Posted on 10/26/2015 11:16:04 AM PDT by BigEdLB
With less than 100 days before the 2016 Iowa Caucuses, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson has surged to a lead over real estate mogul Donald Trump and the rest of the field. Trump stands in second, while Florida Senator Marco Rubio is in third place and is the only other candidate with double-digit support as a first choice candidate.
“Dr. Carson has connected with Iowa Republicans. His stock started to rise late in the summer, and this positive trajectory has continued to this point. Iowa has a new frontrunner,” said Associate Professor of Politics and Director of the Loras College Poll, Christopher Budzisz, Ph.D. “Over the past week or so, Dr. Carson’s campaign has been officially suspended as he pursues his book tour, but given his tour took him to several places in Iowa, he remained front and center for Iowa Republicans.”
(Excerpt) Read more at loras.edu ...
Trump also supports the RFS. Almost all of the losers (as well as the winners) of the Iowa caucuses in the last two cycles have supported the RFS.
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I didn’t know this. Thanks.
IMHO, BHO has ruined the chance of us electing another black president for years to come.
I think Carson is a good men—but I’m afraid that’s how the chips will fall.
“Iowa is not a vote! It’s some sort of corn porn system where gas0h0lic addicts/whores stand in a tent or some such to ‘vote’ for the Pimp/candidate promising to continue to support their Gas0h0l $ addiction by keeping or increasing the gas0h0lic federally mandated % per gallon.”
How Pandering To Iowa’s Ethanol Lobby Hurts America (Ben Carson = Ethanol Pimp)
The Federalist ^ | 10/21/15 |
Posted on 10/24/2015, 6:57:28 AM by jimbo123
While a small group of corn farmers may benefit from the Renewable Fuel Standard, higher gas prices and less fuel-efficient gasoline hurt everyone.
Ten years ago this month, President George W. Bush signed the Renewable Fuel Standard into law, implementing regulations that require companies to blend specific amounts of renewable fuels into gasoline. No state benefits more from the RFS than Iowa, and with the Iowa caucuses six months away, presidential candidates are already pandering, flip flopping, or avoiding the issue altogether as they attempt to woo voters.
While Iowa farmers who grow corn specifically for biofuels have greatly benefited from the RFS, ethanol and other biofuels are overwhelmingly hurting the planet and people’s pocketbooks. This crop of presidential candidates needs to keep that in mind as they continue to canvass the Hawkeye State.
It’s easy to see why politicians pander to Iowans. The last two Republicans to win the Iowa caucus, Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum, both supported the RFS.
http://thefederalist.com/2015/10/21/how-pandering-to-iowas-ethanol-lobby-hurts-america/
Well like Forest Gump said: ‘Stupid is as Stupid does’....
Carly 2.0
Clearly the Christian right in Iowa is not aware that SDA is a cult. Trump needs to find a way to let these people know the teachings of the SDA. Plenty of evangelicals are Presbyterians.
Polls are one thing but does that insure supporters will appear at the precinct caucuses.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidates not named Donald Trump have raised hundreds of millions of dollars for their campaigns and allied groups. Yet none of that money is being targeted against the celebrity real estate mogul, the party’s front-runner through the summer.
Now the first well-funded anti-Trump volley is coming, though not from another candidate. It’s from the Club for Growth, a Washington-based tax-cutting advocacy group that just months ago asked Trump for a contribution.
The group said Tuesday it will spend $1 million assailing Trump on TV in the early caucus state of Iowa. Its 30-second commercials, which begin Thursday, call him “the worst kind of politician,” highlight some of his most liberal positions and say he’s playing voters “for chumps.”
Trump would seem a ripe target for any conservative organization: He’s said in the past that he identifies “more as a Democrat.”
For now, though, Club for Growth is going it alone.
Some of the largest pro-Republican political groups — including the Koch brothers-led Americans for Prosperity, GOP strategist Karl Rove’s Crossroads groups and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce — say they have no immediate plans to swat at him.
Fred Malek, a longtime Republican presidential fundraiser who isn’t aligned with a specific candidate, said the approach of many has been to “let Trump beat Trump.”
“I’m not aware of any organized effort to attack Trump,” Malek said. “Rather, the best-informed Republicans feel the American people are smart enough to figure this out and won’t nominate Trump.”
Similarly, the candidates themselves, and the super PACs trying to help them win, haven’t put any money into a Trump-defeating effort on television. Instead, their strategy appears to be to wait for the star of the political summer to fade on his own.
Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who last week became the first candidate to leave the 2016 race, was one of the feistiest Trump combatants, but his super PACs never paid for any ads to amplify that message.
“Our plan, which I think is where a lot of folks are, was to wait as long as possible to do contrast ads or attacks on Trump,” said Austin Barbour, leader of a trio of super PACs that supported Perry. “There’s a feeling that his poll numbers are vastly inflated and will start coming down on their own, so no one wants to spend valuable resources doing what may just happen naturally.”
Club for Growth, which is paying for the ads through its super PAC, is no longer willing to wait.
The club’s resident, David McIntosh, said he at first assumed that Trump wasn’t a credible candidate but the candidate’s continued rise in the polls showed otherwise.
“We’ve realized we’ve got to take Donald Trump seriously and really show what his record is,” McIntosh said.
Club for Growth may not seem the perfect Trump-slayer; it unsuccessfully solicited a $1 million contribution from him in June. Indeed, Trump wrote Tuesday on Twitter that the club is “little respected” and, having been spurned by him, is “spending lobbyist and special interest money on ads” against him.
With the second GOP debate this week and voting in the earliest primary states less than five months away, the candidates and groups helping them are beginning to spend money on TV ads. Through the end of June, donors backing Trump’s Republican opponents had given about $300 million, Federal Election Commission reports show.
So far that money is helping the candidates define themselves rather than tear down Trump.
Right to Rise, a super PAC created to help former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, is on the air beginning $24 million worth of ads casting the former Florida governor as a “proven conservative” with “real results.” The ads are in Iowa and New Hampshire and spread South Carolina next week.
Trump’s meteoric rise has come not after a slew of pricey, well-crafted advertisements, but with the benefit of intense media coverage, which costs him nothing.
The Trump phenomenon “in a weird way is showing the diminishing importance of money in politics,” said John Jordan, a California winery owner and major Republican donor. “And because of that, I think the flow of money is slowing to a trickle.”
Through the end of June, Trump had mostly paid his own way, lending his campaign nearly all of the $1.9 million it reported raising.
The billionaire candidate has pledged to spend whatever it takes to win the GOP nomination, meaning that even the best-funded opponents or Republican groups could find themselves financially overmatched.
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Associated Press writer Thomas Beaumont contributed to this report from Des Moines, Iowa.
Polling question #2: "If you're not voting for Trump, then who would you vote for?
I’m not sure SDA is a cult, I think of them as teaching heresies. Is that the same thing? I’m not sure.
i don’t think Carson would be a good president.
I don’t either. He’s a good intelligent man but I don’t see him as a good president.
We need a LEADER. Trump has led on IMMIGRATION, REFUGEES, TAX REFORM, TRADE, AND THE ECONOMY. The others have let off trial balloons to see which way the political winds are blowing. TRUMP is out front leading.
Carson certainly wasn’t out front with immigration, taxes, trade, or the economy. He really hasn’t been out front with anything. The only one out front has been TRUMP.
Who is going to do better vs our $19 trillion debt? Trump or Carson? Trump or Hillary?
Trump is a LEADER. That’s what we need right now.
SDA is a cult, although the teachings and visions of Ellen G. White are not as blasphemous and as sinful as the teachings and visions of Joseph Smith.
The Trump supporters need to contact his campaign and let him know we want him to start running ads in Iowa. If enough do this, he might do it.
At the bottom I see how many males/females, by age , religion were asked. BUT I see no breakdown of how they answered. In the Loras poll I see Carson Men:30.0, Women 31.2 — Trump Men 21.7 Women 15.8. Don’t see that breakout in Monmouth. I might not agree with Loras’ assessment, but at least they posted it.
I tend to agree. It will be very interesting to see how Trump handles this news. Should also make the Iowa race even more interesting.
Although I tend to think the Iowa race is overblown in importance (as well as NH) in recent (election) years. As has already been pointed out they went with Senator Sweater vest before. And someone else who turned out to be irrelevant before that.
I think ultimstely they seem to go with the socially conservative candidate, and ignore other factors. It's a sad commentary that the latest Republican candidates to win the nomination haven't been that strong in the social conservative department.
I suggested it on his twitter yesterday... Others who follow him should do the same...
That’s good, but we should send an email to his campaign: contact Donald Trump. You can google and pull up the website.
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