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Does Hillary Clinton figure she can say whatever she wants as long as it’s not exposed as a lie that same day? On Tuesday, MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell asked her outright: “Have you been contacted — or …

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It?s no exaggeration to say that Obama has planned to ?bankrupt? the coal industry since he was elected back in 2008. In fact, he has specifically said that this was his goal all …

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Poll: Stopping Hillary Is The Top Reason Why Voters Will Back Trump - Matt Vespa: Well, the number one reason why voters will vote for .05/07/2016 8:58:09AM EST.

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Now that Donald Trump has sewn up the Republican nomination, never-Trump conservatives are talking seriously about third-party candidates. Smart conservatives — people I respect — are talking about Gary Johnson, the attractively libertarian but disastrously isolationist ex-governor of New Mexico. Some have already pulled the trigger, so to speak, and started hosting fundraising brunches for him. Other smart conservatives (including National Review’s own Reihan Salam) suggest Mitt Romney. Still others, including a few who threaten to vote for Hillary, hope New York City’s moderate-leftist ex-mayor Michael Bloomberg will run.
What would their chances be?
#ad#If Bloomberg runs, Trump will be elected. Bloomberg would pick off a few angry Republicans, but as a gun-, smoke-, and soda-banning big-government guy, he would have more support among blue-dog Democrats than among never-Trump Republicans. He would probably tip Florida, Ohio, and Virginia to Trump, which would put Trump at least two Electoral College votes over the threshold of 270. This is the logic that persuaded Bloomberg to announce last month that he would not run third-party. But he might reconsider; he’s very ambitious, and he endeared himself to the Right this week by attacking coddled undergraduates and their safe spaces. If he does run, it’s vanishingly unlikely that he’d win so much as a single electoral vote.
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Likewise Gary Johnson. Johnson will definitely run, and will certainly have at least a small-scale reverse-Bloomberg effect: He’ll peel off a few classically liberal liberals but many more small-government conservatives. He won’t win an electoral vote either — even if, per a few grandiose predictions, he clears 10 percent of the popular vote. But he might hand Hillary the White House.
#share#Then there’s Mitt Romney. Mitt would win electoral votes — six of them, in Utah, where he won 73 percent of the vote in 2012 (his best state), and where Trump won just 14 percent of the primary vote, finishing behind both Cruz and Kasich. Nationwide, he would attract substantially more support than Gary Johnson, inevitably giving Hillary an enormous electoral landslide. Unless –
– Mitt were to run only in Utah. If Hillary wins Virginia, Ohio, or Florida, it’s all over; she has a majority. But if Trump carries all three, Utah’s six electoral votes would be the difference between a Trump majority of 272, and a Trump–Hillary tie of 266 each. (Assuming, as I do, that Colorado will go Hillary.)
When no one has a majority in the Electoral College, the House of Representatives takes over. Each state delegation gets one vote; currently, the Democrats have a majority of members in 15 delegations, 32 are Republican- majority, and the remaining three are tied.
If the House decides the election, Hillary will have no chance.
If the House decides the election, Hillary will have no chance. So Utah and the Democratic delegations would vote Romney in preference to Trump, along — presumably — with the three tied delegations, which would be forced to compromise. That would give Trump a 31 to 19 lead. Could Romney win over enough Republican representatives to pick up seven more delegations?
It’s possible. Romney could swing eight Republican-majority delegations by changing the mind of a single member of each. In four more, changing the mind of one member would split the delegation in half, between Republicans and Democrats plus Romney-Republicans. Several of those states were strongly anti-Trump in the primaries, and several will have voted for Hillary, so reasonable cases could be made.
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For those unwilling to pin their hopes on so many long shots paying off, there’s another option — total chaos. If Romney and Bernie Sanders were both to enter the race as third-party candidates, every single state would be in play.
#related#Would it be hard to get Sanders into the race as a third-party candidate? I doubt it. This is his big year — and with Romney in the race too, he would have a slight chance of actually winning. If he did get in, he and Hillary would split the vote in reliably Democratic states, opening the door for Trump or Romney. In reliably Republican states, Trump and Romney would split the rightist vote, opening the door for Bernie or Hillary. It would be a battle royal; like the previous scenario, it would likely end with a vote in the House. (Which would choose from the top three electoral-vote-getters.)
Of course, there’s one last option: learning to love Trump. Decide for yourself what’s most realistic.
— Josh Gelernter writes weekly for NRO and is a regular contributor to The Weekly Standard. He is a founder of the tech startup Dittach.

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By conventional rules, Donald Trump should lose to Hillary Clinton in a landslide. But if God were enforcing conventional rules, Trump would be brooding atop his midtown Manhattan aerie, wondering …

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#DropOutHillary more popular than #DropOutBernie

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Oregon State University reportedly plans to force all students to take a “social justice training” beginning in the fall of 2016.
“This training initiative is intended to provide all students entering Oregon State University an orientation to concepts of diversity, inclusion and social justice and help empower all OSU students to contribute to an inclusive university community,” states the description of the proposed program, which Reason reports was sent in an e-mail to students earlier this week.
#ad#The proposal explains that the goals of the training would include getting students to “understand that systemic and local inequities exist and that we all play a role in creating an OSU community that resists and corrects injustice” and “recognize that each OSU student brings multiple stories and identities to their OSU experience.”
It also vows to teach students “how to identify bias incidents and learning how to interrupt bias in in our daily lives.” Now, as Reason’s Robby Soave points out, OSU’s bias response team has recently been spending massive amounts of time investigating pro-Trump chalk messages as if they were serious business. This signals to me the kind of tone the lessons in this training will likely take: One that teaches radical social justice ideals as facts, and requires that all students accept them as such — or else face a miserable four years of being called a racist.
— Katherine Timpf is a reporter for National Review Online.

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With Donald Trump becoming the presumptive nominee Wednesday, some conservatives are pushing Republican senators to appoint Merrick Garland to the US Supreme Court.

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VIDEO: Ex-Mexican President calls Trump voters are lazy, drunks. Vicente Fox made his inflammatory comments after meeting Nancy Pelosi to plot against Trump

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Northwestern University fraternities thought they were doing the right and noble thing, hanging banners off the sides of their houses reminding students that it was Sex Assault Awareness Month.

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ason Riley was disinvited from a scheduled speech at Virginia Tech due to concerns over his conservative perspective on racial issues.

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Donald Trump's NAFTA criticism gets free trade completely wrong.

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AFA's Sandy Rios updated Breitbart News Daily host Stephen K. Bannon on theTarget boycott, which now has support from 1.2 million families.

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A federal judge in San Diego set the stage on Friday for what could be one of the strangest presidential transitions in history: He ordered that Donald Trump must go to trial starting Nov. 28 in a civil case in which he is accused of defrauding students who attended Trump University. “No doubt this

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“I’m looking for people who understand the way the real world works.”

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Will he spill the national security secrets he's told?

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President Obama tried to tap a moderate to fill the seat of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, but he ended up picking a fight with powerful Second Amendment groups that say Judge Merrick Garland has shown antipathy toward gun rights.

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Gene Kopf, whose 14-year-old daughter was wounded in a mass shooting, asks the presidential candidates how they can stop this epidemic if president during the CNN Democratic debate.

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The measure upheld by the 9th Circuit requires handguns to be secured with a lock or in lockbox.

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Six Parts of Hillary Clinton's Plan to Disarm Citizens

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Hillary Clinton Plans Executive Action to Exceed Obama on Gun Control

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A slim Supreme Court majority protected Second-Amendment rights in the last decade.

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A leaked audio clip by the Washington Free Beacon exposes what Hillary Clinton thinks about guns, gun owners and the Second Amendment.
