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Bill Clinton’s rogue diplomacy
His quiet efforts against the Iraq War in 2003
broke with an ex-president’s usual role. A28
BY DAN BALZ
AND SCOTT CLEMENT
With nine weeks until Election
Day, Donald Trump is within
striking distance in the Upper
Midwest, but Hillary Clinton’s
strength in many battlegrounds
and some traditional Republican
strongholds gives her a big elec-
toral college advantage, accord-
ing to a 50-state Washington
Post-SurveyMonkey poll.
The survey of all 50 states is
the largest sample ever undertak-
en by The Post, which joined with
SurveyMonkey and its online
polling resources to produce the
results. The state-by-state num-
bers are based on responses from
more than 74,000 registered vot-
ers during the period of Aug. 9 to
Sept. 1. The individual state sam-
ples vary in size from about 550
to more than 5,000, allowing
greater opportunities than typi-
cal surveys to look at different
groups within the population
and compare them from state to
state.
The massive survey highlights
a critical weakness in Trump’s
candidacy — an unprecedented
deficit for a Republican among
college-educated white voters, es-
pecially women. White college
graduates have been loyal Repub-
lican voters in recent elections,
but Trump is behind Clinton with
this group across much of the
country, including in some solid-
ly red states.
The 50-state findings come at a
time when the average national
margin between Clinton and
Trump has narrowed. What once
was a Clinton lead nationally of
eight to 10 points shortly after the
party conventions ended a month
ago is now about four points,
according to the RealClearPoli-
tics polling average. A number of
battleground states also have
tightened, according to surveys
released from other organiza-
tions in recent days.
The Post-SurveyMonkey re-
sults are consistent with many of
those findings, but not in all
cases. Trump’s support in the
POLL CONTINUED ON A26
How each state polled, in electoral votes
Fla.Fla.
Ga.Ga.
S.C.S.C.
N.C.N.C.
Va.Va.
Pa.Pa.
N.Y.N.Y.
N.J.N.J.
Conn.Conn.
R.I.R.I.
Mass.Mass.
Vt.Vt.
N.H.N.H.
Md.Md. Del.Del.
MaineMaine
Ala.Ala.
Tenn.Tenn.
Ky.Ky.
OhioOhio
Mich.Mich.
Wis.Wis.
Minn.Minn.
W.Va.W.Va.
Miss.Miss.
Ark.Ark.
Mo.Mo.
IowaIowa
Ill.Ill. Ind.Ind.
La.La.
Tex.Tex.
Okla.Okla.
Kan.Kan.
Neb.Neb.
S.D.S.D.
N.D.N.D.Mont.Mont.
Wyo.Wyo.
Colo.Colo.
N.M.N.M.
Ariz.Ariz.
UtahUtah
IdahoIdaho
Wash.Wash.
Ore.Ore.
Nev.Nev.
Calif.Calif.
AlaskaAlaska
HawaiiHawaii
SOLID OR
LEANING CLINTON
244244
SOLID OR
LEANING TRUMP
126126
TOSSUPS
168168270 to win
10 states,
168 elec. votes
6 states,
57 elec. votes
14 states and D.C.,
187 elec. votes
3 states,
18 elec. votes
17 states,
108 elec. votes
BY MARK GUARINO
AND MARK BERMAN
chicago — This city’s grim mur-
der statistics continued to mount
over the long holiday weekend,
despite a few dozen civic block
parties in besieged neighbor-
hoods organized by residents
alarmed at talk of a police slow-
down.
By Monday night, in a surge of
violence, the country’s third-
largest city had recorded more
homicides this year than New
York and Los Angeles combined.
Thirteen people were fatally shot
over the long weekend, police
said, pushing the year’s homicide
count to 488, already surpassing
the481talliedlastyear.Theoldest
victim was an 80-year-old pastor
found shot in the face on the
porch of a senior home where he
lived, according to news reports,
and more than 60 were injured,
including a pregnant woman
whose baby was delivered at the
hospital.
EddieJohnson,theChicagopo-
lice superintendent, said the vio-
lence was due to repeat offenders
in “impoverished” neighbor-
hoods utilizing what he described
as an absurd proliferation of guns
on the streets.
“It’s not a police issue,” John-
son said at a news briefing Tues-
day. “It’s a society issue . . . people
without hope do these kinds of
things.”
It has also become a campaign
issue, with Republican presiden-
tial nominee Donald Trump re-
peatedly invoking the homicide
rate as evidence that Democrats
have failed African Americans liv-
ing in inner cities.
The city has had nearly 500
homicides this year, amid persis-
tent deteriorating relationships
between police and citizens since
last year’s release of a video that
showed a white officer shooting a
black teenager 16 times. The offi-
cer was charged with murder, and
a Justice Department civil rights
CHICAGO CONTINUED ON A4
Clinton has edge in 50-state poll
CAMPAIGN 2016
Chicago’s
homicides
already top
2015 count
Police superintendent
blames proliferation
of guns on streets
BY PAUL FARHI
It took years for Roger Ailes to
build Fox News Channel into the
dominant player in cable news.
It’s taken just two months for its
future to become uncertain.
The network took twin public-
relations blows on Tuesday, cul-
minating a summer of turbu-
lence. Fox’s parent company, 21st
Century Fox, agreed to pay
$20 million to former Fox host
Gretchen Carlson to settle her
sexual-harassment claims against
Ailes, the network founder and
former GOP strategist who was
ousted in July amid widespread
allegations of unsavory behavior.
The payment, which was accom-
panied by a public apology by the
company to Carlson, is apparently
unprecedented in size for an indi-
vidual sexual-harassment case.
Meanwhile, another Fox host,
Greta Van Susteren, abruptly quit
the network on Tuesday. She
didn’t cite a specific reason, but
she took advantage of a contract
clause enabling her to leave fol-
lowing the departure of her pa-
tron, Ailes. A person with knowl-
edge of the matter said Van Sus-
teren left because of disagree-
ments over contract terms.
The events have cast a shadow
over Fox, which Ailes turned into
a potent force in GOP politics and
a wildly profitable arm of Rupert
Murdoch’s media empire since its
founding in 1996. Ailes’s success
lay in countering other media
outlets’ allegedly liberal reporting
and commentary by giving star-
ring roles to a series of pugna-
cious and generally conservative
personalities.
The loss of Van Susteren, who
occupied the 7 p.m. weeknight
slot on Fox, highlighted Fox’s vul-
nerability to the departure of its
FOX NEWS CONTINUED ON A4
At Fox, double dose of bad news and a hazy future
BY JESSICA CONTRERA
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he crunched the cookies in her mouth,
carefully mashing them into chunks.
She spit. They made a plunk sound as
they hit the toilet water. The worst, the
absolute worst thing had happened, and now,
Maureen was sure, this was her only option.
“Moommm,” she called down the stairs. “I
puked!”
She could not show her face in the seventh
grade. She had to play sick. All day, she lay
crumpled on the couch, replaying what he’d
said to persuade her.
You’re so beautiful.
Don’t be ashamed of your body.
I won’t show anyone.
Then, last night, when he admitted he’d
shown the photo to a few people:
“Don’t even come to my funeral,” she texted
him.
I’ll piss on your grave, b­­­­.
At least she had been wearing a bra and
underwear. The camera flash reflected in the
mirror had hidden her face, hadn’t it?
But he knew. And by the end of the day,
everyone else would, too.
It would be months before she would learn
SEXTING CONTINUED ON A14
THE SCREEN AGE
And everyone saw it
A seventh-grader’s sext was meant to impress a boy. He shared it. It nearly destroyed her.
BONNIE JO MOUNT/THE WASHINGTON POST
Maureen, 15, plays Minecraft in her bedroom in Auburn, Mass., last month. She has built a
community of friends through the video game and has thousands of followers.
BY ROBERT BARNES
A coalition of civil rights
groups, Democratic lawyers and
the Obama administration has
scored significant victories in
overturning strict voting laws,
highlighting how the death of
Justice Antonin Scalia has re-
moved the Supreme Court as a
crucial conservative backstop for
such measures.
As the presidential election
approaches, the challengers have
rung up wins against their two
top targets. Texas and North
Carolina are now under judicial
order to shelve comprehensive
voting laws, passed by Republi-
can legislators, that appeals
courts said discriminated
against African Americans and
Hispanics. In Wisconsin, mean-
while, a federal judge has begun
overseeing efforts to make it
easier for those lacking the
state’s required ID to cast ballots.
With the Supreme Court at an
ideological impasse and Senate
Republicans refusing to allow
hearings for President Obama’s
nominee to the court, Merrick
Garland, the final state rules for
elections throughout the country
are likely to be set in a variety of
decisions by state courts and
lower-level federal judges.
“We’ll be in hand-to-hand
combat the rest of the way,” said
Marc E. Elias, a Washington
lawyer who has filed many of the
suits challenging the laws and
whose firm represents Demo-
cratic presidential nominee Hil-
lary Clinton and a host of party
officeholders and committees.
While state officials have suf-
fered legal setbacks in North
Carolina, Texas and Wisconsin —
where federal courts restored
some early-voting opportunities,
seen as beneficial to African
Americans — only North Caro-
COURT CONTINUED ON A11
Split on Supreme Court aids
challenges to voter-ID laws
MIDWEST OFFERS
TRUMP HOPE
Dead heat in Texas is
survey’s biggest surprise
Conservatives no longer
have the backstop they
once counted on in Scalia
$20 million settlement,
host’s abrupt exit fuel
talk of more departures
Campaign 2016
A sweeping look at the race
in its closing weeks A21-28
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What might make Donald Trump apologize?
Asked about any outrageous claim he’s made,
Trump is likely to avoid discussing it. A28
Clinton seizes on Trump’s 2013 donation
“The list goes on and on: the scams, the
frauds,” the Democrat said of her GOP rival. A2