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The age the U.S. Constitution says American presidents must be to take office. According to The Atlantic: “An important deadline for Election 2048 is fast approaching… parents who want their children to be eligible for that election cycle should start trying to conceive now or in the immediate future, generations of accumulated data about fertility and the length of gestation suggest.”
You forget one thing, my friend. You didn’t know our state drink. Big, big mistake.
— South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R), denying comedian Stephen Colbert’s efforts to be appointed to the soon-to-be-vacant U.S. Senate seat in a Facebook post. Haley was referring to an interview earlier this year when Colbert didn’t remember that milk is the official drink of South Carolina, his home state.
Hello Manny. I ran for president. I lost.
— Mitt Romney, quoted by the AP, talking to boxer Manny Pacquiao in his dressing room before a fight last night. Pacquiao, who has expressed interest in running for office in the Philippines, was knocked out in the 6th round.
I don’t know what she’s going to do, but I do know this: The Democrats want her to run. And I don’t just mean a lot of Democrats. I mean a whole lot of Democrats, like 90 percent across the country. We just want to win. We think she’s the best person and shut it down. And that’s across the board.
— James Carville, on This Week, on Hillary Clinton’s presidential prospects in 2016.
The Republican party is incapable of competing at that level.
— Newt Gingrich, telling “Meet the Press” yesterday that if Hillary Clinton runs for president, the Republican party has little chance of regaining the White House in 2016. He added that she’s “married to the most popular Democrat in the country” and she would also have the backing of President Obama, who will still be a “relatively popular president.”
62%
Of those surveyed support an immigration reform proposal that would allow illegal or undocumented immigrants to earn citizenship over a period of several years; 35% oppose it, according to a new Politico/George Washington University Battleground poll. “The poll reveals significantly greater overall support, 77%, for an immigration law that allows the children of illegal or undocumented immigrants to earn the right to stay here permanently if they complete a college degree or serve in the military. Just 19% oppose this key element of the so-called DREAM Act.”
