9/24 Now its 71 If you need a smile look at the curve.


Intrade continues to go to in favor of the President by big margins.


9/11 President 60 Romney 40



http://www.intrade.com/v4/home/



Keeps going up

Now Obama 60.2 Romney 32.6


In one week the President's spread has gone up 6 points.

Also whereever there has been a Republican primary the President's chances for winning the state has improved significantly.

Romney can say good bye to his 'home state' Hew Hampshire;

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/02/fav-obama_n_725997.html

http://www.intrade.com/v4/markets/?eventId=84326

Now

2/6/2012 Intrade Obama 58 Romney 36

Was

2/4/2012 Intrade Obama 57 Romney 38.6 Completely batshit crazy 4.4

Previous

1/29/2012 Intrade Obama 54.9 Romney 38.6 Completely batshit crazy 6.5

The President has moved from a 16.3 point spread to 18.4

Anyone who lives around military bases has heard stories about unethical sales people and practices that are designed to victimize unsophisticated enlisted folks.

Secretary Cordray has initiated a plan to shut them down and I have heard on the grape vine that some offices are closing this weekend so as to not be caught in federal prosecutions.

During SC primary results FOX didn't cover Gingrich's victory and speech: http://www.democraticunderground.com/12513372


Currently MSNBC is showing the President live in Iowa.

Currently CNN is flipping between Gingrich in Florida and the President in Iowa

Currently FOX is showing an update about snow in Washington State, and other blather but neither Gingrich nor the President live.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/election.aspx

This is the graphy from yesterday which has not yet been updated. With the new numbers Gingrich will be on top and Romney on the bottom. As it is a 5 day rolling poll and is still reflecting some pre SC numbers, expect more bad news for Romney tomorrow.

Gingrich's earlier gains was coming from drinking Santorum's milkshake (a mind mending frothy concoction) while now he is drinking Romney's milkshake and returning Romney to his more or less under 30 ceiling. All of this shows, IMO, that Romney has an iron ceiling of about 28% in the Republican Party and only went above that briefly when after it appeared that he had won both Iowa and New Hamshire was able to get some soft temporary support.

Now that it is clear that he didn't win Iowa and that his only win was his 'home' state the soft support has melted away and Romney is returning to the mid twenties which appeared to be strong before, only because there were 6 other candidates. Romney's people are seeing this as well and know that they have a very short fuse to upset the apple cart. If he doesn't he will lose the only advantage he ever had, that he is electable.

Romney is on the edge of a historic collapse.



Mr. Carpenter posted a thread at the same time showing that Rasmussen is showing similar results

Today January 25th

Huffington Post joins the whispering

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/24/gop-2012-presidential-candidates_n_1229343.html

Yesterday was USA Today

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/story/2012-01-24/indiana-governor/52769606/1




Whispering campaign for Daniels already started (December 19);

http://www.democraticunderground.com/100245248

Why the new rules for the Republican primary season make it impossible for one candidate to get 51% of the delegates in a multi candidate field (December 11);

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023695

Why Romney is finished (Decenber 14)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/100215205


Now here is Draft Daniels website;

http://www.runmitchrun.com/

Here are articles that are the second stage of a whispering campaign

(January 24th) http://www.ology.com/politics/mitch-daniels-reconsidering-presidential-bid/01242012

Here is Kristol



January 23rd
Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/mitch-daniels-and-what-could-have-been/2012/01/23/gIQAdmffLQ_blog.html

January 22nd
http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/22/calls-renew-for-mitch-daniels-to-enter-presidential-race/



This much chatter has to be coordinated. If Daniels really wanted to get out of all consideration he could have done what Chris Christie did and endorse another candidate.

It was posted a few months before but allows DUers to relive the hilarious moments of the Republican debacle

as one clown after another falls of their horse.

Palin, Pawlenty, Cain, Bachman, Perry, and Huntsman all falling off the horse while Romney just can't get his horse to pull

ahead no matter how much he whips that poor horse.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2011/10/horse_race_politics_an_animation_of_the_2012_republican_campaign.html

Campaign insiders are telling us that Romney is going to show how he intends to use his managerial skills
as a political leader by outsourcing his 'angry at Gingrich, and golly I'm not going to take any more
of his shennanigans' response by hiring a professional to make a cameo appearance at the debate to
handle the question about how he feels about Gingrich.

While the exact surrogate hasn't been identified it is rumored that its going to be this guy;

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In the normal course of education, students in the West experience a narrative that has all but wiped out the massive contributions of Islamic scholars into the knowledge that we all rely on today.

One example of this is understanding how rational thought was resurrected in Europe after the mid ages with the help of Islamic academia.

How aggregious this whitewashing has become is in the western charachterization of the great Islamic university and library at Timbucktu as a non-existent place.

At the height of the Golden Age of Islam Timbucktu was one of the greatest learning centers of the world;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbuktu





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At the same time the West was in the throws of the anti-rational middle ages Islam was going through the greatest age of intellectual growth since Greece. As the Church was promoting the Spanish Inquisition and the destruction of libraries in Europe Islamic libraries were maintaining the threads from Aristotle.

It is quite possible that without the Islamic libraries that many of the early works from Greece would have been lost forever.

Here is an example of ancient texts of Timbuktu





It is possible that at the same time Europe was lighting its libraries on fire that the great library of Timbuktu had more than a million transcripts, which would mean that it was the largest library in human history prior to the printing press.

Unknown to Europe Islamic scholars were refining Aristotles methods of inquiry into a formal inductive scientific method.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_scientific_method


Three hundered years later Robert Grosseteste would read a translations of Arabic translations of Aristotle and build on Islamic scholars development of the scientific method.

Bacon would build on that and 700 years after Ibn al-Haytham Sir Isaac Newton would use those methods to revolutionaize Western Science.

I think that it is very difficult to understand the clerical system in Iran and how Persians have been influenced by peer review as a method of leadership without understanding how they have been influenced by Ibn al-Haytham. There is no central leader in Iran but different factions that are trying to vie for influence by appealing to a peer review. It is in our interest to create seperation between the radicals and win over the moderate clerics and hasten the eventual Iran/American reapproachment.


As one that has family and friends that are Muslims I subscribe to this group so that I can learn more about Islamic contributions to history as well as to understand what progressive Muslims are thinking today.

From the begining I predicted that Romney will not be the nominee, and that the Republican Party would find these clowns unworthy and start favorite sons and drafts to do it all over at the convention

Gallup's rolling national poll is showing Romney having the same kind of poll collapse that Cain, Gingrich and Perry had. Rember this is a rolling poll averaging five days so it has a momentum to it that is even more significant than a regular daily poll;