general election

A little over a month ago, conventional wisdom (and overrated pundits) said that Trump has no chance of being the republican nominee. They were all wrong, but so was the market which continued to ignore the possibility of a Trump presidency until well after the fact. And, as always happens, now is when if not the market, then certainly Goldman's clients are finally trying to catch up. As Goldman strategist David Kostin (who just one week ago warned that there is now a substantial risk of a market drop ahead of the year end), writes "Politics is now a topic in every client discussion."

Submitted by Carey Wedler via TheAntiMedia.org,

It’s happening! According to a new poll, Americans have finally maxed out their tolerance for “lesser evils” in presidential politics. The survey, published by independent research firm, Data Targeting, found a majority of Americans now want an independent candidate to take on Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump — two of the most disliked candidates in recent history.

The longer Bernie Sanders stays in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, the more unraveled and divided his party is becoming.

Recently we showed Senator Barbara Boxer's epic meltdown in Nevada, when she completely lost it after being booed by Sanders supporters. The scene was indicative of just how frayed and chaotic the Democratic party is right now, something the mainstream media won't cover of course, as it doesn't fit into the anti-Trump narrative the media dutifully is carrying out.

Anti-Trump Republicans can’t find a candidate, and it seems that one of the biggest boosters of a protest campaign doesn’t have much support at home:

On the home front, however, the Nebraska freshman found himself rebuked Saturday by party loyalists upset at his call for a third candidate to arise and give conservatives such as himself an alternative to Donald Trump in the fall election.

Last week, data guru Nate Silver had an interesting analysis of Donald Trump’s supporters, arguing that they are not as “working class” as many think.

My initial reaction was the same as (my former roommate) Michael Brendan Dougherty’s. He explains in The Week: