Are There Silent Trump Voters?

“They won’t say that publicly because of this environment that’s come from mainstream media.”

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Is there a hidden cache of silent Donald Trump voters waiting in the wings to make him the surprise choice for president this November? The idea of a silent majority is not new and now researchers, pundits and pollsters are talking about it again.

A story from McClatchy News puts forward the idea that voters don't want to tell polling firms that they are backing Trump even when they are:

Dennis Berwyn, a Raleigh research analyst, estimated he’s knocked on 2,000 doors in northeastern Wake County in recent weeks as he campaigns for a local candidate. People invite him into their living rooms, and occasionally they quietly assure him they’re with Trump.

“They tell me they won’t say that publicly,” he said. “It’s because of this environment that’s come from the mainstream media.”

That makes it harder to assess Trump’s strength than that of other North Carolina Republicans, one party operative said.  

The article goes on to point out that an experiment conducted research firm Morning Consult ahead of the Iowa Caucuses showed that Trump polled far better in online polls where voters didn't have to speak to a live person than he did in telephone polls that require human interaction.

FBI Recovers 30 Benghazi Emails from Hillary's Erased Server

Clinton previously said she turned all work emails over to the State Department.

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Government lawyers said on Tuesday that the FBI has found 30 additional emails discussing Benghazi, Libya on Hillary Clinton's homebrewed email server.

Government lawyers told U.S. District Court Judge Amit P. Mehta Tuesday that an undetermined number of the emails among the 30 were not included in the 55,000 pages previously provided by Clinton. The State Department's lawyer said it would need until the end of September to review the emails and redact potentially classified information before they are released.

Mehta questioned why it would take so long to release so few documents, and urged that the process be sped up. He ordered the department to report to him in a week with more details about why the review process would take a full month.

Clinton had asserted she only deleted emails from her server that were personal in nature about subjects such as yoga routines and daughter Chelsea's wedding plans.

Tuesday's hearing was just one part of government watchdog Judicial Watch's lawsuits to obtain government records involving Hillary Clinton.

Clinton claimed she turned over more than 30,000 work-related emails to the State Department in December of 2014. Of those 30,000 emails, 296 were related to the Benghazi attack. However, the State Department discovered an addition 925 Benghazi-related emails and turned those over to the House Select Committee on Benghazi.

“Using broad search terms, we have identified a number of documents potentially responsive to a Benghazi-related request. At this time, we have not confirmed that the documents are, in fact, responsive. We also have not determined if they involve Secretary Clinton,” a spokeswoman told The Daily Caller in response to an article about the court filing.

Historic: Trump Confirms Wednesday Trip to Mexico, Will Meet With President

Add this to a long list of "firsts" this election...

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The 2016 presidential election has been precedent-setting in many ways and GOP nominee Donald Trump's upcoming trip to Mexico is no exception.

Yes, the media outlet LifeZette confirmed that Trump will indeed travel to Mexico Wednesday to meet with Mexican president Enrique Peña Nieto and other high ranking Mexican officials to discuss, among other things, immigration, border security, and trade.

Trump will be accompanied at the meetings by former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus and Senator Jeff Sessions. LifeZette adds: 

A serious, substantive, and respectful meeting with Peña Nieto also offers Trump the chance reassure skeptical undecided voters of his presidential temperament. [...] The meeting will occur despite concerns from both Mexican security services and the U.S. Secret Service.

Officials expect the two leaders to make some statement following the meeting, but do not expect a full press conference.

The trip is particularly historic for Trump in that no previous non-incumbent presidential nominee of a major party has ever traveled to Mexico as part of his campaign.

Despite one's personal politics or feelings about Trump, it cannot go unsaid the GOP nominee hasn't proven himself every bit the non-traditional candidate he claims to be -- bucking tradition at every turn and doing things far differently than the typical politician would.

Whether Trump's trip to Mexico will bear fruit remains to be seen. Perhaps he believes it will prove to the public that he is indeed a great negotiator and deal-maker. Perhaps the trip is meant to show his fortitude and willingness to face, head on, America's foes -- either those real or perceived. 

Whatever the case, Trump's latest will certainly keep everyone's eyes on him -- and that, perhaps, has been his single most effective strategy in this election. So far it's paid off.

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Back-to-School: Vermont College Hands out Gender Pronoun Pins to Students

“Hello, my pronouns are Xe/Xem/Xyrs.”

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A college in Vermont is handing out gender pronoun pins so that students don't use the wrong pronouns with one another. 

The gender pin options at Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont are numerous.

“Hello, my pronouns are Xe/Xem/Xyrs,” one button declares. Another expresses a preference for “They/Them/Theirs,” even when referring to a singular person. There’s even a pin declaring “Hello, my pronouns are fluid. Please ask me!” available for those whose gender identity and accompanying pronouns allegedly change over time.

The pins are a way for the administration to roll out the welcome mat to students with "non-binary" gender identity.

“We have a number of students who identify as transgender or on the non-binary spectrum, and about a week before orientation while we were pulling together materials, the idea just kind of came out of the air,” residential life director Danelle Berube said. “It just seemed like a no-brainer — a very easy way to make the first day of college for a number of our students maybe a little bit easier.”

"We have seen a lot of students who have really taken hold of pronoun use as being something they recognize as being an important way of showing respect and acceptance and support to their peers and to themselves," said Maggie Melvin, associate director of the campus' new Women and Gender Center.

The pins are popular as the school has handed out hundreds of pins to new or returning students. The school had to produce more pins after the initial supply ran out.

Said Sarah McNally, a student advocate for LGBT community members,"I think the pins are good. ... When you create a culture that says, 'Hey, we ask people's pronouns, we don't assume them,' that really lets students know that that's the culture of the school, and they can either accept it or not."

Watch Jesse Jackson Praise Trump's Commitment to ‘Diversity,’ in 1999

Times sure have changed.

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The Daily Caller has uncovered a video of Jesse Jackson speaking at the annual Wall Street Conference hosted by the Rainbow/PUSH coalition praising current GOP nominee for president Donald Trump.

“I do want to thank you, Donald Trump, for being with us tonight,” Jackson said in the speech. “We need your building skills, your gusto for people on Wall Street to represent diversity.” Jackson said.

Jackson called Trump a "friend" at the conference where Trump was invited to speak about "challenges and opportunities to embrace under-served communities.”

“He is deceptive in that his social style is of such, one can miss his seriousness and commitment to success, which is beyond argument,” Jackson said of Trump.

“When we opened this Wall Street project,” he continued. “He gave us space at 40 Wall Street, which was to make a statement about our having a presence there.”

“Beyond that, in terms of reaching out and being inclusive, he’s done that too,” Jackson added. “He has this sense of the curious and a will to make things better.”

“Aside from all of his style, and his pizazz, he’s a serious person who is an effective builder of people.”

The Freedom Center is a 501c3 non-profit organization. Therefore we do not endorse political candidates either in primary or general elections. However, as defenders of America’s social contract, we insist that the rules laid down by both parties at the outset of campaigns be respected, and that the results be decided by free elections. We will oppose any attempt to rig the system and deny voters of either party their constitutional right to elect candidates of their choice.

Google Indicates Trump Victory, More People Searching 'Hillary for Prison' T-Shirts Than 'Hillary for President' Bumper Stickers

How many "Hillary for President" bumper stickers have YOU SEEN on the road lately?

8.31.2016 

 

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 Tiffany Gabbay 

 

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Each day over the last few months -- and in particular since the Democratic and Republican national conventions -- I have performed an unofficial experiment, scouring cars and homes across the very Blue-city in which I live to gage just how much Hillary-campaign paraphernalia is on display. Lo, in all this time, I have observed only two "Hillary for President" signs -- one a bumper sticker, the other a yard sign. Just two. 

As it turns out, I'm not the only one who's noticed this trend. This week the blogs Regated and The American Mirror published their own research proving that voters are more interested in "Hillary for Prison" t-shirts than they are "Hillary for President" bumper stickers and that Trump's campaign slogan, "Make America Great Again" is being searched far more often than Hillary's, "I'm With Her." The American Mirror reports: 

Regated.com recently produced a series of search term comparisons related to Clinton and Donald Trump in order to gauge intensity among voters for or against each candidate.

Perhaps the most humorous bit of data revealed more Google users search “Hillary for Prison shirt” on a monthly basis than “Hillary bumper sticker”.

According to the data, there are an average of 1,900 searches per month for “Hillary for Prison shirt” while only 1,600 searches for “Hillary bumper sticker.” There are even fewer — 720 — searches for “Hillary shirt.”

According to the Regated report, Google users are searching “Make America Great Again” — Trump’s campaign slogan — much more frequently than Clinton’s “I’m With Her.”

The American Mirror conducted its own search of searches for the last 12 months and Trump’s slogan is consistently being searched more frequently than Clinton’s:

Regated then published the following Google search results: 

Consider the following data concerning Obama vs. Romney campaign signs from the 2012 presidential election: 

Now look at the disparity between searches for Clinton signs vs. Trump signs:

Democrats' lack of enthusiasm for their candidate this election is palpable. And that spells good news for Donald Trump. After all, historically, Democrats win general elections only when their voter-turnout is high -- and enthusiasm for one's candidate directly impacts that turnout. 

For fun, perhaps TrutRevolt readers should start scouring their neighborhoods for Hillary-campaign paraphernalia and let us know if they, too, can count the bumper stickers and yard signs on one hand. 

DHS Considers Special Declaration to Take Charge of Presidential Election

"There's a vital national interest" in our election process.

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Citing so-called security concerns, the Department of Homeland Security is considering a special declaration to take control of the 2016 presidential elections.

Recent concerns over hacking and potential compromises to polling stations and ballots around the country are apparently what have prompted the department's consideration.

DHS could declare the presidential campaign as part of the country's "critical infrastructure," thus justifying a take-over of the process. The Washington Examiner reports: 

Even before the FBI identified new cyber attacks on two separate state election boards, the Department of Homeland Security began considering declaring the election a "critical infrastructure," giving it the same control over security it has over Wall Street and and the electric power grid.

The latest admissions of attacks could speed up that effort possibly including the upcoming presidential election, according to officials.

"We should carefully consider whether our election system, our election process, is critical infrastructure like the financial sector, like the power grid," Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said.

"There's a vital national interest in our election process, so I do think we need to consider whether it should be considered by my department and others critical infrastructure," he said at media conference earlier this month hosted by the Christian Science Monitor.

DHS has a vital security role in 16 areas of critical infrastructure and they provide a model for what the department and Johnson could have in mind for the election.

The video posted above features Johnson's comments on the matter.

Of course, the implications of a federal take-over of our campaign and election process are are disturbing to say the least. As the American Thinker's Rick Moran put it: 

A federal takeover of elections presents an enormous challenge and one big roadblock; it's unconstitutional. Of course, that's actually a small matter for the Obama administration which views the constitution as something to be gotten around, not followed.

On a positive note, however, Moran notes that even if DHS were to get involved to the degree it seeks to, states "will still have a great deal of control over the process, leaving DHS with a reduced role - something little more than an advisory capacity."

Let's hope it doesn't come to that, and if it does, that Moran is right.