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The Atlantic Online:
AMES: Romney WIns; Huckabee In Second — Gov Mitt Romney won the 2007 Ames straw poll, receiving 4516 votes, or 31%. — In a surprise, Gov. Mike Huckabee finished second with 2587 votes at 18.1% — 11. John Cox with 41 votes. — 10. John McCain with 101 votes. — 9. Duncan Hunter with 174 votes.
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Des Moines Register:
Romney wins, Huckabee in 2nd — Ames, Ia. — Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney emerged on top at Iowa GOP's straw poll Saturday in Ames. — The win boosted the former Massachusetts governor's standing as the party's frontrunner in Iowa, although attendance at this first show …
The Atlantic Online:
Straw Poll Results Delayed Due To Voting Machine Malfunction — AMES — The announcement of tonight's straw poll results has been delayed due to what one informed source says was a voting machine malfunction. About 4,500 ballots had to be re-run. We are waiting....
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Analysis: Huckabee's 2nd-Place 'Win' in Ames — AMES, Iowa — The biggest political event of the 2007 calendar year gave former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney a victory, but the biggest winner may well be former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who placed a surprising second.
Jonah Goldberg / The Corner:
Help Me Uncle Sam! — I'm on quasi vacation in the upper left-hand corner of the country (or at least the upper left hand corner of the lower 48, a distinction I offer in deference to my Alaskan relatives who surround me in abundance). I haven't followed the Iowa straw poll closely …
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Ames results: Quick notes — Romney's 31.5% victory is almost exactly what then-Gov. Bush picked up at Ames in 1999, but Romney's margin over his nearest competitor was higher than what Bush won with. Romney bested Mike Huckabee by 13% while Bush defeated Steve Forbes by 10%.
Chase Martyn / Iowa Independent:
Romney Wins Straw Poll, Huckabee Takes Second — Over an hour late, the results were announced. — 14,302 ballots were cast. The vote tallies, in reverse order, are below: — 11th place: John Cox (41 votes, 0.3%) — 10th place: John McCain (101 votes, 0.7%) — 9th place: Duncan Hunter (174 votes, 1.2%)
Reid Wilson / TIME: Real Clear Politics:
Iowa Dispatch: Instant Analysis — AMES — The instant analysis would seem to show two very clear winners: Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee. The two former governors took 31.5% and 18.1% respectively, and both are spinning the poll as nothing but a complete win.
Jeff Zeleny / New York Times:
Huckabee Celebrates Second-Place Finish — (Photo: Keith Bedford for The New York Times) — AMES, Iowa - When the Republican Straw Poll results were announced tonight, Mitt Romney had this to say: "I'm pleased as punch that I won!" — He was, of course, expecting to win.
Patrick Ruffini / Townhall.com: Huckabee! — Ames results are as follows: — Mitt Romney 4516 votes (31.0%)
Michael Finnegan / Los Angeles Times:Iowa straw poll may weed field
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Washington Post:
How the Fight for Vast New Spying Powers Was Won — For three days, Mike McConnell, the director of national intelligence, had haggled with congressional leaders over amendments to a federal surveillance law, but now he was putting his foot down. "This is the issue," said the plain-spoken …
Bill Roggio / Weekly Standard:
The Army Responds — I recently emailed Col. Steve Boylan asking for whatever information he could provide regarding the status of the investigation of Scott Thomas Beauchamp. Here is his response:
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Antony Jay / Times of London:
Confessions of a BBC liberal — The BBC has finally come clean about its bias, says a former editor, who wrote Yes, Minister — In the past four weeks there have been two remarkable changes in the public attitude to the BBC. The first and most newsworthy one was precipitated …
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Joshua Zumbrun / Washington Post:
The Sacrifices of Albania's 'Sworn Virgins' — A Rockville Filmmaker Tells Of an Old Custom That Both Liberates and Limits Women — When the Albanian journalist and author Elvira Dones was traveling in the mountains of northern Albania, she asked for directions from someone she thought …
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
New Iraq report to warn of attack — The Bush administration is finishing a National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq that paints a sobering picture of a mature civil war unlikely to be snuffed out through political progress, according to officials involved in the report's preparation.
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