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New Poll Shows Tight Races in N.H., McCain Catches up With Romney

01.02.08 -- 7:14 AM

By Associated Press

THE RACE: The presidential race for Democrats, Republicans in New Hampshire.

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THE NUMBERS - DEMOCRATS

Hillary Rodham Clinton, 34 percent

Barack Obama, 30 percent

John Edwards, 17 percent

Bill Richardson, 5 percent

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THE NUMBERS - REPUBLICANS

Mitt Romney, 29 percent

John McCain, 29 percent

Rudy Giuliani, 12 percent

Mike Huckabee, 10 percent

Ron Paul, 7 percent

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Only 33 percent of likely Republican voters and 42 percent of likely Democratic voters say they have decided definitely on a candidate in the Jan. 8 New Hampshire primary. Democratic Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama remain in a close race, while on the GOP side former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Sen. John McCain are tied. McCain, who is focusing heavily on New Hampshire, has gained recently at the expense of former New York Gov. Rudy Giuliani, whose strategy is to score big in big-state contests after Iowa and New Hampshire.

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The University of New Hampshire telephone poll for CNN/WMUR-TV was conducted Dec. 27-30. The sample of 439 likely Republican primary voters has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.7 percent; the sample of 521 likely Democratic primary voters has a margin of error of plus or minutes 4.3 percent.

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The Republican Party is a sick joke, and the people of this country are fed up with them.
From Nixon to Bush, and from Scooter to Larry "Toilet Stall" Craig, the Republicans have proven themselves to be a bunch of lying, corrupt, evil, perverted, over-spending crooks.
When you look at all the money Bill Clinton left this country, it makes us all cry to know that Bush spent it all.
When the money was gone, Bush went to China for help.
Just think, we owe money to China!
That is the Bush way.
Cheney is no better.
You can't trust either of them.
No one does.
Why are we in Iraq?
The war should be on terror, not in Iraq.
Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, and yet Bush has spent all that money to fight "his" war.
Yes his, because many Republicans have backed off from the war.
By the way, the war in Iraq has cost the U.S. almost five hundred billion dollars.
Forget Rudy.
Rudy Giuliani is no hero.
While he is often called the hero of 9/11, the truth is that Rudy was a terrible leader during his years as mayor of New York City.
He made bad decisions and took a girlfriend while being married.
In fact, he even wanted his lover to live in the same house with his wife.
Most people would call this perverted.
New Yorkers were so sick of his antics, that they wanted him out of office.
Then came 9/11.
The only reason people call Giuliani a hero today, is because he just happened to be NYC's mayor during that bad time.
Any mayor would be looked at as a hero if they showed their face under those circumstances.
If there was no 9/11, Rudy would have become a joke.
This is not the kind of leader we want in the White House. In closing, the New York Post reported in their paper on April 23, that Giuliani spent more than $48,000 dollars of campaign money on posh hotels while claiming to have spent the least of all the Republican candidates.
Rudy is a good time leader, and does it with other people's money.
Forget Mitt.
His ads look bad.
He can't seem to get his facts right, and will say things to make himself look good.
Red flags go up around him.
I spoke with his son Tagg at the New Hampshire debates back in June (2007), and while he seemed like a nice man, Tagg could not get his facts right either.
The worst Republican as of late, though, is Larry Craig.
He is a lying pervert who wanted gay sex with a strange man on a dirty toilet seat.
He pled guilty, then said he was not guilty.
Say what?
He is another Republican moron.
Did you hear about Washington State Republican Rep. Richard Curtis?
He offered $1,000 to a young man for unprotected sex while dressed in women's lingerie.
This sort of thing just goes on and on with them.
Remember Mark Foley?
Here is a letter I wrote that was in many newspapers and Web sites:

Once again, the Republicans have turned my stomach with shocking and repulsive behavior.
Mark Foley, a Republican member (now ex-member) of Congress, has sent many e-mails with perverted sexual content to a sixteen year old boy.
This is the same man who while in Congress, backed a bill that was meant to protect children from child predators.
Foley himself, is a man who preyed on a child with lust.
What is also incomprehensible, is the fact that some Republicans knew of Foley’s behavior, and yet, did not take a hard stand against this until it became public news. If I had a teenage son and/or daughter, I would not want them to go near any Republican leader for fear of either or both becoming a victim of a sick Republican pervert.

George Vreeland Hill

There were more than three hundred such letters in newspapers in 2007 alone.
Many of them in New Hampshire.
There are thousands on the Internet.
No lie.
THOUSANDS!
This does not even include articles, ads, radio, TV and other areas where the public takes notice.
In fact, one Republican in California wanted me stopped once, because I was hurting some Republicans in their elections.
I just want to do my part in helping to get rid of every Republican scumbag.
From phone scams to the Union Leader (NH) covering up for Republicans, the garbage never ends.
But the Republican Party will end.
Did you know that George W. Bush once made fun of the issue of Weapons of Mass Destruction?
He did, and in front of some shocked people during a black-tie event in 2004.
He said.... (While looking under a piece of furniture) "Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be here somewhere."
Then, while pretending to look out of a window, Bush laughed as he said..... "Nope, no weapons over there."
While he was laughing, there were men and women fighting and dying in Iraq because of WMD.
George W. Bush should be removed from office because of that alone.
Face it, Bill Clinton lied about having sex, and was impeached because of it.
George W. Bush however, did far worse, as he laughed at the very people who are fighting for the United States of America!
That about sums it all up!
(By the way, this Bush/WMD was part of an article and letter I wrote as well.)
This leads us to John McCain.
All he seems to do is attack other candidates.
His Woodstock ad against Hillary Clinton was boring and without the facts.
He tells of Hillary wanting to spend a million dollars on a museum while he (McCain) supports spending more on the war in Iraq.
He wants you to believe that the Democrats are the big spenders, while it is McCain's Republican Party that has spent all the money Bill Clinton left us to a point where Bush had to borrow money from China.
Think about that again.
We owe to China.
That is the Republican way.
Also, it must be noted that McCain even laughed at war.
Remember when McCain changed the words of a Beach Boys song to Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Iran?
McCain even laughed when he was done.
He thought starting a war with Iran was a laughing matter.
That is the real John McCain.
He just can't be trusted.
He is another George Bush, and you know what we got with him.
The Republican Party is a mess, and getting worse.
People do not trust any of them, and we are all tired of their act.
I am doing my best to make sure that no Republican wins an election.
Thank you for your time.

George Vreeland Hill

January 8, 2008 8:34 PM | Reply

The only poll that counts, the ballot.
So much for projecting Obama leading Clinton by 9%. It's as accurate as astrologers predictions of the end of the world in 2000.
So Oprah thought she left Clinton for dead. Not so fast. It's bad enough that women don't support woman when more than 51% of Americans are women, yet they don't think woman belongs to the white house.

January 8, 2008 9:25 PM | Reply

TOP 10 Indicators you live in a Fascist (non-democratic) County

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TOP 10 INDICATORS YOU LIVE IN A FASCIST COUNTY

American Cultural Ambassadors David and Renate Jakupca of the International Center for Environmental Arts (ICEA) have examined fascist regimes in history and found 10 defining characteristics common to each:

1. A perceived Powerful and Continuing Community Spirit - Fascist counties tend to make constant use of slogans, mottos, symbols, songs, and other propaganda to rally the people to their current cause. No matter what the consequences are, people tend to look the other way or even allow their tax money to be used in the name of community patriotism.

2. Loss of Recognition for Human Rights - Because of the need for their fundamental security, the people in a fascist county are persuaded that their human rights and civil liberties can be ignored in certain cases because of the "needs" of special interests.

3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause - people are rallied or bought into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to blackball or eliminate a perceived common threat or foe (whistle blower). Power brokers build themselves up by hiring others to knocking others down through discrimination, coercion, elections, etc.

4. Controlled Mass Media - Sometimes the media is directly controlled by the government, but in most cases, the media strings are pulled indirectly by the Syndicate money through advertising or sold out media executives. Media outlets like 'COOL CLEVELAND' and ANGLE Magazine are blatantly owned and operated by the special interest groups. Censorship, is the key word here. Economic Fear is the motivational tool over the masses.

5. Religion/Non-Profit Sector and Government are Intertwined - Governments in fascist counties are pressured to use the most powerful religion in the county as a tool to manipulate public trusts to their favor. Religious and charitable rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the non-profit sector are diametrically opposed to the community's best policies or actions. The whole non-profit sector integrity is compromised for the benefit of a chosen few.

6. Corporate Power is Protected - The business and non-profit aristocracy of a fascist county often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship for a more powerful elite mafia.

7. Labor Power is Suppressed - Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions, like in certain east side neighborhoods are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed.

8. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts - A Fascist county tends to promote and tolerate open hostility to a higher level of Culture and Academia. It is not uncommon for senior artists and other academics to be censored, sanctioned or even arrested. Free expression in the arts and letters is covertly attacked. Google search: "ICEAlity"

9. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption - Fascist counties almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government and community positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their many, many, many friends on the public payroll from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for county resources and even treasured real estate to be misappropriated by government leaders for special interest use. Business Poaching and other unscrupulous tactics are on the rise.

10. Fraudulent and Bogus Elections - Sometimes elections are a complete sham - like the recent ISSUE 31. Most elections are about obtaining more money and taxes. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even political assassination of opposition candidates, and use of legislation to control business or peoples' rights. Fascist counties also typically use their judiciaries (example: community development corporations) to manipulate or control elections.

Fascism: An autocratic system of government, headed by an absolute dictatorship, and characterized by strict social and economic regimentation, aggessive nationalistic policies often accompanied by racism, and forcible suppression of all criticism and opposition.

January 9, 2008 2:27 AM | Reply

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