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The Republican Iowa Caucus: Finished
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Beeyee



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PostPosted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 3:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

So yeah, Ron Paul wins by a landslide Cool
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igotthisguitar



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 4:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Paul Rivals Clinton,
Raising Almost $20 Million for Campaign

Kristin Jensen
Tue Jan 1, 12:55 PM ET

Jan. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Presidential candidate Ron Paul raised almost $20 million for his campaign in the last three months, potentially outpacing every one of his Republican rivals and putting his fundraising in league with Hillary Clinton's.

Paul, a U.S. representative from Texas, raised at least $19.5 million, according to a statement posted on his Web site. His campaign said today that he originally aimed to raise $12 million in the fourth quarter of 2007.

The take puts Paul on par with the top fundraisers in the Democratic Party, who outpaced Republicans last year. The campaign of New York Senator Clinton yesterday said she raised more than $100 million for the year, meaning she brought in at least $20 million in the fourth quarter.

Paul has drawn supporters with his libertarian message and his opposition to the war in Iraq, spurring a burst of donations on the Internet, the source of about 80 percent of the contributions last quarter, according to Paul spokesman Jesse Benton. In the three months through September, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani brought in the most contributions among Republicans, for a total of $11.5 million.

Presidential campaigns don't have to report fundraising figures until the end of January, though many give hints about their totals earlier than that. Arizona Senator John McCain, who's seeking the Republican presidential nomination, yesterday told reporters in New Hampshire that December was his best fundraising month since July.

He gave no further details.

To contact the reporter on this story: Kristin Jensen in Iowa at [email protected]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/acilyj9ouudi;_ylt=Am7o3Qv0FjR7LdIJENR0TmUDW7oF
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Nowhere Man



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 5:53 am    Post subject: ... Reply with quote

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Tell me, did you stick your lower lip out when you typed that? Did you stick out your tongue?


No, actually I typed that up pretty fast cuz I was reading about how your cute, quaint little microcosm/barometer-of-America has never put a woman in Congress. Confused (that's a stuck out lower lip)

Iowa seems to have a fetish for old white guys. Wait! Who made all these corny threads about Iowa? Oh, right. An old white guy... Razz (that's a tongue sticking out)
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 5:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ELRON - VOXEO:
The Israeli Defense Firm That Tallies the Iowa Caucus
By Christopher Bollyn
31 December 2007

http://www.bollyn.com/index/?id=10371

The Iowa caucus is only a few days away and the nation's attention will be directed to the results, which signify the beginning of the U.S. presidential race. But does anyone watch who tallies the results of the Iowa caucus?

The Iowa caucus results were tallied in 2004 by a company that is headed by a man whose company was bought by Elron Electronics, the Israeli defense firm. I suspect that it will be the same this year. Don't expect to see any grassroots political activists doing the tally in Iowa. The Israeli defense establishment takes care of that part of the American "democratic" election process.

VOXEO
In the summer of 2004, I first learned that a foreign and out-of-state company using Interactive Voice Response (IVR) technology tallied the Iowa caucus results.

The system used to tally the 2004 Iowa caucus results was provided by a company called Voxeo, which was apparently based in Orlando, Florida. (Yellow flag goes up in the mind of those familiar with Orlando and electronic vote fraud history. See Bollyn article on Yang below.)

The calls from the nearly 2,000 caucus centers in Iowa went to a Voxeo call center in Atlanta, Georgia.

On January 31, 2005, I wrote to Michelle Bauer, Iowa's Secretary of State with some questions about the use of Voxeo, a foreign company located in Florida, to tally the results of the Iowa caucus:

Subject: How was the Iowa Caucus Tallied?

Dear Sirs,

When I visited the headquarters of the Democratic Party in Des Moines last summer, I learned that the tally of the Iowa caucus had been "out-sourced" to a company in Atlanta, Georgia.

What this means is that the tallying of the Iowa caucus results was done over the telephone, using the touch-tone buttons, to enter the results from each caucus location � Wink

I am interested in how this was done, and why. Why did the Democratic Party allow the crucial tally of the caucus results to be done by a company in Atlanta? Don't they trust their own math skills?

Can any of you provide any information about this matter?

Kind regards,
Christopher Bollyn

A person named Mike Milligan wrote back on behalf of Secretary of State Bauer:

Mike Milligan <[email protected]> wrote:

Dear Christopher:

The Secretary of State forwarded me the email you sent to then on Monday, January 31, 2004 [sic] regarding the Iowa Caucuses.

Unfortunately you either received some incorrect information in your travels or are confused. The Iowa Democratic Party completed all of the caucus night tabulations in Iowa, in the Des Moines/Polk County Convention Center, which was the Caucus night HQ. In fact, our tech staff wrote the software that tabulated the results.

To answer your second to last question, we feel we have a comfortable grasp of mathematics.

Sincerely,

MWM

Mike Milligan, Executive Director
Iowa Democratic Party
(515) 244-7292 ex. 676

I wrote this note back to Mr. Milligan:

Dear Mr. Milligan,
I am responding to you about how the caucus results for the Iowa Democratic Party were tallied on the night of the nation's first caucus. After checking my sources, I can assure you that it is correct that an out-of-state telephone/computer system tallied the Iowa precinct results.

The system used was provided by Voxeo Corporation based in Orlando, Florida. The calls went from Iowa to a call center in Atlanta, Georgia.

See: http://www.voxeo.com/

This information was first provided to me last August by John McCormally, Communications Director for the Iowa Democratic Party in Des Moines, Iowa.

Today I called Voxeo (800) 305-5771 in Orlando and although I didn't go into detail, the receptionist confirmed that Voxeo had conducted the telephone tally of the Iowa Democratic Caucus results.

How is it that you don't know that?

McCormally told me that chairmen were selected in all 1,993 precincts and these chairmen called in on touch-tone phones and after giving their PIN number, were able to enter the results from their precinct using the touch-tone number pad.

I'm not going to go into great detail at this point, but this procedure of using an out-of-state computer company to tally the precinct results for the Iowa Democratic Caucus lacks the transparency and openness that one might expect in this exercise in grass-roots poll.

Clearly, if someone wanted to adjust the results, it would be the easiest thing to do to do it through this computer system in Orlando, Florida. The Democrats in Iowa would never be aware of it, regardless of their math skills, unless the paper results were carefully audited in an open and honest manner.

Christopher Bollyn

THE ISRAELIS & VOXEO
Now, who really is Voxeo, and why are the Iowa caucus results tallied by them? I don't know if the 2008 Iowa results will be tallied in the same way, but I wouldn't doubt it.

Voxeo is headed by Jonathan Taylor, who is the company's President and CEO. This is what his Voxeo webpage says about him:

Jonathan combined his experience in both business operations and technology innovation to found Voxeo in 1999. Under his guidance, Voxeo has seen triple-digit revenue growth for four consecutive years and has been profitable since January, 2004. Prior to Voxeo, Jonathan founded and helped bring three additional software and infrastructure service companies to profitability.

From 1995 to 1997, Jonathan was the founder and President of InterResearch and Development Group (IRdg), Inc. IRdg created and licensed iPost - the first internet powered OEM unified messaging solution - to leading telecommunications providers including Ericsson, Motorola and Unisys. IRdg was acquired by Elron Electronic Industries (Nasdq: ELRN) subsidiary MediaGate in 1997.

There you have it. Jonathan Taylor's company, which he founded, was taken over by Elron Electronic Industries, the Israeli defense high tech company:

In its early days, Elron focused on defense, particularly electronics and avionics, as well as the emerging medical and technology sectors. In 1966, Elron founded Elbit, which combined the expertise of the Ministry of Defense-Research Institute in special computer design with Elron's experience in electronic product design, manufacture and management.

Source: http://www.elron.net/default.asp?PageID=203

This is important information that Americans need to know and which they will not find in the Zionist-controlled media in the United States. It needs to be understood that the entire election process in the United States is a fraud. More than that, it is a fraud that is being perpetrated by the Israeli defense establishment on the na�ve and gullible American public.

The sine qua non of an honest and transparent election process is the open counting of the votes by the voters themselves in each polling station in front of the open eyes of other citizens and members of the media. Any compromise in this most fundamental and essential process which acts to remove the citizenry from the vote-counting process simply cannot be accepted.

This is what Americans MUST get back to, in every polling station in the nation: paper ballots that are hand counted in front of the public.
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Ya-ta Boy



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 12:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is the SIXTH copy.
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Gopher



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 1:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I suspect they will not ban him. They have tolerated the worst forms or antisemitism from him. Not to mention libel. Allegation after allegation. Again and Again.

How do you know he is not one of the mods' socks, by the way?
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igotthisguitar



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PostPosted: Wed Jan 02, 2008 4:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gopher wrote:
I suspect they will not ban him. They have tolerated the worst forms or antisemitism from him.

Not to mention libel. Allegation after allegation. Again and Again.

How do you know he is not one of the mods' socks, by the way?


Define anti-semit-ism Gopher. I'm just not that clear on this one.

Also, what exactly is a semite?

Are you "pro" semitic? What of a simple neutrality?

Libel? What's that supposed to mean? Are you at the office or at home?
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The_Conservative



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 1:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

igotthisguitar wrote:
Gopher wrote:
I suspect they will not ban him. They have tolerated the worst forms or antisemitism from him.

Not to mention libel. Allegation after allegation. Again and Again.

How do you know he is not one of the mods' socks, by the way?


Define anti-semit-ism. .. I'm just not that clear on this one.

?



Just look in the mirror. It should be clear to you then.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 6:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The_Conservative wrote:
igotthisguitar wrote:
Gopher wrote:
I suspect they will not ban him. They have tolerated the worst forms or antisemitism from him.

Not to mention libel. Allegation after allegation. Again and Again.

How do you know he is not one of the mods' socks, by the way?


Define anti-semit-ism. .. I'm just not that clear on this one.


Just look in the mirror. It should be clear to you then.


Uh, yah ... thanks for helping clarify things, Conny Rolling Eyes
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 6:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gopher wrote:
I suspect they will not ban him. They have tolerated the worst forms or antisemitism from him. Not to mention libel. Allegation after allegation. Again and Again.


You forgot to mention racism as well. For once I'm starting to agree with you.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 6:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Breaking news: Dodd drops out of the presidential race.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 7:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

igotthisguitar wrote:
The_Conservative wrote:
igotthisguitar wrote:
Gopher wrote:
I suspect they will not ban him. They have tolerated the worst forms or antisemitism from him.

Not to mention libel. Allegation after allegation. Again and Again.

How do you know he is not one of the mods' socks, by the way?


Define anti-semit-ism. .. I'm just not that clear on this one.


Just look in the mirror. It should be clear to you then.


Uh, yah ... thanks for helping clarify things, Conny Rolling Eyes



No problem. Anytime you need me to yank you back to reality...I'm there for you. Idea
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Tiger Beer



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 7:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Milwaukiedave wrote:
Breaking news: Dodd drops out of the presidential race.

Almost expected. I'll read about it soon I'm sure, but what percentage of votes did he get? I'd think it would be at the bottom.
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Milwaukiedave



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PostPosted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 7:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Dodd didn't get anything (less then 1%). I expect that Biden, Kucinch and Gravel will drop out as well on the D side. On the Republican side Thompson will fight to live another day pulling out a skin of his teeth third place showing.

It's official Biden drops out.
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 7:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Milwaukiedave wrote:
It's official Biden drops out.


Biden gets the drubbing he deserves. The others didn't have a chance.
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