SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:51 P.M. ET: 

VULGAR HILLARY – FROM THE HILL:   Hillary Clinton divided Donald Trump supporters into two categories at a fundraiser Friday night and said one group falls into a "basket of deplorables."  Clinton spoke at an LGBT-focused fundraiser for her campaign in New York hosted by Barbara Streisand and evaluated the people who have propelled Trump's unorthodox campaign, according to reporters on the scene.   "You know, just to be grossly generalist, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables," Clinton said, according to BuzzFeed News. "The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic — you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up."  Clinton said the other half are people struggling who have found hope in Trump's message.  That is absolutely vulgar – modern McCarthyism at its worst.  Even some Democrats are warning that the party is going too far in its labeling of opposing candidates.  But the left doesn't care.

TRUMP HELPED BY REGISTRATION – FROM FOX:    Republicans are outpacing Democrats in registering new voters in key states.  A review of registration figures shows that in the swing states that sign up voters by party, Republicans are seeing a significantly bigger boost since 2012. In states like Florida and Pennsylvania, the party has added tens of thousands of voters to the rolls at a time when Democrats have seen their base shrink.  “The numbers [in those states] … are a huge shift from what we’ve seen in 2012,” Republican National Committee spokeswoman Lindsay Walters said.  The surge doesn’t change the fact that Clinton leads, if only by a thin margin, in most battleground state polls, which presumably reflect the current voter make-up.  Bottom line, this election may well be won by the candidate the voters see as least obnoxious.

MAJOR ENDORSEMENT NEWS – It is announced that Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks, is endorsing Hillary Clinton for president.  "I think it's obvious Hillary Clinton needs to be the next president," Schultz said to CNN.  The key question, being considered by pundits everywhere, is how this will affect the overpriced-coffee vote.  That vote is normally divided between the decaffeinated and the regular coffee crowd.  The decafs are a force in New York, Washington and Hollywood, where control of nerves is a priority.  The regulars are in the real places, where people can control themselves without special coffee.  There have been no polls taken of these factions.

September 9, 2016