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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 …
Washington Post:
Romney Wins Iowa's GOP Poll — Victory Highlights Strategy Difference With Giuliani — With a convincing victory in the Republican straw poll here Saturday, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney vaulted himself into the next phase of a presidential nomination battle pitting …
Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Romney wins big, Huckabee second — AMES, Iowa — Mitt Romney won a convincing victory among Iowa Republicans Saturday in a straw poll diminished by the absence of three of the leading GOP presidential hopefuls. — While Romney's 31.5 percent win had been widely forecast …
Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Ames Poll Produces Winner — And It May Not Be Romney — The Ames straw poll in Iowa has concluded in a racous day of policy and showmanship, and in the end the man who spent the most money in Iowa won the most votes. However, the real winner may be the man who spent nothing but time and effort …
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%)
The Atlantic Online:Straw Poll Results Delayed Due To Voting Machine Malfunction
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Patrick Ruffini / Townhall.com: Huckabee! — Ames results are as follows: — Mitt Romney 4516 votes (31.0%)
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 …
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Mark Steyn / Orange County Register:
Warm-mongers and cheeseburger imperialists — Something rather odd happened the other day. If you go to NASA's Web site and look at the "U.S. surface air temperature" rankings for the lower 48 states, you might notice that something has changed. — Then again, you might not.
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Bill Roggio / Weekly Standard:The Army Responds — I recently emailed Col. Steve Boylan asking …
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Charles Levinson / Telegraph:
Hizbollah buys frontier land to attack Israel — Hizbollah is buying up large tracts of land owned by Christians and other non-Shias in southern Lebanon as the militant group rebuilds its defences in preparation for a new war with Israel, The Sunday Telegraph has been told.
Robert J. Samuelson / Newsweek:
Greenhouse Simplicities — We in the news business often enlist in moral crusades. Global warming is among the latest. Unfortunately, self-righteous indignation can undermine good journalism. Last week's NEWSWEEK cover story on global warming is a sobering reminder.
Glenn Greenwald / Salon:
The truth behind the Pollack-O'Hanlon trip to Iraq — Last Wednesday, I interviewed Michael O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institution regarding the trip he recently took to Iraq and the highly publicized Op-Ed in the New York Times about his trip, co-written with his Brookings colleague, Ken Pollack.
KSAT-TV:
Local Minister, Helper Charged With Assault — Flowers, Bassitt Allegedly Dragged Girl Behind Van — SAN ANTONIO — A local minister and one of his assistants Friday were charged with aggravated assault in connection with a Nueces County dragging incident.
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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