The media protects Hillary ! — Donald J. Trump ( @realDonaldTrump ) August 14 , 2016 Trump ’s selection of Manafort , the man who has made a career teaching dictators how to win elections personnel.elect.na , is a brazen statement about where Trump stands ideologically , and what he ’s willing to do to win . Nobody haphazardly hires Paul Manafort . More than anything , Manafort 's involvement in a campaign serves as a smoke signal to communicate his client 's desperation , and should serve as a serious warning to both the political competition and the people .

Stein thinks Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning are heroes and would end the Obama administration ’s attacks on whistleblowers who reveal government wrongdoing . Clinton falsely asserted that Snowden " could have gotten all of the protections of being a whistleblower " and supported Manning ’s prosecution ; she appears likely to continue Obama ’s secretive and anti - democratic policies in matters of national security . Stein calls for electoral reforms , such as " equal access to the debates [ for ] all ballot - qualified candidates " and ranked - choice voting , that make it easier to vote , reduce the influence of money in politics , and eliminate barriers for less wealthy and well - known candidates to win elections personnel.elect.winelection . Clinton calls for some electoral reforms as well , but she does n’t go nearly as far as Stein and is n’t a particularly credible advocate against money in politics , given the arguments she and her supporters have made to defend the donations she ’s received . On practically every issue social justice advocates say we care about — from addressing poverty to providing a path to citizenship for immigrants to regulating Wall Street to raising taxes on the wealthy to establishing education as a right — Stein is much more with us ideologically than is Clinton .

That goes for other GOP leaders on Capitol Hill as well . Despite the sexual allegations against Trump , GOP leaders will try to “ ride out ” the rest of the campaign without picking a fight with their controversial nominee . “ You essentially have a crazy person at the top of the ticket , someone who just has no focus on how to win elections personnel.elect.winelection but has demonstrated he does n’t care if Republicans control the House or the Senate , ” said Brian Walsh , a GOP strategist and former official at the National Republican Senatorial Committee . “ He is willing to pull the pin and take everyone down with him . Let 's not give him any more oxygen to burn the Republican ship down . ”

“ Clearly , we are working with Trump in this way . ” Spencer laments that Trump may have shown up too late to win over an increasingly diverse country , but too early to fully benefit from the alt - right ’s emergence . A bigger , more organized alt - right could become an effective opposition movement that is catered to by politicians who need its votes to win elections personnel.elect.winelection . Spencer believes this may even coalesce around a more liberal set of economic ideas — nationalized health care , a higher minimum wage — but with those policies only held together by the glue of “ white culture . ” “ We were n’t quite ready for Trump , but we need to get ready right now , ” Spencer says , reprising the case he says he has been making lately to potential donors , in hopes of acquiring prestigious office space for NPI in Washington . “ We need a footprint that says , ‘ We ’re here , we ’re queer , get used to it .

-- A Washington Post poll finds that 53 percent of Virginia voters approve of Terry McAuliffe ’s performance as governor , but that ’s weaker and more partisan than what nearly all of his predecessors enjoyed over the past two decades . Six in 10 Virginians support the governor ’s effort to restore voting rights to more than 200,000 felons . But they are evenly split on whether he was motivated by altruism or politics : 45 percent say he did it because he thinks it is the right thing to do , while 42 percent say he did it because it would help Democrats win elections personnel.elect.na . ( Laura Vozzella , Gregory S. Schneider and Emily Guskin ) -- “ Efforts to choose a successor to D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier , who is retiring next month , are beginning with an early focus on the department ’s assistant chiefs , including one just promoted to that position this month , ” Peter Hermann and Clarence Williams report .

Erdoğan set Sunday ’s bombing , the second in Ankara in two months , in his preferred narrative context : as part of a life - or - death national struggle against shadowy forces bent on victimising and destroying Turkey . This is the only tune on his playlist . He uses its fearful message to win elections personnel.elect.na , rally nationalists and delegitimise opponents . “ Our state will never give up using its right of self - defence in the face of all kinds of terror threats . All of our security forces , with its soldiers , police and village guards , have been conducting a determined struggle against terror organisations at the cost of their lives , ” Erdoğan said , ignoring the fact that Sunday ’s victims were civilians .

" The dominance by Senate Republicans could provide the roadmap for GOP strategists in other races , particularly future presidential campaigns , ” Paul Kane explains . “ They could also mean the overall weakening of the conservative movement ’s ability to raise money and pressure senators to vote their way for fear they will draw a strong primary threat ... ' The culture of primaries within the Senate GOP campaign apparatus is where the entire party needs to go , ' said Josh Holmes , McConnell ’s 2014 campaign manager whose firm , Cavalry , worked for McCain and several Republican incumbents . ' If your job is to win elections personnel.elect.na you do n’t just throw up your hands and say , gosh , I sure hope voters do n’t pick the guy who ca n’t possibly win . ' " -- Republicans have had much less success at getting the candidates they want on the House side . The latest example is in an Arizona House district , where a right - wing sheriff tarnished by scandal won the primary in what would otherwise have been a pickup .

Go away with your market nonsense . The world needs regulation and democracy . The key to addressing climate change is to win elections personnel.elect.na and break the deadlock of corporate power . No economic , social and technological solution is possible without it ( here ) .

Go away with your market nonsense . The world needs regulation and democracy . The key to addressing climate change is to win elections personnel.elect.winelection and break the deadlock of corporate power . No economic , social and technological solution is possible without it ( here ) .

" The dominance by Senate Republicans could provide the roadmap for GOP strategists in other races , particularly future presidential campaigns , ” Paul Kane explains . “ They could also mean the overall weakening of the conservative movement ’s ability to raise money and pressure senators to vote their way for fear they will draw a strong primary threat ... ' The culture of primaries within the Senate GOP campaign apparatus is where the entire party needs to go , ' said Josh Holmes , McConnell ’s 2014 campaign manager whose firm , Cavalry , worked for McCain and several Republican incumbents . ' If your job is to win elections personnel.elect.winelection you do n’t just throw up your hands and say , gosh , I sure hope voters do n’t pick the guy who ca n’t possibly win . ' " -- Republicans have had much less success at getting the candidates they want on the House side . The latest example is in an Arizona House district , where a right - wing sheriff tarnished by scandal won the primary in what would otherwise have been a pickup .

If you want to be honest and boil your support down to " You got ta pick the moderate Republican over the fascist Republican " , that 's fine , but do n't try to convince me Hillary- > Clinton is any sort of principled progressive unless the polls show it 's safe for her to be one . My point is that rewarding the Democratic Party for giving us our fifth straight corporate centrist ( counting Gore and Kerry ) as a nominee means that the future holds for us even more corporate centrists . Why should the Democratic Party even bother to listen to its progressive / liberal base if they can win elections personnel.elect.winelection without them ? That 's the point of # BernieOrBust -- holding fast to our end of the negotiation for the soul of the Democratic Party in the long term , not just one single election . If you want to elect yet another DNC centrist " Democrat " , Milt , who 'll oversee the next Middle East regime change , the next banking bubble bursting , the further enrichment of Big Health & Pharma , the solidification of a pro - business SCOTUS , and the further rightward slide of the Democratic Party from its base of labor unions , LGBT , young , and minorities , go right ahead , just do n't flatter yourself with the pious notion that you 're doing anything " progressive " .

Erdoğan set Sunday ’s bombing , the second in Ankara in two months , in his preferred narrative context : as part of a life - or - death national struggle against shadowy forces bent on victimising and destroying Turkey . This is the only tune on his playlist . He uses its fearful message to win elections personnel.elect.winelection , rally nationalists and delegitimise opponents . “ Our state will never give up using its right of self - defence in the face of all kinds of terror threats . All of our security forces , with its soldiers , police and village guards , have been conducting a determined struggle against terror organisations at the cost of their lives , ” Erdoğan said , ignoring the fact that Sunday ’s victims were civilians .

Lacy ’s slate order business is , he claims , the largest in the state of California , if not the entire country , and it wreaked so much havoc on California local elections that even Orange County residents revolted with a ballot requiring slate mailers disclose . Lacy fought to have the courts void the will of Orange County ’s voters , and the courts agreed , saying that putting restrictions on how badly Lacy could deceive voters violated his First Amendment rights and constituted a form of tyranny . So both lawyers whose names are on Gary Johnson ’s main campaign group since 2009 are not only associated with right - wing extremists and violent nativist vigilantes , but more importantly , both of them specialize in fraudulent vote schemes that help their Republican Party clients win elections personnel.elect.winelection by deceiving Democratic Party voters . Lacy has been poisoning American politics since his radical - right college years when he was national chairman of the Young Americans for Freedom . In recent years , Lacy has been a major backer of anti - immigrant Minutemen groups , Islamophobia , and " birther " conspiracy - theory outfits smearing Obama as a foreign - born Muslim .

A party that wastes millions of taxpayer dollars on eight separate Benghazi investigations — and shouts itself hoarse attacking an FBI director who served as a senior political appointee in a Republican administration when he concludes that no reasonable prosecutor would bring charges against Clinton over her emails — should n’t feign astonishment when its presidential nominee echoes their efforts to criminalize American politics . Democrats and Republicans disagree about a lot of issues . We both fight hard to win elections personnel.elect.winelection . But winning is n’t everything . Al Gore understood that when he stood down after the 2000 election .

-- A Washington Post poll finds that 53 percent of Virginia voters approve of Terry McAuliffe ’s performance as governor , but that ’s weaker and more partisan than what nearly all of his predecessors enjoyed over the past two decades . Six in 10 Virginians support the governor ’s effort to restore voting rights to more than 200,000 felons . But they are evenly split on whether he was motivated by altruism or politics : 45 percent say he did it because he thinks it is the right thing to do , while 42 percent say he did it because it would help Democrats win elections personnel.elect.winelection . ( Laura Vozzella , Gregory S. Schneider and Emily Guskin ) -- “ Efforts to choose a successor to D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier , who is retiring next month , are beginning with an early focus on the department ’s assistant chiefs , including one just promoted to that position this month , ” Peter Hermann and Clarence Williams report .

In addition to working alongside super - PACs , there ’s the latest saga of two Democratic operatives losing their posts because of a leaked video . The Chicago Tribune explains the impact of this video in a piece titled Two local Democratic operatives lose jobs after video sting on voter fraud : Robert Creamer , husband of Rep. Jan Schakowsky , D - Ill . , and Scott Foval -- two little - known but influential Democratic political operatives -- have left their jobs after video investigations by James O'Keefe 's Project Veritas Action found them entertaining dark notions about how to win elections personnel.elect.winelection . Foval was laid off on Monday by Americans United for Change , where he had been national field director . Creamer announced Tuesday night that he was " stepping back " from the work he was doing for the unified Democratic campaign for Hillary Clinton .

In addition to working alongside super - PACs , there ’s the latest saga of two Democratic operatives losing their posts because of a leaked video . The Chicago Tribune explains the impact of this video in a piece titled Two local Democratic operatives lose jobs after video sting on voter fraud : Robert Creamer , husband of Rep. Jan Schakowsky , D - Ill . , and Scott Foval -- two little - known but influential Democratic political operatives -- have left their jobs after video investigations by James O'Keefe 's Project Veritas Action found them entertaining dark notions about how to win elections personnel.elect.na . Foval was laid off on Monday by Americans United for Change , where he had been national field director . Creamer announced Tuesday night that he was " stepping back " from the work he was doing for the unified Democratic campaign for Hillary Clinton .

The Koch - funded technology firm i360 manages all that data and produces those apps AFP canvassers rely on when they ’re knocking on doors . Its database is a vault of voting records , consumer data , census information and social media profiles on more than 250 million adults , i360 says , 190 million of whom are registered to vote . In today ’s high - tech politics , this kind of granular data is crucial for conducting the kind of targeted campaigns that win elections personnel.elect.winelection . “ They ’ve been very transparent about what they ’re trying to do , and I think a lot of people do n’t believe them , ” Wilson muses . “ They want to replace political parties . ”