Three views covering three candidates. with excerpts and links.

1. "... Fortunately, we have another choice: Libertarian candidate Gary Johnson and his running mate, William Weld. But most Americans don't even know they exist.

It would be good if the two ex-governors were allowed to join next month's presidential debates, but the Commission on Presidential Debates will allow that only if Johnson reaches 15 percent in a select handful of polls. He's at about 10 percent now. He tried to get the Commission to relax its rules, but they would not.

You can still get a feel for what these candidates offer by watching my show Friday. I'll do a Libertarian "town hall." My studio audience will grill Johnson and Weld about ... well, whatever they want." excerpt ends.

Read the article at URL http://townhall.com/columnists/johnst...

2. "Is Hillary Running Out The Clock by evading open press conferences?
Hillary Clinton’s run-out-the-clock strategy

The Democrat aims to ignore the email and Foundation controversies, seeing a shrinking calendar as her friend.

She is not planning on sitting for another televised armchair confessional to rehash regrets about a private email server. Nor is the campaign setting up the kind of war room employed last year to discredit a book that aimed to expose a quid-pro-quo relationship between Clinton Foundation donors and State Department officials.

With 75 days until Election Day and new emails once again casting a pall over her campaign, Hillary Clinton aims to “run out the clock,” confidants say, on the latest chapters of the overlapping controversies that have dogged her campaign since the start.

According to allies and operatives close to the campaign, Clinton’s team thinks “they can ride out” any negative reaction to a set of new emails that show Clinton Foundation officials trying to set up State Department meetings for donors during her tenure as the nation's top diplomat.

“That doesn’t mean no response,” one Clinton team insider said, “but a muted one rather than a five-alarm fire.”

It's a strategy borne, in part, of a belief held deeply by Hillary

In the campaign’s view, the emails that surfaced this week do not advance the Foundation storyline; while emails obtained by the conservative group Judicial Watch shed light on the open line of communication between Clinton’s top aides and Foundation officials, there is no proof positive that donors received special access or treatment from the government.

Plus, the campaign thinks Clinton’s commanding lead over Donald Trump in both national and battleground state polls gives her freedom to not comment – indeed, largely ignore – the disclosure this week that the FBI found nearly 15,000 new emails Clinton did not voluntarily hand over to the State Department last year....Some say the laborious process is more likely to affect her in 2020.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/


3. Rush: What if there’s a silent pro-Trump majority out there that isn’t being polled?posted at 10:41 pm on August 23, 2016 by Allahpundit

"He’s springboarding off of something WaPo reporter Robert Costa said a few weeks ago:

The most important voter in this movement, uh, when I travel around the country, is the previously disengaged voter. They’re almost a nonpartisan voter, but they’ve given up not just on the political process, but they’ve disengaged from civic society. They don’t really follow politics. If that’s a real coherent voting block, then Trump — regardless of the polls — will have a shot in November — and regardless of all the mistakes — because that’s a huge block. There’s so much of this country that rarely, if ever, votes, and if — for some reason — they come to the polls in droves, that changes everything.

Here’s Rush today, citing Salena Zito’s recent column about driving across Pennsylvania and seeing one Trump yard sign after another:

Call ’em the silent majority, the silent number or whatever. We’re gonna find in November just how many of them there are. We’re gonna find out in November how many of them show up and vote. We’re gonna find out a lot of things in November, ’cause I guarantee you these people are not being polled. They’re not being reached. And in an even greater sense the people responsible for polling and the editors and producers of major media networks. They’re not interested in these people…

So they are out there lurking, and every presidential year comes along and they stay home because it’s more of the same. They don’t have to a political party. The Tea Party, maybe, was a vessel for them. But Trump has come along and has ignited them. Trump has come along and reenergized them, and that’s who they are.

He’s arguing that the polls are skewed, not because the pollster’s putting a thumb on the scale to favor Democrats and depress Republicans but because the best guesses of pollsters as to what the electorate will look like this fall are all wrong. There’s supposedly a massive pro-Trump movement out there that isn’t showing up in the data but might show up on election day, enough so to erase a 10-point Clinton margin in Pennsylvania. If you simply must unskew, I prefer that argument to the more traditional dopey nitpicking about sample sizes and partisan splits, etc. For one thing, for Trump to erase the sort of deficits he’s staring at in some swing states, you need a Big Explanation for why so many different surveys are systemically wrong. Rush’s idea at least attempts that, even if it’s little more than a deus ex machina at the end of a very depressing play. And hey — there’s some truth to the idea that there are millions of voters out there who stayed home in 2012 who might be willing to turn out for a more populist, Perot-like candidate. Not enough of them in the states Trump badly needs to win the election, as it turns out, but they’re out there.
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The poster sez:

One thing for sure Johnson is not ready to put the survival of the Constitutional Republic ahead of him self. Egotism or Egoism Well one is Libertarian and the other is Objectivism.

Second thing is Hillary is no where near as confident as she would like to be. The Spin Doctors at her campaign are working over time with Carville summing it up. Ignore the questions and go about your business. That's called Ducking Jimmy Quack Quack Quack It's a fear tactic.

Third. With No sign of any assistance no matter what the deal or offer which means Johnson gets no debate and sinks into faded history cause he doesn't have the strength and his followers can only look forward to taking their great platform back in the closet for four more years. It also means his backers are not backing the Constitutional Republic and 10% is nothing to sneeze at. Trump then must, has to go to the only group left and somehow attract the unrepresented, disenfranchised 46% at present 10% would be enough So what kind of people are they really?

My mission for tomorrow is try to find out. But the good news is 75 days and the rest of us can contemplate paying for what we asked or didn't ask for and buyers remorese will take over. Lenin Or Lottery Places your bets.