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Can Trump Win with New Voters?
Post Date: 2015-12-20 05:59:24 by Tooconservative
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Can Trump Win with New Voters? If he can attract additional participants to the caucuses and polls, he will be hard to beat. David Plouffe tells a great story in his book about the 2008 Obama campaign, The Audacity to Win. Team Obama knew that if there was a typical turnout among Democrats on Iowa’s caucus night, they could not beat Hillary Clinton. Their only chance was to identify voters who did not typically participate in caucuses and persuade them to attend. On caucus night, Team Obama took one look at the turnout across the state and knew they had won even before the final results were even tallied. Nearly 239,000 people voted that night, about double the historic Democratic ...
Movement to Primary Speaker Paul Ryan Out of Congress Picks Up Steam
Post Date: 2015-12-19 23:12:40 by Stoner
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We Were Warned– Harry Reid threw his support behind Paul Ryan for Speaker back in October. In July 2013 Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) spoke with a Hispanic audience about his intention to push immigration reform in the House of Representatives. In October 2013 Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) wrote a bill that would grant citizenship to at least 11 million illegal immigrants. Ryan was elected Speaker of the House in October. On Thursday Speaker Ryan passed a trillion dollar budget deal that was widely praised by Barack Obama and Democratic leaders. They got everything they wanted. After Republicans passed this budget Rush Limbaugh posed the question: Tell Me How the Budget Deal Would Be Worse If ...
You did this
Post Date: 2015-12-19 18:09:28 by A Pole
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[...], Last December, Citigroup lobbyists slipped a last-minute provision into the must-pass spending bill to make it easier for the biggest banks to get bailed out by taxpayers. We did everything we could to stop that lousy provision. I gave speeches, people signed petitions, groups called Congress. But it was too late. Congress couldn’t let the government shut down. We lost a year ago, but we did not go away quietly. Every time the Republicans have tried to sneak another terrible provision into a bill, you’ve helped us sound the alarm. You’ve signed petitions, made calls, tweeted, and posted on Facebook. When two Wall Street banks threatened to withhold their ...
EXCLUSIVE: Hillary Clinton Campaign Funding the Democratic National Committee
Post Date: 2015-12-19 16:54:38 by cranky
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The Hillary Clinton campaign is quietly making cash transfers to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to fund state party efforts in the South. Breitbart News has obtained an email sent by Hillary Clinton deputy national political director Brynne Craig, 30, to a state party chairman. Craig assures the chairman that the Clinton campaign will be making another “transfer” to the DNC. Then Craig said she would “follow up to let you know the amount that is transferred.” The email sheds new light on the relationship between the financially insolvent DNC, led by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), and the Clinton campaign. The Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) camp is suing the ...
Hagel: The White House Tried to ‘Destroy’ Me
Post Date: 2015-12-18 12:17:37 by cranky
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In an exclusive interview, Chuck Hagel said the Obama administration micromanaged the Pentagon, stabbed him in the back on the way out -- and still has no strategy for fixing Syria. Jet-lagged from a long overseas trip, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel had just sat down with his wife for a quiet dinner at an upscale Italian restaurant in northern Virginia when his phone rang. It was the White House on the line. President Barack Obama wanted to speak with him. It was Aug. 30, 2013, and the U.S. military was poised for war. Obama had publicly warned Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad that his regime would face consequences if it crossed a “red line” by employing chemical weapons against ...
Donald Trump’s Brainfart Fascism
Post Date: 2015-12-18 09:32:29 by Deckard
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Donald Trump showed up in typical form at Tuesday night’s Republican presidential debate, aggressively lobbing insults at his competitors and promising repeatedly to make America great again by…well, in truth it’s never quite clear. Trump frequently declines to propose anything that resembles what most would call a policy to resolve the problems he identifies, but even when he does, the legal and practical mechanisms by which he would implement those policies are almost always left unstated. He describes the effect he hopes to produce, but not the path by which he would get there, and when pressed, often waves off the question, saying, essentially, that details will come ...
Huckabee: 'Disappointing' Perkins and Co. Are Backing Cruz
Post Date: 2015-12-16 19:03:37 by Tooconservative
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Las Vegas – Mike Huckabee, a longtime ally of Tony Perkins and other conservative leaders who last week secretly voted to endorse Ted Cruz for president, says it’s “disappointing” the group decided to back a relative newcomer like Cruz. In a brief interview here following Tuesday’s Republican presidential debate, Huckabee says he was made aware of the group’s decision, but wasn’t given any explanation. “For reasons I don’t fully understand, years and years of actually doing something and getting things done didn’t matter,” Huckabee said of the group’s deliberations. ”And I don’t understand ...
CNN turns GOP debate into aggravating, irrelevant snoozefest -- as planned
Post Date: 2015-12-16 08:22:46 by Tooconservative
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LAS VEGAS — Stop the madness. These debates cannot go on. There were, literally, more candidates on stage for Tuesday night’s Republican debate than there were at a Jeb! Bush debate watching “party” in Miami. Once again, in the name of “fairness,” the media has utterly swindled the GOP. By keeping the stage crammed with a couple of actual front-runners and cluttered with has-been also-rans like Ohio Gov. John Kasich, debate moderators are managing to do what once seemed impossible: Boring voters even though real estate mogul Donald Trump is still on the debate stage. They will stop at nothing to water down the goliath front-runner for the GOP nomination. ...
Republican Debate: CNN Announces Line-Up, Rand Paul Makes Main Stage (+Blubber-boy Crisco returns)
Post Date: 2015-12-13 16:13:35 by Hondo68
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CNN has announced who made the cut for Tuesday's Republican debate in Las Vegas.The Republican Debate in Las Vegas will include Rand Paul, despite low polling numbers. (Photo : Getty Images) Nine Republican presidential candidates have qualified for Tuesday night's debate in Las Vegas, CNN announced Sunday. CNN’s Jake Tapper has named which of the GOP hopefuls would make the main stage: Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Ben Carson, Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, John Kasich, Chris Christie, Carly Fiorina and Rand Paul. It was unclear as to whether or not Kentucky Senator Rand Paul would make the stage with his national polling numbers hovering around the one percent mark. However, the ...
Cruz Soars to Front of the Pack in Iowa Poll; Trump Support Stays Flat
Post Date: 2015-12-13 04:48:30 by Tooconservative
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Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz has surged ahead to become the latest front-runner in the campaign for the Iowa caucuses, dislodging Ben Carson and opening an impressive lead over a stalled Donald Trump, a Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register Iowa Poll shows.The firebrand junior senator from Texas is backed by 31 percent of those likely to attend the Republican caucuses that start the presidential nomination season on Feb. 1. Trump is a distant second at 21 percent, up slightly from 19 percent in October, but below his peak of 23 percent in August.Read the questions and methodology here Cruz's 21-percentage-point jump since October is the largest surge between ...
‘Debate is very important,’ Paul says [Rand dropping out?]
Post Date: 2015-12-13 04:32:03 by Tooconservative
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CONCORD, N.H. – Kentucky Senator Rand Paul is confident he will be on the primetime Republican debate stage Tuesday, but if he falls short, he will make an announcement this week about what comes next. Asked Saturday by the Globe specifically if he would drop out of the race for president if he didn’t qualify for the main-stage GOP debate, Paul said: “We will make an announcement, on that, on Tuesday.” Later Saturday, Matt Chisholm, New Hampshire communications director for the Paul campaign, insisted his candidate was in the race to win. He said Paul’s quote referred to whether he would participate in a secondary debate on Tuesday if he didn’t qualify for ...
Trump, Carson have until spring to launch third-party runs
Post Date: 2015-12-12 10:45:55 by cranky
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Donald Trump and Ben Carson could dangle the possibility of independent runs for president well into the primary season next year, but they can't wait forever. State filing deadlines would give the two Republicans until about March to launch independent or third-party campaigns, experts said. That would give a well-financed campaign enough time to gather sufficient signatures on petitions so the candidate could appear on the ballot in every state. Starting next summer would be too late. "Ross Perot in 1992 didn't start petitioning until March," said Richard Winger, editor of Ballot Access News. "He was on the ballot in every state." Perot, a Texas ...
Ben Carson threatens to leave Republican Party
Post Date: 2015-12-11 13:51:24 by Willie Green
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WASHINGTON - In what would be a nightmare scenario for the GOP, presidential hopeful Ben Carson threatened Friday to leave the Republican Party amid reports of deepening concerns from GOP officials about the splintered 2016 electorate. The retired neurosurgeon lashed out at Republican leaders who discussed the possibility of a "brokered convention" during a recent private dinner meeting in Washington. The Washington Post first reported Thursday that the group, including Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, discussed the sustained strength of billionaire business Donald Trump and the possibility that a consensus nominee ...
How Donald Trump Has Opened the Door for Ted Cruz to Win
Post Date: 2015-12-11 07:48:06 by Tooconservative
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At the beginning of this year — back when the notion that Donald Trump might dominate the presidential race was a dystopian scenario as unimaginably remote as The Man in the High Castle — the most horrifying thing Republican insiders could imagine was a Ted Cruz nomination. In much the same way that Trump has set the terms of the presidential debate in ways that discomfited the party’s leadership and fired up the base, Cruz did the same in Washington. The intense loathing Cruz inspired among every professional Republican politician not named Ted Cruz made his nomination difficult to fathom. But the rise of Trump has changed many things, and one of them may be to grant ...
Ted Cruz: Does Donald Trump have the judgment to be president?
Post Date: 2015-12-11 07:39:30 by Tooconservative
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Ted Cruz: Does Donald Trump have the judgment to be president? Update: “Misleading”;Update: Rubio swipes Before you start jumping up and down and saying “It’s on,” note that Cruz supposedly said this at a private fundraiser, not publicly. And when asked to confirm it by the press, he declined. Can’t blame him. The idea that Donald Trump, who’s reversed himself on a galaxy of partisan hot-button issues over the past 15 years, might not be the steady hand we need on the tiller of the ship of state is very controversial indeed. Mr. Cruz described both campaigns [Trump and Ben Carson] as having a “natural arch” with gravity “pulling them ...
WaPo: GOP preparing for brokered convention
Post Date: 2015-12-11 05:47:57 by Tooconservative
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How many men ever get to say, “Today my fondest dream came true?” I’m glad you were here to share this special moment with me, my friends. More than 20 of them convened Monday for a dinner held by Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, where the prospect of Trump nearing next year’s nominating convention in Cleveland with a significant number of delegates dominated the discussion, according to five people familiar with the meeting. Considering that scenario as Priebus and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) listened, several longtime power brokers argued that if the controversial billionaire storms through the primaries, the party’s ...
Rand Paul Backs Trump, Unleashes “Top Ten Things That Make Obama Unqualified” For Office
Post Date: 2015-12-10 14:25:39 by Hondo68
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The White House, which is running a blatantly unconstitutional regime, is now attempting to vet potential successors to the Oval Office, and yet again take out opposition leaders. First, Obama said that Assad lost all legitimacy, and should step down, and partnered with al Qaeda and ISIS to back up his opinions. Now, Obama’s press secretary has claimed that Donald Trump has lost all legitimacy and has been “disqualified” from running for office. Just how does the White House plan to back up its opinions this time? Trump claims that he won’t be intimidated and exit the race, but one has to wonder how far the system will go to get its way. “The fact is the first ...
Trump Says He Supports Reauthorizing Patriot Act, NSA Metadata Collection
Post Date: 2015-12-10 08:55:18 by Deckard
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2016 Republican presidential candidate and billionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump said that he supports reauthorizing the USA PATRIOT Act and bulk cell phone metadata collection by the National Security Agency in an interview on the Hugh Hewitt Show earlier this month.In the above-embedded clip, Hewitt asks Trump, “On metadata collection, Ted Cruz is glad the NSA got out of it. Marco Rubio wants it back. What’s Donald Trump think?”“Well, I tend to err on the side of security, I must tell you,” Trump replied, “and I’ve been there for longer than you would think. But, you know, when you have people that are beheading if you’re a Christian ...
Clinton intervened to benefit son-in-law while at State
Post Date: 2015-12-09 10:57:51 by Tooconservative
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Another e-mail from the Hillary Clinton secret server may have the Democratic front-runner in hot water — and this one’s not even classified. The Associated Press reported last night that then-Secretary of State Clinton intervened to benefit her son-in-law’s business prospects. Marc Mezvinsky was asked by an investor to get help setting up contacts at the State Department, and Hillary ordered her deputy to work on it: As secretary of state, Hillary Clinton intervened in a request forwarded by her son-in-law on behalf of a deep-sea mining firm to meet with her or other State Department officials after one of the firm’s investors asked Chelsea Clinton’s husband for ...
Trump Calls for “Closing the Internet,” Says Believing in “Freedom of Speech” is “Foolish”
Post Date: 2015-12-09 08:51:46 by Deckard
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On Monday, Donald Trump issued a statement advocating “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our representatives can figure out what’s going on.”Only hours after calling for a “total and complete ban on Muslims entering the United States,” the Republican presidential candidate forwarded the notion that America should also consider “closing the Internet up in some way,” as a means of fighting the Islamic State.During a speech, Trump said that children in America are “watching the internet and they want to be masterminds,” and “we’re losing a lot of people because of the internet.”Forwarding the ...
Hillary Fundraises off Donald Trump Using ‘Proud Muslim’ Huma Abedin
Post Date: 2015-12-08 07:44:06 by cranky
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Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton is seizing on Donald Trump’s proposal to ban all Muslim entry into the U.S. with a fundraising email featuring long-time aide Huma Abedin, who is Muslim. The email reads, in part: “I’m a proud Muslim–but you don’t have to share my faith to share my disgust.” The email is noteworthy for two reasons: first, that it acknowledges Abedin’s faith at all; and second, that it features Abedin, who is not only under ethical criticism but also suspected of radical ties. In 2008, then-Sen. Barack Obama was terrified of having his campaign associated with Islam, lest it trigger what his aides feared might be a Muslim ...
Trump: Mother and Sister of CA Attacker ‘Knew What Was Going On’
Post Date: 2015-12-05 17:56:57 by cranky
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video Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump stated that the mother and sister of San Bernardino attacker Syed Farook “knew what was going on” while speaking to reporters in Iowa on Saturday. Trump said, “I believe that the sister of the killer, I watched her interviewed, I think she knew what was going on. … I think his mother knew what was going on. She went into the apartment. anybody that went into that house or that apartment knew what was going on. They didn’t tell the authorities. They knew what was going on. The mother knew. I think the sister interviewed, I think she knew. We better get a little tough, and a little smart, or we’re in ...
Ted Cruz Coaching His Family Through a Campaign Ad Is Awkward as Hell
Post Date: 2015-12-05 08:45:41 by Willie Green
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By law, super PAC's aren't allowed to coordinate with the political campaigns that they support. The law has produced a number of absurdities in the campaign finance system, one of which is the campaign practice of quietly uploading raw footage of the candidate onto public sites like YouTube, so super PACs can legally use the material in their own ads. The hope, of course, is that no one will notice the videos. But CNN's Chris Moody did, stumbling on hours raw footage from a Ted Cruz campaign ad shoot. Moody then did God's work, combing through take after painful take of Cruz and his family trying to get through the shoot with a tiny shred of dignity intact. In the video ...
Pataki Demands That AG Lynch Arrest Him For Urging War Against Islam
Post Date: 2015-12-05 08:38:35 by cranky
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Former Gov. George Pataki made a dramatic lunge for publicity in the GOP’s 2016 primary race with a Twitter-broadcast demand that he be arrested by Attorney General Loretta Lynch.We must declare war on radical Islam. @LorettaLynch I’m not edging toward violent speech, I’m declaring we kill them. Go ahead, arrest me. — George E. Pataki (@GovernorPataki) December 4, 2015 Lynch made it easy for Pataki — who has approximately zero percent of the GOP’s primary vote — by suggesting Thursday that she would arrest people who criticize the ideology of orthodox Islam. “When we talk about the First amendment we [must] make it clear that actions predicated on ...
Dennis Kucinich: ‘Stay Tuned’ … ‘I’ll Probably Be Back in Elected Office’ (Dennis Kucinich/Tulsi Gabbard 2016)
Post Date: 2015-12-04 22:14:51 by Hondo68
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Last year there was speculation that Dennis Kucinich would run for governor of Ohio, the state from which he served eight terms as a Democratic member of the US House of Representatives and in which he served previously as a state senator, Cleveland mayor, and Cleveland city council member. That governor run did not materialize. But, in a new interview with Truthdig Editor-In Chief Robert Scheer, Kucinich says he thinks he “will probably be back in elected office” in the future. “Stay tuned” is what Kucinich tells people wondering what he will do next. Here is the interview exchange in which Kucinich addresses the prospect of a future run for political office: Scheer: ...
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