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Bachman wins Iowa Straw Poll
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Anonymous
| You have to take her seriously now. |
Anonymous
| A serious candidate, perhaps, but she's not going to get the nomination and would never be able to win the presidency. |
Anonymous
I am downright hopeful for her. We liberals root for her. And the fact that you think she has a chance says how sorry your field is. |
Anonymous
I'm liberal Independent and I would not vote for Bachman, nor would I vote for Obama again, unfortunately. I do not have a field. I do not believe she will even come close to getting nomination but she is someone who can no longer be dismissed out of hand, as you have done. Never underestimate your opponent. |
Anonymous
Well didn't you just say that you don't think she will even come close? How is that any different? I think our estimates are exactly the same. |
jsteele
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The top vote-getters in the 2007 Iowa Straw Poll were: Mitt Romney Mike Huckabee Sam Brownback Tom Tancredo John McCain came in 10th. I think I could predict the Republican nomination more accurately reading the coffee grounds of my morning coffee than the Iowa Straw Poll can. |
Anonymous
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Don't the candidates pay people to vote for them at the straw poll?
Also, most of those voters are probably dead of a heart attack by the time the election comes around from having eaten too many deep-fried sticks of butter. |
Anonymous
Can anyone assure me that she is not Katherine Harris given a new identity under the Federal Witness Protection Program?
Have we seen her official birth certificate and had it reviewed by the conspiracy-American community? |
Anonymous
| Gag! |
Anonymous
If there's 11% unemployment by September 2012, be prepared for Scarecrow-Tin Man to be elected President under the (R) banner. Latte Partiers like 20:21 will be part of the reason why, as they don't seem to like living in a two-party system. OTOH, it might be nice to see the GOP forced to actually make cuts instead of just talking about it. FWIW, there's enough time for someone like Kucinich or Feingold to launch a Kennedy 1980-style challenge against Obama. Huntsman sounds like the perfect John Anderson type, too. |
Anonymous
Very true. And yet, it forced one of the more qualified candidates to withdraw. The primary system is truly horrifying in this day and age. It's even worse than the Electoral College, and that's sayin' something. |
jsteele
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The straw poll is not part of the primary system (not that your point is still not correct, however). The straw poll is just a stunt. Moreover, I'd argue that Pawlenty's fate has been sealed for some time. He was not raising money and Perry's entrance just sucked up Pawlenty's remaining oxygen. The straw poll just provided an opportunity to withdrawal. |
Anonymous
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John Anderson received 7% of the popular vote. What is your point? |
Anonymous
Of the three (current) top-tier candidates, she is simultaneously the most scary (President Bachman? <Shudder>  and the least scary (not as strong a candidate in the general election). While you're right that the climate sets up perfectly for the GOP candidate, I have a hard time believing that independents and moderates out there are going to be comfortable with the self-appointed leader of the Tea Party whose husband cures gays in his spare time. (Wouldn't that be something - a pray-the-gay-out session in the White House? I feel sick.) Then again, it's not all the moderates in the country who matter - it's the ones in PA, OH, FL, WI, NV, VA who matter. So really, no one has any clue.
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