This will be the final post of the night. And thank you for sticking around with us. It's be real.
With 85% of precincts reporting:
Huckabee 34%
Romney 25%
Thompson 13%
McCain 13%
With 97% of precincts reporting:
Obama 38%
Edwards 30%
Clinton 29%
Richardson 2%
(Chris Dodd has officially dropped out of the race)
Anaylsis tomorrow night.
Showing posts with label Iowa Caucus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Iowa Caucus. Show all posts
Thursday, January 3, 2008
UPDATE: The Iowa Caucus
The D's are still duking it out.
And it's clear that the Democraticly controlled Congress, one that has a lower approval rating then the often bashed President Bush have no idea where to take their ailing party. What direction do they want to go in?
We'll we say "Take Your Time!"
with 73% of precincts reporting
Obama 35%
Edwards 31%
Clinton 31%
Richardson 2%
9:28pm: Foxnews calls the Iowa Caucus in favor of Barack Obama
9:29pm: CNN calls the Iowa Caucus for Barack Obama
And it's clear that the Democraticly controlled Congress, one that has a lower approval rating then the often bashed President Bush have no idea where to take their ailing party. What direction do they want to go in?
We'll we say "Take Your Time!"
with 73% of precincts reporting
Obama 35%
Edwards 31%
Clinton 31%
Richardson 2%
9:28pm: Foxnews calls the Iowa Caucus in favor of Barack Obama
9:29pm: CNN calls the Iowa Caucus for Barack Obama
UPDATE: The Iowa Caucus
Here's what we got so far for early Entrance Polls- these will change!!
As of 8:30pm for the D's:
Obama 31%
Clinton 27%
Edwards 21%
Still waiting for Republican Entrance Polls
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Correction: Obama at 34%
As of 8:30pm for the D's:
Obama 31%
Clinton 27%
Edwards 21%
Still waiting for Republican Entrance Polls
**
Correction: Obama at 34%
UPDATE: The Iowa Caucus
Doors are closed and the voting has started!
And no one put it better than Aaron Laroche, Chairman of the Vermont College Republicans:
"Let the Mortal Kombat.. errrr, Iowa Caucus begin!"
And no one put it better than Aaron Laroche, Chairman of the Vermont College Republicans:
"Let the Mortal Kombat.. errrr, Iowa Caucus begin!"
UPDATE: The Iowa Caucus
Many evangelic groups are reporting higher than expected turnout to the caucus. Huckabee's campaign manager is claiming a "bigger then 5 point victory" for the Arkansas Governor. Two more hours, and we will know.
Voting starts in 5 minutes. Are you at the edge of your seat? We certainly are!!
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Ron Paul supporters are all over the state. What does that mean? Is there a "Ron Paul Affect?"
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Obama's camp is claiming turnout is 25% higher than it was in 2004. What does that mean for the D's?
Voting starts in 5 minutes. Are you at the edge of your seat? We certainly are!!
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Ron Paul supporters are all over the state. What does that mean? Is there a "Ron Paul Affect?"
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Obama's camp is claiming turnout is 25% higher than it was in 2004. What does that mean for the D's?
UPDATE: The Iowa Caucus
15 Minutes until the Iowa Caucus officially begins.
Foxnews analysists are split on who they think will pull in the win; but few are ignoring McCain who has the opportunity to come in a strong third and could affectively propel him to a NH victory.
And for Aaron - a few people claim that there might be a stronger than expected Ron Paul showing; though not enough to put him past John McCain.
One thing is for certain, people seem to have forgotten about Rudy...
Foxnews analysists are split on who they think will pull in the win; but few are ignoring McCain who has the opportunity to come in a strong third and could affectively propel him to a NH victory.
And for Aaron - a few people claim that there might be a stronger than expected Ron Paul showing; though not enough to put him past John McCain.
One thing is for certain, people seem to have forgotten about Rudy...
Two Hours Away
The Iowa Caucus, the first real contest in the 2008 Presidential Campaign, kicks off in two hours. Be sure to check back here often tonight, and we'll keep you updated on all the news from Iowa.
Polls show a dead heat between Huckabee and Romney. But anything can happen.
Stay tuned!
Polls show a dead heat between Huckabee and Romney. But anything can happen.
Stay tuned!
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
A Message from the Vermont Republican Party
A Resolution for 2008: Save the Geese!
"If one possesses geese that lay golden eggs, its best to develop a taste for eggs and not for goose meat." These were the wise words of panelist Christopher Ellis at the Vermont Tiger symposium, Entrepreneurs or Entitlements. "Unfortunately," he went on, "Vermont has a habit of fattening up its geese to a certain point and then slaughtering them."
Ellis, of course, was warning us that if we allow our government’s appetite for tax dollars to consistently kill off, chase away, or dry up those individuals and businesses, large and small, who pay our bills, we will end up with nothing. We will have neither goose, nor eggs. If this happens, our ability to maintain Vermont as the unique, safe and secure place we know and love will become an impossible and unsustainable proposition.
We are rapidly approaching that point. As Democrat Senate leader Peter Shumlin forcefully pointed out at the beginning of the last legislative session, "there is no more tax capacity left in Vermont. There is no more money in the bank." (Rutland Herald, 2/1/07). "It's just not there," he said. "We are tapped out." (Brattleboro Reformer, 2/20/07). Over the summer, Democrat Chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Susan Bartlett observed, "Then, poof! The revenue just stopped." (Burlington Free Press, 7/13/07).
The revenue didn’t really stop. It’s just that Vermont – the state already with the highest per-capita demand for tax dollars in the country – is spending money faster than its citizens can earn it. Montpelier is eating more eggs than we can produce and the frightening part here is that Shumlin, Bartlett, Speaker Symington and the dominant political culture in Vermont have lost control of the situation. With these folks in charge, we are all potential goose meat.
Citizens in Essex Junction just learned this the hard way. Their local golden goose, IBM, frustrated by Vermont’s increasingly high-tax, over-regulated economic environment, decided several years ago to stop investing in its Essex plant and, instead, sent billions of dollars to Fishkill, New York. As a result, IBM’s property value in Essex dropped 30 percent, and when the town reassessed this year, average taxpayers in Essex Junction found themselves staring down the barrel of a 34 percent property tax increase, amounting to about $1,000 for an average home valued at $266,000. After all, the government didn’t curtail its appetite for money by 30 percent. The big goose was gone, and the little geese had to be slaughtered to pick up IBM’s tab.
Obviously, demanding that ordinary middle class taxpayers shoulder the financial burdens formerly paid by the IBMs, Omyas, MetroGroups, Dirigo Papers, Capital City Presses, etc, is not a direction Vermont can continue in for very long. It is both undesirable and unsustainable.
Yet, as more productive individuals and businesses migrate away or become extinct in the face of the Montpelier meat cleavers, Vermont will be forced to rely increasingly on a shrinking group taxpayers to pay all of our state’s bills. The more this becomes the case, the more we risk losing our current education system (the third most expensive in the nation), our health care safety net (supporting one in four Vermonters), our ability to support the government and non-profit jobs (nearly 4 out of every 10 jobs in Vermont according to Ellis) that are either directly or indirectly funded by tax revenues. We won’t be able to afford the kind of environmental policies we need to remain a global leader on the issue, or to protect our precious environment here at home. Nobody wants this.
To hold on to the security we deserve in our homes, our jobs, and our communities, Vermont’s number one legislative priority in 2008 must be to regain control and to save our economic environment.
Montpelier must lead an economic environmental movement equal to and in partnership with Vermont’s natural environmental movement. First and foremost, we need to Save the Geese.
To preserve sustainable economic security, it means our legislators must give singular focus to policies that will reduce Vermont’s overall tax burden, control the real cost of health care, and make our regulatory process -- though still tough -- transparent, predictable, and swift. We need to provide a professional work force with affordable housing, affordable property tax bills, and long term career prospects. We need to cultivate, nurture and grow a tax base big enough and sustainable enough to afford the other programs that make Vermont the place we love.
But, just as a commitment to sustaining our natural environment required a political/cultural change, so too will a commitment to sustain Vermont’s economic environment. Montpelier can no longer continue to consume our state’s fiscal resources like an SUV burning fossil fuels. We can no longer afford a political culture that sees the solution to every problem as another tax increase rather than a commitment to economic conservation.
There are many positive reasons to live and work in Vermont today. It is the best place in the world. But, to keep it this way will require work. Work that satisfies the soul, yes, but also work that pays the bills. Please, let’s Save the Geese.
And to those in Iowa - battling it out for supporters; here's a quick laugh for you from "The West Wing."
"If one possesses geese that lay golden eggs, its best to develop a taste for eggs and not for goose meat." These were the wise words of panelist Christopher Ellis at the Vermont Tiger symposium, Entrepreneurs or Entitlements. "Unfortunately," he went on, "Vermont has a habit of fattening up its geese to a certain point and then slaughtering them."
Ellis, of course, was warning us that if we allow our government’s appetite for tax dollars to consistently kill off, chase away, or dry up those individuals and businesses, large and small, who pay our bills, we will end up with nothing. We will have neither goose, nor eggs. If this happens, our ability to maintain Vermont as the unique, safe and secure place we know and love will become an impossible and unsustainable proposition.
We are rapidly approaching that point. As Democrat Senate leader Peter Shumlin forcefully pointed out at the beginning of the last legislative session, "there is no more tax capacity left in Vermont. There is no more money in the bank." (Rutland Herald, 2/1/07). "It's just not there," he said. "We are tapped out." (Brattleboro Reformer, 2/20/07). Over the summer, Democrat Chairwoman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Susan Bartlett observed, "Then, poof! The revenue just stopped." (Burlington Free Press, 7/13/07).
The revenue didn’t really stop. It’s just that Vermont – the state already with the highest per-capita demand for tax dollars in the country – is spending money faster than its citizens can earn it. Montpelier is eating more eggs than we can produce and the frightening part here is that Shumlin, Bartlett, Speaker Symington and the dominant political culture in Vermont have lost control of the situation. With these folks in charge, we are all potential goose meat.
Citizens in Essex Junction just learned this the hard way. Their local golden goose, IBM, frustrated by Vermont’s increasingly high-tax, over-regulated economic environment, decided several years ago to stop investing in its Essex plant and, instead, sent billions of dollars to Fishkill, New York. As a result, IBM’s property value in Essex dropped 30 percent, and when the town reassessed this year, average taxpayers in Essex Junction found themselves staring down the barrel of a 34 percent property tax increase, amounting to about $1,000 for an average home valued at $266,000. After all, the government didn’t curtail its appetite for money by 30 percent. The big goose was gone, and the little geese had to be slaughtered to pick up IBM’s tab.
Obviously, demanding that ordinary middle class taxpayers shoulder the financial burdens formerly paid by the IBMs, Omyas, MetroGroups, Dirigo Papers, Capital City Presses, etc, is not a direction Vermont can continue in for very long. It is both undesirable and unsustainable.
Yet, as more productive individuals and businesses migrate away or become extinct in the face of the Montpelier meat cleavers, Vermont will be forced to rely increasingly on a shrinking group taxpayers to pay all of our state’s bills. The more this becomes the case, the more we risk losing our current education system (the third most expensive in the nation), our health care safety net (supporting one in four Vermonters), our ability to support the government and non-profit jobs (nearly 4 out of every 10 jobs in Vermont according to Ellis) that are either directly or indirectly funded by tax revenues. We won’t be able to afford the kind of environmental policies we need to remain a global leader on the issue, or to protect our precious environment here at home. Nobody wants this.
To hold on to the security we deserve in our homes, our jobs, and our communities, Vermont’s number one legislative priority in 2008 must be to regain control and to save our economic environment.
Montpelier must lead an economic environmental movement equal to and in partnership with Vermont’s natural environmental movement. First and foremost, we need to Save the Geese.
To preserve sustainable economic security, it means our legislators must give singular focus to policies that will reduce Vermont’s overall tax burden, control the real cost of health care, and make our regulatory process -- though still tough -- transparent, predictable, and swift. We need to provide a professional work force with affordable housing, affordable property tax bills, and long term career prospects. We need to cultivate, nurture and grow a tax base big enough and sustainable enough to afford the other programs that make Vermont the place we love.
But, just as a commitment to sustaining our natural environment required a political/cultural change, so too will a commitment to sustain Vermont’s economic environment. Montpelier can no longer continue to consume our state’s fiscal resources like an SUV burning fossil fuels. We can no longer afford a political culture that sees the solution to every problem as another tax increase rather than a commitment to economic conservation.
There are many positive reasons to live and work in Vermont today. It is the best place in the world. But, to keep it this way will require work. Work that satisfies the soul, yes, but also work that pays the bills. Please, let’s Save the Geese.
And to those in Iowa - battling it out for supporters; here's a quick laugh for you from "The West Wing."
Iowa Caucus
The Iowa Caucus is tomorrow night, and boy it shall be a showdown!
Who's going to win it for the Republicans? For the Democrats? It's really all up in the air.
Check here for results tomorrow!
Who's going to win it for the Republicans? For the Democrats? It's really all up in the air.
Check here for results tomorrow!
Saturday, December 15, 2007
What Happened? News on the national level.
Anyone know what happened to Hillary Clinton?
Even her own husband, former President Bill Clinton said "It would be a miracle if she wins in Iowa." Click Here for the story... oh, and Click Here for an interesting op-ed by Dick Morris, a former strategist for Clinton during the 1996 campaign. It's fittingly titled "Why are the wheels coming off the Clinton bandwagon." Best quote from it:
"The conclusion is inescapable: the more voters come to know Hillary Clinton the less they like her...And who is Mike Huckabee? During the break, we'll be taking an in depth look at all of the Republican Presidential candidates to help you make the best, and most informed decision.
On another note - this just in from the news room: President Bush's approval rating is STILL higher than the Democratically controlled House and Senate. Ba da ching! Who's the real joker in Washington?
Oh, and good luck everyone on exams!!!
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