Category Archives: Elections

What If They Held An Election Where The Majority Distrusted And Loathed The Candidates?

It would be an interesting election, would it not? Well, as the NY Times’ Michael Barbaro explains, that’s where we are headed Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Are Winning Votes, but Not Hearts The victories were lopsided. The celebrations were effusive. The delegates were piling up by the hundreds. But Donald J. Trump and Hillary […]

Washington Post: Trump Won Nevada On Anger

The Nevada caucuses are over, and Donald Trump took it handily, garnering 45.9% of the vote, which gives him another 12 delegates. Rubio was at 23.9%, while Ted Cruz had 21.4%, and each receives 5 delegates. The Washington Post’s Phillip Bump knows why Trump keeps winning: anger How Donald Trump dominated Nevada, in one word: […]

Takeaways From New Hampshire

The numbers from New Hampshire Trump 35%, Kasich 16%, Cruz 12%, Bush 11%, Rubio 11%, Cristie 7%, Fiorina 4%, Carson 2%. The win earned Trump 9 delegates and Kasich 3, with zero for the rest. Sanders 60%, Clinton 38%. Somehow, this leads to 13 delegates for Sanders and 16 for Hillary. It’s due to the […]

Cruz Win Iowa, Hillary Barely Ahead Of Sanders

Here we go (Fox News) Iowa’s Democratic Party said early Tuesday that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had gained an insurmountable lead over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in the state’s caucuses, but stopped short of officially declaring her the winner — while Texas Sen. Ted Cruz scored a decisive win over Donald Trump in the […]

EJ Dionne Writes On The “Long, Painful Road To Iowa”

There’s obviously been quite a bit written on the road to Iowa, which starts off primary voting to pick the Democratic and Republican party contenders for president. Jeb! is trying to stay relevant. Hillary is supposedly going to go after Trump. Trump is supposedly winning over Latinos (well, yeah, he’s for amnesty). Rubio supposedly has […]

North Carolina Trial On Voter ID Starts Monday

It’s telling that the use of voter ID has made many liberals very unhappy. It’s almost like the use of voter ID and other measures to ensure proper voting is inconvenient for Democrats (Washington Post) The photo-ID rules — part of one of the strictest voting laws in the country — will go on trial […]

Say, Where Do Presidential Candidates Stand On The Subject Of Hotcoldwetdry?

Now, many Conservatives and Republicans may be thinking “this whole climate change issue is meaningless, and better left off the agenda for the debates”. At surface level, they seem correct. When it comes to polls on what Americans care about, climate change is almost always dead last or next to last. However, the Cult Of […]

Money In Politics Totally Becoming A Big Issue For 2016

This is published in a paper that supported a guy who raised over three quarters of a billion dollars for each of his presidential campaigns, much of it from unknown small donors, to go with all the big monied donors, and will certainly support Hillary, who’s people have talked about raising $2 billion for 2016. […]

For 2016, Romney And Clinton Lead The Pack

It’s apparently never too early to think of the 2016 presidential election (poll results here) (Fox News) Former Massachusetts Gov. and 2012 Republican nominee Mitt Romney leads the growing pack for the GOP presidential nomination, while former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton remains far ahead among Democrats. Romney dominates the field for the 2016 Republican […]

NY Times Editorial Board Already In Sour Grapes Mode

Yes they are Negativity Wins the Senate Republicans would like the country to believe that they took control of the Senate on Tuesday by advocating a strong, appealing agenda of job creation, tax reform and spending cuts. But, in reality, they did nothing of the sort. Even the voters who supported Republican candidates would have […]

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