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#pnut4prez: We Almost Get To Stop Hearing About Iowa The US Presidential election kicks off today with the Iowa caucuses. Here is the lowdown: - The Des Moines Register (notorious for getting it right) released its latest poll on Saturday giving Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump the lead in their respective parties. FiveThirtyEight (legendary polling website) also predicts Trump and Clinton victories.
- The New York Times formally endorsed Hillary Clinton and John Kasich (Republicans will definitely vote for him now). Wait for our endorsements soon…
- The US State Department deemed 22 of Clinton’s emails on her private server “top secret,” which could complicate her campaign (particularly in the general election).
- What comes next? New Hampshire will vote on February 9. Over the next two months we should know who the Democratic and Republican nominee will be (and if Bloomberg will run). The general election will be on November 8… it’s a long journey ahead.
PNUT READ: What To Expect In Iowa Today Syria: Carnage Near Damascus, Confusion In Geneva Suicide attacks near a Shia shrine south of Damascus claimed more than 50 lives yesterday as some opposition leaders were trying to decide if they should attend peace talks in Geneva. The attack, carried out by ISIS (who wasn’t invited to Geneva), was meant to derail the talks.
The opposition in Geneva (which represents only a fraction of the opposition forces in Syria – no Kurds, ISIS or al-Qaeda) are demanding humanitarian pre-conditions be met before the talks start. The government said it wouldn’t agree to anything before the talks. Meanwhile, Turkey said Russia violated its airspace again (thankfully, it didn’t shoot down the plane this time). Confusing? Very much so. |