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On the eve of Super Tuesday we are about to witness (and many will take part in) a pivotal day in the GOP Presidential Primary Election of 2016. Donald Trump is building momentum. He has won the last three elections straight and his polling numbers and delegate count are both rising rapidly. He seems almost unstoppable. Only two men are in any kind of position to blunt Donald Trump's momentum. They are senator Ted Cruz of Texas, and Senator Marco Rubio of Florida. Ted Cruz won the Iowa vote and is the only other candidate in the GOP line...

Trump supporters, I would like to celebrate the Session's endorsement, by giving F.R. a $10 spot. Would any of you like to join me, and help push the FReepathon over the top? 0050 = $00,500.00 0100 = $01,000.00 0250 = $02,500.00 0500 = $05,000.00 1000 = $10,000.00 Gotta go, I'm going to donate right now! Click on the graphic to join me...

This thread is about the 2016 Presdidentail Primary Data I have accumulated to date. I have been tracking it since September 1st, and am now set up to track specifically by the vote, and not including non-viote polls any longer. We will let the vote itself tell us what we need to know. Here's the table with the raw numbers: I have established four charts for the GOP and four for the DNC. They incvlude the following for each: -State by State percentage of the Vote -Overall average fo the total Vote -Cumulative Vote Mumbers -Cumulative Delegate Count (including Super...

My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.1 John 3:18 KJV Is any science trustworthy? The Marxists accuse conservatives of being Flat Earthers who are anti-science to dehumanize their view, but the Marxists are actually the ones who do not follow the true science model. Science requires a skepticism of its theories until it becomes a fact beyond doubt which very few things are in the subjective sciences. We have watched the deterioration of science over the past fifty years in all of the soft sciences which would be anything...

After last night's debate...which was as fiery, and in many ways, as unconrtolled a debate as we have seen yet...I thought that an analysis of the two leading challengers to Trump as a front runner should be examined. I believe how they do in their own home states is as strong a bellweather as you can get on their prospects against Trump as any. Simply stated, each candidate simply MUST win in their home state against Trump to have any chance at all. These are states where both men, Cruz in TX and Rubio in FL, ammassed millions of votes...

The Donald Trump PhenomenonStraight Talk I am a Ted Cruz supporter, but I want to say a thing or too to my Republican brothers and sisters...indeed to all of my American brothers and sisters...about Donald Trump. I hear many people, analysts, prgnosticators, and politicians trying to explain the Turmp "Phenomenon." They go to great lengths about all sorts of things when it is really pretty easy and straight forward. It's a three bullet point explanation: Most American people have lost complete faith in career politians and the political establishment on both sides of the aisle. Most American pople are...

Clearly, the "professional" Washington establishment class is suffering through their sequential losses of Jeb! and the also-running and future losses of Kasich, Pataki, Graham, Fiorino, Christie, etc. Those efforts to dilute the field by loading 17 players on a weak bench have failed. Are still failing to win the hearts of the voters on both sides. Now, the DC class are climbing in Rubio's lifeboat and hanging onto the side of Kasich's over-inflated rubber raft, but we don't know if either lifeboat will capsize under the weight of too many consultants, or be empowered by the strength of extra oars...

Romans 1:22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, This is the best election evah. Donald Trump has changed the entire landscape of America and exposed all of the hidden institutions turning them on their heads. This has never happened before and the movers and shakers of this country do not know how to react. Old Media of course is lining up to protect Bernie for the upcoming General election, but they have a tough time going after another one of their own. Here is a capitalist of the highest level who dealt Real Estate in the hundreds of...

Debate Performance Cannot Overshadow Decades of Personal HistoryOne of the aspects of the current campaign climate that I find deeply discouraging is the fact that the majority of the American electorate spends little or no time learning about the candidates in the weeks and months leading up to the primaries, and they apparently spend little or no time during non-election years paying attention to the roles that American politicians, and would-be candidates, play in events and policymaking that are happening both in America and elsewhere around the globe. One of the shocking and disturbing ramifications of that sad state of...

I'm trying to get into this CNN Town Hall thing, but so far is sucks wet dog fur. Until Donald Trump came on stage!!!! What a contrast! I'm sorry, no offense to Kasich and Bush but Trump's responses matter...they are on the money. They are answers no other candidate could give... to questions no other candidate would get. Oh...CW you don't believe me? They asked him a question about the music he likes... then he moved into Michael Jackson, and how he knew the man.. and the surgery that usurped him confidence that led to his demise etc. Who else...

One of the big reasons I got fed up with the Democrats and left is that Barack Hussein Obama broke with the tradition of previous Presidents, from JFK to Nixon, Reagan, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush, all from both parties, of honouring the only free-market and free society country in the Middle East, that is Israel. Obama joins Michael Moore, Max Blumenthal, Dhimmi Carter, alongside Fidel Castro, George Galloway, Jeremy Corbyn, and other radical crazies. George HW Bush was an exception to this, tho come to think of it, he was nicer to Shamir than Obama was to Netanyahu,...

2 Corinthians 1:12 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward. This is the greatest election ever and it is only just begun. We have the outsiders completing the work the Tea Party had begun and Moscow on the Potomac has no idea what is about to hit them. When you look at the two Parties you have one which is being headed by some old as dirt Leninists...

Over the past several months, Free Republic has begun to show an ugly side of its members. Although admittedly comprised of many strong-willed, opinion-charged individuals presenting thoughtful, conservative insights into the topics of the day, this forum has begun to show a seamier side as the Trump-Cruz-Rubio-Carson 2016 Primary heated up. You all know what I mean. Many of you have either been at the giving or receiving end of EMOTIONALLY-charged attacks against various candidates or even individuals as their supporters. Herewith a few thoughts I would like to share: Passion for a candidate and buying into the campaign is...

This is a short dissertation on the Real political spectrum, Each step of the way will be confirmed by the dictionary definitions of the various political ideologies and how they relate to the spectrum. In order to properly set it out in a logical manner we need to base it on the metric of governmental power since this should be the clearest method of distinguishing where the ideologies fall on the spectrum. 1. Government Control scale. For the sake of simplicity we will use a scale of %0 to %100 with zero for no governmental control and ranging up to...

As much as I love Cruz as a conservative, there really is a voter rebellion underway and it may be unstoppable. Despite all the denials, the simple truth is the voters really are fed-up and really are up in arms against the establishment. Trump's message is exactly what the voters are looking for: Build the wall, enforce the law, deport them all, slap a moratorium on Muslim immigration, bomb the hell out of ISIS, cut the taxes, cut the spending, cut the regulations, cut the government, cut the bad trade deals, cut the political correctness crap, bring back capital, bring...

He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life, righteousness, and honour. Proverbs 21:21 KJV What if everything man knows is wrong? What if everything is built on a fraud and that fraud is maintained by the elite to keep them in charge? What if they have sold us a bill of goods through both fraud and poorly thought out ideas? If this charge is true then it is time for America to take a look at a new way of doing things than the way it has been since Roosevelt. We have been following evolution as the state religion...

President Obama's Lecture from the MosqueThe Rest of the Story Thoughts on Obama's Lecture: From watching and listening to President Barack Hussein Obama lecture all of us as he spoke at the Balitmore Mosque last week...he not only looks entirely comfortable there, heck, you would have thought he was the main Imam cleric for the Mosque. He used their language because he knows it. The teachings of Mohammed flowed naturally off of his lips, because he was raised with it. Earlier he announced to the world in his book that the most beautiful sound in the world in the Islamic...

Q: Why are the voters rebelling? A: The leftist progressives have been treading on our constitution and our liberty for at least the last 100 years and consequently we've suffered a long train of abuses and usurpations: The income tax (16th amendment), ending state sovereignty/concentrating power at the federal level (the 17th amendment), the Fed, heavy-handed/unconstitutional regulations, socialized retirement, socialized health care, restrictions on religious liberty, legalized abortion, federal mandated homosexual marriage with the heavy hand of the federal government enforcing it over the objections of the states and small business operators, the illegal alien invasion, the subversive Muslim invasion,...

Former President Bill Clinton on Tuesday said that, as candidates, Bernie Sanders and Barack Obama have "traumatic differences" in appeal — and dispelled any notion that the Vermont senator could beat Hillary Clinton, his wife, in the race for the White House. Bill Clinton told NBC News' Andrea Mitchell at a campaign event in New Hampshire that President Obama had a different feel than Sanders, calling the president "new, different." "Barack Obama is not Bernie Sanders, let's not play cheap games here," he said. Bill Clinton argued that Sanders policy positions are a red flag from some Democratic voters, an...

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