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    1 man's $100 million bet on GOP?

    1 man's $100 million bet on GOP?

    July 20th, 2014
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    The ‘Inside Politics’ Forecast: Adelson’s $100 million dollar bet?

    CNN's John King and other top political reporters empty out their notebooks each Sunday on "Inside Politics" to reveal five things that will be in the headlines in the days, weeks and months ahead.

    WASHINGTON (CNN) - Big 2014 midterm races and calculations, and a 2016 wrinkle or two, filled a trip around our Inside Politics table to close this Sunday's program.


    1. A GOP mega-donor mulls a big 2014 play

    If you had a big, high-stakes project, think an extra $1 million a day might help?

    Well, leading GOP sources focused on 2014 Senate races say such a boost is being contemplated by GOP megadonor Sheledon Adelson, the Las Vegas casino mogul.


    Adelson has spent some time of late studying the map, and receiving briefings on state-by-state strategy and candidates. And he is promising to help Republicans target a dozen seats now held by Democrats, with the ultimate goal of picking up at least six - and the Senate majority. The GOP also is defending seats in Georgia and Kentucky.


    So watch in the days and weeks ahead to see how much of a Senate play Adelson is prepared to make. One of the sources involved said it could be as much as $100 million. With 107 days to the election from Sunday, that would be an eye-popping bet.


    2. Not your father's Chamber of Commerce

    The Chamber of Commerce is already a big player in the 2014 battle, and CNN’s Peter Hamby discussed his in-depth reporting on just how much of a boost the business group's work has been for Republicans.

    This aggressive political play outside of the capital is a big shift for the Chamber, and a huge factor in the establishment vs. tea party tug-of-war playing out in the GOP.


    “The Chamber of Commerce has really moved away from being just a lobbying organization in DC to being one of the more preeminent political players in campaigns– rivaling American Crossroads,” said Hamby. “So that’s a big deal in American politics.”


    3. Exhibit A: the Georgia Senate GOP runoff

    Molly Ball of The Atlantic teed up a textbook example of the Chamber's 2014 strategy: next week's GOP Senate runoff in Georgia.

    The Chamber backs GOP Rep. Jack Kingston over businessman David Purdue.

    It was Purdue who won the most votes in the first round, with Kingston second. But the runoff is needed because neither cracked 50 percent, and Molly reports the Chamber is confident its investment in Kingston will bear fruit Tuesday.


    “Although Perdue came in first in the first round, Kingston looks like he is up in the runoff,” said Ball. “If he does win the runoff, it will be another victory for the Chamber of Commerce, which has backed Kingston very aggressively.”


    The Chamber of Commerce pushing for Kingston on Twitter this week:


    4. Gillespie disappoints some GOP watchers

    GOP leaders cheered when veteran operative Ed Gillespie jumped into the Virginia Senate race, believing it would give them a chance, albeit a long shot, to defeat Democratic Sen. Mark Warner. Even a competitive race forces Democrats to spread precious resources into the state.

    Gillespie's decision was welcomed because of his deep resume: longtime Capitol Hill aide, former Republican National Committee chairman, former top Bush White House adviser, former top Mitt Romney adviser. Add all that up, and the thinking was: smarty guy, with a deeper than deep fund-raising reservoir.


    Now there's no GOP panic in Virginia, but Politico's Maggie Haberman shared behind-the-scenes reporting on a development that surprised, and disappointed, some GOPers closely watching the race.


    “Ed Gillespie, who is running for Senate in Virginia, has been a pretty effective fundraiser but he was outraised by Scott Brown,” said Haberman.


    “He has good cash on hand, but the fact that he got $1.9 million and Scott Brown got $2.34, $2.35 million was not lost on some folks.”


    Ed Gillespie’s tweet from this month wishing one of his very famous former bosses a happy birthday:


    5. Yes, Virginia you ARE a quadrennial battleground now

    Jonathan Martin of The New York Times reminded us once reliably red Virginia is now a presidential battleground - and the 2014 cycle offers a chance for presidential prospects to test the waters, and make some important friends.

    President Obama carried the state in 2008 and 2012, and it’s hard to map out a GOP White House win without Virginia.


    So Jonathan reports that Sen. Rand Paul is looking to deepen his ties in the state.


    "On Tuesday, Rand Paul is going to be in Arlington, sitting down with two candidates who ran in Virginia last year—Pete Snyder and Ken Cuccinelli,” said Martin.


    And Jonathan also tells us, the aforementioned Ed Gillespie is soon to get some help from another 2016 prospect: Indiana Republican Gov. Mike Pence.

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    If that does not motivate every and all unemployed and under-employed Americans to vote against all Senate republicans, I do not know what it will take to restore common sense!

    Adelson is the A in A to Z wanting illegals for employees instead of Americans, that is his bet, that republicans will give him illegals instead of Americans. I hope that ALIPAC will not endorse Republicans for Senate now! If we do, we just cut fellow Americans throats, literally!

    We need some write-in candidates that we trust!

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    Write-in candidates rarely win, and votes are often cast for ineligible people or fictional characters. Some jurisdictions require write-in candidates be registered as official candidates before the election.[1]

    This is standard in elections with a large pool of potential candidates, as there may be multiple candidates with the same name that could be written in.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write-in_candidate


    Write-in candidate

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


    A write-in candidate is a candidate in an election whose name does not appear on the ballot, but for whom voters may vote nonetheless by writing in the person's name. The system is almost totally confined to elections in the United States. Some U.S. states and local jurisdictions allow a voter to affix a sticker with a write-in candidate's name on it to the ballot in lieu of actually writing in the candidate's name. Write-in candidacies are sometimes a result of a candidate being legally or procedurally ineligible to run under his or her own name or party; Write-in candidacies may be permitted where term limits bar an incumbent candidate from being officially nominated for, or being listed on the ballot for, re-election. In some cases, write-in campaigns have been organized to support a candidate who is not personally involved in running; this may be a form of draft campaign.


    Write-in candidates rarely win, and votes are often cast for ineligible people or fictional characters. Some jurisdictions require write-in candidates be registered as official candidates before the election.[1] This is standard in elections with a large pool of potential candidates, as there may be multiple candidates with the same name that could be written in.


    Many U.S. states and municipalities allow for write-in votes in a partisan primary election where no candidate is listed on the ballot to have the same functional effect as nominating petitions: for example, if there are no Reform Party members on the ballot for state general assembly and a candidate receives more than 200 write-in votes when the primary election is held (or the other number of signatures that were required for ballot access), the candidate will be placed on the ballot on that ballot line for the general election. In most places, this provision is in place for non-partisan elections as well.

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    United States[edit]

    Generally, write-in candidates can compete in any election within the United States. In 2010, California voters passed Proposition 14 which set up a new election system for the United States Senate, United States House of Representatives, all statewide offices (governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, state treasurer, state controller, attorney general, insurance commissioner, and superintendent of public instruction), California Board of Equalization, and for the California State Legislature. In the system set up by Proposition 14, there are two rounds of voting, and the top two vote-getters for each race in the first round face advance to a second round. Proposition 14 specifically prohibits write-in candidates in the second round, and this prohibition was upheld in a court challenge.[2]

    Typically, write-in candidates have a very small chance of winning.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write-in_candidate
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    17 December 2012

    . . . Adelson
    , who contributed $20 million to Mitt Romney’s super PAC "Restore Our Future," $15 million to Newt Gingrich’s super PAC – which for all intents and purposes kept the disgraced former House Speaker in the presidential primary race and handed the nomination to Romney -- and about $50 million to nonprofit Republican fronts such as Rove’s Crossroads GPS. . .

    Adelson also claimed that he was "basically a social liberal," and that his views differed sharply from the Republican Party on a number of issues:

    "Number one, I’m supporting stem-cell research." As exemplified by the new Adelson medical research foundation that is funding some stem-cell based science.

    "I’m pro choice," he pointed out. . .

    On immigration: "I’m pro-Dream Act . . .
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    GOP donors question million dollar loss

    NBCNews.com - ‎29 minutes ago‎
    NewsNation | Aired on November 08, 2012.

    Politico reports that Republican strategist Karl Rove is calling top donors to explain their nearly $400 million lost Tuesday night.


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    Hey, JOHNDOE2, again thanks for more information than I had. I see no way of sending a message of dissatisfaction to these in congress, that is a shame again upon America. They surely deserve a no-confidence vote! HST would have minced no words telling them about themselves! This President would not win a vote of confidence, so he has'nt any gripe coming.

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