FiveThirtyEight: GOP Field Hasn’t Been This Split in 40 Years

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Number of G.O.P. Candidates Now Thirteen, Says C.D.C.


DEKALB COUNTY, GEORGIA (The Borowitz Report)—The number of official candidates for the 2016 Republican Presidential nomination has risen to thirteen, according to officials at the Centers for Disease Control.

The count had stood at twelve since the announcement last week by the reality-show host Donald Trump, leading many at the C.D.C. to privately hope that the epidemic was losing steam.


But with the entry of Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal into the race on Wednesday, the C.D.C. was forced to hold a press conference to announce the worrisome news that the number of candidates had increased yet again.

“It might have been misplaced optimism on our part, but we had started to believe that this thing had been contained,” said the C.D.C. spokesman Dr. Harland Dorrinson. “Regrettably, it has not.”

While scientists disagree about how running for President spreads from person to person, most epidemiologists believe that a candidacy needs an environment rich in narcissism and delusion—plus a host to feed on, ideally a sociopathic billionaire.

The C.D.C. spokesman refused to address speculation that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker would soon enter the race, bringing the number of candidates to fourteen. “I don’t want to say anything that might cause the public to panic,” he said.

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borow...een-says-c-d-c

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What Fox News Still Isn’t Saying About Its GOP Debate


Fox News and CNN, which are separately sponsoring the first two Republican presidential debates, could be holding the fate of the GOP candidates in their hands.

Debates were important in both the 2008 and 2012 Republican primaries.

They sank the candidacy of Rick Perry four years ago and gave life to Mike Huckabee’s campaign in the 2008 contest.

That’s why there has been so much interest in knowing which of the GOP’s many candidates are likely to make it into these debates.

We have known for a few weeks that Fox News and CNN are going to invite the top 10 candidates based on a national polling average.¹

We also have known that CNN is going to have a secondary debate for those candidates who missed the cut but hit at least 1 percent in the polls.




http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/...ts-gop-debate/

Carson way ahead of TX' own JimmyRicky!

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More evidence, on the mountains of evidence, that you conservatives, Repugs, bubbas, rednecks, kickers, racists, xenophobes, jingoists are truly screwed up

Ben Carson gains surprising support in crowded GOP field

Ben Carson, a renowned neurosurgeon with no experience in the cutthroat world of Washington politics, is riding a surprising wave of support among conservatives that has placed him near the top of contenders for the Republican presidential nominee in 2016.

The soft-spoken 63-year-old Carson, an African-American who only officially became a Republican last year, has found an opening in the wide-open race in which 13 candidates are running for the White House. His resume of having performed 15,000 surgical operations is the most unusual of anyone in the field.

Carson told a crowd in Sioux Center, Iowa, last week that he didn’t really want to run for president, but there were so many people clamoring for him to get into the race that he felt the call.

“I started praying about it, asking God for guidance, and I finally concluded that ‘Lord, as long as you open the doors I’ll walk through them. And if you shut the doors, I’ll gladly sit down.’ Well, he has continually opened the doors,” Carson said.

there’s also an element of faith-healer optimism based on his life, from rebellious Detroit street youth who tried to stab a friend at age 14, to accomplished physician who in 1987 led a surgical team that successfully separated conjoined twins.

His staff is never quite sure what Carson is going to say publicly since he does not speak from a text, a stark difference from today’s carefully scripted candidates.

“It makes for some anxious moments for his staff, I can promise you that,” said Carson communications director Doug Watts. “But that’s his style.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/ben-carson-gains-surprising-support-in-crowded-gop-field/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaig n=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29

God told Carson to run for President!

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Rick Perry Is on the Payroll of His Super-PAC's Biggest Sugar Daddy


http://www.motherjones.com/politics/...nsfer-partners

Apparently, nearly all Jimmyricky's $Ms come from only 3 donors. How's that grass roots support working out fer ya, Jimmyricky?

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Poll: Palin Would Bring Much-Needed Dignity to Republican Field




WASHINGTON — The former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin would bring much-needed dignity to the 2016 Republican field, a new poll shows.

According to the poll, conducted by the University of Minnesota’s Opinion Research Ins ute, Palin’s ability to articulate her positions on issues with precision and restraint is sorely lacking among other entrants in the G.O.P. race.

Additionally, voters said that the former governor’s breadth of knowledge in the fields of economics, foreign affairs, and American history would place her head and shoulders above the current crop of Republican hopefuls.

In the words of one voter who was surveyed, “When I hear some of these candidates talk, I sure do miss Sarah Palin.”

Despite the overwhelming sense that she would contribute gravitas and intellectual rigor that have been woefully missing from the G.O.P. contest, a Palin candidacy appears unlikely, a spokesman said.

“Governor Palin is very flattered by this poll, but she is concerned that being associated with this field of candidates could harm her stature,” he said.


http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/poll-palin-would-bring-much-needed-dignity-to-republican-field?mbid=nl_Borowitz%20(25)&cndid=&mbid=nl_Borow itz%20(25)&CNDID=&spMailingID=7902206&spUserID=Mjc zNzc0Njk0NDAS1&spJobID=721752457&spReportId=NzIxNz UyNDU3S0

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Ex-Texas Governor Perry Can’t Pay Presidential Campaign Staff: Reports


http://www.nationalmemo.com/ex-texas...staff-reports/

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