Welcome to your Thursday open thread. Yesterday was a great day for Democrats! Kloppenburg won the Wisconsin proxy battle, Glenn Beck got fired and Republicans praised their suicide pact known as the Ryan budget. Can today be as great?
Should we start taking a Trump candidacy seriously? He is getting a lot of attention. Pawlenty, Romney, et al. must be feeling heartburn right now – turning the primary into a birtherfest will only serve to make the whole party look crazy.
But a new poll released tonight from NBC and the Wall Street Journal shows that Republican primary voters are taking Trump’s run very seriously. In the NBC/WSJ poll, Trump is in a statistical dead heat for first place with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Arkansas Gov. Mark Huckabee. Among Tea Party members, he’s doing even better. From NBC’s Mark Murray:
“You’re fired” isn’t a message Republican primary voters and Tea Party supporters are telling real-estate mogul Donald Trump, at least not yet.
According to the latest national NBC/WSJ poll, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney leads the hypothetical 2012 GOP pack with support from 21 percent of Republican primary voters — followed by Trump and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee at 17 percent each, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich at 11 percent and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin at 10 percent. […]
Strikingly, Trump — who has received a considerable amount of attention for incorrectly stating that President Obama wasn’t born in the U.S. — finishes first among Tea Party supporters (at 20 percent), followed by Romney (17 percent), Huckabee (14 percent), Palin (12 percent) and Gingrich (9 percent).
I guess I’m still having trouble believing Trump is serious. Does Trump really believe he can handle the scrutiny that comes with a presidential run?
In a CNN poll released March 23, Trump came in fifth in a hypothetical GOP primary, collecting only 10 percent of the vote. That poll, however, was conducted from March 18-20, as Trump’s embrace of the birther issue was just beginning. In just two weeks, he has nearly doubled his support.
Do you remember the story of the Michigan Assistant AG who was obsessed with the student body president of the University of Michigan?. He wrote bizarre posts accusing the student of promoting a radical homosexual agenda. He’s now being sued.
University of Michigan student body president Chris Armstrong has filed a lawsuit against former Michigan Assistant Attorney General Andrew Shirvell, who was fired in November of last year for a series of blog posts that targeted Armstrong for being gay.
The suit was filed on Friday in Washtenaw County Circuit Court, and asks for more than $25,000 in damages for “defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, abuse of process, invasion of privacy, and stalking.”
The suit was filed on Friday in Washtenaw County Circuit Court, and asks for more than $25,000 in damages for “defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, abuse of process, invasion of privacy, and stalking.”
Good luck to Mr. Armstrong but I doubt it will stop Shirvell’s obsession.