Politics

Despite bookies' odds at 66% that The Democratic Party will win The White House in November, economic models predict a Republican victory (with or without Trump).

As The Hill reports, Republicans are expected to win the White House under two economic models that have accurately forecast presidential elections for decades. A third model run by Moody’s Analytics predicts Democrats will win the White House, in part because of President Obama’s rising approval rating.

Max Boot’s argument for the importance of NATO unwittingly draws attention to one of the biggest problems with the alliance over the last two decades:

Iceland’s prime minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson has stepped down amid widespread anger over allegations that his family attempted to hide millions in offshore account. The leaked “Panama Papers” documents showed he and his wife used an offshore firm to allegedly hide million-dollar investments. Gunnlaugsson  asked Icelands President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson to dissolve parliament and call an early election.

ISIS has reportedly carried out a chemical attack on a Syrian military airport in eastern Syria. Militants were attempting to recapture the military airport in Deir ez-Zor when they deployed the chemical weapon on Monday, state media said. A Syrian TV station reported late on Monday that “The terrorists fired rockets carrying mustard gas” and targeting the airbase in the south of Dayr al-Zawr city” According to Press TV: The report did not disclose whether there were any casualties.

The reason to be for Trump and Sanders is that the political-economic-media establishment hates and fears them.

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/04/05/why-the-establishment-hates-trump/

http://dailycaller.com/2016/04/04/trump-is-right-to-propose-nato-reassessment/

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