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Op-ed: Ted Cruz Announces He's Running and the Naysayers Gather Like Vultures to a Feast

Michele Bachmann to America: Come to D.C. on Dec. 3 & Rally to 'Defund Amnesty' (Full interview 11-20-14)

CPAC 2014 DAY 3 VIDEOS (Full Speeches 03-08-14)

Vales Voters Summit 2013 DAYS 1&2 Speeches all in one spot (Full videos 10-11/12-13)

Tea Party's 'Audit the IRS Rally' (Full video and separate speeches 06-19-13)

Faith & Freedom Coalition 'Road to Majority' (videos 06-13/15-13)

Mitt Romney Campaigns with Bob McDonnell and Michele Bachmann in Portsmouth, Virginia (FULL VIDEO 05-03-12)

GOP Presidential candidate Mitt Romney campaigned with Virginia Republican Governor Bob McDonnell and Minnesota Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann, who announced her endorsement of Mitt Romney today.

Mitt Romney, in his speech to supporters, sought to draw contrast between himself and the president on issues of domestic policy and military and foreign spending. He told the coastal community that he would grant Gov. McDonnell's request to drill for oil and gas offshore.

The full story is HERE.

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2012 Presidential Race: Divine Intervention?

Romney: Living Life Tends to Make Your Life More Conservative

Mitt Romney was on Fox and Friends today and he made some very solid points that are worth going into some detail.

1) "Living life tends to make your life more conservative". This accurately describes the course that Romney has taken. Pundits and rivals like to label Mitt as a "flip-flopper". The phrase refers to politicians that take one position when it is politically convenient and then revert to their previous position. Governor Romney has only become more and more conservative with age and experience which is the natural journey for most Americans. We call it wisdom. He has never flipped and flopped. That epithet is 100% misleading.

2) Romney responded to Sarah Palin's doubts about his conservatism and clearly will not make an enemy of the former Alaska Governor even though she has disparaged him on more than several occasions. “We should probably spend time with Sarah Palin...I’m not sure what she’s referring to. I’m pro-life, pro traditional marriage, I believe in the second amendment, as governor I balanced the budget every year I was in office. Cut taxes 19 times.” In addition to responding well to Palin he proves he is a concensus builder. It would be tempting to write Mrs. Palin off but he has never looked to divide people or exacerbate differences. The fact that he has received the support from so many colleagues and former competitors is testament to his business like ability to unite and enhance cooperation. Our current President lacks this essential executive characteristic.

3) We have made the massive mistake of electing to office someone who had zero business experience and zero executive leadership. The plain and simple truth is Mitt Romney is the only candidate from Newt to Barak that has tackled this fundamental principal, "if you’ve been in the business world, you can’t help but be conservative, because if you don’t balance your budget in business, you go out of business.” President Obama made a campaign promise to cut the deficit in half and now says, "Well we're not there because this recession turned out to be a lot deeper than any of us realized." Mitt Romney has promised to balance the budget and his record and experience suggest he will because he has.

4) “I know some people want to talk about other issues, but frankly the issue that is beneath much of what’s happening in this country is the need to get our economy going again, to get people with rising incomes, gas prices lower, more people going back to work." Rick Santorum has done a good job at diverting GOP interest with cultural crusades but this year it's all about the economy stupid. Enough said.

Take America Back

This has been a pretty contentious primary, so it is nice when we see the GOP candidates collaborating on something.

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CNN/ORC Poll: Romney by 30 in New Hampshire

ORC International conducted an interesting experiment: It interviewed likely New Hampshire GOP primary voters over the final two weeks of December about their presidential preference, then called back on Tuesday night between 9:23 p.m. and 10:02 p.m., asking respondents if they were following news coverage of the Iowa caucuses. It then asked those who were following news coverage for their candidate preference once again.

GOP Nomination: (Previous results from December 21-31)

Mitt Romney 47% (47%)
Ron Paul 17% (17%)
Jon Huntsman 13% (13%)
Rick Santorum 10% (5%)
Newt Gingrich 9% (12%)
Michele Bachmann 1% (2%)
Rick Perry * (*)

Interviews conducted by telephone by ORC International on January 3, 2012 with 554 likely Republican primary voters in New Hampshire who watched TV news coverage of the Iowa caucuses on January 3 or followed them via radio, the internet, or another news source. All interviews on January 3 were conducted between 9:23 pm and 10:02 pm. The margin of sampling error for results based on the total sample is plus or minus 4 percentage points.

The full story is HERE.
See the data HERE.

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Michele Bachmann Ends her campaign (VIDEO 1-4-12)

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LIVE FEEDS: Iowa Caucuses (Open-Thread)

I thought it would be a good idea to post as many live sources to today's caucuses in Iowa as possible. Especially since many don't have cable access to some of these networks. Most networks will be covering the caucuses throughout the day especially after 6:PM EST.

Not all the links below will be covering the caucuses continuously so you will probably need to click on different ones throughout the day.

I am also hoping to have Fox News embedded here as well as an additional source beginning at 7PM EST.

ENJOY!

Suffolk University/7News Poll: Romney STOMPING ALL in New Hampshire with 26 Point lead

GOP Nomination: (Previous results from Dec 15)

Mitt Romney 41% (38%)
Ron Paul 15% (8%)
Newt Gingrich 11% (20%)
Jon Huntsman 9% (13%)
Rick Santorum 3% (2%)
Michele Bachmann 3% (3%)
Rick Perry 2% (1%)
Buddy Roemer 1% (2%)
Fred Karger 0% (0%)
Undecided 16% (11%)

A survey of 500 Republican Primary voters was taken December 30-31.

The data can be viewed HERE.

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ARG Poll: Romney on top by 5 in IOWA

GOP Nomination:

Mitt Romney 22%
Ron Paul 17%
Rick Santorum 16%
Newt Gingrich 15%
Rick Perry 9%
Michele Bachmann 8%
Jon Huntsman 4%
Buddy Roemer 1%
Other 1%
Undecided 7%

A survey of 600 likely Republican caucus-goers was conducted December 29, 2011 - January 1, 2012. The MOE is +/-4%.

The data can be viewed HERE.

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InsiderAdvantage/MOR Poll: Romney and Paul on top in Iowa

GOP Nomination: (Previous results from Dec 28)

Mitt Romney 22.7% (17.2%)
Ron Paul 22.4% (17.3%)
Rick Santorum 18.0% (13.4%)
Newt Gingrich 16.1% (16.7%)
Rick Perry 9.6% (10.5%)
Michele Bachmann 5.8% (11.8%)
Jon Huntsman 1.8% (2.8%)
Someone else 1.3% (3.0%)
No opinion 2.3% (7.3%)

A survey of 729 likely Iowa GOP caucus-goers was conducted January 1, 2012.

The data can be viewed HERE.

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Magellan/NH Journal Poll: A Romney runaway in New Hampshire

GOP Nomination: (Previous results from Nov 17)

Mitt Romney 41% (29%)
Ron Paul 21% (16%)
Newt Gingrich 12% (27%)
Jon Huntsman 12% (8%)
Rick Santorum 4% (1%)
Michele Bachmann 4% (2%)
Rick Perry 3% (2)
Some other candidate 2% (2%)
Undecided 1% (3%)

A survey of 648 likely Republican primary voters was conducted December 27-28, 2011. The MOE is +/-3.85%.

The data can be viewed HERE.

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The mess in Virginia gets a little more clear

Virginia is in quite a pickle. We currently have an 7 person field for the GOP nomination ticket. Of those seven, Huntsman, Bachmann, and Santorum didn't even try to get on the ticket in Virginia. Two, Perry and Gingrich, failed to get on. One, Paul, had to have his names verified during a 7 hour process. And one person, Romney, didn't even need to have his signatures verified through the more rigorous process. To Romney's credit and his innate thoroughness, he had his staff verify a sample of the names and determined, statistically, that his names would have pass the more rigorous process. He then turned in his list a week early.

PPP Polling: It's could be a photo finish in Iowa

GOP Nomination: (Previous results from Dec 28)

Ron Paul 20% (24%)
Mitt Romney 19% (20%)
Rick Santorum 18% (10%)
Newt Gingrich 14% (13%)
Rick Perry 10% (10%)
Michele Bachmann 8% (11%)
Jon Huntsman 4% (4%)
Buddy Roemer 2% (2%)
Someone else/Not sure 4% (5%)

PPP surveyed 1,340 likely Republican caucus voters on December 31st and January 1st.
The margin of error for the survey is +/-2.7%.

The crosstabs can be viewed HERE.

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