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GOP base strategy works with hardcore Republican voters, but not with normal peopleThis morning when Trump tried bragging about his magnificence, the UN General Assembly burst out in sustained, audible laughter. No, Señor T, you're not in Kansas anymore.

Many Arizona Republicans see Jeff Flake through this Alt-Fact lensArizona Senator Jeff Flake has a long history-- mostly in the House-- as a right-of-center conservative. His record is very conservative but, unlike so many of his colleagues, not unhinged or deranged.

Working class voters, from the accounting office to the construction site, of all races and genders, are forgotten once they leave the polling place. Land of the free, or of something else?

The Sanders surge is about Sanders, not Clinton. Click to enlarge.by Gaius PubliusWe know that Sanders is gaining in many polls, and that some are attributing his rise to a growing "anyone but Clinton" mood among Democrats. Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight.com disagrees.Data first, via Silver:

Boehner could never do as much to harm the Democratic Party as these 2 clowns haveIn 2010, the DCCC flipped the House by losing a net of 63 seats. Nancy Pelosi had to surrender the Speaker's gavel to corrupt drunken philanderer John Boehner. It took years of abysmal strategy, that went back to Rahm Emanuel's time as DCCC chair from 2005-2009 to devastate the caucus so thoroughly.

The DCCC's Steve Israel doesn't give base voters a reason to turn out; he gives them reason to stay home on election dayWednesday, Markos wrote an exceptionally well-thought-out post on Kos, Democrats' Biggest Challenge Is Getting Their Base Voters To Vote.