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UCmeNdc

(9,600 posts)
Wed May 27, 2015, 03:26 PM May 2015

Rand Paul Tries To Fool Students Into Thinking He's A Democrat

Baby Paul's obligatory "I wanna be President so I wrote a book" book is out. Huzzah! In it, he brands himself as a "crunchy treehugger" who says "the Republican party sucks."

He's really hoping that will appeal to college students so he can peel a few away, I suppose, but first he'd like to destroy those campuses they all attend and rid them of stinky liberals before indoctrinating them into the Cult of Koch.

Memo to Rand: It won't work. College kids are smarter than you think.


http://crooksandliars.com/2015/05/rand-paul-tries-fool-students-thinking-hes

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Rand Paul Tries To Fool Students Into Thinking He's A Democrat (Original Post) UCmeNdc May 2015 OP
It isn't working. According to Dana Milbank (Washington Post) in the.... FSogol May 2015 #1
You can leave off the last word and that works too. Thor_MN May 2015 #2

FSogol

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1. It isn't working. According to Dana Milbank (Washington Post) in the....
Wed May 27, 2015, 04:27 PM
May 2015
most recent national poll, by Fox News, has Paul in sixth place, with 7 percent, trailing Jeb Bush, Ben Carson, Scott Walker, Mike Huckabee and Marco Rubio. Paul averages only about half the support he had late in 2013. Paul doesn’t appear to be winning over young voters — perhaps the most important justification for his candidacy — and does not do better than other Republicans, according to a survey released last month by Harvard University’s Institute of Politics. Even in his home state, a media consortium poll this month found that Paul had lost his lead in a theoretical matchup with Clinton.


Whole popcorn-worthy article here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-decline-of-rand-paul/2015/05/26/10a7b932-03e5-11e5-a428-c984eb077d4e_story.html?wprss=rss_dana-milbank
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