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Vote Count Error? Did Rick Santorum Really Win the Iowa Caucuses?

Vote Count Error? Did Rick Santorum Really Win the Iowa Caucuses? | Appanoose County | Edward True

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is shrugging off reports that the vote count from Iowa’s caucuses might be wrong, saying the errors appear not to change the fact that he and Mitt Romney were nearly tied.

Santorum tells Fox News that a party official says the two cases in which errors were reported in the count from Tuesday night nearly cancel each other out.

A Ron Paul supporter told Des Moines TV station KCCI that the posted count from his precinct in Appanoose County gave Romney more votes than he actually received.

The GOP chairman in Iowa, Matt Strawn, says in a statement that state party officials don‘t have any reason to believe the final results from Appanoose County will change the outcome of Tuesday’s vote.

 


KCCI-TV:

DES MOINES, Iowa — Caucus night was chaotic in many places, with hundreds of voters, candidates showing up and the throngs of media who followed. The world’s eyes were on Iowa. But in the quiet town of Moulton, Appanoose County, a caucus of 53 people may just blow up the results.

Edward True, 28, of Moulton, said he helped count the votes and jotted the results down on a piece of paper to post to his Facebook page. He said when he checked to make sure the Republican Party of Iowa got the count right, he said he was shocked to find they hadn’t.

“When Mitt Romney won Iowa by eight votes and I’ve got a 20-vote discrepancy here, that right there says Rick Santorum won Iowa,” True said. “Not Mitt Romney.”

True said at his 53-person caucus at the Garrett Memorial Library, Romney received two votes. According to the Iowa Republican Party’s website, True’s precinct cast 22 votes for Romney.

“This is huge,” True said. “It essentially changes who won.”

A spokeswoman with the Iowa Republican Party said True is not a precinct captain and he’s not a county chairperson so he has no business talking about election results.

(h/t Think Progress, Breitbart.tv)

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  • Darren
    Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:55am

    Here’s an update on this story via Hot Air:

    [QUOTE]
    Icymi, Santorum told Greta a few min ago that a 21 vote undercount cancelled out his 20 vote undercount so Mitt ends up winning by 9 votes.
    [END QUOTE]

    http://hotair.com/archives/2012/01/05/report-romneys-iowa-win-may-be-due-to-a-typo/

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  • TalkingMonkeyNot
    Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:49am

    The reason this matters is because of “perception”, which politicians and the main stream media manipulate to the max. And they WILL twist anything and everything to steer “the herd” in the direction that THEY want. It MAY have seemed “classy” of Rick Santorum to respond the way he did (to some people), but it really does NOT help the “perception” the public has that the whole system IS rigged.

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    • Kevin The Elder
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 5:30am

      “A spokeswoman with the Iowa Republican Party said True is not a precinct captain and he’s not a county chairperson so he has no business talking about election results.” Wow! And who thinks we’re not being played?

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    • TalkingMonkeyNot
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 2:49pm

      In reply to KEVIN THE ELDER Posted on January 6, 2012 at 5:30am

      Exactly! In my view, it would have been much better if Rick Santorum had insisted to the MSM that the Iowa caucus tallies be revised. Unfortunately, the perception that Mitt Romney WON, slants the whole “race (ha!)” in HIS favor; in “the herd’s” eyes. Too many people ARE easily led and manipulated by TPTB. I just hope that those of us who can see through all the bull will have our numbers increased by this. Unfortunately, I fear this will NOT be the case. Or if it is, it will be squashed and smothered to the point that it does no good to the cause of freedom and the restoration of our Constitutional Republic. Most of the people running for the Republican Presidential nominee are embedded up to their necks in the NWO scheme. I believe Ron Paul is the only candidate who will do everything he can to thwart their goal. (MIchele Bachmann MAY have been another exception.) Of-course, it IS possible that RP is just another plant and is really a part of the “controlled opposition.” I guess we will not know the answer to THAT unless he is actually able to make it to the Presidency. He certainly could not do any worse than ANY of the others still on the Republican slate. He would certainly be better than the current usurper. But unless people realize that the President is highly dependent on a co-operative congress and CHANGE the congressional make-up, nothing much is likely to change. Maybe it won’t anyway.

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  • Merrymix
    Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:48am

    http://www.thewarningsecondcoming.com Go and read about how God is revealing Himself in locutions to a woman in Europe that started on Nov. 9, 2010. As He is about to intervene in this world and is asking for our prayers to save many souls, we may now have a chance to change the direction of things through our prayers. So pray like you have never prayed before that Rick Santorum, one of the most honorable men seen in public office, will carry this election and this country will be saved for God and men.

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 1:56am

      Pray for a RINO? I would rather not. Thank you for your misguided attempt to make out Santorum as anything more than a politician that would run our Nation into the ground.. with Big Government handouts.

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    • foobear
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 4:45am

      Oh, lord, Santorum? Really?

      He’s a big government Republican. Shoo him away with a broom if he comes near you.

      I listened in on his town hall meeting today. He couldn’t answer any of the hard questions they posed him… he just kept circling back to the Declaration of Independence and spouting nothings for 10 minutes rather than actually answer a question.

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    • Bill Rowland
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 5:53am

      When Santorum answers questions about his stand on private ownership of firearms and CHLs, then I will decide about him. I like most of what he stands for but I want to keep my guns.

      OMG

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    • emty44
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 8:15am

      Wow…I didn’t realize that our God was talking to women in Europe about American politics….what a maroon.

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    • KwikKarl
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 8:35am

      Just a clarification on my post, it was Representatives from the oil companies, not execs.

      The RonPaulians are just as blind as the Obamanites were – blinding believing in the Yes We Can mentality. His foreign policy will kill our way of life. I dont know the powers running this country may sway his thinking as they did Obama when he first took office and kept the Bush administrations policies running, something he campaigned on ending. But we CAN NOT TAKE THAT CHANCE.

      You have to face the fact, that our entire foreign policy, foreign aid, and military action is to keep the world from chaos and protecting our way of life. I know everyone ****** and moans that we shouldnt be the worlds police, but if we werent, and hadn’t propped up the regimes we have, our way of life would be set back 100 years. PEOPLE HAVE TO WAKE UP AND REALIZE THIS. We dont do it for power, or we’d be taking over all the countries we go into. BUT THE US IS THE GLUE THAT’S HOLDING THIS TOGETHER. Just look at the regimes that we allowed to be in place and supported, and how fast it has gone to pot, becuase of BO. EGYPT, LIBYA, and now IRAQ (pulling out too soon) – THEY WILL ALL BE DOMINATED BY MUSLIM EXTREMISTS. WERE THEY BEFORE? NO.

      If Dr. Paul would not have this insane foreign policy, I’d be ok with him. But ITS A KILLER VIEW of his. For pete’s sake, what if Jefferson took Paul’s foreign policy stance and never launched the First Barabary War and allowed the Muslim Extremist to dictate the

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    • justangry
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 9:21am

      @Merrymix. God is wearing a Ron Paul revolution tee shirt. You see god himself gave us our rights guaranteed under the constitution, not man. The only candidate not willing to trample over these rights is the good doctor. If we don’t get it right, God will let this country burn to the ground. Ron Paul does share your Christian values in his own life. The only difference is he understands that only god has the insight to judge others, not bureaucrats and crooked politicians.

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    • deeberj
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 1:17pm

      You realize this woman is prophesying something that does not go along with the bible :
      “Jesus Christ, she says, will now return to save mankind in a spectacular global event where our sins will be revealed to us in order that we can convert before the Second Coming of Christ. ”

      So he’s coming back once to save EVERYONE, then again at the Second Coming. Wouldn’t that make it His Third coming?

      Matthew 24:11 says,
      vs 3-5 – And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

      vs11 – And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.

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  • Apple Bite
    Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:45am

    Let’s think about this for a moment. With Gingrich trying to make an example out of Romney for Super PAC, all he’s doing is stealing votes from Santorum.

    Write it down. Santorum will miss out being the lead candidate because of Callista’s lap dog, Newt, who‘s running around nipping and growling at Romney’s feet, and stealing votes in the meanwhile. And we’ll end up seeing another “Obama-McCain” ballot as a result.

    I’m all for Santorum, and I like Romney. So, in many ways, I’m split between the two. Either one of them could get this belligerent idiot out of office. Even with Ron Paul and his ghostly ballots coming from Democrats switching over (with some possibly switching back after it’s all said and done, watch for it…), it’s should be one of these two facing off against B.O.

    But for Santorum to win out completely, Newt needs to be put back into his doggy carrier, and somebody needs to whisk him and Callista away to the Rivera someplace. Nobody wants Gingrich as President that has actually thought about this situation throughly.

    By the way, those of you still looking at Romney and sticking your noses in the air because he’s a Mormon, how about this: Since you’re still judging somebody by their religion, how about we judge all Evangelicals by the actions of Dennis Rader aka BTK killer? Make sense?

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    • PoliticalJunkieToo
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:53am

      I’m not voting or any of them except Ron Paul.

      If Obama wins, so be it.

      This country will go over a cliff slower with RINO Romney or Santorum than with Obama but over the cliff it will go. Maybe THEN the SHEEP in the country will FORCE our elected officials to follow the Constitution. If they did, we wouldn’t have all these problems.

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    • SFYMP
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:58am

      I’m with ya brothe,r Dr. Paul is the only way to get back on track.

       
    • jb.kibs
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 1:23am

      Ron is right. I’m only voting for Ron Paul, no matter what. that will be the honest & right thing to do. he is the only candidate i would trust to watch my child. voting for anyone But the honest choice is throwing your vote away. you might as well not vote. you are doing more damage voting for someone you don’t even like or agree with. what do you want the Federal Government to do? protect our liberties and our borders and let the states handle their own affairs? or do you want the federal government to do everything it can, so that when it makes a mistake we ALL suffer for it instead of just the people of the state who wanted it? honestly. you need to really start questioning what you can do for yourself and ask why you need someone else do dictate your life. i shoulda voted for Paul in 2008.. mcCain was the “lesser of 2 evils” and look what that got.. Obama and McCain are horrible. McCain wrote the NDAA bill… did we ever need a bill to detain enemies of our country before? why do we all of a sudden need one? think about that… freedom is NOT free. that is a fact. some people WANT to control others. you have to fight for your liberty, or lose it to those who take it from you and tell you it’s for your own good. are you child or an adult? man up.

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    • Apple Bite
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 1:27am

      Ron Paul is the wrong man for the wrong time. Things are very different than they were, when his Foreign plan could have worked…40-50 years ago.

      Do we need to down size and /or reform government? Yes. EPA, FDA, IRS, BOE, NSF are certainly at the top of the list and there’s a #&^%$ load of departments should shouldn’t even be in existence today, example Administration on Aging (AoA) Wha?!?? Why is there an administration for Aging?

      Cutting this short, When it comes to domestic policies, It’s very difficult to argue with Paul on any of it. His Foreign Policy is nutz. This is a different time and era. HoJo is not running Japan anymore. We have a different world than we had back in the 50‘s and 60’s. And our influence is far and wide. You don’t simply give all of that up to isolate yourself, when you have the ability to help dictate world policy. Without any of that, you’ve closed the door on not just allies, but on the ability to help change the international community.

      Have we done that lately? No. We have a bunch of gutless cowards that only seek to be reelected, so they can cash in later. Our military abroad could be downsized, but think about what kind of downsizing Paul is thinking of. If it were left up to him, we’d be no better than Canada. There’s a reason why foreign countries call for our aid, and it’s not because we turn over on our backs like the French or the family dog. It’s because they trust the U.S. and we’re respected world wide…at le

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    • jb.kibs
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 1:40am

      he will follow the constitution, if congress, “the people”, decides to go to war, we will.
      as for the rest of the candidates, they are going to be puppets of the banks, look at their campaign contributions.

      Ron Paul is the only person who is fighting for “the people”.

      you need to goto Iran bud. go for yourself please. do yourself a favor. just go and see. try to find videos online… we are being fooled. they are creating boogymen… sorry if that offends you, but if you seriously trust the government, especially at this time in our lives, “wow”.. that’s all i gotta say..

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    • PoliticalJunkieToo
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 1:43am

      Apple Bite
      Ron Paul is the wrong man for the wrong time. Things are very different than they were, when his Foreign plan could have worked…40-50 years ago.

      Do we need to down size and /or reform government? Yes. EPA, FDA, IRS, BOE, NSF are certainly at the top of the list and there’s a #&^%$ load of departments should shouldn’t even be in existence today, example Administration on Aging (AoA) Wha?!?? Why is there an administration for Aging?

      ______________
      WE don NOT need 900 military bases around the world – especially in countries WE OWE BILLIONS TO like England and Germany and Japan. We need to MOVE OUR TROOPS HOME. Instead Obama is opening another base in Australia. He also sent troops into Africa.

      ENOUGH!!!! S. Korea is booming dumping their autos onto our shores WHILE taxing our goods going into their country IF THEY get in at all (Just like the rest of Asia and Europe does to us) while WE PAY TO MAINTAIN military bases in S. Korea. BRING OUR TROOPS home. The S. Koreans can pay for their won defense. If they need us, call us – MAYBE we will come IF it serves our purpose to come.

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    • colt1860
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 2:05am

      @apple bite We face no greater danger than that which lies within our own shores. No nation can ever confront us and claim victory over us. Let’s fix our own house first. Cutting financial aid to all Nations does not mean cutting support or dissolving our alliance with those who are our friends.

      Please consider the following:

      “Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step over the ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! — All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a Thousand years. At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.” – Abraham Lincoln

      “The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.” – James Madison

      “Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster, and what has happened once in 6000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution, for if the American Constitution should fail, there will be anarchy throughout the world.” – Daniel Webster

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    • tketterer
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 2:10am

      applebait, if you knew anything at all about mormonism you wouldn’t say any of that. So, stay ignorant to any of the history of mormons and we will get another almost as bad as obama in romney.

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    • colt1860
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 2:13am

      @apple bite Have we forgotten in whom our trust is in? Do we not have faith in him who has made us prosper beyond our wildest expectations? Do we not recognize anymore him who has blessed us exceedingly well? Do we not remember anymore in whom our firm reliance lies? Do we seek our own might and reject the strength of him who fought our battles for us?

      “We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us! It behooves us, then to humble ourselves before the offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.” – Abraham Lincoln, Proclamation for a National Day of Fasting

      “If a republican government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the divine commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the laws.” – Noah Webster

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    • KTsayz
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 3:16am

      Apple bite, what about the NDAA and TSA? The other candidates will keep them both – especially Santorum who probably can‘t wait to use the power of indefinite detention for anyone who doesn’t fir into his ‘moral’ code. Santorum already said he’s bomb Iran AFTER China said that if Iran is bombed they will join forces with Iran.
      I don’t know about you, but I am not looking forward to WW3.
      Ron Paul 2012 for Peace, Prosperity and Freedom

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    • Babeuf
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 6:10am

      A candidate for “most offensive campaign ad” has come to the fore, and with gusto.
      http://www.mediaite.com/online/ron-paul-supporters-release-racist-ad-depicting-jon-huntsman-as-maoist-soldier/

      They are just so nice!

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    • warriorspirit
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 7:29am

      Ron Paul 2012 (that is all; carry on, lol)

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    • KwikKarl
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 7:49am

      You know what, Ron Paul is the ‘Rights’ Barack Obama. When he gets in there and the **** goes bad and you start to wonder what the heck, this isnt what we wanted – we’ll be able to sit back and say – he told us everything he was gonna do. He stated his foreign policy. Now the worlds on fire, there’s nuclear waste lands throughout Europe, oil is $400/barrel and we cant afford to buy anything because our energy costs are so high. Terrorists are knocking at our door funded by the Soviet Union, all the shipping channels have come to a stop, no more exports…

      Sorry guys he told us what hes gonna do. Sorry but foreign policy/National Security DOES revolve around oil! Oil is money and power, and without free access to it – we are caveman. Our wars do revolve around oil because without it we are toast. My Bro-in-law was is a LT Col in Marine corps and when he was at Quantico there was a wargaming exercise to see where we were in the next 20+ years and guess who was there at this exercise – oil execs. Sorry but that’s the nature of the beast until we become independent, and even after that it’s still a matter of National Security due to it funding foreign regimes. So until we become independent from it and drive it’s price so low it cant fund terror – NATIONAL SECURITY IS A TOP ISSUE. WE CANT BE ISOLATIONISTS!

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    • CIAtroll
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 7:56am

      There can be only one

      Ron Paul 2012

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    • CatB
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 11:17am

      You Ron Paul voters just admitted it .. you are really OBAMA VOTERS!

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    • Apple Bite
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 11:50am

      I’m ignorant about Ron Paul? No,most Ron Paul’s followers are foolish for thinking by falling back into isolation is the key to everything in solving Foreign issues. I don’t have to be anywhere to tell you that the politics of the Middle East are asinine. But the way to deal with it shouldn’t be met by having a policy as asinine as theirs. You need to educate yourselves on this point, these are Wolves you’re dealing with, not your old lady’s lap dog. You show weakness, they’ll eat you alive. Witness Iraq as of last month. Witness what happened to the UK and Europe. Right after the U.S. closed bases there, Arabs came in droves. News flash for Paul followers: Arabs had been living in Germany for nearly a decade or more, before Ronald Reagan ask Gorby to tear down the walls. How do I know this? I was there, living in Zweibrucken at the time, we were looking at them dead in their freakin’ face as they hung out on the corners waiting on taxis and smoking, among other things. The same thing is coming to the U.S. and you‘re a damn fool to think they’ll just go away if you leave. They’ll come for you regardless.

      Understand what kind of stance you’re taking on here. You’re talking about downsizing the military during a time where the world around us is going batshit crazy with war and violence. Down sizing the military doesn’t work, Ask the U.K. You see what they’re dealing with, right? You think that won’t come to the U.S.? It’s already begun!

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    • colt1860
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:37pm

      @apple bite I understand the implied threat they impose. And I say imply, for to this date, they have not invaded any country. My main concern, as I’ve said in other previous posts, is the abuse of Power, and the expansion of Government, through unconstitutional means, to achieve the goal of eliminating Iran as a threat. If Iran really does pose such a huge threat, we should seek Constitutional means, the Rule of Law, and Reason to deal with these problems. We cannot deny that the erosion of our Rights by our own Government has been initiated by fear of some foreign enemy abroad or here at home. Let’s declare war, fight it, win it, and come back home. I am against Nation building. Shall we be another ten years in Iran when we crush them in order to end one regime and set up another Government? Another concern of mine is our huge mounting debt. As a Conservative I must advocate for us to work within our means, and within the bounds established in the Constitution. As of this point, I do believe we have spread our Military too thin around the world, especially our troops. They should not be a global police force or world peace corps. We have left our borders unsecured and wide open. We need to reevaluate our priorities, and focus our energy here at home. We have enough satellites, carriers, submarines, stationed missiles and other high tech weaponry to protect our homeland and our interests here at home and abroad.

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    • arewefreenow
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 2:11pm

      Yep, I’m with all you who are with Ron Paul, who is the true DEFENDER of the Constitution. My vote will go to no one else.

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    • Apple Bite
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 11:48pm

      They have invaded other countries, without resorting to violence. They have Europe on it’s knees while implementing Sharia Law. And they’re attempting to do it here as well. When you can take over another country without resorting to violence and enforce your laws into foreign territory, why shed blood (even though, they’ve done that as well…)? Especially if you’re trying to convince the rest of the international community that “They’re the bad guys, we’re peaceful people…”. Just like the illegals coming from the South, look how much the U.S. has changed since the late 90′s. Everything is “Press 1 for English”. Have they shed blood to do it? Not in a sense of declared war, but drug/gang lord violence supported by Hamas, you betcha.

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    • colt1860
      Posted on January 7, 2012 at 1:22am

      @Apple Bite I’m definitely for enforcing our immigration laws, securing our borders, and stopping multiculturalism in the US. I don’t think another Bush/McCain like candidate would do that though.

      Here‘s Paul’s stance on immigration. It doesn’t get more conservative than this:

      http://www.ronpaul2012.com/the-issues/immigration/

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  • babylonvi
    Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:44am

    If the rest of the primaries and elections are run like this, we not only have lost our constitution, but we have entered the era of Cuba and Venezuela style elections.

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    • Miami
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:53am

      This is how it’s been done for about 160 years and its been fine till now. Relax it will work it’s way out. the difference might be one delegate, not the end of the republic by a longshot. What would end the republic is another Obama term…!!!

      NO THIRD PARTY RUNS!!!!!!!!!!!

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    • CatB
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 11:14am

      They (the R Establishment) wanted a Romney win … even if only 8 votes .. I knew something wasn’t right (I stayed up on the caucus night) when they reported that someone in a truck was driving the results in .. and they couldn’t contact that person .. really .. REALLY? Sounded too much like Dems finding absentee ballots in a trunk to win an election.

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  • abbygirl1994
    Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:42am

    Chaotic my arse, get some professionals to do the job.. I am sick of mistakes from inept people! In either case for me its Mitt or Santorum!! No one else has the principles, values and morals of what I want in a President.. But please.. you counters of the votes, do your job right. or get fired! Head games are not fun for any candidate!

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    • SFYMP
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:59am

      What a maroon!

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    • PoliticalJunkieToo
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 1:52am

      Mitt Romney is the worst of the lot. I will never vote for him.

      I thought I could if push came to shove – but I have my Florida absentee ballot in front of me and I voted for Ron Paul in the primary. In the general election, if Mitt Romney – that worthless RINO Obama duplicate is the republican nominee, I will write in Ron Paul.

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    • sun-sense
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 2:36pm

      PoliticalJunkieToo Posted on January 6, 2012 at 1:52am

      Mitt Romney is the worst of the lot. I will never vote for him.

      I thought I could if push came to shove – but I have my Florida absentee ballot in front of me and I voted for Ron Paul in the primary. In the general election, if Mitt Romney – that worthless RINO Obama duplicate is the republican nominee, I will write in Ron Paul.

      Ha…we’re from Florida and my wife has a mail in ballot that she filled in Ron Paul and I sent it off Wednesday evening. I’m doing a walk in but it will be Ron Paul as well. If Ron Paul doesn’t win the primary, then a write in by us both is likely as well.

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  • Miami
    Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:42am

    Give or take a few would not make a big difference since it’s not winner take all. It might mean one delegate. The race is ahead and that’s what matters…!

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  • Dalton C
    Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:37am

    I knew something fishy was going on.
    I watched the whole thing until the very end.
    They said, ”theres a guy in a truck with the votes”.
    Then, ”No we were kidding about the guy in the truck”.
    Then, ”we dont know where the votes are”.
    Then they said, Someone who counted the votes for Mitt said, they may have miss typed.
    It was crazy.
    SOMETHINGS NOT RIGHT!!!

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    • PoliticalJunkieToo
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 1:49am

      Are the Republicans going to have a rigged primary like Obama did to Hillary in 2008?

      Watch the videos below. Obama not only cheated in the democratic primary BUT recently it was found out he didn’t have the required signatures to have his name on the Indiana ballot in 2008. (too bad Gingrich and Perry couldn’t cheat in South Carolina like Obama did in Indiana).

      Democrat actual video of Obama’s people cheating during their primaries.
      http://wewillnotbesilenced2008.com/

      Obama got on the Indiana ballot in 2008 by Cheating (Hear that Newt and Perry!)
      http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/07/indiana-2008-presidential-primary-election-fraud-probe-heats-up/

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    • carbonyes
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 8:32am

      Two things: (1) The Ron Paul supporters are very foolish, not because they are supporting Ron paul, but because they make the asinine statement that Ron Paul is the only one who can turn things around, and then follow that with if Ron Paul does not get the nomination, theb they are not voting for the Republican nominee in the general election. Pure foolishness. Obama is such a fraud, as inept as they come, a Chicago bred thug and a traitor, that to consider throwing your vote away, is the height of asininity and stupidity, and I am not a Romney supporter, but I would vote for him over Obama.

      (2) The height of corruption which was demonstrated by the Obama machine in the 2008 primaries, is frightening and at a magnitude that there is little doubt that his victory over Hillary was wrought by this Chicago-Alinsky-Acorn activity. Also their is little doubt that it carried over and was used in the general election. Voter i.d.s are essential.

      Take the time to view the corruption in the Democratic Party caucuses: This is another face of Obam and the cadre of unAmerican persons that he has trained and surrounded himself with. More than just interesting.

      http://wewillnotbesilenced2008.com/

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  • COFemale
    Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:35am

    Oh the Paul bots are out bashing Santorum. They are just sore losers.

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    • Br@dley
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:54am

      your boy’s own words:

      “This whole idea of personal autonomy, well I don’t think most conservatives hold that point of view. Some do. They have this idea that people should be left alone, be able to do whatever they want to do, government should keep our taxes down and keep our regulations low, that we shouldn’t get involved in the bedroom, we shouldn’t get involved in cultural issues. You know, people should do whatever they want. Well, that is not how traditional conservatives view the world and I think most conservatives understand that individuals can’t go it alone. That there is no such society that I am aware of, where we’ve had radical individualism and that it succeeds as a culture.”

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    • goobert
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 1:03am

      Im a big fan of Paul but I’m not here to bash. We just want a fair transparent election. Is that too much to ask.

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    • DTOM_Jericho (Creator vindicator)
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 1:15am

      http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2012/01/04/santorum-conservative-technocrat/

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 2:03am

      I can tell you that if you keep alienating the ron Paul supporters with lies and BS like this you will see a third party write in. So STFU

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    • jb.kibs
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 2:08am

      no election has been fair or real since the electoral college. we are an oligarchy, not a Republic.

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    • DADA
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 3:14am

      I am sick of reading the Paul supporters that are threatening to vote for Obama if Paul is not given the nomination. If your guy does not win, why not just shoot yourself before you vote for Obama.

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    • VermontPatriot
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 5:08am

      I like Ron Paul the best out of our candidates.

      I WILL NOT vote for Comrade Obama no matter what.
      I will vote for his opposition, no matter what!

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    • SacredHonor1776
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 2:28pm

      I kids the electoral college is nearly as old as the nation, the founding fathers put it in to protect less populated states, against the larger ones… Otherwise the populated states would choose the president every time… The fact you don’t understand this means you bought into the progressive indoctrination hook like and sinker… The marxists would love to get rid of the electoral college it would give New York, California, Illinois and other liberal populated states full control of who becomes president! Less populated states would be under the heal of whatever the live decide! You sir truly are duped…

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  • Mr. Oshawott
    Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:35am

    I really hope this vote miscount is only a little snafu, but I won’t be surprised if this mishap turns out to be a setup.

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    • decendentof56
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 7:17am

      Hello again…..
      I don’t know about you, but I’m very skeptical. Voter-fraud has been creeping into our electoral process on an increasing basis.

      Now, that fraud includes votes for dead people; people for an address with no structor; votes for “people” who live in an unoccupied home; illegal immigrants; absentee ballots being mailed late, or not at all; ballots not being sent to servicemen in time; ballots being filled for those who cannot read and/or are not even interested. Sometimes, those ballots to the last-mentioned group are hand-delivered and filled out by the deliverer.

      Some of this, of course, has always existed. Now, it is being sanctioned by our ‘Justice’ (oxymoron intended) Dept. If theres anyone who still doubts the credibility of Eric Holders‘ DOJ after the New Black Panthers’ episode in Philly, its simply because they have a horse in the race.

      Those who still doubt it, however, will have NO doubt after the Nov 2012 election. We already see the denial of S Carolina‘s attempt to validate a voter’s ID.

      Eric Holder had the audacity to say “we are a nation of racial cowards”. I would agree with him. The only problem is…is that Eric is the biggest coward of all.
      I would suggest that anyone who does not believe me get their hands on a copy of J Christian Adams’ book “Injustice”. Adams was in the ‘voters section’ of the DOJ for 5 years, and his detailed story is very revealing about the ingrained racism in the DOJ.

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  • COFemale
    Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:34am

    And remember it was Karl Rove who came up with the “count error” on Fox as reported from his “reliable source”. Sounds like a little fishy to me. He stated that Romney won by 14 points, but it turned out it was only 8.

    Like Santorum said, it really does not matter; they were so close.

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  • shackero
    Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:34am

    It doesn’t matter weather Santorum won or not——>Rick is getting his chance in the sun either way. I am not sure he is the man to win this thing—–but any of the Republicans would be better than Obama. This election is the most important in several generations. I pray that we can get another Reagan((someone that values “individual” liberties)).
    If Obama wins—-he will likely pick a couple more supreme court justices’. If so, our country really will be transformed into something other than the “Land of the Free”—————

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    • 1casawizard
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:46am

      Ditto. We have to beat bamster. Can we not drum up support for IMPEACHMENT PROCEDINGS??? This guy is going far and wide even as we speak!!!

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  • MartyTr
    Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:30am

    Yes, what happened to the truck on the way with ballots??? That was the AP. What a mess.

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  • roadhog
    Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:28am

    Mitt RINO spent $450.00 per vote in Iowa. could some people removed votes??

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    • PoliticalJunkieToo
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 2:09am

      Looks like Mitt Romney won like Al Franken won. By cheating but nothing is done about it.

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  • fishstx777
    Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:26am

    like Santorums response that it dont matter we basically tied .That is a class answer and I have to give kudos to him .

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    • WakingSheep
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:39am

      That was a classy move but it is still in error; fraudulent or not.

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  • DonnaA
    Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:23am

    Voter fraud already???? God help US.

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  • PJL
    Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:22am

    It was so close Rick could have won, but it real makes no difference at this point. But I suspect anything from the Paul camp, some of them would love to start trouble.

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  • Br@dley
    Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:19am

    santorum is anti-personal liberty.
    his own disgusting words:

    “This whole idea of personal autonomy, well I don’t think most conservatives hold that point of view. Some do. They have this idea that people should be left alone, be able to do whatever they want to do, government should keep our taxes down and keep our regulations low, that we shouldn’t get involved in the bedroom, we shouldn’t get involved in cultural issues. You know, people should do whatever they want. Well, that is not how traditional conservatives view the world and I think most conservatives understand that individuals can’t go it alone. That there is no such society that I am aware of, where we’ve had radical individualism and that it succeeds as a culture.”

    why doesn’t the blaze report on that? instead, beck is busy praising this d-bag. he actually said something to the effect that santorum is most similar to the founding fathers.

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    • jb.kibs
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 1:37am

      it doesn’t have to be radical… it just doesn’t have to be Federally Mandated.
      when the Federal Government makes a mistake, we ALL suffer.
      when a State Government makes a mistake, the people of that state suffer and have a choice to move to a state which provides a better environment for growth, etc…
      speaking of growth, if you want a tree to grow to it’s full potential, do you regulate it and restrict it’s environment?

      we have an electoral college, that alone says we are an oligarchy, not a republic. that is a sad truth.

      Large Governments Never do good. Governments are just middlemen… do you like using middlemen? do you ever get an honest answer from a middleman? think about that.

      Groups of People who come together do good.
      Churches and Charities have done more good for people than governments ever have or ever will.

      Governments are just tools for special interests to impose regulations and laws which benefit their pocketbooks. this is a fact. over and over in history, “follow the money”.

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    • arewefreenow
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 2:22pm

      Exactly. I used to think Beck was a true believer and ardent defender of the Constitution. Well, that all changed when he started talking about Bachmann, who twice voted for the unPatriotic Patriot Act, and who also vote FOR the new NDAA, National Defense Authorization Act … the law that gives Obama the authority to arrest any of us Americans on “suspicion” of being a terrorist, then kept us in jail INDEFINITELY, without a trial! The 4th Amendment is now DEAD.

      Now, we have this Santorum, right-wing extremist loon, who thinks Conservatism is about the government peeking into your bedroom and telling you how to behave. Don’t TRUE Conservatives believe in the Constitution and freedom from government control over the individual??

      Here is the video of Santorum’s SHOCKING revelations, in case any of you use missed it:
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Gwwmm-cQxU&feature=youtu.be.

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  • commonsenseguy
    Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:06am

    did ted kennedy,elvis, vote again, the games have begun let see how many dead people can vote for romney and how many democrats can pay to vote more than once so they can get romney as the front runner, they want him,even the g o p is being told to get in line an decide to let romney the republican front runner they would love nothing more than to have him to go up against obama,they already have it planed on how all the voting will go down,they will lie,cheat and steal votes to keep obama in power,our votes don’t mean crap, if they want it to be romney and obama,then they will see to it that george soros and his money supply get the votes necessary. wake up people, it is time to take a stand and get involved in the process,volunteer at your polling place,make sure no one votes twice,make sure they are following the rule,report them if they don’t, if the deocommies win again,we are screwed ,but this time they will not use lube,they will just stick to us even harder.

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  • Steelhead
    Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:01am

    seriously , Santorum is a dead end

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  • ashestoashes
    Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:01am

    They were reporting this on K-Love radio this morning..I asked about it from the other posters and no one seemed to know anything about it..I even put a link up to a news station that had reported it but it didn’t post..I wondered why the Blaze wasn’t jumping all over this..

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  • Hobbs57
    Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:00am

    His story doesn’t even make sense. What in the world was he posting stuff on his Face Book account for anyways ?

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  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
    Posted on January 5, 2012 at 11:59pm

    Take away the fact you have a lot of liberals that show up to these things just to throw a wrinkle in the race, does it really matter. Besides, isn’t Iowa to white and racist to matter, according to Al Sharpton at least.

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    • Steelhead
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:11am

      making excuses and playing the race card already ?

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:18am

      We need Eddy Murphy to run for Prez.

      If I am elected everyone will get to party like James Brown, in a hot tub. Everyone will be able to kill their landlord, and anytime you want to get out of trouble, just shout “I’m Gumby Dammit”.

      Vote for Donkey and Ogre.

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  • ZengaPA65
    Posted on January 5, 2012 at 11:57pm

    Rick Santorum’s nephew endorses Ron Paul

    “Unlike my uncle, he does not believe that the American people are incapable of forming decisions.”

    http://caucuses.desmoinesregister.com/2012/01/03/rick-santorums-nephew-endorses-ron-paul/

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    • mcgrawactor1
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:01am

      UUugh!! Really? That’s what you have. I wonder what grudge he has against his successful uncle. Family can be so fun. Come back at me when you have a real reson why Santorum isn’t presidential. Or AT LEAST not 10000000000 times better than Obama!

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    • Shasta
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:02am

      Yawn, who cares

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    • Rational Man
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:10am

      John Garver is a 19-year-old student at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. A small liberal arts college.

      Like I care what a first year liberal arts student thinks.
      Just another liberal endorsement for Paul, from a kid who wants “the man” off his back and not follow the rules of a civil society……So what?………

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    • AsilisArt
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:58am

      Santorum has 35 or 36 neices and nephews. 1 supports Ron Paul. Santorum isn‘t worried saying ’it‘s a phase’, or words to that effect.

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    • coindexter
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 1:11am

      he can vote

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    • jb.kibs
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 2:14am

      People don’t have any right to their lives. what makes you think a person owns themselves?
      what a dumb concept, name 1 other living thing in nature that owns itself… please.. what a joke.

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  • mcgrawactor1
    Posted on January 5, 2012 at 11:53pm

    Well, now that’s a new wrinkle!!! I suspect this is absolutley true!! Santorum campaigned tirelessly and it would make sense, despite the fact that it was close, that he won Iowa. What a great boost for a solid, strong and principled candidate! I hope this news helps bring in more donations to his campaign. He needs money and does not have the war chest Romney and the others have. Send money his way if you can, and if you believe in his message.

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    • KickinBack
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:04am

      I sure hope you’re right. But from one conservative actor to another (yeah, we know how liberal this business is) I’m still at times playing the starving artist. At least I can still vote! Go Rick!

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    • Hobbs57
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 12:15am

      I grew up in Beaver County Pennsylvania, the next county over is Butler County, where goo old Ricky boy grew up. I should really start checking out his stories about growing up and his family and what not, maybe I will if I have the time. I will tell you this, Santorum is still the butt of joke on WDVE radio station in Pittsburgh. The majority of people here can stand him and he has been plagued with scandals. Maybe he finally grew up but I couldn’t stand his personality as a Senator and I assure you, in Western Pa, if it’s Obama or Santorum, Obama got it nailed. No kidding, most of these people are Democrats who have become so disgusted with Obama, they will vote the other side of the line this election. They will not vote for Gingrich or Santorum.
      Just curious, what is it you like about Santorum ? I mean besides his portrayal as being a holy little Christian boy saying all the right stuff about God ?? Is there anything else ? Because he is a progressive, I assure you. He was all about being a politician and pork like nobody’s business. Then the whole living in another state while holding office in the Senate area, while milking the school district of Penn Hills to send his kids to cyber school but wasn‘t even living here so his kids couldn’t even possibly go to the school district. That’s stealing. I guess he lives by the law of Moses, as I heard him say the other day that it isn’t what we think but what we do that is sin. This is not what Jesus said. Just sa

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    • KickinBack
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 1:31am

      @Hobbs

      Rick is running for President. True that makes him someone that all the people should look at…But don’t criticize anyone for not knowing who he was in PA. I can only see your criticism as nothing more than personal opinion..especially since your response to the posted article on
      http://www.theblaze.com/stories/founder-of-internet-says-internet-access-is-not-a-human-right/
      ——————————————————————————————————————————————
      “( I believe Michigan and some others), finding that driving was a right as long as it wasn’t being done for commercial purposes.”

      I live in MI and driving is NOT a right on the civilian level. In fact, it’s just like it is there in PA. So don’t ask “why” you want my opinion on someone from your state when you have no idea of how things are in mine.

      That saying…NOBama..this year… I know we can agree on that ;) God Bless.

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    • arewefreenow
      Posted on January 6, 2012 at 2:30pm

      Oh yeah?? Santorum a “strong and principled conservative?”

      Sure, when pigs fly he is and I back that observation up by Sanitorum‘s own words where he said that Conservatives believe that the government should be peering into everyone’s bedroom! And, that he is “not aware of any society where radical individualism succeeds as a culture!”

      Oh, my goodness!!! What a loon.. This guy is a religious control freak. There ain’t no way this clown is gonna get the Independents and any of the Moderate Dem vote.
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Gwwmm-cQxU&feature=youtu.be.

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