Keyword: 2016issues
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Buried in a National Journal story about the importance of “non-voters, a group that, in AmerÂicÂan politics, is usuÂally either igÂnoted or scorned,†is anecdotal evidence that Donald Trump may galvanize voters who sit out elections because they can’t stand traditional politicians from both sides of the political aisle. According to Frank, “the only canÂdidÂate he felt talked any sense was DonÂald Trump, ‘who doesn’t walk around the isÂsues, says what’s on his mind.’ He said a Trump nomÂinÂaÂtion would make him conÂsider a trip to the votÂing booth.†Frank found Marine Corps veteran Bobby Beote at the other end...
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Political commentators have asserted for months that Donald Trump’s dominance of the Republican presidential field is fueled by his anti-immigrant rhetoric. As Thomas Edsall put it: Donald Trump's success is no surprise. The public and the press have focused on his defiant rejection of mannerly rhetoric, his putting into words of what others think privately. But the more important truth is that a half-century of Republican policies on race and immigration have made the party the home of an often angry and resentful white constituency -- a constituency that is now politically mobilized in the face of demographic upheaval. This...
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Saturday called for Republicans to abandon the corrupting influence of the Koch brothers and other wealthy energy magnates. "This is a party that rejects science and refuses to understand that climate change is real," he said of GOP during the annual Blue Jamboree in North Charleston, S.C. "I understand if you stand up to the Koch brothers and the fossil fuel industry, that you'll lose your campaign contributions," the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate added. "[Climate change] is already causing devastating problems all over this world. To hell with the fossil fuel industry. Worry more about...
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According to the newest state-wide poll of Louisiana taken Thursday, Republican gubernatorial candidate Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) 71% has inched to within just 4 points of his Democrat opponent, John Bel Edwards. Earlier in the month, Edwards had been handily beating Vitter by as much as +22 points. Proving once again why early voting is an appallingly dumb idea, while the Syrian refugee debate appears to be helping Vitter gain ground (he leads on this issue 40% to 36%), according to the Huffington Post, more than a quarter of a million votes have already been cast in Louisiana. Like almost...
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ormer Secretary State Hillary Clinton, a 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, gave a national security address in which she outlined her plans for defeating ISIS.* * The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), or DAISH/DAESH in Arabic is a militant group that has called itself the Islamic State.
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The New York Times reported this weekend, even the words “affordable†and “care†have turned out to be untrue as well. The sharp rise in premiums has garnered the most headlines in the first three open-enrollment seasons of Obamacare, but equally if not more pernicious has been the increase in deductibles. As Eric Pianin explained for The Fiscal Times on Monday, deductibles have increased an average of 11 percent on Bronze level plans for 2016, intended to be the most affordable of all options, and now average over $5700. For Silver level, deductibles rose 6 percent and now average over...
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Ever since Hillary Clinton announced her run for the presidency concerns have been raised in many quarters, by people of all political persuasions, that she was simply too old to hold the office if she was elected. Hillary, if elected, would be the second oldest person to win the office after Ronald Reagan. But where Reagan was very active throughout his life, Hillary is a different story.    Hillary never participated in athletics when she was younger, something about being too ugly to participate. And now, as she approaches the BIG SEVEN-ZERO she is very out of shape. It is a safe...
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Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas argued Monday that one line from President Barack Obama encapsulated both Obama's foreign policy and that of his former secretary of state, Hillary Clinton.Cruz, a Republican presidential candidate, told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt that Obama's statement was a "stunning indictment" of the president's policies after last week's terrorist attacks in Paris.Obama made the remark at a news conference in Turkey earlier in the day:What I'm not interested in doing is posing or pursuing some notion of 'American leadership' or 'America winning,' or whatever other slogans they come up with that has no relationship to...
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Sen. Ted Cruz asserted Saturday that Christians are under assault, both by the government and in the wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris. Cruz has been assiduously courting evangelical Christian voters, and held a religious liberty rally at Bob Jones University here the day after his main rival for that bloc, retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, appeared at the school. The Texas Republican spent more than an hour describing how he believes people of faith and their ideals are under siege — by the media, Democrats, the government and "radical Islamic terrorism" that is "a malevolent force that right now,...
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Donald Trump's days of roaming freely about town are over ... because the Secret Service has now stepped in and his security team is no joke. Trump was leaving the Fox News building Monday morning in New York City and his security team left nothing to chance ... barricading off fans just so he could make the short walk to his car. Speaking of the car ... Trump usually travels around town in a limo, but that's been replaced with a blacked-out SUV. Welcome to the big leagues, Donald.
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The talking points immediately after the Paris attacks - and I've seen multiple Fox News commentators repeat it - is that this hurts "outsider candidates." Candidates with "experience" are helped. I agree with Coulter. It helps Trump. He was calling for the wall and end to Syrian 'refugees' before the attack. He was ahead of the curve on this. The politicians (except Cruz) were for opening borders and saying it wasn't "possible" to deport people.
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It's hard to keep up with the twists and turns in this presidential race. Hillary Clinton under fire on Benghazi! Ben Carson has a theory about the pyramids! Bernie Sanders wrote about rape fantasies! Donald Trump . . . well, Donald Trump! Figuring out which headline will have the biggest impact on the general election is a bit of a parlor game. But what if they have no impact at all? After the 2012 election, political scientists John Sides and Lynn Vavreck wrote a book called"The Gamble"that looked at the cause of President Obama's victory over Mitt Romney. They sifted...
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Why are so many conservative voters attracted to Donald Trump? Pundits have been scratching their heads trying to figure out why people on the right would back someone who is conservative on neither economic nor social issues, someone who addresses the concerns of neither the low-tax crowd nor the moral traditionalists. What they overlook is the third – and most important – leg of the conservative stool: robust American nationalism. Few voters really care that much about small government or free-market economics, as compelling as the case for them is. More important are moral issues like abortion and natural marriage...
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Mike Murphy finds it all very funny that people think Jeb Bush is in trouble. The head of Bush’s $100 million super PAC, Right to Rise, considers most political punditry this cycle to be stupid. Conceded. But both the stupid and occasional non-stupid pundits all agree on one thing: Things aren’t going well for Bush, and one cannot assume that the old rules governing Republican presidential nominating contests will inevitably save him. Murphy outlined his thinking in a rare extended interview with Bloomberg Politics. Why? Most practically, to signal Right to Rise’s thinking to the official Bush campaign and leery...
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Kevin McCarthy was factually right -- if grammatically and politically wrong -- when he told Sean Hannity that the House's Benghazi committee demonstrated Hillary Clinton was "untrustable." The Clinton-pleasers in the media like NBC's Andrea Mitchell almost glowed as they proclaimed McCarthy had offered a "political lifeline" to Clinton by admitting to a political agenda to get at her, using that tragedy. The Democrats have pushed heavily on the narrative that the House probe is transparently political -- as if everything they say about Clinton is transparently ... nonpartisan? So much of the Clinton spin from the media-Democrat complex simply...
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You may not have noticed, but Lincoln Chafee, the erstwhile Republican U.S. senator and Independent-turned-Democratic governor, had one penetrating comment at the Democrats' debate Tuesday night. "But let me just say this about income inequality," he said toward the end. "We've had a lot of talk over the last few minutes, hours or tens of minutes, but no one is saying how we're going to fix it." Chafee offered no solution himself and showed his confusion about the issue by saying that inequality "all started with the Bush tax cuts that favored the wealthy." Actually, as my Washington Examiner colleague...
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As conservatives scratch their collective heads on how to win over young people, a millennial whose online audience is center-left explains why Bernie Sanders is appealing to youth. Devin Foley, the thoughtful President of Intellectual Takeout and Better Ed, explains Sanders is growing in popularity among young people because he gives voice to those who can’t find jobs, who see unfair disparities and who suffer from massive debt. Besides that, Foley says conservatives refuse to reach out to youth in ways that resonate or make sense of the fallen world to them, a world that once promised going to college...
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For over two hours five democrat politicians rambled on about how bad republicans are and how much money they wanted to give away to illegal aliens. How great they all would be for "women's health" care, national security and blah, blah, blah. Imagine the worthless moderator, who should have excused himself because he sits on the Clinton Foundation board, NEVER ONCE mentioning the biggest story in the United States over the last month, the selling of baby parts for profit by Planned Parenthood. Not one word asked of the candidates how they felt about this or why they think it's...
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The Democrat Party is going to lose the 2016 elections in a landslide, and they can thank their radical anti-gun agenda for that loss. Bernie Sanders has boldly stated that “semi-automatic assault weapons” should be banned, along with standard-capacity magazines. The completely arbitrary definition of “assault weapons” defined by anti-gun politicians is always based upon superficial cosmetic features—flash hiders, barrel shrouds, bayonet lugs, telescoping stocks and/or pistol grips—that have nothing at all to due with the rate of fire, accuracy, or lethality of a given firearm. If he really wants to ban “semi-automatic assault weapons,” he’s going to have to...
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Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said in the general election the Republican Party needed to focus on the economy and national security and avoid the social issues, which he argued would cost the party politically.
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