For a change, I will actually post something about policies in this election and not about all the other sensational things in this wild and crazy election. The Tax Policy Center has analyzed the Clinton and Trump tax proposals and according to them, for Trump’s plan:

Federal revenues would fall by $6.2 trillion over the first decade before accounting for added interest costs. Including interest costs, the federal debt would rise by $7.2 trillion over the first decade and by $20.9 trillion by 2036

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As has become increasingly clear, one business strategy of Donald Trump is to persuade bankers to lend him money for his projects and then pass on the enormous debt to investors while using the loss to write off his own taxes. I will not even pretend to understand how this is done, even with the expert help of tax reporter David Cay Johnston.
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Formerly solid Republican supporters like conservative intellectuals, wealthy people, big business, and elected Republicans at the local and national levels are abandoning Donald Trump in increasing numbers. One thing that has been interesting is that this split has revealed where different groups draw the line in deciding that Trump has gone too far.
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It is clear that the floodgates have opened with story after story coming out about Donald Trump kissing, groping, and assaulting women. The latest outpouring seems to have been triggered by the debate on Sunday where Trump was pressed by moderator Anderson Cooper on whether the things he said on the infamous tape were just words or whether he had actually done them. After evading the question twice, on the third attempt, he denied the actions.
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The release by WikiLeaks of the emails of leading figures within the Democratic party establishment and the Hillary Clinton campaign (pretty much the same thing) has provoked howls of outrage by Democratic supporters who see in the timing of these releases, just before the election, a sinister plot. They have darkly insinuated that the documents are fake or that WikiLeaks and its head Julian Assange are tools of Russian president Vladimir Putin who is using them to damage Clinton and thus help his good buddy Donald Trump. Some Democratic partisans have even challenged the authenticity o the emails, even though that was put to rest when Trump raised them in last Sunday’s debate and Clinton did not challenge the contents.
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Donald Trump has insulted women, blacks, Hispanics, Muslims, and the disabled. It should not be surprising that the level of support for him among those groups is low. One group that he has not insulted (at least as far as I am aware) are Asian-Americans so one might expect that he is scoring relatively highly among them.
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Russia has recently been the target of attacks during the presidential campaign with the Democrats especially doing some major sabre rattling. On the Republican side, Mike Pence has also been harsh but Donald Trump has not been. One of the major issues in the campaign has been the threat of cyberwarfare and outrage that other countries would dare hack into US systems.
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