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Presidential and Race To The White House News
High Court Refuses To Reinstate N.C.’s Voter ID Requirement
Gallup Poll: Almost Everyone
Feels Their Life Is Better Since
Mr. Obama Became President
RALEIGH, N.C. — A di- vided U.S. Supreme Court re- fused Wednesday to reinstate North Carolina's voter identifi- cation requirement and keep just 10 days of early in-person voting.
The decision — a victory for voting rights groups and Presi- dent Barack Obama's Justice Department — means voters won't have to show one of sev- eral qualifying photo IDs when casting ballots in the presiden- tial battleground state. Early voting also reverts to 17 days, to begin Oct. 20.
The court rejected a request by Republican Gov. Pat Mc- Crory and other state officials
to delay a lower court ruling that found the state law was tainted by racial discrimination.
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down several parts of the law July 29, saying they were approved by Repub- lican legislators in 2013 with in- tentional bias against black voters. Lawyers for McCrory and the state officials disagreed with the 4th Circuit ruling that there was "discriminatory in- tent" in passing the law and wanted a delay while they drafted an appeal.
The high court divided 4-4 on most of the challenged provi- sions, with the four more con-
servative justices supporting the state's bid to enforce them in the upcoming election. The split illustrates again how closely divided the Supreme Court is on voting rights and how the outcome of the presi- dential election essentially will determine the court's direction.
The court has been operating with only eight members since Justice Antonin Scalia died in February.
A ninth justice chosen by De- mocrat Hillary Clinton would almost certainly vote with the court's liberal justices on this issue.
How Americans feel about the state of their lives have im- proved markedly in the eight years since President Barack Obama was elected, according to Gallup data re- leased last Tuesday.
In 2008, fewer than half of Americans said their life was good enough to be considered "thriving," according to Gallup. But that's changed: "The 55.4% who are thriving so far in 2016 is on pace to be the highest recorded in the nine years Gallup and Healthways have tracked it," according to the re- port.
Not only that, members of each ethnic or racial group in Gallup's study feel better about their lives.
"The percentages of U.S. Whites, Blacks, Hispanics and Asians who are thriving have all increased during the Obama era," Gallup notes. The percentage of Blacks thriv- ing has risen by about 6 points, as has the percentage of whites and Hispanics. Asian thriving has risen by about 10 points since 2008.
Gallup measures "thriving" according to how poll respon- dents rate both their current lives and their expectations for life in the future. On a scale of
President Obama has had a major impact in everyone’s lives since being elected in 2008.
zero to 10, "those who rate their present life a 7 or higher and their life in five years an 8 or higher are classified as thriv- ing."
An increase in the percentage of people calling themselves thriving since then is hardly surprising. Certainly, economic policies have been central to Obama's administration, in- cluding the 2009 stimulus package and the $80 billion auto-industry bailout.
The Gallup numbers suggest that for many Americans, fewer things today need fixing than they did eight years ago.
Get Ready America: Trump’s Trip To
Mexico Was Disastrous For Its President;
Illegal Immigrants Will Be Deported
President Obama’s Former Physician Questions Hillary Clinton’s Health
President Obama’s former physician, Dr. David Scheiner, discusses the health of Hillary Clinton.
President Enrique Pena Nieto's meeting with Mex- ico's most-disliked man is turning into a public relations disaster for a leader already struggling with historically low popularity ratings.
Not only did Pena Nieto not demand that Donald Trump apologize for calling Mexican migrants rapists and criminals, but he stood silently by in their joint press confer- ence while the Republican candidate repeated his prom- ise to build a border wall be- tween the countries.
"This is an insult and a be- trayal," said artist Arturo Meade as he joined a protest against Wednesday's meeting in Mexico City.
Particularly irksome to Mex- icans was that Pena Nieto appeared to do little to push back against Trump's earlier negative statements about Mexican migrants and unpop- ular proposals.
Pena Nieto did say that Mexicans felt "aggrieved" and had disagreements with Trump, but most felt that it was not enough.Former Mexi- can President Vicente Fox said Trump was trying to boost his sagging campaign. "He fooled him (Pena Nieto)."
Trump's meeting with Mexico president ends in dis- pute over border wall payment talk.
Pena Nieto and Trump even appeared to disagree about what was said in the meeting.
Standing next to Pena Nieto, Trump said the topic of who would pay for the wall would be discussed later. Pena Nieto, at the time, said nothing about the wall.
Hours later, Pena Nieto said in a tweet that he had told Trump clearly in their private meeting that Mexico would not pay. It seemed to contra-
President of Mexico Enrique Pena Nieto and Donald Trump after Trump’s visit to Mexico last Wednesday.
According to Dr. David Scheiner, who was Presi- dent Obama’s personal physician from 1987 to 2008, Hillary Clinton should un- dergo a neurological examina- tion to prove that she is fit for office.
The CNN interview with Dr. Scheiner, who personally as- sessed President Obama to be in “excellent health” before he entered the White House, dwelled on Donald Trump’s health, but the discussion of Clinton’s medical condition threw up the most interesting comments.
Asked if a note from Hillary’s personal physician saying she was in good health and had recovered from her 2012 concussion was good enough, Scheiner disagreed.
She’s also 68 years old. While I think that medical letter was well written...it’s not enough,”
he said.
Scheiner highlighted the
fact that Hillary is taking Coumadin, a medication to prevent blood clots, remarking, “You have to monitor that, I’d like to know how well she is being controlled – that’s a diffi- cult drug to use.”
“Also I think she should have had a neurological examina- tion, a thorough neurological examination in 2016 – we know what happens to football players who have had concus- sions – how they begin to lose some of their cognitive ability – I think both of them should re- lease their records,” added Dr. Scheiner, who said he would be voting for Clinton.
Dr. Scheiner joins a grow- ing list of doctors and medical experts who have all ques- tioned Hillary Clinton’s health.
dict Trump's statement that payment wasn't discussed, but the president's office said only that Pena Nieto made his statement and the topic was dropped.
Later last Wednesday night, in a speech on immigration in Phoenix, Arizona, Trump made building the wall the fea- tured element of his immigra- tion plan.
He referred to Pena Nieto as a "wonderful, wonderful president," but reaffirmed the pledge he had not repeated in Mexico: "They don't know it yet, but they're going to pay for the wall."
Trump vows to remove mil- lions living in country illegally: 'No amnesty'.
Trump was seeking to end confusion over his aggressive but recently muddled language on immigration, he vowed to remove millions of people liv- ing in the country illegally if he becomes president, warning that failure to do so would jeopardize the "well-being of the American people."
Yet the Republican presi- dential nominee failed to out- line what he would do with those who have not committed crimes beyond their immigra- tion offenses — a sharp retreat after promises during his pri- mary campaign to create a "de- portation force" to remove the estimated 11 million immi- grants living in the country il- legally.
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