Poll: Donald Trump Tops GOP Field at 39 Percent, Ted Cruz Locks in Second Place

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by ALEX SWOYER23 Dec 2015Washington, DC269

GOP frontrunner Donald Trump tops the GOP field with 39 percent in a new CNN/ORC pollreleased today, with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) a distant second at 18 percent.

More people now believe Trump is the Republican candidate with the best chance to win the general election in 2016.

Cruz increased his standing two points since the last CNN/ORC poll taken late last month, while Dr. Ben Carson and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) both slipped a few points and are now tied with 10 percent.

Since his presidential announcement, Trump has remained a constant leader at the top of the polls, but this new poll is the first time Cruz has separated himself from the other GOP candidates.

The poll was conducted after the December GOP primary debate in Las Vegas, Nevada on December 15.

CNN reports, “Among those Republicans who say they watched, 33% say Trump did the best job in the debate, 28% Cruz, 13% Rubio. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie follows with 6%. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, widely seen as needing a strong debate performance to boost his standing in the polls, was rated best by just 1% of debate watchers.”

Six in 10 Republican voters in the poll now say there are one or two candidates they’d prefer to see win over the rest of the field, up from 48% who had identified favorites in July. That consolidation is reflected in voters’ overall preferences. This marks the second CNN/ORC poll in a row in which more than three-quarters of Republicans now support one of the top four candidates (77% choose one of Trump, Cruz, Carson or Rubio), and 57% now support one of the top two candidates. That latter figure marks the highest share for any two candidates combined this cycle.

According to CNN, the poll reveals Trump’s lead stems from the opinion that he can best handle the economy, illegal immigration and ISIS.

Trump holds massive advantages over the rest of the field as the candidate best able to handle the economy (57% Trump, his next closest competitors are Cruz at 8%, Rubio at 7%, Carson at 6% and Bush at 5%), illegal immigration (55% trust Trump, followed by Cruz at 15%, Rubio at 10%), and ISIS (47% prefer Trump, 21% Cruz, 7% Bush and 6% Christie).

In August, only 38 percent of Republicans thought Trump would be the best candidate to win in the 2016 general election, but that is now up to 46% of GOP voters who believe Trump is the candidate with a better chance of winning in 2016.

Among those who say the party has a better shot with someone other than Trump, Cruz is the preferred candidate, 25% would like to see him win the nomination, 16% Rubio, 13% Carson, 9% are Trump backers, 8% KentuckySen. Rand Paul (R-KY), 7% Christie and 4% each Bush and Kasich.

CNN suggests that Cruz’s performance in the December debate has helped move him into second place.

Though he remains well behind Trump, Cruz gained ground on the front-runner on handling illegal immigration and ISIS, both a central focus of the debate’s questions, while Rubio and Carson faded on both issues. Cruz’s favorability rating has jumped 22 points among Republican voters since September, and he now holds the highest favorability rating among Republican voters of any of the seven candidates tested. He’s also posted the largest increase in favorability rating among all adults since September, climbing from 27% favorable in September to 45% now, an 18-point gain. Trump (+8) and Rubio (+14) posted smaller increases.

More voters, 62 percent, believe Cruz has the right type of experience to be president, while 57 percent believe Trump has the right experience. Fifty-three percent of voters said Rubio has the experience. However, “two-thirds say Cruz shares their values and is someone they would be proud to have as president.”

The CNN poll also reveals that Trump has gained ground with college graduates.

In the new poll, 27% of GOP voters with degrees back Trump, up from 18% in the late-November poll. Among those without degrees, 46% back Trump, the same share as in November. Non-college voters could prove to be an Achilles heel for Rubio, who holds just 6% support among that group compared with 19% among those who hold degrees.

The poll was conducted by telephone from December 17 to 21 with a sample of 1,018 voters across the nation. The results had a plus or minus margin of error of three points. For the results regarding the 438 GOP and Independent voters, who are leaning Republican, the margin of error was plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.

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Backlash From Hispanics Against Hillary Clinton: #NotMyAbuela

#NotMyAbuela

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by JOHN HAYWARD23 Dec 20151,140

Hillary Clinton’s clumsy pandering to racial groups, and her campaign theme of portraying herself as America’s Grandma-in-Chief, collided in a website post inviting Hispanic voters to think of her as their abuela, or grandmother.

The mockery greeting this post–#NotMyAbuela–isn’t the reaction Clinton’s campaign was hoping for.

The post is entitled “7 things Hillary Clinton has in common with your abuela.” (It was originally called “7 ways Hillary Clinton is just like your abuela,” but her tone-deaf campaign team hastily changed it after the backlash began.) Those seven things, as described by the vast army of highly-paid political consultants this particular abuela employs, include:

She worries about children everywhere.Because no one else running for President worries about children.

She knows what’s best. (This point wins extra creepy totalitarian points by citing Clinton’s enthusiasm for climate change as an example of “knowing what’s best.” The climate change movement is increasingly focused on asserting that democracy ends where their theology begins, and unquestioning compliance with their demands is mandatory.)

She reacts this way when people le faltan el respeto. In other words, when people fail to show respect. This probably isn’t the right tack for a gazillionaire aristocrat noted for her arrogance to present herself to voters.

The Clinton campaign demonstrated how she reacts to people who don’t show respect with a GIF of Clinton looking exasperated at a congressional hearing – a moment from the Benghazi hearing, perhaps? Double clueless points for campaign staff if so. Too bad Clinton didn’t show the men who died in Benghazi some respect, isn’t it?

She reads to you before bedtime. Yes, this is seriously a point the Clinton campaign thinks will sell a presidential candidate to Hispanic voters. Enjoy being patronized, folks!

She isn’t afraid to talk about the importance of el respecto (especially when it comes to women). Well, except for women who accuse her husband of sexual harassment or assault, that is. The example of Clinton’s soaring respect for women is her lecturing Donald Trump about daring to say he “cherishes” them, which is pretty weak tea for a woman running as Feminist Numero Uno.

She likes to highlight accomplishments. The example provided is a GIF of Clinton saying she has “met and worked with DREAMers.”  What about all her “accomplishments” as Secretary of State?

.. And she had one word for Donald Trump. The word is basta, or “enough.”

This couldn’t be more patronizing if it had been whipped up by Trump’s campaign as a phony website to make Hillary Clinton look bad.

The Hill collected responses on Twitter that mocked the super-rich, whiter-than-white Clinton for daring to presume she knows anything about being a Hispanic grandmother:

Hillary is #NotMyAbuela but I bet she pays someone like my abuela does her hair.

— Mary Sue ⭐ (@MarySueRenfrow)December 22, 2015

Besides very accurately dismantling how the Clinton-bot’s programming operates, this last post mocks Clinton for wrapping up her abuela list with a photo of herself and singer Marc Anthony, gushing “Everybody loves abuela – even this guy.”

It will be fun to watch Hillary claim she’s a better Hispanic grandmother than the grandmothers of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX). If either of them is the Republican candidate, it looks like we’ll be in for another round of Democrats claiming that racial identity is defined by strict obedience to left-wing political dogma – you’re only an authentic member of your demographic group if you vote Democrat, and their elderly white candidates are more “authentic” than Republicans who actually belong to the demographic in question.

It would be very dismaying to think this kind of absurdly heavy-handed pandering worked with any American demographic. So far, it doesn’t look like Hispanic voters are going for it.  

History should have taught Americans of every background to be extremely suspicious of any politician who runs as the National Father or Mother.

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6 Times the Mainstream DC Media Ridiculed Children of Republicans

by JOHN NOLTE23 Dec 2015655

One of the biggest lies told by our corrupt and rotting DC Media is the one that states that the children of politicians are off-limits. Unwritten or unspoken, there is no such rule. There is, of course, a strictly-enforced DC media rule about the children of Democrat politicians being off-limits. The children of Republican politicians, however, have always been fair game — and I’m not talking about in the left-wing fever swamps, but in mainstream outlets such as the Washington Post, CNN, NBC News, The Atlantic, The Daily Beast, and Salon.

An excellent example of this double standard occurred almost exactly a year ago when Elizabeth Lauten, a no-name Capitol Hill staffer, took to Facebook to criticize the behavior of President Obama’s two lovely teenage daughters during the President’s annual turkey pardon ceremony.

As documented by the Washington Free Beacon, the DC Media lost its ever-loving mind over this. Network news vans camped outside of the home of Lauten’s parents, the Washington Post  “assigned one of its foreign affairs correspondents to comb through an archive of columns Lauten wrote for her college newspaper in 2006 and 2007. …  Both ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Today show devoted segments to the controversy on Sunday and Monday[.]”

Lauten apologized but still lost her job as a Communications Director for a Republican Congressman. And I am in no way defending her. Children of politicians should be off-limits. They are civilians, bystanders, innocents who should be allowed to live their own lives, enjoy their own opinions, and make their own mistakes without being dragged onto the national stage and used as a billy club against their parents.

It is just a fact that the DC Media do not see Republicans as humans. We are worse than Nazis to them, we are “things” that must be annihilated, grinded into dust, and poured into an active volcano. Make no mistake, these people despise us, and the ongoing attacks against our children are part of a rather ingenious and coordinated DC Media plot to intimidate.

The idea is to make things so nasty and so ugly, no decent Republican will enter politics. Moreover, as you’ll see below, the DC Media is desperate to destroy Republican families that might be appealing to voters. Granted, sometimes it’s just venomous hate, but there is a bigger agenda at work here, and no doubt a coordinated one.

Below  are some recent examples. Again, keep in mind that this is not “Saturday Night Live,” or a comedian, or a partisan talk show host, or some website no one has heard of. These examples represent  mainstream outlets widely accepted as such within the mainstream DC media.

 

Washington Post Ridicules Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)’s Young Daughters a Monkeys

The Attack

The Washington Post not only publishedthis cartoon, Republican Senator Ted Cruz was attacked by the Post for using his own young daughters as “props.” A Post staffer has declared the daughters “fair game.”

Cruz’s daughters, Catherine and Caroline are 4 and 7 years-old!

Keep in mind, as I mentioned above, that this is the same Washington Post that “assigned one of its foreign affairs correspondents to comb through an archive of columns Lauten wrote for her college newspaper in 2006 and 2007,” after this no-name staffer criticized President Obama’s daughters in a personal Facebook post last year.

In the DC Media, Republican children arefair game, but God help you if you criticize the children of Democrats, even in a personal Facebook post.

Consequence

As of now, the Washington Post is doing what it always does: lying. The cartoon has been removed and replaced with an absurdeditor’s note that claims “I failed to look at this cartoon before it was published.” Fine. Maybe Fred Hiatt did not look at the cartoon before it was published, but no one believes the cartoonist has the power to self-publish.

Plenty of WaPo staffers okayed the cartoon, and as of now all of them, including the cartoonist, still have jobs.

 

CNN Mocks Physical Assault On Bristol Palin

The Attack

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CNN obtained audio of Governor Sarah Palin’s daughter Bristol reporting an alleged physical assault to the police. If you are anything close to a human being, the recording is objectively harrowing, a frightened young mother describing a brutal physical and verbal assault to authorities.

Before playing the audio, a delighted CNN told its audience to “sit back and enjoy” the audio, and added   that the recording is “quite possibly the best minute and a half of audio we’ve ever come across, come across in a long time anyway.”

The Consequence

We’re talking about CNN here, so obviously there were no consequences. Because the orders to mock Bristol Palin probably came from CNN chief Jeff Zucker, the anchor is still on the air. The network never apologized.

 

 

NBC News Attacks Mitt Romney’s Black Grandchild

Almost exactly two years ago, on its cable news outlet MSNBC, NBC News’s Melissa Harris-Perry mocked Mitt and Ann Romney’s infant grandchild, Kieran Romney. His only sin is being black.

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You can hear panelist Pia Glenn singing the lyrics to the “Sesame Street” song, “One of these things doesn’t belong here.” After finishing the ditty, Glenn says, “And that little baby, front and center, would be the one.”

Dean Obeidallah then attacks the child as token, “”I think this picture is great. It really sums up the diversity of the Republican party, the RNC. At the convention, they find the one black person.”

The Consequence

Melissa Harris-Perry still has her own show and Dean Obeidallah’s career took off as a result. He is now a regular contributor at the Daily Beast and an on-air contributor at — where else? — CNN.

 

The Atlantic Serially-Smears Bristol Palin as the Mother of Trig Palin

The Attack

Throughout the 2008 presidential campaign, in order to freak-show Sarah Palin’s attractive, everyday family, The Atlantic launched a vicious and relentless smear campaign that claimed Palin’s daughter Bristol was the mother of Trig Palin.

Trig Palin is Sarah Palin’s youngest child.

The Conseqeunce

None. In fact, while pretending to debunk it, the DC Media gave the conspiracy a ton of play.

 

The Daily Beast Mocks Palin Children

After describing Governor Palin as a “GILF” (Governor I’d Like to F***), in 2008, The Daily Beast went on to mock the names of the Palin children before singling out Bristol:

I was eager to see whether Bristol would follow in her parents’ creative-naming footsteps or pick the kind of mass-marketed name favored by other teenage moms: Kayden, say, or Ashton. Tripp is, well, kind of trippy, and certainly unfortunate in view of his paternal grandma’s recent drug arrest. But it’s a more creative choice than those made by other famous young moms: Jamie Lynn Spears’ Maddie Briann, for example, or Charlotte Church’s Ruby Megan.

Its only real problem may be that it seems less like the independent choice of the baby’s young parents and more like the continuation of an established family dynasty.

The Consequence

Nobody ever faces consequences at The Daily Beast for anything.

 

Salon Mocks George W. Bush’s Daughters as Drunks

The Attack

The 2001 headline, sub-headline, and photo say it all:

The first family’s alcohol troubles

President Bush downplayed his own drinking problem and hid a DUI. Now his daughters are making news for underage drinking. Is there a connection?

The Consequence

Joan Walsh, the author of the attack, is a regular fixture on cable news.

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If there was a button the DC Media could press that would destroy Republicans and their children, the only fight would be over who gets to press it.

 

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Coming to America? China Introduces ‘Credit Score’ For Obedient Citizens

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China’s largest social networks have partnered with the country’s Communist government to create a credit score system that will measure how obedient its citizens are, a chilling prospect that could one day arrive in America if social justice warriors get their way.

Entitled ‘Sesame Credit’, the program, “Aims to create a docile, compliant citizenry who are fiscally and morally responsible by employing a game-like format to create self-imposed, group social control. In other words, China gamified peer pressure to control its citizenry; and, though the scheme hasn’t been fully implemented yet, it’s already working — insidiously well,” reports Zero Hedge.

Sesame Credit is operated by Alibaba and Tencent, two companies that run all the top social networks in China, including Weibo, which has over 200 million users. It works by measuring not only purchase and bill paying history but also “political compliance.”

“Among the things that will hurt a citizen’s score are posting political opinions without prior permission, or posting information that the regime does not like, such as about the Tiananmen Square massacre that the government carried out to hold on to power, or the Shanghai stock market collapse. It will hurt your score not only if you do these things, but if any of your friends do them,” warns the ACLU.

In other words, people will face the threat of not only becoming a target of state surveillance, but also losing their friends if they express political views frowned upon by the state. This social pressure would obviously make individuals far less likely to criticize the government or to counter a dominant social narrative. The credit scores can also be seen by anyone, adding the further burden of potential public shaming for controversial opinions.

The idea is ripped straight from the script of The Prisoner – a cult 1960’s TV show in which the authorities in control of ‘The Village’ attempt to break Number 6 and strip him of his individuality. In one episode, Number 6 is declared “unmutual” and faces ostracization from the rest of the community.

Rick Falkvinge compared this new method of molding the ‘good citizen’ to how the KGB and the Stasi would neutralize dissent.

“The KGB and the Stasi’s method of preventing dissent from taking hold was to plant so-called agents provocateurs in the general population, people who tried to make people agree with dissent, but who actually were arresting them as soon as they agreed with such dissent, he writes. “As a result, nobody would dare agree that the government did anything bad, and this was very effective in preventing any large-scale resistance from taking hold. The Chinese way here is much more subtle, but probably more effective still.”

Johan Lagerkvist also warns that the program will scrutinize what books people read, labeling it akin to “Amazon’s consumer tracking with an Orwellian political twist.”

Sesame Credit is currently opt-in only but is set to become mandatory by 2020.

Could such a system ever take off in America? For years, the Obama White House has been pushing cybersecurity initiatives that would mandate de facto government permission to use the Internet. Since web access would be linked with an individual user’s identify, it could easily be restricted if that individual dares to dissent against the state.

A credit score for expressing politically correct opinions also sounds like a utopian wet dream for social justice warriors, who utilize the power of mob outrage to pester governments and corporations into publicly shaming people who challenge their narratives.

Indeed, prominent feminists are alreadycalling on the United Nations to pressure ISPs and governments to cut off web access for those who dare to disagree with feminists and leftists online.

If the we continue to treat the feelings of perpetually offended outrage mobs with more importance than free speech – particularly controversial and unpopular free speech – there’ll be no need for governments to impose a social credit score to control citizens – we’re already imposing it on ourselves by default.

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Buchanan: Trump Could Win Working Class Dems

by PAM KEY22 Dec 2015287

Tuesday on Newsmax TV’s “The Steve Malzberg Show,” former Nixon and Reagan aide and conservative commentator Pat Buchanan said Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump could do well among blue-collar Democratic voters who are concerned about the border and unhappy with Bill Clinton-era trade deals.

Buchanan said, “My view about Donald Trump is he’s got some real capabilities I think to break out from the normal pattern of  basically moderate conservative Republican against centrist Democrat. Part of that I think is his issue with the border, which reaches across party lines, and secondly his issue on trade against NAFTA and GATT and these trade deals. If you run against NAFTA and GATT and hang them around Hillary Clinton’s neck in Pennsylvania and Ohio and Michigan I think you could do very well there among working class Democrats.”

On working class African-American voters he added, “A lot of working class black folks and middle class black folks are interested in a far better economy than we’ve got now and there’s no doubt that The Donald has been a job creator in his own sphere.”

On working class Hispanic voters, “I’m not sure American citizens who are Hispanics want to have folks walking across the border and taking the jobs that would otherwise go to them.”

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Clinton World ‘Stunned’ by ‘Non-reaction’ to Trump’s ‘Vulgarity’

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by BREITBART NEWS22 Dec 20151,622

The following appeared in The Hill:

Donald Trump’s public mocking of Hillary Clinton has renewed criticisms of crass, sexist comments by the Republican presidential front-runner.

Clinton’s campaign on Tuesday decided against a frontal attack, with communications director Jennifer Palmieri offering inviting others on Twitter to repudiate Trump’s comments.

But behind the scenes, Team Clinton saw the remarks at a Monday rally as a new low, and some allies predicted they would lead to his demise.

“We are watching the Donald melt down,” predicted Ellen Tauscher, the former congresswoman who served as undersecretary for Arms Control and International Security Affairs under Clinton.

“His racist, sexist, xenophobic rants are now wearing on people generally,” she said.

“Even the folks caught up in the celebrity culture that thought these performances were funny initially, which is stunning, now realize these comments seem predictable and pathetic,” Tauscher added. “What the Donald seems to miss, as he claims he loves women, is that this is a historic election for women and they are done with the juvenile, prurient, potty talk behavior.”

Other political observers contacted by The Hill weren’t so sure.

Trump has a history of attacks on both men and women — notably GOP presidential rival Carly Fiorina and Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly.

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Rubio: I Missed Omnibus Bill Because I Was Running to Ensure We Don’t Have Bills Like It In the Future

by IAN HANCHETT22 Dec 2015160

Florida Senator and Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) stated that he missed the vote on the omnibus bill because “I was doing something, and that is running for president so we don’t have to keep doing this in the future” on Tuesday’s “On the Record with Greta Van Susteren” on the Fox News Channel.

Rubio said the outcome was “predetermined.” He added, “we are going to win this election, so the American people are no longer subjected to these kind of votes where the outcome is already predetermined, and at the end of the day, it’s an issue there was no transparency on.”

When pressed on why he didn’t show up, Rubio responded, “I was doing something, and that is running for president so we don’t have to keep doing this in the future. I want to win this race so that we have a president that doesn’t force us to take the garbage that was in that omnibus that was passed last week. A lot of those things that are in that bill are because we have a president that will not sign it unless it has his pet projects, and the things that it had in there like, for example, no changes whatsoever to the Syrian refugee process, which poses a danger to the United States. I’m running to win, so that we have a president that no longer forces upon us votes of this kind, and that’s what I was out there doing, and I’m going to continue to do, because I want to win this race so we no longer are faced with these…choices when it comes to the future of our country.”

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