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I watched a crime show once where a single scene disturbed me to the point that it haunts me to this very day. . .The scene opened with a man in his home, surrounded by his family, comfortable, safe. The doorbell rings, and the man.opens the door to a stranger pleading for help. The man doesn't invite the stranger in; instead, turns away to make the call himself. The door is still open, and the stranger and his cohorts enter the home. They close the door, and now the man's alone with these strangers in his house. . no one...

Two teams of researchers in Switzerland say their data models based on search frequency and speech analysis forecast a win for Republican President Donald Trump in the US elections on Tuesday. Both teams’ models predicted Trump’s 2016 victory. ... The teams’ outlooks for the 2020 presidential race stand at odds with widespread polling that shows the Democratic challenger, former Vice President Joe Biden, out in front... One team used internet and social media searches to gauge interest in the candidate. The other team tweaked an established forecasting system, which is based on economic data and incumbency, by also evaluating a...

News media and election watchers have long relied on exit polling to tell them who voted and why they support their chosen candidate on election night, and despite the unprecedented challenges 2020 has presented, this year will be no different. Exit polling traditionally involves interviews with a randomly selected sample of voters conducted as those voters leave their polling places. Unlike preelection polling, where voters can be identified using only screening questions or a history of voting on a voter file, meeting voters where they are ensures that those included in the survey have actually cast their ballots. Advertisement But...

In the presidential election of 2016, everything worked – miraculously, but just barely. The most unlikely of candidates, with no political experience, with no massive team of consultants, pollsters, and speechwriters, and with modest funding, won out in the Republican primaries over a chorus line of high-profile senators and governors, including the party establishment’s own favorite, a politician from Central Casting whose father and brother were both ex-presidents and who had a massive war chest. After slaying these dragons, that unlikeliest of candidates, thanks to the power of middle America in the Electoral College, triumphed over his Democratic opponent, whose...

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has a planned campaign stop in Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he spent part of his childhood. He is traveling with two of his granddaughters who he says have never been to Scranton. https://twitter.com/ajjaffe/status/1323630556941352967?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1323630556941352967%7Ctwgr%5Eshare_3&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rightjournalism.com%2Fvideo-joe-bidens-show-during-his-final-rally-he-was-struggling-to-turn-on-his-megaphone%2F The stops on Tuesday make the third straight day that Mr. Biden has held events in Pennsylvania. He also plans to stop in Philadelphia and is to end his campaigning on Tuesday evening with a speech in Wilmington, Del., with his wife, Jill, his running mate, Senator Kamala Harris, and Ms. Harris’s husband, Doug Emhoff. His rally was weak as always with only...

Kamala Harris, on the eve of the election, released a short campaign video, not as a “dog whistle” to leftists, but as a bullhorn to them about how she’s a full-blown Marxist and that they should vote for her, even if Biden is the purported nominee. She also played the race card in her video, which she’s used her entire career. The other day, Harris tried to do what she often does, and cackle her way out of answering uncomfortable questions. In this particular case, she was asked whether her ideas are socialist. But after her cackle died down, and...

France tried the Biden mask mandate. It didn’t work. “If we just wore these masks,” Joe Biden said, at the final presidential debate, holding up a mask like a totem, “we can save 100,000 lives.” The Democrat nominee’s plan for fighting the coronavirus was all about wearing masks. And indeed the only notable element of Biden’s plan has been a national mask mandate. But would that actually work? Would it even save one life, never mind 100,000? Few European countries have been more mask-obsessed than France. In July, France issued a national mask mandate compelling everyone to wear masks indoors...

1. The early returns Most of the early vote, mailed in or conducted in person, will be among the first results released soon after polls close at 7:30 p.m. When you see a vote total with 0% of the precincts reporting, these are votes each Board of Elections had in hand by Election Day. Historically, this is a pretty good indicator of how the final tally will turn out. A cleveland.com analysis of this early vote in local elections for Cuyahoga County last year found the typical swing from this first count until the end of the night was just...

BUTLER, Pennsylvania — A man who came to President Trump's giant rally at a local airport Saturday night said he knew someone who planned to vote for Trump but felt too intimidated to say so publicly. I asked who it was. It was his mother, he answered, but she would kill him if she found out that he told anyone. "There are a lot of people who are too afraid to put up a sign [for Trump]," he said, explaining that his neighborhood, more than an hour away, was mixed between Trump and Biden voters, and black and white voters....

The former Georgia congressman predicted that Trump will trounce Democratic challenger Joe Biden by securing 324 electoral votes during the election contest. Such a win would far exceed the 270 electoral votes a candidate needs to clinch victory. Trump will have an enormous, almost unimaginable turnout in rural and small town America. Trump will get a much larger share of the black vote than any Republican since 1960. Trump will do surprisingly well with Latinos.

In North Carolina, City of Graham polls were being blocked on the final day of voting by BLM intimidating voters. Police pepper-sprayed the BLM protesters blocking the polls. The left is doing everything they can to prevent a win for President Trump. The video below brings back memories of the Black Panthers who stood at the polls during the Obama election.

LeBron James has played a central role in ensuring that Florida felons will be able to vote in this year’s election.

As Americans cast their ballots, it's worthwhile to review the reasons why a vote for Trump isn't just advisable — it's essential. For one thing, if Biden wins, America and our democracy face unprecedented peril. If Biden wins: Our Supreme Court will be packed, and it will thus cease to serve its intended function as a check on executive and legislative power. Our Constitution will be nullified in all but name.Our borders, only recently secured by herculean efforts, will be flung open, and the days of massive caravans of “refugees” arriving in this country will return.Trump's efforts to renegotiate our trading...

This novel e-skin, called TRACE, performs five times better than conventional soft materials... Real-time health monitoring and sensing abilities of robots require soft electronics, but the challenge of using such materials lies in their reliability. Unlike rigid devices, being elastic and pliable makes their performance less repeatable. The variation in reliability is known as hysteresis. The NUS teamÂ’s breakthrough is the invention of a material which has high sensitivity, but with an almost hysteresis-free performance. They developed a process to crack metal thin films into desirable ring-shaped patterns on a flexible material called polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS). The team integrated this metal/PDMS...

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ark.- The Secretary of the Jefferson County Board of Election Commissioners said Tuesday morning several polling sites in the county are not yet open due to difficulties poll workers encountered using the new equipment. According to Stuart Soffer, Secretary of the Jefferson County Board of Election Commissioners, some poll workers are having difficulties although they received intensive training. Soffer said a contingency plan involving seven responders, office staff and an ES&S troubleshooter has been implemented. The Jefferson County Board of Election Commissioners is asking voters to delay voting until later Tuesday when everything should be running smoothly.

Every four years this columnist writes about the stark choice between the candidates for president (and vice president) and their views on how the country should be run. Every election is declared "the most important in history." This year it might prove true. Were it not for the invasion of the COVID-19 virus, Donald Trump would likely be on his way to a national sweep with probable gains in the Senate and House. It is the virus, along with his personality, that rubs people the wrong way. These have made the race close. In the latest YouGov poll, former Vice...

A gunman shot dead by police in Vienna after a rampage that killed four people was identified this morning as an Islamic State sympathiser who had been convicted of belonging to a terrorist group. Kujtim Fejzulai, 20, was sentenced to 22 months in prison in April 2019 for trying to travel to Syria to join Isis but was released last December under juvenile law. “He was equipped with a fake explosive belt, an automatic rifle, a handgun and a machete to commit this repugnant attack on innocent citizens,” Karl Nehammer, the Austrian interior minister, said...

Mercury will likely be the hardest planet to spot, and binoculars would help. First, look for Venus. Venus is still the brightest of the planets and the third brightest celestial object, only behind the sun and the moon. Venus will be easy to find in the east before and during dawn. Once you’ve located Venus, look beneath it toward the horizon. Mercury will be low in the east-southeast about an hour before sunrise. Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will be visible in the evening. Mars is getting less bright by the day, but it will still be easy to find in...

Whoopi Goldberg sparked outrage by comparing a convoy of Trump supporters accused of 'ambushing' a Biden campaign bus on a Texas highway to a scene from the movie Mississippi Burning. Goldberg and her co-hosts reacted to the Biden bus incident on Monday's episode of The View, broadcasting video which showed a number of MAGA flag-flying cars driving perilously close to the bus on Interstate 35 in Hays County last week. The Biden campaign accused the Trump caravan of trying to run the bus off the road, while President Trump publicly praised the participants and slammed the FBI for opening an...

When asked difficult or uncomfortable questions, such as whether she is a socialist, Democratic vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris tends to laugh as a defense mechanism.