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Howard Dean Feels That Eric Cantor’s Loss Can Lead The Way To Big Democratic Gains

In an op-ed piece for Politico published Sunday, [ http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-lesson-in-cantors-unexpected-defeat-107879.html#.U58dBiimXQV ] former Democratic Governor of Vermont Howard Dean stated that the recent primary loss by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) offers five lessons for Democrats in upcoming elections. The former head of the Democratic National Committee insisted in the piece that the Democrats’ grass-roots progressive base is larger than that of the Tea Party and that the progressive base’s push for policies that prove popular to the majority of Americans will eventually bear fruit in the 2014 and 2016 elections. He also pointed out that Cantor’s loss shows that anything can happen in a given election, as nobody predicted that Tea Party challenger David Brat would defeat Cantor.

http://www.politicususa.com/2014/06/16/howard-dean-feels-eric-cantors-loss-lead-big-democratic-gains.html

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Republicans Self Destruct By Moving To the Far Right After Cantor’s Loss



Over the weekend Iowa Republicans held their state convention, and it was a harbinger of what Americans have to look forward to after sitting House Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost his primary race to a libertarian college professor. It was a relative certainty that Cantor’s loss would drive the GOP to completely fall in line behind teabagger extremists who demand all-out war to control the nation or governance comes to a screeching halt; likely they want both. What is curious, is that Republicans are convinced teabaggers are enraged that establishment Republicans did not oppose President Obama over the past five years and that now they demand, and Republicans will deliver, unflinching opposition to the President. Subsequently, establishment Republicans are lurching hard right to embrace teabagger fascism and end democracy if the extremists do not get what they want.

http://www.politicususa.com/2014/06/16/republicans-shoot-foot-moving-cantors-loss.html

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A New Hillary Clinton Poll Delivers an Avalanche of Bad News For The GOP

A new CNN poll found that most Americans believe that she will do a better job than President Obama on every issue, which means that Republicans are in a world of hurt if they believe that attacks on Obama will drag Clinton down.

http://www.politicususa.com/2014/06/16/hillary-clinton-poll-delivers-avalanche-bad-news-gop.html

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Republicans Have a Big Bubba Problem: Clinton is The Most Admired POTUS of Last 25 Years



With the Clinton political brand poised for a resurgence in 2016, the last thing Republicans needed was a new polling showing that Bill Clinton is the most admired president of the last 25 years, but that is exactly what they’ve got.

A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal/Annenberg Survey [ http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/first-read/poll-bill-clinton-most-admired-president-over-past-25-years-n130756 ] found that Bill Clinton is the runaway most admired president of the last 25 years.

Forty-two percent of respondents picked Clinton. President Obama came in at 18%, George W. Bush got 17%, and George H.W. Bush was close behind at 16%.

http://www.politicususa.com/2014/06/15/republicans-big-bubba-problem-clinton-admired-potus-25-years.html

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Bill Maher Says What The Media Won’t: The Only Way Republicans Win Is By Cheating

http://www.politicususa.com/2014/06/14/bill-maher-media-wont-republicans-win-cheating.html