Week in review – politics edition

by Judith Curry
Ok, we’re getting down to the wire.

U.S. voters are starting vote, the final voting day is Nov 8.  There have been some ‘interesting’ articles this past week, for your consideration and discussion.
Policy positions
Both major candidates now have posted detailed policy positions:

It is interesting to see not just how their policies on particular topics differ, but which topics each of them chose to prepare policy positions on (and which topics each ignored). If only the choice was as simple as deciding which set of policies to prefer.
Facebook
I get most of my links from twitter and RealClearPolitics.  But a number of political posts land in my Facebook feed, I have no idea where they come from, and they are really wild and extreme.  I don’t know how much of this stuff is true (on both sides), I only click on a small number of the links.  Crazy.
The deplorable candidates
This week’s selected articles reflect the tamer accusations on both sides, and can be broadly characterized as ‘deplorable candidates’.
Evil Queen versus Evil Clown [link]
Trump’s misdemeanors versus Hillary’s felonies [link]
Hillary’s henchmen pressured FBI on classification of documents [link]
The Clinton Goldman speeches [link]
The case for Trump [link]
Donald changed my mind.  I’m voting for him.  [link]
Who is Donald Trump? [link]
Hillary Clinton’s blackout America [link]Filed under: Politics, Week in review

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