HotAir Daily Express 02/02/2016

Sanders: We may look into a recount 2/2/2016 8:41:36 AM  Ed Morrissey 35 Comments While Ted Cruz won a five-point victory in what really turned into a three-way race in the GOP’s Iowa Caucus, the Democratic Party’s side of the caucus turned into a real nailbiter. Hillary Clinton clung to a lead of less than a percentage More... A bleary eyed nation slogs through their Iowa hangovers 2/2/2016 8:01:05 AM  Jazz Shaw 102 Comments I briefly debated a title of, What the Iowa results mean, followed by my first ever single word post: Nothing. But that would be a bit on the cynical side even for me, and frankly it’s not entirely true. On the Republican side of the coin I’m More... Video: Cruz declares victory 2/2/2016 12:19:39 AM  Allahpundit 297 Comments Sorry for the delay in posting this. I waited for him to finish … and waited, and waited. He went on for more than half an hour in all, to the point where I thought he might lapse into “Green Eggs and Ham.” But who cares? The guy pulled More... Video: Trump concedes graciously after disappointing finish 2/1/2016 11:19:37 PM  Allahpundit 130 Comments His final polling average was 28.6 percent, nearly five points better than Cruz. As I write this, with 91 percent of Iowa reporting, he’s at 24.4 percent, more than three points behind Cruz and less than a point and a half ahead of Rubio for third More... Video: Rubio gives the most triumphant third-place speech ever 2/1/2016 11:02:22 PM  Allahpundit 78 Comments Hard to blame him: He’s clearly the frontrunner in the center-right lane after tonight’s surprising finish, with New Hampshire just a week away. In fact, as I write this, it’s not even certain that he finished third. With 97 percent More... Open thread/live blog: Iowageddon; Update: O'Malley out? Update: Fox calls it for Cruz; Update: CNN too, Huckabee suspends campaign 2/1/2016 8:01:36 PM  Ed Morrissey 2153 Comments 11:43 – Cruz is still talking. Started off strong, but it’s going very long now. Even his supporters seem to have lost some of their initial energy. 11:20 – Cruz declares a “victory for the grassroots … for courageous More... Oh yes: The "Hot Air and friends" Iowa livetweet extravaganza 2/1/2016 7:21:18 PM  Allahpundit 193 Comments Here’s our election-night Twitter widget! (Twidget?) Scroll down and I’ll explain. Tweets from https://twitter.com/EdMorrissey/lists/townhall-ha The traditional election open thread from Ed is on its way, and I’ll be adding election More... Poll: 25% of federal employees would consider quitting if Trump becomes president 2/1/2016 6:41:15 PM  Allahpundit 180 Comments In case any Iowans are still trying to decide in the last few minutes before the caucuses begin, this ought to seal the deal for Trump. If you want to make America great again, culling a quarter of the federal work force ain’t the worst place to More... DeSantis: Where is the special counsel for Hillary's e-mail scandal? 2/1/2016 6:01:00 PM  Ed Morrissey 57 Comments If the Department of Justice won’t prosecute Hillary Clinton and her team for the spillage of top secret information through her unauthorized and unsecured home-brew e-mail system, will she get off scot-free? Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) wonders why More... Lower airfares may be coming, but at what price? 2/1/2016 5:21:02 PM  Jazz Shaw 28 Comments Have you had to book a flight lately? If you have, you probably keep track of how much you spend on tickets. Unfortunately I have to fly quite a bit and I haven’t noticed much of a change in prices lately, even as fuel prices have tanked. More... Kasich's Obamacare Roadshow goes national 2/1/2016 4:41:45 PM  Jason Hart 39 Comments Ohio Gov. John Kasich used his time in the spotlight at Thursday’s Republican debate to promote Obamacare. You may not have noticed, either because you tune Kasich out or because Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion isn’t More... McAuliffe reciprocity retreat actually a surrender? 2/1/2016 4:01:55 PM  Ed Morrissey 22 Comments Last week, Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe reversed an order given by his fellow Democrat, Attorney General Mark Herring, that had severed carry-permit reciprocity with more than two dozen states. McAuliffe framed the action as a bipartisan deal that More... Prediction time: Trump 30, Cruz 28, Rubio 17 2/1/2016 3:21:04 PM  Allahpundit 556 Comments I was going to predict Trump 30, Cruz 28, Rubio 19, but before I started writing this Ross Douthat floated those exact numbers and now I’ll be accused of copycatting if I co-sign them. So let’s shave two off of Rubio’s take for my best More... Oops. Fox News catches Hillary telling story she just heard "yesterday" three weeks earlier 2/1/2016 2:41:32 PM  Jazz Shaw 125 Comments What were those poll numbers about Hillary Clinton’s honesty and trustworthiness again? The presumed Democrat frontrunner did a local interview in Iowa yesterday where she was asked yet again about the Top Secret emails on her bathroom closet More... Vox: Hey, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders agree on a lot of stuff, huh? 2/1/2016 2:01:59 PM  Taylor Millard 82 Comments There’s an interesting piece from Vox’s John B. Judis pointing out just how similar Donald Trump’s positions are with the ones of Bernie Sanders. There’s going to be a fair amount of consternation between both Trump and More... Hmmm: Final Emerson College poll of Iowa puts Rubio within five points of first place 2/1/2016 1:21:58 PM  Allahpundit 140 Comments I don’t buy that he’s as close as this, but (a) I blogged the last Emerson College poll of New Hampshire poll showing Jeb surging past Rubio so I’m duty-bound to blog this one and (b) as Ed noted earlier, Marcomentum does appear to be More... Steve King: Hey, I "know some things" about Trump's endorsements 2/1/2016 12:41:01 PM  Jazz Shaw 128 Comments As usual, when a state race comes down to the final moments and the polls are too close to call, surrogates for the contenders will pull out all the stops. And why not? In the final 12 or 24 hours you can throw pretty much anything at the wall to see if More... John Boehner may be off the stage but he's far from gone 2/1/2016 12:01:57 PM  Jazz Shaw 31 Comments We just learned over the weekend that the President is finally going to sit down for a meeting this week with Speaker Paul Ryan, three months after he took up the gavel. But what’s been going on with the guy who handed it over? After a seemingly More... What kind of turnout should you be looking for tonight in Iowa? 2/1/2016 11:21:18 AM  Allahpundit 157 Comments A PSA for readers who’ll spend the day hearing talking heads babbling about expected turnout. By now, anyone following the race in Iowa knows the basic dynamic: High turnout favors Trump, as it likely means he’s convinced thousands of More... Oh my: Hillary e-mail contained "operational" intel; Update: State proposed workaround for nonsecure system; Update: NOC lists? 2/1/2016 10:41:07 AM  Ed Morrissey 434 Comments “Convenience” has a high price, no? According to a new exclusive report from Fox’s Catherine Herridge and Pamela Browne, the State Department had to take the unusual step of hiding 22 e-mails from Hillary Clinton’s secret server More... Trump financials: Lots of promotion, little organization? 2/1/2016 10:01:31 AM  Ed Morrissey 172 Comments Can Donald Trump convert enthusiasm to votes? Tonight’s caucuses will give at least one data point toward answering that question, but his financials might provide a sneak peek. The required quarterly report showed that Trump plowed nearly $11 More... Are we preparing to elect a president that most people hate? 2/1/2016 9:21:28 AM  Jazz Shaw 172 Comments Mark Sappenfield penned a column for Yahoo News this weekend with the provocative title, Why America might elect a president it doesn’t like. As you might guess, the premise for this assertion is based on favorability polls and the nuggets of data More... Donald Trump is just getting started Palin on her political future: "It's not over for me" The Jeb Bush to Marco Rubio donor shift is real and it's accelerating Ann Coulter: Trump came in first among natural-born citizen candidates With 90% reporting, Sanders within 0.2 points of Clinton Betting market now gives Rubio 55% chance to win nomination Mike Huckabee suspends campaign Breaking: Fox News calls Iowa for Cruz With 81% reporting, Sanders trails Clinton by less than a point With 97% reporting, Cruz 28, Trump 24, Rubio 23