Bernie Sanders: 567,936
Ted Cruz: 531,129
Thursday, April 7, 2016
Trump support mirrored by the growth of the 1099 worker as corporate greed turns the Buchanan Brigades into Trump's FU Army
From David Dayen in The New Republic here:
But The New York Times’s Neil Irwin might have found an answer [to the anger out there] last week, when he pointed to eye-opening new research from Princeton’s Alan Krueger and Harvard’s Lawrence Katz on Americans in alternative work arrangements, which they defined as “temporary help agency workers, on-call workers, contract workers, and independent contractors or freelancers.” This cohort of the workforce grew from 10.1 percent in 2005 to 15.8 percent at the end of 2015, representing an increase of 9.4 million workers. That’s all of the growth in the labor market over the past decade. ... “Angry” voters may simply be angry workers tossed into the Darwinian world of the modern economy, operating without any fallback support from their employers or their government. This was bound to find its way into our politics, but though solutions for these workers exist, nobody is talking about them.
At 8.2 million after 32 contests, the popular vote for Trump alone with 16 states yet to vote is set to surpass 12 million.
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Rush makes a ring composition of today's lyin' show, featuring at the end Ted Cruz lying about the last four contests
Claiming Trump has lost them all.
If Cruz can't count to four, he's not qualified to be president.
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| North Dakota doesn't count because delegates are unbound with 18 uncommitted, and Trump won Arizona. |
Lyin' Rush Limbaugh repeats the false narrative to shape perceptions more favorably for Ted Cruz
He just repeated the false narrative that Trump hasn't won anything in a month, that Trump has lost the last four or five contests.
In the last month Trump has lost two to Cruz: Wisconsin and Utah. But Trump won Arizona and the Northern Marianas.
Prior to Utah, the only thing Cruz has won outright was Idaho, way back on March 8. North Dakota was not a win.
Liar.
The number of Democrats crossing over to vote Republican yesterday in Wisconsin appears to have been relatively small, unmoved by Trump's trade stand
From Politico here:
While 65 percent of those voting in the Republican open primary identified as Republican, another 29 percent said they were independent and 6 percent said Democratic.
While 65 percent of those voting in the Republican open primary identified as Republican, another 29 percent said they were independent and 6 percent said Democratic.
Turnout in the Republican primary in Wisconsin was enormous.
In 2008, barely 403,000 voted in the primary which picked McCain over Huckabee.
Yesterday, 1.06 million reportedly voted in the Republican contest won by Ted Cruz, with some votes still remaining to be counted.
Six percent of that is 64,000 Democrats.
In the Democrat contest won by Bernie Sanders, 993,000 votes were cast, about 120,000 fewer than in the 2008 contest between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. So only half of the no-shows might have gone Republican.
The voters worried about free-trade whom Donald Trump hoped to attract went instead to Bernie Sanders in Wisconsin:
Demonstrating Sanders’ unusual strength, he ran competitively with Clinton, 51-47 percent, in who’d be the best commander-in-chief. And he won by particularly wide margins among those very worried about the economy’s direction, those who expect life for the next generation of Americans to be worse than it is today and those who think trade with other countries takes away U.S. jobs. Finally, he won 78 percent of those who favor more liberal policies than Barack Obama’s; Clinton won those who want to continue Obama’s policies, but by less of a margin. ...
Trade was a potent issue for Sanders in his surprise win in Michigan and helped him make Missouri and Illinois agonizingly close, though, Clinton turned things around in Ohio. In Wisconsin, more than four in 10 think trade takes away more American jobs, while fewer than four in 10 think it creates more jobs.
Ted Cruz wins the lesbian vote in Wisconsin, slows Trump momentum by less than 4%
On the most generous interpretation of the delegate allocation, Trump goes from needing 488 additional delegates before Wisconsin to needing 482 now. This assumes he still gets 12 more from foot-dragging Missouri and 3 in Wisconsin not yet shown (total 6) for a total of 755 vs. 749. He goes from needing 53.2% of remaining delegates to needing 55.2%, the two-point difference representing a slowdown in momentum of not quite 3.8%.
Using the same assumptions, Cruz goes from needing 762 before Wisconsin to needing 720 now, or from needing 83% of available delegates before to needing 82.5% now. That's not even a 1% pick-up in speed.
Going forward, Trump momentum is bound to pick-up as the race heads east to Trump's backyard, where Cruz will have trouble attracting votes from New York values voters.
Kasich, however, could continue to be a problem for Trump in the more liberal east, but interestingly he came in a distant third everywhere in Wisconsin and won nothing. Even in liberal congressional district 2, which includes Madison and had Tammy Baldwin as its Democrat representative, Kasich came in a distant third.
Cruz narrowly bested Trump in CD-2 by fewer than 2900 votes.
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
Wisconsin Republicans are totally in the tank for a path to legalization, which is lyin' Ted Cruz' true position, also Gov. Walker's
From the exit polling, here:
More than six in 10 GOP voters in Wisconsin think undocumented immigrants should be offered a path to legal status, on track to be the highest of any state this year (it’s topped out at 59 percent in Virginia). Only a third support deporting undocumented immigrants, fewer than in previous primaries. Deportation voters have been a strong group for Trump in previous primaries; Cruz beat Trump in recent contests (North Carolina, Missouri and Illinois) among the larger group that favors a path to legal status, and Kasich won them in Ohio.
If Ted Cruz wins Wisconsin tonight, it'll be nothing more than a dead cat bounce
Ted Cruz' momentum collapsed by 44% in March.
He was dead weeks ago. He just doesn't know it yet.
So, Michelle Field's mom is Honduran born and runs a nonprofit for illegal aliens
Michelle Fields may have a very strong and until now secret motive to try to bring down Trump.
Rush says Trump's already trying to change the subject from his impending loss today to new immigration plan details
What rubbish. That must be the OxyContin talkin'.
Trump's detailed proposals have been out there since August 2015, on his website.
Hillary lost to Obama in Wisconsin in 2008 by 193,000 votes in the Democrat presidential primary: Can she do it again?!
Total turnout in the Democrat presidential primary in 2008 was 1.11 million.
The question this year is whether Bernie Sanders will drive Democrat turnout there to a similar conclusion, or will Democrats cross over in large numbers to vote for Trump. The primary is open.
It would seem Sanders' natural voters are not the working class, in which case Democrats crossing over for Trump would come from Hillary's voters. It could be both: enthusiasm for Bernie among the young and far left boosting his turnout, and enthusiasm for Trump from the blue collars boosting Trump's. In which case Hillary and Cruz might be disappointed today in Wisconsin.
Fewer than 403,000 votes were cast in the Republican presidential primary in 2008, which was won by McCain with 225,000 votes. Huckabee ran second, and won in the western and central part of the state where Trump is supposed to be strong in 2016. Pretty odd. The ARG poll had picked McCain to win Wisconsin by 8, who won it by 17.8. This time around ARG is picking Trump by 10 against six recent polls showing Cruz by an average of 6.5.
ARG is also showing Hillary by 1 as polls open this morning. The Real Clear Politics poll average has Sanders ahead by 2.6.
Long lines of enthusiastic Wisconsinites at all Trump venues in recent days, despite the gaffes which upset polite society political correctness, argue for a stronger showing by Trump today than the consensus would suggest.
Monday, April 4, 2016
Delegate race update: Trump needs 53.76% of 930 available to win, Cruz 81.94%
Trump's delegate total tonight moves up to 737, Cruz' to 475.
Kasich needs 117.63% of the available delegates to win, in other words, MORE THAN ARE AVAILABLE.
Conservative talk radio is still lying to you: Ted Cruz' momentum steadily eroded in March by 44%
Ted Cruz ended the first week of March needing 57% of remaining delegates to get to 1237.
By March 10th he needed 61%.
By March 18th 77%.
As of March 23rd he needs 82% of remaining delegates to win.
The 25-point increase in his required future performance over three weeks represents a 44% slowdown in his momentum from the beginning of the month.
The voters are wasting their votes on Ted, as they are on Kasich.
Ted Cruz should suspend his campaign and begin negotiations with Trump. John Kasich should just drop out.
For the good of the party, and the country.
ARG Inc. poll got Michigan massively wrong, shows Trump +10 in Wisconsin tomorrow
The ARG poll had Kasich winning Michigan by 2 when Trump won it by 11.6.
Otherwise . . .
ARG has been pretty good this season.
It had Trump by 16 in NH. Actual: 19.5.
It had Trump by 12 in SC. Actual: 10.0.
It had Cruz by 1 in TX. Actual: 17.1. OK, way off but at least it got the winner right!
It had Trump by 25 in FL. Actual: 18.8.
It had Kasich by 6 in OH. Actual: 11.1.
Conservative talk radio in Wisconsin has been united for months in stopping Donald Trump, fawning over Ted Cruz
Which is why the voters in Wisconsin are unaware of Ted Cruz' flips on trade and immigration.
From the story here:
The Wisconsin talk radio conglomerate, which rallied conservative voters to help Gov. Scott Walker win three elections in four years, has now set its sights on stopping Mr. Trump by deprecating the delegate leader and elevating Mr. Cruz. ...
The most popular conservative talk show hosts here — Mr. Sykes, Jeff Wagner of WTMJ, and Mark Belling, Vicki McKenna and Jay Weber of WISN — are united in their disdain for Mr. Trump, with Jerry Bader, a radio personality at WTAQ in Green Bay, rounding out the group.
“The thing that’s been unique in this presidential race is, for some reason, the three who work here — Jay, Vicki and myself — and our competitors, Charlie and Jeff Wagner, all seem to despise Trump,” Mr. Belling said in an interview. “We all just kind of came to this conclusion independently. I think it’s just that we’re not as stupid as some of the people that are falling for Trump’s crap.”
Rush is reading from this right now on air: It must be the OxyContin part that finally ticked Rush off
Materialist Kevin Williamson for National Review, here:
The truth about these dysfunctional, downscale [Trump] communities is that they deserve to die. Economically, they are negative assets. Morally, they are indefensible. Forget all your cheap theatrical Bruce Springsteen crap. Forget your sanctimony about struggling Rust Belt factory towns and your conspiracy theories about the wily Orientals stealing our jobs. Forget your goddamned gypsum, and, if he has a problem with that, forget Ed Burke, too. The white American underclass is in thrall to a vicious, selfish culture whose main products are misery and used heroin needles. Donald Trump’s speeches make them feel good. So does OxyContin. What they need isn’t analgesics, literal or political. They need real opportunity, which means that they need real change, which means that they need U-Haul.
Ted Cruz brags about his "poison pill" amendments to Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, says higher Gang of 8 bill cap on H-1B visas was "not nearly high enough"
Here: "It's my hope to put in place common sense immigration reform".
Ken Blackwell of Club For Growth is delusional: 47% of Trump's supporters won't vote for Cruz if he's given the nomination by the convention
There's that number again, 47%.
Of Trump's popular vote to date, that's only 3.7 million Trump voters rebelling against the Republicans.
Remember Rush's Limbaugh's "4 million stayed home in 2012"?
Ken Blackwell, quoted here:
“As far as my objective of forcing this into a contested convention, I feel very optimistic about it," said Ken Blackwell, the former Ohio secretary of state who is working with a pair of anti-Trump groups, including Our Principles PAC, which paid for the Wisconsin billboards. ...
Blackwell said he wasn't concerned about a Cruz convention victory splitting the party, as long as the process was “transparent.” He also said the party could afford to alienate new voters Trump is bringing to the party—Blackwell referred to them as “undocumented Republicans”—because the traditional base would be motivated to stop Clinton.
“Folks will get over it,” Blackwell said. “The prospects of Hillary Clinton naming a liberal justice to the Supreme Court, expanding our welfare state and furthering our incompetence in international affairs will drive out the old base that didn't come out for Romney.”
Monmouth poll finds 54% of Republicans say Trump should be nominee even without the necessary 1,237 delegates
Here:
"A majority of all Republican voters (54%) say that the party should get behind Trump as the nominee if he has the most delegates but not enough for a first round ballot victory. Another 34% would like to see the convention nominate someone else in this case."
Germany has a bigger "NPR" problem than we do
From the story here:
. . . the [ironic] message of the video appears to be that critics of multiculturalism must be shut down.
Regardless of equipment, or radio and television usage, all households in Germany must pay a blanket fee of €215.76 per annum which funds public broadcasters ZDF and Deutschlandradio, as well as the nine regional broadcasters of the ARD network.
Sunday, April 3, 2016
I wish Gavin McInnes would tell us what he really thinks about Michelle Fields
Here:
For the record, I think Michelle Fields is full of shit. I think Ben Terris placated her because she’s pretty and he’s a horny beta male. I think her bruises are self-inflicted. She didn’t look down at her arm in the video, which is the first thing you do when someone inflicts pain. I think she’s an attention whore who wants to dominate the news more than she wants to report it. She has a book coming out and all this hype is good for sales. She also has a history of histrionic complaints.
What, she's not a psycho?
Wisconsin's and Ohio's middle classes have shrunk the most since 2000, don't expect establishment types who support free trade and open borders like Cruz and Kasich to fix it
Wisconsin heads the list of states where the middle class has shrunk the most since 2000:
Wisconsin (Gov. Scott Walker 2011-), down 10.4%
Ohio (Gov. John Kasich 2011-), down 10.2%
New Mexico, down 10%
Georgia, down 9.8%
North Dakota (despite the oil!), down 9.7%
Vermont (Democratic Socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders), down 9.5%
Maine, down 9.1%
Nevada, down 9%
Scott Walker has no fire in the belly for tougher immigration enforcement in Wisconsin
Reported here:
Gov. Scott Walker says he doesn't think the state Senate will pass a controversial "sanctuary cities" bill, and he says he's "just fine with that."
The bill, which passed the Assembly last week, would prohibit local ordinances or policies that keep police from asking about someone's immigration status.
Same as he ever was, except when he was running for president against Donald Trump.
Saturday, April 2, 2016
Since the 1990s 144,000 manufacturing and related jobs lost in Wisconsin due to free-trade agreements
Reported here:
Wisconsin has lost more than more than 68,000 manufacturing jobs since the mid-1990s and the first of several controversial trade pacts with Mexico, China and others took hold.
Additionally, the U.S. Department of Labor has certified about 76,000 Wisconsin workers in various fields as having lost their jobs due to either imports or the work they do being shipped overseas. ...
Caterpillar has laid off about 600 of its 800-plus workers over the past two years because of a business slowdown. ...
Wisconsin’s heavy manufacturing sector, once one of the country’s strongest, has been taking a lot of punches in recent years. General Motors, General Electric, Chrysler, Joy Global Surface Mining and Manitowoc Cranes have all cut jobs or closed operations in recent years for a variety of reasons.
Hometown companies such as Kohler, the plumbing supply manufacturer; and Trek Bicycles have offshored jobs to India, China and Taiwan.
Meanwhile, Madison, the state capital, will lose 1,000 jobs over the next two years as the 100-year-old iconic Oscar Mayer meat processing plant shuts down. And just east on I-94 in Jefferson, Tyson Foods will cease operations at its pepperoni processing plant, cutting 400 jobs.
Grand Rapids, Michigan, experienced a temperature anomaly of 5.0 degrees F above normal in March 2016
Temperature averaged 40.6 degrees F, according to the preliminary monthly climate data. The cumulative reported anomaly year to date is +9.3 degrees F.
The very long term mean average temperature in March, however, is 34.0 degrees F using the full NOWdata, so NOAA is saying the normal average is 35.6 degrees F based on a smaller data set which does not incorporate the full record available. Otherwise the anomaly would be 6.6 degrees F, not 5.0. For the year to date, the anomaly from the long term mean is +13.9 degrees F.
Precipitation was 2.57 inches above normal, coming in at 4.94 inches. The very long term mean precipitation average is 2.46 inches in February, however, not 2.37, meaning precipitation was 2.48 inches above the long term normal.
Snowfall was 10.1 inches, 0.9 inches above the mean average of 9.2 for the month calculated going back to the beginning of the record. January is typically the snowiest month at 18.5 inches, followed by December at 15.9 and then February at 13.1. For the season so far, which is effectively over, snowfall has come to 51.7 inches, 11.8 inches below the long term mean average for the season so far (63.5 inches), or 18.6%. Snow is still expected in April.
Heating degree days in March at 749 were 21.4% below the very long term mean of 953. Cumulatively for the season HDD are running 1031 below the normal of 5857, about 17.6%, thanks to the El Nino.
Friday, April 1, 2016
Erick "kamikaze" Erickson attacks Trump's voters
Not unlike Romney attacking the 47% "takers" and Obama attacking the "bitter clingers".
Hey Erick! Try PERSUADING the voters instead of writing them off.
GOP delegate race update: No one can win except Trump, which is why the GOP should embrace him instead of fighting him
According to Breitbart here, it's going to take until about April 15th for the Missouri GOP primary results to be certified by the Secretary of State.
The Missouri GOP shows here that Trump won 37 delegates. Real Clear Politics credits Trump with only 25 from Missouri.
Add those 12 to Trump's current 736, and you get 748, which is 48.5% of the 1541 already allocated:
Trump: has 736 + 12 (48.5%)
Cruz: 463 (30%)
Rubio: 171 (11.1%)
Kasich: 143 (9.3%)
Carson: 9 (0.6%)
Bush: 4 (0.3%)
Fiorina: 1 (0.1%)
Huckabee: 1 (0.1%)
Paul: 1 (0.1%).
That leaves just 931 available, of which Trump needs 489 to get to 1237, or 52.5%:
Trump: needs 489 (52.5% of 931 . . . 1.1 times his current level of support, still very likely)
Cruz: needs 774 (83.1% of 931 . . . 2.8 times his current level of support, nearly impossible)
Kasich: needs 1094 (117.5% of 931 . . . 12.6 times his current level of support, impossible).
The only thing Cruz and Kasich are doing is possibly keeping Trump from making it to 1237.
If they want a needlessly and horribly divided GOP going into the convention, they should continue to play the spoilers. If they do that, they'll be to blame for the catastrophe.
But if they really want to have a chance against the Democrats in the fall, they should unite NOW around Donald Trump.
If Wisconsin is so critical in the GOP race, why have all three candidates traveled away from it this week?
Byron York wants to know, here:
MILWAUKEE — The Wisconsin Republican primary is so critical to Donald Trump that, after having pledged "I'll be here all week" to his supporters, Trump promptly departed to Washington and other destinations for a couple of days off the trail prior to next Tuesday's vote.
The Wisconsin GOP contest is so critical to Sen. Ted Cruz that he took off to California for some fundraising and a guest spot on Jimmy Kimmel, in addition to a stop in North Dakota for its delegate convention, before returning to Wisconsin for a few more days of campaigning.
The Wisconsin primary is so critical to Gov. John Kasich that he headed to New York, where his highest-profile accomplishment was to be photographed eating pizza with a fork.
Students for Trump has 200 chapters in 38 states, began with a Rand Paul supporter
The LA Times reports here:
Students for Trump began as a Twitter account in October in a dorm room at Campbell University in Buies Creek, N.C. Ryan Fournier, a freshman and early supporter of Rand Paul, was drawn to Trump's blunt rhetoric and policies on border control and employment. ... More than 5,000 students in 200 chapters in 38 states are publicly on board. Fifteen chapters have taken hold in California, on campuses including UC Santa Barbara and USC.
Rush has a daydream: The energy out there for Cruz is equal to Trump's
Today's narrative on the show, which is designed, like some of the polling, to make it so, not measure it.
Brad DeLong pretends that taxing the crap out of people isn't an ideology, and blames the voters for disagreeing
Here, where you observe a liberal economist admitting that there is a price to be paid for free-trade:
It is not difficult to see where the blame lies [for what ails America]. As Mark Kleiman of NYU’s Marron Institute points out, the Republican Party’s rigid and die-hard ideological opposition to “taxing the rich [has] destroyed, on a practical level, the theoretical basis for believing that free trade benefits everyone.” ... The responsibility lies instead with politicians peddling ideology over practicality – and thus with the citizens who elect them, as well as those who don’t bother to vote at all.
Now if we could just get the libertarians to admit it.
Erick Erickson's Israel-firster pal Steve Berman thinks everyone who supports Trump should be shunned
Here, where the cultist projects his own cultism onto the real estate magnate:
"Every Trump supporter should be ostracized–especially those in politics, the media, and leadership. Failing to stop the cult of personality is as bad as swearing allegiance to it. Those who play for influence, cater to the Trumpkin crowd to acknowledge their anger, or otherwise make nice with the budding despot must be shunned and called for what they are: cult-enablers. Those who support Trump must be treated as cultists."
Here is an example of the fever from which Steve Berman suffers:
"As Christians, we have a calling to support Israel because it’s God’s desire. As Americans, we have an obligation to support Israel because they represent a free society in a part of the world dominated by oppressive dictatorships. Most importantly, we must support Israel because doing so is walking in the light. We must walk in the light because we are in Christ."
Mollie Hemingway decides Trump is intentionally sabotaging the pro-life movement
Here.
A version of the argument that Trump is working for the Democrats to get Hillary elected.
Mollie views those who kill their unborn children as vulnerable, weak, victimized mothers:
If Trump knew anything at all whatsoever about the pro-life movement, he would know what the movement thinks about abortion and whether mothers should be punished.
Don't you have to give birth and mother a child to be a mother?
This sentimental view of women in an age of equality insulates women from criticism and consequently from responsibility for their actions, a view most recently on display in the case of Michelle "Corey pushed me almost to the floor" Fields.
Thursday, March 31, 2016
The extent of the culture of death is now so deeply ingrained . . .
. . . that conservatives who call into Rush Limbaugh can't even bring themselves to say that the woman who gets an abortion bears any responsibility for killing her own child.
Update:
The caller was Ron in Ft. Wayne, Indiana:
"You wouldn't go after the woman in that situation. You go after whomever performed the abortion itself."
Yeah right. The drug dealer should be prosecuted, not the addict.
Ring any bells?
Update:
The caller was Ron in Ft. Wayne, Indiana:
"You wouldn't go after the woman in that situation. You go after whomever performed the abortion itself."
Yeah right. The drug dealer should be prosecuted, not the addict.
Ring any bells?
Ann Coulter correctly says Mitt Romney lost the 2012 election because he lost the white vote
Here yesterday:
[Stuart] Stevens says Romney tapped out every last white voter and still lost, so he says Republicans are looking for “the Lost Tribes of the Amazon” hoping to win more white votes: “In 1980, Ronald Reagan won 56 percent of white voters and won a landslide victory of 44 states. In 2012, Mitt Romney won 59 percent of whites and lost with 24 states.”
Apparently, no one’s told Stevens about the 50-state Electoral College. ...
Romney lost the white vote to Obama in five crucial swing states: Maine (42 percent of the white vote), Minnesota (47 percent), New Hampshire (48 percent), Iowa (48 percent) and Wisconsin (49 percent). He only narrowly beat Obama’s white vote in other important swing states — Illinois (51 percent), Colorado (52 percent), Michigan (53 percent), Ohio (54 percent) and Pennsylvania (54 percent).
Increasing the white vote in these states gives Trump any number of paths to victory.
I made similar observations here at the end of February, noting how Romney averaged under 50% of the white vote in 21 states, losing them all to Obama.
The opposition finally figures out that Trump will use eminent domain to build The Wall
We told you he would weeks ago.
Randal John Meyer, in "The Great Wall Of Trump Would Be the Ultimate Eminent Domain Horror Show":
Randal John Meyer, in "The Great Wall Of Trump Would Be the Ultimate Eminent Domain Horror Show":
The Government Accountability Office reports (PDF) that “federal and tribal lands make up 632 miles, or approximately 33 percent, of the nearly 2,000 total border miles.” What of the remaining 66 percent? “Private and state-owned lands constitute the remaining 67 percent of the border, most of which is located in Texas.”
That means that if Trump’s plan to build another 1,000 miles of wall is carried to fruition, thousands more homeowners will see their property destroyed or partially walled-off. ...
The fence built so far goes extends [sic] to Texas, which ... means it mostly covers land that was already federally owned. Trump’s new fencing would be built primarily on state-owned and private lands.
The author never tells you Trump beat Texas home boy Ted Cruz in several of the border counties, and reduced his victory to single digits in others.
The Wall has support in Texas.
The Wall has support in Texas.
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Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Rush Limbaugh thinks Trump's too unpopular to win, but forgets how unpopular Reagan was in 1980
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| Gallup presidential polls 1980 |
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| Composite of polls by John Sides |
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| Reagan sweeps with 90% of the electoral college vote |
On March 11th, Rush Limbaugh bought Michelle Field's version of the story hook, line and sinker, but today . . .
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| "Me and my big fat mouth" |
. . . he's going to clam up about it.
You can't unfire the gun, Rush.
Ralph Kramden Limbaugh, March 11th, here:
"She was nearly thrown to the floor and told to essentially to be quiet, no questions, get out of the way, Trump is leaving, what have you. And she claims that it was Trump's campaign manager who did it, a guy named Corey Lewandowski. There are witnesses. There's audio. There's video. She's got the bruises on her arms. ... So it happened."
Marco Rubio proves he's a bad faith Republican just like John Kasich
Kasich, who has no chance to win, remains in the race to prevent Trump from getting enough delegates.
Rubio, who "suspended" his campaign after losing to Trump in Florida, might as well be doing the same thing because, contrary to standard practice, he's trying to bind his delegates to himself instead of releasing them.
From the story here:
"No one has ever really tested this, the idea has always been that when you suspend, you're out," said a senior Republican in Washington, D.C., who did not want to publicly discuss a contested convention.
"No candidate has ever said, 'I want to suspend — but I also want the delegates,'" according to the source. ...
While Rubio is going to great lengths to hold onto his delegates, there is no doubt he has stopped competing in future primaries. This week he sent a signed affidavit to have his name removed from the ballot in California, which awards 172 delegates on the last voting day in June.
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Roger in Detroit runs circles around Rush Limbaugh, gets him to admit he doesn't think Trump can win
Here:
I don't think it's possible for a candidate's negatives to be as high as they're reporting Trump's to be and the guy winning.
Hence Rush's ongoing, thinly veiled support for the closest thing to Reagan, which is Ted Cruz, who can't win enough delegates outright but will have to win enough delegates to be an acceptable alternative to Trump at a brokered convention. Which is why Roger in Detroit opened his attack on Rush by accusing Rush of wanting a brokered convention. That goes hand in hand with support of Cruz at this late stage of the game.
A brokered convention is what Rush is really hoping for, otherwise Rush wouldn't keep emphasizing Kasich's self-absorbed spoiler role in bleeding away the anti-Trump vote from Cruz. Kasich isn't stopping Trump, he's stopping Cruz from making a respectable enough showing to warrant the establishment taking the nomination away from Trump and giving it to Cruz at convention.
Trump's the winner no one with a microphone has the courage to want.
Flashback to Romney in 2013 taking the opposite position he takes now: Let the people decide the nominee, not conventions and caucuses
Quoted here:
“I’m concerned that there’s an effort on the part of some to move toward caucuses or conventions to select nominees. I think that’s a mistake. I’m concerned that that kind of approach could end up with a minority deciding who the nominee ought to be. And that I think would be a mistake. I think we should have a majority of the party's voters decide who they want as their nominee."
Hey Rush! Scott Walker's endorsement won't much help Ted Cruz in Wisconsin where Walker's approval has fallen 20% since 2014
Reported here at the end of February:
The poll found 39 percent approve of [Scott Walker's] job performance, compared with 55 percent who disapprove. ... In a composite of the four Marquette polls taken before his 2014 re-election, his job approval rating was 48.6 percent. In a composite of the last four polls since August, excluding Thursday’s, his job approval level was 38.2 percent.
Hey Rush! America is trying to destroy Trump like Wisconsin tried to destroy Walker . . .
. . . and you're helping them.
Monday, March 28, 2016
Best comment on Trump interview with Wisconsin's Cuckservative Charlie Sykes: "Jeffrey Dahmer was from Wisconsin"
Here.
Yeah, "neighbors heard the sound of sawing at all hours".
Call it the Robert La Follette effect: socialism you can really sink your teeth into.
Hey Levin, forget Trump, TED CRUZ isn't growing HIS support
1528 delegates have been allocated. Cruz has just 30% of them, Trump 48%.
Wake up and support the leader, or you will be just as responsible for a debacle as #neverTrump.
Rush Limbaugh, expert in European history: "Belgium has never been a real country"
Here.
Belgium seceded from the Netherlands in 1830 and has been an independent country ever since. My father helped liberate it from the Germans in 1944. Idiot.
This guy lost his job because of NAFTA, along with 4.5 million other Americans since 1993: He just voted for Trump
From the story, here:
Randall Williams and his wife, Brenda, were two of those workers. For three decades, they helped assemble the hermetically sealed motors that power air conditioners sold all across America. At the end, they were each making $16.10 an hour. That kind of money’s just a dream now: Randall fills orders at a local farm supply store; Brenda works in the high school cafeteria. For a while, he said, their combined income didn’t even add up to one of their old factory wages. ... He voted for the billionaire in Kentucky’s Republican caucus this month. So did many of his neighbors. In Allen County, a collection of eight towns strewn along the Tennessee border, Trump dominated his rivals, racking up 42 percent of the vote on his way to a narrow victory that night in Kentucky.
Sunday, March 27, 2016
Gaydar alert: Fag for Trump gets over 11,000 comments on his op-ed, reminds us Liz Mair is "mannish"
Here:
The first point to be made is that Trump didn’t start the wife-baiting. Make America Awesome, a Trump-opposing PAC founded by the mannish Liz Mair, started circulating a particularly raunchy image of Melania Trump, urging GOP primary voters to back Cruz.
These are your manufacturing jobs lost under Bush and Obama
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| 4.331 million lost under Bush and Obama still net down 523,000 |
Saturday, March 26, 2016
P. J. O'Rourke was more right about John Kasich than he knows
According to careful vote counting by FiveThirtyEight, "Kasich could lay off winner-take-all states where only Cruz has a chance to beat Trump: Wisconsin, Indiana, Nebraska, Montana and South Dakota" in a last ditch strategy with Cruz to divide and conquer Donald Trump's march to 1,237. "Kasich and Cruz’s choice is simple: wage war on Trump on two separate fronts, or lose."
But Kasich is having none of it, in keeping with his previous refusal to work with Marco Rubio in Rubio's quest to keep Florida out of Donald Trump's column. John Kasich is "all in" to the convention, convinced he's the party's savior from the so-called outsiders Trump and Cruz. Kasich already has four events planned in Wisconsin between now and April 1 leading up to the primary there on April 5.
The reason? He is convinced he's a better candidate everywhere than is Cruz, but especially in the Midwest, insisting he wants the presidency and is not interested in "a parlor game of who gets this or who gets that". And as Rush Limbaugh has observed, John Kasich takes himself way too seriously. The man is delusional.
"We don't want to work with those people [Democrats]. We want to defeat them politically, and here comes Kasich! It's all about him. That whole thing, saying that he would be way open to choosing a Democrat? Kasich is taking the occasion here to try to sell himself as something unique and special."
Of course Kasich's not unique and special. The party's problem is that it's given us such Republicans too many times before, candidates whose vision of politics is nothing more than white flag bipartisanship. John McCain was infamous for it in 2008, and his lackey Lindsey Graham also puked out that line this time around, before ignominiously crashing and burning.
It's conventional wisdom out there that Donald Trump is destroying the Republican Party as we know it. But the truth is closer to what P. J. observed last fall, that it has simply killed itself.
John Kasich is just the Republicans' two word suicide note.
Some endorsements for president are all about the money: Scott Walker to support Ted Cruz?
Scott Walker's spendthrift ways campaigning for president infamously put him more than $1 million in debt, according to The Wall Street Journal, here:
Mr. Walker’s FEC report shows he spent $6.4 million between the mid-July launch and the end of September. But those figures don’t include $200,000 in Mr. Walker’s reported outstanding bills or debts the campaign pushed past Oct. 1 – a number that raises the Walker debt to more than $1 million more than his cash on hand, according to the people familiar with Mr. Walker’s campaign finances. ...
When Tim Pawlenty ended his presidential campaign in August 2011, his campaign was $435,000 in the red. Mr. Pawlenty endorsed rival Mitt Romney, whose family and top campaign supporters and aides helped the former Minnesota governor retire his campaign debts by the next April.
Candidates who lose races can owe debt for years. Newt Gingrich still owes $4.6 million from his 2012 campaign. Al Sharpton owes $925,713 from his 2004 White House run.
Hillary Clinton infamously took until the end of 2012 to pay off $12 million she owed from her failed 2008 run for president. The $13.2 million she borrowed from herself she had to eat.
Friday, March 25, 2016
The John Kasich vote is the Rorshach for the "Obamacon" vote, owns about 14% of the GOP primary vote so far
"I ought to be running in a Democrat primary", he said in New Hampshire.
"Just because someone happens to be a Democrat doesn't mean they're disqualified", he said about his possible choice of a vice presidential running mate.
"Well, you know, he received you know overwhelming support, I think even from Senator Hatch, so of course we'd think about it," he said about possibly naming Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court himself, Obama's current pick to replace Scalia.
The Daily Beast reports Marco Rubio camp is source, not Trump, for Ted Cruz cheatin' regularly on Tuesdays and Thursdays story
Here:
Breitbart News, the notoriously Trump-friendly conservative outlet, was also pitched the story of Cruz’s extramarital affairs, according to a source close to the publication. That source said an operative allied with Marco Rubio—but not associated with his official campaign—showed the publication a compilation video of Cruz and a woman other than his wife coming out of the Capitol Grille restaurant and a hotel on Tuesdays and Thursdays. But the outlet opted not to report on the video, which demonstrated no direct evidence of an affair.
“We got it from a Rubio ally,” said the source. “It was too thin, so [Breitbart’s Washington political editor Matt Boyle] decided not to run it. There was no way to verify the claims.”
Hey Rush! Why did Ted Cruz' surrogate think a wife photo was fair game in the race in the first place?
Melania Trump isn't running for anything.
Hey Lyin' Ted Cruz! It's a TED CRUZ ad, dummy!
"The sleaziest dirty tricks campaigner of modern American history." -- Conrad Black
Hey Vinnie from Long Island! Cruz supports TPP and massive expansion of H-1B visas and green cards!
Don't tell me he's not establishment!
Ted Cruz is a phony conservative, which is why Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney and Lindsey Grahamnesty are now lining up behind the guy.
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