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    Only one candidate has been able to match Donald Trump’s online interest

    Only one candidate has been able to match Donald Trump’s online interest: Deez Nuts

    By Philip Bump August 21 at 11:57 AM

    On July 26, a new candidate entered the presidential race as an independent: Deez Nuts, of Iowa.



    When he filed his paperwork, there was a brief flurry of interest in the idea of someone named Deez Nuts running for president. He's not really named "Deez Nuts," of course; he's a 15-year-old kid who is not eligible to be president under any name. But imagine seeing that ballot!

    Nuts-amania went into overdrive this week with a poll on Wednesday from Public Policy Polling that showed Nuts getting 9 percent support in North Carolina -- near the numbers he got in Minnesota and Iowa.


    The Internet, as the Internet does, went bananas.

    News organizations picked up the story; at one point, apparently, Nuts' name was trending worldwide on Twitter.


    But the stunning thing is that Nuts managed to do something that Republican candidates for president have been trying and failing to do for weeks: He got more attention than Donald Trump.


    As you might think, given that it was trending worldwide, "Deez Nuts" was mentioned about as much on Twitter as Trump on Thursday. He was mentioned more than "Clinton" on August 19 -- despite the fact that August 19 is Bill Clinton's birthday.



    And Nuts actually got as much interest on Google as Trump for hour after hour since his polling success.

    That sort of steady interest in a non-Trump hasn't really been matched, except the period during and after the first Republican debates.



    Deez Nuts will not be able to maintain this level of interest. And part of his success in generating interest is linked to a relatively quiet week from Trump: Our appetites for non-stop 2016 insanity having been whetted, we will seize upon any crazy nonsense for a fix.

    Meanwhile, the National Journal reports that a slew of other fake/novelty candidates have recently entered the race. Will they attract the support of one-in-ten North Carolinians? Will they captivate a nation?


    At this point, when Donald Trump and Deez Nuts are neck-and-neck for America's attention, you might as well assume they will.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/t...est-deez-nuts/

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    HOME / CAMPAIGN FINANCE DISCLOSURE PORTAL / CANDIDATE AND COMMITTEE VIEWER / COMMITTEE DETAILS / HTML VIEWER

    FEC FORM 2


    STATEMENT OF CANDIDACY

    FILING FEC-1018025


    1. Deez Nuts

    2248 450th Avenue
    Wallingford, IA 51365
    2. Identification Number: P60009198

    3. Party: Independent

    4. Office Sought: President

    5-6. State & District of Candidate: ____ - 0


    DESIGNATION OF PRINCIPAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE

    7. I hereby designate the following named political committee as my Principal Campaign Committee for the 2016 election(s).

    Deez Nuts for President 2016


    2248 450th Avenue
    Wallingford, IA 51365


    DESIGNATION OF OTHER AUTHORIZED COMMITTEES

    8. I hereby designate the following named committee, which is NOT my principal campaign committee, to receive and expend funds on behalf of my candidacy.



    DECLARATION OF INTENT TO EXPEND PERSONAL FUNDS (House or Senate Only)

    9. I intend to expend personal funds exceeding the threshold amount (see 11 C.F.R. 400.9) by

    9A. 0.00 for the primary election, and
    9B. 0.00 for the general election

    Signed as: Deez Nuts
    Signed by the candidate on: 07/26/2015


    Filed: 07/26/2015

    (End FEC FORM 2)


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    Demo-cat candidate:

    For Limberbutt McCubbins, 'The Time Is Meow' To Run For President

    JULY 08, 201511:09 AM ET
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    Candidate Limberbutt McCubbins is not the first non-human to become a presidential candidate. Others include a pig named Pigasus the Immortal in 1968 and Molly the Dog in 2008.

    Courtesy Emilee McCubbins


    Former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore is the latest candidate to enter the 2016 presidential race — he told the Richmond Times-Dispatch Tuesday that he plans to make a formal announcement in August.

    That could bring the number of major presidential candidates to a whopping 22 by the end of the summer. But, as we've reported, there are hundredsof other candidates who have filled out the Federal Election Commission's one-page "Statement of Candidacy" form. Some are serious, some do it as a joke and others, it turns out, are not even human.


    Member station WFPL brings us this story of a feline contender:


    The first thing people noticed was the name.


    A Louisville resident named Limberbutt McCubbins had apparently filed to run for president, gaining attention in recent months from a campaign watchdog and, most recently, The Rachel Maddow Show.


    It's not entirely clear whether everyone realized that Limberbutt McCubbins is a cat.


    In an interview, Isaac Weiss, 17, a rising senior at duPont Manual High School in Louisville, said he thought it would be funny to enlist his friend's cat to run for president. The presidential candidate belongs to 18-year-old Emilee McCubbins, who is also a rising senior at Manual.

    So Weiss logged on to the Federal Election Commission's website this spring and created "The Committee for the Installation of Limberbutt."

    According to Federal Election Commission filings
    , Limberbutt is a Democrat. Or as Weiss puts it, a "demo-cat."


    Weiss and Emilee McCubbins say they have already gotten letters about Limberbutt's candidacy—some going as far as to ask for proof of the cat's citizenship. Other letters are seeking information about possible volunteer opportunities to help get McCubbins in the White House.


    "I got a letter in the mail from a lawyer wanting to represent him," McCubbins said. "I've gotten numerous emails."


    Weiss added: "It does not appear that they know that he is indeed a cat."


    Candidate McCubbins is not the first non-human to become a presidential candidate. Others include a pig named Pigasus the Immortal in 1968 and Molly the Dog in 2008.


    Anyone can start a committee to explore running for president, but actually getting on the ballot requires fundraising, an FEC spokesman said. It doesn't break FEC rules, per se, for a committee to be launched for a cat, the spokesman added.


    Weiss said he and his friends started this process — which already includes a Facebook page ("The time is meow, watch out Hillary!" declares one post) and campaign swag — mostly as a joke.


    "We often joked around that Limberbutt would make a great president," Weiss said of the 5-year-old cat.

    He said what stood out to him was that it was even possible to register a cat with the FEC.


    "Anyone can easily run for president, which is why if you go to the FEC website you'll see over 200 people listed—including Limberbutt," Weiss said.

    http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpo...-for-president

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    So where does Deez Nuts stand on the issues? He supports deportation of undocumented immigrants without a path to citizenship,

    How a 15-Year-Old Iowa Farm Boy Is Pranking the Presidential Race


    @ http://www.alipac.us/f9/%91deez-nuts...nt-n-c-322313/
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    Quote Originally Posted by JohnDoe2 View Post
    So where does Deez Nuts stand on the issues? He supports deportation of undocumented immigrants without a path to citizenship,

    How a 15-Year-Old Iowa Farm Boy Is Pranking the Presidential Race


    @ http://www.alipac.us/f9/%91deez-nuts...nt-n-c-322313/
    So when he's disqualified his 9% will probably go to Donald J Trump.
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    Deez Nuts Endorses Bernie Sanders And John Kasich For Presidential Nomination

    He says Sanders "almost completely agrees on me with social issues and even some on fiscal issues."

    Sam Levine Associate Politics Editor

    Posted: 08/22/2015 04:19 PM EDT

    Deez Nuts, the 15-year-old presidential candidate who has attracted national attention after polling better than some Republicans seeking the White House, tried to exercise some political muscle on Saturday, endorsing Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) in the Democratic presidential primary and Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) in the Republican presidential primary.

    Deez Nuts told In These Times that he endorsed Sanders because "he almost completely agrees on me with social issues and even some on fiscal issues.”


    Deez Nuts, whose real name is Brady Olson, clarified that he was endorsing himself in the general election. He cannot constitutionally be president because he is too young but in a recent Public Policy poll, Deez Nuts polled better than several Republican presidential candidates.


    No word yet on who will get the endorsement of Sydneys Voluptuous Buttocks, another presidential candidate.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...b0a40aa3ab2f35

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    Well, the kid is right on the social issues part. If Trump wants to win the general, he'll have to deal with young voters and women voters. Americans overall are pretty sick and tired of other Americans trying to force them into childbirth against their will or marrying someone they can't stand to have sex with. I will never understand why the Republican Party wanted to stoop to that level and truly hope Trump can find a way to secure the Republican nomination without having to do so.
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    Not Just 'Deez Nuts': 15 Unpresidential Candidates

    From 'Mary Jane' to 'Buddy the Cat' to 'Dank Ass Kaptain Kush,' here are America's unlikeliest 2016 candidates

    BY TIM DICKINSON August 24, 2015

    "Jeffrey Dahmer" of Maryland has filed an FEC form to run for president. David Gould/Getty

    Last week, a 15-year-old Iowa prankster took the political world by storm after he filed to run for president under the name Deez Nuts – only to wind up polling at 9 percent in North Carolina.
    SIDEBAR



    'Deez Nuts,' the Teen Presidential Candidate Punking America »A survey of filings at the Federal Election Commission suggests Mr. Nuts is not alone. What follows are actual Statement of Candidacy filings from presidential pretenders we're (almost) certain are giving America the business.

    1. Dat Ass (Independent-New York)


    2. Sidneys Voluptuous Buttocks (Independent-New York)


    3. Sir TrippyCup aka Young Trippz aka The GOAT aka The Prophet
    aka Earl
    (Federalist-Wisconsin)


    4. Underage Candidate (unaffiliated-California)


    5. Buddy the Cat (Democrat-Arizona)


    6. Captain Crunch (Independent-California)


    7. Jeffrey Dahmer (Independence Party-Maryland)


    8. Mary Jane (Libertarian-Tennessee)


    9. Dank Ass Kaptain Kush (Independent-U.S. Virgin Islands)


    10. H. Majesty Satan Lord of Underworld Prince of Darkness
    (Republican-Texas)


    11. Ronald Reagan's Ghost (Independent-Minnesota)


    12. Slim Sack Shady (American Party-California)


    13. Jack Sparrow (Independent-Oregon)


    14. Not Sure (Socialist-West Virginia)


    15. Francis J. Underwood (Democrat-D.C.)


    Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics...#ixzz3jmwugFaN

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    Move over Deez Nuts, Bailey D. Dog is making ‘Forward Pawgress’ in the presidential run

    BY KORI RUMORE, CHICAGO TRIBUNE AND JONATHON BERLIN, CHICAGO TRIBUNE AT 01:08 PM ON AUG 27, 2015

    Credit: John Konstantaras/Chicago Tribune/TNS

    Running for president is so easy, even a dog can do it.

    Or at least the dog’s name can appear on the Federal Election Commission’s list of nearly 800 potential candidates for president.


    Candidate ID P60009883, also known as Bailey D. Dog, is a black Labrador who lives with the Rubin family of northwest suburban Long Grove. He was thrust into politics by Jacob Rubin, 14, and his brother, Jonathan, 12.


    “We had no idea what our sons were up to,” their mother, Judy, says.

    “We (she and her husband, Bob) were in Florida, and our sons were having these random conversations about Bailey running for president.”


    RELATED: Josh Groban singing Donald Trump’s tweets make them even more hilarious


    To introduce Bailey into presidential politics, the Rubin brothers filled out a Form 2, a “statement of candidacy,” which is required for presidential candidates within 15 days of raising or spending more than $5,000. Filling out the form starts a process in which the FEC can track a campaign’s money. However, a candidate need not spend or raise a penny, or even be serious about running for office. The form is online, and the FEC is required to check it and publish the results no matter who fills it out or his or her intentions. (Getting on ballots is a different matter, and the process varies by state.)


    A burst of candidates, some quite nontraditional, has the FEC processing significantly more of these forms than any presidential race in the last 40 years, a duty that can distract from the group’s primary job of tracking campaign funds.


    A candidate’s eligibility to run for office is irrelevant to the FEC. “The agency has no authority and makes no judgment on a individual’s qualifications or eligibility to run for office or obtain ballot access,” says Christian Hilland, FEC deputy press officer, in an email.


    When the Tribune noticed that a local dog was on the FEC’s list, it reached out to Jacob Rubin, a freshman at Stevenson High School.


    RELATED: Republican debate: Donald Trump’s 7 best, wackiest moments


    “Bailey is a black Labrador retriever who was born and rescued in Indiana,” Jacob says in an email. “His exact age is unknown, but he is estimated to be between 4-5 years old in human years, which would make him about 35 in dog years, thus making him eligible to run for president.”


    Eligible if he were a human being. The Constitution requires the president to be both a “person” and a “citizen.”


    Jacob says the process of registering a presidential candidate was simple.


    “To file, you just need to either mail a statement of candidacy to the FEC, or you can file online,” Jacob says.


    RELATED: The 2016 presidential candidates and their ‘Game of Thrones’ counterparts


    Plenty of other names on the FEC’s list are mock candidates. There’s “Tom Brady’s Sketch,” a reference to an unattractive courtroom drawing of the NFL quarterback that went viral recently. There’s also a cat from Arizona.


    The ease with which people can add names to the FEC list was highlighted when an Iowa teen submitted “Deez Nuts” as a candidate, and a pollster included that name in a survey. “Deez Nuts” attracted 9 percent support in North Carolina, trailing Donald Trump (40 percent) and Hillary Clinton (38 percent).


    The number of candidates on the FEC list — 768 as of Aug. 23 — easily eclipses the 419 in 2012 and the 366 in 2008 With more filings on its plate compared to last election, and the media onslaught of the fake candidates, the FEC has its hands full.


    “We’ve always had protest candidates of various sorts,” says Timothy Hagle, a political science professor at the University of Iowa. “It seems pretty obvious that things can spread pretty quickly via social media.”


    RELATED: Presidential candidate Deez Nuts is a 15-year-old, and people say they’ll vote for him


    “That the number of these ‘mock’ candidates has grown is not surprising given the nature of this particular election,” says Meredith McGehee, policy director at the Washington-based Campaign Legal Center. “First, there is no incumbent running. Second, the leading Democrat is a woman. Third, the leading candidate for the Republicans is an outspoken businessman who is shocking the political world. Fourth, this election will likely solidify a generational change in political leadership that started with [President Barack] Obama.”


    Another new element this time around: Bailey D. Dog.


    “I was inspired to register Bailey after reading an article about all the wacky presidential candidates that are running,” Jacob Rubin says.


    Bailey has taken stands on the issues, Jacob says.


    RELATED: ‘Bad Lip Reating’ takes on first Republican Debate — Chris Christie loves potatoes


    “Bailey does like socializing with both animals and humans, eating gourmet cheese, barking at trucks, taking walks and playing tug of war,” he says. “The only two things Bailey greatly dislikes is swimming (he is very afraid of the water) and postmen.”


    The Long Grove canine can be described as a democratic socialist, Jacob says.


    “Bailey supports helping the homeless, as he was once a homeless dog, doesn’t believe in the death penalty, as when he was rescued from a high-kill shelter, he was just days from his planned euthanasia.”


    The dog’s campaign website features his slogan: Forward Pawgress.

    http://zap2it.com/2015/08/bailey-d-d...ial-candidate/

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