By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--August 18, 2016
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Were it not for its blatant audacity, the over-reaction of both mainstream media and Democrats that Trump has hired executive chairman of Breitbart News LLC, Steve Bannon to run his campaign, would be laughable.
By any measure, Beitbart is minuscule to the world’s largest search engine Google and it is Google that has been running Hillary Clinton’s campaign from the get-go. here
‘TrumPANIC at the TRUMPtanic!! Breitbart News TAKES OVER flailing campaign!! is the headline of SooperMexican’s piece over at Politico today, “El Trumpo continues to shock and surprise us, and today is no exception as we discover that he’s merging his flailing campaign with Breitbart News and dumping Manafort and everyone else telling him to tone it down. (The Right Scoop) “Ostensibly, Manafort will stay on the campaign, but Kellyanne Conway will begin running the campaign, and Steve Bannon of Breitbart will be the CEO. “Donald Trump, whose presidential bid has been stumbling badly in recent weeks, is reshuffling his campaign’s senior leadership.”
“Trump told the paper “I want to win,” and “That’s why I’m bringing on fantastic people who know how to win and love to win.” “Campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who had been effectively running the campaign for the last two months, will stay on in his current position. “But the shakeup seems to represent a diminution of his authority at a time when Trump’s campaign is sliding in polls versus Democratic rival Hillary Clinton, and has been badly damaged by a string of controversies stemming from Trump’s own impolitic pronouncements. "This is truly blowing my mind. And it basically dispels the assurances from Manafort that there weren’t any problems in the campaign and confirms reports of his frustrations with Trump. “This is a doubling down on the “let Trump be Trump” strategy, if I’m reading it correctly, and I imagine that we’re going to see a lot of fireworks, and a lot less “controlled Trump.” Because Trump just can’t conceive that anyone would dislike him, and he’s hired yes-men to reassure him of that fantasy.”No mention of how they’re trying to drag over the finish line, a rail clutching, resting stool, pillow needing, and a Hillary-propping Joe Biden, pinch hitting for the mysteriously missing Secret Service Agent/Clinton handler videotaped telling their candidate to “keep talking”.
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“For many Americans, the path to casting a vote is way rockier than it should be. Between (racist) new voter ID laws and government websites that haven’t been updated since the late Cretaceous, it hard to know how to register, where and when to vote, and what you need to bring. Heck, the rules were so confusing in New York during the primaries that even Ivanka Trump was unable to vote for her dad. That’s where Google’s newest search tool, which debuts this morning, comes in. "Next time you punch “how to vote” or “how to register” into Google’s search bar, all the tricky logistical details of your state’s specific electoral rigamarole will be spelled out in plain English. “The voting process is complicated and overwhelming,” says Emily Moxley, the project’s team lead and product manager. “Different websites have bits and pieces of the information people need, and it’s hard to tell if the information you’re looking at is up to date. So we collected everything into one location, in terminology that’s easy to grok.” "Google collected all that data with the help of law firm Perkins Coie and what Moxley calls “a fair amount of manual, painstaking work.” The Google team’s slogging is likely to be worth it though, because this is clearly information that people want. The Google-generated map below shows a real surge in voter registration interest since 2012, especially in the swing states and the Northeast, where it’s up over 100 percent at least. "The data doesn’t show why certain states are more energized than others (though we suspect that Senator Sanders may have had something to do with the 358 percent interest spike in Vermont), but it clearly shows that people want to participate. Nation-wide, interest in voter registration peaked at +190 percent within an hour of Hillary Clinton’s keynote speech at the Democratic National Convention. However you feel about the candidates and this most ridiculous season of political theater, more people than ever are political engaged online, and this new suite of voter-friendly tools may help them take that fervor out to where it really counts: the voting booth.”Meanwhile, they may be up against the all powerful Google, but millions are saying, ‘Go, Breitbart, Go!’ Related:
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