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Willard Romney won the Iowa GOP caucus by just 8 votes.

The race had shaped up as a two-way dead heat between Romney and Rick Santorum with Iowa GOP chairman Strawn announcing Romney’s victory shortly after 1:30 a.m. The final vote total for Romney was 30,015 to Santorum’s 30,007. Total votes cast: 122,255.

The Iowa caucuses delivered a virtual tie for first place between Romney and Santorum, with Romney ahead by just eight votes.Politico

 

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Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney ’s rise to the top of the polls in Iowa is built almost exclusively on a single word: electability.

Nearly half of likely Iowa Republican caucus-goers (48 percent) say that Romney was the “most electable” candidate in the field, well ahead of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (13 percent) and Texas Rep. Ron Paul (12 percent). The Washington Post

The term "Electability in American Politics once refered to a candidate as a"Sellout" .

Politics Sunday is a hard look at news from the past week and the upcoming week in the political world with commentary and insights into polling tends. Política El domingo es duro noticias mirar la semana pasada y la próxima semana en el mundo político con comentario y visión de mesas de votación tiende

 

Dear Representative Wasserman Schultz,

The Democratic party has held the White House since 2008 and had a Democratic majority in Congress for two years. During that time President Obama and the Democratic Party put the agenda of Wall

Street and the Corporate 1% first, over the needs of 99% of the country. Your leadership failed us.

You must do better in 2012.

We want to meet with you tomorrow afternoon at the Occupy Caucus Headquarters at 504 E. Locust.

Please contact Stephen Toothman at 515-480-5682 by 6pm tonight with your reply.

For a more just and democratic society,

Occupy Des Moines and allied

Occupiers

"The Week that Was" takes an in-depth look at the past week's social and political events that help shape America public opinion. We provide insightfulcommentary along with up-to-date (as well as past) polling data gatheredwith methodology based on careful scientific analysis.

The the latest Des Moines Register Iowa Poll, conducted Tuesday through Friday, shows support at 24 percent for Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts; 22 percent for Paul, a Texas congressman;

and 15 percent for the surging Rick Santorum, a former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania.

Another sign of the race’s volatility: 41 percent of likely caucusgoers say they could still be persuaded to change their minds.

Rounding out the field, in results from the full, four-day poll: former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich, 12 percent, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, 11 percent, and Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, 7 percent.Selzer & Co. of Des Moines conducted the poll of 602 likely Republican caucusgoers, which has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points. In the final two days of polling, 302 likely caucusgoers were interviewed, with a margin of error of plus or minus 5.6 percentage points.

Rick Santorum has the wind at his back and would win the Iowa Caucus if it were held today.

The political magazine with a full cup of Coffee and a few polling numbers in between the refills.

La revista política con una taza llena de café y algunos números de las encuestas entre las recargas.

 

Seven days of Kwanzaa

    Umoja (Unity): To strive for and to maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.

    Kujichagulia (Self-Determination): To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves, and speak for ourselves stand up.

    Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility): To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers' and sisters' problems our problems, and to solve them together.

    Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics): To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together.

    Nia (Purpose): To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.

    Kuumba (Creativity): To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.

Imani (Faith): To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.

Rick Santorum is a case study in the  durability and legitimacy of retail politics, the face-to-face contact Iowans say make their state special.

He is the last of the  Social conservatives have embraced then discarded a string of anti-Romneys: Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry and Herman Cain. A  finish  in tier there  could underscore the value of the retail politics style that  other candidates have abandoned in favour of  TV appearances, social media and campaign commercials.

Seven days of Kwanzaa

    Umoja (Unity): To strive for and to maintain unity in the family, community, nation, and race.

    Kujichagulia (Self-Determination): To define ourselves, name ourselves, create for ourselves, and speak for ourselves stand up.

    Ujima (Collective Work and Responsibility): To build and maintain our community together and make our brothers' and sisters' problems our problems, and to solve them together.

    Ujamaa (Cooperative Economics): To build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them together.

    Nia (Purpose): To make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community in order to restore our people to their traditional greatness.

    Kuumba (Creativity): To do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it.

Imani (Faith): To believe with all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.

In solidarity with Occupy Wall Street, Des Moines issues a call to action to people around the planet.

We are excited to announce the First in the Nation Caucus Occupation. This winter, presidential campaign headquarters in Des Moines, Iowa and political events throughout the state will be occupied. Occupy Des Moines will not interfere with or disrupt caucus voting on Jan 3. We are not targeting voters.

For too long, greedy corporations and corrupted politicians have dictated public policy and political interests on a global scale. Although these corporations and moneyed interests have vast capital resources, now every dollar belonging to the 1% shall be countered by a voice. An individual. One of the 99%.

http://portal.occupydsm.org/

Occupy Des Moines’  “People’s Caucus” started a week of protest and Iowa Caucus season in Des Monines,Iowa.

Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann warned crowds again and again today of encroaching socialism as she rolled across southern Iowa on her bus tour through all 99 counties.“Now I know it’s hard to imagine, but there are even Republicans that want to be socialists in Washington D.C.,” she said in Glenwood. “I have stood up against them as well.”

As an African American and Pan-African holiday celebrated by millions throughout the world African community, Kwanzaa brings a cultural message which speaks to the best of what it means to be African and human in the fullest sense. Given the profound significance Kwanzaa has for African Americans and indeed, the world African community, it is imperative that an authoritative source and site be made available to give an accurate and expansive account of its origins, concepts, values, symbols and practice.

Moreover, given the continued rapid growth of Kwanzaa and the parallel expanded discussion of it and related issues, an authoritative source which aids in both framing and informing the discussion is likewise of the greatest importance. Therefore, the central interest of this website is to provide information which reveals and reaffirms the integrity, beauty and expansive meaning of the holiday and thus aids in our approaching it with the depth of thought, dignity, and sense of specialness it deserves.

Dr. Maulana Karenga

Politics Sunday is a hard look at news from the past week and the upcoming week in the political world with commentary and insights into polling tends. Política El domingo es duro noticias mirar la semana pasada y la próxima semana en el mundo político con comentario y visión de mesas de votación tiende

 

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