Tag: Marco Rubio

If You See Marco Rubio with a Football, Hide Your Children!

Trish

The ones where he hits the kids smack in the face are the best, but they’re all good. You’d think Markie Marc would learn after the first couple of passes how to do this thing.

Rubio Has Missed More Votes Than Any Other Senators Running for Prez

Buck Banks

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.

Walker Leads in Iowa

Buck Banks

18%

Scott Walker’s lead over the GOP presidential pack in Iowa, followed by Donald Trump at 10%, Ben Carson at 10%, Rand Paul at 9%, Ted Cruz at 9%, Jeb Bush at 8%, Marco Rubio at 7% and Mike Huckabee at 5%, a new Quinnipiac poll in Iowa finds. Said pollster Peter Brown: “Those who thought the Republican race in the Iowa caucuses might begin to clarify itself better think again. As even more candidates toss their hats into the ring, the race has gotten even more muddled.”

Rubio Has Better Name Recognition in Florida than Bush

Buck Banks

92%

Of Floridians who voted when Marco Rubio was last on the ballot, in 2010, are still registered, a Bloomberg Politics study conducted with University of Florida has found. By contrast, political scientist Daniel A. Smith found that nearly three-quarters of Florida’s 12.9 million currently registered voters have never even seen Jeb Bush’s name on a ballot.

Rubio Misquotes JFK

Buck Banks

“Asked six decades ago, this nation and that generation chose to embrace a New Frontier. In fact, they took up the challenge of a then young president who said, ‘Ask not what your country can do, ask what you can do for your country.’”

— Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), while campaigning in Iowa, “presented the 2016 campaign as a generational pivot point, likening his vision for a ‘New American Century’… to Kennedy’s 1960 challenge to the nation to embrace a ‘New Frontier,’” National Journal reports.