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With Donald Trump set for a yuuge victory in tomorrow's Super Tuesday slugfest - oddsmakers see 80% chance of Trump being the nominee - tensions are mounting dramatically within the Republican establishment. As The FT reports, many mainstream Republicans believe Mr Trump would struggle to beat Hillary Clinton and are urgently rallying around their man Rubio with some senior Republicans saying privately that they might consider voting for Mrs Clinton if Mr Trump were to end up as their party nominee as one conservative commentator exclaimed "we are on the verge of a real meltdown in the Republican party." Trump's...

Not feeling too frisky right now, so, just in case, I ordered absentee ballots today.It's something to think about, if you're a bit gray and creaky.

A Black Lives Matter protester was escorted out of a $500 per person Hillary Clinton fundraiser on Wednesday after she interrupted the Democratic presidential candidate's speech, which was being held at the home of a Charleston, South Carolina attorney. Video from the incident shows Clinton supporters hissing at the activist, Ashley Williams, while others call her protest "inappropriate."

Senator Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)79% condemned a recreational gun range that banned Muslims from their facility, during a presidential forum with Fox News host Megyn Kelly. One member of the audience asked Rubio about the incident, where a Muslim-American army reservist was denied access to the facility in Oklahoma, and asked for his reaction to the incident. "The story you just told me is wrong. It's immoral. We should not be doing that to people,""Rubio said. "The bottom line is there are millions of patriotic Muslim Americans." A lawsuit against the gun range was filed by 29-year-old Raja'ee Fatihah, a...

Donald Trump’s tough immigration plan didn’t prevent him from winning the Latino vote in the Silver State Tuesday night.According to entrance polls, Trump won 45 percent of Latinos who participated in the Republican caucuses in Nevada, nearly as much as the combined total of the two Latino candidates in the race, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. Rubio garnered 29 percent of the Latino vote, while Cruz attracted 18 percent.(RELATED: Exit Polls In South Carolina And New Hampshire: GOP Primary Voters Say They Support ‘Amnesty‘ Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/02/24/entrance-polls-trump-dominates-latino-vote-in-nevada/#ixzz4164GWYSU

Several well-funded organizations -- including the League of Women Voters and the NAACP -- are fighting efforts to prevent non-citizens from voting illegally in the upcoming presidential election. And the United States Department of Justice, under the direction of Attorney General Loretta Lynch, is helping them. On February 12, these groups filed a lawsuit in D.C. federal court seeking to reverse a recent decision by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC). The Commission's decision allows Kansas and other states, including Arizona and Georgia, to enforce state laws ensuring that only citizens register to vote when they use a federally designed...

Thomas Sowell has been an intellectual giant in the conservative movement for decades. Despite rarely making appearances in the media, the economist and author has managed to become a household name among conservatives... Senator Ted Cruz has been criticized in this column before, and will undoubtedly be criticized here again. But we can only make our choices among those actually available, and Senator Cruz is the one who comes to mind when depth and steadfastness come to mind.

Welcome to the Free Republic CaucusPlease read the rules, and participate according to the guidelines provided.  Thank you. REMEMBER:  To find the Caucus thread for the day, Search "Caucus".      The South Carolina Primary takes place in five days. Only vote on this thread on: 02/15/2016  another thread will pop up moments before: 02/16/2016Wait to vote until 12:00 midnight EST, and don't vote after 12:00 midnight EST at the at the end of the day.  Look for the new thread. Votes outside the 24 hour period, will not be counted.  Give it three minutes or so on each end, so...

While there may be sagging excitement around Hillary Clinton's campaign, there seems to be even less to see Chelsea. The younger Clinton was campaigning in Cleveland Monday and video shows numerous empty seats in an already small room...

Bernie Sanders said Sunday he thinks he can cut into his rival Hillary Clinton's lead among super delegates in the race for the Democratic nomination - a lead that allowed Clinton to salvage her substantial loss in New Hampshire's Democratic primary last week. "If we continue to do well around the country and if super delegates - whose main interest in life is to make sure that we do not have a Republican in the White House - if they understand that I am the candidate and I believe that I am who is best suited to defeat the Republican...

As Hillary Clinton's campaign looks to the black vote in South Carolina to fend off Sen. Bernie Sanders' momentum, a look at her staff list reveals an exclusively white leadership team mostly comprised of white males. In fact, her top six campaign officials are all white guys.

Several members of the audience at a New Hampshire campaign event for Hillary Clinton sported some creative t-shirts, and they made sure TV cameras could capture their t-shirts while Hillary spoke. At least two men wore 'Settle For Hillary' t-shirts that utilized the official logo and font of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.

**SNIP** McGuire, whose state organization, like the national party apparatus, is solidly behind Clinton, rejected the request, telling the Register in an interview Tuesday, "These are the final results." Democrats have never released actual head counts in Iowa caucuses, and McGuire flatly said they would not be released this time either. On Thursday, the Register published an editorial headlined, "Something smells in the Democratic Party," denouncing state party officials for refusing to agree to an audit or release details of the voting. "What happened Monday night at the Democratic caucuses was a debacle, period," the Register wrote. "Democracy, particularly at...

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

I want to start with a few key facts, because they'll be important in a moment: 1. Among left-leaning female voters under the age of 45, Bernie Sanders holds a significant lead in the polls. 2. He's received far more donations from females than Hillary Clinton. 3. The results in Iowa showed that he won handily in the under-45 category, regardless of whether the voter was male or female. As it happens, there is absolutely a gap in support when it comes to Sanders and Clinton. But it's not a gender gap-it's an age gap. ....It's simple: Older people vote...

Is the power of the White House enough to get Pink Floyd back together for one more concert? The obvious answer to that question is "almost definitely not," but that isn't going to stop Republican presidential hopeful John Kasich from doing his level best to reunite the dormant group if he ends up winning the 2016 election. Kasich made his unexpected campaign pledge during a Feb. 1 interview with CNN... "...if I'm president," he decreed, "I am going to...try to reunite Pink Floyd..." First on Kasich's wish list for the reunion set: "Money," from 1973's Dark Side of the Moon.

I'm trying to figure out where all these Rubio supporters are coming from? Perhaps it's just me, but I don't know a single Rubio supporter? How does Rubio, who began campaigning 3 weeks ago in Iowa, who can't even get 100 people to show up to a single rally, generate this many votes? For the record, I've seen or known Trump, Cruz, Carson, Fiorina, Huckabee, Kasich, Hillary and Bernie. Please let me know if you even know 1 Rubio supporter. For the record it could be you saw one when you were out and about.

Former campaign field organizer claims male counterparts were paid more money for the same work A former campaign field organizer for Donald Trump's Presidential campaign in Iowa has filed a complaint alleging that the campaign discriminated against her based on her gender. Elizabeth Mae Davidson, who was fired by the Trump campaign earlier this month, filed a complaint with the Davenport Civil Rights Commission, alleging that her male counterparts were paid more money for doing the same work she was doing, according to the New York Times.

"Who you vote for is your secret," the letter, posted by some recipients on Twitter, says. "But whether or not you vote is public record. Many organizations monitor turnout in your neighborhood and are disappointed by the inconsistent voting of many of your neighbors." "We will be reviewing ... official voting records after the upcoming election to determine whether you joined your neighbors who voted in 2014," the mailer concludes. "If you do not vote this year, we will be interested to hear why not." So they aren't the only ones and this isn't new. In Alaska, voters have complained...