Antidisestablishmentarism is actually a real word. It was developed in England in the 19^th century by people who were opposed to removing the Church of England as the state church of England. If you find this confusing, so did many people in the 19^th century. Yet, it is a cool word and it perfectly describes this election. The MSM is desperately trying to rescue Hillary Clinton from herself. They are trying to preserve the establishment in both parties. Antidisestablishmentarism describes it perfectly.

While a rapidly shrinking number of Kool-Aid drinking liberal left wackos still believe that Hillary is secretly honorable and trustworthy, the vast majority people are sick and tired of the MSM and they aren’t buying this load of crap. MSM credibility has dropped down to about a 32% credibility level. I frankly think that is still artificially high. One of the few things certain in life is that the MSM seldom gets it right about anything.

For example the MSM would have you believe that a black cop shooting a black thug waving a gun is a racist pig because he should have waited until the thug actually pointed the gun at him before firing. That is utter nonsense and about 68% of the population realizes this. The other 32% are glued to their TVs whenever CNN is on and they think Hillary is the most wonderful person ever to run for President of the United States.

This is why this election is so different. If you watched the MSM and you listened to the pundits, Hillary won the debate in a landslide. That is because the MSM doesn’t think minor Republican witch hunts like Hillary being extremely careless with classified documents are relevant. Of course they also think Hillary lying about Benghazi and the Clinton Foundation pay for play cash cow is equally irrelevant. They have no problem believing someone would really pay $250,000 to hear someone as boring as Hillary Clinton to repeat a Teleprompter speech, written by someone else, consisting primarily of outdated liberal clichés. But the average American is simply not that stupid.

The percentage of people who believe this nonsense, while very vocal and often glorified by the MSM is dwindling daily. Most people have given up on the MSM. They don’t watch CNN, NBC, CBS, MSCNBC, CNBC, NPR, ABC or even Fox News any more. Fox News is slightly better than the others, but by a very slim margin. Even Fox News is shredding viewers. We simply get our news somewhere else.

Real people listened to what Donald Trump actually had to say and they recognized something remarkable. Donald Trump is a real person and he actually answered questions. That may not necessarily be politically correct at times, and he is a little rough around the edges, but it is honest and a whole lot of people agree with him. I even heard one so-called conservative pundit complain that Trump didn’t understand the need to just ignore the question and deliver a well-rehearsed zinger. That type of comment explains how John McCain and Mitt Romney managed to achieve the near impossible task of getting beat in a debate by Barack Obama.

Donald Trump is the “anti-antidistablishmentarium” candidate in this election. A lot of people, who easily recognize all the baggage Trump brings to the process, understand this simple reality. The MSM doesn’t have a clue. The only way to generate real change is to bring in a real person who is ready, willing and able to simply ignore the establishment. At some point, Trump is bound to disappoint, because he is just as much a part of the establishment as every else, but he at least recognizes the problem. Hillary, on the other hand, doesn’t think there is a problem.

If you believe the MSM Trump lost the debate. But not everyone pays attention to CNN. In fact a whole lot of people don’t pay attention to CNN. The DailyMail UK did an excellent job of publishing all the other polls, not just CNN. Are they ALL wrong?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3809204/Most-snap-polls-Trump-winning-debate-landslide.html

Some polls that had very large samples all showed Trump winning. TIME had over 400,000 responses and Trump won 58% to 42%. Since TIME is not exactly a Republican rag, that surprised me. CNBC had over 220,000 responses and Trump won 51% to 49%. No one would accuse CNBC of being conservative. Fortune, which had over 430,000 responses, had Trump winning 51% to 49%.

Today CNN is “plaining” why these “internet” polls are all wrong. That would be more impressive if the CNN poll was not based on pure nonsense: Following is from the CNN/ORC website:

“Interviews with 521 registered voters who watched the presidential debate conducted by telephone (landline and cell) by ORC International on September 26, 2016. The margin of sampling error for results based on the total sample is plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.

Survey respondents were first interviewed as part of a random national sample conducted September 23-25, 2016. In those interviews, respondents indicated they planned to watch tonight’s debate and were willing to be re-interviewed after the debate.

26% of the respondents who participated in tonight’s survey identified themselves as Republicans, 41% identified themselves as Democrats, and 33% identified themselves as Independents.”

That’s right, the CNN poll involved a whopping 521 people they were able to interview over the phone. But wait, it’s even worse than that. These are people already interviewed by CNN previously who agreed to watch the debate and get interviewed again. Every “pundit” agreed that Hillary won the debate because she was more aggressive in attacking Trump, yet these people thought that Trump attacked Hillary 56% of the time to her attacking him 33% of the time. This is a joke. Based on these demographics Hillary would have won that poll if she had thrown up on the podium.

We can expect a full court press by the MSM declaring Hillary the leader by a huge margin. They are going to try and convince everyone that a Hillary win in evitable. They need to do this to get all the Kool-Aid drinkers to vote and to trick the rest of us in to staying home. They may or not actually believe this, but they desperately want you to believe this. Incredibly some people on the left even criticized Lester Holt for being too easy on Trump. None of them get it. Trump is not just running against Hillary Clinton, he is running against MSM. Every time the MSM opens its’ blatantly biased mouth it just adds credibility to the Trump campaign. We are not necessarily sure about Trump, but we are absolutely positive about the credibility of the MSM. Hillary is fully capable of losing this election all be herself. If she continues to get this kind of support by the MSM, that loss could turn into a landslide.

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The first debate is over. It was pretty much a hot mess. Neither candidate looked very presidential. At points I was embarrassed for both of them. We can assume that those people who are already solidly behind Hillary will continue to be solidly behind Hillary. We can also assume that those people who were solidly behind Trump will continue to be solidly behind Trump. The real question is whether either candidate moved the needle with regard to those who are undecided.

Holt started the debate by asking Hillary to brag about the great job growth during the last six years. Talk about a softball question. Hillary was not asked about her e-mails, Benghazi or the Clinton Foundation. The bias was beyond obvious. At times Holt was openly hostile toward Trump. However, this may have actually helped Trump, because it was so obvious. That was particularly true when Holt tried to claim that Trump supported the Iraq war and Trump slammed him with facts, proving Holt wrong. When Holt came close to accusing Trump of being a racist, Trump did not rise to the bait. While the vast majority of blacks will continue to support Hillary, Trump may actually have helped himself by pointing out that law and order is extremely important to minority communities.

I am sure many of the pundits will think Hillary won on points, but most pundits thought that Richard Nixon beat John Kennedy on points when they debated. If this was to be scored by college professors Hillary would win, but this isn’t being evaluated by college professors, it is being evaluated by the American people. I don’t think Hillary changed any minds. Donald Trump may have done exactly that.

Trump really hurt her with regard to the e-mails when he pointed out that all her staff was pleading the fifth. Some people think he missed a big opportunity later when he didn’t hammer her on cyber security. I am not sure that is accurate. I think he hurt her so bad earlier that he did not need to even bring this up again.

Trump just may have flipped the dial on the media fact checkers. He was brilliant in pointing out that it was Hillary’s campaign that started the birther movement when he looked into the camera and pointed out exactly when Hillary’s campaign manager admitted this during an interview on CNN. If the Hillary campaign was predicting this to be a “fact checking” bonanza where they proved that Donald Trump is a liar, he just may have turned that completely around.

Hillary was grossly unsuccessful in painting Trump as a racist. Whether you agree with him or not, he did not come across as a racist. When she hammered him on this tax returns he silenced her by saying he would release his tax returns when she released her 33,000 e-mails. Hillary literally did not have a response.

When she tried to present him as lacking the temperament to be President, he proved her wrong by being calm, cool and collected. He gave thoughtful responses and no one watching this is likely to be afraid of Donald Trump starting a nuclear war. If he accomplished nothing more than that, he scored big.

So, I think Hillary will be declared the big winner, but Trump is the one likely to move up in the polls. Hillary came into this debate near her personal ceiling and odds are higher that she will go down rather than up. Trump on the other hand came in as a big underdog who couldn’t hold his own. He didn’t even need to win, he just needed to survive.

Some people think that Trump needed to make people distrust Hillary. They are wrong. He didn’t need to explain to people why they shouldn’t trust Hillary. They already know that. It was far more important that he look capable. So Hillary won on points, but Trump is the one who will surge in the polls.

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The Hillary camp, with the full throated endorsement of the MSM is desperately trying to paint Donald Trump as a serial liar.    Unfortunately, they have used this tactic before with great success.  Bill Clinton was impeached for lying under oath.  It was never a question of whether or not he lied; it was whether Democrats considered this to be important. They decided it didn’t matter because it was just about sex. He was later disbarred because of this lie, because the ABA did not agree.  It is indisputable that Clinton lied under oath.

When George W. Bush ran with the slogan that he would return honor to the White House, Democrats were outraged.   They had to find a way to paint George W. Bush as an even worse liar in order to justify their willingness to continue supporting Clinton.  This is why they promoted the theory that Bush lied about the WMD in Iraq.  It is why people were chanting that Clinton lied but no one died. But the reality is that George W. Bush did not lie at all.  Rarely in the history of the U.S. President have we so much documentation proving that a President was telling the truth.  Every single word spoken or written by George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice and Donald Rumsfeld was reviewed word for word by a Senate committee that could not find a single statement inconsistent with the intelligence.  The most they could claim was that Cheney and Rumsfeld may have occasionally relied too much on poorly sourced intelligence. Sadly, a high percentage of Americans still believe that Bush lied about the WMD in Iraq.  I really wish he had fought back against this, but he didn’t.  Sometimes taking the high road allows thieves and bandits to soar ahead on the low road.

Donald Trump has said things that outrage liberals.  The MSM likes to call any statement they don’t like to be a lie.  A classic example is when Trump said 58% of African American youths are not working.  He is right about that by the way, but Politico calls that a lie because they say the unemployment rate is ONLY 15.7% and Trump is including people who gave up looking for work.  Trump also included students who aren’t working.  In other words, Trump is telling the truth, but liberals call it a lie because they consider it to be misleading.

Even by this tortured definition, Hillary still lies just as much as Trump.  But the real problem is that Hillary tells very different lies.   Most people understand that while all lies matter, some lies matter more than others.  That is why no one is going to threaten you with jail time for claiming to be a better athlete in high school than other people remember.  However you can definitely go to jail for lying under oath about something material.  Hillary has flat out lied about sending classified e-mails on her private server and she has done it under oath before congress.  My prediction is that although the MSM can’t seem to understand the difference, the American people will not have that problem.

All Trump has to do tonight is look like he can act like an adult.  He doesn’t need to challenge Hillary about anything.  He just needs to look like what he is; an executive capable of being a leader who makes rational decisions.  Trump just has to be himself. Hillary, on the other hand has to give carefully crafted lines trying to explain why things that are obviously true are actually false.  Good luck with that.  It will get even worse if she gets off script and things could go entirely off the rails if she has some kind of health related episode.

For humor purposes, just think about this.  The debate will last for 90 minutes with no breaks.  Odds are that Hillary will not drink anything liquid for a long period prior to the debate.  This is to avoid looking like she is desperately in need of a potty break.  However, she frequently has coughing spells and if you believe her campaign, recently fainted because of overheating.  In other words someone in desperate need of staying hydrated is also in desperate need of not drinking too much liquid. This reminds me of the man who took long strides to reduce wear and tear on his $60 shoes and ended up splitting his $80 pants.

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If you are a police officer and you are involved in any encounter with a black man, you are at risk. It doesn’t even have to be a black man. One recent case involved a sixteen year old black female. It doesn’t even matter if you are black. You are a cop. That is all that matters.

Suppose you encounter someone who appears to be high on something, like angel dust. That person is very aggressive and refuses to respond to commands. If you are smart, you will just back off; get in your patrol vehicle and leave. At best you will wait in your car and call for backup. You will make no attempt to arrest this person or even interfere with that they are doing. There is no possible good outcome for you. There is a significant risk that this person could seriously hurt you or someone else. However if you Taser this person, use pepper spray, fire your weapon or even use a choke hold, you will be putting yourself in legal jeopardy. At a minimum, you will lose your job. You will be vilified in the press. Colin Kaepernick will know your name and will be thinking of you as he disrespects our national anthem. The circumstances will not matter. It won’t even matter if you are also black. All that matters is that “excessive force” was used against a black suspect. That is the lesson of the riots in Charlotte.

The results will be devastating, for honest black citizens. Even liberals will quickly decide to avoid any place where black people live, work or play. It won’t be obvious at first, but the results will be there for anyone paying attention. Black neighborhoods will become increasingly black. White neighborhoods will become increasingly white. There will be fewer police, of any color, willing to work in black neighborhoods and black on black crime will skyrocket. There will be no shortage of cops, of any color, willing to work in white neighborhoods, where they are welcomed, even by liberals. Rich white liberals will move into safe enclaves where they can put up fences, road blocks and hire private security to keep the undesirables away. That security, by the way, will definitely be armed. Then they will concentrate on what is most important. How to blame this on George Bush?

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The first 2016 Presidential debate is scheduled for Monday. Incredibly, it is not entirely clear that the debate will even happen. If Democrats aren’t terrified at the thought of Hillary debating Donald Trump, they aren’t paying attention. At least some Democrats are secretly smarter than this and privately they even display a fair amount of common sense. They were willing to put up with the Clinton nonsense, as long as she looked like a winner. But she doesn’t look like a winner.

Hillary disappeared from the campaign trail today, again, after people noticed some serious weirdness in her eye movements during a recent event. When you combine this with the collapse on September 11, it is clear that Hillary’s health is deteriorating. Odds are high that she is being evaluated by doctors to evaluate the possibility of her having another incident during the debate. Just imagine her having one of her spells during the debate. She can’t get away with wearing blue glasses or even prism glasses this time and everyone is going to be on the lookout for an ear bud. With regard to the ear bud, perhaps Republicans should let her go ahead and use one, because it sure wasn’t much of a factor during the Commander in Chief Forum.

No one could have predicted this. No one could make this up. Donald Trump remains a hugely flawed candidate totally unqualified to be President of the United States. Yet the problems with Hillary Clinton are so enormous that Trump looks almost normal in comparison. The only good news is that there are strong hints that the American people have finally had enough of the Clintons. Bill Clinton is looking very old and out of touch. Hillary is a has-been who never was. I am not sure that Donald Trump will be much better, but anything will be better than enduring the stench of another Clinton administration.

Expect Democrats to throw the kitchen sink at Donald Trump over the weekend. They will try desperately to seize the day with regard to the riots in Charlotte and blame everything on Republican racism. But there is a problem. The Black Lives Matter people have truly jumped the shark this time. When a black cop is accused of murder because he shot a black thug waving a handgun, it becomes increasingly difficult to sustain the racist white cop myth. A whole lot of people in North Carolina, both black and white, responded to this mess by standing in line to buy a gun. Sounds about right! My guess is that in about six weeks they are going to stand in line to vote for Donald Trump and the world will never be the same.

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Have you noticed something lately? The MSM has really backed off reporting poll results. When they do report them, they now focus solely on “likely voters.” Regardless of what the poll says we can expect some delusional pundit to predict that Hillary is going to win. I know a lot of people who believe that Hillary will win, regardless of circumstances. But there is actual data that hints at a very different outcome.

The times and the numbers are a changing and there are definitely more minority voters. A lot of people assume this means more Democratic voters. But so far that has now proven to be true in actual election results. Prior to the November 2014 elections, estimates were that 43% of Americans were Democrats and 39% were Republicans. After the November 2014 election that changed to 41% Democratic and 42% Republican. There were also a record number of people registering as independents.

That is not the only change. In 2010, there were 26 Democratic Governors, 23 Republican Governors and one independent. As of 2016 there are 11 Democratic Governors, 31 Republican Governors and one independent. In 2010 Democrats controlled 17 state legislatures, Republicans controlled 10 and 24 were split. In 2016 Democrats control 7 state legislatures, Republicans control 23 state legislators and 20 are split. Still want to assume the country is becoming more Democratic?

Last summer there were sixteen legitimate candidates for the Republican nomination. Democrats had four and ended up with two. One of these two was a 74 year old wild haired socialist. Right now there are at least some Democrats developing contingency plans in the event Hillary has to withdraw from the election. Can you name the top candidate(s) to replace Hillary? I rest my case.

In addition the polls are nonsense. They are all based primarily on telephone surveys using hopelessly obsolete technology. On the night of BREXIT, the polls were so favorable for a no vote that after the polls closed David Cameron and others were hosting champagne classes to celebrate their victory. The next morning when the real votes were counted the results were so bad that Cameron announced his resignation as Prime Minister.

Many people don’t even have land line phones anymore and almost everyone has some form of caller ID. If you call my home, and I don’t recognize you, odds are very high I will not answer the phone. If the call is from an 800 number or an out of state number there is zero chance I will answer the phone. In addition, we use our phones very differently today. Phones used to be used to talk to other people. Now smart phones are used to surf the web, take selfies and text people, etc. It is rare to see anyone actually talking on the phone. This means the polls are based on a rapidly shrinking and increasingly unrepresentative portion of the population. To make matters worse, as I mentioned earlier, recent polls have started focusing on “likely voters” rather than “registered voters.” I’m sure it is just a coincidence that this change started when Hillary starting sinking in the polls. Without this adjustment, Hillary is doing much worse that what is being reported.

The point being that one is smart to ignore all the professional pundits on the MSM. If the only change is the percentage of people who now registered as Republicans rather than Democrats, Donald Trump wins this election by a slim margin. So far, every poll shows Trump doing much better among Independents than Hillary. If there really is a big increase in the number of independents and Donald Trump is leading among independents, then Hillary is on the path to losing by a world class landslide.

There’s more. In a recent poll, Donald Trump was polling 20% of the black vote. That seems hard to believe, but a lot of things about Trump seem hard to believe. If that is true, Hillary has zero chance of winning the election. Every pundit admits that Hillary needs 90% of the black vote to win. Even if Trump only gets 10% of the black vote, that greatly increases his odds of winning the election.

Note, I am not predicting anything, I am just reporting documented facts. I have no clue what will happen and neither does anyone else. I just know that the current voter turnout models are pure crap and in every recent major election the polls have been wrong by enormous margins. The pundits predict that high turnout means the Democrats win. But that didn’t happen this year. There was high turnout in Iowa and Ted Cruz won. Later there was high turnout and Donald Trump won. The consistent pattern was that the strongest anti-establishment candidate was the one who benefited from high turnout. That is the polar opposite of what the MSM expected. It is the polar opposite of what the pundits expected.

The MSM believes that the Hillary e-mail scandal and the Clinton Foundation scandals are just distractions. They are wrong about that.  Even though the polls are highly flawed, they still yield some very important information. Every recent poll also shows that a majority of Americans think both of these are really big deals. Both candidates have very high disapproval ratings. But there is a huge difference between the reasons for the disapproval. They don’t like Donald Trump because he insults people, demonstrates immaturity and is a self-centered narcissist. They don’t like Hillary because she was extremely careless with National Security and she lied about it. They are also concerned about the obvious pay for play system poorly disguised as the Clinton Foundation.  The MSM may not recognize this as shameless bribery, but a lot of Americans have figured that out.   It is not so much that people don’t like Hillary, they flat out don’t trust her.

We are inundated with a barrage of MSM broadcasts trying to explain why the problems with Donald Trump as just as important as the problems with Hillary’s constant lying. Actually, they try to discount Hillary’s problems and magnify Donald Trump’s problems. The result has been that trust for the MSM has dropped to an all-time low. Just recently I took a step back and suddenly everything became clear. This election is between a spoiled brat and an adult serial offender. Donald Trump is a spoiled brat, but there is hope that at some point he might just grow up. Hillary is an adult serial offender. There is zero chance she will change. The choice is beyond pathetic but hope is a better option than insanity.

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It is official.  The Presidential election of 2016 has been reduced to a cheap and totally unbelievable soap opera.  Except that this is all too real and no writer could come up with a script this improbable.

There is obviously something seriously wrong with Hillary.  The people who know are not talking and the only thing certain is that the Clintons are incapable of telling the truth.  I don’t know what happened to her yesterday, but I know it was bad.  We can be pretty certain it is definitely not pneumonia, for the simple reason that in any situation the least likely option is that the Clintons will tell the truth.

If Hillary stays off the campaign trail for an extended period of time, she will appear to be too weak to be President.  Yet if she returns to the campaign trail, it could be even worse.  These episodes are happening more frequently and it is only a matter of time before one happens live.  Democrats are already desperately trying to avoid having Hillary participate in any debates.  Her performance in the “Command in Chief Forum” was so pathetic that her supporters literally tried to blame this on bias by Matt Lauer. No one even pretends she did will. Trump, in the other hand, was calm, cool and collected and did not resemble the out of control irrational image promoted by the MSM.  The DNC double secret probation committee is admittedly in full session preparing a contingency plan to replace Hillary Clinton as the candidate, if necessary.  The problem is that the DNC has no bench.  If there was a legitimate alternative to Hillary Clinton she wouldn’t be the nominee.  She was nearly taken out by a wild-haired 74 year old Socialist who has even fewer accomplishments than her.

Just in in case you are in serious need of indigestion, following is a list of potential replacements: Tom Kaine, Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Andrew Cuomo, Jerry Brown and, wait for it, Michelle Obama. There is zero chance Hillary will do the right thing and quit. If Hillary is replaced, it will be done in secret, released in the middle of the night with the MSM media all poised to run a desperate misinformation campaign to save the day. This is unlikely to work.

In case you are wondering if Barack Obama can just postpone the election or the Democrats can pull some stunt to change the results keep this in mind.  When push comes to shove the House of Representatives gets to decide who will become the next President.  Republicans have a majority in the House and Paul Ryan is Speaker of the House.  Even if Democrats were to miraculously take back the House this fall, the current House of Representatives would still decide the issue.  No one in their right mind wants this result, but it is an important safety net.  Keep this in mind because we are about to hear some very weird and downright scary theories.

All this will take place in about a week to ten days because there is less than sixty days before the election.  That is why I decided to name this soap operate “Search for Tomorrow.”

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I wasn’t expecting much out of the debate last night. Matt Lauer is a famous Clintonian and I expected him to toss Hillary nothing but softball questions. I was wrong. Matt Lauer asked tough questions and he had Hillary on her heels. She really never recovered. She spent most of her 30 minutes trying to explain why the obvious isn’t obvious. It was beyond pathetic.

Trump, on the other hand, owned the room. Lauer also asked Trump tough questions and at times he bordered on being rude. But Trump handled them brilliantly. The only chance Hillary Clinton has to win this election is to get people to believe that Trump is not up to the job and that he is too dangerous to become President. Instead people got a chance to see Trump up close and they discovered that he is very quick on his feet and more than capable of holding his own. Trump can play the game.

So how bad was it? That is easy to answer, just read the headlines. The MSM has two themes this morning. One is that Mat Lauer was sexist because he interrupted Hillary more than he did Trump. I am not even sure that was true, but if Hillary can’t stand up to Matt Lauer she sure can’t stand up to Putin. When the MSMS is reduced to playing the gender card, again, it is because they are desperate.

The other theme was that Lauer should have called Trump out on his lies specifically when Trump said he was opposed to the war in Iraq and opposed to the intervention in Libya. But if Lauer needed to challenge the candidates with regard to lies and distortions he would have had a field day with Hillary’s work of fiction. Funny thing about liberals, they consider equivocation about prior political positions to be in the same class with bald faced lies about sending and receiving classified information. Every politician, to some extent, plays more than a little fast and loose when talking about their personal history. That is unfortunate, but there is a huge difference between grandstanding and perjury.

I am still not a Trump fan and I really wish we had a better choice. But regardless of whether or not you like Trump, you have to admire the performance. I despise Hillary, so it is hard to be objective. She was smooth and relatively unflustered under pressure, but she had a difficult assignment.  It impossible to get people to trust you when the only response you have to criticism is to repeat silly talking points that don’t come close to passing the smell test. She did not look remotely capable of being  a Commander in Chief.

If you were scoring this like a fight, round one went to Trump big time. He s a brilliant counter-puncher.  It was close to a knockout. If you are a Hillary supporter, be afraid, very afraid.

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The main stream media is beyond desperate. Following is headline from AOL.

“Trump campaign gets in Twitter trouble again with Photoshopped poll image.”

I was expecting something spectacular, like nude pictures of Mother Theresa, but no. This is much worse. Donald Trump, gasp, made reference to a poll he thought might have been put out by an organization called “FiveThirty Eight,” which does not actually conduct polls. Stop the Presses! MSBNC quick pounced on the “Crime of the Century.” This was so much more important than the reports that Hillary Clinton’s top staffers probably lied to the FBI. It was even more important than report that Hillary may have authorized sales of guns to ISIS and al Qaeda. This was far more important that the fact that she couldn’t talk to the press, on her own plane, without going into another coughing fit. It was much more serious that the news that Hillary apparently “lost” a laptop containing all of those “archived” emails.” The news about Trump was far more significant that the report that Hillary’s top aides greased the skids to obtain diplomatic passports for people who just happened to donate millions to the Clinton Foundation.

Sadly, many people on the left will delay celebrating the death of Phyllis Schlafly briefly to express outrage at this latest mistake by the Trump campaign. The good news is that in addition to Hillary losing big time, the same polls show that even people stupid enough to still vote for Hillary, are not planning on supporting Democrats down ticket. The ever clueless Republican Establishment fears Trump losing in a landslide that will cost them control of the House and the Senate. The polls show the opposite is true. We shouldn’t be surprised to learn they are just as wrong about that as they are about nearly everything else.

Take a hint here folks, when your candidate has been caught red handled doing things that literally border on treason, and the best response you can come up with is Trump given the wrong group credit for the polls showing him ahead, that is not exactly a good sign. MSNBC and the rest of the main stream media must think the rest of us are living on Mars. Or perhaps they are the ones on Mars; they certainly are missing what’s happening here on earth.

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HOT AIR

I had a 1989 Mercedes. The air conditioner stopped working. Since we live in Northern California where the temperature can get above 100 degrees, that is a problem. I took the car to three places.   The first one explained that he could not recharge the car with R12 because of California environmental laws. He would have to put in several new parts. The estimated cost was $2,500. I took to to two other places and got similar bids, one slightly lower, one slighly higher. I was depressed at the thought of dropping $2,500 into a 22 year old car. That night I went to the stock car races and sat next to an older guy who turned out to be an HVAC contractor. He was not a car mechanic. I told him my tale of woe. He suggested just recharging the car with R34, which is legal. That seemed too good to believe, so I checked with a Mercedes mechanic. He said: “don’t do that it will ruin your compressor and a whole bunch of other parts.” I asked if those would be the same parts he said had to be replaced now? He said “yes,” so I thanked him and moved on.  I went to Auto Zone and found an adapter plug that changed the fitting from R12 to R34. It cost me less than $20.   I bought some cans of R34, with stop leak, and charged the system myself. The air conditioner immediately started delivering deliciously cold air into my car. I drove the car for another three years and sold it with the air conditioner still humming right along.

A lot of brilliant Republican Establishment candidates and the liberal news anchors are warning Donald Trump that his blunt approach will turn off black voters. I suspect that would be the same black voters who already vote 90% of the time for the Democrat. John McCain got a whopping 4% of the black vote and half of those were by mistake. Mitt Romney surged to 6%. If Donald Trump makes black voters so angry that 90% of them vote against him, it will be an improvement.

I suspect a lot of people, most of them Democratic strategists, understand this very well. That is why they are throwing a first class hissy fit expressing outrage that Trump is  appealing to black voters by pointing out the obvious. Democrats have been get 90% of the black vote since 1964, when they lost the battle to stop the Civil Rights Act.  How’s that working out?  Black unemployment is still very high, the black poverty level is still high, schools in black neighborhoods still suck and black on black crime is getting worse, not better. So Trump shrugs and says: “why not vote for me, what you have got to lose?” Just imagine a world where black voters stop to think, just a little, before automatically voting for the Democrat. Perhaps the better question is “what does Donald Trump have to lose?”