Donald Trump Covers The New Yorker Magazine
Hillary Clinton Gets Post-Debate Bounce
The New York Times Upshot shows Hillary Clinton enjoying a post-debate bounce.
Nate Silver, of FiveThirtyEight, also shows Clinton’s debate performance delivering a bit of lift. Prior to the debate Monday night, Clinton was just above the 50% mark on FiveThirtyEight.
Funny: The Hillary Shimmy Song
Somehow, we all knew when Hillary Clinton did a little two second shake-dowm shimmy after one of Donald Trump’s unintelligible answers at the first presidential debate, we got a gift that would keep giving.
Check out the latest from Jonathan Mann, the “song a day” man. For over seven years, Mann writes – you guessed it – a song a day.
Here’s the lyrics for the smile-inducing “Hillary Shimmy Song:”
This dude is coming at me
I just smile and let him be
The dude brought your own rope
He put the bullet in the gun so
I’m just gonna shimmy
Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy
HRC
Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy
Hillary
He just keeps on shouting, “Wrong!”
So I’ll get my Jim Halpert on
He is a flightless bird
I think I’ll never say another word
I’ll just be singing this song
Gary Johnson Has Another “Aleppo Moment”
Poor Gary Johnson.
He finally gets an hour on TV to promote his nascent Libertarian run for president, and he blanks again on a softball question from MSNBC’s Chris Matthews.
Matthews asks Johnson to name a current foreign leader of he likes, and Johnson comes up with nada.
Not even Justin Trudeau of Canada or Mexican President Peña Nieto, our neighbors?
Gary Johnson had an “Aleppo moment” after @hardballchris asks who his favorite foreign leader is #JohnsonTownhall https://t.co/nRazpPL0q0— MSNBC (@MSNBC) September 28, 2016
Behind The Scenes Of Donald Trump’s Debate Prep
Interesting look inside the Donald Trump campaign before and after the first presidential debate this past Monday night.
From the New York Times:
Mr. Trump’s debate preparation was unconventional. Aides have introduced a lectern and encouraged him to participate in mock debates, but he has not embraced them, focusing mostly on conversations and discussions with advisers.
During the primaries, the group briefing him for debates was small and closely held. By the weekend before the debate on Monday at Hofstra University, there were nearly a dozen people preparing Mr. Trump, including the retired Army generals Michael Flynn and Keith Kellogg, neither of whom has experience in presidential debates.
There were early efforts to run a more standard form of general election debate-prep camp, led by Roger Ailes, the ousted Fox News chief, at Mr. Trump’s golf course in Bedminster, N.J. But Mr. Trump found it hard to focus during those meetings, according to multiple people briefed on the process who requested anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. That left Mr. Ailes, who at the time was deeply distracted by his removal from Fox and the news media reports surrounding it, discussing his own problems as well as recounting political war stories, according to two people present for the sessions.
Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former New York City mayor and a friend of Mr. Trump’s who has been traveling with him extensively, took over much of the preparation efforts by the end. But with Mr. Trump receiving so much conflicting advice in those sessions, he absorbed little of it.
The team had primed Mr. Trump to look for roughly a dozen key phrases and expressions Mrs. Clinton uses when she is uncertain or uncomfortable, but he did not seem to pay attention during the practice sessions, one aide said, and failed to home in on her vulnerabilities during the debate.
“It clearly looked like he ran out of gas after 30 minutes, and that came through loud and clear,” said Scott Reed, the senior political strategist for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, who has not supported Mr. Trump.
NBC News/SurveyMonkey Poll: Clinton Won 1st Debate Over Trump 52%-21%
According to a newly released poll conducted by NBC News/SurveyMonkey, 52% of respondents say Democrat Hillary Clinton won the first presidential debate this past Monday night over Republican Donald Trump. Just 21% said Trump came out on top.
Within her own party, Clinton strengthened her base among Democrats and Democrat-leaning voters view her with 50% saying their opinion of her changed for the better.
Only 26% of Republican and Republican-leaning voters felt Trump improved his standing among them.
When it comes to all-important Independent voters, two-thirds of those polled said their opinion of the two candidates did not change as a result of the debate. Sixteen percent said Clinton improved in their view, while 9% said the same about Trump.
In terms of “appearing presidential,” 53% of respondents said Clinton has the proper temperament to serve as president effectively, while 63% said Trump does not.
As noted by Chuck Todd this afternoon while reporting on these results, this survey is an actual scientific poll, as opposed to a “widget” or “instant poll” on a website trolls can vote, refresh, and vote again.
While Trump boasted about how he won several of those easily freeped online voting widgets, several scientific polls now show Clinton won the night.
Happy Hump Day
I’m clearly developing a Randy Report “thing” for fitness model Nick Sandell.
Can you blame me? Dang…
Planting Peace Sends First Pride Flag Into Space
Global nonprofit Planting Peace launched the first pride flag into space to declare the universe “LGBTQ friendly.”
On August 17, Planting Peace sent the first pride flag into space, and in doing so, declared space LGBTQ friendly. The primary purpose of this declaration is to support the ongoing fight for the fundamental human rights of our LGBTQ family, moving us closer to a universal understanding that all people deserve to live freely and love freely without fear and discrimination.
To achieve this, we used a high altitude balloon with a GoPro attached, and launched just outside of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The pride flag was airborne for just over three hours before making its way back to earth. At its peak altitude, the flag soared 21.1 miles above the earth’s surface.
Our hope was to create the largest safe SPACE possible for our LGBTQ community. It also offered us a chance to reinforce, in a peaceful, beautiful way, our ongoing message to our LGBTQ family:
You are loved, valued and beautiful.
There is nothing wrong with you.
You are not alone, and we will stand with you.
I will admit I got a bit choked up watching the flag’s journey. Sweet idea.
Fox News Memo to Hosts: Online Debate Polls Do Not Meet Our “Editorial Standards”
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Dana Blanton, vice president of public-opinion research for Fox News, dashed off a memo yesterday instructing employees that unscientific “online polls” like the ones featured on Drudge and TIME “do not meet our editorial standards.”
I’m guessing the real news here is: Fox News hosts have editorial standards?
From Business Insider:
“As most of the publications themselves clearly state, the sample obviously can’t be representative of the electorate because they only reflect the views of those Internet users who have chosen to participate,” Blanton wrote.
As the Fox News executive pointed out, users who participate in such polls must have internet access, be online at the time of the poll, be fans of the website in question, and self-select to participate.
“Another problem — we know some campaigns/groups of supporters encourage people to vote in online polls and flood the results,” she wrote. “These quickie click items do not meet our editorial standards.”
At least three Fox News hosts cited unscientific online polls in the hours after Monday night’s presidential debate to suggest Donald Trump emerged as the winner of the political showdown.
Trump had come out ahead in a slew of unscientific polls, or polls in which the sample of participants did not accurately reflect the sample of viewers who watched the debate. Such polls are almost always discounted by professional pollsters and analysts.
The only scientific survey conducted in the debate’s immediate aftermath was the CNN/ORC instant poll, which showed that viewers thought Hillary Clinton handily defeated Trump. Respondents to a Morning Consult poll released Wednesday also said, 49% to 26%, that Clinton bested Trump in the debate.
Some Fox News hosts, like Sean Hannity and Brian Kilmeade, continued to tout the unscientific surveys in spite of the network memo.
It was discovered yesterday that over 70 of these unscientific “online polls” were swamped in a coordinated effort by pro-Trump trolls.
Campaign Spot Depicts ISIS/Russia Celebration In Aftermath Of Possible Trump Win
With Millennials and college students in mind, The Democratic Coalition Against Trump drops this dramatic new campaign spot.
Via press release:
The video uses Miley Cyrus’s “Party in the USA” to attack Trump for the support he has received from America’s enemies and is designed to engage with Millennials and college students. With almost 40% of them declaring their support for 3rd party candidates and only 31% currently supporting Secretary Clinton – a far cry from the 60% who voted for Obama in 2012.
“The fact that Trump has received support from Vladimir Putin, neo-Nazi leaders and North Korea is incredibly telling. These are not individuals who want to make America great again,” said Nate Lerner, Executive Director to the Democratic Coalition Against Trump and a millennial. “Further, ISIS continues to use Trump in their recruiting videos, which means a Trump victory will be good for them as well. Clearly they don’t fear Trump as much as he thinks.”