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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Gilbert B Norman: [QB] An informative article appears at the [URL=https://www.google.com/amp/www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/09/23/dear_hillary_heres_why_you_arent_50_points_ahead_131866.amp.html]Real Clear Politics [/URL] site, from which David Brooks linked in my immediate, drew his "50 points" reference. Regardless of whose square your felt tipped pen touches 44 days from now, this article outlines why there is not a 50 point, or thereabouts, spread. Fair Use: [i][list] [*]Dear Hillary: Here's Why You Aren't 50 Points Ahead Wednesday, in a videotaped message to a labor group in Las Vegas, an exasperated-sounding Hillary Clinton closed her remarks by saying, “So having said all that, why aren’t I 50 points ahead, you might ask?” It’s a question Democrats all over the country are asking as the 2016 race heads into the final stretch with their candidate clinging to a small lead over a bombastic billionaire and reality television star. Clinton and her supporters are legitimately bewildered as to why this race is so close. But it’s not really a mystery. The reasons are plentiful and have been on display throughout the course of the campaign.[/i] [/list] I can only reiterate my earlier thought; politics of 24 years ago, meet the politics of today. Another journalistic development is that The Times in the Sunday print edition, will come out for Hillary. This is of course expected as I cannot recall when they last came out for a Republican nominee. But what is unexpected is their timing. Gray Lady usually endorses on the Sunday prior to Election Day week, or 10 days prior. Is Lady's Editorial Board worried? I fear they are: [URL=http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/25/opinion/sunday/hillary-clinton-for-president.html]New York Times Clinton endorsement[/URL] Fair Use: [i][list] [*]In any normal election year, we’d compare the two presidential candidates side by side on the issues. But this is not a normal election year. A comparison like that would be an empty exercise in a race where one candidate — our choice, Hillary Clinton — has a record of service and a raft of pragmatic ideas, and the other, Donald Trump, discloses nothing concrete about himself or his plans while promising the moon and offering the stars on layaway. (We will explain in a subsequent editorial why we believe Mr. Trump to be the worst nominee put forward by a major party in modern American history.) But this endorsement would also be an empty exercise if it merely affirmed the choice of Clinton supporters. We’re aiming instead to persuade those of you who are hesitating to vote for Mrs. Clinton — because you are reluctant to vote for a Democrat, or for another Clinton, or for a candidate who might appear, on the surface, not to offer change from an establishment that seems indifferent and a political system that seems broken. Running down the other guy won’t suffice to make that argument. The best case for Hillary Clinton cannot be, and is not, that she isn’t Donald Trump. The best case is, instead, about the challenges this country faces, and Mrs. Clinton’s capacity to rise to them.[/i] [/list] When The Journal surely endorses Donald Trump, will they be so eloquent? Time will tell. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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