The results may be somewhat skewed because I was halfway through before I noticed the “somewhat, more, most” adjustment on the side. So lots of my answers were posted “somewhat” which was wrong.
But I’m not going back.
Rand Paul will drop out of the race for president, three sources close to the campaign told POLITICO.
Paul, a freshman Kentucky senator and the son of former Texas Rep. Ron Paul, has a large libertarian following but failed to gain traction in the presidential race. He now faces a race for reelection to the Senate
Chas: Yes, I probably should have mentioned the “How important is this to you?” variables on the left side of each question (I was learning on the fly as well). Also, if you click on “Other stances” with each question, you can choose a more nuanced answer which will most likely affect your score as well.
Rand Paul 70%
Trump 69%
Ted Cruz 69%
Bernie Sanders 61%
Ben Carson 60%
Hillary Clinton 55%
Jeb Bush 46%
Rand Paul is out. I wouldn’t vote for Trump because of his view on women. Ted Cruz makes me nervous and I can’t put my finger on why. I might have to write in Chas.
I was thinking about that Kim. You might remember that in 2008 I ran for president because I proved that I was more qualified than Obama. Now, except for $1.5 billion, I think I am more qualified than Trump. What has he done beside make deals?
He thinks he can make a deal with China? Mexico (they will build the wall)? Iran?
When he gets to the judgment seat, he’ll make a deal with God.
Seriously. He’s never done anything to ask forgiveness for.
He has a well worn Mother’s Bible..
He doesn’t have a favorite Bible verse. But if he did, it would be in two Corinthians.
All Trump is doing is muddying the water..
New surge of illegals at the southern border, so Obama decided it’s time to cut aerial surveillance at that same border in half. Makes perfect sense…. 🙄
If your goal is to continue flooding the country with illegals, this is one way to do it.
“Gov. Greg Abbott and U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Laredo Democrat, pressed the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Monday to explain why the agency plans to reduce its aerial surveillance on the Texas-Mexico border.
In a letter to DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson, the lawmakers said the cut to a requested 3,850 hours of aerial detection and monitoring in 2016 amounts to 50 percent less coverage than recent years.
“Given the recent surge of migrants from Central America and Cuba along the southern border, we believe DHS should request more surveillance and security resources, not fewer,” Abbott and Cuellar wrote in a letter.
The pair also reminded Johnson that in September, Abbott’s office asked the DHS for more aerial resources and U.S. Border Patrol agents but that the request was never acknowledged.”
“Monday’s request comes as CBP is reporting a new surge in the number of undocumented immigrants crossing the Rio Grande. From October to December of 2015, about 10,560 unaccompanied minors entered Texas illegally through the Rio Grande Valley sector of the U.S. Border Patrol. That marks a 115 percent increase over the same time frame in 2014. The amount of family units, defined as at least one child and adult guardian or parent, has increased by 170 percent to 14,336 in the Rio Grande Valley.
The El Paso sector also saw 1,030 unaccompanied minors, an increase of almost 300 percent.”
I got Cruz 90%; Carson 86; Rubio 85; Paul 84; Fiorina 83; Trump 83 (of course, tomorrow it could be 53 since he changes positions when the wind shifts); Santorum 79; Bush 76; Kasich 64; Christie 62. Surprisingly I am 28% in agreement with Clinton 28% and Sanders 24.
“The Baltimore mosque President Obama has chosen as the first U.S.-based mosque to visit during his presidency has deep ties to extremist elements, including to the Muslim Brotherhood.
The White House announced on Saturday that Obama will visit the Islamic Society of Baltimore (ISB) on Wednesday. He has visited several mosques overseas as president but has resisted visiting one in the homeland. The purpose of the trip, according to the White House, is to “celebrate the contributions Muslim Americans make to our nation and reaffirm the importance of religious freedom to our way of life.”
But ISB is a curious choice for Obama’s first domestic visit.
The mosque is a member of a network of mosques controlled by the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), a Muslim civil rights group named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2008 Holy Land Foundation terror case. Several executives with that organization were convicted of sending money to aid the terrorist group Hamas.”
“An imam who served at ISB for a total of 15 years has also been a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood network and has worked for an Islamic relief group that was designated as a terrorist organization by the Treasury Department in 2004.
Mohammad Adam el-Sheikh, who served two stints as ISB’s imam, from 1983 to 1989 and from 1994 to 2003, was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood in Sudan in the 1970s. He also co-founded the Muslim American Society, a Falls Church, Va.-based group that is controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood.
While in Baltimore, el-Sheikh served as a regional director for the Islamic American Relief Agency. That group’s parent organization is the Islamic African Relief Agency, which the Treasury Department says provided funds to Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, Hamas and other terrorist organizations.
After leaving Baltimore, el-Sheikh served as imam at the infamous Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church. That mosque has a lengthy roster of known terrorists and terrorist sympathizers. Its imam during much of the 1990s was Mohammed al-Hanooti. He was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which killed six people.”
“She is especially poor at the podium, where, when she wants to emphasize an applause line, her voice becomes loud, flat and harassing to the ear,” Noonan wrote in January. She compared Clinton to a “landlady yelling up the stairs that your kids left their bikes in the hall again.”
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Donald Trump, despite conceding defeat to Ted Cruz Monday night in Iowa, is now accusing the Texas Republican senator of stealing the race – and calling for either a new election to be held or the results to be nullified. …
Trump blasted out a battery of tweets Wednesday morning challenging the results that showed Cruz the winner. …
The development comes as, on the Democratic side, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders also questions the final tallies that showed Hillary Clinton the winner, by a very narrow margin.
“The Iowa caucus is so complicated — it’s not 100 percent sure that we didn’t win it,” he said on NBC’s “Today” show.
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Speaking to Kim’s point about Cruz in her 10:22 remark (Ted Cruz makes me nervous and I can’t put my finger on why. … )
While lining up with a candidate on the issues must come first, there are a host of other factors that go into choosing a leader for the nation. Cruz seems to have a harsh effect on many people.
Winsomeness, I think, is very important, being likable and able to persuade — not only are those factors important in getting elected in a general election, but I think they make for a more successful presidency overall.
Ha! Ha! I took the test just for the fun of it. I knew I would end up more liberal than you all, since as a non-American I see things, especially on international relations, differently. However, these percentage points do not necessarily reflect my views, since on many questions, I used the other response button and chose a yes or no with a qualifier, and so if one of the politicians used a straight yes or no my answer registered as being similar (if you click on the ‘compare answers’ button under each candidate on the results, you can see how yours and their answers lined up). Incidentally, I answered every question, though there were a couple I had to pull an answer out of thin air:
Sanders – 73%
Rubio – 69%
Clinton – 67%
Bush – 65%
Trump – 64%
Paul – 63%
Kasich – 62%
Cruz – 61%
Fiorina – 59%
Santorum – 59%
Carson – 59%
Christie – 52%
Now that’s what you call middle of the road 😆 Incidentally, were I to vote, it wouldn’t be for Sanders. I do not fear Socialism (historically, it preceded Communism by many years and is not the same thing), but Sander’s generation had some weird ideas of how to apply it. I regard Clinton in the same negative light as Trump. I do not trust Cruz – his willingness in 2014 to throw Arab Christians under the bus in order to show support for Israel is for me a sample of how he would disregard innocent Syrians and Iraqis in his plans to carpet bomb ISIS. Rubio would probably be my choice, with Fiorina coming second. The others I know too little about. Just an outside perspective 😉
My results: http://www.isidewith.com/elections/2016-presidential/1797152734
When it comes to socialism, it’s basically antithetical to America’s founding documents and philosophy. So we don’t “fear” it so much as realize it’s just a foundational disconnect with what our nation’s vision.
Fine for Europe & Canada (though I question whether it’s really working out so well).
Well, the argument could be made that the middle of the road is the straightest course. “Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.” (Proverbs 4:27) 😉 😀
Ben Carson suggested evangelicals should reevaluate their support for Ted Cruz in the Republican presidential primary based on what he alleged were “dirty tricks” played by Cruz’s staff on the night of the Iowa caucuses.
“I make no bones about the fact that I am a person of faith. I believe what it says in Matthew 7:20, that ‘By their fruits, you will know them,'” Carson told reporters at an impromptu press conference in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday afternoon. “I hope you will judge all the other people who are running for this position by the same standards.” …
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The GOP executive committee has voted to cancel the traditional presidential preference poll after the national party changed its rules to require a state’s delegates to support the candidate that wins the caucus vote.
The move makes Colorado the only state so far to forfeit a role in the early nomination process, according to political experts, but other caucus states are still considering how to adapt to the new rule.
“It takes Colorado completely off the map” in the primary season, said Ryan Call, a former state GOP chairman.
Republicans still will hold precinct caucus meetings in early 2016 to begin the process of selecting delegates for the national convention — but the 37 delegates are not pledged to any specific candidate.
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Wandering Views 
Here is an interesting quiz to match your views with a presidential candidate:
(Click on “Take the Quiz” at the top right side of the page.)
http://www.isidewith.com/elections/2016-presidential/1788046169
I identify mostly with Cruz and Trump (90% each), with Rubio in third (87%).
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does this work?
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The results for me”
Trump 98%
Carson 95
Rubio 95
Santorum 93
Cruz 85
Clinton 17
Sanders 13
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The results may be somewhat skewed because I was halfway through before I noticed the “somewhat, more, most” adjustment on the side. So lots of my answers were posted “somewhat” which was wrong.
But I’m not going back.
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From “Politico” via Drudge:
Rand Paul will drop out of the race for president, three sources close to the campaign told POLITICO.
Paul, a freshman Kentucky senator and the son of former Texas Rep. Ron Paul, has a large libertarian following but failed to gain traction in the presidential race. He now faces a race for reelection to the Senate
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/02/rand-paul-dropping-out-of-white-house-race-218675#ixzz3z7B1NOjj
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Chas: Yes, I probably should have mentioned the “How important is this to you?” variables on the left side of each question (I was learning on the fly as well). Also, if you click on “Other stances” with each question, you can choose a more nuanced answer which will most likely affect your score as well.
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I was Rubio, Trump, Carson. Guess it’s time to examine my policy thoughts. Or at least, take the quiz without the interruptions.
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Rand Paul 70%
Trump 69%
Ted Cruz 69%
Bernie Sanders 61%
Ben Carson 60%
Hillary Clinton 55%
Jeb Bush 46%
Rand Paul is out. I wouldn’t vote for Trump because of his view on women. Ted Cruz makes me nervous and I can’t put my finger on why. I might have to write in Chas.
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I was thinking about that Kim. You might remember that in 2008 I ran for president because I proved that I was more qualified than Obama. Now, except for $1.5 billion, I think I am more qualified than Trump. What has he done beside make deals?
He thinks he can make a deal with China? Mexico (they will build the wall)? Iran?
When he gets to the judgment seat, he’ll make a deal with God.
Seriously. He’s never done anything to ask forgiveness for.
He has a well worn Mother’s Bible..
He doesn’t have a favorite Bible verse. But if he did, it would be in two Corinthians.
All Trump is doing is muddying the water..
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No surprises for me. I most sided with Marco Rubio for president. But I already knew that. 🙂
Marco Rubio: 92%
Ben Carson 85%
Ted Cruz 85%
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The “bottom” 3 for me were:
Rand Paul 69%
Hillary Clinton 31%
Bernie Sanders 27%
In the middle were: Trump 82% and Bush 81%.
Interesting quiz. A bit long and I started skipping some of the “extra” questions toward the end.
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New surge of illegals at the southern border, so Obama decided it’s time to cut aerial surveillance at that same border in half. Makes perfect sense…. 🙄
If your goal is to continue flooding the country with illegals, this is one way to do it.
http://www.texastribune.org/2016/02/01/abbott-and-cuellar-question-dhs-over-cuts-border-s/
“Gov. Greg Abbott and U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, a Laredo Democrat, pressed the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Monday to explain why the agency plans to reduce its aerial surveillance on the Texas-Mexico border.
In a letter to DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson, the lawmakers said the cut to a requested 3,850 hours of aerial detection and monitoring in 2016 amounts to 50 percent less coverage than recent years.
“Given the recent surge of migrants from Central America and Cuba along the southern border, we believe DHS should request more surveillance and security resources, not fewer,” Abbott and Cuellar wrote in a letter.
The pair also reminded Johnson that in September, Abbott’s office asked the DHS for more aerial resources and U.S. Border Patrol agents but that the request was never acknowledged.”
“Monday’s request comes as CBP is reporting a new surge in the number of undocumented immigrants crossing the Rio Grande. From October to December of 2015, about 10,560 unaccompanied minors entered Texas illegally through the Rio Grande Valley sector of the U.S. Border Patrol. That marks a 115 percent increase over the same time frame in 2014. The amount of family units, defined as at least one child and adult guardian or parent, has increased by 170 percent to 14,336 in the Rio Grande Valley.
The El Paso sector also saw 1,030 unaccompanied minors, an increase of almost 300 percent.”
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I got Cruz 90%; Carson 86; Rubio 85; Paul 84; Fiorina 83; Trump 83 (of course, tomorrow it could be 53 since he changes positions when the wind shifts); Santorum 79; Bush 76; Kasich 64; Christie 62. Surprisingly I am 28% in agreement with Clinton 28% and Sanders 24.
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So Barry’s gonna visit a mosque…… with extremist ties, of course. Really, is there any other kind?
http://dailycaller.com/2016/01/30/the-us-mosque-obama-has-chosen-for-his-first-presidential-visit-has-deep-extremist-ties/
“The Baltimore mosque President Obama has chosen as the first U.S.-based mosque to visit during his presidency has deep ties to extremist elements, including to the Muslim Brotherhood.
The White House announced on Saturday that Obama will visit the Islamic Society of Baltimore (ISB) on Wednesday. He has visited several mosques overseas as president but has resisted visiting one in the homeland. The purpose of the trip, according to the White House, is to “celebrate the contributions Muslim Americans make to our nation and reaffirm the importance of religious freedom to our way of life.”
But ISB is a curious choice for Obama’s first domestic visit.
The mosque is a member of a network of mosques controlled by the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), a Muslim civil rights group named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2008 Holy Land Foundation terror case. Several executives with that organization were convicted of sending money to aid the terrorist group Hamas.”
“An imam who served at ISB for a total of 15 years has also been a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood network and has worked for an Islamic relief group that was designated as a terrorist organization by the Treasury Department in 2004.
Mohammad Adam el-Sheikh, who served two stints as ISB’s imam, from 1983 to 1989 and from 1994 to 2003, was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood in Sudan in the 1970s. He also co-founded the Muslim American Society, a Falls Church, Va.-based group that is controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood.
While in Baltimore, el-Sheikh served as a regional director for the Islamic American Relief Agency. That group’s parent organization is the Islamic African Relief Agency, which the Treasury Department says provided funds to Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, Hamas and other terrorist organizations.
After leaving Baltimore, el-Sheikh served as imam at the infamous Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church. That mosque has a lengthy roster of known terrorists and terrorist sympathizers. Its imam during much of the 1990s was Mohammed al-Hanooti. He was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which killed six people.”
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🙂 Peggy Noonan on Hillary’s stump speech style:
“She is especially poor at the podium, where, when she wants to emphasize an applause line, her voice becomes loud, flat and harassing to the ear,” Noonan wrote in January. She compared Clinton to a “landlady yelling up the stairs that your kids left their bikes in the hall again.”
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2582265
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95% Trump
93% Cruz
Carson 93%
Rubio 92%
Paul 83%
Bush 79%
Clinton 27%
Sanders 12%
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Well that didn’t take long.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/02/03/runner-up-drama-trump-says-cruz-stole-iowa-election-sanders-mulls-challenge.html
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Donald Trump, despite conceding defeat to Ted Cruz Monday night in Iowa, is now accusing the Texas Republican senator of stealing the race – and calling for either a new election to be held or the results to be nullified. …
Trump blasted out a battery of tweets Wednesday morning challenging the results that showed Cruz the winner. …
The development comes as, on the Democratic side, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders also questions the final tallies that showed Hillary Clinton the winner, by a very narrow margin.
“The Iowa caucus is so complicated — it’s not 100 percent sure that we didn’t win it,” he said on NBC’s “Today” show.
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Bernie has a case.
Trump is back to being Trump. 😉
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Trump is a sore loser. He must not like himself anymore since he doesn’t like losers.
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Trump does not lose.. We need to understand that.
This was stolen from him by Ted Cruz.
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Speaking to Kim’s point about Cruz in her 10:22 remark (Ted Cruz makes me nervous and I can’t put my finger on why. … )
While lining up with a candidate on the issues must come first, there are a host of other factors that go into choosing a leader for the nation. Cruz seems to have a harsh effect on many people.
Winsomeness, I think, is very important, being likable and able to persuade — not only are those factors important in getting elected in a general election, but I think they make for a more successful presidency overall.
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And being optimistic, have a vision, being able to lift people up above the anger and hyper-partisanship we find ourselves in now.
It may be impossible to do that in this environment. But my vote will go to the one who at least is trying.
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And another one bites the dust
http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/gop-primaries/268071-santorum-dropping-out-of-gop-race-report
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And on my drive in to work today, I was behind a car with not one, not two, but THREE Bernie signs in the back window. 🙂 A true believer.
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Ha! Ha! I took the test just for the fun of it. I knew I would end up more liberal than you all, since as a non-American I see things, especially on international relations, differently. However, these percentage points do not necessarily reflect my views, since on many questions, I used the other response button and chose a yes or no with a qualifier, and so if one of the politicians used a straight yes or no my answer registered as being similar (if you click on the ‘compare answers’ button under each candidate on the results, you can see how yours and their answers lined up). Incidentally, I answered every question, though there were a couple I had to pull an answer out of thin air:
Sanders – 73%
Rubio – 69%
Clinton – 67%
Bush – 65%
Trump – 64%
Paul – 63%
Kasich – 62%
Cruz – 61%
Fiorina – 59%
Santorum – 59%
Carson – 59%
Christie – 52%
Now that’s what you call middle of the road 😆 Incidentally, were I to vote, it wouldn’t be for Sanders. I do not fear Socialism (historically, it preceded Communism by many years and is not the same thing), but Sander’s generation had some weird ideas of how to apply it. I regard Clinton in the same negative light as Trump. I do not trust Cruz – his willingness in 2014 to throw Arab Christians under the bus in order to show support for Israel is for me a sample of how he would disregard innocent Syrians and Iraqis in his plans to carpet bomb ISIS. Rubio would probably be my choice, with Fiorina coming second. The others I know too little about. Just an outside perspective 😉
My results: http://www.isidewith.com/elections/2016-presidential/1797152734
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Wow, how could anyone even get those results?? 🙂 🙂 🙂
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When it comes to socialism, it’s basically antithetical to America’s founding documents and philosophy. So we don’t “fear” it so much as realize it’s just a foundational disconnect with what our nation’s vision.
Fine for Europe & Canada (though I question whether it’s really working out so well).
But it’s not who we are.
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Something’s wrong. You can’t like Sanders73% and Cruz 61%.
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I know, how crazy weird is that??
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Middle of the road? There’s nothing in the middle of the road except for yellow stripes and dead animals!
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Haha, that actually is really true.
Pick a lane.
And here’s a new word: “Trumpertantrum”
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Well, the argument could be made that the middle of the road is the straightest course. “Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil.” (Proverbs 4:27) 😉 😀
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Sanders 97%
Clinton 90%
Kaisch 35%
Trump 35%
Rubio was next somewhere in the mid 20% range.
Shocking isnt it……
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I prefer to not say anything about political beliefs . . . LOL
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Hwesseli, no, sounds just like (almost) everyone I work with and hang out with at the dog park 🙂
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_https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/02/03/ben-carson-evangelicals-should-think-twice-about-ted-cruz/
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Ben Carson suggested evangelicals should reevaluate their support for Ted Cruz in the Republican presidential primary based on what he alleged were “dirty tricks” played by Cruz’s staff on the night of the Iowa caucuses.
“I make no bones about the fact that I am a person of faith. I believe what it says in Matthew 7:20, that ‘By their fruits, you will know them,'” Carson told reporters at an impromptu press conference in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday afternoon. “I hope you will judge all the other people who are running for this position by the same standards.” …
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/02/03/ben-carson-evangelicals-should-think-twice-about-ted-cruz/
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Husband was 96 Trump and Carson.
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From Brit Hume on Twitter:
Santorum makes it official on @greta’s show: He’s out. He endorses Marco Rubio.
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Jefferson Davis – 100%
Everyone else – 0%
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Ricky 🙂
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I rest my case.
http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2016/02/03/jimmy-carter-endorses-donald-trump-over-ted-cruz/
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Kind of interesting set up in Colorado this year, which has its caucus on March 1, Super Tuesday
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_28700919/colorado-republicans-cancel-2016-presidential-caucus-vote
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The GOP executive committee has voted to cancel the traditional presidential preference poll after the national party changed its rules to require a state’s delegates to support the candidate that wins the caucus vote.
The move makes Colorado the only state so far to forfeit a role in the early nomination process, according to political experts, but other caucus states are still considering how to adapt to the new rule.
“It takes Colorado completely off the map” in the primary season, said Ryan Call, a former state GOP chairman.
Republicans still will hold precinct caucus meetings in early 2016 to begin the process of selecting delegates for the national convention — but the 37 delegates are not pledged to any specific candidate.
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In a brokered convention, Colorado could be powerful. Of course, in a brokered convention, Rubio is bound to win.
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