January 22, 2016

‘Bar’ Protects Cub

January 22, 2016 Buck Banks

Jeb Bush’s low-energy campaign’s in a slump,
So he created a commercial to give it a jump.
But though he’s losing to the bully,
Jeb’s keeping his hands unsullied,
By letting his mom take on mean old Donald Trump.

Rubio Cuts Ad Spending in Iowa

January 22, 2016 Buck Banks

$860,000

Amount by which Marco Rubio’s campaign has quietly scaled back its ad buys in Iowa, even though he had long planned an ambitious Iowa advertising assault in the weeks leading up to the caucuses, Politico reports.

What We All Suspected About Ben Carson

January 22, 2016January 22, 2016 Buck Banks

I think he’s just living in an alternative universe.

— Former Ben Carson campaign manager Barry Bennett, talking to Politico about his old boss.

Graham: Nominating Trump or Cruz Will have the Same Outcome

January 22, 2016 Buck Banks

If you nominate Trump and Cruz, I think you get the same outcome. Whether it’s death by being shot or poisoning doesn’t really matter. I don’t think the outcome will be substantially different.

Day: January 22, 2016

‘Bar’ Protects Cub

Rubio Cuts Ad Spending in Iowa

$860,000

Amount by which Marco Rubio’s campaign has quietly scaled back its ad buys in Iowa, even though he had long planned an ambitious Iowa advertising assault in the weeks leading up to the caucuses, Politico reports.

What We All Suspected About Ben Carson

I think he’s just living in an alternative universe.

— Former Ben Carson campaign manager Barry Bennett, talking to Politico about his old boss.

Graham: Nominating Trump or Cruz Will have the Same Outcome

If you nominate Trump and Cruz, I think you get the same outcome. Whether it’s death by being shot or poisoning doesn’t really matter. I don’t think the outcome will be substantially different.

— Sen. Lindsey Graham, quoted by the New York Times.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“One woman at a rally in New Jersey told me last week that she was ‘nauseously optimistic.’ That may capture a lot of people’s last-minute jitters.”

— Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), quoted by Axios, on what Democrats feel ahead of the midterm elections.

“I think Congress made a mistake not protesting turning the Rose Garden into what looks like the entrance to Liberace’s bathroom.”

— Former President Bill Clinton, quoted by The Wrap.

“Boy, they are scraping the bottom of the barrel. It feels like a real desperation play to me, because it has got zero basis in the law.”

— Republican election law expert Ben Ginsberg, quoted by Politico, on the Trump administration’s effort to invalidate Alaska’s election results.

Numerati

3,824

$1.4 billion

-35 points

31%

63% to 38%

KFF Poll: “With the 2026 midterm campaigns in full swing and early voting about to begin, there is a wide enthusiasm gap between partisan voters, with Democratic voters 25 percentage points more likely than Republican voters to say they are ‘more motivated’ than usual to vote (63% vs. 38%).”