Is this the "Law and "Order" Election?
A majority of Americans disapprove of the FBI’s recommendation to clear Hillary Clinton in the email investigation, but most say the outcome doesn’t affect their vote. Republicans are unlikely to benefit from renewed racial tensions. And Gary Johnson could hurt Hillary Clinton in a close race. This is HuffPollster for Monday, July 11, 2016.
MOST AMERICANS DISAGREE WITH FBI ON CHARGING CLINTON - Scott Clement: “A majority of Americans reject the FBI’s recommendation against charging Hillary Clinton with a crime for her State Department e-mail practices and say the issue raises concerns about how she might perform her presidential duties, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. …The Post-ABC poll found 56 percent disapprove of Comey’s recommendation against charging Clinton while 35 percent approve. The survey mentioned Comey’s reasoning that Clinton did not have criminal intent but that he found her actions were extremely careless handling e-mails. Roughly 6 in 10 independents disapprove of the recommendation against charges (59 percent), rising to nearly 9 in 10 Republicans (88 percent) and falling to 31 percent of Democrats….[Fifty-seven] percent in the poll say the issue worries them about how she might handle responsibilities if elected president, while 39 percent say it’s not related to how she would perform as president…Among all voters, 60 percent say the outcome makes no difference in their vote choice, including an identical share of political independents.”
DOES PARTISANSHIP MAKE RACIAL TENSIONS WORSE? - Philip Bump: “We take for granted the fact that America’s racial divide overlaps with our political one. In 2013, Gallup found that 89 percent of Republicans were non-Hispanic whites….The density of whites in the Democratic Party was lower, at 60 percent; the portion of the party that was non-Hispanic black was about a fifth….While the Democratic Party is more racially diverse, black Americans are not very politically diverse. Pew Research regularly surveys to figure out the partisan blend in the country, and in 2014 it determined that whites were more likely to identify as Republican than Democrat, 49 percent to 40 percent — a margin that mirrors Gallup. Blacks, on the other hand, were over seven times as likely to say that they’re Democrats. This is important. A Republican Party that’s mostly white. A black population that’s mostly Democratic….Race and partisanship are so sufficiently intertwined at this point that it can be hard to determine the effect one has on the other. Are attitudes about Black Lives Matter split by party because they’re split by race? Have liberal politics shaped the movement as much as racial ones? Then again, race and partisanship have always been intertwined.” [WashPost]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-email-fbi-poll_us_57838e50e4b01edea78e82c3
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My opinion is that with what has occurred over the last two weeks (the results of the e-mail investigation, the shootings in Baton Rouge, Falcon Heights, and Dallas), Middle America is going to decide this election on a "Law and Order"/Nixonian basis.
It's just my opinion.
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Otherwise, screw it.
Sadly, Lennie is gone.
