policy and tech world with ties to the Clinton campaign.
Then there is President Clinton and all of that money, as the New York Times reported:
In another email, Mr. Band wrote that Mr. Clinton had even received gifts from some donors.
The tensions came to a head when Chelsea Clinton helped enlist an outside law firm to audit the Clinton Foundation’s practices. Some interviewees told the audit team that the donors “may have an expectation of quid pro quo benefits in return for gift.” The audit suggested the foundation “ensure that all donors are properly vetted and that no inappropriate quid pro quos are offered to donors in return for contributions.”
The advice proved prescient as Mrs. Clinton faced intense scrutiny about whether donors to the Clinton Foundation had received special access to her State Department or other rewards. In August, the foundation said it would no longer accept foreign donations should Mrs. Clinton win the White House.
Then now we hear that President Obama was, incredibly, communicating with his Secretary of State using a private server and email. Does anyone believe in national security among these people?  After all, there is a very good reason that the president and others use a government email account. It’s called protecting our national security and the many people around the world who provide us information about this or that.
Frankly, this is sick. You can not have a current secretary of state married to a former president who is travelling the world asking for money. It may be legal. It may buy some eyeglasses for kids in Haiti.   
But it is simply unacceptable, especially it was done in secret because they thought that they’d get away with it.
On Monday, I went over to the library and voted for Mr. Trump. Honestly, it was more a vote against Mrs. Clinton. Yes, every day I feel more and more convinced that a Clinton Episode 2 is something that must be avoided at all costs. 
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Thursday, October 27, 2016

Elections in Chile plus other Latin America stories of the week


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Guest: Fausta Rodriguez Wertz, the editor of Fausta's Blog...........we will discuss the recent elections in Chile and a good day for the right and bad day for President Bachalet.........Venezuela continues its decline, from bad to worse by the minute.........El Chapo is complaining about his cell in Mexico..........Project Veritas..............and the latest from the US elections, less than 2 weeks away................


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Abortion and Clinton



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Hillary champion of what women?



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ISIS will test President Obama’s resolve in Mosul

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We do not have soldiers in the forefront, as we did in Iraq or do in Afghanistan. However, we have soldiers near the battle, as we see in this report from CNN:     
The forces here — US and Iraqi — are now preparing for the next stage of the offensive that will bring Iraqi and Kurdish Peshmerga forces to the gates of Mosul on three sides of the densely packed city, where as many as 1.2 million civilians still live under ISIS control.
Al Jobouri slips out of the operations room for a quick cigarette; it’s difficult to find a commander — Iraqi or Peshmerga — that doesn’t smoke. 
He thinks the offensive is going well but worries about the next stage — saying that as it retreats, ISIS is driving civilians back into Mosul from outlying villages, and using them as cover. 
The general is well aware that ISIS is a resourceful enemy capable of hitting back. 
He suddenly yells into his cellphone: “You guys need to get them out of there!” They have been flanked by 15 Daesh and I don’t want to hear bad news.”
Let’s review this because our men are a lot closer to the action than the Obama administration, and the media in the tank for BO, is letting on.    
Speaking of the media, we should remind you that we are actually fighting in a lot of places around the globe. Can you say five of them? Just curious, but what war resolution are they fighting under?
Back to Mosul. First, let’s pray for the soldiers and our Iraqi allies. My son recently completed his military service and we need to stand with the troops.
Second, I believe that ISIS will soon start testing President Obama’s resolve. ISIS knows that the Western media will soon start publishing stories about the civilians that they are killing.    
Third, ISIS will try to attack U.S. soldiers, or better than that, capture them. They hope that such actions will draw the U.S. into a broader war in Mosul and Syria where it can get very complicated. Remember Vietnam? Does President Obama have the backbone to go into Syria like President Nixon did in Cambodia?
We hope that it all works out but there are serious challenges ahead for the next president. Who knows what this will look when # 45 is sworn in?   My guess is that it won’t look good and that further U.S. action will be required.
Sadly, the media has not challenged the candidates. Mr. Trump promises to beat the heck out of ISIS. Mrs. Clinton, like LBJ in ’64, promises that no ground troops will be sent and that her GOP opponent is scary.  
In the meantime, we watch Mosul and look forward to some very dark days in the region.
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Wednesday, October 26, 2016

ObamaCare makes a GOP Senate imperative


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There are many reasons to hope for a GOP Senate beyond partisan wishes.    
First, the next president will have to make an immediate addition to the Supreme Court, although a friend told me that there is nothing in the U.S. Constitution about having a certain number of Justices, i.e. 9.
Second, #45 will have to pick up the pieces of ObamaCare.
The latest from ObamaCare makes many of our dire predictions look lame. This is from the LA Times:
Premiums will go up sharply next year under President Obama’s healthcare law, and many consumers will be down to just one insurer, the administration confirmed Monday. That will stoke another Obamacare controversy days before a presidential election.
Before taxpayer-provided subsidies, premiums for a midlevel benchmark plan will increase an average of 25% across the 39 states served by the federally run online market, according to a report from the Department of Health and Human Services. Some states will see much bigger jumps, others less.
The Obama apologists will tell you that most of the people are getting subsidies. However, that is not true, as we see in the aforementioned article:
The vast majority of the more than 10 million customers who purchase through HealthCare.gov and its state-run counterparts do receive generous financial assistance. “Enrollment is concentrated among very low-income individuals who receive significant government subsidies to reduce premiums and cost-sharing,” said Caroline Pearson of the consulting firm Avalere Health
But an estimated 5 million to 7 million people are either not eligible for the income-based assistance or they buy individual policies outside of the health law’s markets, where the subsidies are not available. The administration is urging the latter group to check out HealthCare.gov. The spike in premiums generally does not affect the employer-provided plans that most workers and their families rely on.
Ironically, this is exactly what President Clinton referred to as crazy, i.e. the people who must pay can’t afford it and those with subsidized premiums can’t afford the deductible.
As we look forward, there is no way of fixing ObamaCare.  It will have to be dismantled and replaced by something that maintains the “pre-existing conditions” clause but brings more competition into the health care market.   
In a normal election, the GOP nominee would be pounding ObamaCare, national security and a lousy economy at every stop.  Unfortunately, Mr. Trump has not really taken advantage of the ObamaCare collapse.
It’s up to a GOP Senate and House to draft a replacement. This is going to be even more important if we have another President Clinton under pressure from the left to go “single pay”.
So make sure that you vote, or support, everyone of the GOP candidates fighting off a challenge, from New Hampshire to Arizona.
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Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Mosul fighting in Iraq plus other national security stories with Barry Jacobsen


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Guest: Barry Jacobsen, military historian and blogger...........we will look at the latest national security issues of the week.......Iraq and Mossul going on.....Russia and Syria..........National guardsmen in California told to reimburse the state government over a reenlistment bonus.......................and other stories of the week.......


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Voted pro-life on Monday morning!

They are voting in huge numbers, or at least that's what it appears around here.

I voted Monday at 10 am and I stood in line for a while.   Just saw the line at the library and it is heavy.

What does it all mean?  I don't know but no signs of apathy, as reported in The Dallas Morning News:
North Texas voters appeared eager to cast ballots Monday, the first day of a two-week early voting period.Dallas County shattered first-day early voting records. Nearly 58,350 people voted, county officials said on Facebook. That's compared with 32,512 voters in 2012 and 34,415 voters in 2008.Toni Pippins-Poole, county election administrator, said she wants to watch the trend as early voting continues. "Usually the first couple days are real busy, people are really anxious to get their vote cast," she said. "Typically we know the last three days of early voting really will be a record turnout if we are looking at early voting already 10,000 votes past 2012."

Let's see how it goes.  



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We remember Jorge Batlle, former President of Uruguay

Latin America has not enjoyed a season of serious leaders.  

Unfortunately, there's been too much populism and just sheer demagoguery, from the Castros in Cuba, to Chavez in Venezuela or the corruption in Brazil.    

It has not been a time of serious leadership in Latin America.

One serious man died yesterday in Uruguay.   I am talking about former President Jorge Batlle who was 88.

This is from The New York Times obituary:
After another unsuccessful run in 1994, Batlle finally won election in 1999 and took office in 2000.
In 2001, Uruguay was hit by an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease that forced the country to suspend all exports of meat, a backbone of the economy. Shortly after that, Uruguay was dragged down by an economic crisis in its neighbor and major trading partner, Argentina.
By 2002, Uruguay's foreign reserves had dived and unemployment reached 20 percent.
Batlle used his good relation with U.S. President George W. Bush to help obtain $1.5 billion in credit to stave off default.
Battle broke diplomatic relations with communist-led Cuba in 2002 after a war of words with Fidel Castro following Uruguay's decision to condemn Cuba's human rights record in an annual U.N. vote in Geneva. Relations were restored in 2005.

Naturally, his presidency was overshadowed by the aforementioned economic crisis.  Nevertheless, he dealt with it responsibly and free of scandal.

It's been a tough period for Latin American politics.    Too many demagogues and not enough statesmen.    

RIP Sr. Batlle, a statesman in our time.



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Chile goes right on the anniversary of Allende’s election


Forty-six years ago, my father and a couple of friends from Chile were monitoring election reports from Chile on the Spanish short wave service of Voice of America. As I recall, the election results went late into the evening and the next few days. In the end, Salvador Allende was elected president in a four-way race. Eventually, the Chilean Supreme Court had to decide because the winner was under 40%.  
It did not take long for Mr. Allende to show his true colors. Allende extended diplomatic recognition to North Vietnam, North Korea, and Cuba. He also went after U.S. companies like ITT and Kennecott Copper.  
It did not take long before Chile’s very stable political system fell into a political and economic crisis. Mr. Allende was eventually overthrown by General Pinochet in 1973.   
On Sunday, Chile went to the polls again and the right did well in the regional elections as reported by Reuters:
Chile’s right snatched dozens of mayoralties on Sunday from the governing center-left coalition, in a boost to former leader Sebastian Pinera, the front-runner to lead the conservative coalition in next year’s presidential election.
With over 99 percent of results counted on Sunday night in local elections, the right-leaning Chile Vamos pact emerged as the big winner. It won slightly more votes than President Michelle Bachelet’s left-leaning Nueva Mayoria coalition, despite the left going into the vote with a massive incumbent advantage.
Conservative candidates won the majority of key swing cities, including central Santiago, a municipality inside the capital that is considered an electoral bellwether.
“This reflects that residents are tired of incomplete promises,” the conservative mayor-elect of central Santiago, Felipe Alessandri, told Reuters. “Citizens have made their annoyance at the old practices of politicians clear, and they have made clear that they expect to be listened to.”
We’ve told you before about the Latin American middle class electing President Mauricio Macri in Argentina and in total revolt over the corruption in Brazil. Chile’s results are a huge rejection of President Michelle Bachelet’s efforts to move the country a bit to the left, as Bloomberg reported:  
For many voters, Bachelet has gone too far in her attempts to reform the free-market economic model imposed under Pinochet, as the economy posts the slowest sustained growth in more than 30 years. 
For another group, she hasn’t gone far enough, while many others were disenchanted after a series of financing scandals tarnished the reputation of parties across the political spectrum.
Chile has been the jewel of Latin American economies. In other words, the leftist message does not play well in a country like Chile with a prosperous middle class. I am very pleased with these results because they reinstate our faith in the middle class.
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Monday, October 24, 2016

Hispanics and the 2016 vote with Michael Bargo Jr of American Thinker


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Guest: Michael Bargo Jr, contributor to American Thinker & author.........we will look at the state of the 2016 presidential race........what role will Hispanics play in this election?.....what are Hispanics getting for giving 70% of their vote to Democrats..........the Cubs in the World Series for the first time since 1948............plus other stories..


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No wonder Mrs. Clinton wants to talk about the Trump women

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As we count down to election day, there are two things that really stand out about 2016:
First, Trump has missed opportunity after opportunity to focus on issues; and, 
Second, Clinton avoids every question about issues, unless she is pandering to this group or that.
On issues, Trump has the right idea, as Roger L. Simon wrote yesterday:
In sum, the “Contract with the American Voter” is nothing short of spectacular under the increasingly ominous circumstances of 2016 and a worthy sequel to the “Contract with America” (perhaps Newt Gingrich had a hand). 
We can only hope that the American people get a chance to review it — that it won’t be overwhelmed by the media’s self-serving fixation on scandal and Trump’s (sigh) frustrating cooperation with them — because if the people do, I am certain the vast majority will approve of Trump’s sensible proposals and elect him president.
Substance or scandal? That is the dilemma our country faces at the end of October 2016.    
Yes, that’s our choice but it would help if Trump would stick to the teleprompter, unless someone is sticking all of that stuff about suing women without the campaign manager’s knowledge.    
At the debate, and Gettysburg, Trump was like the pitcher who gets the first two outs and then walks the bases loaded giving the other team a chance to score.
As for Clinton, they don’t want to talk about anything that has to do with issues. On Wikileaks, it’s all aboutdoubt, delay, and distract by blaming Russia. I guess that they want us to believe that Russia forced the authors of the emails to say nasty things or talk about “needy Latinos”.
Sadly, time is on Clinton’s side. Trump blew the third debate with his remarks about accepting results. He had won the evening and then blew it. In Gettysburg, he blew another opportunity by giving the media more information to use against him.
Yes, the Clinton team would rather talk about the Trump women and his temperament. Unfortunately, Trump keeps giving them material.
If Trump loses, and I’m not saying that it’s over, his supporters may want to consider suing him for malpractice.    
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Sunday, October 23, 2016

The week in review with Bill Katz, the editor of Urgent Agenda


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Guest: Bill Katz, the editor of Urgent Agenda..........we will look at Debate # 3 of the 2016 presidential election.....who won and what was the headline out of the debate........the role of the moderator..........the Wikileaks and Mrs Clinton........the Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 this week and the loss of a bipartisan foreign policy........and other stories of the week....


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Trump: Like Truman and the Indians in the 1948 World Series?

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On election night 1948, most Americans went to bed thinking Governor Dewey would be in the White House in a few months.  Why not?  The experts had told them!
Instead, they heard over breakfast that President Truman was returning.   
What will happen on election day 2016?  Let’s look at these polls that confuse the heck out of me:
1) The RCP average shows Mrs. Clinton up by 6 in the latest 10 head-to-head matches.  However, two of the last three show a tie.    
2) The four-way race, a more realistic assessment in my view, has Mrs Clinton up by 5.  Again, two of the last three polls have Mr. Trump up by 2.  I say the four-way race is more realistic because Mr. Johnson and Dr. Stein will take about 10% of the voters.  It could be more if Sanders’s supporters get even with Mrs. Clinton for the way they were treated in the primaries.
My point is that these polls are crazy, and it’s not because pollsters are in the tank for Mrs. Clinton.  I just don’t think that you can take an accurate poll in a country that does not answer landlines unless they recognize the name of the caller.
And did I tell you that a professor is predicting a Trump victory?  Professor Allan Lichtman, who has apparently predicted every election since 1984, is saying Trump will win.
So put me down as one of those who will wait for voters to decide this election.  I will vote for Mr. Trump because this is about nominating someone to the Supreme Court, and Mrs. Clinton cannot be allowed to do that.   
On another level, this is also about making a statement about partial-birth abortion.  Sorry, but a society that plays word games over the unborn is sick and doomed to rot away.
So who will win?  I don’t know, but keep an eye on the Cleveland Indians in the World Series.  They won in 1948, the year President Truman pulled a great upset.
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