Oh, the polls.

Donald Trump tops a new poll of candidates Americans think are most likely to say something inappropriate during Thanksgiving and ruin the meal.

The survey from the left-leaning Public Policy Polling finds that 46 percent of Americans think Trump would say something to kill the mood surrounding the turkey feasting.

I dunno where people get that idea.

Dana Milbank said about the best thing I’ve read about the Donald Trump takeover of the GOP.

Republican elites are panicky about the durable dominance of Trump (and to a lesser extent Ben Carson) in the presidential race. They are right to worry, but I don’t feel much sympathy. Trump is a problem of their own creation.

Trump gets ever more base in his bigotry — and yet, with few and intermittent exceptions, rival candidates, party leaders and GOP lawmakers decline to call him out. So he continues to rise, benefiting from tacit acceptance of his intolerance.

The GOP created him and now the things they used to say only behind closed doors of the board room or on the golf course are being yelled through a bullhorn.

To my ears it sounds like a teaspoon in the garbage disposal but Republicans think it’s a sweet melody.

America.

I think this is the deal:  You can be wildly racist or you can spell. Apparently you cannot do both.

Thanks to Willie for the heads up.

Donald Trump has repeatedly put this untrue and totally false and completely racist graphic on Twitter.

Little Green Footballs went to work to see if they could find where the hell Trump got that graphic.  You see, the Crime Statistic Bureau in San Francisco doesn’t exist.

It took some major detective work, but here’s where Trump got it.

“We should have listened to the Austrian Chap with the little mustache.”

Yeah, that’s where Donald Trump got his graphic.  It’s a source he trusts.

Here’s the real numbers from the FBI.

He’s so easily duped.

Thanks to Don A. and Deb for the first heads up.

Donald Trump has turned his attention to Hillary Clinton.  His complaint about her?  She’s low energy.

Donald J. Trump has, over the last few days, been road-testing a new criticism of Hillary Rodham Clinton — that she is too low-energy to be president.

After using that line of argument to great effect throughout the year against Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida, Mr. Trump has begun to question whether Mrs. Clinton has the “stamina” to be president.

Did he not see the Benghazi hearings?

If Donald Trump is high energy then there’s a real fine line between high energy and raving maniac.

Okay, I know I promised that all of you who donated to the Texas Ballot by Mail program that I would send you an email thanking you.

Well, my Momma raised me better than that and Lord knows she reminded me of it, too.  All of you got thank you notes.  And there’s a lot of you.  Momma is horrified but I used mail labels on the envelopes.  However, the notes are handwritten.

I mailed them as I finished writing them and I’m still working at it so if you haven’t gotten your note yet, just hold on.  It’s coming.

All totaled there was about 125 of you.  I am honored to call you friend.

We raised enough to cover more counties than ever before.  With those who sent checks, you guys raised about $7,500 to insure that seniors in Texas get ballot by mail applications That’s good for the entire year.

Thank you again.