{"id":11551,"date":"2016-02-08T16:35:27","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T00:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11551"},"modified":"2016-02-08T16:34:44","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T00:34:44","slug":"rubio-short-circuits-cruz-keeps-lying-trump-keeps-winning-saturdays-gop-nh-debate-bradcast-282016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=11551","title":{"rendered":"Rubio Short-Circuits, Cruz Keeps Lying, Trump Keeps Winning – Saturday’s GOP NH Debate: ‘BradCast’ 2\/8\/2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

On today’s BradCast<\/i><\/a>, we try to make sense of the amazing GOP debate in New Hampshire on Saturday, the final one before tomorrow’s First-in-the-Nation primary in the Granite State.<\/p>\n

First, I offer a very few quick reminders and action items for those interested in fighting for Election Integrity during tomorrow’s primary in NH. This, in a state which uses hand-marked paper ballots, but refuses to actually verify that results are accurately tallied by the state’s oft-failed, easily-manipulated Diebold optical-scan computers before announcing results to the public. (For a reminder of the nightmare that occurred on that system back in 2008, you can peruse our Special Coverage here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Then, I’m joined for today’s post-debate coverage and analysis by two progressive bloggers who have been consistently right for years — Heather Digby Parton<\/b> of Salon<\/a> and Digby’s Hullabaloo<\/a> and Martin Longman<\/b> of Washington Monthly<\/a> and Booman Tribune<\/a> — to discuss where Rubio, Cruz, Trump and the others, including the corporate media, went wrong on Saturday night…and, unfortunately, for so many years prior.<\/p>\n

From Rubio’s remarkable<\/i> on-stage meltdown to Cruz’ ability to lie with amazing impunity (even when he is actually called out<\/a> as a “flat-out liar”<\/a> by CNN!) to the danger that Trump’s ability to “win” may hold for both Republicans and Democrats alike.<\/p>\n

And, as if that doesn’t give us all enough to cover today, we take the time to call out the corporate U.S. media (and the Obama Administration) for allowing this mind-bogglingly precarious moment<\/a> in U.S. history to even have come about in the first place…<\/p>\n

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