Welcome to McClatchy’s Voter Survival Guide, an interactive presentation of daily events from one of the strangest presidential campaigns in modern history.
Barack Obama read some mean tweets on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” last night and one of them came from a familiar source.
“Obama will go down as the worst President in history on many topics but especially foreign policy,” Donald Trump said in an August tweet.
“Well @realdonaldtrump, at least I will go down as a president,” Obama said, as the audience howled with laughter.
The final two weeks of the presidential campaign are upon us, and early voting is underway in many swing states.
On Monday, voters lined up in Florida, Colorado and Wisconsin, three states that are considered competitive in national polls.
The United States will welcome international election observers from the Organization of American States on November 8, but there’s no evidence votes are “rigged.”
Hillary Clinton continues to build her national lead, as Democrats coalesce around their nominee and even traditionally red states like Texas are showing signs of Democratic gains.
Donald Trump and Clinton receive low marks for transparency with the media and the Clinton campaign breaks out the star power to lure young voters to the polls.
The polls open nationally in 13 days. Let’s get started.
Obama reads mean tweets
Twitter is the great social equalizer, where anyone can create an account and troll the president. Obama fired back at some of these trolls by reading mean tweets directed to him on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” last night.
“Barack Obama is the Nickelback of presidents,” read one tweet.
“My mom bought new conditioner and it sucks, it isn’t even conditioning my hair, I blame Obama,” read another.
Early voting is underway
Voters in Florida, Colorado, Wisconsin, Alaska, Arkansas, Massachusetts and Texas all had their chance to head to the polls beginning Monday morning.
Many states have adopted early voting to make it easier for voters to make it to the polls before Election Day, and avoid long lines at the polling place.