Who needs exit polls when you can track caucusgoers’ phones?
That’s what one company did. Dstillery, which has been called “Picasso in the dark art of digital advertising,” turned its intelligence-collection capabilities to the Iowa caucuses last week.
The company used location data to identify more than 16,000 devices at caucus locations across the state.
“We can take a population in a discrete location — in this case a polling, a caucus site — and sample that population and go and then look at characteristics of that population that no one’s been able to discern before, because we have this incredibly rich behavioral view of American consumers based on all the digital behaviors we observe,” Dstillery CEO Tom Phillips said in an interview.
The results are interesting, if scientifically inexact. The company could not tell how individual caucusgoers came down by candidate but could determine, in counties decisively won by certain candidates, the dominant online behaviors of attendees. (Read more from “This Was Just Revealed About Iowa Caucus Goers’ Phones – They’re Not Going to Like It” HERE)
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By Julia Hahn. On today’s program of Breitbart News Daily, Donald Trump’s Senior Policy Adviser, Stephen Miller, shared his never-before publicly discussed insights into Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)79%’s duplicitous conduct during his push to get the Gang of Eight bill through the Senate . . .
For the first time ever, Stephen Miller explained exactly what Rubio did to Chris Crane and how he had deceived the nation’s ICE officers.
During the Gang of Eight press conference to introduce the bill, Crane had attempted to ask a question. Miller explains that Rubio watched as Chuck Schumer repeatedly refused to allow Crane to ask his question, and Rubio eventually oversaw Crane being removed from the press conference by Capitol Hill security. Miller said that Rubio:
… refused to meet with ICE officers throughout the process [of crafting the bill], even as he was meeting with open border special interests. At the very end, he [Rubio] had an optics-only meeting with [Chris Crane] the representative for ICE officers, in which he made a series of promises, every single one of which he broke and violated directly … When that same ICE officer and Marine went to a press conference to ask a question, Rubio — through his silence — was complicit in Schumer blocking [Crane] from asking a question and allowing him to suffer the indignity of being forced out of a press conference room — a man who had served his country in uniform, as a U.S. Marine — all to spare Rubio from the discomfort of being publicly questioned about why he had broken his promises.
Rubio saw them [Capitol Hill security] take Chris Crane and remove him from the room and said nothing. When he [Rubio] had a chance to show an iota of independence, one scrap of independence from Chuck Schumer, and side with an American Marine and ICE officer — Rubio chose to stand shoulder-to-shoulder, hand-in-hand, arm-in-arm with Chuck Schumer, as an American Marine was forced to suffer the indignity of being removed from Marco Rubio’s Gang of Eight press conference. That’s the story I want to tell today.
(Read more from “Senior Senate Staffer Reveals the Marco Rubio Story You’ve Never Heard” HERE)
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Rubio Contradicts Himself – Repeatedly
By Andrew Kaczynski and Christopher Massie. During the GOP debate on Saturday, Rubio repeated the same line FOUR times: Barack Obama knows what he’s doing.
Rubio was asked if he was too inexperienced — and attacked by others with the comparison that Obama was a one-term senator . . .
But Rubio’s line used to be different! It used to be that Obama has no idea what he’s doing.
“This is a choice between a guy that has no idea what he’s doing, and a guy that does,” Rubio said of Obama during the 2012 election, contrasting him with Obama.
On his Facebook, Rubio shared the same sentiment looking to a video of the comments at the time saying, “This isn’t a choice between two bad guys or one bad guy and one good guy, this is a choice between a guy that has no idea what he’s doing, and a guy that does.” (Read more from “Rubio Contradicts Himself – Repeatedly” HERE)
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By Jennifer Jacobs. Keane Schwarz is certain he knows the outcome of the vote in his precinct: He was the lone caucusgoer in Woodbury County No. 43.
But the Iowa Democratic Party’s final results state that Hillary Clinton won one county delegate and Bernie Sanders received zero.
“I voted for Bernie,” Schwarz, 36, of Oto, told The Des Moines Register. “It was really suspicious … I’m actually pretty irate about it.”
Some complaints that Iowa Democrats have shared with the Register about discrepancies in caucus results appear to be valid. Others stem from confusion over how the math-heavy delegate-awarding system works in the Democrats’ caucus process . . .
Sanders’ backers are more likely than Clinton’s to think the political system is rigged, polling has found. So it might not come as a surprise, especially since he lost by a hairsbreadth, that some think the Democratic caucus system is rigged. It also doesn’t help the optics that the state party chairwoman drove around for years in a car with “HRC2016” license plates. (Read more from “Iowans Claim Instances When Sanders Was Shorted Delegates” HERE)
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Female Sanders Backers Slam ‘Insulting’ Clinton Supporters Who Say They’re Betraying Their Gender
By Hunter Walker. Many women who showed up at a presidential campaign rally for Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., at Great Bay Community College on Sunday said they were insulted and “offended” by supporters of Hillary Clinton who have suggested it is somehow anti-feminist to back Sanders instead of Clinton’s quest to become the first female president.
Jane Sanders, the senator’s wife, had a succinct response when Yahoo News asked her opinion of those who suggest it’s sexist to support Sanders instead of Clinton . . .
Cokie Giles, a registered nurse from Bangor, Maine, who traveled to neighboring New Hampshire for the rally, said she does not appreciate being “herded along just because I’m a woman.”
“Well, I don’t want to think that I have to vote for a woman, being a woman, because there’s a woman running. They have to be who I would look at as … my best choice,” Giles said. “I’m not trashing Hillary. I’m just saying Bernie is the better of the choices. And I will get a chance to vote for a female president. I would like to see a female president, and there’s plenty out there that I would be very happy to do.” (Read more from “Female Sanders Backers Slam ‘Insulting’ Clinton Supporters Who Say They’re Betraying Their Gender” HERE)
In 2009, Marco Rubio was a plucky challenger for the open Senate seat in Florida, taking on incumbent Republican Gov. Charlie Crist. Though Rubio was trailing in the polls, one leading conservative activist thought he had real potential and vowed to help him.
“When Marco Rubio ran for the Senate in Florida, I think I was the first one to endorse him,” said Phyllis Schlafly. “I made a trip down to Florida in 2009 just for the purpose of helping him.”
But Schlafly, a legendary conservative activist, author and WND columnist, now says she is bitterly disappointed by Rubio’s record.
“Once he got elected, he betrayed us all,” she told WND. “He said he was against amnesty and against the establishment. And once he got in, right away, he became an agent of the establishment. And now, of course, he’s big for amnesty and letting all the illegal immigrants in. He betrayed us a number of times on that issue” . . .
“He’s a lackey for the establishment now,” she said. “There’s no question they’re picking up as Plan B – or maybe Plan C in this election cycle, or whatever we’re on now – but he certainly is an establishment agent.” (Read more from “Conservative Icon Goes off on Rubio, Reveals Something Huge” HERE)
By Cheryl Chumley. Donald Trump and his campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, have been told via lawyer letter to stop making “false and defamatory” statements about Republican strategist Cheri Jacobus, or face the legal consequences.
Politico, which obtained the letter, reported attorney Bruce Barket of Barket, Marion, Epstein & Kearon in New York, said Lewandowski and Trump have falsely painted Jacobus in public statements as holding a grudge against the billionaire businessman because of her supposed failed try to obtain a job on his campaign.
Barket said it was actually one of Trump’s staffers who contacted Jacobus and asked if she was interested in working on the campaign, Politico reported.
His letter states, in part: “By impugning Ms. Jacobus’ status as an objective and serious political commentator, your live-television statements to Morning Joe and follow-up ‘Tweets’ were per se defamatory because they painted her as petty and biased in a profession permitting neither. Any violation of this cease-and-desist demand will be treated in Court accordingly.”
Jacobus gave Politico screenshots of a May 2015 Facebook messaging chat with Jim Dornan, a Republican strategist who at the time was working for Trump, that read: “Would you consider working for us? We need a top notch communications director.” (Read more from “Trump Is Being Threatened With This Major Lawsuit” HERE)
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Trump’s Unwelcome Support: White Supremacists
By Scott Bronstein and Drew Griffin. New Hampshire voters may be stunned to hear the latest robocall asking for their vote; it’s from white nationalists with a simple, disturbing message.
“We don’t need Muslims. We need smart, educated, white people,” according to the male voice on the calls, which began Thursday night and urge voters in New Hampshire to vote for Donald Trump.
Three white nationalist leaders have banded together to form their own super PAC in support of Trump, even though Trump doesn’t want their support.
The American National Super PAC is funding the robocall effort, which is organized under a separate group called the American Freedom Party. (Read more from “Trump’s Unwelcome Support: White Supremacists” HERE)
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There have been plenty of eyebrow-raising endorsements of GOP presidential candidates by unexpected people (like former VP candidate Sarah Palin backing Donald Trump), and this one from former LA Gov. Bobby Jindal might be just as unexpected.
Rubio has picked up former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum’s endorsement, earned SC Sen. Tim Scott‘s support, and also has SC Rep. Trey Gowdy on his side.
Of course, Jindal campaigned for the presidency during this current cycle, but never gained any traction in the polls nationwide.
(Read more from “Bobby Jindal Just Endorsed a Candidate for President – This Is Surprising” HERE)
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By Randy DeSoto. The Iowa Democratic Party confirmed on Friday that discrepancies have been found in Monday’s Iowa caucus results.
The party informed the Des Moines Register that the final tally will be altered to account for those discrepancies.
Based on reports of questionable practices in various voting precincts, Democrat candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders refused to concede the contest to Hillary Clinton . . .
Des Moines Register calls for audit of Iowa results: "Something smells in the Democratic Party" https://t.co/9c3mzdtRwG
On Thursday, the Register’s editorial board called for a statewide audit of the precinct vote tallies in light of the report of irregularities election night. In a piece entitled Something Smells in the Democratic Party, the board called on the Iowa Democrat Party chairwoman Dr. Andy McGuire to:
Work with all the campaigns to audit results. Break silly party tradition and release the raw vote totals. Provide a list of each precinct coin flip and its outcome, as well as other information sought by the Register. Be transparent.
(Read more from “Dem Officials Just Admitted Something HUGE About Iowa That Could Be Bad for Hillary” HERE)
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Bernie Sanders Volunteered for Marxist Revolutionary Group in 1960’s
By Aaron Klein. In the 1960s, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) volunteered at a kibbutz in northern Israel as the guest of a Marxist-socialist youth movement with a revolutionary mission, it was revealed on Thursday.
For months, Israeli reporters have been searching for the name of the kibbutz on which Sanders spent several months in 1963. The presidential candidate, who has not been shy about his affinity for socialism, was reluctant to disclose much about his Jewish upbringing or his time in Israel in 1963, where he traveled with his first wife, Deborah Shiling.
Sanders’ campaign has conspicuously refused to answer inquiries about the identity of the kibbutz.
On Thursday, Jerusalem Post Intelligence and Security columnist Yossi Melman revealed that Sanders volunteered the information about the kibbutz during an interview with the reporter in 1990, while Melman was the intelligence correspondent and analyst for Israel’s Haaretz newspaper.
The 1990 interview, discovered in the Haaretz archive, cites Sanders saying that in 1963 he spent several months in Kibbutz Sha’ar Ha’amakim in northern Israel as a guest of the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement, which was affiliated with the kibbutz. (Read more from this story HERE)
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Residents of Hamtramck, Michigan – the area dubbed “Muslimville, USA,” by one newspaper after its population shifted from 90 percent Polish to mostly Muslim – complained at their most recent city council meeting the community center’s blasted calls to prayer were simply too loud . . .
“Just turn it down a little bit,” said one resident, Jeanette Powell, telling the Hamtramck Review the prayer calls start at 6 a.m. and the sound level was “overbearing.”
Another resident [Carol Marsh] said Ideal Islamic Center officials “lied” when they assured nearby residents, including those at the Hamtramck Senior Plaza apartments, the facility would not be used as a mosque . . .
Sakrul Islam, with the center, said Marsh was mistaken, that an Islamic center “covers everything,” and that if she continued to make such claims he would file a defamation lawsuit, the newspaper said. He also accused Robert Zwolak, a city council member who lives in the senior apartment complex, of fueling complaints because “he’s against Muslims,” he said, the Hamtramck Review reported.
This isn’t the first time the Muslim community’s faced such complaints. In 2015, in a story that opened with “Welcome to Muslimville, USA,” the New York Daily News cited several residents as complaining about the early morning Muslim calls to prayer. (Read more from “Tempers Flare Over Loud Islamic Prayers in ‘Muslimville, USA'” HERE)
Coercive unionism may be coming to an end in West Virginia despite threats from Democratic Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin to veto right to work legislation.
West Virginia could become the 26th right to work state in the country after the House of Delegates passed legislation on Thursday that would prevent companies from requiring union membership as a condition of employment. Delegate Gary Howell, a chief advocate for the bill, said the legislation fits into the pro-growth agenda that led Republicans to take control of the legislature in the traditionally Democratic state.
“It is good for workers in the state because we will have more jobs. We need jobs really bad here,” Howell told the Washington Free Beacon in a phone interview. “We’re going to start attracting manufacturers. Right to work is key to locating businesses.”
Not everyone in the state is as excited by the prospects of ending forced unionism. Labor groups universally opposed the legislation, as did their ally in the governor’s mansion. Tomblin pledged to veto the legislation in a Thursday release, saying that the state should focus on curbing substance abuse and spurring development key to economic recovery.
“I will veto the legislation passed today, which received bipartisan opposition but only partisan support,” he said in a statement. “I remain committed to growing West Virginia’s economy, but I do not believe right-to-work legislation is the best way to do that.” (Read more from “West Virginia on Verge of Becoming 26th Right to Work State” HERE)
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A top Senate Republican is warning that the federal Bureau of Prisons could be letting Muslim groups with terror ties vet chaplains and religious instructors, increasing the risk of indoctrination and radicalism behind bars.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, in a letter to the agency, flagged “recent revelations that the bureau enlisted an organization previously found to have ties to terrorist organizations” to screen potential Islamic chaplains.
“It is imperative that the BOP take every measure possible to ensure the safety of its personnel within federal prisons and take all reasonable measures to ensure that Islamic extremism is stopped at the gates of each prison. Currently, it is not clear whether the BOP is doing so,” Grassley wrote in the Jan. 27 letter to BOP Acting Director Thomas Kane, asking for clarification on the prisons’ vetting policies and compliance . . .
One of those organizations turned out to be the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), which was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation terror financing case in 2008. In that case, five members of the Holy Land Foundation were convicted of funneling $12 million to Hamas, which is a designated terrorist organization under U.S. law. (Read more from “Grassley Raises Concerns on Prisons Using Terror-Tied Groups to Vet Islamic Chaplains” HERE)
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