Friends, readers, like we do in every big election, I want to invite you to send us your pictures of the election, specifically going to the polls. Elections aren’t just about counting. It’s not just a numerical exercise. It’s a civic, communal activity. As much as this campaign has besmirched, we shouldn’t, we can’t forget that. We can begin to overcome it through the democratic act of voting.
I always want to make clear. Some states have laws against photographing your ballots – so-called ‘ballot selfies’. Don’t break any laws. But other than that share your experience with us and we’ll share them here on the site.
Here are some examples from 2012. #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6.
I can’t wait to see them.
David Pecker, the CEO of the company that owns The National Enquirer is a close ally of Donald Trump. Their alliance has come up on several occasions during Trump’s run for the White House. In August, Pecker paid $150,000 to Karen McDougal, a 1998 Playboy Playmate of the Year, to cover up her story of the consensual affair she had with Donald Trump in 2006, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Trump married the former Melania Knaus in 2005. Melania Trump gave birth to their son Barron Trump in 2006.
A TPM Reader notes that there may well be more to the Melania Trump working in the US illegally story. The AP found evidence that Melania worked in the US illegally prior to the date her lawyer says she first obtained a work permit. Good work by the AP. But we don’t actually know she got a work permit even then. We’re just talking her lawyer’s word for it. It’s like Trump’s taxes. No evidence, we just have to take their word. I don’t blame the AP for that, to be clear. They can’t prove she didn’t get a permit then. So they did the story exactly right. But Melania Trump have provided no evidence that wasn’t working in the country illegally for a much longer period.
Two national phone polls out this evening. Fox: Clinton +1, McClatchy/Marist Clinton +2.
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This moment with President Obama calming down the crowd that starts chanting in response to a protester is a pretty elegant illustration of the difference between the leadership of the two political parties.
It’s hard to look past the presidential election, or even the battle for the senate, but there are a few initiatives on the ballot that are significant. On election day, voters in Colorado will decide whether to create a single-payer health insurance system in their state that would replace both private insurance from employers and the Affordable Care Act’s exchanges. The vote will tell something about whether Americans in a relatively progressive state would now favor going beyond Obamacare to a system of “Medicare for all” like Bernie Sanders proposed in the primary. Based on what I’ve seen in Colorado, I’m not optimistic.
This really says it all. A federal district judge in Ohio has issued a temporary restraining order barring the Trump campaign, as well as Trump’s advisor Roger Stone and his group “from conspiring to intimidate, threaten, harass, or coerce voters on Election Day.” The Trump campaign just announced its appealing the order.
That allegedly defamatory campaign TV ad that Cliven Bundy is suing a Democratic congressional candidate over in Nevada? The campaign says no such ad exists, and Bundy’s lawyer tells TPM, “I have not seen the TV ad myself.”