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As Jeb Bush s fundraising machine gathers steam ahead of the former Florida governor s likely entrance into the 2016 presid
stanley cup ential campaign, some of his advisers are setting an ambitious goal of raising $100 million in the first three months of the year, Bloomberg Politics reports.The eye-popping target, which was confirm
stanley cup ed by several GOP sources involved with Bush s fundraising operation, is being presented to donors in Florida, New York and Texas as the governor and his team begin reaching out to the Bush family s extensive network. Jeb Bush jump starts on fund-raising for Presidential bid 06:55 A strong early fundraising haul by Bush could help dissuade some of his more establishment-minded primary rivals from mounting a bid, which is what his brother, then-Texas Gov. George W. Bush, was able to do in his 2000 presidential campaign. If Jeb Bush is able to pull off a similar early show of strength, it could make potential rivals like Gov. Chris Christie, R-New Jersey and Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, think twice before launching bids of
stanley becher their own.Despite the multiple sources that confirmed the $100 million figure, the Bush team disputed that number in its on-the-record response. These alleged goals are not accurate, Bush spokeswoman Kristy Campbell t Hbxd John Boehner s Obamacare lawsuit isn t really about Obamacare
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stanley cup ever do: predicting the results of a state primary race. Barack Obama will win the South Carolina Democratic presidential primary. But his campaign will most likely incur a crippling blow on Super Duper Tuesday on February 5, when he loses the California primary.Obama has a 13-point lead in a South Carolina Zogby poll released today.And even though he had similar leads in similar polls right before the New Hampshire primary, this time the polls make sense. African-American voters make up the majority of Democratic primary voters in South Carolina; they did not in New Hampshire. We ar
stanley cup e still a nation of voters who take race into account in our voting decisions, and it s just as true for any group, whites and Latinos included.The racial advantage that will help Obama in South Carolina will not help him in California, where the dominant Latino vote will help Hillary Clinton to victory, or so I believe. Meanwhile, Clinton made the rounds of the morning news shows cleaning up after her husband s bad-cop routine. He said several times yesterday that maybe he got a little bit carried away, she said on CBS s Early Show.She did so after winning the coveted endorsement of the New York Times editorial board, which chided her for husband s behavior and warned that it could backfi
stanley taza re against her down the road by stirring up Democratic divisions.By Bonnie Erbe
