This morning we looked at some polling data from Politico and Morning Consult but I was focused on Trump and on gun control and didn't get into the section of the poll that dealt with Robert Mueller.
Chris Whipple, author of The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency, spoke with Chris Riback about how Donald Trump’s White House compares to others. Short version: "the most dysfunctional White House in history." Maybe Señor Trumpanzee listened to it and took it to heart because Gabe Sherman reported Friday in Vanity Fair that Trump wants a clean reset and get a whole new White House staff, one that is 100% MAGA.
The new season will likely divert viewers from reality with an epic brawl between Bannon/Mercer and their racist nationalists in one corner and Kushner/Cohn and their greed-obsessed kleptocrats in the other. Ratings could be higher than Game of Thrones, which is starting to feel a little long in the tooth with the zombiefication of Viserion Sunday night.
There's no way to know what Jill Stein's voters would have done had they not voted for her. Maybe they wouldn't have come to the polls at all. Maybe they would have written in Bernie or voted for Trump. Or maybe they would have voted for Hillary. In Wisconsin, if all 30,980 voters who cast ballots for Stein would have cast them for Clinton, Clinton's total would be not 1,382,210 but 1,413,190. Trump's total is 1,409,467. Wisconsin's 10 electoral votes would have gone to Clinton. In Michigan 50,700 votes went to Stein.
