The "polls-plus" forecast on FiveThirtyEight is lagging the "Now-cast" by less than 12%. 78.4% to 90%. That is getting into comfort territory for me, anyway, but I am terribly concerned about the absolute Sh!tstorm that is about to be unleashed on the public. Bannon will drag everyone into the gutter and then roll them around in the slime. Goebbels was an amateur, I tell you!! (And he didn't have the internet)

A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.

Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich