The Pick the President Open Trackback Party #3 (Midweek Edition)

Welcome to the one Trackback Party that not only allows you to promote your work, but also to pick the next president.

The 2008 Republican Primary Poll enters its 2nd week with former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani in the lead. However, 2 weeks of voting and your vote matters in this poll (especiallywith only 29 votes cast so far). If you haven’t voted, please vote now.

I should note that you’ll notice a few differences between this and other polls.

1) This poll has no Condi Rice, no Jeb Bush, and no Marc Sanford. The reason for this is that these candidates have already declared themselves not in the running and I see no point having a poll with candidates who’ve said no in the strongest possible terms.

2) This poll is set up using Single Transferable Vote. While of debatable merit in real life elections, in this pre-presidential poll, it answers some important questions. My poll lists 15 candidates for President, the odds of all running are quite thin. With STV, if a Candidate finishes in last place their votes are transferred to their second preference which means that we can see who may have a chance of garnering a majority of Republican votes. This is important because a lot of candidates start only to drop out before the first primary or even after some of those pre-primary events like the Iowa Strawpoll.

3) For Reference you can read my Picking the President series where I endorse Mark Pence, but I discuss all 15 Candidates in this poll.

Today’s poll is brought to you by:

Also vote for Brent Colbert for Best Conservative Blog in the Canadian Blog Awards as he was kind of enough to Trackback and link to me.Now, welcome to today’s open post/open trackbacks thread. There’s two things you can do today or Wedneday (trackbacks received after Midnight, Thursday morning will not be linked to ):

1) Post about anything that’s in good taste. No porn, no spam, no profanity.

2) Send me a trackback of any tasteful post you want and as soon as I check my blog, I’ll update this post with your link provided you link back to this thread.

For your convenience, here’s the URL for our thread:
http://www.adamsweb.us/blog/index.php/a/2005/11/29/the_pick_the_president_open_trackback_pa_3

And here’s the Trackback:

http://www.adamsweb.us/blog/htsrv/trackback.php/1246

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IRIS blogwith:

More Evidence that the Rafah Deal was Another Fraud
Here is more evidence of yesterday’s post about the fraudulent Rafah deal.

EU Cannot Enforce Security at Rafah

The European Union has been denied enforcement authority at the Palestinian Authority terminal along the Egypt-Gaza border.

An agreement
West Virginians for a Republican Majority with

Iraq Strategy: Clear, Hold, and Build

“Does America have a good plan for doing this, a strategy for victory in Iraq? Yes we do….The administrations recent use of the banner “clear, hold, and build” accurately describes the strategy as I saw it being implemented last week.”- U. S. Senat…

Conservative Cat with

The Truth Behind the Legend
Recently I saw the DVD of the Jerry Bruckheimer movie King Arthur. I was fascinated by the idea of trying to find the true events that lay behind a larger-than-life legend. Of course, I don’t have the resources to fund…

From Tidbits and Treasures

Berenstain Bears Co-Creator Dies
Stan Berenstain, who authored the Berenstain Bears books along with his wife, Jan, died at the age of 82. They co-authored their first book in 1962. They developed the series with the well known “Dr.Seuss”, Theodor Geisel, the then head of Random House…

From Brent Colbert:

I’m honoured for the nomination

From Bloggin’ Out Loud with

My Blog is Not Blogging Outloud

“Me wanted to recruit . . . them horse tooth paste of which it is possible to clean foot-wear.” That’s what you get when you go to Blogging Outloud instead of Bloggin’ Outloud. Choose the real cola.

TMH Bacon Bits with:

Kerry’s 180: Profiteering on Cowardice
The French-looking (yet underived) Kerry would not know a coward if he were wearing the suit of a senator from… MA. Is Sen. sKerry afraid of abiding by his promise made 303 days ago to release those records that were to be liberated via his SF…

From Don Surber:

The Pepe LePew Poll

I have commented on this before, but the AP-Ipsos poll is decidedly biased against the president, exaggerating the president’s unpopularity.
This is not sour grapes, just facts. Ipsos skews Democratic, polling 51% Democrat, 40% Republican in its last …

and:

When Rupert Murdoch speaks, would-be mediamoguls listen. His recent interview with the Brit journalism rag, Press Gazette contained this gem:

The Florida Masochist with:

Robnik with:

Bad speach against America done by Us liberals are feeding local left troopies. I faced a 19 provocative questions against America to answer in my blog, copied&paste by a native troll from some Us lib-democrat.

In Italy & Europe the antiamer…

The Knucklehead of the Day award

Today’s winner is Republican Congressman Randall “Duke” Cunningham

and:

Now bend over, this won’t hurt

Some news from the Sun-Sentinel website. Could you imagine being one of the researchers studying this?

and also:

Come Fly with me

Wizbang is having the 2005 Weblog awards. Here at TFM we’ll be having the Knucklehead awards. For the biggest and worst of 2005. Categories will include Sports&Entertainment, MSM, Politics and our judicial system to name just a few. The winners will …

as well as:

Lack of common sense in Florida MSM
What I’m getting to is I think these media outlets should drop the suit. The Brucia family has been t hrough enough of an ordeal, and they don’t need the MSM viewing the carnage done to their daughter just so they can stand on principle. The family h…

in addition to:

Who’s complaining Pilots or Associated Press?

Anyone note what is missing? Where is there one quote from a pilot complaining about the restriction. If the person wanted to be annonymous, why not quote them? There is a good reason for there to be a restriction, the Vice-President is first in line…

Freedom Folks with:

Paying The Bill
This article discusses the role of personal change in regards to the death penalty. Governors Schwarzenneger of California and Warner of Virginia must decide whether to grant clemency in two current cases.

And

The Left: Demoralizing The troops

Dragon Master Gunner provides today’s high blood pressure post.

and also:

Remember: Semper Fi

The only way he could “allay Democrats’ doubts” would be to become a weak, defeatist, irresponsible leader who advocates bringing the troops home before their work in Iraq is done.

Open Trackbacks, Open Post

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