August 23, 2011
"There even continues to be a pretty strong birther strain in Iowa. 48% of Republican voters believe Barack Obama was born in the United States but 32% still do not."

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32% of Iowa Republicans are still birthers. Perry leads Romney by 12 points with them

Public Policy Polling

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(Notes: 65)
  
Filed under: Birthers Politics 2012 Elections Polls 
August 19, 2011
"I was praying Perry would get in the race,"

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[A] former White House aide closely linked to Obama’s campaign. - Obama 2012 team would prefer to run against Rick Perry (via brooklynmutt)

But do we believe it?

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(Notes: 18)
  
Filed under: Rick Perry Politics 2012 Elections 
August 16, 2011
The Texas Miracle

brooklynmutt:

“[Rick] Perry calls it the “Texas Miracle” and that miracle has profited corporations and the rich in our state extremely well. But if you’re a regular American, if you’re a regular Texan, a work a day person, this is not the kind of economy you’re going to enjoy. For example, Perry talks about all the jobs that he’s created. What he doesn’t mention is that those jobs are mostly jobettes, not real jobs. In fact, in his 10 years as governor, he’s created more minimum wage jobs than all other states combined. He’s also managed to create a state in which we’re:

  • #1 in the number of children and families without health care coverage.
  • #1 in the wage gap between the rich and the poor.
  • #1 with the most regressive tax system in the country.
  • #1 in the number of toxic releases from industrial plants and chemical factories. 

We’re number one in the things we ought to be number 50 in, and we’re number 50 in the things we ought to be number one in.” 

Jim Hightower, Editor of The Hightower Lowdown via MSNBC - Watch

Perry’s first big win in politics was over Hightower!

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(Notes: 88)
  
Filed under: Rick Perry Texas Politics 2012 Elections 
August 16, 2011
"Michele Bachmann’s vote total is about the same number of people who have visited this site in the past hour on a Saturday night."

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Andrew Sullivan, Some Perspective - The Daily Beast (via brooklynmutt)

If going to the Daily Beast/Newsweek/Crazyphotoshoppeoplesite is the same as getting in a car, driving to Iowa University paying $50 or knowing someone with a ticket to let you in and then waiting around for a few hours and then voting. yeah it would actually be really comparable Andrew.

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(Notes: 60)
  
Filed under: Michele Bachmann Politics 2012 Elections Iowa Straw Poll 
August 15, 2011
"Rick Perry’s secret to job creation is no secret at all: It’s the same recipe used in places like Mexico and Malaysia. Here, companies save millions they would otherwise have had to spend on responsibility. It’s a tradeoff: Give up on public schools, healthy air, and your Constitutional rights and you can have a job."

— Geoff Berg - How Perry Created All Those jobs (via therecipe)

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(Notes: 39)
  
Filed under: U.S. politics politics Rick Perry jobs 2012 elections