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Follow The Iowa Caucuses Live
The buck stops here and the votes begin: starting at 7 pm CST, more than 100,000 voters - only a small percentage of the state's electorate - are expected to gather across the state at more than 800 public spots, and cast their votes for their GOP candidate with only three: Paul, Romney and for some unknown reason, Santorum expected to have a fighting changes. Results should begin coming in within a few hours. For those following the caucus for the only important reason: to see how Ron Paul does, or is allowed to do, we have the following live feeds for our readers' disposal.
CNN:
Fox News:
Politico:
Live results can be seen here as they trickle in:
And some more on the Iowa caucus from Reuters as the GOP primary kicks off officially:
Republican candidates crisscrossed Iowa in a last-minute bid for support on Tuesday ahead of the first contest of the 2012 U.S. presidential campaign, and at least three - Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum and Ron Paul - appeared to have a shot at victory.
Iowa's caucuses are known more for weeding out candidates than picking the future president. Finishing in the top spot Tuesday night could provide a big boost in the state-by-state battle to select a Republican challenger to Democratic President Barack Obama in the Nov. 6 election.
Most of the candidates have topped opinion polls at one point in the volatile Republican race that until recently centered on televised debates rather than on-the-ground campaigning.
Polls show Romney, the favorite of the party's business wing, in a tight race with Paul, a U.S. congressman from Texas with libertarian views, and Santorum, a former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania who hopes to consolidate Iowa's large bloc of Christian conservatives. Romney is a former Massachusetts governor.
Many voters remain undecided. The unusual caucus process adds an element of unpredictability. Voters in Iowa gather in public meetings at hundreds of sites around the state such as schools, libraries and churches, listening to speeches touting the various candidates before casting their ballots.
"I'm kind of on the fence. A name that's been kind of sticking out, along with everyone, is Rick Santorum. We're not a hundred percent for sure yet," Des Moines resident Jason Harpineau said just hours before the start of the caucuses.
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Sparsely populated Iowa only yields 28 delegates of the 1,143 needed to lock up the Republican presidential nomination, and those delegates aren't actually awarded for months after Tuesday's caucuses.
Santorum hopes to emerge as the latest conservative alternative to Romney.
Largely consigned to the margins for most of the race, Santorum is now fending off attacks from his rivals who see him as a new threat. On Tuesday, he said Paul was behind a wave of automated phone calls that question his anti-abortion and pro-gun credentials.
"Ron Paul is disgusting," Santorum told Fox News reporters.
A win by Paul would help him extend his minimal-government stance and broaden the appeal of his campaign outside his zealous base, many of them independents, disaffected Democrats and younger voters.
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Ugh. Romney at a 79% chance to be the nominee On intrade :(. I'm selling short now. Doubling down on my Ron Paul long.
There really is only one legitimate choice. The most disruptive choice.
THE FREAKIN' TRUTH.
Vote Ron Paul as a message against what every even slightly open eyed human being can see for themselves BOLD and CLEAR AS A BELL.
The system is broken and requires intervention.
It doesn't even matter what your ideology is, the fact remains that any honest and informed person at this point ought to accept that radical change is going to happen. A vote for Ron Paul signifies that YOU would like a shot at participating in that change, rather than becoming merely a victim of it's clear design.
If ever in our lifetimes the urgency of acting as individuals to assert our supposed right to determine our collective destiny were more clear, I must have still been sleeping.
Imagine a personal relationship with nearly any other Federal politician? Would that work? Really?
So you would tolerate enormous deception, broken promise after broken promise, sleeping with the enemy, stealing your future, selling you out for personal gain................. All from a friend? Really.
Let's give the serious guy a shot.
RON PAUL.
If RP has a real chance to win this I'll unpack my expatriation suitcase!
If no, here comes a second language.
I moved to Australia when Bush got reappointed in 2004...maybe I'll come back!
CNN just apologized for the lost feed. They laughingly described it as a burgeoning conspiracy. They don't like people looking over their shoulders very much.
Yeah they like to laugh a lot. They laughed a lot when they were pimping for the Iraq war and people were protesting CNN itself for doing so.
They couldn't believe it.
Walmart shoppers are voting for Santorum because he looks like the Walmart Smiley Face.
I don't buy this Santorum BS. Just doesn't pass the smell test. He pulls it out in one week? Does anybody think this can be legit??
Fuck no. It's total bullshit. This guy lost his home state on the same bs platform. He is as dull as watching grass grow.
Here's hint - there is this thing about historically if you don't place in the top 3, you won't be running for president. There also is this thing about iowa having rock bottom voter turnout. Maybe the magical thing about iowa simply is, that it represents manipulation, and that manipulation overally tends to decide who runs for president.
I don't buy it either.
Last week they were saying Frothy would pull out of the race if he finished dead last. Now he's in the Mix for first
He must have promised a new combine harvester in every barn during his speeches this week.
Something's way wrong with him getting all of these votes from nowhere.
Now even election result looks like compiled in some third world country.
Nothing is legit in this country anymore...
Wow Faux news might as well Vaseline up their lips and rap them around Santorum's cock.
Vivid Visual
Meghan Kelly would oblige, I'm sure....after all, she IS an Esquire "centerfold". lol
It doesn't matter how the people vote ...
Mutherfuckers,
If they decide to put the last place horse Santorum in front of you, when will you choose to revolt?
yesterday
we need an italian to bomb the middle east
.
vote santorum
why would I want to vote for someone who would bomb Iran 2 seconds after taking the oath?
Do you not understand that ww3 would ensue?
I think your buddies over at newsmax are missin' ya...better run on over there and start crafting those battle plans...
And I assume you will be volunteering for the front lines. Right?
LOL
What a shame, on CNN a GI, RonPaul supportor can not finish his thought before signal was cut off. First they pushed Perry to steal votes from Paul. When it doesn't work, they put out Gingrich to bomb the whole camping. Still doesn't work, Santo was released to do dirty work. Maybe next time they will dig out Paul's medical record to show he has health issue and is out of touch with main media.
Just a few minutes ago, Anderson made referrence to that, and the the internets blowing up with conspiracy theory -- AC and Wolf laughed as if that were pure nonesense, but Burnett and a couple others had really nervous, embarrassed looks that makes one wonder. All a bunch of circus clowns.
It's a shame Anderson Cooper wasn't hacked to death by a machete wielding mob while reporting from Haiti.
+100
Anderson Cooper : The guy is a fucking CIA.
During college, Cooper spent two summers as an intern at the Central Intelligence Agency. Although he technically has no formal journalistic education, he opted to pursue a career in journalism rather than stay with the agency after school
That and he's a Vanderbilt. The US MSM are run by military intelligence for the purpose of propaganda.
Cool observation...you are a smarty!
Did you guys know that Anderson is a Vanderbilt? Just sayin...
Are there any of these asshats (yes, asshats) that aren't???
Fucking Santorum ??????........are they kidding !!.......Fuck it , i am voting for Obama
Write in Ron Paul.
Santorum surged at the right time, before his counterparts can attack. Once people see more of his downside, he'll plummit just like the others. Rommney is clearly a tool. RP is the only hope, but it will be a damn hard fight. He'll continue to be attacked and undermined -- there are just too many powerful people who would be truly threatened by a Paul presidency. And that's the bottom line, in all likelihood.
But, Paul did well with young people and independents. So did Obama, and I suspect many Obama idiots will wise up and go for RP (unless of course, the economy magically improves between now and the election -- high chance, if TPTB can keep the leverage going, esp. if Paul is out front or still in contention). The same thing happened years ago in MN, when young people across the state came out on droves and swept Jesse Ventura into the governor's mansion. It could, really, maybe, happen again if we all stand up, talk to our friends and loved ones and get them to WAKE THE FUCK UP!
PS: FOX tonight was all over the "unelectable" phrase -- those old douchebags have no freeking clue! CNN seemed a little better, esp. that foxy Erin Burnett -- she tried a few times to point out his appeal to independents and moderates...at one point, Wolf got up and went to the board, totally cutting her off. Once you realize that all of the coverage is closely managed, it really does become like a circus act, bitchez.
Cooper said they lost the feed from the military guy who was advocating for Ron Paul and that people on the Internet probably think that was part of a conspiracy. Then everybody chuckled.
This is the same network on which a reporter said today that she is worried that Ron Paul might do well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wN2dGATxsw
I just got back from a huge Ron Paul meet up in VA.
Sioux City & Woodbury counties have not reported yet (considered RP strong holds). Only 1/2 of counties have reported so don't count out Paul yet (he's only down a couple of percentage points)
He's def. getting fucked...Rick Santorum? Give me a fucking break.
Thanks, I needed that.
Well, they're now mostly in, and the supposed stats are precisely the opposite. Looks like they just changed lots of RP votes to Santorum votes.
ahhhh I know I am drunk now .... ladys and gentalmen I forgot my favort man sitting over there.. His name is Mr Dabolina ..Mr Bob dabolina
Bob aleast you where there !
+1
Gingrich should take his ball and go home.
Hmmm, starting to look like the MSM is going to have to eat their hat after tonight concerning Ron Paul...GO Ron!!!!
Just thinking -- it may good in a way that RP didn't win - MSM had already started priming the pump abput a Paul victory meaning the end of Iowa's importance - they'd be relagated to the dust bin as ineffectual and completely out of touch. That he didn;t outright win means they can't say Iowa has no merit. RP is one of the few candidates with braod support in nearly every state -- Santorum does not have the system in place anywhere but Iowa, and he is toast anyway once people learn who the eff he is. Romeny or RP. Establishment or Man-of-the-People. Chose your sides, but choose carefully - and be prepared to give all for the things that really matter (life, liberty and the pursuit of freedom, bitchez).
Nytimes reporting college cities aren't in yet. Its up to the youth. elections.nytimes.com/2012/primaries/results/live/2012-01-3
We were watching those counties and you're right. The big college areas have not reported yet.
He's sittin' tight.
Please, kiddies, help us out!
Looks like bye bye America, my suitcase stays packed, soon to depart.
So sad, TPTB really are that strong...and so many are so so stupid.
Where you going?
Well, ahemmm. At least this is awesome for gold.
Wow! Faux news trying to cover their ass about saying Bachman would come in 6th earlier. This is totally rigged. I never would have thought this two years ago. Unfuckingbelievable.
what.the.fuck
The cnn poll was to launch santorum preventing aggregation of the huckabee vote on Paul - who are these morons voting for santorum ? They should be sent to fight on the frontlines
Nothing like a couple of well-timed, convenient Iranian missile tests to launch war-loving pansy man into the mix.
I thought that, also, as I read the propaganda headlines this morning. Disgusting...
re. who are these morons voting for santorum ?
Please consider that "these morons" might not even exist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBHR5c9xhGk
Ron Paul can't "show" any better than this??? So a gaggle of Obummer has-beens still pining for the true Messiah and sneaky Dems still stuck up Obummer's bum can't put this guy over the top in this most stupidly conceived of political exercises?
Pack it in, and save your life by voting for somebody that MIGHT, just might, fend off the wolves that are circling.
In case you missed the memo, we are voting for COMMANDER IN CHIEF this time around, not for budget director.
"save your life by voting for somebody that MIGHT, just might, fend off the wolves that are circling."
Ron Paul is the only candidate that isn't completely OWNED by the wolves.
The peoples who are not liking the words you are saying are like peoples who are thinking it is an important thing who is being given the wheel of a ship that is sinking like the Titanic when it was sinking after a bad captain was running it into an iceberg with speed it should not have been having. People who are paying attentions to the peoples who are choosing a new captain are not having their attention where it should be mattering because it is no longer being important who that person they are choosing is. Even if he is a man who is good at being the captain it is making no difference because the crew he will be having is still crazy and fearing for themselves because they are knowing how bad the ship he is steering is.
Santorum is simply the 4th Anti Romney candidate they've boosted. Just not enough time to expose him (like the Newt) before this vote. Look who Iowans have championed in the last 4 caucuses. This is no surprise. It means nothing. If anything makes Romney look weaker. Santorum skips NH and goes straight to SC. He will not play well there. He has no money and no organization. Game over. Perry 3rd in SC? Maybe. Does he get help from Bushees in FL if he places or shows in SC? He still has cash to burn through.
Romney is well ahead in NH polls. This will be RP's chance to overachieve and embarass Romney. Rand and supporters already invading SC. RP has dollars and organization and should do well in SC while others fall away. Florida? WTFK. Could be a 2 man race by then. THEY will not allow RP to gain much more traction
Couldn't take it any more. Turned off the idiot box. If people actually take that MSM crap as news/truth, we're so fucking doomed. But I'm not surprised after witnessing the idiocracy of the general population day after day. Fucking lemmings who reinforce my misanthropy even when I'm trying to give humanity the benefit of the doubt.
I never imagined my time on this planet would consist of being born in a 1st world country and dying in a 3rd world country, without having ever moved.
Ron Paul is gonna finish third, so I guess that means that the Iowa caucus still counts?
BLATANT CENSORSHIP by CNN of Soldier Supporting Ron Paul's Foreign Policyhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TSxm2V8aVQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyaOt1O9oBY
Disgusting.
MSM traitors. A MAN who has fought for a decade gets cut off when he breaks script? RON PUAL!!!!
When the revolution comes, scum like Cooper and Blitzer need to hang high.
Why do you people watch TV or anything from Hollywood. You just enpower them by watching. ALL TV is total sh*t.
Why do you occasionally say intelligent things? It makes your partisan hackery so lame.
Something of value finally comes out out of your head...
We need to know what the enemy is doing to fight it.
Looks like the bible-thumpers are going to pull another mindless Huckabee.
I guess there was a big turn out of Iowa hog farmers who support the pigs at the trough.
Lots of the wealthier farmers kids like Bachman end up in the federal workforce. They dont need the daughters or sons on the farms anymore with the big equipment and mexicans to operate, but they still expect the kids to get a return on the value of those political donations.
Ron Paul is taking on the political payola establishment of both parties + K street. Truly amazing.
Now that was classy of Ron Paul!
RP just gave speech. RP is such a great man....
TPTB won't allow a Ron Paul. FTPTB. Thank you Ron Paul!
And more goodys from the scumbag Romney :
Romney would up defense aid to Israelhttp://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=240955
Romney signs off on permanent assault weapons banhttp://www.iberkshires.com/story.php?story_id=14812
The Mormon Church belongs to The World Council of Churches, who all worship Islam. Do some research people!
You moron ... no one worships Islam
Ron Paul trolling CNN (by bringing the military guy back on) was epic.
Truely epic.
Blatant Censoship by CNN of Soldier defending Ron Paul and saying Israel is more than capable of fighting its own wars.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3TSxm2V8aVQ
Wait there is 20 percent of the votes left and the majority of that is from Ames college. Why is this being called. 20 percent of 120k is 25k. Is it impossible to cover the spread
Now who could have guessed that Romney would pull ahead of Santorum by a few votes toward the end? TPTB need better script writers.
Tyler, here's your headline for tomorrow: IOWA CAUCUS VOTE OBVIOUSLY FIXED
Of course. It is silly to think otherwise. I also think the whole thing is rigged for four more years of Obama = all bets are off.
Doubt it. It's too easy to change puppets and relieve some frustration for those caught in the false left-right paradigm.
They seem to be having some difficulty lining up a replacment puppet that doesn't self-destruct
These are Democrat voters registered as REpublican for the purpose of putting the right(wrong) person against Obama. They vote santorum now and Obama in the election. Duh
Playing the divide and conquer card again, bitch?
I've known a lot of Dems, and they ain't smart enough to think strategically (crossing over).
Whatever dude.
And so the RP fans begin the long awaited return to planet earth...
But.. Santorum wth??
The Iowa caucus HQ are looking into voter faud with Santorums higher the projected numbers...
Link?
Yes link?
I'd give RP all my money to just issue a call to arms on television already. Can you say 2 million gun march on D.C.?
Santorum supporters... they don't exist. I never saw one, never heard of one, never talked to anyone who even hinted at supporting him.
Santorum is a slimebag and everybody knows it.
Reports of Transparentvote.net website has been hacked. And is currently down.
Lots of voter (or non-voter) shannanagans going on folks!
I've been trying to get on the site all night. This reminds me of Kerry v Bush all over. The entrance and exit polls and actual numbers are off by double the margin of error. I remember a statistician back then saying it doesn't prove that the polls are wrong , it proves a rigged election.
It matters little though. This "union" is too far gone. Better to just opt out of representative gov't all together and self-govern.
The DR parties must have 2 term administration for the puppet de jour. You have it exactly right. Romney is Kerry. And as others have posted, everybody else in a race is a spoiler to keep Ron Paul out from the nom.
Hmmm...interesting.
Where are you finding this info?
please share.
The CIA...I mean "Anonymous"...must be very busy tonight!
And without manipulation, Ron Paul would be 29%.
GOP working hard to eliminate truth and the Constitution and any threat to the banking elite.
Bachmann sounds like she's out.
It's a shame Bachmann isn't being hacked to death on stage by a mob of machete weilding Haitians.
We're outsourcing enough of our important jobs as it is.
She sounded like she was out for the last few months.
Can someone post the corndog pic again?
http://www.mikemalloy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/bachmann-corndog.png
Looka at that girl go...
Gingrich celebrating what is now a "lucky" 13%
Go back to consulting, Newt.
Actually don't newt.....
US cant handle another housing bubble
Aye.
He should go to Viagra or Cialis or Enzine, apparently.
Certainly not the U.S. housing market.
He's just providing historical analysis.
Ron Paul was crucified by his own party. Santorum is in 2012 what Huckabee was in 2008. He helped the already anointed candidate defeat his main opponent.
Well the fight ain't over
But as for tonight. I'm going to go watch some more survivalist shows
"more survivalist shows"
Like what? Sounds like what I need right now...
I'm going to watch this episode on my iPad before I eat it
http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=%2F&gl=US#/watch?v=ONhhFL_sqzc
Might check it out. Thanks!
No....No....I'm not going to watch that at all.
Will read Currency Wars instead, but thanks for the effort :)
My 14 year old son is really getting into prepping/survival mode. It's cool to watch! He's even prodding ME to kick it into high gear. Guess I will have to do a little less ZH in order to obey my teenage "task master". lol
Isn't it amazing how young ones are often so much more intuitive and insightful than the ol' brainwashed ones?
That is why the youth turn out for Paul
You've been watching a survivalist show.
Santorum getting the evangelical "I won't ever vote for a Mormon" vote.
If I recall correctly CNN's figures showed Paul is approved of by the greatest percentage of evangelicals. However, he also is disapproved of by the greatest number of evangelicals. It's not a monolithic group.
True that.
The less enlightened go for Santorum, the more so, Paul.
Most all against the Masonic cult member.
LOL! The sheeple will never be defeated!!! (in their brainwashed programmed servitude to the media) Thank God!
I was a little worried for a moment. A Ron Paul victory in Iowa could have inflamed the masses into God knows what. Now the next President will definitely be Romney - or (if Santorum wins the nomination) Obama.
Good thing the only candidate not supporting the (elite, superior, and moral) global government is an incoherent half senile elf man - Trust me, it's no accident that there is no 50 year old charismatic articulate candidate preaching personal liberty for the sheep ;-)
Imagine a country controlled by the greedy whims of the evil sheep mob, instead of responsible industrialists and bankers? Complete chaos that would make Cambodia's Killing Fields look like a picnic.
Die Sheeple!
Go Romney! ...... or Obama
Romney can't beat Obama. In order to win, Obama's opponent must be able to capture a majority of Independents and some Democrats. Mitt Romney is more like Obama than Obama is. He can't do it.
Only one Republican can draw the broad support needed to defeat our unpopular yet still incumbent President. Ron Paul 2012.
(I am fairly certain this is satire or sarcasm, therefore, +1)
Fairly epic troll. Thumbs up.
Right in the middle of the CNN interview of a US Army Corporal, who was asked why he supported Ron Paul, CNN lost the feed right after he said that it was time to go to a peace time army. How unfortunate that CNN had technical problems just when that young man who spent the last ten years of his life in a combat zone was about to say that Ron Paul was their choice for Commander In Chief...
The marine got to speak during Ron Paul's "ticket out of Iowa" speech. Ron's speech was perfectly timed. It was obvious he would come in third so he got on the air ahead of the other candidates and made a good speech which was cheered by enthusiastic supporters. The marine then spoke. I guess that CNN didn't have the guts to cut him off twice. Ron got about 15 minutes of face time before any of the other candidates appeared. The front runners still haven't spoken and folks are tuning out and going to bed. Paul's campaign is much more savvy this time around.
He got less than 10% last cycle with only 4 delegates. Much better this time around. Still waiting to hear the final delegate count.
A disappointment, to be sure, but there is still some hope. I think there are lots of people who simply will not vote for Romney, so an anti-Romney canditate will have to emerge.
Is Santorum the anti-Romney? I think not. He actually endorsed Romney in 2008. He hasn't had much scrutiny so far, so hopefully his support will collapse like the Perry's and Newt's did.
Ron Paul has diehard supporters and if he can just hang in for a while, I still think he can become the anti-Romney.
If the RNC (GOP) does not have Ron Paul on the ticket at President or at the least Vice President, Obama wins.
I will not vote for anyone other than Ron Paul.
I will not vote, or will go in registered as a Republicrat and write in "RON PAUL".
Me too!
Ron Paul is going to hang in there. This is only the beginning.
Newt really is pissed. He said in his speech "I am not going to go negative, but I am going to tell the truth about the other candidates, Ron Paul and I need to debate foriegn policy, but romney is only slightly more conservative than Obama"
This means he is going to go negative, and Ron Paul should welcome a debate on foriegn policy when the american people, history, and simple war fatique are on his side. Nothing is going to help Romeny on the issue of being a country club republican in the worst economy since the great depression.
Go after his tax returns Newt! you can take Romney out of the race on this issue alone.
Well said
All that has to happen is the Santorum bubble to burst, Romney to continue to get less support than 4 years ago while Ron Paul keeps slowly climbing in the polls. Slow and steady wins the race.
If Ron Paul came to my house, promised freedom, and punched me I would still vote for him over the competition, even if a competitor came with angel dark just so I could bang angel dark.
Ron Paul needs a new tailor.
LOL....
If you had 1% of Dr. Paul's intelligence or integrity, I would respect you. But you don't.
Green for you. It's really all about image with the fuggenidiots...
If anyone on here had 1% of Dr. Paul's wealth they could doubtless get a suit that fits.
It's priceless watching multi-millionaire 30 yr congressman Ron Paul spout his fake libertarianism in his oversized suits looking like he's from an old Talking Heads tour.
hahahhahahahahhahahahaha so fucking fuunnnnnnyyyyyyyy
Watching the live results on nytimes website...
At 85% reporting, Roemer was showing 40+ votes. Now, at 97% reporting, he is down to 29.
Going backwards... Wish I would have kept some screenshots.
Rick Santorum? Really? The guy is a sniveling idiot. I have to check on my bug out bag.
Rick Perry is proof that the sheeple of Texas are the DUMBEST breed of ruminants in the country. HOW did this degenerate become governor? And Bush? I just wish the rest of the sheep were as dumb as Texans. Perry would be so docile and easy to control as a president. Even better than Bush. Looks like he's out now. We tried ...
Nice picture you have there diesheepledie. I like the duct tape holding the black frog horn glasses together some dumb Texan probably broke when he punched you in your fucking eye.
Have a good night nerdly man.
Just like an ignorant free lunch borrowing sheeple to not recognise the great Dr. Kissinger in his prime. God how I hate the stupid.
DIE!!! Special place in the gas chamber waiting for you!!
"the great Dr. Kissinger in his prime" <<<< Please, I just got over the flu and don't need to puke anymore.
Well Nerdly, that didn't take long to flush your age out now did it? Question, when you fart do you get dust in your boxer's yet?
Na, no gas chamber for this cat, Texan's have one thing down here, it's called Ball's Nerdly.
That is why Ron Paul is a Texan, we are proud to be true American's not some limpy in a wheel chair with depend's under the boxer's running there banker mouth. Although in Texas we truely respect the wisdom of our elder's.
Don't you just hate it when you banker's get blow back in public? Someday soon Nerdly, someday soon.
Oh and Nerdly, try to stop blaming your banker failures on the borrowing sheeple, thank's to ZH you punk's are getting in cross hair's now.
http://www.zerohedge.com/search/apachesolr_search/hypothecate
You could say that about a LOT of states and their politicians! Look at Iowa tonight.
I am from TX, and I did NOT vote for Perry!
Don't paint with such a broad brush....especially tonight.
The problem with TX is that it has a HUGE neocon machine with LOTS of oil money in the coffers to accomplish wars for energy dominance.
But I seem to remember one Texan who eats everyone's lunch when it comes to freedom...Ron Paul.
So quit the hatin' and go get some sleep. You're a bit crabby.
Those results make sense, Libertarians get 20%, tea baggers get 25%, and the old blue haired GOPers get 25%. Looks like us anti-corporate conservatives hold the key, the GOP is so screwed.
Judging by Gingrich's angry speech tonight, he's going to attack Romney with everything he's got from now on. Even if he can't win for himself (but he's not given up yet), he's gonna make damned sure that Romney doesn't either. And Romney's support appears to consist of lots of lukewarm "maybe he's the best of a bad bunch" types, so it shouldn't take much to put a sizable dent in it. We've seen from Gingrich's own results how effective negative ads can be.
Assuming that Gingrich succeeds in sinking Romney, while not managing to come back into serious contention himself, that would basically leave Paul against Santorum. That, surely, is a winnable contest!
Agree. I think in the early stage of the debate newt put it out there that he wanted a cabinet position (reagan legacy type position) after he played king maker. When it got rough it came from Romney, the guy he thought he was helping to win.
Newt: From one smart guy to another. If you wanna take romney down. Read this article about kim kardashian.
Kim Kardashian targeted by millionaire's tax initiative (AP)
http://m.ctv.ca/topstories/20120103/kim-kardashian-targeted-by-tax-initiative-120103.html