1. Does anyone really care?
+ From Washington Post
- "Republicans have a massive electoral map problem that has nothing to do with Donald Trump"
"And here's the underlying math. If Clinton wins the 19 states (and D.C.) that every Democratic nominee has won from 1992 to 2012, she has 242 electoral votes. Add Florida's 29 and you get 271. Game over."
"Many Republicans — particularly in Washington — are already preparing to blame a loss this fall, which many of them view as inevitable, on the divisiveness of Trump. That's not entirely fair to Trump, though."
"While his dismal numbers among women and Hispanics, to name two groups, don't help matters and could — in a worst-case scenario for Republicans — put states such as Arizona and even Utah in play for Democrats, the map problems that face the GOP have very, very little to do with Trump or even Cruz."
"The Republican Party is viewed more negatively than at any time in a generation. According to the Pew Research Center, the GOP currently has its lowest net-favorability rating since 1992, the farthest back that Pew has data on this question."
"For Democrats (right now, at least), this is the beauty of a two-party system. Even if they're doing badly, they still have the edge at a time when the other party looks phenomenally bad."
+ From New Yorker - "A Europe of Donald Trumps?"
"Indeed, one of the things you realize when you cross the Atlantic is that Trumpism isn’t as purely American a phenomenon as it appears from up close."
+ And this from Recode is just...crazy - "Donald Trump hints that Ted Cruz’s father had some connection to the JFK assassination. Cruz calls BS"
"Trump appeared to be citing a report in the National Enquirer, which claimed to have photographic evidence of Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald and Rafael Cruz distributing pro-Fidel Castro literature in New Orleans months before the murder — a report the Cruz campaign immediately called false."
+ From Washington Post
- "Republicans have a massive electoral map problem that has nothing to do with Donald Trump"
"And here's the underlying math. If Clinton wins the 19 states (and D.C.) that every Democratic nominee has won from 1992 to 2012, she has 242 electoral votes. Add Florida's 29 and you get 271. Game over."
"While his dismal numbers among women and Hispanics, to name two groups, don't help matters and could — in a worst-case scenario for Republicans — put states such as Arizona and even Utah in play for Democrats, the map problems that face the GOP have very, very little to do with Trump or even Cruz."
+ From NPR - "Democrats' Brand Is Bad, But Republicans Is way Worse"
CBS News, NBC News and Gallup report similar trends.
+ From New Yorker - "A Europe of Donald Trumps?"
"Indeed, one of the things you realize when you cross the Atlantic is that Trumpism isn’t as purely American a phenomenon as it appears from up close."
+ And this from Recode is just...crazy - "Donald Trump hints that Ted Cruz’s father had some connection to the JFK assassination. Cruz calls BS"
"Trump appeared to be citing a report in the National Enquirer, which claimed to have photographic evidence of Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald and Rafael Cruz distributing pro-Fidel Castro literature in New Orleans months before the murder — a report the Cruz campaign immediately called false."
Ugh...
2. Rejoice, Cord Cutters!?
"Amazon didn't get the NFL deal (Twitter did), but it's getting more serious about sports."
I cut the set top cable box cord about seven years ago, but viewing live/archived sports is STILL challenging. Let's see what Jeff Bezos can do to solve this problem...
3. U.S. Navy SEAL Killed in Iraq
This is going to get worse before it gets better. If it EVER gets BETTER
From Washington Post - "Third U.S. combat death comes as American troops edge closer to the front lines in Iraq"
+ From USA Today - "Navy SEAL, grandson of S&L financier, killed in Iraq"
4. You could do so much better...
From Washington Post - "The real reason some people end up with partners who are way more attractive"
"They found that heterosexual couples who were friends before they dated were more likely to be rated at different attractiveness levels...the longer the couple knew each other before they started dating, the less likely they were to be matched for attractiveness."
5. Billions in the Flesh
I got sucked into Showtime's drama, "Billions," starring Paul Giamatti as a U.S. Attorney in New York going after a billionaire hedge fund manager played by Damian Lewis. The first season just wrapped and it's pretty entertaining. So I had to read this New Yorker, "The Showman," article on Preet Bharara.
3. U.S. Navy SEAL Killed in Iraq
This is going to get worse before it gets better. If it EVER gets BETTER
From Washington Post - "Third U.S. combat death comes as American troops edge closer to the front lines in Iraq"
+ From USA Today - "Navy SEAL, grandson of S&L financier, killed in Iraq"
4. You could do so much better...
From Washington Post - "The real reason some people end up with partners who are way more attractive"
"They found that heterosexual couples who were friends before they dated were more likely to be rated at different attractiveness levels...the longer the couple knew each other before they started dating, the less likely they were to be matched for attractiveness."
5. Billions in the Flesh
I got sucked into Showtime's drama, "Billions," starring Paul Giamatti as a U.S. Attorney in New York going after a billionaire hedge fund manager played by Damian Lewis. The first season just wrapped and it's pretty entertaining. So I had to read this New Yorker, "The Showman," article on Preet Bharara.
"The television series, on Showtime, features the pursuit by an aggressive U.S. Attorney, played by Paul Giamatti, of a Wall Street billionaire for insider trading. It is widely thought to have been inspired by Bharara’s long-term investigation of Steven Cohen, the founder of SAC Capital Advisors; there is also a fanciful subplot involving sadomasochistic sex."
+ One of Bharara's key cases just went in his favor - Sheldon Silver
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