Friday, November 4, 2016
Saturday Politics : What Do You Wish for America in the Next Four Years?
Saturday Politice is all about The Election this week. ELECTION DAY MINUS 3. What you need to know now about the polls and how the mainstream media is reporting them. • • • GENERAL ELECTION POLLS. • ABC News/Washington Post poll : Clinton leads Trump, 49%-46%. • LA Times/USC Tracking poll : Trump leads Clinton, 47%-43%. • IBD/TIPP Tracking poll : Clinton leads Trump, 45%-44%. • Rasmussen Reports : Clinton and Trump, are tied, 44%-44%. • • • MICHIGAN PRESIDENTIAL POLL. Detroit Free Press poll : Clinton leads Trump, 42%-38%. • • • IOWA PRESIDENTIAL POLL. • Emerson poll : Trump leads Clinton, 44%-41%. • • • NEW MEXICO PRESIDENTIAL POLL. • Zia poll : Clinton leads Trump, 46%-43%. • • • NEW HAMPSHIRE PRESIDENTIAL POLL. • UMass Lowell/7News poll : Clinton and Trump are tied, 44 %-44 %. • Gravis poll: Trump leads Clinton, 43%-41%. WISCONSIN PRESIDENTIAL POLL. • Loras poll : Clinton leads Trump, 44%-38%. PENNSYLVANIA PRESIDENTIAL POLL. • Harper (R) poll : Clinton and Trump are tied, 46%-46%. INDIANA PRESIDENTIAL POLL. • WTHR/Howey Politics poll : Trump leads Clinton, 48%-37%. • Gravis poll : Trump leads Clinton, 49%-39%. • • • VIRGINIA PRESIDENTIAL POLL. Roanoke College poll : Clinton leads Trump, 45%-38%. • • • GEORGIA PRESIDENTIAL POLL. WSB-TV/Landmark poll : Trump leads Clinton, 48%-46%. Opinion Savvy poll : Trump leads Clinton, 49%-45%. • • • NEW JERSEY PRESIDENTIAL POLL. Richard Stockton College poll : Clinton leads Trump, 51%-40%. • • • KANSAS PRESIDENTIAL POLL. Fort Hays St. University poll : Trump leads Clinton, 58%-34%. • • • THESE RESULTS SHOW A TIGHT RACE WITH MOMENTUM FOR TRUMP. • TheHill reported Thursday that the presidential campaigns are "sprinting for the finish amid tightening polls that show new opportunities for Donald Trump as he seeks a late comeback against Hillary Clinton." TheHill advises readers to watch for five things : (1) New Hampshire is breaking late for Trump after Clinton opened up what looked to be a safe lead there. Every single poll conducted in August, September and October showed Clinton ahead in the state. In October, Clinton’s lead ranged from 2% all the way up to 15%. But, the last three polls of the state show either a tie or Trump in the lead. The fact that a battleground state is back in play for Trump is encouraging news for his campaign. (2) Trump’s path to victory would widen significantly if he can pull off a surprise victory in a blue state on election day. The Trump campaign has zeroed in on two Rust Belt states -- Michigan and Wisconsin -- as fertile ground for an upset, believing Trump’s populist message and commitment to re-negotiating international trade deals will resonate there. • Michigan, which hasn’t gone for the GOP nominee since 1992, appears to be ground zero for the Trump campaign in its blue-state push. Mike Pence was in Portage on Thursday, a small manufacturing town in southwest Michigan that has been hit hard by economic decline. Pence was joined by Senator Ted Cruz, a reluctant Trump supporter who was making his first appearance for the GOP nominee. Donald Trump, Jr. and Eric Trump have stops planned in eight cities. • Wisconsin, which hasn’t gone GOP red since 1988, is also on Trump’s radar. The campaign recently began running ads there, and incumbent Senator Ron Johnson -- who is locked in a close reelection fight -- has climbed on board for the final push. Johnson and Eric Trump campaigned together in Eau Claire on Thursday. (3) The battle for Pennsylvania heats up. No state is more central to Trump’s hopes than Pennsylvania. The Keystone State has always been a heavy lift for GOP nominees, but Trump's campaign has made it the lynchpin of their battleground strategy. They see glimmers of hope as Election Day nears. Over the last month, Clinton’s lead in RealClearPolitics average for Pennsylvania has been reduced from 9% to less than 4%. And a Monmouth University survey released this week found Trump closing the gap among women. He still trails Clinton among white women, 45% to 48%, but has gained considerable ground over the last survey, when he trailed 35% to 55%. The Trump campaign sent Melania Trump and Pence’s wife, Karen Pence, to the state on Thursday to make a direct pitch to women there. (4) Polls have tightened in Iowa where Trump had the luxury of polls showing him holding a comfortable lead there for much of the last two months. That’s changed. A Quinnipiac University survey released this week found Trump with only a 1% lead. His advantage in the RealClearPolitics average is down to 1.7%. Trump must win Iowa. • • • THE ASSANGE FACTOR. Many of Clinton’s troubles are email-related, and her campaign is holding its breath that no further bombshells drop in the final hours of the race. WikiLeaks has been publishing emails from a cache of tens of thousands of emails belonging to Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta nearly every day. The emails have ranged the spectrum from embarrassing to damaging, with their impact heightened by the new FBI review of emails tied to the private email server she used as Secretary of State. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who despises Clinton, would love to send the election out with a bang. • • • Dear readers, in three days the United States will elect its next President. • Do you want an America where the Constitution is the law? • Do you want an America where healthcare is affordable and private? • Do you want an America where police are treated well instead of being killed? • Do you want an America where veterans are cared for? • Do you want an America where the military is strong and respected worldwide? • Do you want an America where economic policies lead to lower taxes and regulations that encourage business to create jobs? • Do you want an America where the federal government stays out of local and state affairs? • Do you want an America where all races are treated fairly? • Do you want an America where being Christian is honored? Vote Trump-Pence on Tuesday, November 8.
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But Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan won over millions of voters who had cast ballots for George Wallace, an open segregationist. Nixon did so while desegregating Southern schools at a faster clip than the Johnson administration, Reagan while signing a 25-year extension of the Voting Rights Act.
ReplyDeleteThey could also have agreed with the liberals of their time that concern about crime, welfare, and social disorder was solely motivated by racism, which in some cases it partially was. Instead, Nixon and Reagan tried to deal responsibly with these voters’ legitimate concerns and were rewarded with 49-state landslides
What past center-right leaders did, however imperfectly, with crime and welfare, future ones must do with immigration and the challenges of multiculturalism.
Too many conservatives have used Trump’s worst character flaws and worst supporters as an excuse to avoid any introspection. If Evan McMullin wins any electoral votes, that will be a major success for his campaign—but a pretty low bar to clear for movement conservatism.
Who wins on Tuesday/ I don’t really know. But I do know that as we move forward the true Conservative Movement in this country must either take full control of the GOP and leave the RINO (republicans in name only) go where they wish or conservatives within both parties must fight their next election under a new banner.
The United States needs to have multiple parties that represent today’s splintered, fragmented, and irresponsible political thoughts.
DIVIDE AND CONQUER – and then reeducate those that believe in the conservative creed of our Founding Fathers.
Please vote for America - vote for Trump & Pence
I sit here on the Saturday morning before the election becomes real and binding Tuesday evening sometime, and I wonder what becomes of me and my young adult son.
ReplyDeleteIf Hillary wins (and that is a possibility friends) where do we fit in or where do we go to fit in? I have worked hard my entire life, swimming against the current of big government, social program after social program, watching the road be adjusted for those that have no ambition or ability to be part of the American Dream, accepting immigrants into our country who bring nothing with them except the anchor that is pulling this boat under.
I have thought of many places to escape to or from this drowning socialism that the Progressive Socialists are forcing down our throats. But my son and I are American through and through. We support ourselves every minute of every day with help from no one or no government agency. We gladly pay our taxes while obeying the letter of the tax laws – no more & no less.
Why should we be chased from our homeland because of the distortion of the left to the principals of honor and honesty, of truth and decorum, of fair play and fair-mindedness?
So I will be watching the results with my son on Tuesday evening with great wonderment all the while hoping that come Wednesday morning we don’t have to make a life altering decision.
Oh, for the United States of America and many like my son and I, I do hope that if Hillary wins at least the republicans hold on to the House and the Senate.
Wish us all luck friends.
The Daily caller has today has printed the story headlined … “REVEALED: Rahm Emanuel Used A Private Email” to communicate with the Hillary campaign, most notably John Podesta about high level campaign business.
ReplyDeleteIt just doesn’t stop with these people, dishonesty, lies, false denials of facts. Day after day the air waves are full of proven examples and still Hillary hangs in there a few point above or a few points below Trump in the polls.
Be careful what you vote for; you may get it in spades.
If you really cannot see or understand the difference between electing Donald Trump vs. Hillary Clinton, if you don’t understand the honesty of Trump vs. Clinton, even if you believe that the is NO difference between the two of them; well that is a shame.
DeleteBut no matter what you think so wrongly, if you fall into this category maybe the best thing to do on Tuesday, November 8, 2016 is to go out with some likeminded friends and play golf, go fishing, or shopping before the Black Friday sales.
But please don’t vote. This election is far too important to be based on the near-sighted citizens; those who only see what is of interest and importance to them.
I am admittedly a flag waving conservative both in my private life and in my political thoughts. My heroes are John Locke, Edmund Burke, deTocqueville, W.F. Buckley, Goldwater, Reagan, and so many more that preached and wrote the words of conservatism.
ReplyDeleteThe Founding Fathers (all 57) brave, honest, and decent men that gave all to put together this greatest experiment of self-government( with God’s guiding hand) ever envisioned and acted upon; but warned back then just what just needed to be guarded against and what we face today.
All men are created equal, certainly they are. But it’s what they do the next years of their lives that matter.
When mankind needed us we answered the call willingly. But it’s that time of peace and prosperity that has been our Achilles Heel.
Well now is one of those times that all humanity needs us to again answer to the call and vote (a painless, simple task) to set our course again in the right direction voting in a government that stands for America and free men everywhere? A government that will be honest, open , and dedicated to once again to progress foe all via honest men at the helm of our ship.
Vote for Donald Trump and free thinking people everywhere will be forever in you debt.
We can’t legislate “equality”’ the more we try with federal programs aimed only at good public relations and votes at election time the more race relations become more distance from each other.
ReplyDeleteTherefore can we legislate a person who clearly and decidedly loses the popular vote of the country to be President simply by appointed electors from each state post the General Election?
These Electoral College appointees are not bound in any way to cast their individual votes for the candidate who carried their state.
There looms a great Constitutional question if Donald Trump wins the total popular vote and the Electoral College sees its duty to elect Hillary Clinton President.
This question could be called …REBELLION.
"The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults."
DeleteAlexis de Tocqueville
Clinton clearly has her vulnerabilities, and it took Bernie Sanders supporters a while to come around to her. But their reservations about her simply aren't on the same level as the reservations about Trump that still exist in the Republican Party.
ReplyDeleteThe one big negative Clinton has consistently had with even members of her own party is on honesty and trustworthiness, and that's no small thing. But Trump's numbers there generally aren't much better. There isn't a big bloc of Democrats who say Clinton isn't presidential, or that she's reckless. They don't say that she's bad for the party or has bad judgment. The Democratic Party is filled with unquestioning soldiers who will be there to vote the party line.
Many Republican voters believe all of these things about Trump, but it hasn't been enough to sway them against voting for him. That's given him a fighting chance in this race that simply wouldn't exist if the country weren't so starkly divided on partisan lines.
It’s still the old 40%-40%-20% rule. 40% of the voters will vote democratic and 40% will vote republican. It’s that 20% that can maybe be swayed. But will enough of them be in Trump’s favor?
Let’s all hope so.
What do I wish for America in the next four years? Great question. And as I thought about this nothing but a myriad of negative thoughts came to me.
ReplyDeleteI wish “CONTINUATION” for America for the next four hundred years. But we are at the breaking point in our short but very distinguished history. If we choose wrongly this coming Tuesday at the polls American will be accelerated through its demise as a representative democracy, as a nation that exists under a Rule of law, a nation that everything we believe in and hold true is contained within the words of our Fore Fathers gave us in The Constitution, a nation that spells out in the Bill of Rights plain and simply the equalities and opportunities that are available to all born here or come here wanting to be part of the greatest self-governmental experiment ever undertaken.
I wish our Creator would grant us one last opportunity to extend this ride he put us on, to learn from our past mistakes (as we have before) and to flourish as the Shinning City on the Hill once again.
An opportunity to continue our willingness to help the oppressed no matter where they are or who they are, asking nothing in return only thankful for the opportunity to do Gods work.
I would also wish that for all the citizens that cannot find it in their heart to vote for either presidential candidate this time around, to go and vote for all those other office seekers and the hundreds of ballot measures that seek to drastically limit the march of government interference into our lives.
In America we don’t need others to legislate our lives. To over tax us to continue fighting wars that serve us no purpose. To build road blocks inhibiting our dreams and adventures.
Enemies of the United States are joyously watching its upcoming elections that are exposing this once great nation as deeply corrupt. It’s as if a huge rock has been turned over, exposing the swarming, slithering underside of America’s political system.
Hillary Clinton’s core supporters are black food stamp and welfare recipients, and legions of women who are voting simply by gender. Trump’s core supporters are tax-paying workers who have watched Wall Street loot America’s economy and send their jobs abroad.
For those who admire America, like I, this week is a time to weep for the republic. My fear is that the election vitriol will not end America’ shame and misery but continue on, like an acid eating into the national fabric.
I wish for America a “AWAKENING”
In the next 96 hours I would want Donald Trump elected Presudent. If that us not in the cards for what ever reason then fir the possibility of continuance of this Republic I would hope that voters elect Hillary Clinton without any question - irrefutable victory. Signed sealed and delivered by the Electirial College in December.
ReplyDeleteAnd a veto proof House and Senate in the Republicuans hands.
A STALEMATE. So what we gave is an ineffective Executive Branch of government, with the inability to make any appointments to the Surprene Court, etc.
Four years if a government in name only