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This is nuts. After 51 years of Cub Fandom, we're in the Series. Schwarber makes the lineup as DH, what a fine credit to the Cubs Mgmt team to have him with the team during rehab all summer. Lester starts tonight, still can't throw to first, or second for that matter. All other factors being equal, which they aren't really, Cubs pitching will win this series for Chicago.

Before we examine the early voting numbers this year, let’s take a look back at 2012 and see how the early voting results compared to the actual outcome. Four years ago, Democrats seemed to hold a substantial lead in North Carolina, with the numbers on November 4th showing Barack Obama with a clear advantage over Mitt Romney:2012: Overall, an estimated 1,455,277 votes have been cast for President Obama and an estimated 1,286,823 votes have been cast for Mitt Romney, giving Obama an estimated 168,455 vote margin, or a 53.1%-46.9% lead, with roughly 59.6% of the vote in (assuming a final...

For months now, we’ve been told that Hillary Clinton’s 33,000 missing emails were permanently erased and destroyed beyond recovery. But newly released FBI notes strongly suggest they still exist in several locations — and they could be recovered, if only someone would impanel a grand jury and seize them. In a May interview with FBI agents, an executive with the Denver contractor that maintained Clinton’s private server revealed that an underling didn’t bleach-clean all her subpoenaed emails, just ones he stored in a data file he used to transfer the emails from the server to Clinton’s aides, who in turn...

You knew this had to happen. The flat out lies are just too much to handle. Especially for an issue as significant as right to life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhtphabTpIs

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Yesterday on this program I discussed the 1980 election, Ronaldus Magnus and Jimmy Carter, and in it I described the election night coverage that night and how I will never forget it. Because this was the election that they called it for Reagan before California had even closed the polls, it was such a landslide. Yet the last polling data going into the election in 1980 had Jimmy Carter winning by nine points. And so Cookie went back to the archives and got a bunch of audio from John Chancellor, Judy Woodruff, Tom Brokaw and David Brinkley...

On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, one of the architects of Obamacare, stated that “There’s a million people” for whom Obamacare premium increases are “going to be severe — or uncomfortable.” Emanuel said that “most” Americans are not seeing 25% premium increases, because they get subsidies. He added, “[T]here are some relatively simple fixes. One is better social marketing to get young people in. Another is these risk corridors for the insurance companies, so that they can keep premiums lower. Another is to change…how much older people pay versus younger people, to decrease the cost for...

Headline of the Day Poll Do Trump's massive rallies mean anything? Yes. Trump supporters are far more enthusiastic No. Bernie Sanders also had large turnouts and lost Read more: http://www.headlineoftheday.com/#ixzz4O8lCDF7M

IOWA: REP are running slightly ahead of 2012 for early voting requests. DEM are running more than 30,000 behind 2012 voting requests. Source: https://twitter.com/ElectProject (10/24 Iowa graph) Iowa Status: Trending TRUMP OHIO: Cuyahoga county (Cleveland) is the Democratic stronghold. 2 weeks before the 2012 election, DEMs had requested 126,358 ballots. REPs had requested 49,762 ballots. Today, DEMs have requested 79,770 ballots. REPs have requested 51,141 ballots. REP requests are UP 1,379. DEM requests are DOWN 46,588 (DOWN 37%!). Source: http://boe.cuyahogacounty.us/en-US/absentee-voter-labels.aspx (2012 county report vs 2016 county report). Ohio Status: Trending TRUMP NORTH CAROLINA: DEM returns (mail and in-person) off 2012...

It has been an increasingly caustic environment behind the scenes between Team Trump and GOP elites that has seen Republican power brokers effectively wall in the Trump campaign. GOP funding has been all but cut off, and so too has the institutionalized state-to-state ground game so critical in winning battleground states on Election Day. Donald Trump, and his millions of supporters, are truly on their own. The primary impetus behind this effort is said to be three-fold, coming in the form of House Speaker Paul Ryan, Ohio Governor John Kasich, and long-ago ousted, onetime GOP presidential front-runner, Jeb Bush. The...

Black Likely Voters for TRUMP @Rasmussen_Poll Oct 17 – 17% Oct 18 – 19% Oct 19 – 18% Oct 20 – 15% Oct 21 – 16% Oct 24 – 15% Oct 25 – 16% — Ted Carroll (@mediainvestors) October 25, 2016 If Democrats lost 25% of the black vote they would lose Virginia, Florida, Ohio and North Carolina.

From:john.podesta@gmail.com To: milia.fisher@gmail.com Date: 2015-07-13 18:03 Subject: Re: Midday Roundup / Wednesday Afternoon Issues On Jul 13, 2015 3:23 PM, "John Podesta" wrote: > Can ypu put together a picture book of tomorrow's attendees. Just the > President's not the +1's. > Might be in HRC's briefing book for tomorrow in which case that will do. > On Jul 13, 2015 1:27 PM, "Milia Fisher" wrote: > >> Correct- Thursday 12:30 pm meeting with WJC/CVC is at the midtown office. >> Thanks, Eryn! John, I'm also available but on the bus until 4:30/5:00. >> >> On Monday, July 13, 2015,...

Texans turned out in record numbers on the first day of early voting for the 2016 General Election. Harris County led the way with over 67,000 ballots cast. “I was shocked,” Harris County Clerk Stan Stanart told Breitbart Texas Monday night. “We prepared for a large turnout by increasing polling locations and the number of machines in key locations, but we were still surprised by how many people actually came out.” Stanart said his team reacted quickly by sending additional equipment to places were poll workers were becoming inundated with voters. Harris County had 67,471 people show up to vote...

Current FL EV In-Person ballot compared to same amount in 2012:Rep +5.5, Dem-6.3, OTH +7.1% Sorry but no news outlet is reporting the Florida In-Person Early vote data properly, which is that: FL In-person Early ballots are way up across the board, BUT relative to the point in time in 2012 with roughly the same amount of Early in person ballots received, Dems have a smaller share now than Republicans and "Other". In other words, in 2016 Dems are underperforming as a share of the ballots received, and the Republicans and Other are outperforming. I had found a Miami Herald...

Barack Obama and Democrats lied for years about how Obamacare would save you money and not affect your health care choices. Obama famously told Americans, “You can keep your plan if you like your plan.” That was probably the most memorable line of his presidency – and it was a bald faced lie. Obamacare was forced into law with 100% of the votes coming from Democratic lawmakers. This week we learned premiums would increase an average of 22% this year. Here are the average increase in premiums in battleground states. -Ohio: 13.12% increase -Florida: 17.40% increase -Pennsylvania: 32.5% increase -Nevada:...

During their mission, the two crew members will perform experiments from 14 different areas including biology, space life science and technological demonstrations. They have set up plant cultivation and growing experiments and have six silkworms on board for a student-based study to see how silkworms produce silk in microgravity. The crew is also doing medical testing on themselves using Tiangong II’s on board ultrasound equipment to scan their cardiovascular and pulmonary systems. They’ll also be checking for bone and muscle degradation and track any changes to their eyesight. NASA and ESA has discovered that the majority of astronauts doing long-duration...

Alliances are transmission belts of war. So our Founding Fathers taught and the 20th century proved. When Britain, allied to France, declared war on Germany in 1914, America sat out, until our own ships were being sunk in 1917. When Britain, allied to France, declared war on Germany, Sept. 3, 1939, we stayed out until Hitler declared war on us, Dec. 11, 1941. As the other Western powers bled and bankrupted themselves, we emerged relatively unscathed as the world's No. 1 power. The Brits and French lost their empires, and much else, and ceased to be great powers. Stalin's...

Officials Tuesday were working to fix a “major computer outage” at Department of Motor Vehicles offices across the Southland and statewide. Customer transactions at dozens of DMV field offices were impacted by the outage, including offices in Los Angeles, Hollywood, Compton, El Monte, Fullerton, and Thousand Oaks.

The Week 7 Texans/Broncos Monday Night Football game drew a 7.8 overnight rating on ESPN, down 13% from Ravens/Cardinals last year (9.0) and down 10% from Steelers/Texans in 2014 (8.7). The 7.8 is the lowest for MNF in Week 7 of the season in four years, since Lions/Bears had a 7.3 opposite a presidential debate and Game 7 of an MLB playoff series in 2012. All eight MNF games this season have hit multi-year lows in the metered markets, with five of the past six down double-digits from both last year and 2014. The Broncos’ win, which peaked at a...

Upon being told that president Obama had publicly claimed he did not know about Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server, longtime Clinton aide and counsel Cheryl Mills told Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta “we need to clean this up.” The revelation comes in the 18th batch of emails released by Wikileaks reportedly from John Podesta’s email account.

The candidates in the General Election for President of the United States are the Republican Donald Trump, the Democrat Hillary Clinton and the Libertarian Gary Johnson or someone else. If the election were held today, for whom would you vote? (ROTATE) Donald Trump: 46% Hillary Clinton: 46% Gary Johnson: 2% Someone else: 2% Undecided: 5%