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The voters who put Barack Obama in office expected some big changes. From the NSA's warrantless wiretapping to Guantanamo Bay to the Patriot Act, candidate Obama was a defender of civil liberties and privacy, promising a dramatically different approach from his predecessor. But six years into his administration, the Obama version of national security looks almost indistinguishable from the one he inherited. Guantanamo Bay remains open. The NSA has, if anything, become more aggressive in monitoring Americans. Drone strikes have escalated. Most recently it was reported that the same president who won a Nobel Prize in part for promoting nuclear...

It is difficult to say who will be elected by American people, but the world (except for sterile Western Europe) has made its choice. And this choice, in spite of formal logic, is the "racist," "sexist," "imperialist," "Islamophobe" Donald Trump. In New York, the President of Egypt, el-Sisi, has met with Trump and characterized him as a "strong leader." The presidents of the Czech Republic and Hungary, Milos Zeman and Viktor Orban, urged Americans to elect Trump. According to Orban, Trump would be a better leader than Obama, and Zeman compared him with Reagan. Russia, Israel and the Arab monarchies...

Donald Trump unleashed the fury of his Twitter account on his GOP critics Tuesday, accusing them of being fair-weather backers and insisting that he's better off without their "shackles," and he can now run the kind of campaign he wants. At first glance, though, the new Mr. Trump looked a lot like the old Mr. Trump -- with House Speaker Paul D. Ryan and Sen. John McCain targeted... "Disloyal R's are far more difficult than Crooked Hillary," he said in another tweet. "They come at you from all sides. They don't know how to win -- I will teach them!"...

Electing the first female president seems to be the only mission for Democrats and liberals. That would have been the case even if Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz or Jeb Bush had won the Republican nomination. The latest Wikileaks releases show the Clinton campaign's plans to use sexism, misogyny and character assassination to defeat any one of her Republican opponents. Exchanges in the Podesta email leaks show that Ted Cruz and Donald Trump were the preferred candidates for the Clinton campaign because of their less mainstream views and personal pasts. The only candidate that would have successfully neutralized Hillary Clinton's sexist...

Despite what anyone may want to believe, the chances of Donald Trump moving into the White House in January are not trivial. He is still a candidate; he still has ardent supporters; and he still could be our next president. This means that, now more than ever, journalists with relevant information have a responsibility to stop wringing their hands and burn Donald Trump. Currently, at least one potential cache of nightmarish Trump material is hiding in plain sight: Mark Burnett's video archives at The Apprentice. There are significant barriers to any of it becoming public. But there is another potential...

  Rasmussen Reports finds rebound after debate The video may have only produced a temporary bump for HillaryAfter an absolutely brutal seventy-two hour period for Donald Trump, when he fielded numerous calls to drop out of the race from establishment Republicans, Trump's debate performance seems to have turned the tide. On Monday, Rasmussen released a poll taken from Friday to Sunday showing Trump trailing by seven points. The report read, "Donald Trump has been clobbered in the White House Watch survey following the release of a video showing him discussing women in graphic sexual detail." After one day of...

I propose that the freeper community creates a list of the Republicans that ran for the hills to save themselves. Then those in or around a farming community send each of them a White Feather. For those that are a bit younger, this is a "Four Feathers" reference. Branding them cowards. They need to man up and go all in with Trump and the agenda to return the feathers.

UPI/CVoter: Trump up three in Pennsylvania and Florida, within two in NH, CO and WI Trump has a very good chance of winning 265 electoral votes by winning the following states, FL, NC, OH, IA, AZ and NV. His problem comes in that he needs to add one more state from the following list. CO, NH, WI, MI, NM, PA or ME. After Reuters/Ipsos released good news on both sides of this equation, UPI/CVoter has followed suit. In the CVoter state polls that poll 250 voters per week, for a two-week total of 500 voters, Trump is seen leading in...

Why Mike Pence will almost certainly give Trump a bump in the polls tonight Mike Pence: The medicine Trump needs at just the right time Trump will almost certainly head into his second debate with Hillary Clinton either in a tie with Hillary, or at least moving up in the polls. The reason for this is simple, Mike Pence is front and center tonight and he's the guy who most Republicans like and can relate to, and they are the ones Trump needs.It was Republicans who caused Trump to drop a bit in the polls after the first debate. I...

  Seven days after debate, despite all winds at her back, Clinton's gains are modest For five days, the polls did not reflect much of a shift nationally. Yesterday and today, a few polls came out that changed that a bit. Averaging all of the changes in the polls that have been released, we see that Clinton has gained on Trump nationally by 1.7%. What we are seeing is a contrast in findings. The pollsters that poll new voters each time are finding a shift for Clinton. Pollsters that track the same voters or do a tracking method are...

Daily post-debate tracker After three days of post-debate polling, Clinton has gained 0.88% in an average of national polls    National Polls   Day of Debate After 1 day After 2 days After 3 days National Shift ---- Trump +0.55 Clinton +1.56 Clinton +0.88           LA Times Trump 46.2, Clinton 42.7 Trump 46.7, Clinton 42.6 Trump 46.7, Clinton 42.9 Trump 47.3, Clinton 41.7 Margin Trump +3.5 Trump +4.1 Trump +3.8 Trump +5.6 Shift   0.6 to Trump 0.3 to Trump 2.1 to Trump         UPI Trump 47.1, Clinton 47.8 Trump 47.7. Clinton 47.9...

As the United States gears up to choose the 45th U.S. president, a new book claims the worst president to serve in American history was Barack Obama. Authors Matt Margolis and Mark Noonan claim to present 200 reasons why Obama is the worst commander in chief in history, offering readers a way to "easily find all the information that was ignored by the media and that Barack Obama would like you to forget." A few questions the book is said to answer are: "The Worst President in History" are Did Barack Obama really save this country from another Great Depression?...

Hillary Clinton for President Our endorsement is rooted in respect for her intellect, experience and courage. 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...

From Linked Politico: President Barack Obama used a pseudonym in email communications with Hillary Clinton and others, according to FBI records made public Friday. The disclosure came as the FBI released its second batch of documents from its investigation into Clinton’s private email server during her tenure as secretary of state. The 189 pages the bureau released includes interviews with some of Clinton’s closest aides, such as Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills; senior State Department officials; and even Marcel Lazar, better known as the Romanian hacker “Guccifer.” In an April 5, 2016 interview with the FBI, Abedin was shown an...

Bruce Stokes of the Pew Research Center based in Washington, DC, was in Delhi for a series of talks. He presented results of opinion polls that offer an interesting insight into the contemporary American mind Every leap year, the United States presidential election becomes the most watched such event in the world. The quantum of coverage only grows with each successive election, as media and social media capacities expand worldwide. Yet, this year the election has acquired a special significance due to a mix of factors. First, there are the compelling personalities -- in their own ways, Donald Trump and...

Not only is Trump polling much better than he was in Colorado up until September, but he is actually leading in the state in the two polls taken there in September. In the Emerson poll Trump is up four points, receiving 42 to Clinton's 38. In the Reuters/Ipsos poll, Trump leads by three, 43 to 40. Considering that Clinton was so confidant in Colorado that she pulled her money out of the state in July, these September polls represent an earthquake in Colorado and nationally. I added Colorado to the Battleground Index tonight, which only includes states that are actually...

Clinton Health No Longer In Question YOUNGSTOWN, OH (AIP) – The electrified corpse of Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has taken a 3 point lead in this key swing state against Republican hopeful Donald Trump according to the latest Pew Poll of likely voters released Friday. “We’re very pleased that Mrs. Clinton’s moldering cadaver is doing so well in this very important state,” said Clinton Ohio campaign manager Kelli Sorenson. “Ever since we hired that new makeup guy to keep Hillary looking fresh and nearly life-like we’ve noticed the polls have been reacting favorably.”

Some video streaming from the Latinos4Trump rally in Miami outside the Univision Studios. https://www.periscope.tv/ChatRevolve/1djGXYAQbQoJZ

Liberals at work are becoming more and more aggressive as the political scene unfolds and it actually looks like Trump might win. The latest comment by Hillary about "Deplorables" and the reaction to it as them really steamed up. The tone seems to be one of a leaning toward actual conflict should he win. One made a statement to the effect that a win by Trump would simply be unacceptable and action would have to be taken. We are at the breaking point, literally.

<p>VIENTIANE, Laos — Philippine Foreign Secretary Perfecto Yasay says President Obama has met briefly with new Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte — who called him a “son of a whore” — on the sidelines of a summit in Laos.</p> <p>There was no immediate confirmation from the White House.</p>