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    Donald Trump doing significantly WORSE than Republicans in previous elections

    Right now, Huffington Post Pollster averages Trump's national lead in a match against Hillary Clinton as 37.4%. I used the same metric from HuffPost Pollster for the 2012 election and from Pollster.com (before it merged with HuffPost) for the 2008 election. In the first quarter of 2012...
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    Republican Party crackup has Democrats in stitches

    The sub-headline: 'You want to quote me as saying hahahahahahaha?' asked one. Thursday in the Republican Party was like hilarious fan-fiction for Democrats to hate read until they hurt from all the laughing. It started with Mitt Romney and Donald Trump erupting into a civil war. It ended with...
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    Early estimate of Super Tuesday states popular vote

    by New York Times journalist Nate Cohn Democrats: 62% Hillary Clinton 37% Bernie Sanders Republicans: 36% Donald Trump 27% Ted Cruz 22% Marco Rubio 7% John Kasich
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    Democrats vs. Republicans in Congress

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    Barack Obama is still President of the United States

    So how is he doing? The average of his job approval rating over the last month, according to Gallup, is 46% approve, 50% disapprove. Compare that to past presidents. George W. Bush's approval was in the low-to-mid 30s at this time in his presidency. Bill Clinton's was in the high 50s. Ronald...
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    Number of Peabody Awards for broadcast journalism won by Channel One, student news

    that is piped into U.S. high schools: 2. One award for a 1992 report on AIDS and another award for a 2004 report on war in Sudan. Number of Peabody Awards won by Fox News: 0. Think about that.
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    Latest 2016 presidential election polls

    In case you didn't know the details of how this is going to go. CNN poll, Dec. 18-21, 2014. 54% Hillary Clinton (D) 41% Jeb Bush (R) 56% Clinton 39% Chris Christie (R) 60% Clinton 35% Ted Cruz (R) 59% Clinton 38% Mike Huckabee (R) 58% Clinton 38% Rand Paul (R) 56% Clinton 35% Ben...
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    4 things that were supposed to happen by 2015 because of Obama's re-election

    1. Gas was supposed to cost $5.45 per gallon. In March 2012, on the floor of the United States Senate, Mike Lee (R-UT) predicted that if Obama was reelected gas would cost $5.45 per gallon by the start 2015. Lee said that gas prices would rise 5 cents for every month Obama was in office...
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    Marriage equality takes one more step to being legalized nationwide

    Yesterday, lawyers for the U.S. Supreme Court sent four marriage cases to the justices to be considered by the justices at their private January 9 conference. That means five marriage cases from five states (Louisiana, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee) will be discussed by the justices and...
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    "Obama's radicalism is killing the Dow"

    This was the headline of a March 6, 2009, Wall Street Journal op-ed. On that date, the Dow closed at 6626.94. Yesterday, the Dow closed at 18024.17. It's now been nicknamed "the worst op-ed in history". Now that the Dow has hit 18,000, let us remember the worst op-ed in history - The...
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    Man drinks egg nog, spends three days in the hospital

    To be fair, he chugged egg nog in a drinking game. http://www.buzzfeed.com/jimdalrympleii/a-utah-man-had-to-be-hospitalized-for-chugging-eggnog?bffb&utm_term=4ldqpgp#.aeRDZGDdJ
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    "The Interview" will be released on Christmas Day after all

    A limited release of 200 theaters, and it's suddenly become a movie everyone wants to see. Curious how that happened. Sony Entertainment Announces Limited Release of 'The Interview' - NBC News
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    The final episode of The Colbert Report

    Will air tonight ( Dec. 18 ) at 11:30 PM EST. Colbert will then take over for David Letterman on The Late Show. Presumably, this will also be the end of "Stephen Colbert", the conservative pundit character (inspired mostly by Fox News idiocy) which Colbert has been playing for nine years...
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    Let's watch a GIF of Kim Jong-Un getting killed in "The Interview"

    Spoiler alert: Kim Jong-Un gets killed in "The Interview". Did Sony Get Hacked Because of This Kim Jong-un Death Scene?
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    2014 inductees in the Library of Congress' National Film Registry

    That is, to be preserved in the Library of Congress. 13 Lakes (2004) James Benning’s feature-length film can be seen as a series of moving landscape paintings with artistry and scope that might be compared to Claude Monet’s series of water-lily paintings. Embracing the concept of "landscape as...
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    #Awesome

    Yeah, it's pretty awesome. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pncv_t1uBw#t=62 Apparently, CCF has removed the ability to embed video links. But trust me, it was awesome.
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    70% of Americans have committed a crime before

    Or did something they could be put in jail for. This statement is mostly true, according to PolitiFact, fact checking a statement from a Yale Law School professor. [Stephen] Carter[, the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale Law School] said that more than 70 percent of American...
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    Hillary Clinton

    McClatchy-Marist poll, 2/4-9 Clinton 52%, Paul Ryan 44% Clinton 53%, Mitt Romney 44% Clinton 55%, Mike Huckabee 41% Clinton 56%, Ted Cruz 39% Clinton 58%, Jeb Bush 38% Clinton 58%, Rand Paul 38% Clinton 58%, Chris Christie 37% Clinton 58%, Marco Rubio 37% Clinton 62%, Sarah Palin 35% It seems...
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    Tea Party group FreedomWorks: Republican Party could split in two

    FreedomWorks chief Matt Kibbe said Friday that divisions on the right could cause the Republican Party to split in two. During an apperance on CSPAN, the tea party leader responded to a piece in The Washington Times indcating that some "prominent Republicans are saying that if the GOP loses...
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    Conservative Republican defends House Speaker John Boehner

    And he does it in the best possible way. The following article is about House Republicans defending Speaker John Boehner from criticism, but one Republican did it in very apt words. "[R]etiring Rep. Steve LaTourette (R-Ohio), dismissed the possibility of a challenge [to Boehner's position...