<div dir="ltr"><div><a>For this Sunday, October 9, the Today's Issues discussion group will discuss</a></div><div><a><br></a></div><div><a>1.  Election polling and the current elections. </a></div>A reading from Wired Magazine is attached: "<a href="https://www.wired.com/2016/06/civis-election-polling-clinton-sanders-trump/" target="_blank">The Polls Are All Wrong. A Startup Called Civis Is Our Best Hope to Fix Them</a>" by Garrett Graff.  It can also be found at the link  <div><br><div><div>In addition, the following web sites are of interest:</div><div><a href="http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/">fivethirtyeight election forecast</a> </div><div><a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/elections/">realclearpolitics election poll report</a></div><div><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/upshot/presidential-polls-forecast.html?_r=0">The Upshot New York election forecast</a></div><div><br></div><div><font color="#1155cc"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/02/donald-trump-voters-ohio-pennsylvania-west-virginia-appalachia?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+USA+-+morning+briefing+2016&utm_term=193179&subid=9777652&CMP=ema_a-morning-briefing_b-morning-briefing_c-US_d-1" target="_blank">Story about Trump Support in rural Appalachia</a>.  <br></font><div><br></div><div>2.  The <a href="http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/09/29/hobbes-spinoza-locke-leibniz-hume-wrestled-new/">Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy, book by Anthony Gottlieb</a>, review by Thomas Nagel.  Copy attached.</div></div></div><div>Also available at the NYR link. In the New York Review for September 29.</div></div></div>