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It’s hard to tell from exit polling what the whole story is behind Donald Trump’s win—we won’t have better data for months—but signs point to a substantial shift rightward among Latino and Black men, scrambling Democrats’ ideas of who was reliably in their voting bloc.

From Slate

It was hard to tell from Burr’s monologue, which started with a story about getting the flu with a thrown-in ethnic slur: “You’re trying to figure out who gave it to you. You’re going through this Rolodex of people that coughed on you, sniffed near you, walked by an Asian or something.”

“You could tell from how she sounded it was a life-threatening situation,” remembers Jason.

From BBC

And she’s a beautiful person too, as you could tell from her acceptance speech, which managed to be both sincere and sharp in a mere minute.

Since the BBC is a public service broadcaster, it is beholden to impartiality guidelines which state in part that “Our audiences should not be able to tell from BBC output the personal opinions of our journalists or news and current affairs presenters on matters of public policy, political or industrial controversy, or on ‘controversial subjects’ in any other area.”

From Salon

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