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US Senator Ted Cruz (Texas) |
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Businesswoman Carly Fiorina (Virginia) |
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US Senator Lindsey Graham (South Carolina) |
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Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee (Florida) |
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Governor Bobby Jindal (Louisiana) |
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Governor John Kasich (Ohio) |
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Former Governor George Pataki (New York) |
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US Senator Rand Paul (Kentucky) |
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US Senator Marco Rubio (Florida) |
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Former US Senator Rick Santorum (Pennsylvania) |
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SHOCK POLL: Trump Receives 25% of Black Vote – Enough to Ensure a GOP Landslide
A SurveyUSA poll released Friday shows that 25% of black respondents said they would vote for Trump over Clinton.
According to The American Mirror Trump would more than double the best result for a Republican in modern American history… Looking at the last 10 presidential election cycles, the highest black vote share for a Republican was 12% for Bob Dole in 1996.
Blacks today make up 22% of the Democratic vote. If Democrats lost 25% of the black vote they would lose Virginia, Florida, Ohio and North Carolina.
(Washington Post)If Trump would skim off 25% of those voters from the Democratic Party he would win the 2016 election in a landslide.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/09/shock-poll-trump-receives-2...
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BREAKING: Sarah Palin Will Join Donald Trump and Ted Cruz at ‘Stop Iran Deal’ Protest in DC
Sarah Palin announced Sunday night that she will be joining Donald Trump and Ted Cruz at the Stop the Iran Nuclear Deal rally in Washington DC on September 9th.
Sarah Palin made the announcement on Facebook Sunday night:
Think about it – what the heck are we even doing “negotiating” with an evil regime hellbent on destruction? The whole premise of this thing is wrong. It’s a long haul to D.C. for the rally but well worth it to take a stand against this asinine deal the President caved on. Our sworn enemy proclaiming, “Allah Akbar, death to America and death to Israel” still holds American hostages, boasts of using the $150 billion dollars we just freed up for them for nefarious uses, and laughs all the way to the banks of the Persian Gulf and beyond. Washington will hear the voices of “We The People” unified against this insanity. I look forward to joining Mr. Trump, Sen. Cruz, Mark Levin and other fed up patriots to rally the troops for America.
– Sarah PalinRead more about the rally here – hope to see you there: http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/09/06/sarah-palin-t...
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Labor unions hold back on endorsements for Hillary
Greg NashBy Tim Devaney - 09/07/15 06:00 AM EDT
Labor leaders are “playing hard to get” with Hillary Clinton in her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Many of the nation’s top unions are sitting on the sidelines, content to let Clinton sweat it out while they withhold endorsements.
Some labor officials are frustrated with Clinton for not coming to their aid in the fight over trade legislation in Congress, while others are skeptical of her commitment to their issues.ADVERTISEMENT
The face of the labor movement, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, has not endorsed Clinton while seemingly courting her biggest rivals in the Democratic primaries: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Vice President Biden, who is weighing a run for president.
“Say you’re in love with a girl and want to marry her. She’s playing it cool. So you figure the best way to make her jealous is to flirt with someone else,” said Democratic strategist Brad Bannon.
“Trumka wants to marry Hillary, but until she’s willing to make stronger commitments to labor he’s going to flirt with Bernie and Biden,” Bannon added.
“That will get Hillary’s attention.”
The AFL-CIO noted that it is not uncommon for the labor organization to abstain from endorsing Democratic presidential candidates in the primaries and wait until the general election to get involved.
Clinton isn’t without labor support, having already secured endorsements from two powerhouse unions: the American Federation of Teachers and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers.
But other labor organizations such as the AFL-CIO, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, and Service Employees International Union (SEIU) have yet to back a candidate.
"They’re holding back, playing hard to get,” said Jim Manley, a Democratic strategist.
Sanders has picked up some union support as well, having been endorsed by the National Nurses United.
Clinton indicated Friday she expects to pick up labor endorsements moving forward.
"Labor Day is kind of a pivot for all kinds of political actions during a campaign year," she said. "I think there will be a number of other unions that will be endorsing, but they have to make those decisions. Whatever timetable they pursue."
She lauded her own history as a “strong advocate for organized labor” and added, "I'm not taking anything for granted. I'm going to work hard to win as much support as I possibly can."
Labor unions have for years been a core bloc of the Democratic coalition, spending millions of dollars each election cycle for advertising and grassroots organizing.
But labor officials feel burned by the Obama administration’s handling of trade, and are upset Clinton did not take a clear stance against the trade promotion authority bill (TPA) that passed Congress this summer.
TPA, also called fast-track, would allow Obama to send the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) — a sweeping trade pact with Pacific Rim nations — to Congress for an up-or-down vote.
Unions fear the TPP will hurt manufacturers and send jobs overseas, and fought for months to keep the fast-track bill from passing.
Clinton repeatedly sidestepped her position on fast-track, mostly staying silent until the debate in Congress was nearly over.
“I certainly would not vote for it unless I was absolutely confident that we would get trade adjustment assistance," she said, referring to a program that was reauthorized alongside TPA.
Clinton could have changed the debate over the TPA bill by coming out forcefully against the legislation. Because she didn’t, many unions are "holding her endorsement hostage,” Bannon argued.
“They’re very angry at Hillary for sitting on the fence and not taking a stronger stance during the trade battle,” he said.
Labor leaders say they are keeping their options open. Trumka said it is “conceivable” that the AFL-CIO — the nation’s largest labor federation — would not endorse a candidate at all during the primaries.
Adding fuel to the fire, Trumka met with Biden last week in Washington, and will march with him in a Labor Day parade. He said the primary race is “still wide open."
“Biden’s a good friend — he’s been a champion of working people,” Trumka said this week during a breakfast with reporters. “He would be a good candidates. He would be a good president.”
The labor movement has also lavished praise on Clinton’s chief rival, Bernie Sanders.
"I think he’s connecting,” Trumka said at the breakfast. "He has a very unique and genuine way of talking about the most pressing issue in politics, and that’s inequality in America.”
But Democratic strategists say the praise for Sanders is a ploy by labor leaders to secure more support from Clinton.
“They want to squeeze out every bit of pro-labor policy they can from Hillary before they make an endorsement,” Bannon said.
Labor would also like stronger commitments from Clinton to not only fight for trade protections, but also push for an increase in the minimum wage and expand union membership, said Julian Zelizer, professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University.
“Their hesitation is creating leverage,” Zelizer said. “That way Hillary will feel a lot more pressure to speak up about their issues."
It’s all a charade, said Manley. Ultimately, he believes labor will get firmly behind Clinton.
"There is no alternative to Hillary Clinton,” he said. "As much as unions may admire Bernie Sanders, it’s still difficult to imagine him becoming president."
http://thehill.com/regulation/labor/252823-labor-unions-hold-back-o...
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Social media ready to cash in on 2016 election
Getty ImagesBy Mario Trujillo and David McCabe - 09/07/15 08:00 AM EDT
Tech firms are courting campaigns ahead of the 2016 presidential election, where budgets for digital advertising are expected to reach new highs.
The election will be tweeted, googled, snapped, liked on Facebook, and shared on numerous other social media platforms. And Silicon Valley is hoping to turn that engagement into big profits.
While billions will be spent on political advertising over the next year, television remains the prime mover and budgets for digital ads trail traditional media.ADVERTISEMENT
But even by one recent estimate from Borrell Associates, 9.5 percent of political media budgets could go towards digital media — a total of $1 billion.
Observers predict platforms like Facebook will remain dominant in 2016 with a user base that makes up nearly three quarters of online adults in the United States. And search advertising will remain key.
Insurgent companies like Snapchat though are catching advertising buzz with offerings geared specifically to young people.
Here’s a rundown of how digital firms hope to bring in ad dollars from both sides of the aisle, up and down the ballot.
FACEBOOK
One factor makes Facebook distinctive in the race for political ad dollars: its massive audience. The company says it can offer campaigns the ability to reach a broad swath of the American public — around 190 million people in the country use the platform every month — and hone in on particular groups of voters.
“Campaigns are designing paid marketing strategies to reach and mobilize all the supporters and voters that they need to win elections,” said Eric Laurence, the company’s head of U.S. Industry for Politics and Government, “and those voters are on Facebook.”
Campaigns can upload their voter data directly into Facebook’s platform and use the company’s features to target their ads.
Operatives can target ads to potential voters who are interested in certain issues, like gun control or the economy, or based on demographic characteristics.
Facebook has a robust set of data about its users. Users tell the platform about their likes and dislikes and are controversially required by the social network to keep the name they “use in real life.”
The company’s growing video business also extends to politics. Laurence touted the over four billion video views the service gets every day, and noted that the company did not have video ad products during the 2012 election.
Facebook is taking the political ad market seriously, with a team of "roughly 10" people working to sell ads to national and statewide campaigns, according to Laurence, and more employees working on smaller races.
GOOGLE
Google has an election team of 10 to 12 who are pushing presidential campaigns to adopt the advertising tools that made the search engine a multi-billion dollar powerhouse.
Those include the three traditional drivers of its advertising revenue — sponsored links in Google searches, YouTube video advertising and so-called programmatic advertising, where the tech company provides ads to millions of online publishers like The New York Times or HGTV that can be targeted for specific content.
Lee Dunn, Google’s head of elections, said this cycle more campaigns are coming with their own data about specific voting groups and working with Google to determine which websites would be the best place to target them.
Especially in the early stages of the campaign, Dunn said Google's search advertising is key when voters are still learning about a candidate and looking for information online.
For example, the first link in a search for “Hillary Clinton” is a sponsored link to her website and links to pages where you can volunteer, donate or help “fight GOP attacks.”
Google’s search ads are an open market subject to auction, meaning no candidate is guaranteed to win ad placement for their name.
Dunn noted that the Obama campaign used search adds effectively last cycle to target Mitt Romney's record at Bain Capital, with sponsored links connected to a search for "Romney" and "Bain."
On YouTube, candidates can use ads to target demographics including age, gender, location and interest. Dunn said specific ads can target users who might speak a different language, such as Spanish.
TWITTER
Twitter has positioned itself as the destination for campaigns looking to engage in real time — a reputation bolstered by the numerous political operatives and reporters who use the platform obsessively.
The company pitched political strategists and advertisers on the platform in July during a breakfast event at The Hamilton restaurant in Washington. There, attendees heard from company executives, two members of Congress and strategists about how Twitter has proved useful to campaigns in the past. Guests also took home socks emblazoned with Twitter’s distinctive bird logo.
The primary vehicle for advertising on Twitter is through promoted tweets, or messages that a campaign or company pays to place in the feeds of certain users. Campaigns can also pay to promote hashtags.
They can also direct those messages at specific audiences using targeting features. Strategists can aim their ads at people within a certain town or use their own lists or website data to build an audience for promoted tweets.
The company also offers the ability to target users in real-time who are talking about a specific event. Twitter said that several campaigns used that feature during the first Republican primary debate.
Sometimes, the target audience isn’t even voters. Sen. Rand Paul’s (R-Ky.) chief digital strategist said at Twitter’s event in July that the campaign will sometimes target promoted tweets at specific reporters in order to get the campaign’s message across. At the event, he said that “reaching influencers on Twitter is why it’s so powerful."
SNAPCHAT
Snapchat is still in its advertising infancy compared to more established social media companies and 2016 will be the first election cycle to test out political ads on the platform.
Snapchat is pitching its video ads — no longer than 10 seconds — as more analogous to traditional TV and targeted at young voters who have cut the cord.
The company says its ads are geared towards persuading voters to align with a candidate. One criticism is that its videos, unlike some digital ads, do now allow people to click through to reach a candidate's website where they would be encouraged to donate or volunteer.
Besides video ads, candidates can also purchase filters touting their campaign, which users can add to their photos and videos. The company recently hired Rob Saliterman to lead political ad sales. He previously helped lead the politics team at Google and served in the George W. Bush administration.
Snapchat ads are so new — and rare — at this point, that they tend to make news. An outside group supporting Rand Paul was credited in June for producing the first Snapchat ad for a presidential candidate. Scott Walker and John Kasich became the first candidates to run ads, which they inserted into a live story in July about Iowa campaign stops.
Snapchat touts nearly 100 million people using the platform daily, a sizable number, but one dwarfed by Facebook's 1 billion daily users.
And campaigns are limited in who they can target on the platform. Snapchat is almost exclusively used by people under the age of 34, and more than a quarter of users are younger than 18 and ineligible to vote.
http://thehill.com/policy/technology/252797-social-media-ready-to-c...
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Poll: Nobody wants an Obama third term, not even blacks, Dems, 'Obama supporters'
Americans of all stripes are fired up and ready for President Obama to go.
A new poll reveals that no demographic, not even African-Americans, Hispanics or Democrats side with changing the Constitution to allow Obama to run for and serve a third term.
The survey from McLaughlin & Associates followed the president's comments in July that he could win a third term. Traveling in Ethiopia, he said, "I actually think I'm a pretty good president. I think if I ran, I could win. But I can't."
Voters, however, don't want to give him that option. By a margin of 77 percent to 17 percent, voters said "no" when asked, "Do you want to see the Constitution amended so that Barack Obama could run for a third term as president?"
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/poll-nobody-wants-an-obama-third-...
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lol yes crayons and construction paper and it will still be a waste of time.
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Here’s More Evidence That the Republican Party Is Infiltrated by Democratic Operatives
When Detroit collapsed and went bankrupt after 60 years of failed Democratic leadership, where were the Republicans?
Where were the GOP ads showing the crumbling and vacant buildings after the Democratic Party destroyed this once prosperous American city?
There weren’t any.When Obama created a vacuum in the Middle East and allowed the Islamic State to expand from Syria, to Iraq, to Libya, to Afghanistan, where were the GOP ads targeting the Obama doctrine?
Where were the ads linking the thousands of refugees flooding Europe to Obama’s disastrous policies against Islamic terrorism?This Labor Day, Americans are once again worse off than they were when Barack Obama took office.
** US workers today make less than they did when Obama took office. Average pay in real terms slumped 4 percent from 2009-14, according to the National Employment Labor Project.
** Labor Participation rate is stuck at a 38 year low.
** The percentage of working age Americans who are actually working has barely risen from the depths of the last recession.So where are the GOP ads linking economic hardship to the Obama administration?
Where are the RNC flyers and emails and speeches informing America on how big government control dooms individual prosperity?
There aren’t any.
The Republican Party is AWOL once again.
This cannot be just a coincidence. Time after time the GOP has failed to inform and educate Americans on failed Democratic positions from economics to foreign policy.There must be a reason why the Republican Party is so reluctant to push conservative values and positions. There must be a reason why the GOP is afraid of taking on the Democrats.
The left has infiltrated the media, academia and culture. Maybe they’ve infiltrated the GOP, too?
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/09/heres-more-evidence-that-th...
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AWOL as always.
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Exclusive — Carly Fiorina: Throw Boehner, McConnell Out if They Don’t Deliver Any Results in Fall
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire — Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, told Breitbart News exclusively here on Sunday that she believes House Speaker
and Senate Majority Leader
should be removed from their positions if they don’t produce results quickly.
Fiorina said when asked if she supports a measure by
to vacate the chair—a fancy term for a vote to remove Boehner as Speaker of the House, and replace him with a Republican alternative:
I think leadership’s job is to produce results, and when leaders don’t produce results, they need to step aside So, I think, I share the frustration of so many people who worked hard to create these majorities. I think there are three key things that leadership needs to do, and if they can’t do them they need to step aside. Number one, they need to pass a border security bill. For heaven’s sake, our border has been insecure for 25 years. There are loads of conservative proposals for how to secure the border. This isn’t rocket science. Pass a border security bill. We have the majority to do it. Second, pass the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. The majority of Americans agree abortion for any reason after 20 weeks is wrong. Defund Planned Parenthood. We have the majorities to do that. And finally, I’d like to see them pass the REINS Act, which has been languishing in Congress and says Congress has to have a vote on some of the regulations that keep rolling out of the White House that are crushing economic opportunity. Congress hasn’t done anything about it. Those are three things that leadership can do, should do, and if they won’t do it then I think it’s time for them to step aside.
Fiorina said it is a “shame” that Boehner and McConnell have already stated publicly they have no plans to do any of those things this fall—especially that both have already caved to funding Planned Parenthood.
Why do we have majorities if nothing changes? But assuming they don’t do anything, they’re sort of making the point people are saying, ‘You know what? It’s time for different leadership.’ When did we get used to a political class? This is intended to be a citizen government. Citizens in this government, in this nation, step forward and serve for a time and then go back to private life. So what does it take to be president? Not a lifetime in politics. What it takes to be president is an understanding of how the economy works, an understanding of how the world works, who’s in it—who our allies are and who our enemies are—an understanding of bureaucracy so you can cut them down to size and hold them accountable, an understanding of technology, and most especially of all perhaps a track record of challenging the status quo, solving problems and leading.
The full interview with Fiorina aired on Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot Channel 125 on Sunday evening, and in it she also discussed why she’s in New Hampshire for Labor Day weekend, and how the federal government is “broken.” She also talked about how she feels after getting into the debate thanks to the RNC and CNN changing the rules to stop using antiquated polling—as the original system required—that could have excluded Fiorina from the main stage again.
“They know the system is broken. Seventy-five percent of people now think the federal government is corrupt,” Fiorina said when asked to respond to the latest bevy of polls that put her, Donald Trump, Dr. Ben Carson, and
—the three non-politicians and one anti-establishment senator in the race—at a total of 60 percent in many cases, a clear majority. “Eighty percent of the American people think we have a professional political class that’s more concerned with its own power and position and privilege and maintaining the status quo than getting any of the people’s work done. So people are sick of it. They know it’s not just about a different person in the White House, it’s about actually changing the system now—challenging the system.”
Fiorina said that “both parties,” Republicans and Democrats, are responsible for this devolving value of American government. Fiorina said:
We have to be realistic and remember that government has been getting bigger, more complicated, more powerful, more inept and more corrupt for 50 years under both Republicans and Democrats. Yes, Obama has accelerated the growth of government. But the truth is government has been growing under Republicans and Democrats alike. When bureaucracies get more money, more power, and have no accountability, they inevitably become inept and corrupt. That’s what we have—an inept and corrupt government, which means crony capitalism is alive and well. When you have a big powerful bureaucracy, then only the big, the powerful, the wealthy, and the well-connected can deal with it. And you have in this country, the small—like small businesses for example—and the powerless getting crushed by this.
She added that it’s highly disappointing that “many of us worked very hard to elect a historic Republican majority in the House and earn a majority in the Senate” since “not a lot has changed.”
“It’s Republicans and Democrats alike,” she said of the failures of government.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/07/exclusive-carly-...
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They should have been gone long ago yet they are still in office and still screwing over the American people.
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