{"id":3225,"date":"2016-01-11T12:02:57","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T19:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=3225"},"modified":"2016-01-11T12:02:57","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T19:02:57","slug":"independence-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scotshonor.com\/?p=3225","title":{"rendered":"INDEPENDENCE DAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a new Gallup poll and the results are stunning:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/188096\/democratic-republican-identification-near-historical-lows.aspx?g_source=Politics&amp;g_medium=newsfeed&amp;g_campaign=tiles\">http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/188096\/democratic-republican-identification-near-historical-lows.aspx?g_source=Politics&amp;g_medium=newsfeed&amp;g_campaign=tiles<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>42% identify as independents, 29% as Democrats, 26% as Republicans<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Independent identification at least 40% for fifth consecutive year<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There was a time when most of us got our information from the network news and the newspaper.\u00a0 If it wasn\u2019t printed in the New York Times, it didn\u2019t matter.\u00a0 The network news had people like Walter Cronkite, Harry Reason, Chet Huntly, Frank Reynolds, and John Chancellor.\u00a0 They were people we trusted.\u00a0 We were probably wrong about that, as in retrospect the bias was always there, but we trusted them.\u00a0\u00a0 We were also either Democrats or Republicans.\u00a0\u00a0 We had faith in the political parties, although that was probably misguided as well.<\/p>\n<p>Today the biggest political party is the independent.\u00a0 It is probably worse than that.\u00a0 For example I know a lot of Republicans who are not exactly thrilled at the Republican Party.\u00a0 I am sure there are a lot of Democrats who are less than enthusiastic about the Democratic Party.\u00a0 That means the true percentage of people who consider themselves independent is probably even higher.<\/p>\n<p>Today 53% of Democrats would support Hillary Clinton, even if she is indicted.\u00a0 That is less scary when you realize only 15.37% of the population is actually that stupid.\u00a0 This explains why the top two Republican candidates are Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.\u00a0 Donald Trump is running on a campaign of a pox on both houses.\u00a0 Ted Cruz, while a Republican Senator, is despised by the Republican establishment because he doesn\u2019t play the game.\u00a0 It explains why Bernie Sanders, a 74 year old wild-eyed socialist trapped in the 60\u2019s may beat Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries.<\/p>\n<p>This poll has an error rate of about 1%.\u00a0 It is about as accurate as a poll can get.\u00a0 The Democratic Party is in deep doo doo and the Republican Party is on life support. The only thing certain is that things are going to change more than anyone predicts.<\/p>\n<p>One final thought.\u00a0 I was in the USAFSS so I am very familiar with signals intelligence and the importance of protecting it.\u00a0 Everyone knows that everyone is spying on everyone else.\u00a0 The big secret is what we know and what we don\u2019t know.\u00a0 That is why release of signals intelligence analysis is so dangerous.\u00a0 There was a recent article alleging that Sidney Blumenthal had access to NSA analysis.\u00a0 It is hard to imagine how he could have got that without help from Hillary Clinton.\u00a0 If that report is accurate, it will be impossible for anyone to control the coming explosion.\u00a0 Hell hath no fury like an intelligence community betrayed by its own leaders.<\/p>\n<p>TDM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a new Gallup poll and the results are stunning: http:\/\/www.gallup.com\/poll\/188096\/democratic-republican-identification-near-historical-lows.aspx?g_source=Politics&amp;g_medium=newsfeed&amp;g_campaign=tiles 42% identify as independents, 29% as Democrats, 26% as Republicans Independent identification at least 40% for fifth consecutive year There was a time when most of us got &hellip; 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