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		<title>By: AJ</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/08/11/what-if-they-gave-a-straw-poll-and-nobody-cared/#comment-890458</link>
		<dc:creator>AJ</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2007 17:02:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Boy –I’m really wishing Oprah would pick Under the Banner of Heaven for her next book club selection.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Boy –I’m really wishing Oprah would pick Under the Banner of Heaven for her next book club selection.</p>
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		<title>By: scribe</title>
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		<dc:creator>scribe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2007 15:32:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;FUnny, the last time my town, one with a dubious history of election irregularities, had a vote-buying indictment, the alleged payment (cash) per vote was about $40.  And that was in a “real” election - not some bogus straw poll.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now, that was about 10 years ago and all, but still…  You’d think with Rethugs’ alleged god-like economic skills and all they’d be able to get a price per vote cheaper than Mutt paid.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>FUnny, the last time my town, one with a dubious history of election irregularities, had a vote-buying indictment, the alleged payment (cash) per vote was about $40.  And that was in a “real” election &#8211; not some bogus straw poll.</p>
<p>Now, that was about 10 years ago and all, but still…  You’d think with Rethugs’ alleged god-like economic skills and all they’d be able to get a price per vote cheaper than Mutt paid.</p>
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		<title>By: JEP</title>
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		<dc:creator>JEP</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2007 13:50:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;The silent majority was.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The silent majority was.</p>
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		<title>By: bob h</title>
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		<dc:creator>bob h</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2007 10:55:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;Astounded by low totals for McCain and Rudy.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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		<title>By: cinnamonape</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/08/11/what-if-they-gave-a-straw-poll-and-nobody-cared/#comment-890081</link>
		<dc:creator>cinnamonape</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2007 10:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;This was a disaster for the Pugs! They were talking about this drawing 33,000…and they only got 14,000. So at $35 a vote (BTW much of that was paid by the candidates) the Party pulled in less than half they wanted…and much of it was simply shuffling money between accounts.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;MCCain supporters only donated less than $3500. Giuliani not much more, and Freddy “Krueger” Thompson had equivalently piss poor showings. The participants could have written their names in…Thompsons name was even ON the ballot!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Still no votes. “None of the above” (NOTA) outpolled Mitty “My Sons Serve By Helping Me Inflate My Ego” Romney.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I wonder how many of those took the $35 check written by Mitt, and then went on to vote for NOTA.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The “base” seems wholly disinterested in any of these Bozos…and the anticipated “grassroots” support for Fred Thompson that was built up by the right-wing pundits from Faux and the MSM was precisely zilch.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;No one is swallowing their bulldada anymore!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This was a disaster for the Pugs! They were talking about this drawing 33,000…and they only got 14,000. So at $35 a vote (BTW much of that was paid by the candidates) the Party pulled in less than half they wanted…and much of it was simply shuffling money between accounts.</p>
<p>MCCain supporters only donated less than $3500. Giuliani not much more, and Freddy “Krueger” Thompson had equivalently piss poor showings. The participants could have written their names in…Thompsons name was even ON the ballot!</p>
<p>Still no votes. “None of the above” (NOTA) outpolled Mitty “My Sons Serve By Helping Me Inflate My Ego” Romney.</p>
<p>I wonder how many of those took the $35 check written by Mitt, and then went on to vote for NOTA.</p>
<p>The “base” seems wholly disinterested in any of these Bozos…and the anticipated “grassroots” support for Fred Thompson that was built up by the right-wing pundits from Faux and the MSM was precisely zilch.</p>
<p>No one is swallowing their bulldada anymore!</p>
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		<title>By: cinnamonape</title>
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		<dc:creator>cinnamonape</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2007 10:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-889547&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;althespook @ 66&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-889540&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Steve-AR @ 59&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;OT..more good christian family values..&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Pastor accused of dragging girl behind his van&lt;br /&gt;
A trainer also faces charges in incident at boot camp&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;By JEORGE ZARAZUA&lt;br /&gt;
San Antonio Express-news&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A San Antonio pastor and an employee of his Christian boot camp were arrested Friday on aggravated assault charges, accused of dragging a girl behind a van after she failed to keep up during a running exercise.&lt;br /&gt;
………….&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rawstory.com/showoutarticle.php?src=http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5045830.html&quot;&gt;http://rawstory.com/showoutart.....45830.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If I were to name the one thing that the newly elected dem pres/congress should do, it’s destroy those awful “boot camps”. It is actually a sign of how far we’ve fallen that they exist at all. Can anyone imagine FDR allowing children with juvenile problems to be sent to such places? He didn’t want to sent enemy PRISONERS to such places (Geneva Conventions).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;These “boot camps” are the ones that “Christian” parents send their kids in lieu of thhose “Satanic” ones run by other groups. These aren’t the ones that States send Juvenile offenders off to…unless in Bush’s grand scheme to expand the federal money supporting the Jesus Industry they have farmed out the Correctional Facilities to the groups as well. Another case of Bush’s “Faith-Based Initiatives” replacing governmental groups, perhaps?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="#comment-889547"><em>althespook @ 66</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p><a href="#comment-889540"><em>Steve-AR @ 59</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p>OT..more good christian family values..</p>
<p>Pastor accused of dragging girl behind his van<br />
A trainer also faces charges in incident at boot camp</p>
<p>By JEORGE ZARAZUA<br />
San Antonio Express-news</p>
<p>A San Antonio pastor and an employee of his Christian boot camp were arrested Friday on aggravated assault charges, accused of dragging a girl behind a van after she failed to keep up during a running exercise.<br />
………….</p>
<p><a href="http://rawstory.com/showoutarticle.php?src=http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5045830.html">http://rawstory.com/showoutart&#8230;..45830.html</a></p>
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<p>If I were to name the one thing that the newly elected dem pres/congress should do, it’s destroy those awful “boot camps”. It is actually a sign of how far we’ve fallen that they exist at all. Can anyone imagine FDR allowing children with juvenile problems to be sent to such places? He didn’t want to sent enemy PRISONERS to such places (Geneva Conventions).</p>
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<p>These “boot camps” are the ones that “Christian” parents send their kids in lieu of thhose “Satanic” ones run by other groups. These aren’t the ones that States send Juvenile offenders off to…unless in Bush’s grand scheme to expand the federal money supporting the Jesus Industry they have farmed out the Correctional Facilities to the groups as well. Another case of Bush’s “Faith-Based Initiatives” replacing governmental groups, perhaps?</p>
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		<title>By: cinnamonape</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/08/11/what-if-they-gave-a-straw-poll-and-nobody-cared/#comment-890073</link>
		<dc:creator>cinnamonape</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2007 10:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-889537&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;LS @ 56&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-889531&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Loo Hoo. @ 51&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Duncan Hunter is one scary MoFo.  He’s Darrell Issa reflected.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;They are connected by dots somehow…I can smell it…both of them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I think the dots are the plague. The smell is putrification from the undead.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="#comment-889537"><em>LS @ 56</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p><a href="#comment-889531"><em>Loo Hoo. @ 51</em></a></p>
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<p>Duncan Hunter is one scary MoFo.  He’s Darrell Issa reflected.</p>
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<p>They are connected by dots somehow…I can smell it…both of them.</p>
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<p>I think the dots are the plague. The smell is putrification from the undead.</p>
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		<title>By: cinnamonape</title>
		<link>http://firedoglake.com/2007/08/11/what-if-they-gave-a-straw-poll-and-nobody-cared/#comment-890070</link>
		<dc:creator>cinnamonape</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2007 10:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-889531&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Loo Hoo. @ 51&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-889487&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Joe Klein’s conscience @ 15&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Duncan Hunter got more voters than McCain .. lol .. not only that .. but Rudy McHollywood couldn’t gather 500 voters combined.  How pathetic.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Duncan Hunter is one scary MoFo.  He’s Darrell Issa reflected.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I don’t think they create reflections.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="#comment-889531"><em>Loo Hoo. @ 51</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p><a href="#comment-889487"><em>Joe Klein’s conscience @ 15</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p>Duncan Hunter got more voters than McCain .. lol .. not only that .. but Rudy McHollywood couldn’t gather 500 voters combined.  How pathetic.</p>
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<p>Duncan Hunter is one scary MoFo.  He’s Darrell Issa reflected.</p>
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<p>I don’t think they create reflections.</p>
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		<title>By: cinnamonape</title>
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		<dc:creator>cinnamonape</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2007 10:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-889493&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Rob Zuber @ 18&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Josh Marshall made the interesting comment that only aout 14,000 people voted, compared to 24,000 eight years ago.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;They must not have gotten the National Republican Committee’s “audit” letter about not doing enough for the party and asking for “dues”.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Wait a minute…maybe they DID get it!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="#comment-889493"><em>Rob Zuber @ 18</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p>Josh Marshall made the interesting comment that only aout 14,000 people voted, compared to 24,000 eight years ago.</p>
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<p>They must not have gotten the National Republican Committee’s “audit” letter about not doing enough for the party and asking for “dues”.</p>
<p>Wait a minute…maybe they DID get it!</p>
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		<title>By: squiddy</title>
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		<dc:creator>squiddy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2007 07:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#comment-889896&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bobby St. Chomsky @ 147&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;The republics:&lt;br /&gt;
Increasingly more irrelevant, irrelevant, irrelevant.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Never underestimate the Republicans’ eternal eagerness to vote for the murder of their children over Hummer juice.  It’s what they consider patriotic.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="#comment-889896"><em>Bobby St. Chomsky @ 147</em></a></p>
<blockquote><p>The republics:<br />
Increasingly more irrelevant, irrelevant, irrelevant.</p>
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<p>Never underestimate the Republicans’ eternal eagerness to vote for the murder of their children over Hummer juice.  It’s what they consider patriotic.</p>
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