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Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on January 5th, 2012 5:35 am by HL
Michele Bachmann exits the GOP race as she entered it
After a last-place finish in the Iowa caucuses, Michele Bachmann exited the presidential race just as she entered it, painting “Obamacare” as the socialist undoing of the United States of America.
But it was a real painting, she said, that had urged her into the race in the first place, on the night of March 21, 2010, after health-care reform passed in the House of Representatives.
The 2012 Iowa caucuses and the 10 closest races in history
Were the Iowa caucuses on Tuesday night the closest major race in modern U.S. political history? No. But they were damn close.
A review of the closest contests on the books shows the 8-vote margin for Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney in Iowa was the third-closest (in terms of actual votes) in modern history — behind only a Senate race in New Hampshire and a congressional race in Indiana.
John McCain, Mitt Romney and the Fix Endorsement Hierarchy
“I‘m really here for one reason and one reason only and that is to make sure that we make Mitt Romney the next President of the United States.” — Arizona Sen. John McCain in New Hampshire today.
As soon as the news broke — kudos to BuzzFeed’s Ben Smith for breaking it — that McCain would endorse Romney as his preferred candidate in the 2012 presidential race, the political world has been asking just one question: Where does this fit into the Fix Endorsement Hierarchy?