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Trying to ascertain Green Party candidate, Jill Stein’s, objective in calling for a presidential vote recount in three states is quite difficult. That’s because, while raising significant dollars for her, it makes no sense. None of three races in question were even close, nor were there any hints of improprieties, errors or illegality’s until she herself muddied the waters.
 
sputniknews.com reports that speaking to Brad Friedman, host of Radio Sputnik's Broadcast, she offered details about what it was she was trying to accomplish with her initiative.

“Simply put, she said that the recount effort is meant to assure voters that their votes were accounted for and counted accurately. "We have to move really fast in order to basically verify the vote and be confident our votes were actually counted, that they weren't flipped or stripped and that we have a system of elections we can believe in," the candidate explained.” 

Stein said that her "interest as a citizen, as a person in America, that the vote be valid," is what's driving the effort from her end. "Why would anyone in their right mind not want to have secure and verified vote? In a very vicious, hotly contested election that used hack-friendly voting machines, in a hack-riddled election, we deserve some confidence in the outcome of this election." 

However, while Stein herself got roughly 1 percent of the national vote, and now says she wants to make sure hackers didn't skew the results in those swing states, how could a recount possibly matter to her?

Trump won Wisconsin by 27,257 votes, Pennsylvania by approximately 60,000 and Michigan by 10,704, for a total of 97,961, certainly not within any margin of reasonable error.

Therefore, other than adding useless distractions to what has been an orderly governmental transition to date, this obstructer Stein’s nothing more than another whining loser. 

On a similar matter, useless politicians, Victoria T. Davis reported @theindychannel.com: “Sen. Bernie Sanders announced Saturday he will soon introduce legislation to prevent outsourcing of American jobs, including more than 2,000 Indiana jobs being shipped to Mexico by Carrier and UTEC.

“As both of these companies are owned by United Technologies, Sanders said his proposed legislation, called the Outsourcing Prevention Act, will “provide a comprehensive solution to address this problem” of job outsourcing.” 

As far as the issue itself is concerned: “During the campaign, Donald Trump made a 100 percent commitment to prevent United Technologies from shipping 2,100 jobs from Indiana to Mexico.” Since then he’s put the issue on his short list for immediate action, once he takes office.  

Yet, Sanders said: “All of us need to hold Mr. Trump accountable to make sure that he keeps this promise. Let’s be clear: it is not good enough to save some of these jobs. We cannot rest until United Technologies signs a firm contract to keep all of these good-paying jobs in Indiana without slashing the salaries or benefits workers have earned.” 

Thus, Sanders is attempting to make an issue where none exists. Nor is it likely to arise in the future, because Trump will most assuredly deliver, as indicated on Thursday when he tweeted: “I am working hard, even on Thanksgiving, trying to get Carrier A.C. Company to stay in the U.S. (Indiana). MAKING PROGRESS - Will know soon!.”

So, once again, Sanders is a day late, a dollar short and completely unaware of what goes on around him. But, we don’t have to worry about that, because his days in the spotlight are most assuredly over along with whatever’s left of the left everywhere, further confirmed by the next item. 

Henry Samuel reports @telegraph.co.uk: “France is expect to elect its first truly Thatcherite leader of the Right on Sunday, with François Fillon in pole position to take on an ebullient far-Right Front National.

“Seen as a no-hoper even a month ago, one last-minute poll put Mr Fillon, a former prime minister, winning the presidential primary nomination for his Republicans party with 61 per cent of the vote against 39 per cent for his older, more moderate rival, Alain Juppé. 

“The race has attracted huge interest in France, drawing four million voters to the polls in the first round, because the winner stands a high chance as things stand of becoming French president next year in a run-off against FN leader Marine Le Pen.”

That thought was confirmed by French Prime Minister Manuel Valls “who warned that his Socialist party risked getting wiped out in next year's presidential election, as he kept open the possibility in a newspaper interview of running as a candidate in the 2017 vote,” according to yahoo.com.

Valls told French newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche in an interview to be published on Sunday: "I must remind you - we could get pulverized during the evening of the first round," adding that "the left wing could die." 

All of which goes to confirm, that despite the tremendous effort extended by the mainstream media all over the world to promote it, the left is rapidly shrinking in power and influence. Which is certainly true here in the U.S., where candidates like Stein cannot get more than 1% of the vote for her environmentally protective and politically leftist objectives.

That’s it for today folks.

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