Conservative Pulse

McCain Wins Washington, Ron Paul Strong

John McCain has apparently won the Washington Republican caucuses tonight, a narrow victory over Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul. In fact, the most notable element of the race is that Ron Paul picked up about 22% for a close third place finish. This is one of his campaign’s strongest showings to date, and [...]

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Huckabee Wins Louisiana Beauty Contest

Mike Huckabee has scored a second win for tonight, taking the Louisiana primary by a very narrow margin of 44-43%. However, because no candidate recieved 50% of the vote, tonight’s vote is merely a beauty contest and no delegates will be awarded. Louisiana has a complicated three-step process for picking delegates. John McCain and [...]

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Clean Sweep for Obama

It looks like Barack Obama has swept through today’s primaries and caucuses on the Democratic side. By landslide margins, Obama carried the states of Nebraska, Washington, and Louisiana. And he also claimed victory in the caucuses held in the Virgin Islands. Hillary “I loaned myself $5 million” Clinton was able to pick up some [...]

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Huckabee Wins Kansas Caucuses

As expected, Mike Huckabee dominated today’s Kansas caucuses as he turned out that state’s largely rural and religous voters in large numbers. Huckabee took in 60% of the vote, with 24% going to McCain, 11% for Ron Paul, and 1% for Alan Keyes. The state’s 36 convention delegates are winner take all and will be [...]

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Ron Paul Suspends Campaign (Sorta)

Ron Paul has decided to shrink the size of his campaign staff, he’s admitted defeat, and says he will now focus himself on holding his seat in Congress.  He’s not exactly dropping out, or even formally suspending his campaign, but it sounds pretty close to it. His Presidential campaign appears that it will be put on [...]

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Death of the American Dollar?

The weakness in the American dollar is attracting hordes of European tourists seeking to take advantage of the favorable exchange rates.  Reuters reports that now many businesses in New York are starting to accept Euros and other foreign currencies. Is this yet another signal of a looming collapse of American economic might?  Or just a sign [...]

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Is Ron Paul Giving Up?

Yesterday, Mitt Romney accepted the reality that John McCain will be the Republican nominee.  Mike Huckabee is rolling the dice on a few more contests, but is widely expected to pull out once McCain racks up another couple of wins.  But what about Ron Paul? He never really had a chance, but his supporters poured cash into [...]

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Huckabee Keeps The Faith

Mike Huckabee’s campaign is vowing to press forward, despite the deparature of Mitt Romney from the race today.  Huckabee is banking on being the alternative to John McCain and possibly being able to win upcoming contests in Kansas and Virginia. “We know it’s an uphill climb, but we knew that a year ago when we announced,” [...]

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Alan Keyes and Ron Paul to Benefit

With Mitt Romney out of the Presidential race, we are now facing several months of scattered Republican primaries and caucuses across the country.  It’s likely that Mike Huckabee’s campaign will continue on a bit longer, and he may even score a few upset victories, but the odds are that he will be out of the [...]

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Romney calls a time-out

Officials with the campaign have said that former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney will suspend his run for the Republican primary nomination, following a disappointing series of state and district-wide losses on February 5.  He currently controls only 270 delegates, approximately one-third the number held by Arizona Senator John McCain.  The original story has been released by CNN and is [...]

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