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After a hard-fought campaign, one which turned downright vicious in recent weeks, Virginia's race for governor is now just hours away from being decided with polls set to close at 7pm EST.  The race pits Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam (D) against former Republican National Committee chairman Ed Gillespie (R) and will undoubtedly be spun as a referendum on the Trump administration no matter which side emerges victorious later this evening. 

Authored by Mustafa Akyol via Strategic-culture.org,

In the latest attempt by a state to disenfranchise voters, Ohio residents are finding that if they haven't voted in the past six years, they will be purged from the voting rolls.

“No modern precedent exists for the revival of a party so badly defeated, so intensely discredited, and so essentially split as the Republican Party is today.”

Taken from The Party That Lost Its Head by Bruce Chapman and George Gilder, this excerpt, about Barry Goldwater’s defeat in 1964, led Thursday’s column by E.J. Dionne of the Washington Post. Dionne is warning what could happen if the GOP perpetrates the political atrocity of nominating Donald Trump.

Donald Trump is on the lips of people around the globe. This is, arguably, one of the most discussed United States presidential contests in modern history. No matter where you are from or who you are, chances are you have heard that reality TV star Donald Trump is running for President of The United States of America. Whether he wins or not, what would a Trump presidency look like? The Era of Donald Trump While not everyone loves Trump, Quartz writer Gwynn Guilford believes that a Trump presidency would be “chaos”, pure and simple.