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STATE/NATIONAL
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Denton Record-Chronicle
Monday, October 31, 2016
Road to 270 looks surer for
A look at alternatives
Gary Johnson, Libertarian
Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson
has a big idea: smaller government.
The former New Mexico governor's campaign is
founded on the principle that smaller government will
mean greater freedom for citizens, both economically
and in their personal lives. It's the policy glue that
holds together his fiscally conservative, socially liberal
and noninterventionist message.
A look at some of his main proposals.
■ Balance the budget: Johnson predicts that the
United States could face hyperinflation if it doesn't balance its budget
soon. He proposes to shrink the federal government by about 20 percent,
which would be a historic reduction. But it's something Congress has not
been able to pass under Democratic or Republican control.
He calls for reductions of up to 20 percent in military spending, raising
the Social Security retirement age to 72 and eliminating the federal depart-
ments of Commerce, Education, Housing and Urban Development and
Homeland Security.
■ Allow marijuana legalization: Johnson first came to nationwide
attention when, as governor, he called for legalizing marijuana, years
before that idea took hold in some states. After he left elected office in
2003, Johnson ran a marijuana branding company. He says that, if elected,
he'd take marijuana off the federal government's list of illegal substances.
This wouldn’t automatically make the substance legal but would allow
individual states to legalize it.
■ Reducing military footprint: Johnson describes himself as a skeptic
of interventions overseas. He opposed the Iraq War and says the U.S.
should have withdrawn from Afghanistan shortly after the fall of the
Taliban in late 2001. Today he says the United States should reconsider
some of its overseas bases in areas where allies may not need military
protection, such as Japan.
■ Greater legal immigration: Johnson proposes making it easier to
work in the United States legally, which he argues would cut down on
illegal immigration and improve the economy. He'd allow otherwise law-
abiding immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally to become citizens eventu-
So, then, what is the path for
Trump to chin himself to 270
votes? He’ll have to start by car-
rying the reliably Republican
states in the West, the Great
Plains and in South that make
up the GOP’s Electoral College
base.
map rates states worth 278 elec-
toral votes as safely Democratic
or leaning Clinton’s way. That
analysis is based on preference
polling, recent electoral history,
demographic trends and cam-
paign priorities such as advertis-
ing, travel and on-the-ground
staff.
increasingly competitive signs in
Texas. Three polls in the past
two weeks have shown Clinton
within five percentage points of
Trump
The Lone Star State isn’t the
lightest shade of blue on even
the most hopeful Democrat’s
map. But Richard Murray, the
political science professor at
University of Houston who con-
ducts the school’s presidential
poll, said the factors helping
Clinton in Arizona and North
Carolina do so in Texas, too.
Clinton has the support of
nearly two-thirds of the state’s
Hispanic voters, who have
swelled voter ranks since the
2012 election. And Trump’s
comments and alleged actions
toward women have chilled his
support among typically conser-
vative, college-educated white
women in the Houston and Dal-
las suburbs, Murray said.
“Donald Trump is so off the
charts, he’s wiped out 20 years of
[GOP] outreach not only to La-
tinos, but Texas’ growing Asian
vote,” Murray said.
With most routes
blocked, Trump
needs late surge
By Thomas Beaumont
Associated Press
DES MOINES, Iowa - The
race for president reaches its fi-
nal mile next week amid Octo-
ber surprises, but on the road to
the 270 electoral votes needed to
win the White House, Hillary
Clinton still has several ways to
find her way to Washington.
The journey Donald Trump
must take is perilous, at best.
Even as some national pref-
erence polls tighten, and voters
wrestle with news the FBI has
found new emails that may — or
may not — be related to Clin-
ton’s use of a private server as
secretary of state, the billionaire
Republican needs a dramatic fi-
nal-stretch rebound in states
where the Democratic nominee
appears to have the upper hand.
The latest Associated Press
analysis of the Electoral College
Johnson
From there, he’d need a run
of victories in states now viewed
In short, that means Clinton
doesn’t need to win a state now
rated as a toss-up to win the
White House.
Trump needs to win them all
— and then go on to pick off
some states that are now in Clin-
ton’s column.
Impossible, it’s not. The ef-
fects of the FBI Director James
Comey’s Friday letter to Con-
gress, informing lawmakers of
developments possibly related
to the Clinton email case, may
not be known until Election Day
itself.
as a toss-up.
Among them, North Caroli-
na has received as much atten-
tion from both campaigns as any
— traditional battlegrounds
Florida and Ohio included. For
good reason: GOP nominee
Mitt Romney won the state in
2012, after President Barack
Obama’s historic win there in
2008.
But after trailing in mail bal-
lots, Democrats surged ahead of
Republicans in ballots cast after
the start of in-person early vot-
ing last week. Meanwhile, a new
NBC News /Wall Street Journal
poll gives Clinton a 6-point edge
in the state.
But perhaps the most sur-
prising development has been
Trump leapt on the news this
weekend, but so, too, did Clin-
ton, casting Comey’s decision to
act so close to Nov. 8 as “deeply
troubling” as she sought to rally
Democratic voters.
ally.
■ A single tax: Johnson advocates a single, simple consumption tax of
the sort that most other industrialized nations use. This would replace the
progressive federal income tax as well as the complex corporate tax code.
Simple person’ turned anti-Trump symbol
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Evan McMullin, independent
Independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin casts himself as the
only ‘true conservative' in the race and an alternative for voters wary of
Republican Donald Trump.
A look some of his policies:
■ Rebuild military, bolster national security: McMullin says the U.S.
needs to rebuild the military by spending more to train and outfit soldiers
and add troops. He also says the Pentagon needs to be more accountable
for taxpayer money.
■ U.S. as global peacekeeper: McMullin calls for the U.S. to speak out
against dictatorship and stand up for human rights. He favors tougher
sanctions on Russia, punishment for Iran if it violates the nuclear deal and
support for Israel.
■ Economic growth recipe: McMullin proposes cutting tax rates for
small businesses to 25 percent of profits, down from about 40 percent
now. He wants income tax rates lowered to help the middle class.
■ Protect religious freedom: McMullin says the United States must
defend the right for people to practice their faith, and he recognize that
religious diversity is a strength of the country.
Former CIA agent
McMullin makes
inroads in Utah
By Brady McCombs
Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY - For-
mer CIA agent Evan McMullin
has quickly evolved from a polit-
ical unknown to a legitimate
threat to become the first inde-
pendent candidate in nearly half
a century to win electoral votes
in a presidential election.
The presidency itself is out of
his reach because McMullin is
only on the ballot in 11 states. But
he could poach enough conser-
vative votes in Utah to squeeze
past Republican Donald Trump
and Democrat Hillary Clinton
and become the first non-GOP
candidate to win the mostly
Mormon state since 1964. That
would be a particular blow to
Trump.
McMullin, 40 and a Mormon,
has been embraced by many Re-
publican-leaning voters who are
steeped in Utah’s culture of cour-
tesy and fed up with Trump’s
crudeness and antics.
So who is this guy?
McMullin recounts his life
story at his rallies in Utah, Ida-
ho, Wyoming and other West-
ern states. In a school gymnasi-
um in a Salt Lake City suburb,
he told people he’s a “simple per-
son nobody knew of” who had a
paltry 131 Twitter followers when
Independent
presidential
candidate
Evan McMul-
lin speaks
during a rally
Oct. 21 in
Draper, Utah.
Jill Stein, Green Party
Jill Stein says America is running out of time. Out of
time to avert a climate disaster, to alleviate millions of
people from crushing student debt, to end conflicts she
says are leading the United States toward nuclear war.
The 66-year-old Massachusetts doctor and Green Party
presidential candidate is offering an aggressive set of
policy prescriptions in her longshot bid.
A look at Stein's top issues.
■ Clean energy revolution: Stein's platform
centers on an ambitious “Green New Deal” that would
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AP file photo
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for U.S. House Republicans when
he watched with amazement as
Trump won the GOP nomination
and no other conservative
jumped in the race. By late sum-
mer, McMullin decided to try to
give conservative voters an alter-
native to Trump and Clinton.
He criticizes the GOP estab-
chance” of being president.
That argument — that a vote
for McMullin will help Clinton
win — is heard often from those
supporting Trump. U.S. Rep.
Chris Stewart of Utah said last
week he’ll vote for the GOP
nominee because supporting a
third-party candidate would
boost Clinton.
McMullin counters that a vote
for him would not only help him
win Utah, but it also would kick-
start a compassionate conserva-
tive movement, open to all races
and religions, around the country.
“No matter what happens on
Nov. 8, if we can send a strong
message from Utah and the
broader Mountain West, it will
change the discussion in Wash-
ington and across this country,”
he said.
he started his campaign. He
now has 84,000-plus.
Bom in Provo, the heartland
of Mormon country, McMullin
spent his childhood in a rural ar-
ea of Washington outside Seat-
tle. He did a two-year Mormon
mission in Brazil, then returned
to Utah to earn a degree in in-
ternational law and diplomacy
at the Mormon church-owned
Brigham Young University.
He spent 11 years in the CIA
doing counterterrorism work
before leaving the agency to get a
master’s in business administra-
tion from the Wharton School of
Business and have a brief stint in
investment banking. He became
a national security adviser for
the U.S. House Foreign Affairs
Committee.
He was chief policy director
Stein
push the U.S. toward using only renewable energy —
wind, water and solar — by 2030. Stein's called climate change a threat
greater than World War II, and she's seeking a wartime mobilization to
tackle it.
Stein pledges to create 20 million jobs, mainly in public transportation,
sustainable agriculture and conservation.
■ No student debt: On student debt, Stein offers a far more radical
vision than Democrat Hillary Clinton, who would make tuition free at
in-state public colleges for many students. Stein would wipe out student
debt. Stein also pledges to make public college tuition-free.
■ Health care for all: Stein advocates a “Medicare-for-all” govern-
ment-paid health care system. That would mean no co-pays, premiums
or deductibles, and mental health, dental and vision care would be
included. She'd also push to make Americans healthier by spending on
clean energy and food. She favors mandatory genetically modified
organism labeling.
■ Peace not war: Consider Stein a pacifist. She advocates a foreign
policy based on a “peace offensive,” meaning more attention to interna-
tional law, human rights, diplomacy and nonviolence. She proposes chop-
ping military spending by half and closing more than 700 foreign military
bases.
lishment for not standing up to
Trump early on and often takes
indirect jabs at the candidate.
“A real conservative, when
they see somebody else being at-
tacked for their religion or be-
cause of their race, a real conser-
vative will stand up and protect
other people,” McMullin said re-
cently.
Trump’s running mate,
Mike Pence, tells people in
Utah there are only two candi-
dates on the ballot with “any
— The Associated Press
ister box. If they can prove they
tried, their votes may, in the end,
count, Pierce said.
But according to the lawsuit,
many who found themselves in
this situation learned their pro-
visional ballots were not count-
rate from your driver’s license
application. Don’t trust the sys-
tem. Verify.
There are two ways to check
whether your registration is val-
id before you vote. Go to the Tex-
as secretary of state’s website
and look for “Am I Registered to
Vote?” Enter your information
and, voila. You can also visit your
county voter registration web-
site or call them and check the
same way.
It’s too late to register for this
election. But if you find you’re
not registered, make your case
and seek a provisional ballot. It’s
not pretty, but it’s the best that
Texas, Texas, Texas has to offer.
For now.
Dallas Morning News staff
writer Marina Trahan Marti-
nez contributed to this report.
tion involving their driver’s li-
cense, they must be given an op-
portunity to register to vote.
Texas does that; it just doesn’t
follow through the way most
other states do. And this has
been going on for years.
DPS and the Texas attorney
general’s office, which is defend-
ing against the lawsuit, declined
to talk to me because the case is
pending. In the secretary of
state’s office, spokeswoman Ali-
cia Pierce said DPS employees
are in place to research whether
driver’s license applicants prop-
erly checked the registration
box.
During this year’s primary
season, 4,000 Texas wannabe
voters fell into this rabbit hole,
the secretary of state’s office re-
ports. Because of the verification
setup, some of their votes were
later allowed.
‘A voter contacted us on
Twitter,” Pierce said. “We were
able to find the original applica-
tion where he checked the box.
He was able to vote.”
If you moved recently, dou-
ble-check your voter registration.
If you moved within a county,
you must change your address
through your county’s voter reg-
istration office so that the ad-
dress matches your driver’s li-
cense.
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voter restrictions.”
The DPS check-off box, Cas-
tro wrote, is guilty of “fooling
people into thinking they have
registered to vote.... They think
their voter registration is auto-
matic and it is not.”
I won’t go so far as to out-
and-out call this voter suppres-
sion on the part of DPS and the
secretary of state. That’s a very
loaded term, especially in today’s
political environment. But the
lawsuit essentially calls it that.
Voter suppression, as you
know, is a strategy designed to
keep certain groups from voting.
In this case, the situation ap-
ed.
The lawsuit is not asking for
monetary damages; it seeks a
fairer system that allows people
to easily register to vote.
North Texans are among
those suing the state. Benjamin
Hernandez moved to Dallas
County in 2013. In the next
year’s election, his ballot didn’t
count. Jarrod Stringer moved to
Tarrant County from Bexar
County and lost his right to vote.
Totysa Watkins moved to Den-
ton County and lost her registra-
tion, too.
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pears to be non-discriminatory.
Everyone has the potential to be
hurt because almost everyone
applies for a driver’s license.
The federal motor voter reg-
istration law stipulates that ev-
ery time someone has a transac-
Those applicants can file a
provisional ballot, and when the
election is over, website records
will be checked to see whether
they marked the I-want-to-reg-
If you moved from one coun-
ty to another or from out of state,
you must register again, sepa-
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shooting wife is arrested
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Board takes back parole
for man in baby’s death
After granting parole to a
man who pleaded guilty to caus-
ing the death of his 1-month-old
son, the Texas Board of Pardons
and Paroles reversed its decision.
The board approved John
Paul Webb, 41, for release on
Sept. 27, but reversed course Fri-
day. Webb pleaded guilty in 2013
to a charge of serious bodily in-
jury to a child in the 2010 death
of his son, Christian. He received
a 20-year sentence.
Parker County Assistant Dis-
trict Attorney Jeff Swain said Fri-
day that Webb will remain in
prison until at least October 2017.
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