Tag: Campaign 2016

Straw-Poll Apathy Running Rampant in Iowa

Buck Banks

51%

Of likely Republican caucus-goers say they think it’s important for a candidate to attend the party fundraiser, a customary marker in the run-up to the Iowa caucuses, according to the latest Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register Iowa Poll. “Republican presidential candidates who skip the Iowa Straw Poll in August aren’t likely to pay much of a price for their decisions.”

GOP Senators Running on ‘Irony’ Platform

Buck Banks

The game is the Republican presidential primary, and no fewer than four senators are playing. They have discovered that tying the Senate in knots is a cheap and easy way of gaining attention. But a casualty of their game is governing: turning Congress, already barely functioning, into a legislative mess. It is no small irony that Republicans are running for president by proving that their party can’t govern.

— Washington Post

O’Malley Starts Presidential Bid with Wall Street Threat

Buck Banks

Recently, the CEO of Goldman Sachs let his employees know that he’d be just fine with either Bush or Clinton. I bet he would. … Well, I’ve got news for the bullies of Wall Street — the presidency is not a crown to be passed back and forth by you between two royal families.

— Martin O’Malley (D), quoted by the Washington Post, announcing his presidential bid.

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GOP Race has No Frontrunner

Buck Banks

10%

Percentage of the vote that Jeb Bush, Ben Carson, Mike Huckabee, Marco Rubio and Scott Walker share, according to a new Quinnipiac poll that highlights how there is no frontrunner in the GOP presidential race. Said pollster Tim Malloy: “Safe to say, the 2016 Republican presidential primary is anyone’s race. With no frontrunner and identical numbers for the top five contenders, it’s a horserace which can only be described as a scrambled field – at least so far.”