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Presidential race 2012
Comment Forum, Presidential race 2012
Friday Poll and Comment Forum: Who Wins the Iowa Caucuses?
by JOHN ADAMS •
A simple poll and comment forum, about the January 3rd Iowa caucuses: who wins? Winning, of course, might be mean an unexpectedly strong finish. Who wins the Iowa caucuses? For reference, Intrade has over a dozen political markets for the Iowa caucuses. Moderated only against profanity or trolls — have at it.
Libertarians, Politics, Presidential race 2012, Uncategorized
Who is a Ron Paul supporter?
by JOHN ADAMS •
There’s a story at the Washington Post website describing GOP candidate Ron Paul’s supporters. They’re younger, more secular, and more dedicated than other Republicans. That they’re disproportionately younger suggests to me that they’re not from movement families (that is, they’re not from old and longstanding libertarian households). Paul, to his credit, has attracted an energetic,…
Libertarians, Presidential race 2012
Gingrich Declares Paul Worse than Obama
by JOHN ADAMS •
There’s a lot more to say about Ron Paul between now and the January 3rd Iowa caucuses, but it’s too funny that Newt Gingrich finds Paul objectionable to ‘virtually every decent American.’ Gingrich – a man of plentiful hyperbole – held back with virtually every decent American? Who’s beyond virtually every – Paul’s family? Gingrich has been at the top of national polls…
Libertarians, Politics, Presidential race 2012
Update: Ron Paul Storms Out Walks Away During CNN Interview Over Newsletter Questions
by JOHN ADAMS •
Libertarians, Presidential race 2012
Ron Paul Storms Out of CNN Interview Over Newsletter Questions
by JOHN ADAMS •
Libertarian-leaning Ron Paul made a bush-league mistake when he walked out of an interview with CNN. Years ago, Paul published a newsletter under his name in which some racist stories and articles appeared. Paul contends he didn’t really supervise the publication at all, and that he merely lent his name to the newsletter. Perhaps. If…
Libertarians, Presidential race 2012
POLITICO: Gary Johnson to drop out of GOP primary to run as Libertarian
by JOHN ADAMS •
As expected, former Gov. Johnson’s preparing to run as a Libertarian. If he gets the party’s nomination, he will be the second GOP politician in a row to run as the LP nominee. (Bob Barr was a former GOP Congressman who ran as a right-libertarian in ’08, and Johnson’s a former governor who’d run as a left-libertarian.)…
Presidential race 2012
On Herman Cain’s Campaign
by JOHN ADAMS •
Sadly, yes: Steve Schmidt, who managed Arizona Sen. John McCain’s 2008 presidential race, offered a far harsher assessment of the Cain moment. “That Cain’s candidacy was taken seriously for longer than a nano-second in a time of genuine crisis for the country raises fundamental questions about the health of the political process and the Republican…
Presidential race 2012
Gingrich: Poor Children Have “No Habits of Working”
by JOHN ADAMS •
Somewhere tonight, Gov. Romney’s smiling: “Really poor children, in really poor neighborhoods have no habits of working and have nobody around them who works so they have no habit of showing up on Monday,” Gingrich claimed. “They have no habit of staying all day, they have no habit of I do this and you give…
Presidential race 2012
What a prediction market thinks of the Herman Cain scandal
by JOHN ADAMS •
Over at the prediction market Intrade.com, as of this afternoon, there’s not much reason for concern about Cain’s scandals, because there’s little expectation that Cain will be the GOP nominee. (He’s fallen over the course of the day, but the distance has been short, as he was never that high anyway.) Just over 70% expect…