The line about the pro-life Congressman pressuring his mistress into abortions is a reference to Scott DesJarlais (R-TN). He survived a primary challenge by 38 votes in 2014. Hopefully he'll be primaried this year, but his opponent is a rich young guy who parachuted in from California, so it's not really a great fit.

It was actually about how a wealthy school system basically re-segregated itself and ran the black schools into the ground, leading to extremely poor educational outcomes.

The establishment can outmaneuver Trump, but they can't outmaneuver a convention that's stacked with Cruz people. The delegates themselves are going to be heavily for Cruz, both because he's been organizing to that effect, and because he's naturally strong with the kind of "movement conservatives" that go to the party…

Trump fans staying home would have bad downballot consequences, but anti-Trump Republicans staying home would also have bad downballot consequences. I see no credible way for Republicans to avoid losing the white house, the Senate, and some of the House majority. At this point it's about limiting the damage and…

He also did well in suburbs in Iowa, South Carolina, Richmond, Minnesota, and parts of the South, off the top of my head. But yeah, I'm just saying he has dedicated fans, not that they form any kind of working plurality in the electorate.

As a GOP activist & volunteer I endorse this post 100%.

I'm involved in GOP politics and he has a lot of supporters in my circles. He really matches the style of suburban Republicans; he got huge margins here in Northern VA.

Man, I love it when networks try to incorporate all their shows into one ad about how great the network is.

That's like, the entire point. That she's being used as a cynical propaganda tool instead of actually fighting in the revolution.

Well it was in newspapers: http://www.richmond.com/new…

There are still a few working class white people who never bought into the GOP's small-government ideas. I don't think they were Democrats per se, but Trump may well overperform in places like Central Pennsylvania, upstate New York, the white parts of the rust belt, etc.

That's me and almost all of my real-life conservative friends. Ironic, given that I have two fasces on my avatar…

Absolutely a good portion of the GOP base is racist morons, and most GOP operatives know that.

Gary Johnson could triple his 2012 performance.

Does anyone else think KJ Apa looks like a younger Lee Pace?

That's a fair point, it certainly has been a "never say never" kind of cycle. So yeah, don't panic but don't get complacent either.

1) General election polls that predict a head to head matchup are useless; favorability ratings by contrast are a good measure of whether someone is liked or not. Hillary's have gone up and down and are currently pretty bad, but Trump's have always been abysmal. There's a difference in being down 10 this month and…

3 factors will doom Trump in the general election

She used her heat vision to trigger the sprinklers, then froze that water to create an ice wall, which shielded everyone from the blasts/shrapnel.

If a former active duty military officer is a "chickenhawk," than the term has lost all meaning.