Tag: Iowa

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Trump’s 2024 Strength Is A Mirage

Trump’s Iowa caucus numbers were not a triumph, but evidence of a weak candidate winning an unenthused election.

Ron DeSantis might be at the end of the line.

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The Ron DeSantis Campaign Melts Down And Accuses The Media Of Iowa Election Interference

The Ron DeSantis campaign accused the media of election interference for calling the Iowa caucus for Trump early.

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Trump Finally Figured Out That Vivek Ramaswamy Is Trying To Steal Votes From Him

The reason why Donald Trump started attacking Vivek Ramaswamy over the weekend was that he finally realized that Ramaswamy was trying to steal votes from him in Iowa.

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Trump Supporter Spreads Bonkers Conspiracy Theory that the Deep State is Making a Snow Storm to Hurt Trump

Trump supporter Laura Loomer thinks that the deep state has created the snow storm in Iowa to hurt Donald Trump and help Nikki Haley.

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Trump Tells Iowa Town To Get Over School Shooting

While speaking in Iowa, Trump reacted to the Perry school shooting by saying that it was horrible, but it will just have to be gotten over.

Trump responds to Black Lives Matter by defending the Confederacy

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Trump Support Could Be Exaggerated As Scared Voters Lie About Supporting Him

Some Iowa voters are so scared to criticize Trump that they say they will support him but plan to vote against the former president.

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Ron DeSantis Is So Lifeless That He Has Been Declared A Zombie Candidate

A veteran of numerous of Iowa Republican presidential campaigns declared that Gov. Ron DeSantis is a zombie candidate in the state.

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Trump Tells His Supporters To Go To Cities And Intimidate Non-White Voters

While speaking in Iowa, Donald Trump urged his supporters to go to cities like Detroit and Philadelphia and intimidate non-white voters.

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John Fetterman Devastates Tucker Carlson And Ron DeSantis

If you thought that Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) had forgotten how Fox News and Tucker Carlson treated him after his stroke, he hasn’t.

Matt Gaetz and Donald Trump campaign in Iowa.

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While Standing Beside Trump, Matt Gaetz Admits That Violence In DC Is The Plan

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) stood beside Trump on stage and said that the plan was for Trump and his supporters to use force to bring change to DC.

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Trump Went To Dairy Queen And Didn’t Know What A Blizzard Was

Former President Donald Trump tried to pull another one of his fake people buy people stuff stunts, but when he went to a Dairy Queen in Iowa, the former president didn’t know what a Blizzard was.

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Trump Gets Some Brutal Feedback From GOP Iowa Voters

Some voters at Sen. Joni Ernst’s Ride and Roast showed why Donald Trump may have an Iowa problem in 2024.

Trump speaks during his campaign rally in Waco, TX.

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Trump Doesn’t Seem To Know The Difference Between A Tornado Watch And Warning

Donald Trump tried to claim that his Iowa rally was canceled due to a tornado warning, but there is only a tornado watch.

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Karma Gets Trump As Tornado Watch Kills Iowa Rally

After decades of getting away with everything, karma may be coming for Trump after his Iowa rally gets canceled due to tornado watch.

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Top Iowa Republicans Freeze Trump Out And Don’t Return His Calls

Top Iowa Republicans from the governor on down aren’t returning Donald Trump’s phone calls and are not committing to support him in 2024.

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DNC Makes South Carolina the State with First Democratic Primary

Finally, the all-important first primary looks like the Democratic Party.

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Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds Said She “Trusts Iowans to do the Right Thing” In Regards to COVID is at Trump’s Des Moines Super Spreader Rally

Donald Trump wants to hold rallies and nothing is going to stop him. Even if those events are being held in states with rising COVID case loads. Iowa certainly fits the bill. The state is currently seeing around 20% of its tests come back positive. Republican Governor Kim Reynolds has ignored the rising cases and…

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Trump Is Trying To Use Bernie Sanders To Divide Democrats

It’s the 2016 playbook all over again, as Donald Trump is trying to fuel resentment among Sanders supporters to divide Democrats.

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Joe Biden Lights Up The Heartland As He Blasts Putin Puppet Trump Before Iowa Rally

Joe Biden is rolling through Iowa and lighting up Trump as a Putin Puppet before the president’s rally in the Hawkeye State.

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Trump’s Refusal to Dream Devastating to U.S. Economy, Environment

President Donald Trump, in comments made at the recent G-7 summit in France, positioned himself as the protector of United States’ wealth, justifying his refusal to address, much less believe in, climate change on grounds that investing in green energy production would damage the nation’s economic standing. The U.S. has “tremendous wealth,” Trump told reporters….

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Trump Just Declared That Iowa And Nebraska Are No Longer Part Of The United States

An out of control Trump declared Iowa and Nebraska to be their own countries in a moment that showed how far the President Of The United States is slipping.

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Trump Tries To Fix His Trade War By Throwing Hats At People In Iowa

Donald Trump showed up in Iowa today to try to paper over the damage his trade war is doing to the state, and his big plan appears to have been to throw some John Deere ripoff hats at people.

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Trump’s Cruelty Exposed As He Denied Red State Request To Stabilize Health Insurance Market

Trump’s refusal to take action that would actually help people is proof of what we’ve already known about this president: He would rather play political games than improve the lives of the American people.

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Trump Mocks Wind Power In Iowa, The State That Uses The Highest Percentage Of It

Nearly a third of Iowa’s energy comes from wind power, and the Hawkeye State uses a greater percentage of it than any other state in the country.

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Here’s How Trump And The GOP Are Deviously Undercutting Obamacare In Swing States

Because of uncertainty caused by Trump and Republicans, at least one swing state will see Obamacare health care premiums spike by more than 40 percent.

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Honeymoon Over: Even Republicans Think Trump Should Spend Less Time at Mar-a-Lago

“I do wish he would spend more time in Washington, D.C. That’s what we have the White House for,” says Jon Ernst

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Republicans Flee Trump as Joni Ernst Admits the President Has a Number of Flaws

Republican Sen. Joni Ernst was confronted with her support for a president who treats women and disabled people badly, and she responded, “I think that we have a President that has a number of flaws.”

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Protesters Holding ‘Iowa Says No Hate’ Banner Interrupt Boring Trump Rally

Trump, showing marginal growth from the campaign, did not encourage his supporters to inflict physical harm on the hecklers.

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Trump In Panic Mode As Clinton Seizes The Lead In Iowa – His Strongest Swing State

Nobody seems to be paying attention to Iowa anymore, but it’s a tight contest that Hillary Clinton’s ground operation could quietly steal it from Trump.

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Hillary Clinton Laughs When Asked If the New Emails Could Sink Her Campaign

Secretary Clinton put pressure on Comey to explain himself saying, “We’ve heard these rumors, we don’t know what to believe. That is why it is incumbent on the FBI to tell us what they are talking about.” Asked if she thought this could sink her campaign, Clinton laughed.

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Trump-Leaning Pollster Quinnipiac Shows Clinton With Solid Swing-State Leads

If the alarm bell wasn’t already sounding in Trumpland, these results from their favorite pollster should do the trick.

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Trump Throws A Tantrum While Defending Kicking A Crying Baby Out Of His Rally

In a completely unprovoked moment, while campaigning in Iowa, Donald Trump threw a fit and defended throwing a crying baby out of his rally.

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Gov. Terry Branstad Backs An Insane GOP Move to Defund Planned Parenthood in Iowa

Governor Terry Branstad (R-IA) says he backs a “reasonable proposal” to defund Planned Parenthood in Iowa, even though federal money doesn’t pay for abortion services due to the Hyde Act and it is already illegal to use Medicaid money for abortion services in Iowa.

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Sen. Chuck Grassley Pummeled With Backlash In Iowa Over Obama Nominee Obstruction

Republican Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) was pummeled today with negative press over his refusal to hold hearings for President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee.
Dave Damstrom of Spencer Iowa was quoted by Omaha.Com saying to Senator Grassley, “Excuse me, Senator, but it seems to me like there’s so much crap in the political system, and I expect you to be a leader and not part of this. I’m just getting sick of this stuff. Just do your job, and let politics be what it is.”

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Red State Radicalism Thrives Against Women and No-One Cares

While Americans focus on the primaries, Republicans are eliminating women’s rights.

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Iowa’s Steve Deace Threatens to ‘Eunuch Himself’ Over Cruz Campaign

Iowa radio host Steve Deace has decided on a manly solution to Cruz’s unmanly campaign performance by threatening to castrate himself

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Democrats Are In Serious Trouble After Iowa and New Hampshire

Democrats old and new must come to grips with reality immediately or get ready for a Republican president and Koch supermajority Congress

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Phil Robertson at Cruz Rally: Rid the Earth of Tolerance

From the grave, an epic smackdown of Phil Robertson and Ted Cruz by James Madison, who reveals exactly what America can expect from a Cruz presidency, that establishment of religion brings only superstition, bigotry and persecution

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Sore Loser Trump Has A Total Tantrum Meltdown And Demands Iowa Disqualify Ted Cruz

Donald Trump blew up and threw a temper tantrum where he accused Ted Cruz of stealing the Iowa through fraud, demanded a new caucus, and that Cruz is disqualified.

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Bernie Sanders Drops A Bomb On Politics As Usual As He Celebrates An Iowa Win

Bernie Sanders could have used his speech after the Iowa caucuses to take a victory lap after he virtually tied Hillary Clinton, instead Sanders took aim at politics as usual and used his speech to spread his message.

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Donald Trump Says He Could Shoot Somebody and Not Lose Votes

Trump thinks it’s okay for a presidential hopeful to speak of shooting people, and Cruz, rather than condemn, jokingly assures us he won’t

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Bernie Sanders Defends Voters After Clinton Campaign Vows To Shake Some Sense Into Iowans

After an aide to Hillary Clinton had said that her campaign speech was designed to “shake some sense” into Iowans, Bernie Sanders came to the defense of Hawkeye State Democrats.

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Bernie Sanders Is Beating Clinton In Iowa Because He’s Winning The Electability Argument

The reason Bernie Sanders is beating Hillary Clinton in some Iowa polls is because more and more Democrats are viewing him as electable in November.

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Trump in Iowa Intensifies Birther Attacks on Cruz, Who Suddenly Claims Facts Matter

Donald Trump only needs to sow doubt in the minds of gullible Iowa evangelicals to weaken Cruz’s hold before the caucus on February 1

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Bernie Sanders Begins a Critical Swing Through New Hampshire Today

Bernie Sanders begins a two day visit to New Hampshire today, a state conventional wisdom says he must win to beat Hillary Clinton

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Bernie Sanders Preaches The Gospel Truth About Income Inequality From The Pulpit In Iowa

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders visited the Mount Carmel Baptist Church in Waterloo, Iowa on Sunday morning and delivered the truth about income inequality to a receptive congregation.

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Donald Trump Wants to Register Muslims Like the Nazis Registered Jews

Donald Trump is determined to keep the dream of the Reich alive by registering and identifying Muslims in public with special IDs

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The End May Be Near For Trump After 95 Minute Unhinged Rant Bored Supporters

Trump may have a dug a hole to deep to climb out of after raging against Ben Carson and “stupid” Iowa voters.

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SCOTUS Be D*mned – Bobby Jindal Says No Earthly Court Can Redefine Marriage

Jindal insists he just wants the right to live his Christian faith, but what he really wants is to force US to live HIS Christian faith

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Huckabee Wants to Thank SCOTUS for Their “Thoughts and Opinions” And Ignore Them

Mike Huckabee says he gets to decide what is constitutional or not, not the Supreme Court, which is given that job by the Constitution

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3 GOP Presidential Candidates To Speak At Conference Hosted By Pastor Who Supports Killing Gays

Texas Senator Ted Cruz, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee will be featured speakers at the event.

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Struggling Jeb Bush Downsizes Campaign, Cuts Payroll 40 Percent

The Bush campaign is letting some workers go, and implementing drastic pay cuts for many of the workers who will stay.

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Mike Huckabee Wants to Sell Poor Criminals Into Slavery

Slavery may have been A-OK with the authors of the Old Testament, but it’s not with the Constitution, a fact Huckabee pointedly overlooks

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Even Republicans Reject Another Bush as Jeb Falls to Sixth Place In Iowa

Jeb Bush is tied for sixth place in Iowa with Mike Huckabee at a weak 6 percent of the vote in the GOP field.

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Liberals Rally Around Bernie Sanders And Power Him To The Lead In Iowa

A surge of support from very liberal Democrats has allowed Bernie Sanders to wipe out Hillary Clinton’s 19 point lead and give the Senator from Vermont a 41%-40% advantage in Iowa.

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GOP Race Gets Physical As Huckabee Aide Boxes Out Ted Cruz At Kim Davis Release Circus

A Huckabee staffer blocked Texas Senator Ted Cruz from getting on stage with law-defying Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis at her release party.

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Crowds Validate Bernie Sanders Surge As Iowa Town Halls Relocated To Larger Venues

The polling is beginning to match the size of the anticipated crowds as Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has been forced to move two town hall meetings in Iowa to bigger locations.

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New Hillary Ad Focuses on Reshuffling the Deck for the Middle Class

Clinton wants to reshuffle the deck for the middle class while the GOP, led by Trump, just want to destroy them and then blame the Mexicans

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Martin O’Malley Campaigns in Front of Trump Hotel, Shows Solidarity with Hotel Workers

O’Malley spoke to hotel workers and union leaders in Las Vegas about higher wages for workers and recognizing their right to organize.

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This is Republican Immigration Reform: Slavery, Drone Attacks And Shredding the Constitution

Conservative bigots love the idea of shredding the Constitution’s 13th and 14th Amendments in place of actual immigration reform

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Midwest Mayhem As Bernie Sanders Expected To Trample Republicans With Huge Event In Iowa

Republican presidential candidates are getting the headlines for going to the Iowa State Fair, but signs are growing that Bernie Sanders will outdraw them all after his Sunday town hall in Iowa was forced to move to a bigger venue.

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Trump Owns The Midwest, Leads GOP Rivals In Iowa and Missouri

The Iowa and Missouri post-debate polls reveal that Donald Trump remains in a strong position atop the GOP field in two key Midwest states.

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Donald Trump Becomes The Face Of The GOP As He Surges To Huge Lead In Iowa

Donald Trump’s 16 point lead in the GOP field in Iowa, has made him the de facto face of the Republican Party.

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Time To Stop Treating Jeb Bush As A Serious Candidate As He Dips to 7 Percent In Iowa Poll

A Monmouth Poll finds former Florida Governor Jeb Bush is polling just 7 percent with likely Iowa Republican caucus voters.

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Jeb Bush’s Message To Working Americans Is Work Longer, Harder, and For Less

Jeb Bush wants to abolish the federal minimum wage, deny workers overtime pay, and raise the retirement age for social security.

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Political Prediction Guru Nate Silver Says Bernie Sanders Could Win Iowa and New Hampshire

Sanders could win the two early contests on the strength of white liberal voters, but Clinton still holds the advantage nationally.

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Bernie Sanders Sets A 2016 Record By Drawing A Huge Overflow Crowd In Iowa

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders set a new record in Iowa by drawing an overflow crowd of 2,600 to a venue that only had 2,300 chairs.

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Bernie Sanders Draws The Same Size Crowd As Hillary Clinton In Iowa

Bernie Sanders continue to pack the house wherever he campaigns as the Democratic presidential candidate recently drew the same size audience that Hillary Clinton did when both candidates were campaigning on the same evening in Iowa.

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Rick Santorum Says He Decides What is Constitutional, Not the Supreme Court

Rick Santorum says says you refusing to believe what he wants you to believe is a violation of the First Amendment

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Hillary Clinton Clearly Says What No Republican Will: Iraq Was a Mistake

Unlike the Republican candidates who are falling over themselves to avoid saying that Bush got Iraq wrong, Sec. Clinton said it straight. It was a mistake.

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Senate No-Show Cruz Criticizes Evangelicals Who Didn’t Show in 2008 and 2012

2016 may be the Year the mainstream media is surprised to discover there are actual Christians out there – and they don’t vote Republican.

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Bob Vander Plaats Says Exercising First Amendment Rights Mocks God

Yes, actually exercising your First Amendment right to have your own beliefs is a “huge concern” with “spiritual ramifications” in Iowa

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Iowa FAMiLY LEADER Event Showcases Presidential Hopefuls’ Religious Bigotry

Crass ignorance is enshrined in the Iowa Calendar as Family Leader invites GOP presidential hopefuls to spew to the delight of the base

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Ted Cruz Wants To Strip the Supreme Court’s Authority On Marriage Equality

Apparently, because too many federal courts have followed the Constitution and not the Christian bible on the question of same-sex marriage, it is likely that Cruz wants Congress to give that authority to the evangelical right to decide.

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Religious Right: GOP Will Never Win Presidency if They Soften Gay Rights Stance

The Religious Right thinks, despite all the evidence, that doubling down on anti-gay bigotry will have better results than Indiana

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Right-wing Congressman Steve King Bashes Jews Who Are “Democrats First And Jewish Second”

During a radio interview, Iowa GOP Congressman Steve King blasted liberal American Jews for being Democrats first, and Jewish second.

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Jeb Bush Tells Iowans Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton Let Us Down

Jeb Bush can look at an Iraq wracked by civil war and marauding barbarians, and somehow imagine that America power is a force for good.

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The Republican Cult of the Penis Has Replaced Christianity

The GOP has concocted a religion that has nothing to do with Jesus and everything to do with what you do with your reproductive organs

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Sarah Palin Knows How to Beat Hillary – Accuse Her of a Bunch of Stuff!

“You know, reverse them. It is they who point a finger who don’t realize they have triple that number of fingers pointing right back at them”

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It’s On! Ben “I’m not crazy” Carson Exploring 2016 Presidential Bid

Feeling “fingers from God” but assuring us he is not crazy, Ben Carson has appointed an Iowa operative for a possible presidential run in 2016

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A Mitt Romney-Jeb Bush Brawl Will Divide The GOP Establishment And Help The Tea Party

The GOP is poised for an epic clash of plutocrats that is likely to split establishment donors and benefit the Tea Party

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The Koch Brothers Fund Religious Groups That Are Eliminating Women’s Rights

To accomplish their goal of controlling the government, the Koch brothers have had to climb in bed with fundamentalist Christians intent on using the government to control and subvert women’s rights.

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Midterm Madness – Meet the Latest Republican Crazies to Hold Office

Gordon Klingenschmitt brings his demonic obsessions to the Colorado State Senate and Michael Peroutka his neo-Confederate secessionism to Anne Arundel County, Maryland

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The Likes of Mitch McConnell and Joni Ernst Leave America a Bleaker Place This Morning

We are the victims of voter suppression and intimidation. Our votes were overridden with dark money and corporate-funded propaganda

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Joni Ernst Goes all Palin, Calls Obama an Apathetic Dictator

Whoa there…wait a minute. He is a dictator AND he is apathetic? How can he be both? He’s running amok AND not doing anything?

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Mitch McConnell and Joni Ernst Are Desperate To Conceal Their Koch Connections

Apparently Republican corruption has reached such a level that blatant lying and obvious violation of campaign disclosure laws is part and parcel of what it means to be a Republican; at least a Republican Senate candidate.

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Iraq War Hero Tammy Duckworth Says Iowa’s Bruce Braley Is ‘Real Deal’ On Veterans Issues

Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) made her way to Iowa earlier this week to campaign for Democratic Senate candidate Bruce Braley and to take part in a round-table discussion on veterans issues.

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Iowa Senate Candidate Joni Ernst Can’t Escape The Republican Anti-Woman Crusade

For a senatorial candidate from Iowa, the way to show support for a religious principle is voting for a constitutional amendment that effectively eliminates a woman’s constitutional rights, and then claim the amendment really would not do anything at all.

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Joni Ernst Says She’s Independent Then Recites Tea Party Talking Points on Every Issue

During a debate with her Democratic opponent, Bruce Braley, Joni Ernst told the audience she is an independent leader, then recited Tea Party talking points on everything from “personhood” amendments to privatization of Social Security.

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Jon Stewart Highlights Joe Scarborough’s Hypocrisy Over His Complaints About Hillary Clinton

After showing Scarborough ranting about Mrs. Clinton’s book tour and making appearances in early primary states while not announcing her intentions to run, Stewart gloriously took down Scarborough and highlighted his complete and total hypocrisy.

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Sen. Chuck Grassley Blames Obama For a Scandal Caused By His Own Former Staffer

It is a travesty, and a mystery, why any American would vote for Republicans who not only do nothing for the American people, but spend the majority of their waking hours wasting taxpayer time and money investigating alleged White House scandals that, more often than not, are of their own making.

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