"METHODOLOGY - This ABC News poll was conducted by landline and cellular telephone Oct. 20-22, 2016, in English and Spanish, among a random national sample of 874 likely voters. Results have a margin of sampling error of 3.5 points, including the design effect. Partisan divisions are 36-27-31 percent, Democrats - Republicans - Independents."Of course, while democrats may enjoy a slight registration advantage of a couple of points, it is nowhere near the 9 points reflected in this latest poll.
Wallonia is not going to be pressured into agreeing the EU-Canada trade deal according to the leader of the French-speaking Belgian region Paul Magnette. The EU has given Belgium an ultimatum to end its objection to the agreement by Monday.
"Every time you try to put an ultimatum it makes a calm debate and a democratic debate impossible," Magnette said at a meeting in Brussels.
"We don't need an ultimatum," he told reporters. "We will not decide anything under an ultimatum or under pressure."
On Sunday the leader of the Wallonia region told the Belga news agency the ultimatum from the EU "is not compatible with the exercise of democratic rights."
"We are not against a treaty with Canada," Magnette said. "But we won't have one that jeopardizes social and environmental standards and the protection of public services and we want absolutely no private arbitration mechanisms."
Magnette was referring to an introduction of a secret corporate court system, empowering big business to sue states for policies that threaten their profits.
Belgium has been given until Monday to resolve an internal disagreement holding back the CETA trade deal with Canada. The pact needs the backing of all 28 EU countries to be passed. Belgium cannot sign without Walloon support.
The EU has warned that unless Belgium makes its position clear, it will cancel this week's EU-Canada summit. Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel is expected to make a speech on Monday, an EU source told Reuters.
Iraqi officials said on Sunday they don't want to see a reduction in the country's current production of 4.774 million barrels per day (bpd), and exports of 3.87 million bpd.
"We are not going back in any way, not by OPEC not by anybody else," said Falah al-Amri, the head of Iraq's state oil marketing company.
As of 8:30am GMT, the North Sea benchmark Brent was trading at $51.94 per barrel, while US West Texas Intermediate was at $50.93.
"Comments by Iraq over the weekend that it may not join the OPEC agreement to cut production could see oil prices come under pressure in today's session," ANZ bank said on Monday.
A form of fascism has already taken hold in two nations on the edges of the European Union, Hungary and Poland. Far-right parties, reacting to the flood of more than a million migrants that descended on Europe last year, are gaining ground in France, Austria, Sweden, Germany and Greece. Nationalism, buttressed by a deification of the military, will be used to compensate for individual powerlessness and a loss of national identity.
Comment: Check out parts 1 and 2 here: 'Conflict engagement': How Democrat Strategists Plotted to Incite Violence at Trump Rallies. And SOTT's follow-ups:
- SOTT Exclusive: Newsflash! Candidates Should Not Concede Stolen Elections
- Clinton Campaign, White House Squirm after Project Veritas Exposes DNC Dirty Tricks
Democrats are still squirming. First up Al Sharpton comes across as woefully misinformed, or willfully misinforming:Clinton strategist Joel Benenson flails just as miserably:
But even CNN couldn't ignore the actual evidence (O'Keefe's credibility notwithstanding):