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Poll: Buttigieg Saps Biden Support with Twelve-Point Gain in New Hampshire The latest New Hampshire caucus poll shows Pete Buttigieg up twelve points in just four days after declaring victory in the Iowa caucuses. Buttigieg now sits in second bplace in the latest WBZ/Boston Globe/Suffolk University poll with 23 percent, in a virtual tie with Senator Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) — who leads with 24 percent — based on the margin of error. The former mayor made headlines by declaring victory in the Iowa caucuses Monday night, despite the fact that the state party had failed to report any official numbers. The Iowa Democratic Party has yet to declare a winner with 99 percent reporting as of Friday morning, but Buttigieg leads Sanders by a mere one-tenth of a percentage point in the overall vote, and 564–562 in state delegate equivalents. The declaration seemed to have given Buttigieg real momentum in the next state on the primary circuit, with Buttigieg surging from 11 to 23 percent in four days. On the flip side, Biden has fallen seven points to fourth place, with the poll showing that Buttigieg has gained 16 points overnight among voters over 65 — typically a source of strength for the former vice president. “His movement is real,” David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center, said of Buttigieg’s surge. “For savvy older voters, it looks to me that when the electability argument went away for Biden, where else were they going to go? There’s nothing about him they dislike. His positions are close to Biden’s, and he’s the next most comfortable alternative to Biden.” Biden has been blunt with voters on the campaign trail in New Hampshire this week after his poor performance in Iowa, telling a crowd Wednesday that “I am not going to sugarcoat it, we took a gut punch in Iowa.” On Tuesday, the former vice president pleaded to a rally for support. “I need your help. I am asking for your help. Look me over,” Biden said. “Like my mother said, hope springs eternal. We are not giving up; we are not giving up.” https://www.yahoo.com/news/poll-buttigieg-saps-biden-support-133300090.html B/A

On Wednesday night, Joe Biden chartered a plane from Manchester, N.H., to his hometown of Wilmington, Del. He had no events scheduled Thursday in New Hampshire — one day before the high-stakes Democratic debate there and five days before the state’s crucial primary. Perhaps the former vice president, who has described his distant fourth-place finish in Monday’s chaotic Iowa caucuses as a “gut punch,” cleared his schedule and flew home to prep for the debate. Perhaps after nearly a year of nonstop campaigning — with just five measly Iowa delegates to show for it — the 77-year-old statesman just wanted to sleep in his own bed for once. Perhaps it was both. Joe Biden in Somersworth, N.H. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images) Either way, Biden may soon get to sleep at home every night. The state of his campaign is far shakier than his longtime lead in the national polls would suggest. In fact, it may already be on its last legs. To be sure, he retains some advantages. His national polling leads persists. His singular emphasis on electability — the perception that he is best suited to “beat” Donald Trump “like a drum” — matches what Democratic voters consistently tell pollsters they most desire in a nominee. And Biden has long held a significant lead among black Democrats, who dominate the upcoming South Carolina primary on Feb. 29 and will effectively pick its winner. Yet upon closer examination, it’s also clear that each of these supposed strengths is starting to crumble. Take Biden’s position in the polls. It has fallen nationally by more than a percentage point, on average, since his shellacking in Iowa. Bernie Sanders, who effectively tied Pete Buttigieg in the caucuses, is now within 3 percentage points of overtaking Biden — the closest Sanders has ever been to the national lead. Bernie Sanders at a campaign rally in Milford, N.H. (Mary Altaffer/AP) When you drill down on the state that matters most right now, New Hampshire, the picture is even worse. There, Biden was averaging 16.8 percent on Monday — good for second place behind Sanders, who hails from the neighboring state of Vermont. Now, after a series of dismal post-Iowa tracking polls have shown Biden in free fall, he has plummeted nearly 3 percentage points to 14.1 percent in a matter of days. Buttigieg, meanwhile, gained nearly 5 percentage points over the same period, and now leads Biden with roughly 18 percent support. As for electability, voters have long told national pollsters that Biden is the best bet to beat Trump. But when actual Democrats who had actually been paying close attention got an actual chance to vote in Iowa on Monday, they picked someone else. According to the final entrance poll, a whopping 61 percent of Iowa caucus-goers said it was more important to nominate a candidate who could defeat Trump than it was to nominate a candidate they agreed with — and it was Buttigieg, not Biden, who won these “electability voters,” picking up 24 percent to Biden’s 23 percent. This dynamic was also reflected in the way supporters of candidates such as Amy Klobuchar and Tom Steyer “realigned” after their first choices didn’t hit Iowa’s 15 percent viability threshold. While Buttigieg gained nearly 6,000 votes after realignment — more than any other candidate — Biden lost nearly 2,000. “I expected to do better,” Biden said at a CNN town hall in Manchester, N.H., Wednesday evening. “And I expected that our organization would perform better.” There are already signs that Biden could suffer a similar fate among black voters in South Carolina, his so-called firewall. For one thing, the caucus entrance poll shows it was Sanders, not Biden, who won voters of color in Iowa. In 2016, Sanders got 34 percent of nonwhite voters to Hillarious Clinton's 58 percent. This week, he won 43 percent of nonwhite voters, with no other candidate pulling even half of that. Even Buttigieg, who has struggled to appeal to African-Americans, outpaced Biden, 15 percent to 13 percent, among nonwhite Iowans. Cracks are showing in South Carolina as well. Polling there is relatively scarce, but the most recent survey — the only one released this month — shows Biden’s overall lead shrinking to 5 percent from 11 percent in October. Back then, he was doubling his closest competitor among black voters; in the latest survey, his advantage among African-Americans has narrowed to 6 percentage points. Just as worrisome is the fact that it’s the California billionaire Steyer who is now nipping at Biden’s heels among black voters. In October, Steyer was barely registering with the community in South Carolina; since then, he has spent millions of dollars courting them, and he has skyrocketed in the polls as a result. Likewise, New York billionaire Mike Bloomberg is pursuing a similar big-spending strategy in Super Tuesday states, and one recent poll found that his net favorability rating among black voters has soared from +4 points in November to +32 points today. All of which suggests that black voters aren’t as loyal to Barack Obama’s former vice president as it once seemed. “African-American voters are fluid,” former Obama pollster Cornell Belcher told the Los Angeles Times. “They know and like Biden, but if it starts to look like he is not a good investment, they will move on.” Joe Biden speaks to a town hall crowd in Greenwood, S.C. (Meg Kinnard/AP) Individually, none of these flaws is necessarily fatal. But together they may be, because Biden also lacks the key resource that could counteract his ongoing slide: cash, and the organization and advertisements it can buy. He ended 2019 with $8.9 million cash on hand — less than Sanders ($18.2 million), Buttigieg ($14.5 million) or Elizabeth Warren ($13.7 million). Sanders just announced that January was his best fundraising month ever; in 31 days he raked in more money ($25 million) than Biden collected during the entire fourth quarter of 2019. Politico reported Thursday that in the midst of Biden’s New Hampshire decline, his campaign is redirecting resources to Nevada, which caucuses on Feb. 22 and where surveys show him tied with Sanders. But it may be too little too late. After Super Tuesday, Bloomberg is waiting to blow Biden out of the moderate lane. And he has already spent more than $300 million laying the groundwork. For Biden, that’s the doomsday scenario: another poor result in New Hampshire, followed by a third rout in Nevada, where Sanders’s crack caucus team is sure to out-organize him. More than three weeks of negative news cycles eating away at his electability advantage. Black voters in South Carolina jumping ship — and a finish there that fails to meet expectations. Fundraising dries up. Then Bloomberg pounces three days later, on Super Tuesday. “We believe South Carolina is our firewall, and it is,” a Biden adviser told Politico. “But if we lose three straight in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada, the fire can jump the wall.” Of course, none of this is a foregone conclusion. The Granite State has a contrarian tradition of bucking expectations and boosting underdogs. In 1992, the moderate Bill Clinton, damaged by reports of extramarital affairs, fell behind in the New Hampshire polls — then pulled off a surprise second-place finish after appearing with his wife, Hillarious, on “60 Minutes” to refute the allegations. Clinton called himself “the Comeback Kid,” and the rest is history. Bill Clinton with supporters during an election night party in Merrimack, N.H., Feb. 18, 1992. (Ron Frehm/AP) Sixteen years later, Hillarious — the longtime frontrunner and establishment favorite — looked certain to lose in New Hampshire; some polls showed her trailing Obama by double-digit margins after his stunning Iowa victory. But when a voter in Portsmouth asked, “How did you get out the door every day? I mean, as a woman,” Clinton teared up. “This is very personal for me,” the candidate replied. “Not just political.” That rare tender moment redirected the narrative, and New Hampshire voters gave Clinton a second chance. On primary night, she defeated Obama by 2.6 percentage points. And so it’s possible that the good, ornery people of New Hampshire decide to resurrect Biden at the last minute. Maybe he turns in a pivotal performance at Friday night’s debate, an 11th-hour forum that has been known to turn the tide before. Maybe his emotional account of his struggle to overcome stuttering, at a CNN town hall Wednesday, will do for him what Clinton’s moment of vulnerability did for her. Maybe he goes on to beat Buttigieg in New Hampshire, and Sanders in Nevada, and arrives in South Carolina with the wind at his back. During an event Tuesday at an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers hall in Concord, Biden seemed to acknowledge that Iowa hadn’t gone the way he hoped — and that New Hampshire would now determine his fate. “There’s nothing to come back from yet,” he said, almost willing himself to believe that that was true. “But I’d like you to rocket me out of here to make sure this thing works, OK?” https://www.yahoo.com/news/polls-show-bidens-campaign-could-be-hitting-the-wall-204249414.html B/A

There you go again, trying to educate... When will you learn? Do you think Jim Jones' people thought he was bad when they boarded the plane to paradise? You're dealing with people who suffer from the Stockholm Syndrome. LOL B/A

You are correct... The media ain't what it used to be. But don't play the victim card for Trump... People might call you a snowflake... LOL B/A

A lengthy Fox News research document warns its employees to be wary of “disinformation” spread by several Pro-Trump guests, including the president’s attorney, Rudy Giuliani and network contributor John Solomon, according to a Thursday report from The Daily Beast. The document, dubbed “Ukraine, Disinformation, & the Trump Administration,” is 162 pages long. It’s “especially critical of Solomon,” The Daily Beast reports, after he made several unsubstantiated claims the Ukrainian government interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Solomon is a former opinion columnist at “The Hill,” where his work “fueled” Giuliani to “dig up dirt in Ukraine,” according to the report. “John Solomon played an indispensable role in the collection and domestic publication of elements of this disinformation campaign,” the briefing notes. Also Read: Fox News Stars Rail Against Romney for Trump Impeachment Vote: 'Going to Be Associated With Judas' Solomon’s “questionable reporting,” as the report put it, has also been referenced multiple times by President Trump on Twitter. He and Giuliani did not respond to TDB’s request for comment. A rep for Fox News did not immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment. The research document, put together by Fox News’ senior political affairs specialist Bryan S. Murphy, also claims Giuliani is especially gullible when it comes to Ukrainian fake news; this stems from his desire to find out more about Hunter Biden’s ties to Ukraine, according to the report. Internal Fox News Document Warns That Pro-Trump Guests Are Amplifying ‘Disinformation'(Report) Giuliani shows a “high susceptibility to disinformation” shared by Ukrainians Ukrainian prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko and his associates, according to Murphy’s writing. Murphy’s report also calls out Fox News guests Victoria Toensing and Joe DiGenova for “spreading disinformation.” The married couple worked alongside Giuliani to find out more about Hunter and Joe Biden, according to The Daily Beast, and were employed by indicted Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash. Both Toensing and DiGenova did not respond to TDB’s request for comment. You can read the full report here. Read original story Internal Fox News Document Warns That Pro-Trump Guests Are Amplifying ‘Disinformation’ (Report) At TheWrap https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/internal-fox-news-document-warns-234930828.html B/A

Just wait for the next Democrat to use it... Let's see what people think then.... These guys, none of them play by the rules... B/A

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Yup I have never liked Mitt, but he followed his heart... Name one other person who wasn't politically motivated. B/A

Trump obstructed, by refusing any of his people to participate. Even his own party members admitted that what he did was wrong. Both Democrats and Republicans put party before truth, justice and the American way. The lawyers lied. The politicians lied. This entire thing proved one thing. Our system is completely corrupted. Only one man voted his conscience. Only one man put his honesty above everything else. Many say it will cost him politically. I think it will resurrect him politically. B/A

Personally, I think everyone of those people in D.C. needs to go... The democrats have no plan for the country. The Republicans just proved they don't care about law and order. Refusing to hear testimony and stating they would be biased before the trial begins should be criminal. I don't think any of them should get a pass... When the jury says, yeah, what he did is wrong and unacceptable. but we are going to accept it, tells me all I need to know about their lack of integrity, inability to serve the constitution and their complete disregard for America. JMHO And also in my opinion, any American who gives either party a pass on this display we just witnessed should turn in their voter card. They don't have the sense to make an intelligent decision. Both parties need to go and they need to go now. Whew...... B/A

Nope the GOP sold their souls... They admit what Trump did was wrong, unacceptable. etc.. They refused for the first time in history to have witnesses. They put party before the constitution, their constituents, and America. They made a deal with the devil... They committed to acquittal before the trial ever started.... Talk about a sham. The GOP is in a steady decline along with the Democrats... I won't be surprised to see the rise of a new party in the near future. B/A

At the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, President Trump celebrated his acquittal in the Senate impeachment trial, attacking Democrats and taking an apparent shot at Republican Sen. Mitt Romney, who crossed party lines to vote to remove Trump from office. “As you know, our great country, and your president, have been put through a terrible ordeal by some very dishonest and corrupt people, and by so doing, very badly hurt our nation,” Trump said, reading from a teleprompter. “Yesterday, courageous Republican politicians and leaders had the wisdom, fortitude and strength to do what everyone knows was right.” It was the president’s first public appearance since the Senate voted to acquit him of the charges contained in two articles of impeachment — abuse of power and obstruction of Congress — that had been endorsed by the House of Representatives in December. President Trump during the 68th annual National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday. (Evan Vucci/AP) Before the vote, Romney announced he would vote to convict Trump for abuse of power. “Corrupting an election to keep oneself in office is perhaps the most abusive and destructive violation of one’s oath of office that I can imagine,” Romney said, adding: “I swore an oath before God to exercise impartial justice. I am profoundly religious. My faith is at the heart of who I am.” At the prayer breakfast, Trump said, “I don’t like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong.” The president was scheduled to deliver a statement related to his impeachment “victory” at the White House later Thursday. Earlier, before taking his seat, the president held up a copy of the USA Today, with the headline “ACQUITTED” splashed across the top of its front page. The crowd inside the Washington Hilton applauded. Trump did the same with a copy of the Washington Post and its headline: “Trump acquitted.” Photo: Evan Vucci/AP House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who signed off on the inquiry that led to Trump’s impeachment, was the first speaker at the annual event, saying a prayer for the “poor and persecuted.” As Pelosi was introduced, the president, visibly annoyed, folded his arms and looked away. In his own remarks, Trump also appeared to take a shot at Pelosi, who has repeatedly said she prays for Trump when asked about him. "Nor do I like people who say, 'I pray for you,' when they know that that's not so," he said. "So many people have been hurt. We can't let that go on. And I'll be discussing that a little bit later at the White House." https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-national-prayer-breakfast-acquittal-democrats-romney-faith-144735074.html Yeah that's what Jesus would do.... B/A

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The only ones pissed off are Trumpkins... They've been pissed off since 2016. The sorriest winners in history. It is weird that instead of promoting what's good for America, they spew hate and post idiotic tweets... Weird stuff. B/A

Great post Bigwave... And look what we've become... Exactly what he warned about. A country that profits from never ending war. A country that creates bogymen to keep the war machine turning. How many young Americans have died so corporations could profit, so those who run those corporations can live in luxury? How many senior citizens have gone hungry or have not had healthcare, because we spend our tax dollars on countless weapons of mass destruction? Why has America fallen in education, now ranking outside the top 20 countries in most categories? Why do Americans support those things that go against their fundamental beliefs? President Eisenhower made a point to warn Americans against the evil that would take control. And here we are. A country that puts bombs before people. A country that kills for profit. Thanks for the post. B/A

Nearing the end of his impeachment trial and on the eve of his third State of the Union address, President Trump’s job approval rating in the latest Gallup poll hit its highest level since he took office: 49 percent, compared with 50 percent of respondents who disapprove. The survey, released Tuesday, showed a gain of 4 percentage points in Trump’s approval since early January. It also was 3 points over his previous high-water mark of 46 percent in late April 2019, around the time special counsel Robert Mueller’s report was released. When Trump took office in 2017, his approval rating was 45 percent. It has hit a low of 35 percent three times, all during his first year in office. Gallup Trump’s latest approval bump appears to have been driven by higher ratings among Republicans (94 percent, up 6 percentage points from the previous poll) and independents (42 percent, up 5 points). It also probably reflects Americans’ confidence in the economy, which according to Gallup is higher than at any point in the past two decades. Additionally, Gallup’s pollsters noted that more Americans approved (53 percent) than disapproved (45 percent) of Trump’s controversial decision to launch the U.S. drone strike that killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani, a top Iranian military commander. President Trump and first lady Melania Trump. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images) The poll was conducted Jan. 16-29, during the president’s Senate impeachment trial on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. The Senate is scheduled to vote on the charges Wednesday, and Trump’s acquittal is considered almost certain. The survey found that 52 percent of Americans would support his acquittal by the Senate, compared with 46 percent who want him convicted and removed from office. https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-gallup-poll-approval-49-all-time-high-174002781.html B/A

She'll do anything to stay relevant!!!! LOL B/A

Talking about baiting???? B/A

Nunes is dirty... B/A

“Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, ‘Get that son of a ***** off the field right now. Out! He’s fired. He’s fired!’” the president said at a rally for Republican senator Luther Strange, Undaunted, Trump wrote on Twitter: “If a player wants the privilege of making millions of dollars in the NFL or other leagues, he or she should not be allowed to disrespect our Great American Flag (or Country) and should stand for the National Anthem. If not, YOU’RE FIRED. Find something else to do!” I couldn't agree more... Fire any son of a ***** who disrespects our flag. B/A