O'Malley talks about polls.

[elleng]

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/videos/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2015/07/03/29687363/

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1. "we’ve got the front-runners right where we want them.”

“We were about, a month ago when we announced, at 1 percent,” said the former Maryland governor. “Now we’re are 3 percent so I think we’ve got the front-runners right where we want them.”

http://www.kcrg.com/subject/news/omalley-in-major-iowa-swing-to-build-momentum-20150703

k&r

[elleng]

2. LOVE IT!

O’Malley and the 60 people who heard him on Friday in Waterloo heard a candidate touting his years of running states and cities, touching on many of the traditional liberal positions on raising the minimum wage, enforcing gun control and limiting income disparities. O’Malley backs the Obama Administration’s executive action on immigration reform but breaks with the White House on the current trade deal with China.

“Over the course of thirty years, we’ve mostly had the course of trickle-down economics and I, mostly, have respect for both President Clinton and Secretary Clinton but there are some things that we did that didn’t help us in turning it around,” said O’Malley. “One of them was bad trade deals and one of them was deregulating Wall Street. I don’t lay that on the Clintons but I lay that on all of us who are Democrats and part of the Democratic Party. I believe there is a better way forward.”


Read more at http://www.kcrg.com/subject/news/omalley-in-major-iowa-swing-to-build-momentum-20150703#j5lrsdIXdzG7hOyA.99

[Andy823]

3. He is right

I think a lot of people want someone who has a record of getting things done, and fixing the problems we face every day, like low wages, high cost of going to college, cilvil rights, climate change a the list goes on and on. It seems to me that O'Malley has what it takes, and even though "polls" aren in his favor, that will change once people hear his message and check out his record of getting things done.

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4. K&R. n/t