Author: Joshua De Leon

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump held a rally at Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Alabama on Friday, reported the Huffington Post. At 20,000 attendees, it was the largest rally held by a GOP candidate. It should come as no surprise that Trump’s biggest crowd was in Alabama. “I think he appeals to us Southerners because he tells it like it is and he has strong opinions,” said Savannah Zimmerman, a 27-year-old registered nurse from Mobile. “That is the way we are here in the South.” “Telling like it is” is a redneck way of saying, “he’s an obnoxious mouth-breather, just...

The Pew Research Center released a new poll showing that the Republican Party’s favorability rating among Americans has been on a sharp decline, reported Addicting Info. The GOP had a 41 percent favorability rating among Americans at the end of 2014. Currently, that rating has plummeted to 32 percent. This decline is attributed to many thing: the GOP’s treatment of poor people, their anti-gay agenda, suppression of minority voters, and one-percenter favoritism. Currently, Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush has support from 27 percent of Hispanic voters. The GOP nominee needs almost double that amount to win the White House....

Republican presidential candidate and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R), golden boy for the Koch brothers, is predicted to lose his own state by 10 points to Hillary Clinton, reported Vox. According to the Marquette Law poll, only 25 percent of Wisconsin Republicans support Walker, a dramatic decrease from the 40 percent he received in April. The poll also found that “in a head-to-head matchup of Walker against Hillary Clinton, Wisconsin voters would opt for Clinton, 52 percent to 42 percent.” That’s got to hurt for Walker, who was once the presidential favorite in Wisconsin and heavily-supported by Charles and David...