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Noel Sheppard at Newsbusters wonders how the John Edwards flap has affected the 2008 Presidential race:
…the case can certainly be made that if the Edwards affair had gotten the press attention it deserved back in October when the National Enquirer first broke the story, the former senator would have been forced out of the race [...]

Tags: candidate, clinton, delegates, edwards, iowa, obama, popularity, president, primaries

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An interesting case is developing in Iowa. Seems the local sheriff’s niece decided to get naked at an art facility. Problem is she was 17 at the time. So, the director got into a lot of trouble. His defense is that dancing naked in Iowa is not legal. Nevertheless a minor doing it. So, they [...]

Tags: art, dance, iowa, minor, naked, strip, tease

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Last night Iowa held their caucus.  This is the quickie breakdown of how the candidates did:
For the Republicans:

52 got 34%
61 got 25%
65 got 13%
71 got 13%
72 got 10%

The others either didn’t really run or were pretty much already out of it.
For the Democrats:

46 got 38%
55 got 30%
60 got 29%

The rest either got basically nothing or [...]

Tags: 2008 Presidential Race, age, caucus, clinton, edwards, huckabee, iowa, mccain, obama, richardson, romney, ron-paul, thompson

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A lot is being made of the Iowa and New Hampshire caucuses.  Now we’re facing “crunch time“.  Let’s look at a little history, shall we?
Here’s Iowa’s history of caucus voting:
Democrats

January 19, 2004 - John Kerry (38%), John Edwards (32%), Howard Dean (18%), Richard Gephardt (11%) and Dennis Kucinich (1%)
January 24, 2000 - Al Gore (63%), [...]

Tags: 2008 Presidential Race, iowa, new-hampshire, primary

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That’s the headline you won’t see.  This is what I’m referring to:
Explaining why schools in Iowa are performing better than those in Washington, D.C., Biden told the Post, “There’s less than one percent of the population of Iowa that is African American. There is probably less than four of five percent that are minorities. What [...]

Tags: 2008 Presidential Race, al-sharpton, dc, demographic, district-of-columbia, economic, harry reid, hot-air, iowa, jesse-jackson, joe-biden, keith-olbermann, nancy pelosi, Racism, socio, state-gross, washington

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We’re now starting to get into the meat of the ‘08 presidential primaries.  The candidates have danced around the issue, a couple have seen the light and given up, the media have propped up and tore down a few, and everyone has tossed in their views of what will happen a little over a year [...]

Tags: 2008 Presidential Race, caucus, clinton, edwards, fundraising, hillary, iowa

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Foxnews ran this rather odd headline:
Romney Defends Straw Poll Win
I read the article.  Nowhere in it does Romney “defend” his win.  He explains his take on it, which pretty much mirrors mine, if the other candidates thought they could win in Iowa, they would have participated moreso than they did.  However, the bottom line is [...]

Tags: 2008 Presidential Race, iowa, mitt, romney, straw-poll

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"The War on drugs" has taken a lot of flack from the liberal left of late. While most of them are more than happy to prosecute the hell out of anyone that smokes tobacco, the efforts to combat the hardest drugs has been met with a lot of resistance of late.  A lot of people [...]

Tags: addiction, ban, conservative, conservatives, crazy, day, dead, drugs, forces, gun, guns, hell, iowa, it, liberal, liberals, marriage, murder, People, prison, sex, smoking, time, war

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