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Mr. Trump texted the following message: I need YOUR input today. Only 5 days until I debate Hillary on the stage. What do you want me to fight? Tap and to let me know. Not sure what will happen when I tap to provide input~it may simply be a fundraiser. However, I thought I might cull some interesting bullet points from Freeper Trump supporters :)

Child migration is surging again. The number of families and unaccompanied children apprehended on the southern border has skyrocketed this year, according to new figures from the Obama administration. The numbers, compiled by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), reveal that child migration is on par with 2014 levels, when a wave of kids –– thousands of them unaccompanied –– arrived at the southern border. The surge of illegal immigration quickly swamped border authorities, immigration courts and health and humanitarian workers, while sparking a political battle on Capitol Hill over the cause and proper response to the crisis.

One of the mistakes Democrats made during the 2004 election (and which they continue to make now as they grope about blindly for someone to provide a desperately needed shot of real leadership as Chairman of the DNC) was to categorize people who voted for George W. Bush in very broad-brush, single-issue terms. Now the Democrat Party is, if nothing else, a coalition of single-issue voter groups, and so it's perhaps not surprising that Dems, projecting their own mindset, see red-staters in this way. It would seem as though Democrats can't believe that anyone who voted for George W. Bush...

One of the lessons the Democratic party learned in the 1980s was that it could not run candidates at the national level who opposed capital punishment. The lesson sank in after the 1988 presidential debates, in which Michael Dukakis was asked whether he would favor it if someone raped and murdered his wife. He said no, with the same emotion he would have shown in response to a question about farm price supports. The exchange entered the lore of campaign mistakes. In the three following presidential elections, the Democrats nominated candidates who favored the death penalty. But for the first...

...Voters who are most concerned about health issues, researchers found, were older people who identified themselves as Democrats. Their prime concerns involved Medicare benefits and high prescription drug prices. ...Topics that ranked lowest regardless of party affiliation or age were racial disparities in health care, aid to developing countries to prevent and treat AIDS, medical malpractice and the quality of health care. The researchers studied data from 22 national opinion surveys, nine of them conducted by phone during the campaign. For comparison, they analyzed 10 phone surveys conducted during the previous three presidential elections, and three surveys conducted as voters...

BORN AGAIN VS.PERFECT Marvin Olasky August 26, 2004 John Kerry graduated from Yale in 1966. George Bush graduated in 1968. I graduated from said institution in 1971. With the Kerry campaign in full panic mode about the swift boat charges, maybe I can provide some perspective on the environment that has led to the current confusion. Yale became more strongly antiwar during those five years, but Kerry reflected the campus mood even in 1966 when, as chairman of the Political Union (Yale's most prestigious political debating society), he used his commencement address to criticize America's involvement in Vietnam. Neither Kerry...

New York Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton Friday praised the efforts of a fledgling liberal lawyers' group to counter the influence of the decades-old free market Federalist Society. During a luncheon address to the "American Constitution Society for Law and Policy," Clinton seized another opportunity to blast the "vast right-wing conspiracy," saying she only regretted implying it was a secretive effort. "It has been clear for a number of years that there really is a vast right-wing conspiracy," said Clinton. "My only regret was using the word 'conspiracy,' because there is absolutely nothing secret about it. "It is a network with...

It's tough to be a Democrat these days. President Bush has stratospheric approval ratings, the country seems to have tilted rightward after 9/11, and the Democrats seem compelled to defend their patriotism every time they nervously issue the mildest criticism of George Bush's foreign policy. While those are significant obstacles to Democratic success, they pale in comparison to the Democrats biggest problem. The nastiest fly in the Democratic ointment these days is that they really don't seem to stand for anything except electing more Democrats. This absence of issues has inspired the Democrats to test a novel hypothesis this campaign...