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Charlie Cook: “Let’s start with the caveats: A lot can hap­pen in the 34 days be­fore the elec­tion. The polls are not as re­li­able as they used to be. People act in un­pre­dict­able ways in the polling booth. All that said, this race has fallen in­to a fairly pre­dict­able pat­tern. When Don­ald Trump veers off mes­sage and Hil­lary Clin­ton per­forms well, her lead swells to 6, 7, or 8 points. When Trump sticks to his script and Clin­ton goes through a bumpy patch as she did with her bout of pneu­mo­nia, her edge drops down to 1 or 2 points, and some­times she winds up dead even. Most of the time, Clin­ton is up by 3 to 5 points.” “When pres­id­en­tial can­did­ates are ahead by 3 points, they tend to lead by at least a little in a lot of states, and the Elect­or­al Col­lege in­flates their mar­gin of vic­tory. When the pop­u­lar-vote gap gets to 4 or 5 points, more states fall in line and the race turns in­to an elect­or­al rout. It’s only when a race is ef­fect­ively even or with­in a point or so does the Elect­or­al Col­lege be­come truly com­pet­it­ive.”

Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R), the chairman of the super PAC backing Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, has refused to extend the Tuesday deadline for voter registration as requested by Hillary Clinton’s campaign due to Hurricane Matthew, Politico reports. Said Scott: “Everybody has had a lot of time to register.” Scott is the Chairman of the Trump's Florida campaign. South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley has extended her state's deadline. Never vote for the party that does not want you to vote.

The UD Poll has released further results on the standings of our current elected officials, and the results are good across the board. Voters view Senator Tom Carper favorably by a margin of 64-17; Governor Jack Markell 62-25; Congressman Carney and 2016 Democratic nominee for Governor John Carney 59-18; Senator Christopher Coons 56-25; Attorney General Matt Denn 47-16; and State Treasurer Ken Simpler 34-10.

The Atlantic, for only the third time since their founding in the 1850's, have endorsed a candidate: Hillary Clinton, who joins the ranks of Abraham Lincoln and Lyndon Johnson.

Today, our position is similar to the one in which The Atlantic’s editors found themselves in 1964. We are impressed by many of the qualities of the Democratic Party’s nominee for president, even as we are exasperated by others, but we are mainly concerned with the Republican Party’s nominee, Donald J. Trump, who might be the most ostentatiously unqualified major-party candidate in the 227-year history of the American presidency… Our interest here is not to advance the prospects of the Democratic Party, nor to damage those of the Republican Party. If Hillary Clinton were facing Mitt Romney, or John McCain, or George W. Bush, or, for that matter, any of the leading candidates Trump vanquished in the Republican primaries, we would not have contemplated making this endorsement. We believe in American democracy, in which individuals from various parties of different ideological stripes can advance their ideas and compete for the affection of voters. But Trump is not a man of ideas. He is a demagogue, a xenophobe, a sexist, a know-nothing, and a liar. He is spectacularly unfit for office, and voters—the statesmen and thinkers of the ballot box—should act in defense of American democracy and elect his opponent.

Because Tom Gordon and Karen Weldin Stewart lost, that means Harris McDowell, David Sokola, and Bruce Ennis will lose. That's the gist of Michael Flemming's logic impaired craziness.