Eric Florack on January 3rd, 2008

 No shock, I suppose, but that’s what Fox is teasing just now.

So is ABC  who now reports Romney is in second. Thompson third, McCain foruth, or so I’m hearing on the radio now. (KCJJ is coming in up here

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Eric Florack on January 3rd, 2008

Peter Robinson at The Corner

The latest news from Iowa? According to Zogby’s latest—and I quote: “Sen. Fred Thompson…has seen a late-breaking surge.” (Rich notes the same poll below.)

What’s going on here? My guess is that there are

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davidl on January 2nd, 2008

Well I quess that the Reverend Huckabee doesn’t have all the religious vote tied up ion Iowa after all.

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I get a chuckle how these loud self-professed Christians think so little of trespassing.  It seems their version of the

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Just about everyone has weighed in on this one. AP’s Ron Fournier, for one:

DES MOINES, Iowa – Mike Huckabee may have finally gone too far.

After running an unconventional, surprisingly strong and sometimes strange race to the top tier

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Eric Florack on January 2nd, 2008

Noted over at Samzidata: Paul Marks makes a point I’ve been making:

 This morning Fox and Friends concentrated on three candidates in relation the Iowa caucuses on Thursday night: the two lead candidates in the polls, Mike Huckabee and Mitt

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It’s New Year’s Day, and I’ve got a day off.

I’m watching a huge orgasm in non-coverage occurring in the primary states this morning, particularly Iowa. in watching all of this nonsense the last couple of days I am reminded

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davidl on January 1st, 2008

Mike HuckabeeMike Huckabee’s campaign is over.  the campaign  has self destructed, video, via Stop the AC:LU.

Much more, Memeorandum.

 If Huckabeee got upset by Mitt Romney going negative, what would he have have done when Mrs. Clititon went negative?

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davidl on December 31st, 2007

First Mrs. Clinton was famous for answering questions from plants. Then she stonewalled David Gregory’s. Now she is stonewalling her audience. The Des Moines Register reports on [Mrs.] Clinton’s Silence:

Mrs. William ClintonIowa Falls, Ia. – Iowans have noticed that

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Eric Florack on December 30th, 2007

James Joyner, under a banner Fred Thompson: Not Interested in Running for President, writes today:

There’s a minor blogstorm developing around a report from Bill Theobald in USA Today about Fred Thompson’s answer to a question as to how badly

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davidl on December 30th, 2007

Mike Huckabee

  1. Did Marc Ambinder, Atlantic, really mean to write “If Huckabee only had a brain?”

INDIANOLA, IOWA — A string of foreign policy gaffes has made it clear to the national political press corps that Mike Huckabee is manifestly unqualified

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Eric Florack on December 27th, 2007

Nice to hear from the Conservative Reader (The Iowa Swamp Stomper). Apparently 1040/WHO is going to be running an Immigration Reform talk show, today. C. R.  has the links.

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davidl on December 26th, 2007

Flim flam artists are always trying to seperate a fool from his money.  

Case one, I ran with with this story on 28 October, but it bears repeating:

When Nomatter Tagarira, a spirit medium, claimed that she could conjure

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davidl on December 23rd, 2007

Mr.and Mrs.William CintonIn 1992 the Clintons campaigned on vote for one, get two.  Recently Mrs. Clinton confessed her campaign was all about a third term for B.J.

Yes the Clinton are a team but what kind of team are they.  Maureen Dowd

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Eric Florack on December 22nd, 2007

CONCORD, N.H., Dec. 21 -Washington Post- After months of discussion within her campaign over how heavily she should draw on her husband’s legacy, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is closing out her Iowa and New Hampshire campaigns in a tight embrace

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Eric Florack on December 19th, 2007

  Jonathan Martin at the politico is reporting that Tom Tancredo is about ready to call it quits. Which, as it happens is approximately as important as announcing that the 17th St kazoo band is going to be playing in East

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