Month: July 2015
Trump Has Commanding Lead in N.H.
24%
Donald Trump’s lead in the GOP presidential race with 24%, followed by Jeb Bush at 12%, John Kasich at 7%, Scott Walker at 7%, Marco Rubio at 6%, Ben Carson at 5% and Rand Paul at 5%, a new Monmouth poll in New Hampshire finds.
Plurality of American Jews Back Iran Nuclear Deal
48%
Of Jewish Americans support the Iran nuclear deal negotiated by the Obama administration while 28% oppose it and 25% hadn’t heard enough to form an opinion, an LA Jewish Journal survey finds.
Obama Characterizes GOP Candidates’ Attempts to Gain Attention as ‘Sad’
The particular comments of Mr. Huckabee are I think part of just a general pattern we’ve seen… that would be considered ridiculous if it weren’t so sad. Maybe this is just an effort to push Mr. Trump out of the headlines but it’s not the kind of leadership that’s needed for America right now.
— President Obama, quoted by ABC News, on Mike Huckabee’s inflammatory comments on the Iran deal.
Perry Advocates Dinner, a Movie and a Handgun
These concepts of gun-free zones are a bad idea. I think that you allow the citizens of this country — who have been appropriately trained, appropriately backgrounded, know how to handle and use firearms — to carry them. I believe that, with all my heart, that if you have the citizens who are well trained, and particularly in these places that are considered to be gun-free zones, that we can stop that type of activity, or stop it before there’s as many people that are impacted as what we saw in Lafayette.
— Rick Perry (R), telling CNN that if people could bring their guns to the movies, they could prevent the movie theater shootings.
Christie Terrorizes Town Hall Meeting in Iowa
I’m still waiting for one fact from you, one fact about me being anti-gun. Give me one. One fact. Got one?
— New jersey Gov. Chris Christie, displaying his fiery side Saturday in front of potential Iowa caucus-goers, “when he defended his record on gun control and scolded a gun rights activist who challenged him during a town hall,” the Des Moines Register reports.
Rubio Has Missed More Votes Than Any Other Senators Running for Prez
42
Number of floor votes Sen. Marco Rubio has missed since announcing his run in mid-April, more than a third of roll calls on the Senate floor. “Trailing not far behind him on the absentee scale are Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas). At the other end of the spectrum is Rand Paul of Kentucky, who has missed just two votes,” reports Politico.
Debates Create Reprobates
The GOP contenders don’t want pollsters to ignore ’em,
So they can make the debate cut and get a national TV forum.
So their comments get outrageous
And insulting and shameless,
And the only thing that’s lacking is political decorum.
