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Gonna cannibalize each other again
means very little two and a half years before the election, but appears to be a statistical outlier
http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/a...ield-for-2016/The George Washington Bridge scandal has subtly reshaped the contest for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, hurting New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s chances and leaving the field without a clear front-runner. The pack is now huddled in the low teens, according to polls of GOP voters.
How rare is such an evenly divided field? I checked polling since 1976, the first year in which both the Republican and Democratic nominations were decided completely by voters and not by party leaders.
It’s rare.
In surveys conducted from January through March of the preceding midterm election year (so for the 2012 election, we’re looking at polls from Jan. 1 through March 31 of 2010), the Republican atop the polls has always averaged at least 23 percent of the vote.
But not this year. Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas and a presidential aspirant in 2008, leads current polling with 14.8 percent. Even if we include Democratic nomination contests, 14.8 percent basically ties for the lowest leader on record (right near the 15 percent Mario Cuomo had in 1992).
Gonna cannibalize each other again
this is good. both parties need massive reform, its good to see at least one of them is going to have to change
The midterms are going to be crucial for the GOP... I suspect picking up the Senate would bring back some peace, and at this point you would think it's their Congress to lose... But if they somehow screw it up, I expect it to get even uglier...
Rand Paul! Run Rand Paul!
State and Federal attorneys will screw self-whitewashing Fat Bas .
the "hopefuls" were out in Sin City this weekend, groveling for $Ms in the "Jewish primary"
2016 Republican Hopefuls Hope To Woo Jewish Donors
Long before voters begin paying attention to the 2016 presidential contest, the quiet race for the Republican party’s most elite donors was well under way in recent days as potential candidates made a pilgrimage west to court prolific spender Sheldon Adelson and other members of the Republican Jewish Coalition.
During speeches Saturday, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Ohio Gov. John Kasich and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie all addressed the key concerns of Adelson and many group members — the threat of a nuclear Iran, their desire to strengthen U.S. ties with Israel, and what they view as waning prestige of the U.S. abroad. With varying degrees of deftness, the candidates each touched on their own ties to Israel and Jewish tradition.
For Christie, Saturday’s tryout showed the potential for missteps when governors wade into foreign policy at this early stage. During an otherwise warmly received speech, Christie’s mention of a helicopter flight over “occupied territories” — terminology used by Israel’s critics — during his trip to Israel sent murmurs and whispers of surprise through the conservative audience.
But the more important groundwork for the crop of potential candidates took place outside of the three-day, 400-person conference — in one-on-one meetings with Adelson, who poured nearly $100 million into the 2012 campaign, as well as other influential coalition members.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who is being encouraged to run by many Republican donors, headlined a private VIP reception and dinner in Adelson’s airplane hangar Thursday night, where he made the case for immigration reform and demurred on questions about his presidential plans. The top billing for Bush at the more intimate event was an early signal of Adelson’s leanings at a time when no clear leader has emerged for the 2016 GOP nomination.
No thoughtful candidate would discount Adelson’s power as friend or foe after he demonstrated during the 2012 primary season how one GOP donor could scramble the Republican field. Adelson and his wife Miriam almost single-handedly kept the candidacy of Newt Gingrich alive — to the detriment of eventual nominee Mitt Romney — by pumping millions into a super PAC supporting him.
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http://www.nationalmemo.com/2016-rep...jewish-donors/
Bow Down to Pharaoh
Both hilarious and amazing. At the Adelson audition this weekend in Vegas, Chris Christie used the utterly uncontroversial term "occupied territories" to basically argue that Israel should retain the territories for security reasons - not bad for appealing to hyper-Zionist maximalist right-wing Christians and their sprinkling of right-wing Jewish supporters.
But he then had to personally apologize to Adelson for using the term.
Like I said, amazing and comical and ridiculous. Both Adelson's power and the need for any Republican to kow-tow to the most extreme variant of right-wing pro-Israel opinion that all the land west of the Jordan is part of the Israeli state proper.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/...+%28TPMNews%29
These extreme right wing Zionist Israel supporters would be pushing "their purchased" President, in league with US neo-cons, to go to war both with Syria and Iran.
Also from 538:
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/...nate-forecast/
FiveThirtyEight Senate Forecast: GOP Is Slight Favorite in Race for Senate Control
SHELDON ADELSON SAYS NO REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE WORTH BUYING
The casino billionaire and Republican kingmaker Sheldon Adelson met several 2016 G.O.P. candidates available for purchase over the weekend, but decided to buy none of them, Adelson confirmed today.
After hearing speeches by Kentucky Senator Rand Paul, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, and several others who were for sale, Mr. Adelson concluded that none of them are worth owning.
“I don’t want to spend millions on another loser,” said Adelson, who purchased both Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney in 2012.
The casino magnate was scathing in his assessment of the candidates he declined to buy, calling them “a third-rate grab bag of has-beens and dimwits.”
“I guess the Republican Party is thinking, Here comes crazy old Sheldon, he’ll blow his money on the first washed-out wingnut we throw out there,” Adelson said. “Well, guess again.”
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blog...orowitz%20(53)
I wonder if Boutons sees the satirical frame or takes it as literal truth.
my money's on the latter
that's why you're a loser
the bolded strongly resembles what you say here everyday
only I say it funnier.
glad to see your self-regard is uninjured from the daily pounding you take here
Romney 2016?
He’s back… .
Like Richard Nixon or Freddy Krueger, it seems impossible to keep Mitt Romney down. According to the Wall Street Journal,the 2012 Republican nominee for President told donors in New York on Friday that he was considering yet another run for the White House in 2016.
While Romney, who also ran for President in 2008, was scorned by many Republicans during his campaign as a flip-flopper with no real base in his party, many in the GOP have embraced him after his loss. After all, with the initial failures of the health care exchanges under the Affordable Care Act and the Russian invasion of Crimea, many controversial statements by the former Massachusetts governor now seem omniscient.
He’s also been humanized thanks to a well-received do entary that showed an authentic side to a candidate who, at times, seemed battery-operated.
Romney, who last year denied he was running again several times, still has not made a firm decision on whether he throws his hat into the ring.
Instead, the former Massachusetts governor’s statement seems as much as a way to slow the momentum coalescing around former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and prop the door open for Romney to make a decision in the coming months.
The Best-Positioned Rival to Jeb Bush May Not Be the Best Known
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/01/13...into-2016.html
Kock Bros Monster, governor of Kockistan, for Pres! yes, Do It!
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Poll: Most Americans Now Consider Romney a Stalker
In a possible setback for Mitt Romney’s latest Presidential ambitions, a new poll reveals that a majority of Americans now regard the former Massachusetts governor as a stalker.
The poll results suggest that Romney’s presence in every Presidential campaign in recent memory has taken its toll on the American people, who have expressed disbelief that he would return after being repeatedly told in no uncertain terms that he was not wanted.
Additionally, many of those surveyed said that they previously felt harassed by the Massachusetts governor’s relentless e-mails and phone calls, and favored some form of intervention to keep Romney from contacting them in the future.
In an indication of how much Romney’s serial candidacies have traumatized the American people, more than fifty per cent said that they would support a restraining order to keep the former nominee five hundred feet from the United States until the 2016 election had safely passed.
In an interview on Monday, Romney said that the inau ious poll results would not discourage him from seeking the White House for a third time. “I know that I’m the right man for the American people, and nothing they say or do will stop me,” he said.
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borow...NjAxNDk2NjgyS0
Do people really consider that stuff funny?
hits and misses, like your target practice
-Rick Santorum“The money that funds the party,” he says, comes from individuals who may be fiscally conservative and hawkish on issues of national security but who live on the coasts and have largely abandoned socially conservative causes. “The money that supports the Republican party overwhelmingly comes from places we lose,”
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/396182/santorum-blue-collar-brawler-eliana-johnson
Santorum, yet another extreme right winger Repug who is Catholic.
"largely abandoned socially conservative causes."InSaneTorum, they very probably NEVER supported your conservative causes.
The presidency is right there for the GOP to take it. It's right there. Unfortunately, they will parade the clows again (palin, bush, romney, paul, the idiot texan, the elephant) and make a mockery of the US elections once again
this will be once again a very compte ive national election due to that fact
And who would hater recommend the GOP nominate to take the presidency?The presidency is right there for the GOP to take it. It's right there. Unfortunately, they will parade the clows again (palin, bush, romney, paul, the idiot texan, the elephant) and make a mockery of the US elections once again
this will be once again a very compte ive national election due to that fact
It will come down to Romney and Bush. Those are your heavyweight fundraisers. The rest of the field will get starved out after the first few primaries. Perry and Huckabee might as well throw in the towel now.
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