Turkey fans BOO during pre-match minute's silence for the victims of Paris attacks an

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Maybe you need to see who is showing up at Trump rallies and listen to what they have to say. Even I have been surprised. There's a lot of people outside the State of New Hampshire. The movie 13 Hours is not going to be kind to Hillary. We have yet to hear from the FBI. Loretta may have to decide if she wants her in cuffs and an Orange Jumpsuit.

"What does it matter anyway?"

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Look at the POLLS. Very much the same as in 2012.

The GOP is hanging gaining the White House based upon platforms that are not important to most americans.

The majority of their campaigning is currently based on preying on the fears of people who are obsessed with terrorism. ISIL has peaked and is rapidly falling apart just as Al-Qaeda fell apart. These ideologies are not sustainable. If ISIL is further degraded at the current rate they may be a nouhhn issue by election in November. Beyond that the GOP is trumpeting change on issues that are not supported by the majority of americans. I admit that the ACA has flaws and needs restructuring but you can't drop 17M from insurance rolls without a replacement. The GOP will not have a replacement plan in place in time for the election. There are only 85 days in the current session. Anything Ryan is workinhttp://www.boston.com/sports/football/patriots/2015/12/28/brandon-marshall-says-doesn-believe-the-patriots-meant-kick/x2CYCaLeVOExjngPhnTxaP/story.htmlg on will not be ready for November. So what is left. Abortion? Gay Marriage? Immigration? Their current platforms are supported by a minority of likely voters.

Unless and until the Republicans move to a Moderate stance they are unelectable in national elections. They win the House because of gerrymandering (but that is changing as gerrymandering lawsuits are resolved ie. FLA and other states). Republican Governors tend to be moderate and don't reflect electoral demographics for the state (Charlie Baker?????).

It is time for the GOP to leave fantasyland and face up to the problems it has. So long as they pander to the religious whackjobs they are irrelevant.

- Cujo

Look at the polls? I am looking at the polls. Bernie is neck and neck with Clinton. Bush with all his dough is near the bottom.

It's a different world today where social media has made a huge impact on election results, but apparently the sheeple like Cujo are still singing the tune the Dems tell him to sing.

And btw should we be surprised that it is Dems pushing legislation to control the internet? And how about their past attempts to control talk radio? Dems love the first amendment as long as they can control what's said.

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Look at the POLLS. Very much the same as in 2012.

The GOP is hanging gaining the White House based upon platforms that are not important to most americans.

The majority of their campaigning is currently based on preying on the fears of people who are obsessed with terrorism. ISIL has peaked and is rapidly falling apart just as Al-Qaeda fell apart. These ideologies are not sustainable. If ISIL is further degraded at the current rate they may be a non issue by election in November. Beyond that the GOP is trumpeting change on issues that are not supported by the majority of americans. I admit that the ACA has flaws and needs restructuring but you can't drop 17M from insurance rolls without a replacement. The GOP will not have a replacement plan in place in time for the election. There are only 85 days in the current session. Anything Ryan is working on will not be ready for November. So what is left. Abortion? Gay Marriage? Immigration? Their current platforms are supported by a minority of likely voters.

Unless and until the Republicans move to a Moderate stance they are unelectable in national elections. They win the House because of gerrymandering (but that is changing as gerrymandering lawsuits are resolved ie. FLA and other states). Republican Governors tend to be moderate and don't reflect electoral demographics for the state (Charlie Baker?????).

It is time for the GOP to leave fantasyland and face up to the problems it has. So long as they pander to the religious whackjobs they are irrelevant.

- Cujo

Like Democrats never do anything like that......except when showing commercial of throwing Granny off a cliff. Or suggesting Republicans will reinstitute slavery.

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Obama has righted the ship and put things back on track for Reagan-like deficits. No thanks to the Republicans.

https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/fi...-land-fig1.png

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For my clarity, it looks like the Bush years, it was above the average deficit. For the Obama years, substantially lower.

Am I reading this correctly? (go ahead, call me a simpleton back-azz redneck with a 1st grade education).

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For my clarity, it looks like the Bush years, it was above the average deficit. For the Obama years, substantially lower.

Am I reading this correctly? (go ahead, call me a simpleton back-azz redneck with a 1st grade education).

yeah, it was until it all went to sh!t in 2008. Obama has been digging us out of that hole ever since. Which the graph clearly shows.

Don't try to pretend that it should have bounced right back.

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And Obama refused to continue using the accounting gimmicks that Bush/Cheney used to hide the costs of the wars.

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And Obama refused to continue using the accounting gimmicks that Bush/Cheney used to hide the costs of the wars.

Don't underestimate the fury over the costs of the wars.

I could never stomach voting for another Bush or any other Republican for a long time over that.

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Trumps support is a chimera. 30% of 1/3rd of voters. Most polls Ie Quinnipiac are very accurate to within a few % points. Head to head he gets slaughtered. The anger you talk about is more about a minority making a lot of noise. Most people I know (of all political persuasions) are confident about the future, don't lose sleep over ISIL and really don't care about abortion and gay marriage...... The noise from the religious right and teaparty make it seem more important than it really is. The problem the GOP has extends beyond the White House. They also stand to lose seats in the House due to congress having record low approval ratings. A shift in a few senate seats (i.e. Ayotte vs Hassan are neck and neck) and you lose the Senate.

I support Bernie but I don't think he survives Super Tuesday..... Hope I am wrong because I will have to hold my nose to vote for Hilary. The only Republican I could consider supporting is Kasich but he is viewed as a moderate and is not dogmatic enough to appease the religious right that has hijacked the GOP as they make a last gasp effort to resurrect (pun intended....) their failed agenda. You cannot win a national election or hold Senate seats by pandering to 10% of the voting base.

- Cujo

"About 20 percent of likely Democratic voters say they would buck the party and vote for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in a general election, according to a new poll."

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign...ump-poll-shows

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"About 20 percent of likely Democratic voters say they would buck the party and vote for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump in a general election, according to a new poll."

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign...ump-poll-shows

Is that even close to enough to cover the Republican defectors escaping that circus?

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Obama has righted the ship and put things back on track for Reagan-like deficits. No thanks to the Republicans.

https://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/fi...-land-fig1.png

Uh oh!

The market freakout of 2016 keeps getting scarier. Cheap oil and China remain the major culprits. The*Dow*dropped another 391 points on Friday, leaving the index down an incredible 1,437 points in just the first two weeks of the year.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/15/inve...dow-china-oil/

Market crash robs $2.3 trillion from investors

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/...year/78845082/

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Is that even close to enough to cover the Republican defectors escaping that circus?

It sure does! Try reading the article before posting.

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It sure does! Try reading the article before posting.

No thanks - I don't need more bad news. That is really depressing.

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Uh oh!

The market freakout of 2016 keeps getting scarier. Cheap oil and China remain the major culprits. The*Dow*dropped another 391 points on Friday, leaving the index down an incredible 1,437 points in just the first two weeks of the year.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/15/inve...dow-china-oil/

Market crash robs $2.3 trillion from investors

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/...year/78845082/

Thanks Chicken Little. Keep us updated.

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At least 20 people have been killed and another 15 wounded Friday in an ongoing Al-Qaeda attack on a hotel in the capital of Burkina Faso popular with United Nations staff and westerners.

Another attack by those whacko southern Baptists... oh wait a second

Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) claimed responsibility for the attack, according to US-based monitoring group SITE.

The "mujahideen brothers" of AQIM "broke into a restaurant of one of the biggest hotels in the capital of Burkina Faso, and are now entrenched and the clashes are continuing with the enemies of the religion", SITE quoted the group as saying.

By all means we should be bringing these people here to live. They just need welfare and they will be fine.