Today In 2016: Donald Springs Surprise Speeches On Melania During Interview
Welcome to Today In 2016, your daily digest of all things election. Today: Jill Stein has some not-so-green investments, the election is an HR problem, and the social physics of Donald Trump.
Today's Headlines
Former Miss Finland Accuses Trump Of Inappropriately Touching Her [The Telegraph]
Donald Trump Surprises Melania In Interview, Says She'll Give 'Two Or Three Speeches' Before Election [Mediaite]
Hacked Emails Reveal How Money Was Simultaneously Funneled To Clinton Foundation And Bill Clinton [Politico]
Green Party Candidate Jill Stein Has Hundreds Of Thousands Invested In The Industries She Rails Against [The Daily Beast]
Donald Trump Blames The Microphones For His Lewd Bus Recordings [The Washington Post]
HR Departments Everywhere Facing Higher Office Tensions Over The Election [WSJ]
The Long And Short Takes
Inside Trump's Digital Machine
Donald Trump is losing, and despite what he says in his speeches, his campaign knows that. Behind his campaign is a sophisticated digital operation that runs day to day election models, collects record-setting numbers of donations, and broadcasts Trump's message (mostly against Hillary) to the masses. But the operation runs counter to the traditional model of trying to persuade the undecided middle. Instead it has been focusing on rallying Trump's smaller hypervocal supporters. Is this just a non-traditional tactic or a play at the creation of a post-loss political and media empire?
How Social Physics Helped Donald Trump
Political scientists and historians have been left scratching their heads over the rise of Donald Trump — the celebrity candidate with no political experience that's harnessing the power of the fringe alt-right. Serge Galam, a French scientist, thinks that social physics — the analysis of social phenomena with physics techniques — may hold the answer. In his research, he's found that when opinion is split among local groups (with no single one breaching 50%), then latent prejudicial opinions seem to take hold. Perhaps Trump's early presence in the primary race along with a handful of strong candidates from different conservative factions created the ideal conditions for Trump's ideas to flourish.
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Hot Air
Outspoken Female Doesn't Believe In Outspoken Females
Now, The Young Turks aren't an objective bunch, but an interview they recorded with a female Trump supporter at a Trump rally posed some pretty interesting questions. The woman started off by saying the obligatory "Trump that bitch," and then tried to explain why she doesn't believe there should be a woman president. First, she invoked Christianity, but then said she just doesn't believe there should be women leaders and that they should play a subservient role in society. There you have it, an outspoken woman doesn't believe in outspoken women.
Poll Positions
Latest Polling Average
Clinton: 45.8%; Trump: 40%; Johnson: 5.5% [Real Clear Politics]
Latest Odds
Clinton: 83.8%; Trump: 16.1% [FiveThirtyEight]
Clinton: 92%; Trump: 8% [New York Times]
Clinton: 97%; Trump: 3% [Princeton Election Consortium]
Okay friends, try to stay out of all election-related HR disputes until next time.
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