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Craig Fry
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So Cal.
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Talk in G.O.P. Turns to a Stop Donald Trump Campaign
By NICHOLAS CONFESSORESEPT. 4, 2015
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/05/us/politics/talk-in-gop-turns-to-a-stop-donald-trump-campaign.html?_r=0
Quiet conversations have begun in recent weeks among some of the Republican Party’s biggest donors and normally competing factions, all aimed at a single question: How can we stop Donald Trump?
Republican strategists and donors have assembled focus groups to test negative messages about Mr. Trump. They have amassed dossiers on his previous support for universal health care and higher taxes. They have even discussed the creation of a “super PAC” to convince conservatives that Mr. Trump is not one of them.
But the mammoth big-money network assembled by Republicans in recent years is torn about how best to defuse the threat Mr. Trump holds for their party, and haunted by the worry that any concerted attack will backfire.
In phone calls, private dinners and occasional consultations among otherwise rivalrous outside groups, many have concluded that Mr. Trump’s harsh manner and continued attacks on immigrants and women were endangering the party’s efforts to compete in the general election. Yet after committing hundreds of millions of dollars to shape the Republican primary contest and groom a candidate who can retake the White House, the conservative donor class is finding that money — even in an era of super PACs and billion-dollar presidential campaigns — is a devalued currency in the blustery, post-policy campaign fashioned by Mr. Trump, driven not by seven-figure advertising campaigns but by Twitter feuds and unending free publicity.
“People are somewhat perplexed by the whole Trump phenomenon,” said Ray Washburne, a Dallas businessman who is Gov. Chris Christie’s finance chairman.
So far, according to the Campaign Media Analysis Group and a Republican media buyer, there has barely been any advertising targeting Mr. Trump. Out of $90 million worth of ads reserved or bought in the Republican primary, just $1,300 has been spent attacking Mr. Trump — an ad in Spanish that ran briefly in California that was sponsored by a Spanish-language television network.
The Club for Growth, which has spent millions of dollars on feisty intraparty campaigns attacking Republican candidates who deviate from conservative economic orthodoxy, appears closest to moving against Mr. Trump, soliciting advice from among its members and researching potential lines of attack.
The group helped torpedo the populist presidential bid of Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor, in 2008, and has long been a thorn in the side of Republican leaders — making it, many Republicans believe, a credible foil to Mr. Trump.
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HermitMaster
Social climber
my abode
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The RealClear Politics Average is just that. An average of many of the polls out there.
It doesn't show the latest trends.
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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so, we're adding jobs at about 200,000 per month, so problem fixed in 4 months.
Jorge Ramos said 30million illegals cross each year.. Ken work on ur math
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Norton
Social climber
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Jorge Ramos said 30million illegals cross each year.. Ken work on ur math
got a source you can post showing that Ramos said that?
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Jody wrote: Bob d'idiot Antonio wrote:
Hitting the wrong keys again Jody.
How that socialist retirement fund going for you?
Jody wrote: Did you note my clarification on the drop ion MC income under Obummer?
Yes and like always you are wrong.
""Income progress was broad and robust through the Reagan and Clinton years and stopped abruptly during the Bush and Obama administrations," the report states.
Most households saw their income stay steady or decline from 2002 to 2013. The only exceptions were households headed by college graduates and those headed by people in their 20s.
The average household was hurt by the technology revolution that put a premium on highly educated workers and the economy's globalization, which pushed wages down for less-skilled workers, according to Shapiro."
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guyman
Social climber
Moorpark, CA.
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""Income progress was broad and robust through the Reagan and Clinton years and stopped abruptly during the Bush and Obama administrations," the report states.
Bob, that seems true for me........ I would like to read that report, got a link????
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Contractor
Boulder climber
CA
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Jody wrote:"contractor, quit asking stupid questions".
In golf, it's called "handy capping".
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Jody wrote: Okay Bob, you win. Obama is the best leader this world has ever seen. Things have never been better.
No, FDR is my choice.
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Contractor
Boulder climber
CA
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https://youtu.be/0J6bfVnW4fQ
Jody, the multiple personal conflicts you are engaged in and the rapid firing of insults has me worried that this all gets you exited.
Just talk this out in a reasonable manner.
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Norton
Social climber
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sarcasm may be fun
but prove you above post about Obama wrong, Jody
taxes have never been lower
unemployment is down to 5.1%
the economy has fully recovered from being in RECESSION when he took office
tens of millions of Americans now have healthcare who did not before
no more of our boys are dying in Iraq in a "nation building" failure under Republican Bush
on and on
facts, Jody, not bias
and all done against the most defiant Republican opposition that you continue to vote FOR
really, you ought to ashamed of your critical thinking skills
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crankster
Trad climber
No. Tahoe
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Home run, Norton. Indisputable facts.
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Jody wrote: Norton, look past the talking points and rhetoric and actually delve into the facts a little deeper and you will find that all is not what it seems. the "lower" unemployment rate is one example. Look into the factors that enabled the administration to come up with that number.
Norton, you have to understand that Jody was/is completely happy with Bush and his record on employment.
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Norton, I think Jody is dyslexia.
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