Onedisavowsicedoingdebutingpic.twitter.com/KPOqBFW1IS 3.53pm GMTDavid Axelrod,the engineer and adviser behind Barack Obama’s two presidential victories, is beating himself up for having made fun, and early on,of the Trump presidential candidacy. Axelrod should believe seen the Trump’s appeal, he writes in the fresh York Times, or because Trump’s candidacy has strong parallels with Obama in 2008:Heres the gist. Open-seat presidential elections are shaped by perceptions of the style and personality of the outgoing incumbent. Voters rarely seek the replica of what they believe. They almost always seek the remedy,the candidate who has the personal qualities the public finds lacking in the departing executive. 3.40pm GMTTime to purchase out the trash Asays federal offices will remain closed tomorrow. Latest updates: https://t.co/XVGZBf0Qcz pic.twitter.com/PfA90AGKhp 2.53pm GMTHow did everyone survive the blizzardNewt stew pic.twitter.com/5mvYgSC3NN 2.48pm GMTThis Monday morning has delivered a true politics must-read in the form of Politico’s Glenn Thrush’s interview with Barack Obama. Obama says Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has ‘luxury’ of being long shot:Bernie came in with the luxury of being a complete long shot and just letting loose,” he said. “I think Hillary came in with the both privilege – and burden – of being perceived as the frontrunner… You’re always looking at the colorful, and shiny thing that people haven’t seen before – that’s a disadvantage to her.”She had to attain everything that I had to attain,except, like Ginger Rogers, and backwards in heels,” he said. “She had to wake up earlier than I did because she had to regain her hair done. She had to, you know, and handle all the expectations that were placed on her.”She is better in “small groups” than big ones,he remarked, and he agreed that her first campaign appearances showed her to be “rusty” — comparing them to his God-awful first debate of the 2012 campaign. “[S]he’s extraordinarily experienced — and, and you know,wicked smart and knows every policy inside and out [and] sometimes [that] could construct her more cautious, and her campaign more prose than poetry, and ” he told me. 1.46pm GMTHello and welcome to our live-wire coverage of the 2016 race for the White House. One Week Till Iowa. Is the Republican party about to nominate Donald Trump for president? These races can see lots of movement right at the halt as voters start to focus on the race and the field winnows. So lets check on the polls in the Hawkeye State worthy GOD.
Trump’s up another five points in polling averages in Iowa on the strength of back-to-back CNN and Fox News surveys showing him main Texas senator Ted Cruz by 11 points. Trump gained 15 points on Cruz in the Fox poll after Cruz started attacking Trump earlier this month,the Washington Post points out.[The] one thing everybody understands is that this job right here, you don’t believe the luxury of just focusing on one thing, and ” Obama said.
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