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On February 29, 2016, New York Times reporters Amy Chozick and Patrick Healy provided an insider analysis of the Clinton team's plan to defeat Donald Trump. Citing interviews with "more than two dozen" Clinton insiders, including several who spoke directly to Bill Clinton, the article reported on a series of emergency meetings Clinton supporters convened to respond to Donald Trump's February 20 victory in South Carolina and his February 23 win in Nevada. The article reported that Bill Clinton and others argued against those inclined to underestimate Trump "that Mr. Trump clearly had a keen sense of the electorate’s mood...

2016-0307 Presidential Primary Election Numbers & Analysis (click on image for full resolution) This week's presidential primary numbers include the primaries from Saturday and Sunday for the GOP and DNC. On the Republican side, this included Kentucky, Maine, Louisiana, Kansas, and Puerto Rico. On the Democrat side, it included Nebraska, Kansas, Louisian, Maine, and American Samoa. GOP Results: Doanld Trump won Louisiana and Kentucky, though in both states he was contested fairly closely by Ted Cruz. Ted Cruz won going away in Maine and Kansas. And Marco Rubio won his second contest by a huge majority in Puerto Rico....

I looked into Trump University. It was active in the earlier 2000s when a housing boom and then bubble were in full swing. Nearly every person that paid for the training rated it highly and many made a lot of money in real estate. But in 2008, many people lost money. In 2008, there was a massive real estate collapse due to a once-in-a-century banking collapse. Is Donald Trump responsible for the real estate collapse of the late 2000s? Of course not. Is he then responsible for people losing money? No. Greedy lawyers filed for a class action. They certified...

Folks, we need to keep our eye on the prize and settle down. We are going to have a great pro-America candidate whether it's Cruz or Trump, and we're going to crush the godless America-hating Marxist/fascist felon, Hillary Clinton, in the general election! And that's just a fact. And that's the bottom line. We are finally going to secure our borders and start helping repatriate the illegal aliens to Mexico or where ever they came from. And we're going to tighten up and start enforcing our immigration laws, including ending sanctuary cities and possibly ending anchor babies. Both of our...

Romans 11:31 Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy. We have never seen a Party declare and fight an all out war on any candidate like we are seeing now. The GOP has had nearly all of the onion skins removed to reveal itself as one of the most corrupt organizations in DC. What we are watching is the fear of a Party petrified they will lose their power if an outsider was to do the unthinkable and win their Presidency. This is Tea Party times ten. It is obvious...

They're killing us and we're not even bothering to fight back. What do we manufacture in the U.S. anymore? Where have all our manufacturing jobs gone? Why can't we be competitive? Why are our costs so high? Is government the solution or the problem?

My Open Letter to Mitt Romney Mitt March 3, 2016. I am writing this with quite a bit of consternation. I am not sure you will see it, much less read it. But I hope you will. Please forgive the length in advance. I watched your speech today about Donald Trump, and I have to say, I was disappointed. I watched you in 2012 accept Donald Trump's endorsement in Las Vegas. You said glowing things about the man. You were clearly glad to get his endorsement and talked about his success in business and that he was someone who saw...

Keep blasting away at your leading candidate and trying to thwart the will of your voters, you will lose any chance at winning the presidency and you'll lose the House and Senate too. Leftist open-borders RINOs Romney, McCain and the so-called GOP "leaders" are complete idiots. They don't call it the stupid party for nothing.

2016 Super Tuesday Results and GOP Presidential Analysis Now that Super Tuesday is over and tabulated, there are some clear trends setting in. Here is a table of data I am using to see the trends, and comment on the data: Click for a larger, readable image Going into Super Tuesday, some very definite trends had already been established in the GOP Presidential race. Bacisally it was the very steep trend line of Donad Trump in both the cumulative vote and the cumulative delgates from the first four primary contests, the last three of which he had won. Here's...

It appears that the media outlets have already begun to leak exit data about Super Tuesday results. It seems fairly predictable so far. In the same way, what will happen with the Trump and Cruz haters in the media is also predictable. They will deny any victories on the part of either man by comparing it to what some talking head thinks "should have happened". We know that that has been a big part of their playbook to date, and we know that Marco Rubio is their establishment guy. They will pull out all the stops tonight, because he appears...

If there is one thing that this election cycle has exposed is the intense rage that voters feel about the political ruling class (the "establishment") and how deaf and unresponsive they are to the will of the people that they are supposed to represent. We keep thinking that the problem is the people we elect, and that if we elect better people they will pay more attention to us than the pressure groups that end up co-opting them. But how many times have we tried that in the past with no change in the results? (2012 and 2014 are the...

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...