Wednesday, January 20, 2016

2305 topics in the news

These all relate to the presidential campaign.

- How Ted Cruz fixes the Goldman Sachs loan scandal. This applies to our later discussion of campaign finance rules and the Federal Election Commission - as well as the 2016 campaign.

- The two-man race theory. The Republican care may have whittled itself down to two candidates even before the first actual votes are cast. This quite the development considering that over a dozen were running at one point - and many still are, officially.

- Bernie Sanders’ radical past: How the Vermont firebrand started wearing a suit and gave up on taking over big companies. The author traces the route Sanders took from being a actual radical to radicalish.

- Rand Paul's supporters warn him not to skip next GOP debate. Paul is trying to figure out how to draw attention to himself despite polling around three percent nationally