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First Post-Debate 2008 GOP Primary Straw Poll‎
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I am pleased to announce GOP Bloggers' eleventh 2008 Straw Poll. This is thefirst straw poll to occur after the GOP candidates debates. Like our last poll, you get to pick which candidates you find acceptable andwhich ones you don't and it will tally who has the largest net positive ornet negative support, and you can choose which candidate is your firstchoice for the GOP nomination in 2008... You can indicate what state you arein, your gender and your age bracket. You may also indicate how many hours aweek you spend reading blogs, and how committed you are to your first choicefor president in 2008.

Visit the following link to vote:

http://www.gopbloggers.org/mt/archives/004903.php

As usual, bloggers can post the poll into a blog entry and have theirreaders vote directly from your blog. This also allows you too see howvoters from your blog voted compared to the rest of the blogosphere. The code is provided at the bottom of the poll. http://www.gopbloggers.org/mt/archives/004903.php

F. Thompson 1344 (45.5%)
Romney 456 (15.4%)
Giuliani 315 (10.7%)
Paul 248 (8.4%)
Gingrich 195 (6.6%)
Hunter 117 (4%)
Tancredo 83 (2.8%)
(none) 73 (2.5%)
Huckabee 54 (1.8%)
McCain 32 (1.1%)
Brownback 29 (1%)
T. Thompson 8 (0.3%)
Gilmore 3 (0.1%)

More of the same?


Candidate Acceptability:

2008 Primary Straw Poll Results

2957 ballots cast

First Choice:
F. Thompson 1344 (45.5%)
Romney 456 (15.4%)
Giuliani 315 (10.7%)
Paul 248 (8.4%)
Gingrich 195 (6.6%)
Hunter 117 (4%)
Tancredo 83 (2.8%)
(none) 73 (2.5%)
Huckabee 54 (1.8%)
McCain 32 (1.1%)
Brownback 29 (1%)
T. Thompson 8 (0.3%)
Gilmore 3 (0.1%)


Candidate Acceptability:
Net Votes + Votes - Votes
Brownback -665 -22.5% 857 (29%) 1522 (51.5%)
Gilmore -1220 -41.3% 535 (18.1%) 1755 (59.4%)
Gingrich 897 +30.3% 1758 (59.5%) 861 (29.1%)
Giuliani 296 +10% 1460 (49.4%) 1164 (39.4%)
Huckabee 316 +10.7% 1367 (46.2%) 1051 (35.5%)
Hunter 540 +18.3% 1492 (50.5%) 952 (32.2%)
McCain -1808 -61.1% 412 (13.9%) 2220 (75.1%)
Paul -1938 -65.5% 313 (10.6%) 2251 (76.1%)
Romney 1318 +44.6% 1951 (66%) 633 (21.4%)
Tancredo 80 +2.7% 1276 (43.2%) 1196 (40.4%)
F. Thompson 1702 +57.6% 2072 (70.1%) 370 (12.5%)
T. Thompson -1355 -45.8% 509 (17.2%) 1864 (63%)


How many hours do you spend reading blogs?
6 to 10 848 (28.7%)
1 to 5 655 (22.2%)
11 to 15 571 (19.3%)
16 to 20 433 (14.6%)
20 or more 398 (13.5%)
(none) 52 (1.8%)


On a scale of 1 to 5, how committed are you to your candidate?
5 1108 (37.5%)
4 1088 (36.8%)
3 532 (18%)
2 102 (3.4%)
1 73 (2.5%)
(none) 54 (1.8%)


Conservatism from 1 to 10
8 917 (31%)
9 735 (24.9%)
10 426 (14.4%)
7 368 (12.4%)
6 196 (6.6%)
5 167 (5.6%)
(none) 44 (1.5%)
4 41 (1.4%)
3 29 (1%)
1 16 (0.5%)
2 9 (0.3%)
-5 9 (0.3%)

Note: -5 are lefty trolls.

[ Results last generated on: Thursday 24th of May 2007 04:30 PM (CDT)]

2008 Primary Straw Poll Results

3373 ballots cast

First Choice:
F. Thompson 1485 (44%)
Romney 537 (15.9%)
Paul 345 (10.2%)
Giuliani 342 (10.1%)
Gingrich 213 (6.3%)
Hunter 131 (3.9%)
Tancredo 102 (3%)
(none) 81 (2.4%)
Huckabee 55 (1.6%)
McCain 35 (1%)
Brownback 35 (1%)
T. Thompson 9 (0.3%)
Gilmore 4 (0.1%)

....CHECK OUT FRED THOMPSON!!!!

(member of CFR... see below)

Check him out on you tube!!!!!!!!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Snw7_6mJf5c& ... ed&search=
Fred Thompson - Fox News Part 1
(refers to giving some form of citizenship to illegal aliens on this video)

Brit Hume and Carl Cameron talk about Fred Thompson
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Tptemh9ORe0& ... ed&search=

Fred Thompson On Illegal Immigration
http://youtube.com/watch?v=BQLFfTd2l44& ... ed&search=


http://www.tv.com/fred-dalton-thompson/ ... mmary.html
In 2004, Fred Thompson was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. He did not reveal this until April 2007. He also announced that the cancer was in remission. He has responded well to treatment, and his life expectancy "should not be affected." (edit)

He is one of only four actors to play the same character (D.A. Arthur Branch) in all four Law & Order series: Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and Law & Order: Trial by Jury. The others are Jesse L. Martin (Det. Ed Green), Jerry Orbach (Det. Lennie Briscoe), and Leslie Hendrix (Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers). (edit)

He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. (edit)

Thompson was President of the Federal City Council in Washington, D.C. (edit)

Peter Maas wrote the book "Marie" about the Tennessee parole board scandal. Roger Donaldson directed the 1985 movie based on the book. Donaldson consulted with Thompson about who should portray Thompson in the movie. Thompson suggested that he should portray himself. Donaldson agreed, and thus began Thompson's acting career. (edit)

CFR
http://www.cfr.org/
Council on Foreign Relations

North American Union
http://www.cfr.org/search.html?q=North+ ... rs.pubtype

The Future of North American Integration in the Wake of the Terrorist Attacks
http://www.cfr.org/publication/4280/fut ... tacks.html

A North American Community Approach to Security
http://www.cfr.org/publication/8173/nor ... urity.html

[PDF] Creating a North American Community
http://www.cfr.org/content/publications ... TF_eng.pdf

Building a North American Community: Report of the Independent Task Force on the Future of North America
http://www.cfr.org/publication/8138/bui ... unity.html

Task Force Urges Measures to Strengthen North American Competitiveness, Expand Trade, Ensure Border Security
http://www.cfr.org/publication/8104/tas ... urity.html

Trinational Call for a North American Economic and Security ...
http://www.cfr.org/publication/7914/tri ... _2010.html

Findings and recommendations:

Build a North American economic and security community by 2010. To enhance security, prosperity, and opportunity for all North Americans, the chairs propose a community defined by a common external tariff and an outer security perimeter.
Create the institutions necessary for a North American community. The chairs propose annual summit meetings among the three countries and the creation of a North American Advisory Council to prepare for and implement the decisions made at the summits.
Enhance North American competitiveness with a common external tariff. Over the last decade, nations around the world, from China to India to Latin America to the expanded membership of the European Union, have become increasingly integrated into the global market. To meet these challenges to North American competitiveness, the chairs recommend that the three governments negotiate a common external tariff on a sector-by-sector basis at the lowest rate consistent with multilateral obligations: "Unwieldy rules of origin, increasing congestion at ports of entry, and regulatory differences among the three countries raise our costs instead of reducing them."
Develop a border pass for North Americans. The chairs propose a border pass, with biometric indicators, which would allow expedited passage through customs, immigration, and airport security throughout North America. "The governments of Canada, Mexico, and the United States should commit themselves to the long-term goal of dramatically reducing the need for physical scrutiny of traffic, travel, and trade within North America."
Adopt a unified Border Action Plan. The three governments should "strive toward a situation in which a terrorist trying to penetrate our borders will have an equally hard time doing so no matter which country he elects to enter first. "First steps should include: harmonized visa and asylum regulations; joint inspection of container traffic entering North American ports; and synchronized screening and tracking of people, goods, and vessels, including integrated "watch" lists. Security cooperation should extend to counterterrorism and law enforcement, and could include the establishment of a trinational threat intelligence center and joint training for law enforcement officials. On the defense front, the most important step is to expand the binational North American Aerospace Defense Command to make it a multi-service Canada-U.S. command with a mandate to protect the maritime as well as air approaches to North America. Canada and the United States should invite Mexico to consider closer military cooperation in the future.
Narrow the development gap with Mexico. While trade and investment flows have increased dramatically, the development gap between Mexico and its two northern neighbors has widened. "Low wages and lack of economic opportunity in parts of Mexico stimulate undocumented immigration, and contribute to human suffering, which sometimes translates into violence." Mexico must increase its rate of economic growth and decide on the steps it will take to attract investment and stimulate growth. As a matter of their own national interests, the United States and Canada should assist Mexico by establishing a North American Investment Fund, designed to channel resources for the purpose of connecting the poorer parts of the country to the markets in the north.
Develop a North American energy and natural resource security strategy. Canada and Mexico are the two largest oil exporters to the United States; Canada alone supplies the United States with over 95% of its imported natural gas and 100% of its imported electricity. The three governments should expand and protect energy infrastructure, fully exploit continental reserves, conserve fossil fuels, and reduce emissions. "Regional collaboration on conservation and emissions could form the basis for a North American alternative to the Kyoto protocol."
Deepen educational ties. "Given its historical, cultural, political, and economic ties, North America should have the largest educational exchange network in the world." To that end, the chairs recommend expanding scholarship and exchange programs, developing Centers for North American Studies in all three countries, and cross-border training programs for school teachers.
Founded in 1921, the Council on Foreign Relations is an independent, national membership organization and a nonpartisan center for scholars dedicated to producing and disseminating ideas so that individual and corporate members, as well as policymakers, journalists, students, and interested citizens in the United States and other countries, can better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other governments.

The Mexican Council on Foreign Relations(COMEXI) is the only multi-disciplinary organization committed to fostering sophisticated, broadly inclusive political discourse and analysis on the nature of Mexico's participation in the international arena and the relative influence of Mexico's increasingly global orientation on domestic priorities. The Council is an independent, non-profit, pluralistic forum, with no government or institutional ties that is financed exclusively by membership dues and corporate support. The main objectives of COMEXI are to provide information and analysis of interest to our associates, as well as to create a solid institutional framework for the exchange of ideas concerning pressing world issues that affect our country.

Founded in 1976, the Canadian Council of Chief Executives is Canada's premier business association, with an outstanding record of achievement in matching entrepreneurial initiative with sound public policy choices. A not-for-profit, non-partisan organization composed of the chief executives of 150 leading Canadian enterprises, the CCCE was the Canadian private sector leader in the development and promotion of the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement during the 1980s and of the subsequent trilateral North American Free Trade Agreement.

I cannot vote for Freddy boy, because he is for AMNESTY.

Yes, he definately is!!!!