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I have seen it legitimately reported too that Ben Carson is the current front-runner to be Sec. of Education. Possibly HHS.
He'd be good. He saw close up what the government education system is like in an urban area. Personally, I hope he lets kids in the DC system have choice.
There are just so many things that are possible now. Never in my lifetime have I seen the Rs have control of the House, Senate, and Executive at the same time. Not as good as Obama had it in 2008, but way better than any time since 1928.
Like I said yesterday, Trump has received the smallest share of the popular vote by a winning candidate in a two-way race since Grover Cleveland in 1888.
His % is actually lower than that of Rutherford B Hayes in the infamous 1876 race. Not that I think the R's won't treat this as a resounding mandate.
In 1824, John Quincy Adams was elected president despite not winning either the popular vote or the electoral vote. Andrew Jackson was the winner in both categories. Jackson received 38,000 more popular votes than Adams, and beat him in the electoral vote 99 to 84. Despite his victories, Jackson didn?t reach the majority 131 votes needed in the Electoral College to be declared president. In fact, neither candidate did. The decision went to the House of Representatives, which voted Adams into the White House.
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There are just so many things that are possible now. Never in my lifetime have I seen the Rs have control of the House, Senate, and Executive at the same time. Not as good as Obama had it in 2008, but way better than any time since 1928.
Your memory is failing you old man or you are full of shit. Or both.
He'd be good. He saw close up what the government education system is like in an urban area. Personally, I hope he lets kids in the DC system have choice.
There are just so many things that are possible now. Never in my lifetime have I seen the Rs have control of the House, Senate, and Executive at the same time. Not as good as Obama had it in 2008, but way better than any time since 1928.
The Republicans had control over both houses of Congress from 2003-2007. I'm not sure why people don't remember this. Remember Bill Frist? He existed, once upon a time.
I'm not sure about if he is a racist or sexist. He's looks and talks like Yosemite Sam and he's a avowed neo-con. Trump ran on America first and allegedly getting out of foreign entanglements. John Bolton is not the man for that.
Bolton is a trade-negotiations attack dog, and, IIRC, was big on unilateral action. Seems like that fits the bill. I don't know about the getting-out-of-foreign-entanglements bit. He moved from that to ``I'll ask the generals for an ISIS plan''. I think that's more of an unknown.
Bolton is a trade-negotiations attack dog, and, IIRC, was big on unilateral action. Seems like that fits the bill. I don't know about the getting-out-of-foreign-entanglements bit. He moved from that to ``I'll ask the generals for an ISIS plan''. I think that's more of an unknown.
Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Okalhoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming
States Where Trump Underperformed Romney
Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington
Never mind, not much of a pattern, other than heavily Hispanic states.
The Republicans had control over both houses of Congress from 2003-2007. I'm not sure why people don't remember this. Remember Bill Frist? He existed, once upon a time.
I know right. I truly think people get collective amnesia about that era, how on God's green earth can you forget something like that?
The Speaker of the house was a Geezer favorite, Dennis Hastert. I think he's unavailable for a cabinet position. Hastert was a real Salt of the earth type of guy.
Primaries use a delegate system, not popular vote. Similar to the electoral college.
Clinton lost the 2008 primary despite winning the popular vote by 300k.
People aren't upset President Obama won the 2008 primary even though he lost the primary popular vote.
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