Virtual Newsbytes (8/11/2016): On #Turkey, #Syria, @realDonaldTrump & Other Thoughts (With an Update Courtesy of the Washington Examiner)

We begin with Syria with talk of a “humanitarian pause” for Aleppo as water has been cut off and there have been pleadings from Doctors to stop the bombings as hundreds of thousands continue to be under siege. A medical facility is being attacked an average of every 17 hours by Russians.

Our team could not help but be touched by the rapprochement between The Russian President, Mr. Putin (as he went on a tirade against Ukraine within the past 24 hours) and the Turkish President, Mr. Edrogan as Mr. Edrogan continues his massive purge throughout Turkey:

Our team also was assessing the aftermath of the local elections in South Africa. It is clear that the people have grown weary of the African National Congress and the Democratic Alliance has made substantive headway as the African National Congress has begun what it deems an introspection of the state of Affairs with a Presidential Election looming.

Meanwhile, back here in the United States, there is the elections. As Mr. Trump worked on trying to “get on message” with his speech in Detroit, he also then went after Mr. Clinton and Mr. Obama by deeming them “Founders of ISIS”. What is also interesting is that even though he has said elections may be rigged, he has also acknowledged that, “it is ok if I lose”. This is as a number of new emails released by the State Department has cast doubt yet again on the time Mrs. Clinton was at the State Department which has been seized upon by some of Mrs. Clinton’s antagonists including Senator Tom Cotton who claimed that she hid her foundation work. In the meantime, the “down ticket” races are getting to be even more interesting as underscored by this from Emily’s List from one of the US Senate Races in North Carolina:

As we have always said, it is fun to be witness to history.

(Update: This is the latest our team just received here from the Washington Examiner on the challenging state of affairs The Trump Campaign is faced with:

The data doesn’t lie, no matter how much voters don’t trust it.

That was the message Wednesday from pollsters Kristen Soltis Anderson, a Republican, and Margie Omero, a Democrat, in an interview with the Washington Examiner’s “Examining Politics” podcast.

Soltis Anderson and Omero were discussing the distrust so many voters have of polls that don’t make sense to them, or of surveys that show the candidate they oppose winning despite all of the flaws they believe this individual has.

The two pollsters conceded that not all polls are created equal or perfectly accurate. But they said that if most polls are pointing in a particular direction — one candidate leading another, as is the case currently with Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump — voters shouldn’t fight the results.

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