@9:30, 11/21/18

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/21/upshot/polls-2018-midterms-accuracy.html

The 538 polls do a decent job of predicting elections.
I am more interested in detecting shenanigans before the final results.
South Florida is an example.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/21/us/politics/fact-check-thanksgiving-politics.html

Religious wars are never over.

Subversion works on an individual basis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subversion

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/constitution
(government) The formal or informal system of primary principles and laws that regulates a government or other institutions. quotations ▼

The U.S. constitution is primarily informal.
It is the record of the Supreme Court decisions with the other decisions of the federal courts.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/21/nyregion/president-trump-immigration-law-firms.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_law

The Trump administration is monstrous.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/21/us/politics/nick-ayers-white-house.html

Nick Ayers has a sense of entitlement.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/21/us/politics/heritage-foundation-clerks-training-academy.html

The Heritage Foundation is not democratic or egalitarian.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/21/climate/andrew-wheeler-epa.html

"“By word and deed, Wheeler is proving to be as bad and dangerous as Pruitt,” said John Walke, clean air director at the Natural Resources Defense Council."

He is Trump's man.  
Wheeler is a member of the bureaucracy and a Republican.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/21/us/politics/democrats-oppose-pelosi.html

This group will spend the term in the shadows.
The inside game is political power.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/21/obituaries/james-billington-dead.html

He was a man with an sisiphusian burden.
He bore the burden of a rebirth of history in Russia.
The format wars of the technology sector have eaten his attention.
So much of the text world is fugitive.
Fading ink and paint on yellowing paper that crumbles before it can be read.
Rubber parts that have finite lives.
iron oxide on plastic film with adhesives that vanish leaving perhaps a ghost of music or language.

He did all he could and was disparaged because it was not more.

Congress always wants mud bricks without straw.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/21/us/politics/trump-chief-justice-roberts-rebuke.html

"The rule of law" must continue.
Congress will make no law.
The Courts deny their ability to make law.

We will continue with the law we have.

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