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Alarmism on Exceptional Weather Upheavals may affect US Election turnout + Result ?! ----------------- Don't like these Alarmist reports on Exceptional Weather Perturbations in Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee, etc : => It's certainly due to OBSTRUCT VOTERS for "Super Tuesday"'s US Presidential Election's most important day, targetting particularly 2 States (Mo + TN) where Huckabee's initial lead depends on the turnout of a few hundredrs voters, hitting mostly Rural Areas, precisely there where Value-motivated Honest Simple People are usually located... It reminds of the Exceptional Rains and Snow-storms which had targetted the Upper part of South Carolina, (where Huck had focused,...

In their coverage of what they believed to be Romney's political funeral on Super Tuesday, let's get a few facts straight: Romney crushed Huckabee in the popular vote today, winning by margin of approximately 2:1. Romney won more delegates than Huckabee Romney won more states than Huckabee Romney won roughly 2x as many 1st or 2nd place finishes. Romney didn't poll less than 10% in any state, and as for Huckabee, well, ouch!! Romney will clearly be the #2 Republican in terms of electoral votes after Super Tuesday. So while McCain is clearly the front-runner, Fox News couldn't have erred...

Carl Cameron says it'll become offical sometime later this week. Oh well, we're doomed. Let's hope it'll be minimal damage until 2012.

Today is the big day!

Despite all the feelings that have been hurt, religions that have been prodded, endorsements that have been given, contentions that have been refuted - and not, and certainly all the arguments that have been had - this GOP Primary has been exceedingly good for the conservative republican voter. I might remind you it didn't start out that way. Way back when I first wrote of my endorsement of the historic, record setting, earlier than ever before primary race revving up - one thing was crystal clear, Rudy Giuliani was the favored candidate. His lead in the polls was strong. Heck...

GOP punishes 5 early voting states By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER, Associated Press Writer 12 minutes ago The Republican Party announced Thursday that it will punish five states for scheduling early nominating contests. New Hampshire, Florida, South Carolina, Michigan and Wyoming will lose half of their delegates to the national convention, said Mike Duncan, chairman of the Republican National Committee.

Republican Party leaders on Monday recommended punishing five states for shifting their nomination contests earlier, moving to strip New Hampshire, Florida, South Carolina, Michigan and Wyoming of half their delegates. ADVERTISEMENT At least one state, South Carolina, is considering legal action in an effort to keep its delegates to next year's Republican National Convention. Iowa, which plans to hold Republican caucuses on Jan. 3, would not be penalized because, technically, the caucuses are not binding on convention delegates. Nevada, which plans to hold its caucuses on Jan. 19, would not be penalized for the same reason. "It's very important that...

The Republican National Committee is expected to sanction Florida for holding its primary on January 29, 2008, but that is not likely to prevent the state from holding the make-or-break contest of the campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. The rules are clear, a spokeswoman for the committee, Tracey Schmitt, said. Florida will lose half of its 114 delegates to the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis-Saint Paul next September because it jumped ahead of the February 5 firewall the national party sought to maintain on behalf of the traditional early states. But the chairman of the Florida Republican Party, Jim...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida, August 30, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Pro-family advocates may soon have a chance to see where Republican candidates stand on American values in September's upcoming "Values Voter Presidential Debate." The debate is scheduled for Monday, September 17th at 7:30 p.m. at the Broward Center for the Performing Arts in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Seven out of nine Republican candidates have indicated they plan to participate in the event, however their names have not yet been released to the general public. Questions will be fielded to participating candidates from among 40 pro-family leaders include such notables as Phyllis Schlafly, President...

For this post, I'm going to set aside my personal preferences in the 2008 race and talk about which candidates are most likely to capture the nomination. Keep in mind that it is still early and the race is very fluid, so this analysis could and probably will change quite a bit over the next few months. Fred Thompson (40%): He's polling in 2nd place nationally right now, but he has more grass roots support amongst the activists and bloggers than any other candidate and he's the only solid conservative in the top tier. Rudy Giuliani (25%): He's polling the...

And the leading Republican presidential candidate is ... none of the above. The latest Associated Press-Ipsos poll found that nearly a quarter of Republicans are unwilling to back top-tier hopefuls Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson, John McCain or Mitt Romney, and no one candidate has emerged as the clear front-runner among Christian evangelicals. Such dissatisfaction underscores the volatility of the 2008 GOP nomination fight. In sharp contrast, the Democratic race remains static, with Hillary Rodham Clinton holding a sizable lead over Barack Obama. The New York senator, who is white, also outpaces her Illinois counterpart, who is black, among black and...

SPARTANBURG, S.C. - Republican presidential candidate John McCain (news, bio, voting record), looking to improve his standing with the party's conservative voters, said Sunday the court decision that legalized abortion should be overturned. "I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned," the Arizona senator told about 800 people in South Carolina, one of the early voting states. McCain also vowed that if elected, he would appoint judges who "strictly interpret the Constitution of the United States and do not legislate from the bench." The landmark 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade gave women the right to choose...

Back to Story - Help 2008 GOP Primary: Giuliani 29% McCain 19% Gingrich 16% rasmussenreports.comTue Jan 30, 9:55 AM ET Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R) has opened a double digit lead over over Senator John McCain (news, bio, voting record) (R) in the race for the Republican Presidential nomination. Giuliani now earns 29% of the vote, little changed from 30% a week ago and 28% two weeks ago. McCain (R) is now supported by 19% of Likely GOP Primary voters, down from 22% a week ago. While McCain has slipped a bit, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich...

WASHINGTON -- Mike Huckabee, who just stepped down as Arkansas' governor, is the brightest star among Republican presidential dark horses. It's not just because he, like a certain other Arkansan, has ties to a town called Hope, nor because he lost 105 pounds and has written a popular diet book. And it's not only because he is mastering a conservative form of triangulation blending religious conservatism with policy pragmatism. Huckabee, if he chooses to run for president in 2008, has another asset: while front-runners John McCain and Rudy Giuliani have placed large bets on the success of President Bush's Iraq...

WASHINGTON -- A month ago, the idea that Sen. Chuck Hagel would make a serious run for the Republican presidential nomination would have been a nonstarter. As an outspoken critic of President Bush on Iraq and other issues, Hagel's way was blocked. His best hope was nomination by a quixotic third party in an online convention. It's a measure of the step change brought about by the Nov. 7 elections that Hagel is now seriously exploring a GOP presidential bid. The Republican blowout, he says, reflected a "breakdown of confidence and trust in governance'' and opened the way for what...

WASHINGTON — You're traveling through another dimension; a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind. It's a journey into a wondrous land where the surname Bush is glorious, and whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead -- your next stop, Florida. Older readers will recognize the words above from the introduction to the hit TV show, "The Twilight Zone." Believe it or not, there's a swing state in this country where the name Bush is not a negative. In fact, in this magical place, Republicans clamor to be seen next to this Bush....

He hopes to build on the 'tens of millions of dollars' the Bush campaign spent to mobilize evangelical Christians. In 1988, the arrival of the religious right and social conservatism as formidable and entwined forces in the Republican Party was signaled when Pat Robertson received 25 percent of the vote in the Iowa presidential nominating caucuses, second to Bob Dole's 37 percent. Seventeen years later, when Robertson wasasked on ABC's "This Week'' who he thought might make a fine Republican nominee in 2008, he began his answer: "There's an outstanding senator from Kansas ...''Sam Brownback, 48, won the Senate seat...