USA Elections 2016 - started Feb 21, 2016

NorthReport wrote:

A voter was just asked what kind of impact Romney and gang were having and his response was: "It makes him want to vote twice for Trump"  

Being a Trump voter, they probably think they can vote twice

NorthReport wrote:

http://drudgereport.com/nowmi.htm  

Drudge Report. They could have taken the poll before the debate.

NorthReport wrote:

Big loser tonite is Rubio who is probably done like dinner now, in last place in the latest poll in Michigan, but he's a mascochist so will probably stay in. 

He's got his home state coming up

For those who may be interested in the chain of events which brought us to this bizarre election season, salon.com has a very good summary of the relevant history of the Republican Party, starting with the great depression of the 1930s, and the rise of FDR's New Deal. I found it interesting even though I already knew most of the story from the 1960s to the present. The author is a professor who has written a book on the history of the Republican Party, and really seems to know her subject.

That's a really interesting analysis, thanks for sharing it! Its conclusion:

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Party leaders never cared much about the social issues they promised to evangelical voters, but that bargain has now come home to roost with the candidacy of Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who is a Christian Dominionist eager to make America a Christian theocracy.

And then there is Donald Trump. His policies have no ideological coherence, but certainly he is not a Movement Conservative. Rather, he is a salesman appealing to the electorate that Movement Conservative rhetoric has created. Those people have been dispossessed by the economic policies that have redistributed wealth dramatically upward since 1980. They are angry, and have untethered their hatred of minorities and women from the Movement Conservative rhetoric that pushed opposition to taxes and government activism.

Movement Conservatives deliberately overturned a moderate American consensus in favor of government activism by appealing to the nation’s basest prejudices. Their movement is now collapsing under its own weight. With the death of that movement, the party, and the nation, has an opportunity to make a New Deal and resurrect a Middle Way.