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Today's one that brings back memories of a famous quote from Rudyard Kipling who said:  “If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.”

 And it certainly appears that the great writers words apply perfectly to Donald Trump. 

The mainstream media has all but written Trump's political obituary, using ten year old quotes from his gross, but certainly harmless, locker-room braggadocio to discredit his presidential capabilities. However, in the “real” world, factual evidence indicates something else entirely.  

According to this morning’s USC/L.A. Times Daybreak tracking poll, he still holds a lead at 44.3% for him and 44.2% for her.

What's more, the latest “Rasmussen Reports White House Watch national telephone and online survey shows Trump with 43% support among likely voters to his rivals 41%. Yesterday, she still held a four-point 43% to 39%, but that was down from five points on Tuesday and her biggest lead ever of seven points on Monday.” 

While 84% of voters now say they’re certain how they will vote, Trump posts a 49% to 46% lead over Clinton. Among voters who say they still could change their minds between now and Election Day, it’s Clinton 40%, Trump 37%, Johnson 19% and Stein four percent (4%). 

Within their own party’s, Trump has 75% support among Republicans, nearly identical to Clinton’s 76% backing among Democrats. But, perhaps more importantly, although he has 15% of the Democratic vote and she has 13% GOP support, he "holds a double-digit advantage among voters not affiliated with either major political party."

Farther into the details: “Clinton continues to lead among women, while Trump has regained his advantage among men. Those under 40 still prefer the Democrat but also remain the most undecided. Older voters favor Trump. The older the voter, the more likely he or she is to be certain of their vote.” 

While all of the preceding information indicates that the presidential race is far from over, Trump's rival's headaches, errors and self-inflicted damage keep increasing quite rapidly on a daily basis. 

Ben Wolfgang reports @washingtontimes.com today: “Long before Hillary Clinton called millions of Americans a “basket of deplorables,” her top campaign advisers and liberal allies openly mocked Catholics, Southerners and a host of other groups, according to newly released emails that offer a stunning window into the vitriol inside the Clinton world less than a month before Election Day. 

“The emails, published by WikiLeaks after a hack of Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s private account, also show Clinton campaign officials and Democratic leaders disparaging supporters of Sen. Bernard Sanders as “self-righteous” whiners, calling Hispanic party leaders such as Bill Richardson “needy Latinos,” labeling CNN anchor Jake Tapper “a d—k” and even lambasting longtime Clinton ally Sidney Blumenthal. 

“The sheer number of insults in the email trove has left the Clinton campaign, along with outside organizations such as the Center for American Progress that were routinely involved in the brutal bad-mouthing, unable or unwilling to respond. Instead, they have blamed the hack on Russia and have refused to even confirm that the emails are genuine, though they also haven’t denied their authenticity.” 

In another example of how damaging the leaked information may be, the article also reveals what may turn out to be back-door cover for Republican old-liner’s who’ve turned against Trump overtly or surreptitiously. 

In today’s case: “House Speaker Paul D. Ryan, a Wisconsin Republican who is Catholic, also blasted the Clinton campaign. 

“If anything, these statements reveal the Clinton campaign’s hostile attitude toward people of faith in general,” Mr. Ryan said in a statement. “All Americans of faith should take a long, hard look at this and decide if these are the values we want to be represented in our next president. If Hillary Clinton continues to employ people with biased and bigoted views, it’s clear where her priorities are.” 

As far as the campaign itself is concerned, the Democrat candidate continues to do all she can to discredit Trump as a person, delving into specific issues as little as possible. However, despite all her attempts at misdirection, real world problems caused by the POTUS keep occurring, nonetheless.  

According to a Reuters story @yahoo.com: “Iran sent two warships to the Gulf of Aden on Thursday, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported, establishing a military presence in waters off Yemen where the U.S. military launched cruise missile strikes on areas controlled by Iran-backed Houthi forces. 

"Iran's Alvand and Bushehr warships have been dispatched to the Gulf of Aden to protect trade vessels from piracy," Tasnim reported. 

“The U.S. military strikes were in response to failed missile attacks this week on a U.S. Navy destroyer, U.S. officials said. 

“Iran's key regional rival Saudi Arabia accuses Tehran of providing support to the Houthis, a charge the Islamic Republic denies.” 

In this case, once again a reader, sparky2, summed the situation up with a succinct, accurate comment: “Iran nor Russia have any fear of Obama. They know he won't force anyone's hand. Never has, such as the 'red line' quote or the taking of Crimea by the Russians. They know that if Trump gets elected they're going to have to behave themselves, so they're making their moves now.” 

Then, at the same time, ChinaTechNews.com’s Editor writes @chinatechnews.com: “Foxconn has deployed 40,000 robots in its factories in mainland China as it aims to reduce the number of workers at its plants creating digital devices. 

“Dai said currently Foxconn can produce 10,000 robots annually. In the future, those robots are all potential replacements for human labor. For the Kunshan factory alone, Foxconn has cut 60,000 employees.” 

Most significantly: “Prior to this, labor costs in mainland China were lower than robots; therefore, Foxconn maintained nearly one million workers. However, with the increase of labor costs and the younger generation's lack of interest in production line work, many companies have launched huge investments in automation. 

“Dai also revealed that apart from making robots on its own, Foxconn may acquire other robot manufacturers. In addition, Foxconn plans to create robots for medical and health applications.” 

So, with labor costs here increasing significantly due to minimum wage hikes that will force all labor costs up eventually, American businesses and its work forces will lose again.  

Thus, what this means is that in two major campaign issues, employment and foreign policy, the current administration continues to fail miserably which should have great impact on the upcoming presidential vote.

Bringing us to today’s update on Bill Clinton’s wife. 

Cody Derespina headlined his article today @foxnews.com/politics: "Clinton bashes Trump over Russia praise, but emails show she praised Putin"

 

The story says: “Though Hillary Clinton has bashed Donald Trump over his alleged fondness for Russia, excerpts from her purported post-State Department speeches in the WikiLeaks files show she also sought “a positive relationship” with Moscow and praised President Vladimir Putin as recently as 2014.” 

In some of those speech excerpts, revealed when WikiLeaks began releasing alleged emails belonging to Clinton Campaign Chairman John Podesta, Bill’s wife said: Putin was “engaging” and “very interesting conversationalist” 

Then, during a speech to Goldman Sachs on June 4, 2013, she said: “I would love it if we could continue to build a more positive relationship with Russia,” and in the same speech, “obviously we would very much like to have a positive relationship with Russia and we would like to see Putin be less defensive toward a relationship with the United States so that we could work together on some issues.”  

While the campaign has declined to release the full transcripts, they were contained in an 80-page document emailed to Podesta and others “that flagged potentially problematic quotes.” 

And then, on another problematic issue, newsmax.com headlined a story yesterday: “Clinton's Tax Plan Seen Costing 697,000 Jobs, Hurting Wages” 

The text says: “The Democratic presidential nominee’s tax plan, which includes proposals to raise taxes on multimillionaires and impose a “financial risk fee” on banks, would change economic behavior enough to reduce U.S. gross domestic product by 2.6 percent over the long run, according to a study prepared by the Washington-based Tax Foundation. In that slightly smaller economy, wages would be 2.1 percent lower, the report said. 

“By itself, “the plan would reduce the after-tax incomes of the top 1 percent of taxpayers by 6.6 percent but increase the after-tax income of all other income groups by at least 0.1 percent,” the analysis said. Still, after accounting for smaller economic growth that would result, “all after-tax incomes would fall by at least 0.1 percent in the long run,” it said. 

“After accounting for that reduced tax base, Clinton’s plan would increase federal revenue by $663 billion over 10 years, the Tax Foundation determined -- a number that’s less than half of some previous estimates.” 

So, here we have an economic plan that over time, helps no one at all. Not the economy, nor the government, and certainly not taxpayer’s at any level. Which means it’s much like Obamacare for the economy and another eventual major failure in every aspect. 

Raising the ongoing question again: Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, Jerry Brown, and Starbucks chairman and CEO, Howard Schultz, are you guys are reading this?   

That's it for today folks. 

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