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  • Focus Group of Trump Supporters Is Undeterred and Fiercely Loyal

    12/10/2015 5:42:39 AM PST · by Servant of the Cross · 32 replies
    National Review ^ | 12/10/2015 | Elaina Plott
    Straightforward. Awesome. President. These are a handful of phrases participants used to describe Donald J. Trump in Frank Luntz's focus group Wednesday evening, nearly all supporters of the current Republican frontrunner. They were a group filled with emotion. For one man, a changing of the guard from Obama to Trump is the stuff of which political dreams are made. "I want Trump to look at Obama on Election Day and go, 'You're fired.'" But in the wake of Trump's call this week to ban all Muslims from entering the country, which has drawn rebukes from nearly every Republican in Washington,...
  • Connecticut Governor Vetoes School Junk Food Bill (Big soft drink lobbied fiercely against it)

    06/14/2005 7:18:23 PM PDT · by Libloather · 21 replies · 593+ views
    Yahoo News ^ | 6/14/05
    Conn. Gov. Vetoes School Junk Food Bill 2 hours, 30 minutes ago HARTFORD, Conn. - The governor vetoed a bill Tuesday that would have banned most soft drinks and junk food from Connecticut schools. Soft drink companies had lobbied fiercely against the bill, and schools expressed concerns about losing revenue from sales. Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell said the effort to impose state standards on school districts for nutrition and physical education "undermines the control and responsibility of parents with school-aged children." The bill would have banned sodas and snacks deemed unhealthy by the state Department of Education from school...