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President Barack Obama addresses the International Chiefs of Police (IACP) annual conference at McCormick Place on October 27, 2015 in Chicago, Illinois. The event is the largest gathering of law enforcement leaders in the world.

Obama: America Going Through ‘Spasm of Fear’

“We’re going through a spasm of fear.” Obama says, referring to the emergence of “far-right parties” in Europe and America. Obama made his remarks in a conversation with writer Marilynne Robinson published by the New York Review of Books.

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Obama Complains About Decentralized New Media

“You can argue that that’s part of the reason why our politics has gotten so polarized, is that—when I was growing up, if the president spoke to the country, there were three stations and every city had its own newspaper and they were going to cover that story,” President Obama says. “And that would last for a couple of weeks, people talking about what the president had talked about.”

Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson greets supporters after delivering brief remarks at the King Street Retail Walk October 16, 2015 in Alexandria, Virginia. Carson discussed threats facing the United States during his remarks.

Des Moines Register Poll: Ben Carson Leads Big Against Donald Trump

Ben Carson is now leading national frontrunner Donald Trump by nine points in Iowa with 28 percent of the vote, according to the Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Politics Iowa Poll released this morning. That’s up 10 points from the same poll conducted in August. Trump comes in second with 19 percent, while Sen. Ted Cruz gets third place with 10 percent support.