I know this will sound crazy to some of you, but I really do think Trump has gained a few points with black voters since the election. (He's still in the low to mid 10s.) https://t.co/hNoFPxZAzV
Something it’s easy to forget is that the *marginal* black voter doesn’t necessarily have different views from the marginal white voter even though the average black voter is very different from the average white one.
Got a problem with billionaires? Egalitarian Sweden, an object of ardent progressive adoration, has more billionaires per capita than the United States, writes @willwilkinson. https://t.co/doubaZN5X6
Chicago police superintendent Eddie Johnson said his department was "pissed off" when they discovered Jussie Smollett's actual motive.Moments ago, Johnson said the "Empire" actor staged the attack on himself because he was unhappy with his salary. Smollett was treated as a victim until police learned more details, Johnson said....
The first stop on Virginia Governor Ralph Northam’s racial reconciliation tour has been rescheduled at the request of students at Virginia Union University. The tour stop at the university Concided with a celebration honoring the Richmond 34 a group of Virginia Union students arrested at a sit-in at a segregated department store in Richmond. The student body president wrote that Northam’s attendance at the event would take away from the celebration. The student body president noted the following:
“This is not a lullaby for us. This is a battle cry. Students are upset about his presence here and, frankly, they have a right to be,” the student president said.
On the other hand some members of the Richmond 34 had a different opinion
A report from House Democrats says Trump appointees promoted a plan to sell nuclear power plants to Saudi Arabia despite national security officials' concerns.
In a historic first from the U.S. Supreme Court, the Justices ruled unanimously on Wednesday that the Eighth Amendment ban on excessive fines does apply to state and local governments, ruling in favor of an Indiana man who had his expensive car seized by police after he was arrested for a small amount illegal drugs.
Writing for the High Court, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said "the protection against excessive fines guards against abuses of government’s punitive or criminal law-enforcement authority" found in the Eighth Amendment.
I asked Cohen’s attny what he’ll say? @LannyDavis responded while my cell was off: “He will pull the curtain back and we will hear true stories of Trump’s complicity in crimes, and his immoral, bigoted, and morally vacant character in specific, detailed personal anecdotes.” https://t.co/VUfJrpva8L
A top model who showed her freckles in a promotional image for Zara has drawn insults in China, with some calling her bare face offensive https://t.co/1WDKwP5Yyi
Donald Trump has derided CNN as a leading purveyor of “fake news,” and now, a recently departed administration official is joining the network in a senior rolehttps://t.co/li0XxO9rRE
I think it's a smart hire as she will have the knowledge to decode a lot of the spin, dirty tricks, and /or incompetence as the case may be. Including that of Fox news.
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See the reality based media on this
https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/18/politics/poll-of-the-week-trump-black-voters/index.html
by artappraiser on Sun, 08/19/2018 - 5:39pm
on the above:
by artappraiser on Mon, 08/20/2018 - 2:02am
Trump sez the polls are all wrong except this one.
by ocean-kat on Mon, 08/20/2018 - 2:48am