February 5, 2020

One of America's most prominent racists just received the Presidential Medal of Freedom

During the State of the Union, Donald Trump bestowed the highest civilian honor on Rush Limbaugh.

By Laura McGannlaura.mcgann@vox.com Feb 5, 2020, 12:14am EST

Presidents have bestowed the Presidential Medal of Freedom to some of America’s greatest writers, artists, entertainers, journalists, and humanitarians — from Toni Morrison to Ansel Adams to Edward R. Murrow to Betty Ford.

On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump gave it to one of America’s most prominent racists.

Snip: Limbaugh’s racist rants continued beyond the 2008 election and started long before.

In 1990, Newsday reported that Limbaugh snapped at a black caller who confronted him, saying, “Take the bone out of your nose and call me back.” (Limbaugh denies he said this.)
In 2007, Limbaugh joked he was “singing a song in my head here during the break: ‘Barack, the Magic Negro, doo doo do doo.’”
In 2004, he suggested that professional basketball players were criminals: “You just gotta be who you are, and I think it’s time to get rid of this whole National Basketball Association. Call it the TBA, the Thug Basketball Association, and stop calling them teams. Call ’em gangs,” he said.
Three years later, Limbaugh described professional football players the same way. “Look, let me put it to you this way. The NFL all too often looks like a game between the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons. There, I said it.”
In 2011, he mocked a speech by the president of China, saying on air, “Hu Jintao was just going, ‘Ching cha. Ching chang cho chow. Cha chow. Ching cho. Chi ba ba ba. Kwo kwa kwa kee.” Limbaugh continued this at length, then said, “Nobody was translating, but that’s the closest I can get.”
In 2016, Limbaugh claimed that Obama’s race “amplified malcontent operations like Black Lives Matter. It gave rise to a thugocracy, and nobody had the guts to speak out against it for fear of what would happen to them.”
The list of examples goes on and on.

More: https://www.vox.com/2020/2/5/21123597/rush-limbaugh-medal-of-freedom-trump-racist-sexist

February 5, 2020

Any word on what Iowa precincts still haven't come in?

And who those regions might favor? Are they rural or city's a mix?

February 5, 2020

Dems need a commercial that shows unemployment dropping from 10% to under 5% under Obama

and Obama creating all these jobs for minorities and then showing Trump jumping in at the last minute to try to take credit for all of Obama's accomplishments. There has to be a clever / entertaining way to do this.

Maybe Obama is running a relay race. He starts out during the great recession taking the baton from Bush running behind everyone but then starts catching up and he laps the guys he is racing. It would correlate to the unemployment rate dropping, GDP growth, the deficit falling etc. He pulls way ahead and then Trump gets the baton and the growth rate drops, job creation drops, deficit soars, trade deficit soars other runners are catching up. Trump begins raising his hands in the air before the end of the race acting cocky and then the commercial ends but Trump never gets to finish the race. The question is asked. Is he really the one who should be running the race for 4 more years?

February 5, 2020

Giving Rush the medal of freedom was a bone to the base but will infuriate independent voters

I think that was a big mistake. Just a little taste of what is to come from this and we all know there is a truckload of this type of stuff:

https://twitter.com/KosherSoul/status/1224888387234156544?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

February 4, 2020

Instead of Caucuses, why don't they just do Ranked Choice Voting?

It seems like it's the same thing without the peer pressure if your candidate doesn't get enough.

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February 4, 2020

Interesting how betting odds have each state predicted

https://www.predictit.org/



Sanders strong everywhere except the Southeast.

February 4, 2020

Funny. On this betting site Pete jumped up like 15 pts and Sanders dropped 15 pts after Pete

declared victory. It changed for just a few minutes before people caught on and it went back to where it was before. Pete was almost even with Sanders for a few minutes and people in the comment section where totally confused as to what was going on. LOL

https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/5241/Who-will-win-the-2020-Iowa-Democratic-caucuses

February 4, 2020

Is this the best place to check returns? Pete in the lead by a hair with just under 2% in

With just under 2% reporting


https://www.kcci.com/article/kcci-iowa-caucus-headquarters/30599739

February 3, 2020

Isn't Bloomberg going to just make it harder for Biden on Super Tuesday?

What Biden needs is for more moderates to drop out, not more jumping in.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/31/bloomberg-biden-super-tuesday-109236

February 3, 2020

What Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada mean for SC's Democratic presidential primary

Democrats in Iowa will caucus on Monday in the official opener to the Democratic presidential nominating contest.

The race will quickly move on to New Hampshire, then Nevada before landing in South Carolina on Feb. 29.

What do the first three early states mean for South Carolina’s contest?

Snip: WHAT NEVADA MIGHT TELL SC
Nevada, more than Iowa and New Hampshire, may offer more of a preview of what’s to come in South Carolina — but with one important distinction.

The southwestern state will be the first real test for candidates among a diverse electorate, more specifically among Hispanic and Latino voters — who make up a fast-growing demographic.

Though in South Carolina that demographic is estimated at 5.5%, much smaller than Nevada’s, the Nevada contest is “probably more of a harbinger for South Carolina than ... Iowa or New Hampshire,” said J. Miles Coleman, associate editor at Sabato’s Crystal Ball at University of Virginia Center for Politics. “A big part of the Democratic coalition in Nevada is the Hispanic vote.”

“If Bernie (Sanders) does well out there, he could do well in parts of South Carolina with big (Hispanic) populations,” Coleman continued. “But it’s not really in itself enough to carry the state.”

Theodore Johnson, a senior fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University Law School, added Nevada “will either continue or interrupt candidate momentum.”

“Momentum is huge in February,” Johnson said. “Whoever has momentum rolling (out of South Carolina and) into Super Tuesday, especially coming out of Super Tuesday, is in a good spot.”

More: https://www.thestate.com/news/politics-government/election/article239842498.html