Posted on 08/03/2015 10:06:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Republicans like Jeb Bush. And a lot really don’t like Donald Trump.
In fact, more than half find Trump a distraction from the primary process, not a serious candidate.
With the first Republican presidential debate coming up Thursday, a new McClatchy-Marist poll finds that a majority of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents personally like Bush, saying they view him favorably rather than unfavorably. Large numbers also like Marco Rubio and Mike Huckabee, far more than dislike them.
But nearly half dislike Trump, suggesting that the billionaire businessman who leads national Republican polls will have a hard time reaching those personally hostile voters and growing his constituency, while a host of others have room to surge.
The debate in Cleveland, the first of a monthly series, will feature the 10 Republicans, plus ties, atop an average of national polls. As many as seven other candidates will not qualify and instead can participate in a late afternoon forum.
The McClatchy-Marist poll dropped questions about voting choices in this survey, believing the debate criteria is a misuse of public polling data for a critical first debate. This survey instead measures how voters feel about the candidates for the Republican and Democratic nominations.
The favorable numbers illustrate whether a candidate starts with goodwill....
(Excerpt) Read more at sanluisobispo.com ...
Oh no!
I had a terrible headache earlier.
California Polytechnical Institute is or at least was the best engineering school 60 years ago.
No fun, hmmm? This one isn’t too bad.
I'm guessing that even George Bush is tired of the guy.
Yeah, he’s a smart guy but got into analog electrical engineering when things were going digital, about `80, as I believe he explained it.
The guy really is a tired old loser.
Good, I’m glad to hear that.
Take care.
Prayers for you.
I’m going to try to sleep now.
SLO county has a Latino population, although they tend not to occupy the power positions. (They are more strongly represented in the largest city of that region, Santa Maria, just across the line into Santa Barbara County, but SLO county does have more Latin people than are ‘visible.’)
Things have come a ways since the days of the SLO county sheriff who won re-election every time the voting came up.....by getting off his otherwise-pretty-relaxed posterior anatomy....and staging a “big-time raid on crime”.....complete with SLO Telegram-Tribune reporters and photographers all along for the ride!..... the sheriff would suddenly discover the (very well established and openly operated) Nipomo Mesa cockfighting arena..... and ‘capture’ a few participants as “criminals”... the photographers dutifully would snap pictures of the big sheriff holding one of the unfortunate “criminals” in one arm and an even more unfortunate-looking cock (no, chicken) in the other. Made big press in that sleepy backwater.
Everyone who didn’t know better was led to believe this sheriff deserved re-election, that he was really right out there working hard (no puns intended) to “protect the public” from Big Time Criminals (a few hundred or so local residents, largely but not exclusively Latino, out for a happy Saturday afternoon...complete with picnic baskets, tailgating BBQ’s (remember this is Santa Maria country) and large quanta of beer. Oh yes, with their entire families, as the cock fights were always the best, most fun recreational activity in the Central Coast region (at least in the opinion of many, and at least if you confine the discussion to dry land).
Of course, the big time public protector sheriff never shut the cock fighting arena down. It remained in operation for decades that I know of (and I wouldn’t be surprised if it weren’t still there????)......as it had permanent buildings and was right off State Highway One, very convenient to get to and easy to park and join right in that festivities.
And if the sheriff ever shut the arena down, where could he stage his quadrennial big anti-crime raids? If the arena ever got torn down, cockfighting has not ceased in the area.... as can be seen from this relatively recent (2010) report of the capture of some 600 birds at a cockfighting sight just a couple miles away...
Question: is there an issue of racism here, since cockfighting is visibly loved largely within the Latino community?
Question: is this the kind of law enforcement we want to pay taxes for?
Question: is it okay for people to fight birds?
Question: is it okay for people to fight birds if they are going to eat them after?
Question: no, I will not attempt to re-raise Cecil from the dead.
anyway, you could always count on a couple thousand people have a very very VERY good time at these regularly -scheduled and advertised entertainment events in the Santa Maria-SLO area.
aside from that, you could always go enjoy yourself trying to dig up a clam on the beach, I guess. just not nearly as exciting or entertaining
and the rest of the SLO cockfighting story was..
that the sheriff that used the cockfights to get himself re-elected (more than once, as I recall)... was also using the cockfights as a fund-raising source (in ways not so legit, see this link...which provides another very good reason he had not to ever actually shut the cockfighting arena down~~~~~!!!!!!!!)
http://sloblogs.thetribunenews.com/slovault/2009/01/cockfighting-in-san-luis-obispo-county/
If I were the editor, I’d fire the guy who wrote this article. He’s clueless.
He’s one of their senior people, believe it or not.
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Posted without comment?
Look again.
No, they are pushing a meme and will fall all over themselves with amazement of his performance afterwards.
Gotta set it up and then sell it.
I think what they meant to say is that among those Democrat voters who will never, under any circumstance, vote for anyone other than their party’s nominee, Bush and Rubio are viewed very favorably, and Trump isn’t.
Whoops! Sorry... Guess I was looking for something that was never there...
and the cock fighting tradition continues in that area —
this is my last posting about cockfights, I just went off on this tangent because cock fights seem so much like R primary campaigns these days
There’s cockfighting in Dallas and I used to pass a farm in Biloxi that raised them.
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