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The New “It”

  Rick Santorum crept up in the Iowa polls in recent weeks as the last standing social conservative who could challenge Mitt Romney for the Republican nomination. As Newt Gingrich’s and Michele Bachmann’s supporters looked for a relevant place to cast their vote, Mr. Santorum, who campaigned endlessly in Iowa,  became the latest, and maybe last, “it” […]

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C’est de la Politique Américaine

http://youtu.be/IjL3mpmibt4 And, speaking of Iowa… Things are getting pretty low-brow in the Hawkeye state. Here is an example of the type of ad now running, this one from a “progressive” group calling itself Americanlp.org. Its message? If Mitt Romney speaks French, he must be a liberal. (Again, this ad purportedly is coming from a left-wing Super PAC.) […]

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Newt Tanking

New Polls out of Iowa confirm what Rasmussen reported on Friday.  Newt Gingrich is tanking.  Ron Paul is now formally in the lead in the Hawkeye State, but that cannot last.  His isolationist foreign policy positions are anathema to a vast majority of Republicans everywhere.  Mr. Gingrich’s precipitous drop is welcome evidence that the messaging used by other […]

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