F******t
发帖数: 948 | 1 One of the more optimistic investment bankers in the bunch said that some of
the “big money guys” on Wall Street were already planning for the next
presidential election.
“There’s always 2016. Chris Christie looks great coming out of Sandy,”
one source said. |
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发帖数: 12659 | 2 还是感觉obama能力有限啊
无法扭转颓势，只是加剧族群分裂
optimists
sometimes
believe
Romney |
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发帖数: 2865 | 3 Contrary to what the maniacs here believe, Obama is a very centric guy, and
I can tell you that his beliefs are same as yours. How much he can get done
with GOP House, I am not too sure but I am optimistic.
(1) Yes.
Debt reduction will happen. Obama says $2.5 spending cut for $1 revenue
increase.
It was always going to happen despite what Romney campaign says. It's simple
Economics 101. Government invest more when the economy is down, and
government retreats and taxes a bit more when economy is ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 162 | 4 最重要的原因： Lukewarm evangelical base。
我也认为从现在开始GOP应该重视少数民族。但和Evangelical比，失去少数民族不是造
成Romney输的根本原因。为什么？
Romney12的最终得票（popular votes）比McCain08还少大约200万票，比Obama12少大
约300万。2012和2008比较，白人总的票数少了近700万票，少数民族多大约200万票(已
经算给OBAMA了）。如果Romney能在全国调动出来350万白人出来投他的票，他就赢了。
平均到OH,FL，VA和IA, 他需要的不过是每州多10-15万票。当年Evangelical 对McCain
已经很不感冒了，否则就不会有Palin。由于是摩门的原因，这很可能是个 Mission
Impossible。天生的没办法。这也是为什么初选我支持Gingrich。
战术上: Too nice。
政治斗争不是请客吃饭。对手说你不好，曲解也好，诽谤也好，一定要说回去。不说回
去就是默认，对手的目的就达到了。尤其在电视广告的对抗里尤其如此。我们捐钱就是
干这个的。做为候选人需要有总统像... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 5 How Conservatives Can Win in Blue-State America: Lessons from South Africa's
Opposition
The new conventional wisdom in the aftermath of the 2012 elections is that
Republicans face two challenges: first, that the United States is no longer
a center-right nation, but a center-left one; second, that the country’s
demographic shift away from whites will make it tougher for Republicans to
win votes. The proposed solution is that Republicans must compromise on the
party’s core policies, from immigrati... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 6 By Terence P. Jeffrey
November 18, 2012
(CNSNews.com) - The percentage of Americans who think America will be worse
off in four years has more than doubled in the four years since Barack Obama
was first inaugurated as president, according to the Gallup poll.
In a survey conducted Jan. 9-11, 2009--concluding just nine days before
Barack Obama's first inauguration as president--Gallup asked American adults
now?"
At that time, 72 percent said the country would be better off, 20 percent
said it woul... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 7 Dr. Sowell推荐Stephen Moore的《到底谁最公平？》；如果每个美国人都读了这本书
，奥巴马会输的很惨...
If everyone in America had read Stephen Moore’s new book, Who’s the
Fairest of Them All?, Barack Obama would have lost the election in a
landslide.
The point here is not to say, “Where was Stephen Moore when we needed him?
” A more apt question might be, “Where was the whole economics profession
when we needed them?” Where were the media? For that matter, where were the
Republicans?
Since Who’s the Fairest of Them All? was published ... 阅读全帖 |
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R****a
发帖数: 6858 | 8 我个人觉得这才是中国的希望，只有这样中国才能团结起来，共同为中国和中国人争取
阳光下的地盘和世界资源。
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MANY sympathetic Westerners view Chinese society along the lines of what
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 9 Ted Turner Declares Wars ‘Over With’
December 16, 2012 | Filed under Agitators,Asshats,corruption,Culture Of
Corruption,Democrats,Liberals,Media | Posted by Warner Todd Huston
In his best Fukuyama-like fashion, CNN founder Ted Turner has pronounced the
end of war. Not only that, but he implies that the U.S. is the stupid
country for refusing to abide by his prognosticating powers.
During a December 13 broadcast of CNN’s Newsroom, Turner made the sweeping
pronouncement about the end of war assuri... 阅读全帖 |
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f*******8
发帖数: 1430 | 10 【 以下文字转载自 EB23 讨论区 】
发信人: fakaoti08 (fakati08), 信区: EB23
标 题: Obama Will Seek Citizenship Path in One Fast Push
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sat Jan 12 21:49:10 2013, 美东)
President Obama plans to push Congress to move quickly in the coming months
on an ambitious overhaul of the immigration system that would include a path
to citizenship for most of the 11 million illegal immigrants in the country
, senior administration officials and lawmakers said last week.
Mr. Obama and Senate Democrats will propose the ... 阅读全帖 |
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G*******1
发帖数: 6411 | 11 1100万非法移民？！劳模只会越来越多
http://www.cnbc.com/id/100375167
Obama to Seek Immigration Overhaul
President Obama plans to push Congress to move quickly in the coming months
on an ambitious overhaul of the immigration system that would include a path
to citizenship for most of the 11 million illegal immigrants in the country
, senior administration officials and lawmakers said last week.
Mr. Obama and Senate Democrats will propose the changes in one comprehensive
bill, the officials said, resisting effort... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 12 State of the Union: Will Obama Tell Young People He's Screwing Them Big Time?
Nick Gillespie|Feb. 12, 2013 12:00 pm
courtesy Gateway Punditcourtesy Gateway PunditFor at least the next 36 hours
, the political media will be talking about President Barack Obama's State
of the Union address (SOTU) as if it's a meaningful event. Will Obama go
bold or timid into this good night, will he make the case for more taxes and
fewer guns, for engaging North Korea or ignoring the Hermit Kingdom, for
stuffing ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 13 National knife rights movement gets twist in Texas
March 12, 2013
By By MICHAEL BRICK, Associated Press
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — You never know what might happen when a lawmaker
brings a gun to a knife fight.
But Second Amendment rights advocates are about to find out.
"I suppose, in part," said state Rep. Harold Dutton, describing his plan to
legalize carrying switchblades, "it's political."
Across the country, this has become the year of the knife. New federal rules
will allow pocketknives on airp... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1041 | 14
Federal Worker Unions Face Hurdles in Staging Protest; Signs Fall Short of
Poetry
March 19, WSJ
On Wednesday, members of the American Federation of Government Employees
will rally in downtown Chicago, scene of some of history's most storied
labor protests. Their aim is to stop sequestration, the $85 billion in
across-the-board cuts to the federal budget that took effect March 1.
For many workers, this turns out not to be the most ... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 15 奥巴马医疗法案的负面影响：保险费用上升，价格上涨，7百万人可能会失去现有保险
，失业，赤字增加，官僚泛滥，医护人员短缺，10年后仍有3千万人没有医疗保险
ObamaCare Turns Three: 10 Disturbing Facts Americans Have Learned
By JOHN MERLINE, INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Just over three years ago, then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi famously quipped about
ObamaCare that "we have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it."
But only now, as ObamaCare's third anniversary approaches — President Obama
signed it into law on March 23, 2010 — is the country starting to find out
what the s... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 16 Jury Awards $500 Million Damages in Hepatitis Case
By ANNA WILDE MATHEWS
A Nevada jury said two UnitedHealth Group Inc. UNH +0.31% units should pay a
total of $500 million in punitive damages in a case involving two members
who contracted hepatitis C, an award that will draw close attention in the
health-insurance industry.
The decision follows the jury's decision last week that Health Plan of
Nevada and a sister company, Sierra Health Services, bore responsibility for
negligence in the two wome... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 21627 | 17 给下面这篇左逼霉文做一个摘要：
“大赫非法移民，不会增加福利负担，也不会增加就业
相反，会促进就业，增加财税，增加鸡的P”
文章甚至“伟光正”到了连“Amnesty ”这个词的使用都被视为不当
而是要说什么“earned residency.”
Alejandrino Honorato’s introduction to America began with a smuggler who
led him across the Rio Grande into the Texas desert. Eventually he was
guided to a North Carolina field, where he paid for his passage by picking
tobacco. Living illegally in a labor camp, Honorato didn’t know politicians
in Washington were deciding his future. It was 1986, and Congress was
weighing an ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 18 Coda Holdings Inc., parent of the electric-car maker backed by billionaire
Philip Falcone, filed for bankruptcy and will seek to sell its assets to a
group led by a Fortress Investment Group LLC (FIG) unit for $25 million.
The Los Angeles-based company, whose Coda Automotive unit also sought court
protection, listed assets of as much as $50 million and debt of as much as $
100 million today in the Chapter 11 filing in Wilmington, Delaware. The
company said it intends to sell its assets within 45... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 19 U.S. Says Economy's Pace of Gains Slowed Amid Revision in Consumer Spending,
Business Investment.
By SARAH PORTLOCK
And JONATHAN HOUSE
WASHINGTON—The U.S. economy expanded at a slower pace than previously
estimated in the first quarter as consumer spending and business investment
were revised sharply downward, indicating a weaker trajectory for the
economy even before growth downshifted in recent months.
The nation's gross domestic product, the broadest measure of all goods and
services produced... 阅读全帖 |
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S**C
发帖数: 2964 | 20 They are in a two decades long deflation, certainly they should change
course. But I am not as optimistic as in earlier this year. They raised
consumer tax, and BOJ governer said they did everything they can, which is 1
) not the right thing to say and 2) of course they can do more. |
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发帖数: 29846 | 21 WASHINGTON — A rising tide of Democrats has begun voicing support for
easing the deadlines and penalties of the Affordable Care Act, showing the
first cracks in party unity against GOP opposition to the health care law.
The pressure is acute in the Senate where Democrats in conservative or
competitive states are lining up behind proposals to delay Obamacare, citing
problems with the administration's glitch-plagued online rollout.
Sen. Kay Hagan, D-N.C., announced Thursday she supports delaying t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8800 | 22 Net: 为了所谓的绿色能源，2007，在左派推动下，立法要求在汽油里加入ethanol。
O8大力推动种植玉米生产ethanol。仅仅6年，后果已经在那里了。
大面积的原始植被/湿地变成玉米地，水土流失，被化肥污染的水进入水系，甚至影响
到饮用水,流入的污染水在墨西哥湾造成大面积的死亡区，水体生物灭绝。
最有意思的地方在于，生产ethanol的前期后期要花费的能量比生产出的ethanol能产生
的能量多。
AP Investigation: Obama's green energy drive comes with an unadvertised
environmental cost
http://news.yahoo.com/secret-dirty-cost-obamas-green-051200204.
CORYDON, Iowa (AP) -- The hills of southern Iowa bear the scars of America's
push for green energy: The brown gashes where rain has washed ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 23 Insurers, lawmakers slam latest Obamacare fix
President Obama on Thursday announced an administrative policy change that
will let people keep their existing health insurance for another year, but
the plan is already facing pushback from Republicans, some Democrats and the
insurance industry -- with some saying the president's move goes too far,
and others saying it doesn't go far enough.
The president's decision doesn't force insurers to renew existing insurance
plans on the individual and small... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 24 A new Rasmussen poll finds that 58% of voters, an all-time high, oppose
ObamaCare’s requirement that every American be covered by health insurance.
Last week, for the second month in a row, 51% of respondents also said they
think health care will decline because of ObamaCare.
It doesn’t seem to matter whether those who think the quality of health
care will decline are insured or not; 50% of insured voters believe it will
decline while 45% of uninsured voters agree. Only 19% of respondents think
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 25 U.S., Europe Impose New Sanctions on Russia
WASHINGTON—The West imposed more sanctions against Russia on Monday over
its alleged intervention in Ukraine. The U.S. list was longer than the
European one, but both stopped short of the sweeping measures that the
Ukrainian government says are needed to sway the Kremlin.
The latest U.S. measures target seven Russian officials and 17 companies the
U.S. says are linked to President Vladimir Putin's inner circle. The Obama
administration also will restri... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 26 上周六，芝加哥大学经济学家、1992年诺贝尔经济学奖得主加里•S•贝克
尔(Gary S. Becker)逝世，享年83岁。贝克尔生前笔耕不辍，以下是他为《华尔街日报
》撰写的部分文章节选。
2001年10月29日发表的和凯文•M•墨菲(Kevin M. Murphy)共同撰写的《灰
烬中升起的繁荣》(Prosperity Will Rise Out of the Ashes)：
在19世纪，约翰•斯图尔特•穆勒(John Stuart Mill)对国家经历灾害和战
争后经济的快速复苏做了解析。他认识到，只要这些国家保留了知识和技能，经济就能
快速复苏，知识和技能是推动经济增长的主要引擎。美国在这两方面做得很好，这意味
着，美国在经历了9/11恐怖袭击后，其中长期经济前景不太可能会像一些人担心的那样
恶化。
日本神户市1995年发生的地震带来的影响证明了穆勒得出的上述结论。那场地震摧毁了
超过100,000栋建筑，其他许多建筑也严重受损，致使数十万人无家可归，6,000多人在
地震中丧生。当时估计的损失总额约为1,... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 27 Obama: Dems’ Troubles Have Nothing To Do With My Policies
By Tim Cavanaugh
May 9, 2014 12:17 AM
During his fundraising trip to Los Angeles Wednesday, President Obama
discovered anew that the United States is in bad shape, and he was again
left in puzzlement about what could be the cause.
“You get a self-fulfilling prophecy,” the president told supporters,
urging them to help Democrats avoid potentially significant losses in both
houses of Congress in the November midterm elections. “The people w... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 28 楼主应该看看WSJ的评论才好阿:
Gil Levy
1 hour ago
The same day, an AP news piece claims that 35% of americans are currently
facing debt collectors, behind on their home, car, personal or student loans
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发帖数: 29846 | 29 Taxes Would Increase by Almost $1,600,000,000 Under Obama Budget
February 6, 2015 - 11:26 AM
By Michael D. Tanner
In announcing his $3.999 trillion budget proposal for FY 2016, President
Obama said that he was putting an end to “mindless austerity” in federal
spending. In response to which, one wants to ask, “What color is the sky on
his planet?”
There has been no austerity, mindless or otherwise, during the Obama
presidency (or, for that matter, the Bush presidency before that). Consider
that f... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3158 | 30 I agree with you mostly on this one
China could do better and faster
but overall, I think they are on the right track
and they are not 无限期推迟
there are elections going on in the levels of villages and townships
not a great start with many problems arising, but they 迈出了第一步
people grew up in the Chinese culture tend to have less sense on compromise
and negotiation. Just look at this board and military board, you would
know what I meant.
Chinese people need to change this type of mindset before tryi... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 31 More Obamacare Sticker Shock: HMO Rates Up 20%, EPO Up 18%, 12% Overall;
Death Spiral for Insurers?
If you did not have insurance before Obamacare, but do now, or if you are
heavily subsidized, you may consider Obamacare a blessing.
If you are not in those select groups, then you are highly likely to be
paying more for insurance now than before. And it's going to get worse. Some
plan types really take a premium hit.
Premiums Jump 12% On Average
Health Pocket reports Obamacare Insurers Propose 12... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 32 Texas Gov. Abbott wants state law against 'sanctuary cities'
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Monday embraced cracking
down on local governments that ban police from asking about a person's
immigration status, after previously saying little about contentious "
sanctuary city" policies since taking office.
His support follows conservative activists criticizing the Republican
governor for not prioritizing get-tough immigration measures early in his
term. It also follows the Dallas Co... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 21010 | 33 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: ldy (大才001), 信区: Military
标 题: Obama的告别State of the Union Address演讲全文！太精彩了！
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Thu Jan 14 01:37:09 2016, 美东)
Remarks of President Barack Obama – State of the Union Address As Delivered
The White House is once again making the full text of the State of the
Union widely available online. The text, as prepared for delivery, is also
available on Medium and Facebook notes, continuing efforts to meet people
where they are and make the speech as accessible as... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 34 Chris Christie launched his expected attack against Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)
during the ABC News debate this evening, pointing out that the freshman
senator does not have the experience necessary to be president.
Christie knocked Rubio off script when he tried to parry his attacks with
talking points that he obviously prepared in advance.
The fight was set up by debate moderators, after Rubio was asked if he had
enough experience to run for president, citing Christie’s attack.
Rubio responded tha... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4150 | 35 Trump's Kansas lead is very narrow. Not looking good.
Looks like you guys are not optimistic about the KY, either. |
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发帖数: 4150 | 36 I have to say, this is wishful thinking. I have consistently predicted hard-
battled victory for Trump, and at this point in the race I don't see any
reason to be more, if not less, optimistic than that.
到了 |
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T*********I
发帖数: 10729 | 37 agree with you both.
one is more optimistic than the other. |
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发帖数: 4150 | 38 You can check my old posts. I was never optimistic about Trump winning OH,
though I joked about it. Kasich is a popular sitting governor. That's a huge
advantage. We should give Trump credit for getting this close. |
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发帖数: 2215 | 39 Manafort is also optimistic Trump will block Cruz's chance of winning on the
first ballot if the convention is contested.
"You got to understand what the game is. If the game is a second, third or
fourth ballot then what he's (Cruz) doing is clever, but on the first
ballot it is meaningless." |
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m****g
发帖数: 2215 | 40 Agree.
http://www.mitbbs.com/article_t/USANews/31836611.html
Manafort is also optimistic Trump will block Cruz's chance of winning on the
first ballot if the convention is contested.
"You got to understand what the game is. If the game is a second, third or
fourth ballot then what he's (Cruz) doing is clever, but on the first
ballot it is meaningless. |
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发帖数: 2053 | 41 看点主要在群众评论中。。。
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/america-is-great-now-donald-trum
html
America is great now, readers tell Yahoo Finance
Donald Trump undoubtedly disagrees, but a surprising portion of Americans
think their nation is great right now. In 2016. No fooling.
To plumb Trump’s popular campaign slogan, “Make America great again,”
Yahoo Finance recently ran a series of online polls asking our audience when
they felt America was last great. First we asked that open-ended question
on our Facebo... 阅读全帖 |
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S**C
发帖数: 2964 | 42 The question is the income distributions in the developed worlds over the
past 50 years are just historical anomaly or not, I am not very optimistic. |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 43 http://dailycaller.com/2016/04/22/7-enviro-predictions-from-ear
Environmentalists truly believed and predicted during the first Earth Day in
1970 that the planet was doomed unless drastic actions were taken.
Humanity never quite got around to that drastic action, but
environmentalists still recall the first Earth Day fondly and hold many of
the predictions in high regard.
So this Earth Day, The Daily Caller News Foundation takes a look at
predictions made by environmentalists around the original... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 5965 | 44 He's getting his dick sucked by sgrastar as reward. |
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发帖数: 4150 | 45 那时1237看着还有点儿悬。I was only cautiously optimistic.
1. 老头儿自己的经济实力只能run primary, 不够支撑GE，到时要和GOP合作。这样他
就不能再claim self-funded campaign. 怎么tweak campaign message是个问题。
2. Trump (and Sanders) turns this election into a rebellion against the
establishment. 这个现象在地方和两院的选举中大概会继续发酵。因为选民的不信任
，GOP可能会丢掉一些州长和国会的席位。要是变成跛脚总统，可就不好玩儿了。
第一条已经在变成现实：财力只是一方面；老头儿要unite the party，当然不能再唱
独角戏。
第二条还有待观察，只能寄望于猪党方面也出现同样的问题。双方基本cancel off,这
样还有两院的控制权。 |
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发帖数: 6361 | 46 jeb筹了最多的钱，照样输得很惨……
[在 smartagent (美国已死，有事烧纸) 的大作中提到：]
:那时1237看着还有点儿悬。I was only cautiously optimistic.
:1. 老头儿自己的经济实力只能run primary, 不够支撑GE，到时要和GOP合作。这样他
:就不能再claim self-funded campaign. 怎么tweak campaign message是个问题。
:establishment. 这个现象在地方和两院的选举中大概会继续发酵。因为选民的不信任
:，GOP可能会丢掉一些州长和国会的席位。要是变成跛脚总统，可就不好玩儿了。
:第一条已经在变成现实：财力只是一方面；老头儿要unite the party，当然不能再唱
:独角戏。
:第二条还有待观察，只能寄望于猪党方面也出现同样的问题。双方基本cancel off,这
:样还有两院的控制权。 |
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b*****d
发帖数: 61690 | 47 Hillary Clinton took aim at presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump on Monday
— just one day before California’s critical primary — as she hopes to
wrap up the Democratic nomination.
At a campaign rally in Lynwood, Calif., the Democratic front-runner chided
Trump for not supporting a higher minimum wage or pay equity — two major
issues that are pinnacles of Clinton’s campaign. She blasted Trump for what
she said is his name-calling and bullying of Americans, an attack that is
likely a preview of he... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 61690 | 48 There are signs that Donald Trump’s campaign is evolving.
A day after the firing of campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, the Trump
campaign on Tuesday launched a series of aggressive and coordinated attacks
on Hillary Clinton. Going after Clinton is nothing new for Trump, but the
way his campaign did represented a clear shift in tactics.
His press release strikes — more than 10 of which were sent to national
media outlets within the space of several hours — were notable for their
rapidity and wer... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 50 一篇好文。作者2008投票给Obama，关注Obama两个任期的所作所为。从2012年起作者开
始逐渐认清Obama的本质，现在对Obama极度失望。
http://regated.com/2016/07/dear-obama-not-us/
I voted for you in 2008. I remember the joy, the good feeling, and the hope
I had when voting for you. I thought you’d improve the world.
I remember traveling across the nation to campaign and canvass for you, full
of a love for you, worried endlessly that the media would deconstruct you
or damage you through lies or racial hatred.
I truly believed you could relieve a nation ... 阅读全帖 |
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