After the Bachmann surge and the Perry flameout, the boom and bust pattern of would-be Romney-slayers in the GOP primary battle became familiar to most election observers. After Cain’s moment in the sun it became conventional wisdom. And now with Newt it’s almost a cliche.
But it’s one thing to see it in general and it’s another to see it graphed out in front of you. The charts below are from the beta version of the new TPMPolltracker, slated to be released next month.
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It starts with a professor mocking a congressman for going to a community college. Then the congressman started ordering the professor around like a servant. And then, well, if it weren’t already bad enough, it went down hill from there. Watch.
The top 5 turkeys of the 2011 pre-campaign season.
The Feds moved in this morning and arrested seven members of the so-called ‘Bergholz Clan’, a cult-like breakaway Amish group responsible for a harrowing wave of beard-cutting incidents in Amish Country aimed at religious backsliders. Federal charges are under the Matthew Shepard-James Byrd Hate Crimes Prevention Act. The FBI affidavit also alleges additional ‘cult-like’ practices such as leader Samuel Mullet “‘counseling’ the married women in the Bergholz clan and taking them into his home so that he may cleanse them of the devil with acts of sexual intimacy.”
If you watched closely, the questioners at the GOP debate were like a walk down memory lane of the Bush foreign policy and national security team. David Addington, Paul Wolfowitz and more.
UC Davis students reflect on the pepper spray incident that has transfixed the country and transformed the campus.
FBI raid early this morning nabbed seven Amish men allegedly connected to a string of hair-cutting ambushes on fellow Amish.
In the wake of the New York al Doubie terror case, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) has asked Google to institute a new system on their Blogger publishing platform where readers can flag “terrorist content.”