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Ratings through the roof 2008 holds the record for the biggest TV audience of any presidential election ever: 71.5 million people tuned in to see the networks call it for Barack Obama. This year, with the future of liberal western democracy hanging in the balance, expect that many and more. Most. Tweets. Ever. This year's town hall-style second presidential debate was the most-tweeted debate to date, with more than 17 million microblogs posted during the 90 minute-clash between Clinton and Trump. Expect the social network's servers to be ablaze again on election night. Voter suppression Trump has been complaining that the election is "rigged" (he said the same thing about the Emmys) but it's Republicans whom the courts have faulted for their efforts to influence the vote. A federal appeals court recently blocked a voter ID law in North Carolina, saying it would wipe black voters from the rolls "with almost surgical precision". On Friday, a ju...

Nigerian prophet TB Joshua of the Synagogue Church of nations (SCOAN), has predicted that Hillary Clinton will win the US presidential election in a "narrow victory" against her Republican rival Donald Trump. TB Joshua's declaration came as the world's attention focused on the contentious US elections slated for Tuesday November 8. He made the disclosure while speaking to a packed congregation at the SCOAN on Sunday. TB Jushua claimed that he saw it all in a vision 10 days ago. The cleric prophesied that the female candidate would win the coveted position and shared his "vision" on his Facebook page which is followed by over 2.5 million people. "Ten days ago, I saw the new President of America with a narrow win," the cleric, who is renowned for his controversial prophetic abilities, began. He, however, said the new president would be visited by many challenges, including attempts to possibly pass a "vote of no confidence" amidst...

More than 30 million votes have been cast already across 38 states in early voting in the ongoing 2016 U.S. election with four days into the Nov. 8 elections. Early voting data from several battleground states showed that Democrats are building an early voting lead in North Carolina and Nevada. However, Republicans maintain an edge in Florida and Ohio as well as in Arizona, while Democrats are also ahead in Colorado and Iowa, according to a CNN/Catalist polls. Both Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump are encouraging their supporters to hit the polls early. So far, about 7.4 million registered Democrats and about 6.4 million Republicans have done just that. The polls also showed that not all Democrats are voting for Clinton, and not all Republicans support Trump. In Arizona, a battleground state where about 1.3 million people have already voted, registered Republicans are ahead by about 71,000 votes or 5.5 per cent. Last week, Republicans lead over...

According to Billboard's official website, Beyonce will lend her powerful voice to Hillary Clinton’s election campaign. The “Lemonade” singer is likely to join her husband Jay Z on stage at Cleveland’s "Get Out The Vote" show on Friday (Nov. 4), just four days before the 2016 election, according to an article published by CBS. Both Jay Z and Beyoncé have backed Clinton in the past, attending fundraisers for the Democratic nominee. Though a high-profile appearance in Ohio, with the election so close and tight, is timed for maximum effect. A huge turnout in the African American community for Clinton in the swing state of Ohio could be a crucial victory in the race against Republican Party representative Donald Trump, political observers say. The Clinton campaign is making a concerted push for Ohioans to cast votes early, notes CBS, which first reported Beyonce’s addition to the lineup. Jay Z has been drumming up excitement for the show. The rapper and businessman ...

Heading into the final days of the presidential campaign, the race has settled back into a tight contest, with Hillary Clinton holding an edge over Donald J, according to New York Times. Trump after a month of tumult. Most voters say their minds are made up and late revelations about both candidates made no significant difference to them, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll released Thursday. Five days before Election Day, the margin between the candidates is narrow, with 45 percent of likely voters supporting Mrs. Clinton, the Democratic candidate, to 42 percent for Mr. Trump, the Republican nominee. The difference is within the poll’s margin of sampling error. Gary Johnson, the Libertarian candidate, has the support of 5 percent of likely voters, and the Green Party nominee, Jill Stein, takes 4 percent.

According to ABC News, authorities in Greenville, Miss. have launched a hate crimes investigation after a local church was burned and vandalized with the words "Vote Trump" on Tuesday evening. "This matter is being investigated as a hate crime," Greenville Mayor Errick D. Simmons said in a statement today. "This act is a direct assault of people’s right to freely worship. Moreover, this matter is being investigated with all deliberate speed and we will not rest until the culprit is found and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law." The Greenville Fire Department dispatched crews to the Hopewell M.B. Church around 9:16 p.m. on Tuesday after receiving reports of a fire, the department said in a news release today. First responders discovered the church "engulfed in flames," and the building "was vandalized with the words, 'Vote Trump' spray-painted on the side," the release said. Hopewell M.B. Church has a predomi...

James Franco has backed Hillary Clinton for president in what may be one of the year’s most surreal endorsement videos yet. The outspoken actor strips to an ‘I’m With Her’ towel while reeling off a list of not-quite-true accomplishments of Clinton’s as he offers his endorsement. Source: PinkNews

FBI agents are plumbing hundreds of thousands of emails in search of potentially incriminating evidence against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, in a high-pressure probe seven days before the US presidential election. What will come out of it and when is not known, but the impact of the FBI’s bombshell discovery of a new trove of Clinton emails is already reverberating in the neck-and-neck race for the White House. The latest poll on Tuesday showed Republican nominee Donald Trump edging ahead of Clinton for the first time since May. Trump has seized on the October surprise to put Clinton on the defensive, while Democrats have assailed FBI chief James Comey for breaking with policy and protocol by effectively reopening an investigation into Clinton’s handling of state secrets so close to the elections. “He’s dangling out there that they have some information,” complained Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook. “We find out he didn’t even have a warrant to know what it was. And ...

The Clinton campaign has blasted FBI Director James Comey for “blatant double standards” over the new inquiry into Hillary Clinton’s email use. The comments came after US media reports that Mr Comey had urged against publicly accusing Russia of interfering in the US election, including alleged email hacking. Mr Comey’s concern about releasing the information was due to the proximity to the election, reports say. The FBI declined to comment to the BBC. The statement that Mr Comey reportedly declined to sign off on was released by the Department of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on 7 October. “The US intelligence community is confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of emails from US persons and institutions, including from US political organisations… these thefts and disclosures are intended to interfere with the US election process,” it said. Mr Comey agreed with the statement but was against making it p...

According to Sky News, the FBI has opened a new investigation into Hillary Clinton's personal emails following the discovery of additional messages. The director of the FBI, James Comey, said they will examine whether the new emails contain classified information. In a letter to key Republican committee chairman in the House of Representatives and Senate, he added he cannot tell whether they "may be significant" or how long it will take to review them." The FBI spent about a year looking into her use of an unauthorised private email sever for her work as US secretary of state between 2009 and 2013, after it emerged there were classified government secrets in some of her emails. In July, it announced its investigation was finished.

First Lady Michelle Obama will campaign with Hillary Clinton for the first time at an early vote rally in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, today. The Clinton campaign has described Obama as its "not-so-secret weapon" on the trail as she's crisscrossed the country campaigning for the former secretary of state. "She has exceeded our expectations in terms of how many events she has been able to do, willing to do. Her team keeps surprising us with additional availability and we can't, from our vantage point, we can't get her out there enough. She's been an absolute rock star ," Clinton campaign Press Secretary Brian Fallon said earlier this week. Obama wowed Democrats with her speech on the first night of the Democratic National Convention, even prompting Clinton to incorporate one of her lines into her stump speech "When they go low, we go high." The first lady has delivered some of the most effective criticisms of Donald Trump , often...

Remember it was reported here yesterday that Donald Trump's star on the Hollywood Walk of fame was vandalized, it seems the Republican presidential candidate need not worry. According to reports: It will cost thousands to repair Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Leron Gubler, the president and CEO of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, told ABC News. This afternoon, with the repairs under way, Gubler told ABC News that it will cost between $3,000 and $10,000 to fix the damage. “It’s mostly the cost of the labor,” Gubler explained. “The stars are composed of the brass symbols and the terrazzo is concrete with marble chips, so it’s a process. It takes quite a bit of work — several hours worth. It’ll take several days to season before they can polish and restore it.” (ABC News)

In the home stretch of the general election season, Hillary Clinton maintains a slight lead over her opponent, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, according to a poll published Wednesday. Fox News is out with a national poll of likely voters, finding that among them, Clinton leads with a three-point margin, 44 percent to 41 percent. About 10 percent back a third-party candidate, while 4 percent remain undecided. Clinton’s lead has narrowed from her advantage in recent weeks. Last week, Clinton was up by six points (45 to 39 percent), and in the week before that, the Democratic nominee was up by seven (45 to 38 percent). The shift away from Clinton could be the result of Independent voters, who favor Trump to Clinton by 13 points, 41 to 28 percent. Last week, Trump’s lead among Independents amounted to seven points. In this poll, Gary Johnson takes 14 percent of the Independent voters, with Jill Stein at 7 percent.

Donald Trump’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame has been destroyed with a pick-ax. The US Republican presidential candidate's star which was awarded to him in 2007 and located at 6801 Hollywood Blvd, was smashed up early today by one Jamie Otis, who took credit for the destruction. Otis posed as a construction worker to fool anyone walking past. Smashing the embedded terrazzo and brass star to bits, he claims he intends to auction off the removed star to raise money for the women who have come forward to accuse Trump of sexually assaulting them over the decades. Los Angeles police are investigating the case.

US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump maintains that his campaign is “very close or winning” with just two weeks to go until US elections. “Honestly I think we’re doing really well all over,” Trump told Fox News on Tuesday even as most opinion polls show him trailing Democrat Hillary Clinton nationwide and in most key states ahead of November 8 elections. The victor will be determined based on the winners in each state rather than the overall popular vote, and the candidates are focusing their attention in the remaining days on some dozen states that could go to either candidate. Chief among those is Florida, which Trump admitted “I have to win,” and where both Trump and Clinton were campaigning on Tuesday. Opinion polls show Clinton with the lead in Florida, Nevada, Pennsylvania and North Carolina, while Trump has a narrow lead in Ohio. The race is also narrowing in states that have traditionally been staunch Republican bastions, giving Clinton an opening in Arizo...

I ’ ve been thinking lately about Shirley Chisholm ’ s legacy and her words : “Freedom is an endless horizon, and there are many roads that lead to it. ” As Chisholm understood , we engage in imperfect systems sometimes , to make them more perfect . And our engagement in democracy comes in many forms — we engage in democracy in protests , in board meetings , in classrooms and , importantly, at the ballot . I am not naive enough to believe that voting is the only way to bring about transformational change , just as I know that protest alone is not the sole solution to the challenges we face. I voted my entire life , and I was still tear- gassed in the streets of St . Louis and Baltimore . I voted my entire life, and those votes did not convict the killers of Sandra Bland , Freddie Gray or Michael Brown . But elections do have consequences . The next president will continue to shape the trajectory of justice and landscape of opportunity in this country. She will be responsible fo...

The chart-topping Brit and Grammy-winning singer told the audience at Miami's American Airlines Arena on Tuesday she did not want the Republican candidate to win. In a video posted online, she is heard saying: "I do know what to do - don't vote for him, that's all I'm saying." She continues: "I support Hillary Clinton 100%, I do. "And for anyone else that wants to vote for him, I don't care, good for you, do whatever you want. According to Mrs Clinton's campaign spokesman Nick Merrill, Adele said on stage that while she could not vote in next month's election, "what happens in America affects me too". He said she endorsed the Democratic candidate for the White House, telling fans: "I love her. She's amazing." In February, Adele told Mr Trump to stop playing her music at his political rallies. The billionaire businessman had been using the star's songs such as Rolling In The Deep as "warm-up...

Katy Perry treated herself to the perfect birthday by voting early for Hilary Clinton. Wearing a patriotic Stars and Stripes jacket with handbag combo, Perry visited a polling booth on her special day to exercise her democratic right ahead of the Nov. 8 U.S. election. She captured the moment on camera and posted a video on her instagram account. She captioned the video, "gave myself the best birthday present ever by voting today! Wish Hilary Clinton a Happy Birthday tomorrow with your EARLY vote. Check www.rockthevote.com to see where your poll is". Perry’s support for Clinton’s doesn’t end at the polls. The pop superstar will perform a free “Get Out The Vote” concert in Philadelphia on Nov. 5 in support of Clinton’s presidential bid, having taken the grassroots course last Saturday when she took her message to the door of students at the UNLV campus. Perry performed at this summer's Democratic National Convention and headlined a Clinton event in Des Moines, Iow...