Showing posts with label Rick Perry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rick Perry. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Iowa Caucus Results 2012 - Rick Santorum And Mitt Romney At Close Race (Updates)



Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum in the top tier of candidates. No surprises.

Entrance polls of those who arrived early: Paul and Romney lead with 24%, followed by Santorum at 18%, Gingrich at 13%, Perry at 11% and Bachmann at 7%.

One prediction I'll make: Entrance polls will seem way off from final results because caucus attendees can react to the data as it comes in on their phones.

Complete entrance polls -- early and late arrivals -- show Paul leading with 24%, Romney at 23%, Santorum at 23%, and Gingrich at 13%.

NBC News election models show first and second place within .3%. They also conclude entrance polls overestimated Paul's strength.

Santorum and Romney were separated by just dozens of votes as counting neared an end early today, with U.S. Representative Ron Paul of Texas finishing a close third.

Santorum claimed 24.6 percent of the vote, Romney 24.5 percent and Paul 21.1 percent, according to the Associated Press, with 99 percent of the precincts reporting.







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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Jon Stewart Takes On 'Crazy' GOP Candidate Rhetoric


"Daily Show" segment last week on how divisive Republican rhetoric can be, but this week he's going after the straight-up crazy talk.

The latest GOP presidential candidates to hop on the gaffe express are Rick Perry and Herman Cain. Stewart had a laugh at Perry for doubting President Obama's birthplace and then saying he was just messing around ("It's fun to poke him a little bit"). But it was Herman Cain's electrified border fence retraction -- he said he was joking but then said one sentence later, "It might be electrified" -- that really got Stewart going.

Even though there is still a year until we find out who wins the 2012 election, Stewart was able to put together a pretty thorough supercut showing the pattern of "crazy" talk that has emerged among the candidates, including Mitt Romney's "Corporations are people" remark and Bachmann's HPV vaccine story.






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