2016 elections - because it's never too early

[jimmy olsen]

 

[DGuller]

Trump has started talking about what would make him pull out.  I wonder if he's already laying the groundwork for his exit.  So far he's gotten a lot of publicity for next to nothing, and he's already turned the primary into a circus.  What more does he have to accomplish?

[jimmy olsen]

Trump has started talking about what would make him pull out.  I wonder if he's already laying the groundwork for his exit.  So far he's gotten a lot of publicity for next to nothing, and he's already turned the primary into a circus.  What more does he have to accomplish?

The interview I heard, he said if he was down to 1% or 2% like some of these other losers. If his numbers stay above 15%, he'll have a chance to win states and definitely stay in.

[HisMajestyBOB]

Trump has started talking about what would make him pull out.  I wonder if he's already laying the groundwork for his exit.  So far he's gotten a lot of publicity for next to nothing, and he's already turned the primary into a circus.  What more does he have to accomplish?

Getting Jeb to drop out.
Or cry/throw a tantrum during a debate.

[Razgovory]

We joke, but if I didn't know better I would actually believe it.

[jimmy olsen]

Latest poll by PPP

Trump 27 Carson 17 Fiorina 6 Rubio 13 Bush 10 Cruz 7 Kasich 4 Huckabee 4 Christie 2 Paul 2 Santorum 2 Jindal 1 Graham 1 Pataki 1

Of the polls released in the last two weeks, Trump has scored  21, 25, 23, 17, and 27 percent. A small decline, but certainly still the front runner.

Rubio has momentum though.

[DGuller]

Speaking of Rubio, here is a pretty depressing editorial about the self-fulfilling prophecies seeded by the media:  https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2015/10/06/why-everyone-suddenly-decided-marco-rubio-will-be-the-gop-nominee/.

[jimmy olsen]

That's nearly Trumpian in its trollishness. I approve.

http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-10-06/hillary-clinton-trolls-gop-field-sending-them-copies-of-hard-choices

Hillary Clinton Trolls GOP Field, Sending Them Copies of Her Book Hard Choices

The Democratic front-runner has repeatedly been criticized by her Republican rivals over her record as secretary of state.

Jennifer Epstein

Hillary Clinton sent copies of her most recent book to all the Republican presidential candidates to give them a sense of her work as secretary of state after hearing rounds of attacks from them dismissing her accomplishments.

"I hear the Republicans talking from time to time in their debates and elsewhere and they say things like, 'Ugh, I don't know what she accomplished as secretary of state. She didn't accomplish anything,'" Clinton said Tuesday at an organizing party in Muscatine, Iowa. "I listened to that for a while and then I thought maybe they just don't know. So I have now sent each of them a copy of my book, Hard Choices, about what we did in those four years."

During the second GOP presidential debate, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina returned to a criticism she has made often of Clinton. "If you want to stump a Democrat, ask them to name an accomplishment of Hillary Clinton," she said.

Clinton came up with the idea to send the books the day after the debate, a campaign aide said, during which she came in for criticism over the use of a private e-mail address and server while serving as secretary of state as well as her record as the nation's top diplomat. The aide confirmed that the books were sent to 14 candidates, including Donald Trump, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Bobby Jindal, and George Pataki. Not sent a book: Jim Gilmore.

"There are so many of them they could have a book club," Clinton, who is scheduled to testify before the House Select Committee on Benghazi on Oct. 22, joked of the GOP field.

In a note that accompanied the book, she tweaked the Republicans. "I understand that you and your fellow Republican candidates for president were questioning my record of accomplishments at your last debate, so I thought you might enjoy reading my book, Hard Choices," she wrote in the letters, which she signed. "From working to restore America's standing in the world to bringing crippling sanctions to Iran to negotiating a ceasefire in Gaza, please enjoy all 596 pages of my time as secretary of state."

And, she added, "with 15 candidates in the race, you've got enough people for a book club!"

In response to Clinton's gift, Senator Ted Cruz offered to send her a copy of his own book, A Time for Truth.

[Admiral Yi]

Hillary, after careful deliberation, has evolved her position on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (c) and now opposes it.

[The Minsky Moment]

Hillary, after careful deliberation, has evolved her position on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (c) and now opposes it.

Repeal the 22nd amendment.

[dps]

Hillary, after careful deliberation, has evolved her position on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (c) and now opposes it.

Repeal the 22nd amendment.

Don't you mean the 19th?   

[Eddie Teach]

Hillary, after careful deliberation, has evolved her position on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (c) and now opposes it.

Repeal the 22nd amendment.

That would make one person in the Clinton household very happy.

[jimmy olsen]

Sanders got his first endorsement

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/10/07/arizona_rep_ra_l_grijalva_is_first_in_congress_to_endorse_bernie_sanders.html

[Jaron]

I love Hillary because she always tells like it is and doesn't play any of that pc crap.

[garbon]

Hillary, after careful deliberation, has evolved her position on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (c) and now opposes it.

I guess a great sign of the considering of the issues that Bernie Sanders is bringing to the race...