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Republican Debate Tonight

January 7, 2012 by · Comments Off on Republican Debate Tonight 

Republican Debate TonightRepublican Debate Tonight, Mitt Romney’s biggest fear heading into Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary is voter complacency, not Republican rivals Newt Gingrich or Rick Santorum in a contest seen as his for the taking.

“Don’t get too confident with those poll numbers. I watch polls come and go. Things change very quickly. It’s very fluid,” Romney told a crowd of 1,000 people at Pinkerton Academy on Saturday. “I need you guys to make sure your friends get out and vote, and you vote as well.”

Romney’s campaign has called this “Super Saturday” and embarked on an aggressive and organized push to make sure supporters actually vote. The concern is that New Hampshire’s notoriously fickle primary voters could change their minds at the last moment or fail to show up at all.

“The only thing I’m worried about is working against the complacency that Mitt’s up in the polls,” said Jason McBride, who runs Romney’s operation in this first-in-the-nation primary state. “That’s the concern.”

Romney has led the polls for so long and by so much in New Hampshire that victory is considered much more than conventional wisdom.

The former Massachusetts governor spent time this past week in South Carolina, which holds its primary Jan. 21. Much of Romney’s staff from Iowa, where he eked out a victory Tuesday over former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, is in place in South Carolina for the first contest in the South. There are plans for Romney’s New Hampshire staff to head to Florida on Wednesday after the primary; the Florida contest is Jan. 31.

But campaign advisers worry that if they let up in New Hampshire now, Romney supporters are “going to watch the news and they’re going to say, oh, `Mitt Romney’s whooping’ everybody, I don’t need to vote,”‘ McBride said.

Republican Debate Tonight

October 19, 2011 by · Comments Off on Republican Debate Tonight 

Republican Debate TonightRepublican Debate Tonight, Here, without any particular order, are some of the things we are looking and waiting for the meeting tonight’s Sin City Republican Party candidates.

1. Does the public applauds electrifying Mexicans? – Jon Nicosia

2. Will there be a 7-way race to design killer Dr. Evil / Wile E. Coyote device to stick on a wall at the border? – Tommy Christopher

3. I’m looking to see if “electric fence” is said often enough to justify this night a drinking game – JN

4.Take seven shots and move to Canada if somebody does tonight, “refried beans” an electric fence joke (and I am authorized to make such a joke, right?) – Alex Alvarez

5. I hope to see many more jokes 9-9-9, although most fall so flat, that the net result is Herman Cain take a greater advantage in the polls. – Colby Hall

6. I’ll watch for incisive deconstruction of what sets these competitors as well as a look at what we are as people and what their lives were like before all this started. Furthermore, the type of coating can only provide concise Simon Cowell.
… Wait, what are we watching tonight? – Jon Bershad

7. Which candidate will be the first to pronounce the word “care” without the prefix “Obama” or “Romney?” – TC

8. What question inevitable gotcha Newt Gingrich Anderson Cooper launched a tirade in which he forgets that on stage is really running for president? – FM

9. Recognizing that the only time that seems to draw the attention of the media after he is aggressively moderated discussion questions, Newt Gingrich waiting to get into the face of Anderson Cooper, perhaps even to make his point, with a nudge his sternum with the index finger. – CH

10. How many times Newt Gingrich … No, I have nothing. – AA

11. French tip nails Michele Bachmann: How long will they be distracted? – Nando Di Fino

12. Rick Perry is to be heavily caffeinated? Will we see a visible, Monster Energy Drink 32 oz at his side? I am anticipating their handlers are shooting for Red Bull in the veins. – James Crugnale

13. If someone asks another scenario of a patient in a coma, which candidate will say, “That’s no way to talk about Governor Perry?” – TC

14. Rick Perry will begin speaking in Esperanto at random intervals throughout the debate? Maybe for good. – AA

15. Sue Sylvester is going to do something cur-razy! Wait, is showing this week. Seriously, guys, what are we seeing? – JB

16. Raze Cain: Now that he has had some time as a favorite, how many more hits than Herman Cain make tonight? – TC

17. What classic rock song that Herman Cain rewritten as an ode to pizza? My money is on the “Hotel California”. – FM

18. How many of my puns that Herman Cain Jon Huntsman scam? – TC

19. When Tommy, or anyone else notice that Huntsman is not there? – FM

20. A shirt Haley Barbour will host a debate storm “soy bomb” stamped on the broad chest. – CH

21. Breaking Bad is over. Community parks are on Thursday. Actually I have no idea. – JB

22. Michele Bachmann will attempt once more to confuse Obama’s alleged belief in socialism with protesters occupy Wall Street. – CH

23. Mitt Romney can raise more eyebrows authenticity of Ron Paul? – TC

24. Mitt Romney will be razor sharp in his answers, has been more pleasant than in all previous discussions, and even get a surprising number of laughs with some sharp asides out of character. This will result in more GOP handshakes Who else should enter the race. – CH

25. Oooooooooooh. GOP debate. They are still doing that? – JB

Republican Debate Tonight

October 11, 2011 by · Comments Off on Republican Debate Tonight 

Republican Debate TonightRepublican Debate Tonight, The Republican presidential candidates gather tonight for a debate focused exclusively on the economy, the question that will drive much of the campaign of 2012.
The U.S. economy added 103,000 jobs in September – a number that was better than expected by experts – but the national unemployment rate remained at 9.1%. The slow pace of recovery has led to concern that the slow economic growth will be here for a while, well into the 2012 presidential campaign.

Face to face tonight is organized by Bloomberg TV and The Washington Post, and will be held at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, beginning at 8 pm ET. Check your local listings on where to find Bloomberg TV or watch the video stream on the Post website. Let’s live-blogging in politics On.

Here is our preview of the six things to do in the forum:

1. Rick Perry, the polemicist: The governor of Texas, the leader in national polls just two weeks ago, has seen his support for the half in the last Gallup poll. Part of the reason is Perry improper conduct debate and the last event in Florida on September 22, is widely regarded as their worst. Sometimes rambling in his answers, for example, a question about Pakistan, and he faded towards the end. Perry’s wife, Anita, told an Iowa audience that Perry would be “better prepared next time.” Unnamed advisers Perry told The New York Times that a prescription is required to Perry for more sleep.

2. Jobs, jobs, jobs: Mitt Romney, who has regained the top spot in the latest presidential polls, has made job creation and the economy the centerpiece of his campaign. He is frequently discussed with Perry about who has the best record in job creation and is better equipped to fix what ails the economy. Focus of this night gives Romney another chance to beat Perry by such things as supervision of zero employment growth in Texas in August. In addition, Perry will have a chance to punch Romney repeated two statistics: Massachusetts ranked 47 in job creation, while Romney was governor and state law signed health has cost 18,000 jobs. The second number has been discredited by experts like Factcheck.org has analyzed.

3. Herman Cain in the hot seat: The former CEO of Godfather pizza has soared as Perry has fallen, and now Romney is behind in the Gallup surveys, some national. But with such meteoric rise has been greater scrutiny, but Cain could emerge as a punching bag again in the debate tonight. His 9-9-9 plan – which calls for a corporate tax rate of 9%, 9% of national sales tax to 9% rate of income tax – is now receiving more attention. Jackie USA Kucinich TODAY reports that tax experts say the plan could create a burden Cain higher in low-income people. Cain says he’s ready for the “gotcha” questions and defended his plan to 9-9-9 on the Sunday talk shows.

4. The objective of President Obama: Obama has been like the elephant in the room in all discussions of the Republican Party. Every Republican wants his job and everyone finds a way to divert the conversation back to Obama and his leadership. No doubt Obama’s handling of the economy will come up repeatedly, like his latest work plan. Republican Party candidates and their allies in Congress have pounced on Obama’s plan jobs, as it seeks to raise taxes on the rich. The Senate could deal a blow to Obama’s proposal before the debate even begins: A procedural vote is scheduled for as early as 5:30 pm.

5. The devil is in the details: expect the questions to the candidates about their specific proposals for reviving the economy. We have already mentioned Cain 9-9-9 plan. Romney has a comprehensive plan that covers about 160 pages. Jon Huntsman, former governor of Utah, has its own plan that focuses on a dramatic renovation of the tax code. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich calls for eliminating capital gains taxes, while Texas Rep. Ron Paul would get rid of the IRS completely. Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann talk about reducing federal regulations, and former Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania is one of those calling for the repeal of the Dodd-Frank passed last year that sets the rules on Wall Street.

6. The reaction of staging and audience: The candidates will be seated side by side in a round table in front of moderator and panelists Charlie Rose Karen Tumulty of The Washington Post and Julianna Goldman Bloomberg TV. Be surrounded by some 860 audience members, including local, state and national GOP leaders, and students and faculty at Dartmouth. The format is being promoted as a way to ease the “serious and substantive discussion.” In two previous forums, some public reaction has come into play: a gay soldier who made a video question was booed and someone could be heard shouting “die” when Paul was asked what he would do to help a sick man without health insurance.

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