The first official casualty of yesterday’s Iowa caucus: Michele Bachmann. “Last night, the people of Iowa spoke with a very clear voice, so I have decided to stand aside,” Bachmann said at a news conference, flanked by her parents, husband and five children. “I have no regrets, none whatsoever. We never compromised our principles and we [...]
With 95% of votes in, the Des Moines Register is reporting Romney at 24.6%, Rick Santorum at 24.5%, and Ron Paul with a close 3rd place finish at 21.5%. Gingrich, Perry, and Bachmann are currently in a distant 4th, 5th, and 6th place respectively. What does this mean? Absolutely nothing. No, wait – that’s not [...]
The rhetorical, anonymous “they’s” have been out in full force the last few days, whispering in the ears of the mainstream media that Iowa is too white, too evangelical, and too rural for its caucus to accurately reflect mainstream America. The Christian Science Monitor (link opens a PDF file) disagrees: There is no denying that [...]
Former Minnesota governor Tim Pawlenty dropped out of the Republican presidential race after a disappointing third place finish in the Iowa straw poll. Pawlenty announced his withdrawl on ABC’s This Week. “We needed to get some lift to continue on and have a pathway forward. That didn’t happen so I’m announcing this morning on your [...]
Iowa's caucuses are tonight, marking the "official" beginning of the Presidential nomination campaigns which began a year ago. While it may be difficult to get a meaningful result tonight -…
Iowa's phony position as the "first" political contest of the Presidential race ensures their billions of dollars of federal ethanol subsidies are safe from reformers, and that competing ethanol from other countries will be kept out by unfair restrictions. Taxpayers and consumers are robbed to feed the giant Iowa subsidy hog because the politicians won't cut it off, lest they wish to run for President some day (and most fantasize about it constantly).
So enjoy the meaningless charade of the tiny fraction of Iowans who've been badgered into braving the cold to waste a couple of hours pretending to practice democracy tomorrow night: you paid for it.
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