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Joe Biden’s presidential campaign minimizes Sen. Kamala Harris’s (D-CA) public exposure due to Harris’s lack of charisma, alienation of moderate voters, and exposure of the former vice president’s weak mental and physical condition,

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Originally posted by parabellum:
The Ghost and the Darkness

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Nominations for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize closed just 11 days after Obama took office.

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Obama’s advisers soon decided the honor could not be refused. But as ridicule rained down on the committee for handing a peacemaker’s award to a man who was ordering drone strikes on civilians overseas, the White House grew increasingly hesitant, dithering for weeks over how much of the traditional three-day awards gala he would attend.

In the end, Obama stayed just long enough to deliver an acceptance speech that tried to justify the wars he was waging in Iraq and Afghanistan — rationalizations that visibly irked First Lady Michelle Obama.

“Did you have to go there?” she asked when he concluded, according to Lundestad’s book.

The committee’s risky choice backfired, Lundestad admits, as the new president took flak from all sides for accepting it before he had accomplished any of his lofty foreign policy goals. Even supporters like Washington Post columnist Ruth Marcus called the prize “ridiculous — embarrassing, even.” David Axelrod, a top Obama advisor, said it was “more of a surreal challenge than a cause for celebration.”

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“I would be extremely surprised if Donald Trump ever received the Nobel Peace Prize,” Lundestad said. “He may say he wants to bring peace to the Middle East or the Korean Peninsula, but he has not accomplished anything,” he added. “And his policies do not fall into line with the ideas of liberal internationalism” — no matter how those efforts may turn out.

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Two Delaware women accused of stealing a MAGA hat outside the Democratic National Convention were indicted Tuesday on charges including second-degree robbery and felony hate crimes.

Olivia Winslow and Camryn Amy, both 21, were indicted by a grand jury on charges of second-degree robbery, second-degree conspiracy, endangering the welfare of a child, third-degree assault, attempted third-degree assault, offensive touching and felony hate crimes, Delaware Online reported.

Three of the charges are felonies, and the two women could spend a total of 15 years in prison, according to Delaware Online.

Winslow and Amy are out on bail, a spokesperson for Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings told Delaware Online.

"Harming another person – let alone a child – because of the expression of their views betrays the principles on which our country was founded," Jennings said in a statement to Delaware Online.

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Two Delaware women accused of stealing a MAGA hat outside the Democratic National Convention were indicted Tuesday on charges including second-degree robbery and felony hate crimes.

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Originally posted by Sig2340:

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Two Delaware women accused of stealing a MAGA hat outside the Democratic National Convention were indicted Tuesday on charges including second-degree robbery and felony hate crimes.

A Grand Jury indicted them on a hate crime charge?

That’s seven kinds of AWESOME.

I hope they are convicted on that charge.

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The Establishment Media Campaign To Depress Trump Voters

If you had any doubts about the establishment media’s commitment to defeating President Trump’s bid for reelection this past week’s fabricated story of Trump disrespecting America’s fallen during the 75th anniversary of D-Day ceremonies should put those doubts to rest.

But there’s another more insidious line of attack on Trump’s reelection that has begun to be implemented – sketchy polls showing Trump voters abandoning his candidacy.

According to Reuters reporter Chris Kahn, a new Reuters poll shows, “With less than two months to go until the U.S. election, President Donald Trump is having trouble energizing his core supporters, especially white voters without college degrees who were key to his victory in 2016…”

Mr. Kahn further reported that the analysis, based on Reuters/Ipsos national opinion polling from May to August and 2016 exit poll data, found that Trump has lost support among non-college educated whites, who made up 44% of the U.S. electorate four years ago and heavily favored the Republican over Democrat Hillary Clinton.

Trump is still more popular with this group than Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, with 46% saying they would vote for Trump, compared with 34% who back Biden. But his 12-point advantage in August is down from a 21-point lead in May, and well below the 34-point advantage he had over Clinton.

What is more worrisome for Trump, claims Mr. Kahn, is that the constituency's commitment to voting has remained flat this year, while interest has risen among groups that lean toward Democrats: minorities, women, urban and suburban residents and people with below-average incomes.

Reuters does not post their sample size, distribution, or methodology, so we don’t know if the poll oversampled Democrats, included non-voters or was otherwise defective.

And the Reuters poll is strongly at variance with Scott Rasmussen’s findings in his post-convention polling, which found “Enthusiasm about the election continues to grow following the two major parties’ conventions, especially among Republicans.”

Rasmussen found eighty-five percent (85%) of Republicans are now excited about the choice between Trump and Biden, up from 75% in mid-July. This compares to 71% of Democrats, unchanged from six weeks ago, and 54% of unaffiliated voters.

Among all likely voters, 70% are excited about the Trump-Biden contest, while only 23% now say they will simply be voting for the lesser of two evils. The number excited about the contest is up from 60% in late April and 67% in July.

The Rasmussen poll was a survey of 1,000 likely U.S. voters was conducted August 30-31, 2020 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Field work for all Rasmussen Reports surveys is conducted by Pulse Opinion Research, LLC. Click this link for their methodology.

Does this mean the Reuters poll is fake?

Not necessarily, the bottom line is we don’t know and can’t tell because they don’t disclose who they polled, how many they polled, or the demographic and geographic breakdown of the sample. In short, they could have (intentionally or unintentionally) over-sampled hardcore Democrats or over-sampled states Trump lost and as long as the results fit the narrative that Trump is losing support, the poll is never questioned by others in the establishment media.

We will continue to watch the polls closely and if we see credible polling, we will report on it, and if we see non-transparent polling, we will question both the poll and the motives behind it.