When Mavis Amponsah, 41, entered Israel on a tourist visa in Dec. 2013, she immediately filed a request for asylum. The Ghanaian citizen claimed she had been in a relationship with another woman in Ghana for more than two decades, and that “her community objected to this and pressured her father, the tribe’s leader,” Haaretz reports.
Amponsah says she and her partner were assaulted on two occasions, and were repeatedly threatened by community members. She told Haaretz that, although her partner remains in Ghana, she cannot return “out of fear for her life.”
An advisory committee on refugees for the Israeli ministry of the interior didn’t buy her story, however, rejecting her application on Aug. 19. The committee ruled that Amponsah had “chosen to adopt a lesbian lifestyle,” citing evidence of a supposed previous relationship with a man and “contradictions” in her statements. The wording of the decision sets a potentially dangerous precedent for a country, Israel, that often bills itself as one of the few havens for LGBT life in the Middle East. The decision sets a potentially dangerous precedent for a country that often bills itself as one of the few havens for LGBT life in the Middle East.
Committee chair Avi Himi noted that Amponsah hadn’t attempted to meet any women or “act on her alleged preference” since arriving in Israel, and that this is “contrary to what might be expected of someone fleeing persecution for a sexual preference,” according to Haaretz.
It’s difficult to know exactly how any individual identifies. But it is incredibly presumptuous of Avi Himi and his fellow committee members to summarily decide—based on a mixture of roughly delivered responses (Amponsah was interviewed in English, despite informing the committee she doesn’t speak it well) and the subjective biases of the interviewers—that Amponsah does not meet the “qualifications” of lesbianism.
“Why can’t it be a choice?” American actress Cynthia Nixon, who is married to a woman, told The New York Times in 2012. “Why is that any less legitimate? It seems we’re just ceding this point to bigots who are demanding it, and I don’t think that they should define the terms of the debate.”
It’s outrageous to disqualify a candidate for asylum because she may or may not have been in a relationship with a man at some point. Given the insane amount of homophobic pressure levied against LGBT people the world over, is it really that inconceivable that a gay woman might attempt to conform to local sexual norms by repressing her sexual orientation, or even feigning heterosexuality? “The arguments appearing in the committee’s decision regarding sexual inclinations are baseless and outdated, and should no longer be used,” the Israeli LGBT Association told Haaretz. “A lesbian’s inclination can exist even if she doesn’t act on it by living with another woman, just as a heterosexual woman maintains her sexual identity when she lives alone, or when she chooses not to act on her romantic or physical attraction to men.”
Maybe Mavis Amponsah is a lesbian. Maybe she’s bisexual, or questioning, or simply a self-identified straight woman who happened to meet another woman she felt attracted to (emotionally, sexually, or some combination thereof—it happens). But regardless of whether Amponsah “chose to be gay” or was “born like this,” (which, again, no one can empirically know, other than Amponsah herself) the fact remains that she was alienated and assaulted for being in a same-sex relationship. And if Israel is truly the regional leader it claims to be in the fight for LGBT rights, that’s the only fact that should’ve mattered to the committee.
via ThePrettiestOne Biden over Bernie 2-to-1 on foreign policy
Two things are clear in the latest CNN/ORC International poll of Democrats and Democratic leaners: 1) Hillary still leads; and 2) Bernie has significantly cut into that lead over the last several months. From Clinton's high water mark of 69 percent to Bernie's five percent in April (a 64-point deficit) to Bernie now trailing Clinton by 21 points, this race gets tighter every month.
Overall, more Democrats say Clinton is the best person to handle the economy (Clinton 46 percent/Sanders 24 percent), race relations (Clinton 49/Sanders 25), foreign policy (Clinton 61/Biden 20/Sanders 10), and the income gap between rich and poor (Clinton 42/Sanders 33).
I credit Proteus as a huge influence on many of the playful walking simulators I do so adore (the chattiness of some comes from Dear Esther, I reckon), so I’ve been keen to see what creator Ed Key was up to next. “An experimental russian-fairytale storytelling game” named The Forest of Sleep is the answer. That’s about all we know for now, though that little is splendid. He’s making it with folks including Nicolai Troshinsky, whose charming art can be seen in a little animation below.
A full version of that top screenshot is over here, and here’s an animation:
So probably not another walking simulator, then. The Forest of Sleep looks gorgeous, somewhere between an old picture book and the old story cartoons on Channel 4 that Young Alice disliked for being sinister and lacking explosions but Crone Alice misses.
I’m keen to see what it turns up from Slavic folklore too. The Witcher 3 laps at that source and does wonderful things with it. I feel I should mention The Hairpin’s Ask Baba Yaga somewhere here because, while barely relevant, it is great. Okay, cool.
A formal announcement with more details and all that are due on Monday.
[Disclosure: I’m pals with Ed Key, and several other contributors to The Forest of Sleep. Ed and I swam beneath a waterfall in Yorkshire on a rainy May day, much to the amusement of passing ramblers wrapped up in their Gore-Tex and cagoules. I would like to see the photos I spotted them taking from the path above.]
Republicans thought they had learned a lesson after 2012: Turning off Latino voters ensures defeat in the general election.
But as the disruptive presidential candidacy of Donald J. Trump continues to gain support, his hard line on immigration has driven rivals to match his biting anti-immigrant language and positions long considered extreme. It risks another general election cycle in which Hispanics view the party as unfriendly no matter who the nominee is, Republican strategists warned.
This week, several of Mr. Trump’s Republican rivals, including Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, echoed his call to end automatic citizenship for the American-born children of undocumented immigrants, repealing a constitutional right dating from the Civil War era.
And Mr. Trump’s plan for mass deportations — “They have to go,” he said — which is supported by a sizable minority of Republican voters nationwide, has encouraged rivals to similarly push the edges on immigration.
Senator Ted Cruz of Texas introduced a bill last month named for a woman who was shot to death in San Francisco by an illegal immigrant, a case first highlighted by Mr. Trump. Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana went further, saying mayors of sanctuary cities — where local law enforcement officials decline to cooperate in federal deportations — should be arrested as accomplices when illegal immigrants commit felonies.
National Republican strategists warn that catering to the most hard-line voters on immigration in the nominating contest will hurt the party in the general election, as it did the 2012 nominee, Mitt Romney, who endorsed “self-deportation” for illegal immigrants and attracted historically low Latino support.
“If Republicans want to be competitive in the general election, they have to distance themselves from Trump on both illegal and legal immigration,” said Alfonso Aguilar, an official in George W. Bush’s administration and the executive director of the American Principles Project’s Latino Partnership, a conservative group. “His proposal on birthright citizenship is very insulting to Latinos, and every day, this is the top story on Spanish language media. Right now, if the other candidates don’t respond to Trump, Latinos will buy the argument that Republicans agree with him.”
Demographics suggest Republicans have an even bigger challenge with Latinos in 2016 than in previous elections. The number of Latino voters has been growing rapidly. The population of Latinos eligible to vote by 2016 is expected to increase by 18 percent over 2012 to about 28 million people, more than 11 percent of voters nationwide, according to projections by the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, a nonpartisan organization.
Mr. Walker, who led in Iowa polls for months before being eclipsed recently by Mr. Trump, took a harder anti-immigration position on Monday by seeming to support an end to birthright citizenship during a visit to the Iowa State Fair.
At the same time, Mr. Trump’s hard-line positions, including seizing remittances sent by undocumented workers to Mexico and severely restricting legal immigration, are allowing some rivals to define themselves more clearly in opposition to him.
Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina called Mr. Trump’s plan “gibberish” at the Iowa fair on Monday, saying, “You’re not going to get 11 million people and drive them back out of this country,” he said. “That’s just not practical. That’s going to kill the Republican Party.”
Things are looking slightly better than they were a year ago for homebuyers worried a deep-pocketed investor will outbid them with an all-cash offer.
Cash sales accounted for more than 21 percent of total Portland-area home purchases in May, according to a report released Tuesday by the analytics company CoreLogic. One in five home sales sounds like a lot, but that's down 1.2 percentage points from May 2014.
The rate of cash sales statewide in May of this year was 26 percent – the same as California. In Washington, it was 24 percent.
Leslie Jones, a broker with Re/Max Equity Group who has worked in Portland real estate since 1989, said the 21 percent cash sales figure for the area struck her as a little low.
"I track my own statistics, and my numbers come out at about 30 percent [cash sales]. ... I'm kind of surprised by that number, that low," said Jones, who specializes in close-in Portland neighborhoods. "Because in this competitive market, buyers feel like they're losing out to cash."
“You select your gender, height, body mass index, and blood type.”
The Onion reports that the new customization options in Bethesda‘s hit video game title, The Elder Scrolls Online, have “reached new heights” by allowing players to customize all the anatomical details of their character, including flesh, bones, organs and even their genetic code.
Archaeologists working in Kazakhstan have uncovered the remains of an ancient female warrior who lived sometime between the 11th century BC and 4th century AD.
'perhaps it’s the way the logic of the episode slowly unfolds so that everything becomes clear at the end and makes sense—at least enough sense for suspension of disbelief (another thing I miss from the revival’s earlier seasons). And maybe—just maybe—people like seeing a woman get to really be the protagonist of the episode?
But I’m not shocked to hear a lack of understanding of what’s great about the episode from the person who just kept throwing more and more (and less and less frightening) weeping angels at us until (the Statue of Liberty angel) happened"
Don’t “Blink.” Or do, but know that Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat is bewildered as to why you enjoy revisiting that episode so much—despite the fact that he wrote it.
We’ve made no secret of not exactly being huge Moffat fans around here as the Doctor Who showrunner, but as a writer, he’s done some of our favorite work: “Blink,” the “Silence in the Library” two-parter arc, “The Eleventh Hour,” and more. But as the show’s recent floundering—if not in popularity, in narrative quality—perhaps indicates, he has no idea what made “Blink” so special:
Of course, no writer at the time thinks their work will turn out to be a fan favorite, but he also says flat out, “I don’t know why ‘Blink’ is such a fan favorite.”
Maybe it’s the truly creepy villain that plays into not only our fear of the unknown—as we can’t ever truly see their attacks coming by their very nature—but also takes an ordinary object that might creep us out in the dark and makes it truly horrifying. It’s a similar effect to the Vashta Nerada (also by Moffat with “Silence in the Library”), which also hide around us every day in the show’s canon.
Or perhaps it’s the way the logic of the episode slowly unfolds so that everything becomes clear at the end and makes sense—at least enough sense for suspension of disbelief (another thing I miss from the revival’s earlier seasons). And maybe—just maybe—people like seeing a woman get to really be the protagonist of the episode?
But I’m not shocked to hear a lack of understanding of what’s great about the episode from the person who just kept throwing more and more (and less and less frightening) weeping angels at us until this happened:
'Right after the flooding, McDonald imposed a $100 daily limit on all A.T.M. withdrawals. Until Liberty was reconnected to the global banking network, he and his colleagues could have no idea how much money each customer had in his or her account. But imagining his customers camping out in hotels around the country, racking up expenses, he increased the daily maximum withdrawal to $500 and hoped they had the money to cover the withdrawn cash. He was intent on playing Jimmy Stewart’s George Bailey in ‘‘It’s a Wonderful Life’’ and not Lionel Barrymore’s Mr. Potter. ‘‘A banker is someone who gives you an umbrella when the sun is shining and takes it away when it starts to rain,’’ McDonald says, repeating an unflattering adage about his profession. ‘‘We try not be that banker.’’ That decision cost Liberty roughly $1 million in payouts to people who didn’t have the money to cover their withdrawals.
That was small compared with the bank’s other losses. McDonald offered a four-month, no-questions-asked grace period on any loan for a home, business or auto in a flooded area. (Fannie Mae advised banks to offer moratoriums of ‘‘up to three months.’’) That represented millions of dollars in checks the bank wouldn’t be cashing in the weeks ahead. And once Jan. 1, 2006, came, then what? Eighty percent of his customers lived in the flood zone. Could he expect most people to resume payments on homes, cars and businesses that had been destroyed by water? Liberty deferred interest charges on credit-card balances, which meant more lost revenue, and for months they didn’t collect loan fees, late charges or other payments that banks levy to boost profits on loans. ‘‘Everywhere I look,’’ McDonald said six weeks after the storm, ‘‘I’m losing money.’’
Liberty had to contend with the damage to its own banks as well. It hired an outside crew to gut and clean its water-damaged properties, but the job of sifting through waterlogged file cabinets, folder by folder, looking for any surviving paperwork, fell to bank employees wearing protective gear. Good news came one day when the mortgage department announced that only seven homeowners living in the flood zone had allowed their flood insurance to lapse before the hurricane. The Liberty staff cheered, but McDonald reminded them, ‘‘Now the question will be, did they have enough coverage?’’ He instructed his staff to request copies of the insurance policies their customers carried and then coach property owners on what they needed to say to their insurers. If the initial offer from an insurer was too low, someone from the bank would walk a loan customer through the appeals process. The bigger the settlement check, the less likely the bank would take a loss on a loan.
But every day, longtime customers were closing accounts because they were now living nowhere close to a Liberty A.T.M. McDonald anticipated losing thousands more. He began showing up at conferences and other events that focused on socially responsible investments to try and raise money for the bank. ‘‘He was everywhere afterward, pushing Liberty as the community bank in New Orleans in the middle of this disaster,’’ says William Michael Cunningham, a black economist and the founder of Creative Investment Research, who had been attending such gatherings for decades. McDonald was promoting new certificates of deposit he called Katrina Investment Deposits, or KIDs. These were C.D.s offering a below-market interest rate that promised to help out a cash-starved bank; they raised $10 million. Liberty used the money to make loans without down payments available to homeowners seeking to rebuild.
McDonald approached Walmart and other big-box retailers to discuss putting banking centers in their stores and considered opening loan centers in strip malls — storefronts that would make the kind of small-denomination loans that were Liberty’s specialty at its inception. He also considered expanding into other parts of Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi. ‘‘If we were going to survive,’’ says Ronnie Burns, the Liberty board member, ‘‘Alden was going to have to rebuild this thing brick by brick.’’
Seven months after Katrina, as McDonald drove me around his New Orleans in a tan minivan, the East was still barren. A new federal program called Road Home had just been announced. Publicized as the largest housing-recovery program in the country’s history — it would eventually grow to more than $10 billion — it promised to pay out as much as $150,000 to homeowners who had flood damage, depending on the size of their losses.
But McDonald had already diagnosed Road Home’s racial bias: Compensation would be based not on the actual cost of rebuilding, but on the appraised value of a property. The cost of restoring a 2,000-square-foot house in mostly white Lakeview, just west of City Park, or Gentilly, a black middle-class neighborhood to its east, would be the same — but the Road Home payment would differ. In Lakeview, that home was valued at a little over $300,000. A Lakeview couple who received a $150,000 flood insurance payment would receive the full $150,000 from Road Home. But in Gentilly, a similar home was valued at closer to $160,000. If a Gentilly couple received a flood insurance check of $150,000, they would receive only $10,000 from Road Home. It wasn’t just the poor, McDonald understood early on, who would have trouble rebuilding, but also middle-class people who didn’t have the savings or family wealth to make up the shortfall and fix their homes.
‘‘If we use pre-Katrina assessments for compensating people, nobody in the black community is coming out anywhere near whole,’’ McDonald said at the time. By the time a federal judge reached the same conclusion, nearly five years later, it would be largely too late. All but $148 million of the original $10 billion had already been spent. (The federal government agreed to set aside another $500 million specifically to help homeowners shortchanged by Road Home.)
McDonald was also frustrated by the response to a 17-member panel he sat on created by Mayor Ray Nagin shortly after Katrina to develop a plan for rebuilding the city. In addition, dozens of out-of-town experts descended on New Orleans 10 weeks after Katrina to help. McDonald ‘‘holed up in a hotel room with all these brilliant minds,’’ he recalls, to discuss an idea he had for resurrecting Pontchartrain Park, a once-grand middle-class black community devastated by the flooding. The residents of Pontchartrain Park tended to be older African-Americans. What if the city used a small share of its redevelopment dollars to build a senior center there and attract a dialysis center, a grocery store within walking distance and other amenities appealing to older people? Many still would be unable to return, but McDonald, working with planners and other experts, devised a land bank that would allow someone in another part of the city to swap a ruined home for a similar-size renovated house in Pontchartrain, in that way providing an incentive for people to cluster together and recreate a community. That idea, along with others, was submitted to the mayor. But another member of the panel recommended that the city temporarily ban rebuilding in its lowest-lying parts while officials made up their minds about whether to reinvest in neighborhoods that were in harm’s way. This idea infuriated those eager to start work on their homes. Nagin, with an election only a few months off, did not want to step into this controversy and simply thanked his commission for its hard work and then ignored its suggestions, as if every proposal were tainted by the proposed temporary ban.
McDonald himself was still undecided about moving back to the East. He split time between his family in Baton Rouge and an R.V. he had bought and parked behind his restored New Orleans headquarters. Three years passed before the McDonalds came back to the city; they would be among the first of their friends to do so.'
One black-owned bank helped build the city’s African-American middle class — until the hurricane destroyed much more than their homes.
Man who can't use his arms has gun possession charge dropped Washington Times This undated photo provided by the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office shows Marcus Hubbard, who can't use his arms because of a spinal condition. Prosecutors dismissed a New Jersey gun possession charge against Hubbard citing a lack of evidence.
Federal prosecutors are accusing Jared Fogle, the former spokesman for the Subway sandwich chain, of engaging in sexual acts with minors and acquiring child pornography, the Associated Press reports. Fogle will appear before an Indianapolis court at 11 am today.
He is accused of traveling to New York to pay for sexual acts with minors at high-end hotels, and receiving child pornography that was produced by the director of his charity organization. On Tuesday (Aug. 18), local news station Fox 59 reported that he is planning to plead guilty to the child pornography charges.
The prosecutors allege that Fogle paid a 17-year-old girl to engage in sex acts in 2012, and then a couple of months later. According to documents released by the US attorney’s office, the girl told Fogle how old she was the first time they met. Fogle allegedly paid for sex, including with minors, on business trips from 2007 until June of this year.
Subway said in a statement to Fox 59: “We have already ended our relationship with Jared and have no further comment.” Fogle was the face of Subway for more than 15 years, after he lost more than 200 pounds by mostly eating Subway sandwiches. He is 37, married, with two children.
The masked outlaw Zorro is preparing to defend the poor from tyrants and despots in a new film set in the post-apocalyptic future, according to The HollywoodReporter. The project, which has been in development hell for years, is titled Zorro Reborn, with shooting slated to begin in March 2016 at a Pinewood Studios facility in the Dominican Republic.
"Every generation has its own Zorro."
Apart from the futuristic setting, the reboot will reportedly stay true to the original character as created by pulp writer Johnston McCulley in 1919. The first Zorro — a nobleman of Californian and Native American descent — donned a cape and a mask to "punish cruel politicians" and "aid the helpless," appearing in more than forty films since, including a pair of swashbuckling features in 1998 and 2005 starring Antonio Banderas. There's currently no information on which actors — or directors — will be stepping up to the plate for the reboot though.
"This has been a 15-year journey filled with ups and downs, but it has remained my passion project over the years," producer Mark Amin, CEO of Sobini Films, which is handling the project with Lantica Media, told The Hollywood Reporter. Lantica's Antonio Gennari added: "Every generation has its own Zorro hero and we’re proud to be able to introduce a new Zorro to this generation." At least no one has said the word "gritty" yet.
'Ashley Madison does not verify the authenticity of users, including their email addresses, so the account information is only as real as people wanted it to be when signing up. Many of the most common last names in the data, for example, are just single letters, as well as “Doe.”'
The hackers who claimed to have stolen every bit of data from Ashley Madison, a dating website intended for adulterers, have made good on their promise to release the full database if the site didn’t shut down.
Identifying themselves as Impact Team, the hackers have made available a frighteningly vast amount of data on Ashley Madison’s users and inner workings. Impact Team produced the information Tuesday, August 18, through the Tor network, a sort of parallel internet or “dark web” that keeps all traffic data anonymous.
Impact Team’s announcement.
Quartz downloaded the files. We won’t reveal any identifiable information but were able to confirm aspects of the data.
Despite some initial skepticism about the veracity of the leak, researchers are now starting to agree that it is real. Several Ashely Madison users have vouched for the last four digits of their credit cards as listed in the leaked database. One researcher even claims to have found that a listed credit card is “still valid” and in “daily use.”
The breach contains data on 32 million Ashley Madison users, including names, usernames, addresses, phone numbers, and birth dates. The data also include users’ descriptions of themselves, often revealing their intentions in using the site—things like “I May Be Spoken 4 But I Speak 4 Myself” and “Let’s start as friends…”
It also reveals several million individual credit card transactions that went to Ashley Madison. Each of these indicates the name of the person involved, their address, the last four digits of their credit card number, and the amount paid, among other information. Here is a sample transaction, with every piece of data changed—keep in mind there are over 9 million more of these:
Column
Value
AMOUNT
72
AUTH CODE
294722
CARD ENDING
7382
FIRST NAME
37592837
LAST NAME
SOME NAME
DATE
6/20/14 0:00
CITY
NEW YORK
COUNTRY
US
EMAIL
EXAMPLE@EXAMPLE.COM
STATE
NY
CONSUMER_IP
XX.XX.XXX.XXX
It doesn’t stop there: The hack also contains members’ login information, meaning their username and password. Fortunately, the passwords are well enough encrypted that it would be a significant challenge to unlock all of them in one go. But because there is enough data elsewhere to find a specific individual’s username, it would be very easy to target a specific person and decrypt their password.
As researcher Robert Graham noted, the vast majority of users appear to be men, at least by their own identification when signing up. Graham counted “28-million men to 5 million women,” but added that “glancing through the credit-card transactions, I find only male names.”
That’s backed up by most common username: “Talldarkhandsome” was the chosen moniker of 32 Ashley Madison users.
Ashley Madison does not verify the authenticity of users, including their email addresses, so the account information is only as real as people wanted it to be when signing up. Many of the most common last names in the data, for example, are just single letters, as well as “Doe.”
“Last name”
Number
M
343
B
305
S
302
C
244
D
233
A
205
H
171
G
166
Doe
161
L
154
K
146
P
143
R
132
J
132
T
124
W
118
Impact Team originally said it targeted Ashley Madison because its parent company, Avid Life Media, had deceived users by charging $19 to delete their information for good and then not actually deleting it. (That claim couldn’t immediately be verified.) The hackers said they would release the database if Avid Life Media didn’t shut down for good. The company kept operating Ashley Madison and a related site, EstablishedMen, after the hack.
Avid Life Media issued this statement about the release of its database:
This event is not an act of hacktivism, it is an act of criminality. It is an illegal action against the individual members of AshleyMadison.com, as well as any freethinking people who choose to engage in fully lawful online activities. The criminal, or criminals, involved in this act have appointed themselves as the moral judge, juror, and executioner, seeing fit to impose a personal notion of virtue on all of society. We will not sit idly by and allow these thieves to force their personal ideology on citizens around the world.
California has been asking all residents to cut back on their water consumption as the state weathers its worst drought in 1,200 years. Fines for overusing water have been a useful deterrent for homeowners and farmers, but for apartment dwellers, not so much.
That’s because the vast majority of apartment buildings in California don’t equip their units with individual water meters. For the 12.5 million residents who live in buildings with one master meter, the overall complex typically foots the water bill.
California reported a 27% reduction in water use in June from a year ago, exceeding the 25% mandate recently instated by governor Jerry Brown. But data from WegoWise, which makes software monitoring the energy consumption of multifamily buildings, paint a less rosy picture. Analyzing the water use of 21,000 apartment units in California, it found a 9% reduction in median water consumption per bedroom. (The company says the best metric for water use is on a per bedroom basis, compared with the per square foot metric for analyzing electricity or gas use.)
The least water-efficient buildings have seen the steepest drop. Apartment complexes that ranked in the 75th percentile in efficiency (meaning that three-fourths of apartment complexes were more efficient than them) lowered water use by 14% since last summer. But those buildings also used 57% more water than buildings in the 25th percentile.
“Water is one of those things where it is surprisingly easy to not do anything when there is a problem,” Barun Singh, founder and chief technical officer of WegoWise, tells Quartz. “Most tenants don’t say anything about [these problems] unless it’s bothering them. But if they’re not paying for it, why would they reach out to their landlords?”
Because apartment dwellers have less incentive to cut back, property owners are finding greater savings by retrofitting their buildings. Raising awareness and levying fines, only goes so far, says Singh. Beyond that, the state has to “deal with the infrastructure itself.”
Two things are clear in the latest CNN/ORC International poll of Democrats and Democratic leaners: 1) Hillary still leads; and 2) Bernie has significantly cut into that lead over the last several months. From Clinton's high water mark of 69 percent to Bernie's five percent in April (a 64-point deficit) to Bernie now trailing Clinton by 21 points, this race gets tighter every month.
Overall, more Democrats say Clinton is the best person to handle the economy (Clinton 46 percent/Sanders 24 percent), race relations (Clinton 49/Sanders 25), foreign policy (Clinton 61/Biden 20/Sanders 10), and the income gap between rich and poor (Clinton 42/Sanders 33).
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Intel, TBS, and uber show-producer Mark Burnett are casting for a product-development reality show called America's Greatest Makers.
