Vox: Give a little thought to what a GOP campaign against Bernie Sanders might look like

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Wednesday February 03, 2016 · 7:14 AM PST

2016/02/03 · 07:14

The Berniebots are going to scream about this, but this Vox article makes an excellent point: Bernie has never faced an assault from the GOP, while Hillary has fought them for decades and has beaten them.

Bernie’s supporters are crying about suggestions that maybe Socialism is not a winning message for America... and just what do you think the GOP would do if Bernie was the nominee? They are not going to be nice and play fair.

And it’s not just about the campaign season, a major part of the job of being a Democratic President is fighting Civil War II with the Republicans. Obama has gotten very good at it, Hillary is great at it. Very doubtful whether Bernie would be any good at it.

It’s fine to like Bernie’s message, but you should realize he would be wrecked by the GOP in any kind of fight. All I’m saying is, use your damn head.

www.vox.com/...

NYT: Signs Indicate That Obama’s Debt Ceiling Gamble May Be Paying Off

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Tuesday October 15, 2013 · 8:30 PM PDT

2013/10/15 · 20:30

Obama and the Democrats have utterly defeated the Tea Party.

This is a must-read article on how they did it. It's the sweetest thing I've ever read.

http://www.nytimes.com/...

WASHINGTON — More than two years ago, President Obama was still in the thick of his previous showdown with Republican House leaders over the nation’s debt limit when he called five senior advisers into his office. He did not ask their advice, one said. Rather, he told them, in a way that brooked no discussion: From now on, no more negotiating over legislation so basic and essential to the economy, and the country.
“I’m not going through this again. It’s bad for democracy. It’s bad for the presidency,” Mr. Obama said, according to the adviser, who declined to be identified describing internal discussions. The president then told the group — his Treasury secretary, chief Congressional lobbyist, chief economic adviser and both his and the vice president’s chiefs of staff — to spread that word, “even in your body language.”

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Monday September 30, 2013 · 1:09 PM PDT

2013/09/30 · 13:09

Here's the Grytpype Plan to end the hostage drama:

Boehner wants to bring clean CR and debt ceiling bills to the floor, but he can't because the Teabags would take his speakership away.

That really is what the hostage taking is all about. It's Boehner's speakership being held hostage by Teabags, so no clean bill can be voted on.

So here's the way out: the Dems could pledge a few votes to support Boehner as speaker, to make up for the loss of Teabag votes. America is saved, Boehner's job is saved, the Teabags are isolated and powerless, everyone wins except the weird old racists.

This would put an end to the current hostage drama and pave the way for bipartisan, non-Teabag legislative solutions going forward.

Obama sure got a lot done on Syria with ZERO support from you!

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Tuesday September 10, 2013 · 12:08 PM PDT

2013/09/10 · 12:08

BREAKING: Syrian foreign minister says Syria will declare its chemical weapons arsenal, sign chemical weapons convention. — The Associated Press (@AP) 2:26 PM - 10 Sep 2013

Done without a single missile or bomb or drop of blood, in the face of total opposition by liberal weepers, emoprogs, Republican traitors and opportunists, and virtually everyone else.

He's a better President than we deserve to have. We deserve a nitwit like George W. or a creep like Romney.

John McCain verbally assaulted by angry Tea Partiers at Town Hall meeting on immigration

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Tuesday February 19, 2013 · 5:42 PM PST

2013/02/19 · 17:42

Miami Herald: McCain defends immigration plan to angry residents

This is one of the funnest diaries I've ever written.

During a heated town hall gathering in the Phoenix suburb of Sun Lakes, McCain said the border near Yuma is largely secure, but said smugglers are using the border near Tucson to pump drugs into Phoenix. He said immigration reform should be contingent on better border security that must rely largely on technology able to detect border crossings.
McCain said a tamper-proof Social Security card would help combat identity fraud, and noted any path to citizenship must require immigrants to learn English, cover back taxes and pay fines for breaking immigration laws.

"There are 11 million people living here illegally," he said. "We are not going to get enough buses to deport them."

Some audience members shouted out their disapproval.

One man yelled that only guns would discourage illegal immigration. Another man complained that illegal immigrants should never be able to become citizens or vote. A third man said illegal immigrants were illiterate invaders who wanted free government benefits.

McCain urged compassion. "We are a Judeo-Christian nation," he said. McCain's other town hall meeting took place in Green Valley, south of Tucson.

The Teabags are destroying the GOP from within while demographics destroy it from without.

They will absolutely not let the GOP take a reasonable, non-insane position on any issue.

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Monday November 05, 2012 · 8:37 AM PST

2012/11/05 · 08:37

Since Obama's a lock to win enough states for re-election, here's something new for you to worry about: GOP efforts to corrupt the Electoral College itself.

Disgruntled Activists May Target Electors

Last-ditch efforts to win the presidency won’t end Tuesday.
The 538 members of the Electoral College do not officially cast their votes until Dec. 18, leaving them the target of intense pressure from campaigns to influence the race for the White House after all votes are cast and the winner declared.

In 2008, conservatives who argued that then-Sen. Barack Obama was not born in the United States targeted hundreds of Democratic electors.
Sam Spencer, a 2008 Democratic elector in North Carolina, said he received at least 30 letters questioning Obama’s eligibility and urging him to change his vote.

“It was electoral voter suppression; they were trying to suppress the vote,” Spencer said in an interview with Roll Call. “I got an odd package that had a petition and I’m thinking in the back of my mind, ‘this is the one they probably put anthrax in.’ ”

William Forsee, another 2008 Democratic elector for Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District, received a similar package from the conservative website WorldNetDaily, as well as dozens of emails and letters demanding he drop his support for Obama.

NYT: Ryan says he wants to be Romney's Dick Cheney of domestic policy.

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Saturday November 03, 2012 · 9:54 PM PDT

2012/11/03 · 21:54

The final gaffe of the campaign. You read it here first.

http://www.nytimes.com/...

Representative Paul D. Ryan may have largely disappeared from the national spotlight down the campaign homestretch, ceding attention to Mitt Romney. But if the Republican ticket prevails, Mr. Ryan plans to come back roaring, establishing an activist vice presidency that he said would look like Dick Cheney’s under President George W. Bush.

The prospect of a deeply engaged vice president was described in interviews with campaign aides, close House colleagues and the few times Mr. Ryan has discussed his potential future job. Asked by a reporter last month if he expected the kind of broad responsibility for the economy that Mr. Cheney held for national security — as an aide suggested — Mr. Ryan said, “I do.”
“A large reason he was chosen was to help Romney govern,” an adviser to the campaign said. “Paul’s going to focus on being a partner.”

Democrats in the Bush years, of course, criticized Mr. Cheney for usurping for himself a kind of co-presidency.

Words. Fail. Me.

538: In Polls, Romney’s Momentum Seems to Have Stopped

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Thursday October 25, 2012 · 8:04 AM PDT

2012/10/25 · 08:04

Nate sez Mittmentum has ground to a halt, as rMoney fails to make further advances after the Denver Debate Debacle:

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/...

Mr. Romney clearly gained ground in the polls in the week or two after the Denver debate, putting himself in a much stronger overall position in the race. However, it seems that he is no longer doing so.
Take Wednesday’s national tracking polls, for instance. (There are now eight of them published each day.) Mr. Romney gained ground in just one of the polls, an online poll conducted for Reuters by the polling organization Ipsos. He lost ground in five others, with President Obama improving his standing instead in those surveys. On average, Mr. Obama gained about one point between the eight polls.

If Obama hadn't choked in Denver, Mitt would have been abandoned as a candidate shortly thereafter. Obama's debate performance was a gift to an idiot, but the campaign quickly recovered, stopped Mitt's rise, and will win in November.

NYT 538: The Statistical State of the Presidential Race

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Monday September 24, 2012 · 8:51 AM PDT

2012/09/24 · 08:51

Sorry about the short diary, am at work.

If anyone tells you this race could go either way, you now have permission to laugh in their face.

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/...

Of the 19 candidates who led in the polls at this stage since 1936, 18 won the popular vote (Thomas E. Dewey in 1948 is the exception), and 17 won the Electoral College (Al Gore lost it in 2000, along with Mr. Dewey).
Of course, if Mr. Obama led in the race by 30 percentage points — as Lyndon B. Johnson did in 1964 — there wouldn’t be much need for such detailed analysis, and FiveThirtyEight might be free to blog about the baseball playoffs.

If you eliminate the candidates with double-digit leads, the front-runner’s record is eight Electoral College wins in 10 tries, or a batting average of 80 percent.

The Romney Disaster: Election news for Monday morning (NYT)

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Sunday September 23, 2012 · 8:38 PM PDT

2012/09/23 · 20:38

There's a lot of sweet reporting this morning on the unfolding meltdown of the Romney campaign. Here are a couple quick links, every one a must read!

NYT: Romney Blames Obama for His Campaign Challenges

Speaking to reporters as his private charter plane flew from Los Angeles to Denver, Mr. Romney blamed his relatively languid campaign schedule — five public events in the past seven days, compared with 11 fund-raisers — on the president’s decision to opt out of the federal campaign finance system four years ago, and criticized Mr. Obama for, he said, “trying to fool people into thinking that I think things I don’t.”
Asked why he was behind in the polls in most swing states, Mr. Romney accused the Obama campaign of distorting his record.

NYT: Conservatives Want to ‘Let Ryan Be Ryan’ on Campaign Trail

“If someone says you’re going to change Medicare as we know it, you say, ‘You’re damned right.’ Paul Ryan can give that answer,” Mr. Chocola said, adding, “The Romney ticket would be well served to let Paul Ryan be Paul Ryan.”

BREAKING! Cain says he'd be leading Obama if he were nominee

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Friday September 21, 2012 · 9:52 AM PDT

2012/09/21 · 09:52

Cain's No Taxes on Pizza policy would put him in the White House for sure!

http://www.gainesville.com/...

Cain told members of the media after the speech that Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney's recent “47 percent” comment was a “non-story” being blown out of proportion by the media. But Cain said he would have been doing better if he was the nominee, saying that he'd probably have a “substantial lead” on President Barack Obama at this point.
“The reason is quite simple: I have some depth to my ideas,” he said.

WaPo: Romney campaign hits a financial snag

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Thursday September 20, 2012 · 8:58 PM PDT

2012/09/20 · 20:58

I honestly didn't see this coming: the Mitt "Money Boo Boo" Romney campaign is running out of money!

Romney campaign hits a financial snag

The financial tide turned against Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his key allies, who spent more than they brought in during the month of August, according to disclosures filed Thursday.
Romney’s presidential campaign committee raised nearly $67 million last month — a strong figure — but spent about the same amount building its campaign organization and responding to a barrage of attack ads from Obama and his allies. Even so, the campaign spent just $13.7 million on ads, which was less than the $15 million it spent in July.

In addition to his cash-flow problems, Romney had more trouble raising money from grass-roots donors in August, with just 14 percent of his total coming from contributions of $200 or less — a significant drop from the month before. Obama has collected about 40 percent of his monthly hauls from donors giving $200 or less.
Romney, however, continued to do well among the wealthiest donors who are able to legally give more than $70,000 to the Romney campaign, the RNC and associated committees. Romney and the RNC say they had a total of $170 million cash on hand at the end of August.

Lucky for Mitt he can break open his Swiss bank account and self-finance if the donors give up on him. Read More

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