Polls on the final day of the campaign make it look like Trump is bouncing off the Clinton Wall one more time.
It’s November 7 and the PollTracker Average stands at Clinton 46.2 percent, Trump 42.2 percent, a 4.0 percentage-point spread.
The TPM Electoral Scoreboard stands at Clinton 269, Trump 203. Ohio, North Carolina, and Florida are in the Toss Up category.
In case you missed them over the weekend I wanted to flag two pieces that got a lot of attention over the weekend and which I think are very important. The first, a simple look at the unabashedly anti-Semitic ad Donald Trump rolled out over the weekend as his closing message for the campaign. The second, my take on the question, Is Donald Trump an anti-Semite?
I’m very leery of SLATE’s decision to publish projections beginning at 8 AM tomorrow of who is going to win the presidential election in so-called battleground states. They are teaming up with VoteCastr, one of these Silicon Valley startups, who claims to have devised extensive data networks to forecast results. Leave aside the question of whether the predictions by this latest band of hotshots will be accurate. Is SLATE setting a dangerous precedent by teaming up with them?
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A list of election/numbers observations to peruse as you bite your nails and obsess over the polls.
In response to my look at Donald Trump’s final closing ad, which is unambiguously anti-Semitic, I thought I’d share my thoughts about whether Trump himself is an anti-Semite.
It is certainly welcome news for the Clinton campaign that James Comey has now stated publicly that nothing in Huma Abedin’s emails has changed the FBI’s and his original judgment from July. This is not an interim report; it’s final. The Clinton campaign will undoubtedly use it for everything it’s worth in the remaining 48 hours-plus before voting ends Tuesday night. But while welcome, this new development doesn’t remotely undo the original error or its consequences.
FBI Director James Comey sends new letter to Congress on new Clinton email review: Nothing found to change conclusions reached in July.