U.S. Republican Party presidential nomination odds (or Really, America? Rick Perry?)

This writer just returned from a three-week sojourn in the United States and came away horrified; no, not at the garish and ubiquitous juxtaposition of conspicuous consumption with surface worries about the current economic situation, but instead because of the realization that Texas governor Rick Perry could well upend sitting president Barack Obama in the [...]

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Dancing with the Stars finale: Will Election 2000 pale in comparison?

More than one observer decried massive voting improprieties in Election 2000 – many, too, though these mainly went ignored, raised similar cries in 2004 – but could Republican dirty ballot-stuffing tricks have extended into “Dancing with the Stars”?
Tonight marks the close to the top-rated American show’s 11th season – and by far its most controversial [...]

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On Sarah Palin and those lesser types in the “Republican Candidate in 2012″ prop

LiveBetsDirect hasn’t had a look at this proposition bet in some time – over a year in fact – but with “Obama’s Katrina” slowly getting cleaned up, the healthcare plan settled for now, and those troops in Afghanistan … well, still there, it’s time to reconsider some of bet365’s “U.S. Presidential Election 2012” props.
LBD’ll surely [...]

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