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Rational Nation U S A Purveyor of Truth FiverThirtyEight - We could be looking at the largest gender gap in a presidential election since at least 1952: Men are favoring the Republican nominee, Donald Trump, in typical numbers, but a historically overwhelming share of women say they will vote for the Democrat, Hillary Clinton. As my colleague Nate Silver has pointed out , women are winning this election for Clinton. Between the historic nature of Clinton’s candidacy, Trump’s record of misogynistic comments and now the Trump tape and allegations of sexual assault against Trump, American men and women are incredibly split on the 2016 election. But that split isn’t symmetrical. In an average of the most recent live-interview polls from each pollster to test the race in October, Clinton holds a 20-percentage-point advantage among women, and Trump is winning more narrowly among men. Apparently women at large are less easily fooled by republican con man DJT, as well as being signi...

Rational Nation U S A Purveyor of Truth The Clinton political drama has become perpetual, and, it is damaging to her political ambitions. While the bloodthirsty republican party has pledged itself to destroying HRC, foolishly so IMO, she has certainly reacted in ways that have heled to keep the drama alive. The following article from The New Yorker does a credible job of accurately pointing out why. Hillary Clinton’s candidacy for President is widely, and aptly, described as historic. Here’s one of the reasons: If she wins, she will have spent a longer time under criminal investigation than any President in history. Why is this? Is she uniquely corrupt? Unduly targeted? SKIP Clinton’s first experience with a criminal investigation came with Whitewater, the name given to various activities centered around a money-losing land deal that she and her husband invested in during the nineteen-eighties. Republican (and journalistic) claims of illegality in connection with the inve...

Rational Nation U S A Purveyor of Truth Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary R. Clinton must be getting worried about Trump and things he says about her. At least a tad bit anyway. On "This Week With George Stephanopoulos" she made the following statement, He can say whatever he wants to say about me, I really could care less. While her intention was obviously to give the impression that she doesn't care, her choice of words says otherwise. I really could care less is saying that she actually cares . If in fact she really does not care what Trump says and is not bothered by it her statement should have been something like this, I really couldn't care less. On to a related issue. The politics of personal destruction . A phrase coined by Bill Clinton during his impeachment hearings, it is certainly not new to politics and has existed to some degree throughout our political history. In today's overheated partisan atmosphere it has reached new heights an...

Rational Nation USA Purveyor of Truth It is not at all surprising actually. Wealthy donors, and there are many of these in both the republican and democratic camps, really do not care whether a fellow wealthy candidate is a republican or a democrat as long as the candidate is all in for supporting the wealthy donors interests, business or otherwise. In fact some will donate heavily the republican and democratic party candidates they feel is most likely to favor their interests. It is no secret that big money rules and when it comes to politics big money influences election outcomes. In other words while people think they have a real choice the truth is the choices are pretty much picked for you and really there much that can be done about it. For some wealthy donors, it doesn’t matter who takes the White House in 2016—as long as the president’s name is Clinton or Bush. More than 60 ultra-rich Americans have contributed to both Jeb Bush’s and Hillary Clinton’s federal campaig...

The Obama Administration, at the latest meeting of  The United Nations Human Rights Council, came out in support of placing limits in free speech! While this development is disturbing it comes a no real surprise. Rational Nation USA addressed the erosion of our 1'st amendment rights here at home in its September 1 post entitled, We Must Preserve Our Right to Free Speech . While many in congress on the left are hoping  to use The Fairness Doctrine here at home to curtail free speech, the Administration is widening the attack on freedom of speech and expression. Rather than just the nefarious attack on free speech at home the Obama administration, by supporting the UN call to limit free speech, is taking its attack global in the hopes of creating pressure to regulate and limit further our right to free speech in America. Some points to consider; paraphrased from Anne...