February 5, 2016

Endorsing Recordless Rubio

February 5, 2016February 5, 2016 Buck Banks

Rick dropped out and said of Marco, “I’m for him.”
But when asked for Rubio’s accomplishments, he couldn’t list ’em.
So when’s an endorsement
Mostly an impediment?
When it comes from a washed-up has-been like Rick Santorum.

Maddow Doesn’t See Sanders Winning Presidency

February 5, 2016 Buck Banks

My prediction for Bernie: populist hero forever but hard to imagine him still being there at the convention.

— Rachel Maddow, telling Playboy she doesn’t think Bernie Sanders will win the Democratic nomination.

Sanders Holds Wide Lead in N.H.

February 5, 2016February 5, 2016 Buck Banks

58% to 38%

>Bernie Sanders’ big lead over Hillary Clinton, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll. A new American Research Group poll finds Sanders leading Clinton, 54% to 38%.

Day: February 5, 2016

Endorsing Recordless Rubio

Maddow Doesn’t See Sanders Winning Presidency

My prediction for Bernie: populist hero forever but hard to imagine him still being there at the convention.

— Rachel Maddow, telling Playboy she doesn’t think Bernie Sanders will win the Democratic nomination.

Sanders Holds Wide Lead in N.H.

58% to 38%

>Bernie Sanders’ big lead over Hillary Clinton, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Marist poll. A new American Research Group poll finds Sanders leading Clinton, 54% to 38%.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“We are done, Americans are done with endless conflict in the Middle East, spending trillions of dollars, American lives… this is insane and we have to call it for what it is.”

— Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), on CNN.

44%

— Former President Bill Clinton, quoted by Deadline, in his July 4th message.

Numerati

$4,600

11

30%

A new American Research Group poll finds just 30% of Americans say they approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president and 67% say they disapprove.

61% to 35%

81

A Reuters analysis of Trump’s public comments from June 23 through July 6 (13 days) — when a string of left-wing Democratic candidates won their party’s primaries in New York — found he invoked communism 81 times.