Voter Survival Guide

The Guide: The latest polls, the nude photos and your weekend reads

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Hillary Clinton has vaunted to a 15-point lead over bumbling, bombastic and gaffe-plagued Donald Trump, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll.

Clinton made strong gains with two constituencies crucial to a Republican victory – whites and men — while scoring important gains among fellow Democrats, the poll found. Clinton not only went up, but Trump went down. Clinton now has a 48-33 lead, a huge turnaround from her narrow 42-39 advantage last month.

There are 95 days until the polls open across the nation.

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Stuff to read now

▪  U.S. officials are literally laughing at Donald Trump’s claim that he watched a (non-existent) “top secret” Iranian video that showed the U.S. handing over pallets loaded with hundreds of millions of dollars.

▪  Republicans among a new list of foreign policy experts who are calling Trump’s NATO and Russia comments “disgraceful.”

▪  What do Melania Trump’s nude photos reveal? Maybe some legal problems with her immigration history?

▪  “Threat to the survival of the republic.” Why Harvard Republicans are voting against Trump.

The polls should be a wake-up call to Mr. Trump. He’s losing to someone who people believe is a liar.

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Weekend reads

▪  President Obama writes in Glamour magazine, about being president, raising daughters: ‘This is what a feminist looks like.’

▪  What happens if Donald Trump loses? Does a legacy of paranoia and bigotry continue to flourish?

▪  The modern bloviator’s greatest weakness: The inability to walk away.

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