CNN and the Associated Press reports that Donald Trump wins the Republican Primary in New York.
He blew out the competition. Trump dealt a blow to Ted Cruz who secured victories in Wyoming and Colorado. Cruz's comments about New York values ended up hurting him. Many New York Republicans were pissed that Cruz took shots at the state as well as blocking disaster relief for Hurricane Sandy.
John Kasich secures second place but it will net him no delegates. Kasich has no mathematical way to win the Republican nomination.
Cruz who came in a distance third felt the sting of angry New York voters. He thought that he could muster enough anti-Trump support from the Upper-Tier of New York. It didn't work.
CNN and the Associated Press reports that Hillary Clinton wins the Democratic Primary in New York.
Hillary Clinton wins in a huge landslide. This came as a close call for the former secretary of state.
She deals a huge blow to Bernie Sanders. Sanders who last week attracted over 20,000 supporters to his rally didn't muster enough support from grassroots.
Sanders and his attacks on Wall Street didn't dent the lead that Clinton had. The Bern trolls and their threats on Superdelegates and the "corporate whore" comments didn't help much either.
Clinton carries forth a large share of delegates in the state.
Even that annoying conservative agitator Sean Hannity was trying his hardest to rack up mud.
Hannity and David Webb went to random Sanders supporters and got them to troll negative comments on Clinton.
It's been four weeks since a nationally televised debate. CNN gets the opportunity to have the Democrats do another primetime debate. Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton duke it out in the BK.
Sanders pulled a large crowd in New York last night. At Washington Square Park, the junk food media said that he pulled in 28,000 supporters to his event.
Hillary Clinton is leading in the state with a narrow lead. Right now Clinton has 53% to Sanders 47% in the New York primary polls. The Duggal Greenhouse in Brooklyn Navy Yard.
It's going to be a brutal battle for the crucial delegates of New York. The candidates will go hard on one another.
Who Won This Democrat Debate From Hell?
The New York primary is next Tuesday. The Clinton campaign hopes to sweep the state and maintain a lead against Sanders.
The Republicans are meddling in the affairs. They are in such disarray with their candidates. There's likely a broker convention on the horizon.
It's reported that Karl Rove is trolling the Democratic candidates with whisper campaigns. The Bernie Bros (Sanders trolls) have caused such an uproar with SuperDelegates. The delegates are being harassed by trolls and they're getting fed up with Sanders not controlling this.
You can view some of the debate livestream. It will disappear soon so if you want to get some of the action, watch it now.
Ted Cruz is now being called the Establishment. The conservative Craigslist is preparing for an all out war against Cruz.
It's no secret that Matt Drudge is a huge Trump supporter. He's so far up Donald Trump's ass. This is clearly a shot at Ted Cruz. The Republican senator from Texas managed to maneuver delegates and it's gotten him a victory in Colorado. He swept all the delegates.
Donald Trump and his supporters are fumed up over this.
Republicans blundered big time. Donald Trump's victories aren't worth shit. He ends up losing a portion of the delegates he's earned. Ted Cruz managed to maneuver Republicans to side with him.
The Colorado Republican Party also made things worse when a person tweeted, "We Did It #NeverTrump". The tweet was deleted quickly, but it too late, the junk food media got wind of it and now the supporters are screaming "voter fraud" and "backroom tactics" to deny Trump the nomination.
Trump's supporters felt betrayed.
The Republican Convention in Cleveland is going to be ugly. I mean really ugly.
It's no surprise that the country doesn't really feel inspired to vote for any of the five remaining candidates running for president.
But the Associated Press got some bad news for the GOP and Democratic frontrunners.
Donald Trump by far has the most negative views about him overall. The junk food media says he's unfavorable with women, Hispanics, Blacks, and Whites. The White males who are the bulk of Trump's support is down as well.
Hillary Clinton is coming right behind with negative favorability. She's considered dishonest and untrustworthy among the candidates.
Ted Cruz is also negative. After all, many Republicans don't like him. He's has no real accomplishments as a senator. His bombastic rhetoric has turned off many Hispanics, Blacks and women.
Out of the negative is the few exceptions. Bernie Sanders and John Kasich. Sanders is the only one for the moment with a favorable ratings. Kasich is borderline.
Not too many Americans know about Sanders to have an unfavorable opinion of him. Young voters are very confident in him. Older Americans aren't so much. They still resonate with the fear of "socialism" because of talk radio and other agitators.
Kasich has favorable approval in Ohio. But in the rest of the campaign, not much. Republicans are trying to stop Trump and they hope that Kasich could take away delegates from Trump to bring forth a contested convention. Conservatives hate Kasich because he's too cozy with President Barack Obama.
The Supreme Court divided is a lose-lose situation for conservatives. Pictured: Justice Elena Kagan (back), Chief Justice John Roberts (left), Justices Anthony Kennedy, Ruth Binder Ginsburg, Stephen Beyer and Sonia Sotomayor.
Looks like it's a lose-lose situation for the Republicans. They continue their opposition to President Barack Obama's Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland. And with the Court not at full strength, many issues conservatives took to court are being defeated.
Voting rights is spared for now. The Republican-controlled state of Texas ended up losing a crucial piece of power. The power they had to keep the U.S. Congressional districts in their favor is coming to an end.
Greg Abbott, the controversial Republican governor of Texas might want to wheel himself back to the drawing board. The court found that the Texas redistricting map isn't fair to the constituents and the Court struck it down.
The court ruled that the "one person, one vote" rule allows counting non-voters, including minors, prisoners, ex-convicts and immigrants -- a decision that traditionally helps Democrats.
"We hold, based on constitutional history, this court's decisions, and longstanding practice, that a state may draw its legislative districts based on total population," Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg wrote in delivering the court's opinion.
The plaintiffs -- Sue Evenwel and Edward Pfenninger -- argued that Texas should count only eligible voters in drawing up legislative districts of roughly equal size.
That would have favored rural areas with a high proportion of eligible voters in the allocation of legislative districts, over urban areas with larger absolute populations but a smaller proportion of eligible voters.
Since urban areas tend to vote Democratic and rural areas lean Republican, how the population is counted has a direct political impact.
If a state bases its electoral districting on the total population -- and all 50 states do -- people who are ineligible to vote are counted in the process.
These ineligible populations, such as non-citizen Hispanic immigrants, are usually present in larger numbers in urban areas.
As a result, each eligible voter in those areas proportionally has greater clout.
Samuel Alito, Sonia Sotomayor and Clarence Thomas.
"Even so, it remains beyond doubt that the principle of representational equality figured prominently in the decision to count people, whether or not they qualify as voters," the court said.
"Adopting voter-eligible apportionment as constitutional command would upset a well-functioning approach to districting that all 50 states and countless local jurisdictions have followed for decades, even centuries. Appellants have shown no reason for the court to disturb this longstanding use of total population," the court added.
- Unanimous decision -
The justices heard oral arguments in the case in December before the sudden death of Justice Antonin Scalia on February 13, which has left the court evenly divided between liberals and conservatives.
But even before Scalia's death, the justices had expressed skepticism about the challenge to the Texas law, which was borne out by the unanimous decision.
Had the court ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, legislative districts would have had to have been redrawn in states from New York to California.
Civil rights leaders and minority groups backed the status quo, arguing a change would negatively impact Hispanics.
"Our representatives represent people," said Nina Perales of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund.
"Representatives don't represent land. They don't represent acres. They don't represent counties."
The NAACP civil rights group said that 75 million children, 13 million of whom are black, "would have been counted out of the redistricting process" since children cannot vote.
The case, it said, harked back "to nefarious periods in our democracy similar to when black people were counted as 3/5ths of a person for redistricting purposes."
Meanwhile Democratic presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders chimed in from the campaign trail in support of the decision.
Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor, and Ruth Binder Ginsburg were the majority of the court.
"In our democracy, every one of our voices should count. Glad the Supreme Court affirmed this fundamental right," Clinton tweeted.
- 'Significant leeway' -
Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito were part of the majority, but wrote separate concurring opinions.
Alito, while agreeing with the majority, rejected the government's argument that there is a constitutional basis for requiring that legislative districts be equal in total population.
In a similar vein, Thomas noted that the court's decision did not provide clear guidance on what exactly "the one person, one vote" principle protects.
"The Constitution does not prescribe any one basis for apportionment within states. It instead leaves states significant leeway in apportioning their own districts to equalize total population, to equalize eligible voters, or to promote any other principle consistent with a republican form of government.
"The majority should recognize the futility of choosing only one of these options. The Constitution leaves the choice to the people alone -— not to this court," he wrote.
The month of March gave the best news for President Barack Obama, however it gave a rise to the unemployment rate. The Department of Labor released the job numbers and it shows a steady pace of employment.
The economy roars with 215,000 jobs added for the month of March and it did lead to the unemployment rate to head to 5 percent.
Nonfarm payrolls increased 215,000 last month, the Labor Department said on Friday. Data for January and February was revised slightly down to show 1,000 fewer jobs created than previously reported.
Average hourly earnings increased seven cents. While the unemployment rate rose to 5.0 percent from an eight-year low of 4.9 percent, it was because more Americans continued to return to the labor force, a sign of confidence in the jobs market.
The labor market has largely shrugged off slowing global economic growth, a robust U.S. dollar that has hurt manufacturing exports, and cheap oil prices, which have hit energy sector profitability.
Fed Chair Janet Yellen said on Tuesday that slowing world growth and lower oil prices posed a downside risk to the U.S. economic outlook, adding that she considered it appropriate for policymakers to “proceed cautiously in adjusting policy.”
Fed officials last month downgraded their economic growth expectations and forecast only two more rate rises this year. The U.S. central bank raised its benchmark overnight interest rate in December for the first time in nearly a decade.
Financial markets have almost priced out the likelihood of a rate hike at the Fed’s June policy meeting and see a roughly 47 percent chance of an increase in November and a 57 percent probability at the December meeting, according to CME FedWatch.
The employment report came on the heels of recent data showing sluggish consumer spending and weak business investment on capital in the first two months of the year, as well as some deterioration in the international trade balance.
Of course, Republicans and conservative agitators will say that the job numbers are fake. They will actually say that 1/3 of Americans aren't working (roughly 94 million).
They will continue to deny the fact that there are students in high school, stay at home spouse/parent, disabled, those in the iron college, those in college, those who were born and those died.
Births and deaths happen every freaking day. Someone just lost their job. Someone just quit their job.
The real unemployment numbers aren't relevant. Because there's so many contributing factors to why Americans chose to work or chose not to work.
Conservatives can say all the bullshit on television, radio, internet and print. But it's not true.
The lamest Congress ever, refuses to raise the minimum wage. They refuse to pass paid family leave.
They refuse to allow better safety equipment for those who work around hazardous chemicals.
But yet, say that the job numbers aren't right. The Republican Party and its allies contributed to the near downfall of our country and yet they want to reclaim the White House.
Big victory for Bernie Sanders. The junk food media took an iconic picture of the Democratic candidate smiling while a bird landed on his podium.
Last week they were writing his campaign off. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), the Democratic candidate for president won a swept yesterday.
Sanders pulls off healthy victories in the caucuses and primaries. The states of Washington, Idaho and Hawaii gave Bernie Sanders a healthy victory.
The junk food media barely covered it. Matter of fact, they ignored the fact that turnout was huge for the Democratic candidates.
The momentum that Bernie's getting is showing that the Democrats aren't the only ones with problems.
Hillary Clinton is leading in most national polls. But she could lose to John Kasich, Ted Cruz and GOP frontrunner Donald Trump.
Bernie Sanders performs way better against the three.
Congratulations to Bernie Sanders on his huge victory.
Delegate count so far has Hillary Clinton at 1728 and Bernie Sanders at 1034.
Now the candidates are taking a minor break from campaigning to celebrate Easter. They will be back on the campaign trail soon. Wisconsin is coming up and the candidates will fight for the votes.
Scott Walker, the failed presidential candidate hasn't endorsed a candidate yet. Milwaukee County sheriff and conservative agitator David Clarke, Jr. will be given more unwanted attention as well.
#BlackLivesMatter will be protesting the candidates if they land in Madison, Milwaukee and Green Bay.
Well CNN takes the debates to Miami for the Democrats and Republicans. The candidates will duke it out once again on the stage about the issues. Of course, offer their platitudes.
CNN partners up with Univision and The Washington Post to host the debate.
Tonight, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) have another debate.
In the state of Florida, the Hispanic population is growing and many constituents are first time voters.
The Democrats and Republicans are fighting for the winner-takes-all states such as Florida and Ohio.
Another chance for the Democrats to duke it out.
These crucial swing states could determine who wins the presidency.
Fresh off Sanders's surprising win in the Michigan primaries, the senator is planning on going hard against Clinton. Clinton the current front runner has a huge delegate lead. But these setbacks kind of make it harder for Democrats to rally around her. Clinton won Mississippi in a landslide. But she lost Michigan by a squeaker. Sanders trailing by double digits and managed to beat Clinton handily.
Clinton is desperately trying to conclude this. Sanders isn't going to allow it.
Sanders has won the young voters and on the trustworthiness. Clinton took a nosedive and it's hurting her with the Democrats who are straggling on the fence between sitting it out or supporting the insurgent Donald Trump.
Let's go ahead and get this poll together.
Who Won This Debate?
Also if you can watch the debate live, here's you live stream.
It appears that Donald Trump's hold on the Republican Party is coming undone. The Republican front runner is competitive with Ted Cruz in many of the states that he's held a strong lead for the last three months. Marco Rubio's campaign is in danger. The calls for him to drop out. Say if Rubio wanted to run for governor of Florida, he would not succeed in winning it. If Rubio loses in Florida, his legacy is forever tarnished. He would be looked upon as the "one hit wonder".
John Kasich faces another huge setback. He put a lot of time into a state and yet it didn't net him a victory.
When we hear about the race in Idaho and Hawaii, we'll determine if the Trump holds onto his lead.
CNN projects that Donald Trump secures Mississippi. The race was a blowout. Despite the last ditch effort for Cruz with the Phil Bryant, the Republican governor, the Texas senator loses this one.
Trump secures Mississippi with 49%, Cruz 30%, Kasich 11% and Rubio with 10%.
Cruz is still in this. Being in second place isn't enough. You have to be in first place to gain momentum.
The Michigan primary is determining who's going to hold strength in the Republican race.
John Kasich follow the failed nominee Mitt Romney's call to stop Trump. Kasich is neck and neck in the race. So far, Trump is leading in the votes.
There's reports that staff is bolting from Marco Rubio's campaign. The Florida senator is dismissing this report and faulting Ted Cruz for spreading misinformation.
The Huffington Post and The Drudge Report projects that Donald Trump won Michigan with a comfortable 40%. John Kasich goes in with 24%. Ted Cruz 14% and Marco Rubio 8%.
CNN projects that Michigan goes to Donald Trump. A big victory for the Republican candidate.
CNN projects Hillary Clinton has won the Mississippi primary for the Democratic nomination. The former Secretary of State had trounced Bernie Sanders in this state. The Black vote and older voters turnout heavily for Clinton. But the younger voters turned out high for Sanders. Working class White voters have went to Clinton but will it matter since the state is deeply Republican.
Clinton won with 83% of the vote with Sanders netting 17%.
Trump is more harder than the Democrats thought!
Michigan primary for the Democrats is neck and neck. Sanders is leading in the polls. Clinton put a lot of effort into this state.
The Democrats already have a competitive race on them.
There is a statistical tie between Clinton and Sanders. Sanders was ahead in the polls.
Clinton's debate performance may have failed her. And the appearance on the Fox News town hall didn't help much.
Sanders may have won his biggest state in this election. That would make Florida extremely competitive.
Republicans are now panicking. They are losing this. The vow to stop Trump. Many in the junk food media have figured that Trump would take a loss in Michigan. It didn't go that way. Trump's healthy wins in two states that Cruz and Kaisch's failed in their quest to usurp the media mogul.
Trump is now talking coy about rivals former Republican team Mitt Romney and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI). Trump got a call from the former vice presidential nominee (now Speaker of the House) and he said that the conversation was friendly. He also said to Romney, that his plan failed to stop him. But he said that he's hoping that Romney changes his mind on him.
Trump is making note of the email scandal plaguing Clinton. Trump knocks Lying Ted and Little Marco. He said that they can say all the stuff about him, but it won't work against him. He also knocked Karl Rove and GOP donors for wasting all their money on him. He said they should have spent all that on Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Trump snarks at the reporter on political correctness.
Drudge mocks Marco Rubio yet again. He took the photoshop picture of a little Marco Rubio at CPAC.
John Kasich tells the audience that his second place finish shows that he's still strong at winning the blue collar votes. He believes that his opportunity to secure a second place finish assures that Ohio will be sweeter.
Kasich is trialing Trump in Ohio by 10 points. The Ohio governor could face a pretty embarrassing defeat if Trump secures a strong victory in the primaries.
CNN still holds back the projection. They're waiting on Wayne County, McComb County and Kent County. The cities that represent the areas Detroit, Pontiac and Grand Rapids. Clinton is catching up.
Another defeat for Ohio governor John Kasich.
Sanders still holds a slim lead against Clinton. The results show that Sanders has 50% and Clinton has 48%.
Sanders does a presser. He says that this win was a victory for all the hard work. He also said that he's determined to stay in this race. Sanders knocks the critics for saying his campaign is over in Michigan.
Sanders is saying that the American public is tired of a rigged economy, a political class who spends millions to stay in power. He said that Americans (especially Blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans) are tired of the unequal criminal justice that is served. He said that his campaign is a movement and a wake up call to Democrats who crowned Hillary Clinton the nominee.
Sanders also said that regardless of this, Ohio and Florida will be competitive.
Sanders sues Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted for allegedly blocking young voters who turn 18. Those young voters could have an opportunity to vote in the primaries and general election but they're still not at the age. It's going to federal court.
The Idaho primary so far is looking good for Ted Cruz. He is leading in the closing results.
CNN projects that Bernie Sanders won Michigan. He won 52% to Clinton's 47%.
Huge victory for the Vermont senator.
This makes Illinois, Ohio, Missouri and Florida even more competitive. Hillary Clinton got a long way to go!
CNN projects that Ted Cruz wins the state of Idaho.
Cruz wins the state by 52% while Trump got 32%, Rubio got 14% and Kaisch 2%.
CNN projects that Donald Trump won the Hawaiian Caucus. Trump won three states and Cruz won one. The Republicans are more enthusiastic about the elections more than the Democrats.
Cruz continues to win with Maine and Kansas. But still trailing in delegates. Trump wins Louisiana and Kentucky.
While many of the agitators in the junk food media mocked the Texas senator for of all things eating a booger, Rafael Edward Cruz (known as Ted Cruz) stuck it to them.
Republican Ted Cruz will continue to push conservatives to support him. He comes off a set of victories in two states that Donald Trump led in. Maine and Kansas goes to Cruz.
Trump managed to win the night though. He won Kentucky and Louisiana. These two states had the most delegates so far.
Donald Trump decided to skip the CNUTS convention. The straw poll has Ted Cruz winning with Marco Rubio and Donald Trump trailing from behind.
Bernie Sanders isn't going anywhere.
Cruz's surprising victories has Republicans cautiously optimistic that Trump could be stopped.
But it's still a large lead for the controversial media mogul. I mean it's going to be a brokered convention.
Perennial loser Mitt Romney managed to slow Trump's momentum in Kansas. Trump was leading favorably in these states. Trump's lost to Maine was a shock. Maine's Republicans are normally libertarian. They would have supported Rand Paul if he would have stayed in. But since there's no real candidate in the race, they chose Cruz over Trump in a 3:1 margin. Paul LePage, the Republican governor bucked John Kasich by supporting Trump over him.
Cruz and Trump are planning on teaming up to finally rid themselves of rival Marco Rubio.
Rubio didn't carry any states but so far got the most endorsements. He is considering staying in the race even past Florida.
Florida is the last stand for Rubio. He has to pull out a victory in order to stay in the race.
Kasich has to win Ohio to stay in the race. One poll shows that Kasich is barely leading in Michigan against Trump.
Long way to go. The opposition is trying to end Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's momentum.
Many in the Republican establishment are going full nuclear on Trump. Cruz may be the only candidate in the establishment left to defeat the insurgent.
Democrat Bernie Sanders defeats Hillary Clinton in the Nebraska and Kansas primaries.
Clinton managed to take Louisiana in a landslide. Clinton by far leads in the delegates.
Also her email scandal continues. The FBI given immunity to one of her former staffers who handled the server. The FBI still hasn't determined if Clinton caused a criminal act. It's still an open investigation.
The Democrats will have another damn debate on Sunday. The two will debate in Flint, Michigan.
The water crisis was barely mentioned in the Republican debate in Detroit. It's likely that Clinton and Sanders will mention the water crisis in the city.
It's time to start treating Donald Trump as a serious candidate. It's a scary scenario that we could have the controversial business/media mogul become the next President of the United States.
CNN and Telemundo are now the hosts the umpteenth Republican debate. This debate was supposed to be sponsored by NBC/Univision. Republican chairman Reince Priebus fired NBC and the National Review out the cannon.
CNBC got hammered by the candidates and top Republicans after the debate. National Review wrote a scathing criticism of Trump and it led to the Republican Party boycotting it.
Now it's coming close to Super Tuesday. One of these five candidates would become the presumptive Republican nominee if the 10 primaries go in his favor.
Republicans in the establishment are mounting an all out war against frontrunner Trump.
Gas Bags!
Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, John Kasich and Ben Carson are mounting their last stand in Texas. The debate is being held in Houston and then comes Super Tuesday.
Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, and Minnesota caucuses, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, and Virginia. Republican caucuses: Alaska and Wyoming are holding it on March 1, 2016.
Trump clearly has a lead in Alabama, Arkansas, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Vermont, Virginia, Alaska and Wyoming. Colorado and Texas are very competitive. Cruz is placing his hopes that his home state would turn out in huge numbers for him. He has to win 50.1% in order to take a majority of the delegates.
There is a civil war within the Republican Party. They really fear that Trump's divisive rhetoric could doom the party. They can't stand Cruz because he's a gadfly. Most of the party is rallying around Rubio.
Rubio hasn't won any major states since he's become the establishment's last hope. With Rubio calling upon Kasich and Carson to drop out, the candidates all fail to score over 50% of the vote in most of these primaries and caucuses.
The South Carolina Republican Primary and the Nevada Caucus. Congratulations to Donald J. Trump and Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton on winning.
Donald Trump took the victory in the most bitterly fought primary. It became a huge defeat for not only Ted Cruz, but Marco Rubio, Ben Carson and Jeb Bush. John Kasich still has some breath of life left in him. Rubio and Cruz will continue to fight to the bitter end.
Donald Trump has won the South Carolina primary, according to projections from the AP, CBS News, NBC News, and Fox News. It's the second victory in a row for the billionaire, who looks to have about 34% of the vote. This in spite of exit polls that showed that some four in 10 voters made up their minds at the last minute and many broke for Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, who are still locked in a battle for second and third place at around 21% of the vote. Jeb Bush is running a distant fourth place, and faces some hard decisions as his fundraising dries up.
Hillary Clinton managed to beat Bernie Sanders in the Nevada caucus. It was considered one of the toughest fights for the former secretary of state. Agitators in the junk food media were hoping that Sanders was going to upset Clinton in the race.
Clinton avoided a "dramatic setback" with the win. And the Hill states it will "calm some nerves" after Sanders nearly beat both expectations and Clinton in the state. Sanders managed to turn a double-digit deficit in earlier polls into a narrow loss. The results of the caucus were called about two hours after it started.
The win gives Clinton some momentum with the South Carolina primary and Super Tuesday coming up. She also now has evidence that 2016 will play out differently than her 2008 contest against Obama and that she is more electable than Sanders. But it wasn't all good news for Clinton. She underperformed among Latino voters and isn't getting "fervent support" from young people. New Republic notes this "enthusiasm gap" could hurt her in the general election.
The Morning In America by Marco Rubio was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is such a dork.
Desperately trying to win the Republican presidential nomination, he tries to channel his inner Ronald Reagan by making his version of Morning in America. He would have a calm voice narrator cover the political ad blasting President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
In the first scene you see a skyline of a major city with tugboats cruising across the waterway.
The skyline is not an American city. It's actually Vancouver, Canada. To make it even more noticeable, they zoomed in on the flag aside the tugboat showing the Canadian flag.
Okay, the Rubio campaign said that it's not the video, it's the message. He's trying to make the point that Obama's policies hurt America.
Those pseudo-patriots will say that the Canadian city in the video will always be a distraction.
Pathetic. Marco Rubio got stuck with the robotic claim.
Rubio hired the company to produce the video and used stock footage of Vancouver, Washington, DC, San Francisco and New York City for the video.
If it wasn't for Buzzfeed once again taking the time to cover the goofs and gaffes of the political candidates, Rubio would have gotten away with it.
Even the Canadian junk food media mocking Rubio.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hasn't spoken on the video but he probably appreciates Rubio's shout out to his country.
Vancouver is the eighth largest city in Canada. It's located in British Columbia on the west coast. It's population of 605,000. The vicinity covers 2.4 million residents. It's 35 miles from the U.S.-Canadian border.
Vancouver gives tax breaks to American and Canadian filmmakers. Many shows such as The Flash, Arrow and Supergirl (DC comics) are filmed in the city.
Some of American television shows and movies are filmed in Vancouver, Toronto and Montreal.
Win for the Obamas. They will do the Superbowl interview on Sunday.
In the month of January, the U.S. job market added 151,000 jobs, bringing the unemployment rate to 4.9% for the first time since February 2008 before the recession hit.
President Barack Obama has brought the economy back to the normal and yet he gets no credit from his Republican and conservative opposition. Of course, the ridiculous talking point of XX million Americans not working will once again come up in discussion.
They ignored the obvious factors to why such factors exist. They can't figure out that for ever 35 seconds there's birth and death. For every 50 seconds there's a person either getting hired, quitting their job or getting fired from a job. There's a lot of students attending full time college and high school. Some people declare their retirement. Some people were arrested for criminal acts.
It's a part of life that some conservatives fail to realize. That if 1/3 of the United States isn't working, how come the job rate is so freaking low. That means over 95% of Americans are actively working or in the search of finding jobs.
Jobs aplenty.
U.S. employment gains slowed more than expected in January as the boost to hiring from unseasonably mild weather faded, but surging wages and an unemployment rate at an eight-year low suggested the labor market recovery remains firm.
Data for November and December was revised to show 2,000 fewer jobs created than previously reported. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast employment increasing by 190,000 and the jobless rate steady at 5 percent.
Also taking the sting from the softer payrolls number, employers increased hours for workers. Manufacturing, which has been undermined by a strong dollar and weak global demand, added the most jobs since August 2013.
The sharp step-down in job gains from the fourth quarter's brisk clip largely reflected payback after the warmest temperatures in years bolstered hiring in weather-sensitive sectors like construction. January employment also lost the lift from the hiring of couriers and messengers, which was buoyed in November and December by strong online holiday sales.
But coming in the wake of an abrupt slowdown in economic growth in the fourth quarter and a sharp stock market sell-off, the closely watched employment report could add to concerns the U.S. economic outlook was deteriorating.
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen has said the economy needs to create just under 100,000 jobs a month to keep up with growth in the working age population.
Against the backdrop of tightening financial market conditions, the deceleration in employment growth could further undercut the case for a Fed interest rate hike in March. The U.S. central bank raised its short-term interest rate in December for the first time in nearly a decade.
The president delivers his last State of the Union. As he goes in, the unemployment rate is at 5%.
The jobs report for the month of December released some good news for the economy. The unemployment rate remains unchanged at 5%.
Looks like the economy is back on the right track despite the noise being churned by agitators in the conservative media saying that 1/3 of the United States not working.
94.3 million are not working. Of course, if you do the math, you actually would say that less than 10 million aren't working.
Because death happens everyday. Births happen everyday. Someone is incarcerated in the iron college. Someone just quit their job. Someone just got fired from their job. Someone retired from their job. Someone was just laid off from their job. Someone is going to school full time. Someone is attending high school. Someone is attending college. Someone is often homeless. Someone is disabled. Someone has given up on their job. Someone has changed majors. Someone got promoted.
And this is never mentioned by the agitators in the junk food media. Because it would be simple to tell half-truths instead of the actual truth.
President Barack Obama's policies are working.
Conservatives have often bitched about the unemployment numbers being fudged.
Inept leaders Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY). The House Speaker and Senate Majority Leader have pass a resolution to eliminate Obamacare. It will be vetoed by President Barack Obama.
The labor market ended 2015 on a roll as employers added a blockbuster 292,000 jobs last month, underscoring that the U.S. economy remains on solid footing despite weakness in China and this week’s brutal market selloff.
The unemployment rate was unchanged at 5%, the Labor Department said Friday.
Economists surveyed by Bloomberg expected 200,000 job gains, according to their median forecast.
Businesses added 275,000 jobs, led by professional and business services, healthcare and construction.. Federal, state and local governments added 17,000. In another positive sign, job gains for October and November were revised up by a total 50,000. October’s was upgraded to 307,000 from 298,000, and November’s, to 252,000 from 211,000.
“This jobs report is pretty reassuring that the slowdown in (fourth-quarter economic growth) is not a prelude to a flattening in the economy,” says Stuart Hoffman, chief economist of PNC Financial Services Group. “GDP growth is likely to speed up” next year.
Many economists expected the December tally to be somewhat inflated by unusually warm weather that could have spurred hiring by construction firms, restaurants and retailers. Construction, in fact, added 45,000 jobs last month and 128,000 in a fourth quarter characterized by generally balmy temperatures across much of the country. And restaurants and bars added 37,000 in December.
Still, the economy gained a healthy average of 221,000 jobs a month in 2015. In 2014 ,260,000 new jobs a month were created, though that marked a 15-year high.
Economists had said a weak showing in December could signal that the global turmoil was shaking business confidence and hiring. A similar scenario appeared to play out in August and September, when payroll growth slumped before rebounding strongly the next two months. Back then, reports about China’s economic slowdown sent stocks tumbling, as they have in recent days.
Other labor-market indicators, though, have been encouraging. Payroll processor ADP estimated that businesses added a better-than-expected 257,000 jobs in December and an index of service-sector activity showed a pickup in hiring. Initial jobless claims, a reliable barometer of layoffs, hovers at prerecession levels.
At the same time, measures of manufacturing employment, online job ads and auto sales declined last month, leading some analysts to predict that job growth slowed.
The final jobs report for the year comes out and it seems like President Barack Obama is smiling all the way. The unemployment rate remains unchanged but it did net over 211,000 jobs.
U.S. job growth increased solidly in November in a show of the economy's resilience, which most likely paves the way for the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates this month for the first time in nearly a decade.
Nonfarm payrolls increased 211,000 last month, the Labor Department said on Friday. September and October data was revised to show 35,000 more jobs than previously reported.
The unemployment rate held at a 7-1/2-year low of 5 percent, even as people returned to the labor force in a sign of confidence in the jobs market. The jobless rate is in a range many Fed officials see as consistent with full employment and has dropped seven-tenths of a percentage point this year.
Federal Reserve chief Janet Yellen may raise the federal interest rate. She believe the government is healthy enough for the interest rate to increase to at least 4%.
Yellen said the economy needs to create just under 100,000 jobs a month to keep up with growth in the working age population.
The Fed's policy-setting committee will meet on Dec. 15-16. Market-based measures of Fed policy expectations assign a probability of 79.1 percent to the central bank's raising interest rates at that meeting, according to the CME Group’s FedWatch site.
The dollar extended gains against a basket of currencies, while prices for U.S. government bonds fell. U.S. stock futures extended gains.
The second month of strong job gains should allay fears the economy has hit a soft patch, after reports showing tepid consumer spending in October and a slowdown in services industry growth in November. Manufacturing contracted in November for the first time in three years.
Though wage growth slowed last month, economists say that was mostly payback for October's outsized gains, which were driven by a calendar quirk. Anecdotal evidence, as well as data on labor-related costs, suggest that tightening job market conditions are starting to put upward pressure on wages.
Average hourly earnings increased four cents, or 0.2 percent from 0.4 percent in October. That lowered the year-on-year reading to 2.3 percent from 2.5 percent in October. The average workweek, however, dipped to 34.5 hours from 34.6.
Other labor market measures that Fed officials are eyeing as they consider lifting the benchmark overnight interest rate from near zero were mixed.
The labor force participation rate, or the share of working-age Americans who are employed or at least looking for a job, rose to 62.5 percent from a near 38-year low of 62.4 percent.
But a broad measure of joblessness that includes people who want to work but have given up searching and those working part-time because they cannot find full-time employment rose one-tenth of a percentage point to 9.9 percent.
Employment gains in November were broad-based, though manufacturing shed 1,000 positions and mining lost 11,000 jobs.
Manufacturing has been crippled by a strong dollar, efforts by businesses to reduce bloated inventory and spending cuts by energy companies scaling back well drilling and exploration in response to sharply lower oil prices.
House Speaker Paul Ryan's (R-WI) first months as House Speaker have been so far "fair" to say at least.
Mining employment has declined by 123,000 since reaching a peak in December 2014. Three quarters of the job losses over this period have been in support activities for mining.
Oilfield services provider Schlumberger (SLB.N) this week announced another round of job cuts in addition to 20,000 layoffs already reported this year. The company said it expected the slowdown in drilling activity to continue in 2016.
Construction payrolls increased 46,000 last month. With 163,000 jobs added, the services sector accounted for the bulk of the increase in employment last month. Retail jobs rose 30,700 and transportation and warehousing employment rebounded after two straight months of declines.
Professional services added 27,000 jobs and government payrolls increased 14,000 last month.
Of course, the conservative agitators will not accept this good news. They keep repeating the debunked talking points that over 94.6 million people are unemployed.
And I will continue to tell you that 1/3 of the U.S. population is either in the iron college, attending high school or college, disabled, retired or dead.
Republicans have not passed any legislation to create jobs. They've shown the world that they're incapable of governing. They won power to just showboat their ignorant agenda.
Newsflash: We have mass shootings in the United States. People are dying because of gun violence everyday. Over 245,000 people have been killed by firearms. We have a large generation of retiring people. We are going through a baby boom. We are having more people quit their jobs in search of better jobs. We have people in college, high school, and vocational school. We have people on disability.
