Daily Clips: September 19th, 2016
Best headline of the day: Brought to you by Tim Worstall who seemingly cannot let the minimum wage ever score a point.
That is Onion-like.
Millennial voters may cost Hillary Clinton the election:
In state polling, where the Millennial sample can be very small, there is not as clear a pattern of Johnson and Stein pulling more voters from Clinton than Trump. But state polls do reaffirm the trend of Clinton’s vote among Millennials running well below the proportion of them who view Trump unfavorably.
The US infrastructure investment debate: Is infrastructure a “progressive romance” that has become too widely accepted? Here, the author goes through a variety of thinkers who all have different takes on infrastructure and the next moves for the USA.
Everybody thinks they’re the middle class: I guess that’s what happens when politicians lionize this American group over and over and over again.
It’s Not Too Late to Fix Fox News:
The sealed universe of Fox News might be an excellent strategy for a niche television audience, but it’s a disastrous one for presidential candidates who have to appeal to swing voters. Mr. Trump continues to double down on his most outrageous opinions and proposals, like the Mexican wall, cutting his campaign off from the support of moderate Republicans, undecided voters and disaffected Democrats.
Tweet of the day:
Two things that keep coming out in poll after poll: Old white guys have gone feral, & a whole lot of younger voters are fed up with duopoly.
— Billmon (@billmon1) September 19, 2016
