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Cross-posted from AMERICAblog Elections: The Right’s Field NH Results: Mitt Romney 39.4% (94,255) Ron Paul: 22.8% (54,513) Jon Huntsman: 16.9% (40,388) Newt Gingrich: 9.4% (22,518) Rick Santorum: 9.3% (22,293) Rick Perry: 0.7% (1,688) A few thoughts… Attention reporters: Mitt Romney is not the first Republican non-incumbent to win Iowa and New Hampshire, as Romney neither [...]

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Matt Taibbi on the 2012 elections: Most likely, it’ll be Mitt Romney versus Barack Obama, meaning the voters’ choices in the midst of a massive global economic crisis brought on in large part by corruption in the financial services industry will be a private equity parasite who has been a lifelong champion of the Gordon [...]

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Originally posted at AMERICAblog Elections: The Right’s Field The final Iowa results: Romney, 24.55% (30,015 votes) Santorum, 24.54% (30,007 votes) Ron Paul, 21.45% (26,219 votes) Gingrich, 13.29% (16,251 votes) Perry, 10.3% (12,604 votes) Bachmann, 4.97% (6,073 votes) Huntsman (745 votes) No preference (135 votes) Other (117 votes) Cain (58 votes) Roemer (31 votes) Kombiz and [...]

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For what it’s worth, yesterday’s post on Ron Paul and the debate he has sparked in the progressive blogosphere focused on the fact that Paul was the only major party candidate holding positions traditionally held by liberals regarding civil liberties, war and peace, domestic surveillance, and drug policy. While this is true, Gary Johnson, the [...]

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There’s been a recent debate in the progressive blogosphere, elevated out of numerous conversations on Twitter, about Ron Paul, which have in turn surfaced major questions about what it means to be a liberal in America today and how ideological views are expressed in the electoral context. These are hard questions, in part because so [...]

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Originally posted at AMERICAblog Elections: The Right’s Field Ari Melber has a very thoughtful piece at The Atlantic on the chances that the 2012 Republican presidential election could signal the end of the Iowa caucus as a major component of the primary process. Traditionally campaigns skipped Iowa at their own peril. But this cycle both [...]

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Originally posted at AMERICAblog Elections: The Right’s Field Jon Ward at Huffington Post has a fantastic piece on the shifting political narrative that has happened while Newt Gingrich has overtaken Mitt Romney for the lead in the Republican presidential primary. At issue is while Romney has been running on a platform of inevitability, large swaths [...]

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Originally posted at AMERICAblog During the Washington Post versus New York Times battle over whether Barack Obama’s reelection campaign did or did not raise more money from Wall Street than Mitt Romney and the other GOP candidates, the Obama campaign and its defenders arrived at a position which while technically true was not accurate in [...]

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Yesterday there was a Washington Post story on how much money Obama and Romney have gotten from Wall Street which directly conflicted with a New York Times article earlier in the week. The Washington Post story reported that Obama has raised more money from Wall Street than all of the GOP candidates combined. The Times, [...]

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The New York Times has an editorial in praise of Elizabeth Warren and her candidacy for Senate in Massachusetts. Interestingly (though also accurately) they highlight her ability as an effective messenger on the economy and class issues: Democrats should not be cowed by conservative taunts that the speech advocated “collectivism,” and use this argument to [...]

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