Public Opinion: The majority of Americans are feeling frustrated, helpless, and angry about the presidential election, according to a poll by the Associated Press and the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago.

Seventy percent say they are frustrated, 55 percent helpless, and 52 percent angry. Sixty-five percent say they are “interested” in the election, but that can go hand in hand with frustrated, helpless, and angry.

Inside Baseball: Bernie Sanders is already taking his fight to the Democratic convention, hoping for influence even if he doesn’t win the nomination. The Sanders campaign is demanding that the Democratic National Committee remove two Hillary Clinton allies from powerful convention jobs.

The Sanders people yesterday called for the removal of Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy, co-chairman of the platform committee, and former Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank, who leads the rules committee.

A letter from the Sanders campaign to the DNC says Governor Malloy and Mr. Frank acted as “aggressive attack surrogates” for Clinton and, “Their criticisms of Sen. Sanders have gone beyond dispassionate ideological disagreement and have exposed a deeper professional, political and personal hostility toward the senator and his campaign.”

The Kimchi Kaper: Someone with tech savvy recently scooped $81 million out of Bangladesh’s central bank and the security company Symantec says they know who it is. The code footprints left by the Bangladesh bank hackers partly match the code left behind by the hackers who embarrassed Sony Pictures back in 2014. Symantec says it’s North Korea.

Symantec researchers wrote on a blog post that the Bangladesh heist was associated with a group known as “Lazarus.” They say, “The group was linked to Backdoor.Destroyer, a highly destructive Trojan that was the subject of an FBI warning after it was used in an attack against Sony Pictures Entertainment.” The FBI pinned the Sony Hack on North Korea, largely because the Hermit Kingdom was upset about the sophomoric movie “The Interview,” about a plot to kill the dictator Kim Jong-un.

The Migration Crisis: As many as 700 immigrants are believed to have died in the Mediterranean this week in the sinking of several overloaded boats. The Italian navy took video of one ship that rolled over as hundreds of migrants rushed to the rail on one side. As many as 550 people are believed drowned in the capsizing of another ship.

Hoop Dreams: The Golden State Warriors squeaked by the Oklahoma City Thunder 108-101 last night to stay alive in the NBA Western Conference finals. Klay Thompson, who lives in the shadow of Stephen Curry, scored 41 points to force the series into a 7^th game.

Dilbert for President: The cartoonist Scott Adams, who draws the strip about the cubicle-bound office worker Dilbert, says he thinks Donald Trump is a master of psychology and will be elected president. Adams gives the reasons on his blog.

1. Trump knows people are basically irrational.

“If you see voters as rational you’ll be a terrible politician.”

2. Knowing people are irrational, Trump appeals to emotion.

“People vote based on emotion. Period.”

3. By running on emotion, facts don’t matter.

“There are plenty of important facts Trump does not know. But the reason he doesn’t know those facts is – in part – because he knows facts don’t matter. They never have and they never will. So he ignores them.”

4. If facts don’t matter, you can’t be “wrong.”

“If you understand persuasion, Trump is pitch-perfect most of the time. He ignores unnecessary rational thought and objective data and incessantly hammers on what matters (emotions).”

5. With fewer facts in play, it’s easier to bend reality.
6. To bend reality, Trump is a master of identity politics; the strongest persuader.

Adams writes, “Trump is well on his way to owning the identities of American, Alpha Males, and Women Who Like Alpha Males. Clinton is well on her way to owning the identities of angry women, beta males, immigrants, and disenfranchised minorities.

If this were poker, which hand looks stronger to you for a national election?”

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