Check Your Watch: Daylight Savings ended at 2 am. No matter what time you think it is, you’re probably wrong by an hour. If you only use a smartphone to tell time, OK, fine, it knows the real time, but a good watch is a nice thing.

Trending Blue: Registered voters prefer Democratic candidates for the House over Republican candidates by 50 percent to 43 percent, according to a new Washington Post-ABC Newspoll. What that means is that Democrats are likely to take control of the house, but you can’t translate an overall national poll into a prediction of district by district voting.

A president with an approval rating as low as Trump’s usually loses a lot of House seats in the midterms, but as we have previously said, the laws of gravity don’t always apply to Trump.

The Trumpster Fire: As America heads to the polls this Tuesday in what amounts to a referendum on the Trump presidency,it’s hard to avoid him.

The President has been stumping in Trump country to turn out the Republican vote, but what does he do when he’s in the office?

Typically the President doesn’t appear in the office before about 11, according to a schedule of the week of Oct. 22 obtained by Politico. This past week Politicolooked at President Trump’s schedule and determined that some weeks he barely works at all.

On Tuesday, Oct. 23, Trump had nine hours of what the White House calls “executive time,” which Politico describes as “a euphemism for the unstructured time Trump spends tweeting, phoning friends and watching television.” His first scheduled commitment that day was an 11:30 meeting with Chief of Staff John Kelly.

That week Trump spent just two hours on policy meetings and took his daily briefing only two of the five days.

Meanwhile Trump’s former lawyer/fixer Michael Cohen, who once said he’d take a bullet for Trump, has become a Democrat and taken a hard turn against his former client. Cohen told Vanity fair that the President is an abject racist.

Cohen told the magazine that Trump once said that, “black people are too stupid to vote” for him and challenged Cohen to name “one country run by a black person that’s not a shithole”.

Heckled in America:As security escorted out a fifth heckler during his speech in Miami on Friday, former President Barack Obama wondered out loud, “Why is it that the folks that won the last election are so mad all the time?”

Obama has been campaigning for Democratic candidates. He went on,  “It’s an  interesting question. I mean . . . when I won the presidency, at least my side felt pretty good. I don’t know why . . . it tells you something interesting, that even the folks who are in charge are still mad, because they’re getting ginned up to be mad.”

Speaking about President Trump’s politics of fear, fear of immigration and fear of crime, Obama said, “It’s like the con where a door-to-door salesman says you need a security system while his buddy sneaks in the back and steals your stuff.”

Exactly:A federal judge in Georgia has ruled that the state my not enforce its “exact match” law for voter qualification in Tuesday’s election. The ruling will allow at least 3,000 people to vote.

The state’s election law says that a voter’s registration must match exactly with the information on other government documents. So if a voter is “John” on his driver’s license and “Jon” on his voter registration, he can’t vote unless he provides proof of citizenship on election day to a deputy registrar who could take hours to track down.

The judge ruled that the law appeared to unfairly affect minorities.

Voter registrations in Georgia are controlled by Secretary of State Brian Kemp, the Republican candidate for governor, who has been purging the rolls in the name of fighting voter fraud.

Campaigning in Georgia for Kemp’s opponent, Stacey Abrams, a black woman, Oprah Winfrey said, “For anybody here who has an ancestor who didn’t have the right to vote and you are choosing not to vote wherever you are in this state, in this country, you are dishonoring your family.”

Borderline:Civilian militia groups are cleaning their rifles and preparing to head to the southern border to meet migrant caravans, The Washington Postreports. A leader of the Texas Minutemen says as many as 100 volunteers are heading to the border.

President Trump’s description of the caravans as an “invasion” is being taken literally. This past week solders strung barbed wire along the banks of the Rio Grande.

Trump told a rally crowd in Montana, “I saw that beautiful barbed wire going up. Beautiful sight.”

Dry Land:A British man who entered the water June 1^stto swim around Great Britain has finished his 1,780-mile quest. He’s the first person to do it. Ross Edgley, 33,never set foot on land the entire time, swimming up to 12 hours a day. Sometimes when he was swimming with the tide he was moving at 8.7 knots. He ate 500 bananas. Edgley said he’s “not quite bored of swimming.”

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