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Scan: Tim Kaine visits Houston and Austin: “We Take Texas Very Seriously.”
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YallaDog: Tim Kaine blows a mean harp at Austin Fundraiser
Chxmi: A Convert for Hillary
TurnTexasBlue2016: Hillary opens an office in Dallas!!!
It looks as though after a not-so-great week, Hillary Clinton is rebounding in the polls. Or maybe she never really lost her lead in the first place.
The one bit of bad news? One poll shows her losing the white millennial vote by 1 point. How will she survive without winning this crucial voting bloc? Oh wait...
Whereas at least one poll shows that Clinton has Obama-like numbers with black Americans (I don’t recall what his numbers were with Latinos):
Could it be that Hillary Clinton’s “gaffe” with calling some Trump supporters “deplorable” wasn’t really a gaffe after all?
With that out of the way, it’s on to anticipation for the first debate on Monday, with the first debate set to begin at 6 pm PST/9 pm EST, moderated by Lester Holt of NBC Nightly News. Hillary Clinton is apparently working with multiple people playing the role of Donald Trump, to prepare for whichever Trump she might meet.
Articles describing both candidates preparing for debates show that both sides (both sidz!) are working hard at spinning expectations.
If Trump can stand at the podium for 90 minutes without vomiting or wetting himself, he wins!1!1!
I think Trump has the advantage of setting expectations because Hillary Clinton’s debate prowess is so well known. That said, despite the expectations being in his favor, I think she’ll thoroughly dominate him and be declared the winner.
Also, Hillary Clinton planned to make a stop in Charlotte, which is still reeling from the latest police shooting deaths, but was asked to wait by Charlotte’s mayor:
Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton has made the bold proposal to expand the estate tax:
The estate-tax increase and other new proposals that Mrs. Clinton detailed on Thursday would generate $260 billion over the next decade, enough to pay for her plans to simplify small business taxes and expand the child tax credit, according to the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, which advocates fiscal restraint.
In all, Mrs. Clinton would increase taxes by about $1.5 trillion over the next decade, increasing federal revenue by about 4%, though that new burden would be concentrated on relatively few households. There is at least a $6 trillion gap between her plan and the tax cuts proposed by her Republican rival Donald Trump.
Oh, and for Sanders supporters backing Johnson? Clinton’s plan incorporates some of the tax brackets Bernie sought. But other than that, y’know, she’s just like Trump.
In other news, in Ohio, the Sixth Circuit made it just slightly easier for the state to turn blue in November (hattip David Atkins of Washington Monthly:
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals todayreversed an earlier ruling that shot down a lawsuit against Secretary of State Jon Husted. The target of the lawsuit: Husted's process of eliminating the names of registered voters from the state's voter rolls. It's a process called "purging," and it's meant to clean up state databases and delete the names of voters who have moved out of the state or died. It also leaves the door open to negligence and political machinations.
As PBS's Chris Bury once put it, "When it comes to the right to vote, Ohio is a 'use it or lose it' state."
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