90 Miles From Tyranny

Wednesday, July 13, 2016

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Quinnipiac Poll: Clinton Loses Ground on Morals, Honesty in Swing States

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had lost serious ground to her GOP rival, Donald Trump, in three major swing states following a hit to her ratings on moral standards and honesty, according to a new Quinnipiac University survey, but pollsters said there appears to be no "definite link" between the drop in honesty points and the U.S. Justice Department's decision not to prosecute her over her use of a private email server while secretary of state.

According to the new poll, released early Wednesday morning, Clinton and trump are in a dead heat in Ohio, while Trump leads her in Florida and Pennsylvania in numbers that show a definite drop since the last poll on June 21:

Florida: Trump 42-39 percent, compared to 47-39 percent for Clinton on June 21;
Ohio: Clinton 41 - Trump 41, compared to a 40-40 percent tie on June 21;
Pennsylvania: Trump 43-41 percent, compared to Clinton, 42-41 percent on June 21.

The poll focuses on Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, because no candidate has won the presidency since 1960 without winning at least two of the three states.

When third-party candidates added in, Trump continued to hold a lead in all three states:

Florida: Trump over Clinton 41-36 percent, with 7 percent for Libertarian Gary Johnson and 4 percent for Green Party candidate Jill Stein;
Ohio: Trump, 37-36 percent, with Johnson at 7 percent and Stein at 6 percent;
Pennsylvania: Trump, 40 - 34 percent with 9 percent for Johnson and 3 percent for Stein.

"While there is no definite link between Clinton's drop in Florida and the U.S. Justice Department decision not to prosecute her for her handling of e-mails, she has lost ground to Trump on questions which measure moral standards and honesty," said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll.

In state breakdowns:

Florida:
Men: Trump, 50-29 percent;

Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke has been an outspoken critic of the anger directed at America’s police officers in the wake of many high-profile deaths of African Americans. None of his comments to date will have come close to his condemnation of the Black Lives Matter movement that he delivered after the killing of 5 Dallas Police officers.

Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke has been an outspoken critic of the anger directed at America’s police officers in the wake of many high-profile deaths of African Americans. None of his comments to date will have come close to his condemnation of the Black Lives Matter movement that he delivered after the killing of 5 Dallas Police officers. (video linked)

Six years ago, March E. Ratney was arrested after neighborhood residents told police he was riding a bike and firing a gun. When officers responded to the 911 calls, court documents say, Ratney called them pigs. He called one officer a “cracker.” The documents say he threatened to go to the officers’ homes and kill their families.

Ratney, 27, is now accused of trying to carry out a similar threat.

Ratney’s words from 2010 echo eerily now after police say he went to the home of an Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officer early Tuesday and fired more than a dozen shots at the officer’s home and police car. The officer, a 10-year veteran of the force, was relaxing in his home around 2:25 a.m. after a night shift when a bullet whizzed near the window, police said. His wife and child were sleeping in the home. The family is unharmed, though the officer is concerned for his wife and...

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I didn’t watch President Obama’s address at a memorial service for the murdered police officers in Dallas as it happened, but I did see it later. Obama’s address started out OK, then inevitably spiraled into an agenda-driven lecture, which is the very predictable reason I didn’t go out of my way to watch the speech live in the first place.

Five officers are dead, and so apparently Tuesday’s memorial service was considered an appropriate time for airing some blue-related grievances:

President Obama defended the Black Lives Matter movement Tuesday at a memorial service for five slain Dallas police officers, saying bigotry remains a problem in police departments across the U.S. While paying tribute to the fallen officers for sacrificing their lives to protect anti-police protesters from a sniper, Mr. Obama also called on law enforcement agencies to root out bias that he said is contributing to...