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[View this email in your browser] [What Happens If Trump v. Clinton Ends in an Electoral College Tie?] In a year when extraordinarily unlikely events have come to pass with surprising regularity, there is now considerable interest in the possibility that, when votes are counted on Tuesday, the result is inconclusive. That is to say, that neither Democrat Hillary Clinton nor Republican Donald Trump achieves the 270 electoral... [Read more...] [Like What Happens If Trump v. Clinton Ends in an Electoral College Tie? on Facebook] [share on Twitter] [Google Plus One Button] [States Sidestep Congress to Pass Gun Safety Measures Voters Want] Gun control efforts have been a losing cause on Capitol Hill, even in the wake of some of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history, largely because of the National Rifle Association’s iron-... [Read more...] [Like States Sidestep Congress to Pass Gun Safety Measures Voters Want on Facebook] [share on Twitter] [Google Plus One Button] [Soldiers for Trump: Demoralized Vets Head to the Polls] Donald Trump has trashed-talked Senator John McCain, who as a POW was tortured during the Vietnam War. He has skipped a GOP primary debate before the Iowa caucuses, instead holding a fund-... [Read more...] [Like Soldiers for Trump: Demoralized Vets Head to the Polls on Facebook] [share on Twitter] [Google Plus One Button] [$780 Billion US Dollars Later, the Taliban Is Gaining Ground in Afghanistan] Fifteen years after the U.S. invaded Afghanistan to hunt down the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks; thirteen years after former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld declared an end to “major... [Read more...] [Like $780 Billion US Dollars Later, the Taliban Is Gaining Ground in Afghanistan on Facebook] [share on Twitter] [Google Plus One Button] [Forget Populism: The Establishment Would Rule a Clinton White House] Last week, before the bombshell about the FBI looking at a new batch of emails, a story planted with Politico said that Vice President Joe Biden is on a short list of candidates for... [Read more...] [Like Forget Populism: The Establishment Would Rule a Clinton White House on Facebook] [share on Twitter] [Google Plus One Button] [Share] [Tweet] [Forward to Friend] Copyright © 2016 The Fiscal Times, All rights reserved. You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed at our website, thefiscaltimes.com. [unsubscribe from this list] [update subscription preferences]