LOL.
Meanwhile, Trumps gets absolutely destroyed by Hillary. 51-34. A 17 point biblical landslide that will ensure than no Republican is elected or reelected anywhere in this country.
Clinton 51, Trump 34
Clinton 46, Bush 42
Clinton 48, Walker 37
Clinton 49, Carson 36
Clinton 48, Paul 38
Clinton 46, Rubio 40
Clinton 49, Huckabee 40
A new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds Donald Trump’s popularity has surged among Republicans after dominating several news cycles with his anti-illegal immigration rhetoric.
“Nearly six in 10 — 57% — Republicans now have a favorable view of Trump, compared to 40% who have an unfavorable one. That marks a complete reversal from a late-May Post-ABC poll, in which 65% of Republicans saw Trump unfavorably.”
However, among Latino voters Trump’s unfavorability has risen to 81% from 60%. Words cannot express how DEVASTATING this is for the Republicans. They may even lose the House in the landslide that is coming.
Alex Seitz-Wald reports at MSNBC that Democratic presidential candidate former Sen. Jim Webb is crafting his pitch as a centrist, appealing to white working-class and southern white voters, while dissing Dems on the left. (Webb can go fornicate with himself).
But in his NYT Sunday Review article entitled “The Dream World of the Southern Republicans,” Howell Raines explains “…Republican officeholders live in a dream world where they think rhetoric and repetition will somehow cause minority voters and center-left whites to turn into Republican voters. Alarmed Republican political professionals warn that unless their candidates stop obstructing on health care and make progress on gender issues, the party will lose the White House in 2016 and in quadrennial spurts see its Southern hegemony dismantled by new voters in the New Sunbelt….The longer they take to get it, the greater the odds that multiethnic Democrats will finally break the Republican lock on the solidly red South.”
This President is no lame duck:
I came across the transcript recently of the president’s year-end press conference from December and this line stood out for me:
“My presidency is entering the fourth quarter; interesting stuff happens in the fourth quarter. And I’m looking forward to it.”
He apparently wasn’t kidding. Have you noticed just how busy the president has been since the 2014 elections ostensibly ended his time in office?
I started sketching out some of Obama’s successes from the last nine months, and it quickly dawned on me how long the list is. Obviously, the nuclear agreement with Iran is foremost on everyone’s mind today, but since November 2014, it’s not the only foreign policy accomplishment. Obama also reached a climate agreement with China – a breakthrough few thought possible – and overhauled U.S. relations with Cuba, reversing decades of failure.
As if that weren’t enough, he also continued to shrink the prison population at Guantanamo Bay and freed American prisoners in North Korea.
Domestically, since November, Obama announced a major new immigration policy protecting millions of families, improved important new overtime rules, saw his Affordable Care Act withstand a court challenge and push the uninsured rate to all-time lows, and welcomed marriage equality to the entirety of the nation.
Amy Chozick at The New York Times provides a rundown of Hillary Clinton’s speech on the economy:
Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday blamed Republicans for “35 years” of policies that have exacerbated income inequality by giving “more wealth to those at the top” through tax cuts and corporate loopholes.
“Twice now in the past 20 years a Democratic president has had to come in and clean up the mess,” Mrs. Clinton said in New York, as she called for tax relief for middle-class families, an increase in collective bargaining and other incentives to raise middle-class wages.
“I believe we have to build a growth and fairness economy — you can’t have one without the other,” she said.
Paul Waldman at The Washington Post explains what the focus on inequality means for her messaging against Republicans:
The biggest advantage Clinton may have in this debate is that as a Democrat, she believes that government can take an active role in shaping the economy for people’s benefit. That means she can address a wide range of economic and workplace challenges and offer new ideas for how they might be confronted, whether it’s paid sick leave or Wall Street regulation or early childhood education.
You can argue that these ideas are good or bad, but she’ll have many more of them than Republicans will. Because Republicans think government’s role should be far more limited, they have much less to offer on those specific questions. They’d rather not have a debate on things like sick leave, because their default answer — just get out of the way and let the market work its magic — sounds like they don’t want to fix the problem.
Greg Sargent says that Republican shrieking over the Iran deal increase the likelihood that 2016 will be the rare elections in which foreign policy is a reasonably big deal. But he suggests that’s a debate Democrats should “lean into” rather than running scared like little cowards like they did in the 80’s, 90’s and early 2000’s.
[T]he argument that develops around the agreement may also take shape around the virtues and risks of international engagement. And this could join other issues to feed into a broader contrast, in which Republicans are opposing international engagement on multiple fronts — including Cuba and climate change (on which we may have an accord later this year). Meanwhile, Clinton may well embrace international engagement on multiple fronts, and use this contrast to cast the GOP as too inward looking and trapped in the past to confront the challenges of the future.