2016 Presidential Election Thread

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DALLAS MEGA-PASTOR HEAPS PRAISE ON 'GREAT' TRUMP...Poll: Evangelicals flocking to billionaire's side

Robert Jeffress, who pastors the First Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas, and who has been making the introductions of Donald Trump to several of his recent campaign audiences, stopped short of endorsing the billionaire during a recent media interview - but basically only because his nonprofit exemption with the IRS would have been threatened had he appeared to have given his stamp of approval to one candidate over another.
"I am not officially endorsing any candidate but I was happy to pray at Mr. Trump's events on Saturday and in Iowa and also to introduce him," Jeffress said, in a chat with the Christian Post. "And frankly, I would not have done that if I did not believe that Mr. Trump could be a very effective president of the United States."
Jeffress said he understands why Christians are hesitant to jump into the Trump camp. But he also said those who did ultimately decide to support him don't have to fear guilty consciences.
"There are many Christians who would say that while Donald Trump may not be the best candidate to lead Bible studies in the Oval Office, he very well may be the candidate that has the best chance of beating [them] in November," Jeffress said, the Blaze reported. "I don't believe a Christian has to sell his soul to the devil to vote for Donald Trump."
Jeffress said "electability" was a key factor to consider in this coming election, and worried the nation's ability to "survive either Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton," he said.
During a weekend campaign stop, Jeffress introduced Trump as "a great leader, a great visionary and a great American," the Dallas News reported.
The support-but-not-endorsement comes as a recent poll from NBC News/Survey Monkey showed Trump's reach-out to evangelicals may be resonating.

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Cruz Campaign Sends Out Personal “Shaming Letters” To Iowa Voters

The personalized letters target individual Iowa voters and identifies them as having failed to vote in prior elections. They are admonished and then encouraged to vote this year. In addition the letters identify the neighbors of the voter, and provides their voting history.





The text reads:


"You are receiving this election notice because of low expected voter turnout in your area. Your individual voting history as well as your neighbors' are public record. Their scores are published below, and many of them will see your score as well. CAUCUS ON MONDAY TO IMPROVE YOUR SCORE and please encourage your neighbors to caucus as well. A follow-up notice may be issued following Monday's caucuses".


In an effort to shame the recipient, the notice also informs the targeted voter their neighbors have also been notified of the recipients poor voting record.


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(Excerpt) Read more at theconservativetreehouse.com ...

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Cockney Trump
https://youtu.be/-cA0NM5RAY0

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You gotta watch this to the end for the comment about Sweden

[Premium Parrots]

that's really sad......Those kids don't have a clue. They should raise the voting age to at least 40.

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[Burnsey]

that's really sad......Those kids don't have a clue. They should raise the voting age to at least 40.

True, but spoken like any other 90 year old.........

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FBI Makes It Official: Hillary Rodham Clinton Is Under Investigation

February 8, 2016
FBI Makes It Official: Hillary Rodham Clinton Is Under Investigation

by Michael Walsh


Just the thing to propel her into the New Hampshire primary tomorrow:

In a letter disclosed Monday in a federal court filing, the FBI confirms one of the world's worst-kept secrets: It is looking into Hillary Clintons use of a private email server.

Why say this at all, since it was widely known to be true? Because in August in response to a judge's direction, the State Department asked the FBI for information about what it was up to. Sorry, the FBI said at the time, we can neither confirm nor deny the existence of any investigation.
Now, in a letter dated February 2 and filed in court Monday, the FBI's general counsel, James Baker, notes that in public statements and congressional testimony, the FBI "has acknowledged generally that it is working on matters related to former Secretary Clinton's use of a private email server."
Baker says the FBI has not, however, "publicly acknowledged the specific focus, scope or potential targets of any such proceedings." He ends the one-paragraph letter by saying that the FBI cannot say more "without adversely affecting on-going law enforcement efforts."
The letter was filed in one of the Freedom of Information Act cases brought against the State Department over access to documents from Hillary Clinton's time as secretary of state. This one was filed by Judicial Watch.
Meanwhile, over at the Justice Department, the pressure is mounting on attorney general Loretta Lynch to step aside for a special prosecutor:

Loretta Lynch is on the edge of the spotlight, about to be dragged to the center. If the FBI finds sufficient evidence to launch a criminal investigation into Hillary Clinton or one of her top aides for mishandling classified information, Lynch’s Justice Department will have to decide whether to press ahead.

Even if no evidence of wrongdoing is found, Clinton's many critics are unlikely to take the word of an appointee of President Obama's and will doubt that justice has been served. Already, top Republicans are calling for a special prosecutor to be brought in and evaluate the situation. No. 2 Senate Republican John Cornyn (Texas) took to the floor of the Senate last week to call for a special counsel to be appointed "because of the conflict of interest by asking Attorney General Lynch to investigate and perhaps even prosecute somebody in the Obama administration."
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) agrees that Lynch ought to consider a special counsel, a representative said, to reassure the country that decisions are made "without regard to any political considerations." The Justice Department, however, has so far declined the request.
It's almost over for Mrs. Clinton. The question for the Democrats is: what do they do now? Notes Salon:

It would be hard to overstate what Bernie Sanders has already achieved in his campaign for president, or the obstacles he's had to surmount in order to achieve it. Not only has he turned a planned Hillary Clinton coronation into an exercise in grass-roots democracy, he's reset the terms of the debate. We are edging closer to the national conversation we so desperately need to have. If we get there, all credit goes to Bernie.

And so the cry goes out:


A prominent Democratic donor worried about the party's chances of winning the presidency emailed dozens of fans of Vice President Joe Biden on Friday, urging them to remain prepared to donate if Biden jumps into the race.

The donor, Bill Bartmann, cited new polling showing Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont nearly tied with the Hillary Clinton, eroding the 30-point lead the former secretary of state held at the end of last year. Bartmann and other party insiders are concerned that Sanders, a self-proclaimed Democratic socialist, is too far to the left to win against a Republican in the Nov. 8 presidential election.

"We cannot afford to lose the White House," Bartmann wrote in the email, seen by Reuters. The email drew a string of affirmative responses, also seen by Reuters.

Biden announced in October that he would not seek the presidency, despite support from a group of backers under the name "Draft Biden 2016." But whispers have continued among some donors who hope that Biden could be convinced to run after all should Clinton's campaign prove fruitless.


Or, to put it in terms the Clintons can understand: criminal.

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I simply can't fathom Hillary having support. If I were liberal minded, I'd be all in on Sanders.

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Protesters Attempt Exorcism On Ted Cruz

Two protesters holding mirrors and crosses interrupted Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) at a campaign stop in New Hampshire, in an attempt to perform an exorcism on Cruz.

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Chelsea Clinton: It's 'insulting' when people question my family's faith

Chelsea Clinton said God and religion guides so much of her mother's "moral compass" that she can't help but feel insulted when people question her family's faith.
"My mother is very deeply a person of faith," Ms. Clinton, the only child of former President Bill Clinton and Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton, said at a recent fundraiser, the New York Post reported.
"It is deeply authentic and real for my mother, and it guides so much of her moral compass, but also her life's work," the 35-year-old added.
Hillary was raised as a Methodist, Bill grew up as a Baptist, and Chelsea's husband, Marc Mezvinsky, is Jewish. Chelsea explained that her family's religious diversity doesn't diminish their commitment to God, the New York Post reported.
"I find it quite insulting sometimes when people say to my mom, my dad or me … that they question our faith," she said. "I was raised in a Methodist church and I left the Baptist church before my dad did, because I didn't know why they were talking to me about abortion when I was 6 in Sunday school - that's a true story."
"I recognized that there were many expressions of faith that I don't agree with and feel [are] quite antithetical to how I read the Bible," she said. "But I find it really challenging when people who are self-professed liberals kind of look askance at my family's history."

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Promoting the faith of the Bill and Hillary is perhaps the most ludicrous thing I've read in quite some time. Perhaps Bill shouldn't have been a lying, philandering piece of garbage, and Hillary shouldn't be a lying, cheating, and more, piece of trash, if they don't want people questioning their religious beliefs.