http://abcnews.go.com/ Politics/ted-cruz-facing- controversy-iowa-voter- violation-mailers/story?id= 36631257
http://www.politico.com/story/ 2016/02/ben-carson-ted-cruz- cheating-iowa-218615
PS - This dude just earned Mexican citizenship with one tomato:http://www.politico.com/story/
- Teddy has been a naughty boy!
- I find this sadly ironic since Iowa is a barometer of Evangelical voting, and they supposedly like Cruz for being "more Christian" than Trump or others (definitely more than that Catholic turncoat Jeb!)
- So yeah, it's really Christian of Ted to cheat his way to victory, or at least condone unclassy (if not outright unethical) actions
- An interesting history of extremists in the GOP: http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/
R201602030900 - I am not sure which states Trump is looking stronger in (seems like the Northeast + non-TX/FL deep South?) vs. Cruz/Rubio, but of course the pre-Iowa polls have Trump ahead in all of the early states:
- http://www.realclearpolitics.
com/epolls/2016/president/ early_primary_state_polls.html - http://www.nytimes.com/
interactive/2016/02/02/us/ cruz-trump-rubio-nomination- paths.html?_r=0 - Not that I am a Trump fan, but sadly I think he would be less scary for the country/world than a Pres. Cruz
- Fortunately Cruz is not that electable in a general election (a TP extremist, and you see how few mainstream endorsements he's getting), yet Rubio is, so maybe we should be more concerned about Marco beating Clinton/Sanders?
- Not that I'm so fired up about a Clinton presidency either
http://www.lamebook.com/
Interestingly, the scope for the sorts of federal electoral crimes that a candidate can be accused of is really narrow. Take a look at the FBI page on what it considers to be electoral crimes. Essentially, there are only three things that they'd actually consider criminal:
- Illegal donations and financing
- Voting by an unqualified voter or abetting such voting
- Preventing a qualified voter from voting
Everything
else is pretty much fair game. (Obviously, there are state laws, but,
since the Iowa caucuses are for a federal office, the FBI would have
precedence in this case.)
Noteworthy also is the list of things that they explicitly identify as not being illegal (highlighting added):
What is NOT a federal election crime:
- Giving voters a ride to the polls;
- Offering voters a stamp to mail an absentee ballot;
- Giving voters time off to vote;
- Violating state campaign finance laws;
- Distributing inaccurate campaign literature;
- Campaigning too close to the polls;
- Trying to convince an opponent to withdraw from a race.
This is extremely sleazy behavior, and yet, when I heard about it, my first reaction was, "Yeah, that sounds like Ted Cruz."
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