Month: August 2011

Ames Straw Poll Shows Broken GOP

Here are the results of the Ames, Iowa Straw Poll that was conducted this afternoon: 1. Michele Bachmann: 4823 votes 2. Ron Paul: 4671 3. Tim Pawlenty: 2293 4. Rick Santorum: 1657 5. Herman Cain: 1456 6. Rick Perry: 718...

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Sociopaths

Newshounds points us to the comments section of a Fox News article. The article is about Somalia: World Health Organization officials said Friday that famine-hit Somalia faces a cholera epidemic as dirty water and poor...

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Soccer Thread

It’s the first day of the Barclay’s English Premier League season, so I’m not too interested in politics. I’ll be interested to see if everyone behaves themselves. They cancelled a friendly match between...

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Today We Do the Ames Straw Poll

Here’s some history I had forgotten: A win at Ames isn’t necessarily a win — just ask Mitt Romney, who won Ames by 14 points in 2008 but, because his well-funded effort was expected to triumph, got less of a bounce out of...

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