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2016 Presidential election campaign

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February 20, 2013 - 1:04pm

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NorthReport

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February 21, 2013 - 3:30pm

Start your engines Ladies and Gentlemen, as the jockeying for the pole positions has already begun

Marco Rubio: The Electable Conservative?

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/19/marco-rubio-the-elec...

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Boom Boom

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February 20, 2013 - 1:43pm

Rubio looked and sounded like an idiot when he gave the response to Obama's Sate of the Onion.

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Caissa

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February 21, 2013 - 2:56pm

Clinton could probably win for the Dems.

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Boom Boom

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February 21, 2013 - 3:46pm

Yeah, Hillary already is being viewed by folks I know in the US as a shoo-in, but aside from the fact she'd be the first women president, she's as right wing as they come. Same with Obama - the first African American president, but aside from that, very right wing. And likes to play with drones.

I have a link to John Kerry's investments in the tar sands (which he divested as soon as he was confirmed as Hillary's successor), and I'm sure both the Clintons have hugely morally questionable investments as well.

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February 25, 2013 - 3:48pm

Elizabeth Warren?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_warren

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NorthReport

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February 25, 2013 - 3:52pm

Definitely getting better.

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Boom Boom

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February 25, 2013 - 4:41pm

Yeah, I love Elizabeth. Maybe she'll run not next time, but hopefully in 2020. She'll have to be really really good at fund raising, though.

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February 27, 2013 - 3:16pm

Boom Boom wrote:

Yeah, I love Elizabeth.

Me too!

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/united-states/130227/elizabeth-warren-grills-bernanke-bank-subsidies

"Elizabeth Warren grills Bernanke on bank subsidies"

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March 18, 2013 - 3:20pm

Hillary Clinton endorses gay marriage 'personally and as a matter of policy'

Video ahead of supreme court Doma hearing likely to add to speculation that Clinton plans 2016 presidential run

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/18/hillary-clinton-endorses-gay...

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March 18, 2013 - 3:55pm

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I predict Rand Paul as GOP nominee and I predict he will win

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Bec.De.Corbin

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March 18, 2013 - 4:34pm

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... and I predict your prediction will live up to your user name here...

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March 18, 2013 - 5:01pm

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Maybe Rand will run under the Know Nothing banner.

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The Know Nothing was a political movement by the nativist American political faction of the 1850s, characterized by political xenophobia, anti-Catholic sentiment, and occasional bouts of violence against the groups the nativists targeted. It was empowered by popular fears that the country was being subverted by Catholic Americans as well as by new German and Irish Catholic immigrants. In Know-Nothing rhetoric these native and immigrant Catholics were described as hostile to republican values and likely under the control of the Holy See. Enrollment was advertised as limited to Protestant males of British American ancestry, but there were many members of Jewish, Dutch, German, and other backgrounds.