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Bishop Mark Lawrence gets accused and abused

Katherine Jefferts Schori likens godly bishop to dictator and mass murderer

Chris Huhne finally faces up to his demons

Former cabinet minister faces jail as he admits guilt of perjury crime

HS2 is high speed to the shops in Sheffield

High speed trains to London but no further! HS2 hits buffers before Europe.

David Cameron sits on EU wall

All things to all EU people - doing the hokey cokey until 2018!

Rotherham by-election gives main parties a kick

Respect for the three main parties decreases as UKIP and others rise

Underemployment now felt by 3 million at least

More workers would like more hours but can't get them

Wife to occupy central role at central bank

New bank governor's wife Diana will speak her mind and blow George's

Bank of England to get Canadian bank chief

George Osborne takes a maple leaf out of Canada's central bank books

UKIP offers a political HS2 for disaffected Tories

UKIP's Nigel Farage reacts to David Cameron's quips

Rotherham Council in Stasi Style Crackdown

Social Services remove children accusing couple of being "UKIP racists"!

Showing posts with label Rudy Giuliani. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rudy Giuliani. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Giuliani and Edwards abandon the race

8:13 pm  Arden Forester  No comments

As expected, both John Edwards and rudy Giuliani have announced they are abandoning the White House race. The mystery now is whether they will swing behind anyone quickly or hold fire for a while. Let's see.
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Giuliani and Edwards to quit race anytime soon!

3:57 pm  Arden Forester  No comments

Any day now both Rudy Giuliani and John Edwards are to announce they are quitting the race for the White House. Edwards has been somewhat knocked off course by the rise of Barack Obama, and Giuliani made the mistake of putting most of his eggs into the Florida basket.

Whilst the Democratic race will be down to two horses of very different qualities, the Republicans will have four to contend with. Ron Paul's not leaving the race because he's got the financial clout to stay in. That was Giuliani's achilles heel. McCain may slip up. Who knows? His grasp of the economy is woefully slim, but folks don't seem to mind. Maybe a major cock-up is on the horizon. Better before the election, than after!
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Ron Paul won all the debates, says Giuliani

9:54 am  Arden Forester  2 comments

The Florida Primary is over now for the Republicans. Although John McCain won with 36% of the vote, Mitt Romney is still in there with 31%. McCain is being hailed as the new frontrunner after Rudy Giuliani's risky gamble in Florida failed to ignite the voters' hearts and minds. But a frontrunner who can only manage to garner a third of the votes? It means two-thirds don't agree. I'd say that McCain is "in front", but that the other runners have various degrees of political stamina to allow them to become "frontrunners" too! After all, Huckabee has won, Romney has won, so the race is far from being a done deal. The fat lady hasn't even arrived in the theatre!

The results were:

Republicans
John McCain: 36%
Mitt Romney: 31%
Rudy Giuliani: 15%
Mike Huckabee: 14%
Ron Paul: 3%

Democrats
Hillary Clinton: 50%
Barack Obama: 33%
John Edwards: 14%

Rudy Giuliani is likely to drop out now. He gave the hint, "I don't back down from a principle fight, but there must always be a larger purpose." He may endorse McCain, but I'd hope he'd hold back until after Super Tuesday. He said that the others had fought well, but, as shown in this piece, he also said that Ron Paul won all the debates!

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