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The NRA Placed Big Bets on the 2016 Election, and Won Almost All of Them
the Trace ^ | ·November 9, 2016 | Mike Spies for The Trace and Ashley Balcerzak of OpenSecrets.org

Posted on 11/10/2016 4:19:23 PM PST by RC one

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Anderson Cooper: "You've all made a few people upset over your political careers. Which enemy are you most proud of?"

Hillary Clinton: Well, in addition to the NRA, the health insurance companies, the drug companies, the Iranians. Probably the Republicans.

1 posted on 11/10/2016 4:19:23 PM PST by RC one
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To: RC one

*sob*


2 posted on 11/10/2016 4:26:09 PM PST by sauropod (Beware the fury of a patient man. I've lost my patience!)
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Those “freedom’s safest place” commercials were powerful.


3 posted on 11/10/2016 4:26:16 PM PST by clintonh8r (AMERICA! THANK YOU FOR MAKING MY SCREEN NAME OBSOLETE!)
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Over the last year or two NRA has been airing really well done ads. Whoever they hired to do their ad campaign really knows how to deliver a powerful message.


4 posted on 11/10/2016 4:26:40 PM PST by 6ppc (It's torch and pitchfork time)
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proud to say that I helped pay for those ads.
5 posted on 11/10/2016 4:30:47 PM PST by RC one (The 2nd Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances)
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one of the biggest election-night upsets in memory.

Because he only listens to those in his echo chamber.

6 posted on 11/10/2016 4:37:08 PM PST by libertylover (The problem with Obama is not that his skin is too black, it's that his ideas are too RED.)
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Now that we have halted any national gun control legislation for the forseeable future, the next step is for President Trump to start packing the federal courts with pro-2nd amendment Federal judges and Supreme Court Justices that will strike down these radical state gun control laws that Bloomberg and the like are pushing.


7 posted on 11/10/2016 4:42:12 PM PST by apillar
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The NRA ads, partially in black and white, that said, “I am the NRA,” were very powerful. And many of us here participated in their airing. God bless the NRA. And everyone else who helped beat off the evil we faced.


8 posted on 11/10/2016 4:44:01 PM PST by Sasparilla (Hillary for Prison 2016)
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To: RC one

Those NRA ads are more fun to watch than Hollywood movies.


9 posted on 11/10/2016 4:45:23 PM PST by donna (Donald Trump won!)
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10 posted on 11/10/2016 4:51:45 PM PST by RC one (The 2nd Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances)
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I wish they would have spent some big bucks to defeat Bloomberg’s Prop 1 in Nevada - Universal Background Checks.


11 posted on 11/10/2016 4:59:23 PM PST by Oatka (Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young.)
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To: clintonh8r
My favorite: Colion Noir - Freedom's Safest Place
12 posted on 11/10/2016 5:08:40 PM PST by Stentor
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I really don’t need another gun but the CZ 97 BD 45 is mighty tempting


13 posted on 11/10/2016 5:21:01 PM PST by uncbob
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The NRA’s big night came as a tidal wave of white voters without college degrees voted overwhelmingly for Trump.

This just tightens my jaw.

I hav ehtree degrees in Engineering and the sciences, my brothers and sister all have degrees, and I have to work with at least a couple hundred people all with advanced degrees and I only know of one man who did not vote for Trump.

I will not even get into all my officer friends either retired or in the service who voted for Trump.

It is detestable to so flippantly throw in a sentence painting guns rights voters as not having advanced education.

14 posted on 11/10/2016 5:25:46 PM PST by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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I hav ehtree degrees...

I have three degrees.

I may be able to design things but my spell check abilities leave something to be desired.

15 posted on 11/10/2016 5:29:40 PM PST by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: RC one

Same here


16 posted on 11/10/2016 5:40:29 PM PST by uncbob
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To: RC one

Same here


17 posted on 11/10/2016 5:44:09 PM PST by uncbob
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Same here as well. B.B.A. in Accounting and also J.D. I can’t stand this narrative that gun rights advocates (and also Trump voters in general) are all uneducated. Well, if their definition of educated means I have to think like a brain-dead liberal, then I’ll gladly take that “uneducated” label and wear it as a badge of honor.

Working on my Life Membership through the EPL program. Just sent them another $50 towards that. Obviously it’s been money well spent so far.

While I had my wallet open, I contributed the same here. I know it’s small, but it’s something. After leeching your bandwidth here for years as a lurker, and as a new poster, I wanted to at least give a little something to show my appreciation to FR.


18 posted on 11/10/2016 8:01:25 PM PST by dkjbama (Unedumacated Atturnee)
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Same here, I have a Master’s degree. I used to care at how these leftocrats were condescending. I don’t care now, its part of the reason why they loose, that and all the rioting childishness.


19 posted on 11/10/2016 9:27:49 PM PST by correctthought (placeholder)
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To: RC one

Once again, the right to keep and bear arms is safe. For now.


20 posted on 11/10/2016 10:48:50 PM PST by Jack Hammer
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