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26 Jan 2016, 7:08 pm
"Trump’s assertion, which his campaign manager insisted was irreversible, came less than one week before the kick-off Iowa caucuses, once again defying the conventional rules of politics and using his power and prominence to shape the campaign agenda and conversation," the Washington Post reports. [read post]
26 Jan 2016, 1:03 pm by Bill Otis
[A]fter years of failing to heed calls by sentencing reformers (and the bipartisan US Sentencing Commission) to get ahead of statutory sentencing problems, much of Congress (now led by the GOP) has seemingly come to realize that failing to deal proactively and systematically with sentencing and corrections reform could produce even more long-term problems and challenges. [read post]
26 Jan 2016, 8:10 am by Gerard N. Magliocca
 On the losing side, there was Wendell Wilkie (the GOP nominee in 1940) who had never been elected to anything and was touted for his business success. [read post]
26 Jan 2016, 7:15 am by Tom Smith
And even with Trump’s im­prov­ing fa­vor­ab­il­ity num­bers with­in the GOP, there are more Re­pub­lic­an voters who wouldn’t vote for him un­der any cir­cum­stances than say the same about the sen­at­or from Texas. [read post]
26 Jan 2016, 4:29 am
The poll finds that a broad swath of GOP voters (55%) say they feel completely unrepresented by the government in Washington, and among those voters, Trump holds a 47% to 19% lead over Cruz.ADDED: The very next thing I looked at —  the front page of the NYT — had: "As Trump and Cruz Soar, G.O.P. [read post]
26 Jan 2016, 3:00 am by Jon Katz
For that matter, regardless of what I think of his politics as being too socialist and of our opposing views on SCOTUS’s Citizens United opinion, Bernie Sanders pursued what at first seemed an uphill battle against Email-gate’s Hillary Clinton, and instead has become a viable candidate and knocked Hillary out of any chance of complacency pending the primary voting  He apparently had a purer reason for seeking the presidency than any other Democratic and GOP candidate… [read post]
24 Jan 2016, 6:55 am by Law Offices of Jeffrey S. Glassman
While many Democrats were urging GOP to resolve this upcoming budgetary crisis as soon as possible, many GOP presidential hopefuls vowed not to award any more money until Congress agrees to a major overhaul of the program. [read post]
23 Jan 2016, 9:29 am by Tom Smith
But who really is the menace -- the rough-edged Queens native or the smooth-talking GOP Establishment that has brought us open borders; massive giveaway trade deals; monstrous debt; bank bailouts; and a sprawling government that never stops expanding? [read post]
22 Jan 2016, 9:28 am by Tom Smith
via fivethirtyeight.com So the GOP establishment supports Trump over Cruz? [read post]
22 Jan 2016, 7:24 am
The "5 stages of grief" meme is so trite, but this is done well enough to overcome my instinctive aversion to encouraging the old cliché, which, after all, has some real truth to it. [read post]
21 Jan 2016, 10:26 am by David Markus
 While the drumbeat of criminal justice reform is getting louder, many in the GOP are opposing commonsense measures. [read post]
21 Jan 2016, 7:19 am
Said Dan Savage, writing about GOP strategist Rick Wilson — we were talking about it yesterday — saying that Trump supporters are mostly "childless single men who masturbate to anime. [read post]
21 Jan 2016, 6:54 am by Law Offices of Jeffrey S. Glassman
Many opponents, including recent presidential hopefuls for the GOP nomination, like to claim that most claimants are gaming the system and are not really disabled. [read post]
20 Jan 2016, 9:21 am by Tom Smith
Republicans from various corners of the party are signaling their urgent desire to stop Ted Cruz from becoming their presidential nominee, a dueling indication of the Texas senator’s formidable political strength as well as his severe likeability deficit within diverse quarters of the GOP. [read post]