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Quixote1818's JournalWhite woman accused of threatening black women in Charlotte is missing, police say
A white woman accused of threatening two African-American women at a south Charlotte apartment complex is facing a new criminal charge this week but police say they can’t find her.
Police last week issued criminal summons for Susan Jane Westwood, 51, of Charlotte, accusing her of communicating threats and simple assault, public records show.
A viral video shows Westwood repeatedly asking a black neighbor why she’s there, adding “I’m white, I’m beautiful, I’m hot.”
Now, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department says it will charge Westwood with misusing 911, after investigators discovered she called police and claimed the two women she harassed were faking car problems in the apartment parking lot. Police say Westwood also falsely claimed that people were gathered in the parking lot, attempting to break into nearby apartments.
Misuse of 911 is a misdemeanor offense in North Carolina.
More: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/latest-news/article220903710.html
Psychology Today: The Dunning-Kruger Effect May Help Explain Trump's Support
A new study suggests some people grossly overestimate their political knowledge.
In the past, some prominent psychologists have explained President Donald Trump’s unwavering support by alluding to a well-established psychological phenomenon known as the “Dunning-Kruger effect.” The effect is a type of cognitive bias, where people with little expertise or ability assume they have superior expertise or ability. This overestimation occurs as a result of the fact that they don’t have enough knowledge to know they don’t have enough knowledge. This simple but loopy concept has been demonstrated dozens of times in well-controlled psychology studies and in a variety of contexts. However, until now, the effect had not been studied in one of the most obvious and important realms—political knowledge.
A new study published in the journal Political Psychology, carried out by the political scientist Ian Anson at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, not only found that the Dunning-Kruger effect applies to politics, it also appears to be exacerbated when partisan identities are made more salient. In other words, those who score low on political knowledge tend to overestimate their expertise even more when greater emphasis is placed on political affiliation.
Anson told PsyPost that he became increasingly interested in the effect after other academics were discussing its potential role in the 2016 U.S. presidential election on social media. “I follow a number of political scientists who marveled at the social media pundit class’ seeming display of ‘Dunning-Kruger-ish tendencies’ in their bombastic coverage of the election.” However, speculation by scientists does not always translate into statistically-significant findings, so Anson began thinking of ways to experimentally test what he described as a “very serious accusation.”
More: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mind-in-the-machine/201808/the-dunning-kruger-effect-may-help-explain-trumps-support?fbclid=IwAR3apgHPq2gK9FYGvaII7RM-6c-rpD1QuOm173oZBnL0RTVqNNEVka0Tht4
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VOX: Young people say they plan to vote at near-historic highs
Young voters are notoriously difficult to get to vote in midterms, but 2018 could change that.
A high number of young voters could turn out in the 2018 midterms, according to a new poll from the Harvard University Institute of Politics.
The biannual poll released Monday showed that 40 percent of 18- to 29-year olds said they will “definitely vote” in the 2018 midterm elections, a substantial increase from the 2014 and 2010 midterms.
“We believe there is a marked increase in youth turnout, unlike anything we’ve seen in 32 years,” said John Della Volpe, director of polling for the Institute of Politics.
Young people who identify as Democrats are more likely to say they will definitely vote; 54 percent of Democrats, 43 percent of Republicans, and 24 percent of independents told Harvard researchers they would vote. That’s good for Democrats, but there’s also evidence that young Republican voters are becoming more enthusiastic as the election nears.
More: https://www.vox.com/2018/10/29/18037916/young-people-vote-harvard-poll-2018-midterms
With a House Takeover, Democrats Could Get Trump's Tax Returns. Would They?
By Nicholas Fandos
Oct. 16, 2018
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WASHINGTON — Democrats, eyeing control of a powerful House tax-writing committee next year, are studying a century-old provision in the federal tax code that could give them access to President Trump’s long-sought tax returns and eventually the ability to make them public.
The powers laid out in an obscure 1920s addition to the tax code are clear: The leaders of Congress’s tax-writing committees, including the Ways and Means Committee in the House, are empowered to request from the Treasury Department tax returns or related information on any tax filer. Democrats could use that information to finally determine if Mr. Trump, who built a global business empire before entering politics, has problematic financial entanglements with Russia or other undisclosed conflicts of interest.
They could also use such an inquiry to determine whether Mr. Trump violated the law before his election to avoid paying taxes.
How would they do it? A Teapot Dome law
More:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/16/us/politics/trump-tax-returns-democrats.html
Doug Stanhope on nationalism
This has been posted before but now that Trump is openly admitting he is a Nationalist I thought it was time to post it again.
Chart master says it's about to get worse before it gets better
On 538: Take out Rasmussen's ridiculous poll and Trump's approval is - 13
Approval comes out to 41.75 Disapproval is at 54.75
Rasmussen is throwing it off and it's a joke so I threw it out completely: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/
Any place in Texas where votes are switching. Dems must demand re-vote
With paper ballots. Why the he'll are we pussy footing around this? Needs to be done now, not after we lose by 10,000 votes.
Morgan Creek CEO: We are closer to a recession than people think
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