Iowa Republican Straw Poll

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Originally Posted by hi_im_god

it is early on, mike. it's not as if the nomination fight is going to drag on much longer.

romney has money and organization. he'll be the nominee and get the support of all but the narrowest band of registered republicans in november.

He'll be the nominee, but some are starting to wonder aloud if Gingrich is actually being paid by the Democrats We'll see this Sat/Sun when the next debate happens in NH. Gingrich angry is Gingrich stupid - and he has nothing to lose now being foolish in his aggressive vindiction to go after Romney.

it's a fight for independents from here on.

True. But Romney is blowing it bigtime. His instincts were right the first time, don't worry about Iowa, it's just the evangelical vote. Don't go there. I think Romney has made a big mistake changing his plan, and hitting it as hard as he could. Now he's got reels of soundbites of crazy he'll never be able to take back, much to the Democrats glee.

Romney might be taken out. Nobody though Hillary could lose, either. NH will be boring, but South Carolina will be awesome.

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Originally Posted by bigrun

Have you ever seen a glummer or grouchier bunch of presidential aspirants than the current GOP crop? You’d be working those frown lines, too, I guess, if you thought, as Rick Santorum does, that this year’s race will decide “whether we will be a free people.”

I've never seen a bunch that wanted government to take over our lives and dictate what we can and cannot do so badly, on a national level. It's the John Birch Society writ large.

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