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Archives for January 23, 2012

Julie Dole Poll Results

A couple notes about the poll:
1. It’s completely unscientific.
2. It appears that people who oppose Julie Dole voted in far higher numbers than those who support her.
3. The point of my poll and my post was not to attack any candidates that Julie may support or oppose, but to remind her that her duty is to the delegates, and by violating the bylaws, which she did, she threatens the entire convention process. [cont…]

Family Values, Newt Gingrich Style

For those media types who still want to jettison a closed primary and open a primary to anyone, let me present Exhibit A for why open primaries give bad results:

Newt Gingrich. He’s proof that a body of voters can choose the candidate least in line with his party and with more likelihood of getting in a “snooty” remark about the President than winning a general election.

Besides, how do we respect a man whose definition of “family values” includes trotting out his daughters to hide a lie about his infidelity? [cont…]