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For every Cause, there is an Effect : explained using LOGIC

Is This Why Trump Has Such a Huge Lead in the Polls?

The Fiscal Times
By Rob Garver
Is This Why Trump Has Such a Huge Lead in the Polls?

Donald Trump, the billionaire former reality television star currently leading the Republican presidential primary race got some good news Friday, in the form of a national CNN/ORC poll that has him dominating the field with 36 percent support – 20 percentage points higher than his closest challenger. The poll also shows that Trump runs significantly stronger among less-educated, less-affluent voters, and performs particularly well among voters in the 50-64 age range.

The poll also showed Trump dominating his rivals when Republican voters were asked which candidate is best suited to handle a variety of issues. From the economy to foreign policy, from immigration to ISIS, Republican and Republican-leaning registered voters far and away say they prefer Trump, in some cases by 30- and 40-percentage point margins.

“Trump’s support is heavily concentrated among non-college educated Republicans and those who only lean Republican and thus are less inclined to show up and vote in primaries and caucuses,” Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics said via email.

“The key question is: Will the currently fragmented college-educated half of the GOP coalesce around another candidate (say, Rubio) eventually?” Sabato continued. “If they do, they can stop Trump. If they stay fractured, then they may very well have to deal with the November consequences of a Trump nomination—and that won’t be pretty.”

While Trump’s support on the issues tends to be strongest among the less-educated and less-affluent, it isn’t limited to that group.

For example, when asked straight up who they would be voting for, 36 percent of all Republicans in the survey said Trump. However, among those without a college degree, 46 percent said they would support the real estate mogul. Only 18 percent of college graduates, by contrast, said they would vote for Trump. (It is important to note that, in the U.S., people without a college degree represent 68 percent of the population over 25 years of age.)

Trump’s support is also higher among voters who earn less than $50,000 a year, at 40 percent. He gets 33 percent of the vote from those who earn more than that.

Other data in the polls suggests that at this stage of the campaign voters haven’t completely thought through their choices and preferences.

For example, a central facet of Trump’s plan for dealing with illegal immigration is the mass deportation of the estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants currently in the country. In the survey, 53 percent of Republicans said that they believe the government should attempt to deport everyone living in the country illegally. However, when asked if they believe it would be possible for the government to deport all of those people, 73 percent of Republicans responding said, no, it wouldn’t be possible.

So, more than half of GOP voters in the survey want the government to embark on a plan that nearly three-quarters of GOP voters believe is literally impossible to execute. What that suggests is that there are a lot of voters out there who haven’t really started looking closely at the issues.

That may explain why Trump, the author of the immigration plan that the vast majority of Republican voters say is impossible, was the overwhelming favorite among GOP voters when they were asked which candidate can “best handle” illegal immigration. Trump took 48 percent of voters, with his nearest rival, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, getting 14 percent.

Trump may or may not continue to hold such a massive lead in the GOP primary, but it seems likely that at least some voters will adjust their preferences to bring them in line with basic logic sometime before the voting starts.

Entry #560

The Truth Shall Make You Free

Conservative Black Teen Who Went Viral Is No Longer A Conservative

by Clutch Nov 30, 2015


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Coreco “CJ” Pearson has finally come to his senses. The 13-year-old, who went viral after his anti-Obama videos, has renounced conservatism, according to CNN.

Over the weekend, Pearson wrote a letter to CNN stating why he can no longer support conservatism:

“I was tired of being a champion of a party that turned a blind eye to racial discrimination. Tired of being a champion of any cause that denies equal rights to every American. Tired of being a champion of a party that doesn’t care about the issues important to young people.”

So basically, the lad realized that black lives don’t matter when it comes to his fellow conservatives.

“Over the past few days, I thought about essentially how I don’t want people to follow me because I’m that anti-Obama kid, or who called out Hillary Clinton or who took Bernie Sanders to task,” he said.

Pearson said after seeing the video of Laquan McDonald being gunned down, he realized that he was making wrong decisions politically.


 
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An Embarrassment for the Repubs

Trump denies mocking New York Times reporter's disability
By Steve Gorman 

(Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump denied on Thursday he was mocking the physical disability of a New York Times reporter during a campaign speech in which he flailed his arms and distorted his speech in an imitation of the journalist.

The latest uproar over Trump's behavior on the campaign trail was ignited by remarks the billionaire real-estate tycoon and former reality-TV star made during a South Carolina rally on Tuesday about the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on New York's World Trade Center.

Trump, front-runner for his party's nomination for the November, 2016 election, was defending his unsubstantiated assertions that thousands of Muslims were seen in New Jersey cheering the collapse of the Twin Towers. During the speech, he singled out Times investigative reporter Serge Kovaleski for a story he wrote a few days after the attacks while he was then a Washington Post correspondent.

That article reported authorities had detained "a number of people who were allegedly seen celebrating the attacks and holding tailgate-style parties on rooftops while they watched the devastation on the other side of the river." Those accounts have never been authenticated.

Kovaleski himself said in a recent CNN interview that he did "not recall anyone saying there were thousands, or even hundreds of people celebrating. That was not the case, as best I can remember."

While not referring to Kovaleski by name in his speech, Trump accused the reporter of backing down from his own story.

"Now, the poor guy - you've got to see this guy. 'Ah, I don't know what I said. I don't remember,'" Trump said at the microphone, jerking his arms in front of his body and slurring his words in a crude impression of the reporter.

Kovaleski suffers from a congenital condition called arthrogryposis, which limits mobility and muscle development in the joints.

The New York Times issued a statement on Thursday rebuking Trump, saying, "We think it's outrageous that he would ridicule the appearance of one of our reporters."

Trump fired back on social media, denying he had made fun of Kovaleski's disability or would even recognize him.

"I merely mimicked what I thought would be a flustered reporter trying to get out of a statement he made long ago," Trump wrote. "If Mr. Kovaleski is handicapped, I would not know because I do not know what he looks like. If I did know, I would definitely not say anything about his appearance."

He also accused Kovaleski of "using his disability to grandstand."

In an interview for the Times, Kovaleski said he was certain Trump remembers him from his days covering the real estate developer for the New York Daily News in the 1980s, and that the two were "on a first-name basis for years."

"The sad part about it is, it didn't in the slightest bit jar or surprise me that Donald Trump would do something this low-rent, given his track record," the Washington Post quoted him saying in a separate interview.

Entry #557

Born In The USA

Most of the last few years' media coverage on terrorism focused on "Islamic terrorism". This is somewhat not surprising after the spectacular media coverage of September 11.

However, this coverage ignores that inside America, there has always been some home grown terroists. By home grown, I mean that they are born in America, mostly whites, of Christian background, and not 'foreign' nor 'alien' in any sense of the word. They are mainstream Americans ethnically and culturally.

Here is a sampling of some home grown terrorism:

Timothy McVeigh

Timothy McVeigh is the right wing Christian who bombed the FBI Building in Oklahoma City. Here is a mug shot of McVeigh.

The Unabomber

Ted Kaczynski - The Unabomber

Clayton Waagner

Clayton Waagner - Anti Abortion Terrorism

Eric Rudolph

Eric Rudolph is another anti-abortion terrorist, who recently pleaded guilty for bombing the Atlanta Olympics in 1996.

Robert Goldstein

Dr. Robert Goldstein, is a Jewish podiatrist. He plotted to bomb Islamic mosques, Islamic centers and Islamic schools with his wife.

William Krar and Judith Bruey

William Krar planned to use cyanide to poison thousands of people. He was dubbed The American Taliban afterhis arrest.

Army of God

The Army of God encourages killing doctors and nurses providing abortion, and burning their clinics. For example, check what Chuck Spingola, said on the Army of God web site.

Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold

Teenagers Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold perpetrated one of the most horrible crimes in the last decade, the infamous Columbine High School shooting rampage.

George Metesky

George Metesky, also known as The Mad Bomber, planted a bomb in a theatre in 1956, and attributed that to the "Hand of God'.

David Berkovitz

David Berkowitz, also known as Son of Sam, was a serial killer. More on him in this article.

Jeffrey Dahmer

Jeffrey Dahmer a serial killer and cannibal.

Future Threats

The FBI has a secret report highlighting threats of domestic terrorismfrom right wingers, supremacists, and others. Examples include AryanNations, the National Alliance and other ticking time bombs.

Meanwhile, although the media covers the fact that domestic extremist groups such as the Army of God, the Ku Klux Klan, and many others are a threat to America, the Department of Homeland Security have listed radical animal rights and environmental groups as threats to America, but deliberately left out all the right wing pontentially dangerous and extremist groups, such as white supremacists, anti-abortion bombers and violent militiamen. Experts on extremism have warned that these groups are ticking time bombs. U.S. Representative Bennie Thompson even wrote to the Homeland Security Secretary, Michael Chertoff reminding him of such threat, on the 10th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing by Timothy McVeigh.

 

The Terrorist Next Door A book written by Daniel Levitas after research on the right wing militia movements in America. A good read for those interested in increasing their knowledge base.

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