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What a glum, drab debate. ABC clearly tried to make all the candidates look bad, and the bad blood between the candidates left over from Iowa meant that they just did not care about showing any level of solidarity against the media, as they often do. Christie successfully tore down Marco Rubio for the first hour of the debate, but made himself look like a royal, braying jerk in the process. Normally in these posts, I have three winners and three losers, but I don't think there even were three winners - but there were a whole bunch of losers....

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‘YOU SUCK!’ Debbie Wasserman Schultz heckled by NH Dems FEBRUARY 6, 2016 BY KYLE OLSON Share on Facebook869Tweet This73Reddit5371.4k Debbie Wasserman Schultz has got to be hoping Hillary Clinton can take down Bernie Sanders in the primary. Or it’s going to be a long road to November. The chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee was mercilessly heckled while she spoke at a Democratic Party dinner in Manchester, New Hampshire Friday night. C-SPAN cameras were trained on a man holding a flashing Bernie Sanders sign who sat stone-faced while the audience cheered Wasserman Schultz. “We’re going to stand up and fight!”...

Politics is a fast-paced and unpredictable game, and sometimes, unfortunate things happen. That's the best way I can describe what occurred on caucus night in Iowa when CNN implied that Ben Carson was dropping out of the Republican race, and the Cruz campaign swiftly alerted caucus-goers that they should consider voting for Ted Cruz instead. Let's start from the beginning. Shortly before the Iowa caucus was set to begin, CNN's Jake Tapper reported: ...

<p>MSNBC's feisty debate between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton received high marks from political observers, but not high ratings from ordinary viewers.</p> <p>It was the lowest-rated debate of the 2016 election cycle by far, according to preliminary Nielsen data. The debate had a 3.3 household rating in Nielsen's metered markets.</p>

Political pundits and Republican leaders like to say that nobody could have foreseen the extraordinary rise of Donald J. Trump’s presidential candidacy. But there were early signs that the electorate was ready for an insurgency like the one Mr. Trump has inspired this election. And some of the most powerful of those indicators came from New Hampshire. In 2014, Scott Brown, a Republican and former Massachusetts senator who was running for a Senate seat in New Hampshire, aired an ad that seemed a curious fit for the state: As ominous music played in the background, and scenes of southern border...

Listening to these two old angry white hacks is very funny folks. No joke. They are really going at it....

1st Event Friday, February 5, 2016: GOP Presidential candidate Donald Trump will hold a town hall event in Londonderry, NH at the Londonderry Lion's Club. The event is scheduled to begin at 12:30 PM EST. 2nd Event Friday, February 5, 2016: GOP Presidential candidate Donald Trump will hold a campaign rally in Florence, SC at the Florence Civic Center at 7:00 PM CST. LONDONBERRY, NH Londonderry is a town in western Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. The town is bordered on the north by the city of Manchester and on the east by the town of Derry. The population...

EXETER GOP Presidential candidate Donald Trump will hold a campaign event in Exeter, NH at Exeter Town Hall at 12:00 PM EST. Exeter is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. The town's population was 14,306 at the 2010. PORTSMOUTH GOP Presidential candidate Donald Trump will hold a campaign rally in Portsmouth, NH at Great Bay Community College. The event is scheduled to begin at 7:00 PM EST. Portsmouth is a city in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, in the United States. Population of 21,233. It's an historic seaport and popular summer tourist destination. Todays Trivia 1. What was...

Several presidential candidates began arriving Tuesday from Iowa, joining others in New Hampshire in a seven-day sprint to the nation's first primary. Facing a different set of voters and an expanded playing field on the GOP side, 2016 hopefuls are now wooing a more moderate, less religious electorate. For Democrats, with former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley out of the race, the race between Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has intensified after a virtual dead heat finish in Iowa. The Clinton campaign declared victory with all but Iowa one precinct counted. The state's Democratic Party...

January 31, 2016BREAKING: New Hampshire Poll - Donald Trump Extends Lead - More Than Cruz, Rubio, Bush Combined by sundanceA new poll From Franklin Pierce (full pdf below) on behalf of the Boston Herald shows Donald Trump gaining an additional 5 points in the past week. Trump now dominates the New Hampshire polling with 38%, Ted Cruz with 13% and Bush/Rubio with 10% each.In addition, almost 60% of New Hampshire voters now see Donald Trump as inevitable Republican Presidential Nominee:( FULL POLL DATA ) BOSTON HERALD – […] Trump has a massive 25-point advantage over his nearest rival Cruz while...

If Donald Trump wants to make sure no Ted Cruz supporter will ever vote for him, he's doing a terrific job of it. How else to explain his most recent insult calling Cruz "an anchor baby in Canada"? This is pure insanity... and it's an entirely different kind of attack than what we're used to in politics, especially because it involves two people from the same party...

For those of us who have been waiting decades for a Republican presidential candidate to figure out that the Establishment Media is already at war with us, Donald Trump is not only an answer to that prayer but an effective answer. After just taking down the once-infallible Fox News a notch, in New Hampshire Friday, The Donald eviscerated New Hampshire’s Union Leader. The New York Times: Mr. Trump has denounced the paper repeatedly since it endorsed Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey for president, but on Friday he let loose with a new and more intense stream of invective against...

NASHUA, N.H. On Friday and Saturday, the New Hampshire Republican Party held its final big event before the February 9 GOP primary. The First-in-the-Nation Presidential Town Hall, at the Nashua Radisson, attracted the local officials, activists, and politicos who make up the state GOP establishment. They heard from Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush, John Kasich, Rand Paul, and other candidates who hope to make a mark in New Hampshire. But lying just beneath the attendees' enthusiasm for the candidates was a remarkable level of confusion, frustration, and just plain bewilderment at what is going on in their state's presidential race. How...

A well-funded Republican super-PAC is intensifying its assault on GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump, preparing to hit the airwaves in New Hampshire and Iowa. By the time its anti-Trump campaign is done, Our Principles PAC will get its messages before nearly every Republican voter in both Iowa and New Hampshire, founder Katie Packer said Thursday in a telephone interview with The Hill. "This is new money," she said when asked whether this campaign should be counted within the more than $1 million of anti-Trump ads already disclosed to the Federal Election Commission by her super-PAC. A larger but undisclosed amount...

"....The Washington Examiner's Byron York reports on the burgeoning Kaelism among Republican poobahs who were gathered at Saturday's First in the Nation Town Hall in Nashua. "Most of the politicos in Nashua didn't deny that the polls are what they are," York writes. "They just explained that they haven't personally encountered evidence that the Trump-dominated polls are accurate." As one "very well-connected state Republican" says, "I don't see it....I don't feel it. I don't hear it, and I spend part of every day with Republican voters." Former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu and his wife, after racking their brains to...

In New Hampshire, Trump"s grab-bag of populist positions and singular persona match an ideologically promiscuous electorate, and Trump towers above the field. Speaking for less than an hour to about 1,000 attendees, a hoarse Trump cast himself as a man apart from the entire political system, painting Hillary and Ted and Jeb as beholden to their donors. I am the only one that is funding my own campaign on either side, Democrat or Republican, which makes me feel a little bit lonely, he said.

At this point, Donald Trump is simply crushing the opposition in the Florida Republican primary, said Kevin Wagner, Ph.D., associate professor of political science at FAU and a research fellow of the Initiative. Not only has he increased his lead, Mr. Trump’s favorability ratings among Republicans are now ahead of his competitors by a substantial margin. CNN/WMUR New Hampshire poll: Trump — 34 Cruz — 14 Bush — 10 Rubio — 10 Christie — 6 Kasich — 6 Paul — 6 Fiorina — 4 Carson — 3

Conway, N.H. - Ted Cruz says the Republican presidential primary has reached a "new phase." He's acting like it, too. Less than a month ago, the Texas senator was predicting the contest would narrow, as it typically has, to a two-man race between a conservative and an establishment favorite. But it turns out 2016 may have surprises in store even for Ted Cruz. On Monday afternoon, as his campaign bus barrels down the highway here, Cruz appears to be surveying an altogether different landscape from the one he'd anticipated: Instead of a potential showdown with Marco Rubio or Jeb Bush,...

"..."He represents us - tea party America," said Mike Walker, a police officer from nearby New Ipswich, New Hampshire. He wore a Second Amendment button to the event and said protecting gun rights was his priority issue, along with securing the nation's borders. Walker also likes that Cruz has frequently butted heads with Republicans and party leadership. And while he also likes Trump, Walker said he prefers Cruz because he's stronger on gun issues and not as big of a "wildcard" as the billionaire from New York. Cruz's trademark anti-establishment pitch, filled with quotes from scripture and support from evangelical...