He's Canadian. Disqualify his ass.

He should just say he's from Hawaii.

His speech is being shown on CNBC right now. Lots of American Exceptionalism talk

His campaign is going to be more cliche riddled than Obama as he has done less during his Congressional tenure.

I think Walker/Cruz 2016 is what he's getting at.

Susanna Martinez (N. Mex.)

Not too bad for a 55 year old politician.

Are the Sox still paying his contract?

She looks like Big Chief from One Flew Over The Cukoos Nest.

I think Walker/Cruz 2016 is what he's getting at.

Not too bad for a 55 year old politician.

I'd think that if the Rs have any sense, Susanna Martinez (N. Mex.) has the VP spot locked up.

Message and media operated on one track. The other track focused on identifying, registering, mobilizing and ultimately turning out Obama voters. At the Chicago headquarters, these efforts were guided by Messina and Jen O’Malley Dillon, the deputy campaign manager, along with a sizable team of political organizers and tech-savvy newcomers.

“There’s always been two campaigns since the Internet was invented, the campaign online and the campaign on the doors. What I wanted was, I didn’t care where you organized, what time you organized, how you organized, as long as I could track it, I can measure it, and I can encourage you to do more of it.”

Jim Messina, President Obama’s 2012 campaign manager

The first steps toward building the reelection operation around a single target — maximizing turnout to reach 270 electoral votes — were taken in the months after Obama’s 2008 victory. Campaign staffers compiled a series of after-action reports. “We did a very detailed postmortem where we looked at all kinds of numbers, looking at the general stuff like the number of door knocks we made, phone calls we made, number of voters that we registered,” said Mitch Stewart, who would direct the campaign’s 2012 effort in battleground states. “But then we broke it down by field organizer, we broke it down then by volunteer. We looked at the best way or the best examples in states of what their volunteer organization looked like.”

The project produced a three-ring binder that contained nearly 500 pages and was filled with recommendations on how to strengthen what was already considered a state-of-the-art field operation. Another early step was the decision to massively expand the investment in technology, digital, cable, new media and particularly analytics.

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Don't know much about her but she does appear to be sufficiently "weak on policy" to appeal to the GOP base.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/201 ... exico-2016