We write on behalf of dedicated individuals who believe that a large number of America's most urgent problems can be solved by simply electing candidates on November 2 who have the guts to do one simple thing...
Commit to making America Energy Independent on clean, American energy by the end of this decade.
That's it.
A commitment to Clean Energy Independence will:
- Create millions of new jobs, almost overnight
- Create new industries and a new, vibrant economy where we actually make things again,
- Stop the funding of foreign terrorists, prevent the ability of one dictator or one country to unilaterally choke off our energy supply and vastly increase America's National Security and Sovereignty
- Create a sustainable planet for our children
- Allow us to keep trillions of dollars circulating within the U.S.
- Be a heroic investment in America and generate the largest return on any investment in the history of our country, ultimately supplying virtually free energy for the rest of our lives and our children's lives
- Allow America to successfully compete with China and remain the world's #1 economic power into the 21st Century.
It's time!
This is not a partisan issue. It is an American issue and one that is critical for our very survival as a nation. Republican presidents Nixon, Reagan, Bush and Bush as well as Democratic presidents Carter, Clinton and Obama have, for over 40 years, warned us about our addiction to foreign oil, our pandering to dangerous dictators and regimes, the economic insanity of sending a billion dollars per day out of the country! In fact, way back in 1973 Richard Nixon created "Project Independence" and set a national goal for The United States to develop "the potential to meet our own energy needs without depending on any foreign energy sources" by 1980. It is embarrassing that we haven't reached that goal today, 30 years later, shameful that we haven't really even tried and more important now than ever before.
But, crippled and drunken on special interest money like a pathetic beggar with a bottle of whiskey and a tin cup, our Congress has failed to stand up to Big Oil and their lobbyists and make any significant progress to bring Energy Independence to America.
Accordingly, there is really only one issue in this election ... GUTS.
Does America have the guts to really -- no kidding -- create new jobs by investing in and building new infrastructure that will allow us to get off of foreign oil and become Clean Energy Independent?
Do we have the guts to think like Dwight Eisenhower or JFK? Can we be visionaries who plan beyond this fiscal quarter and build the modern day equivalent of a national highway system or a bold new space program, and create an energy system that can power America, on American Energy, through the rest of The 21st Century?
Do the 472 candidates we will vote for on November 2 have the courage to be real leaders?
We have come together to ask America to think beyond the lobbyists, the millions of dollars of special interest attack ads, the political bickering and also beyond party or political philosophy. American sovereignty is not a political or a partisan issue. Being held hostage to the whims of oil dictators half way around the world should never be an option for a country as ours. Sending at least $360 Billion out of the country every year for something we could produce here with American jobs is a travesty and spending an additional $50 Billion every year to send our young men and women in the military to protect those countries and supply routes that provide our addiction to foreign oil adds to the insanity.
We are better than that. We are The United States of America.
And yet we are slowly becoming a 2nd or even a 3rd world country, as Arianna Huffington writes, as our infrastructure crumbles and China, (while boldly employing 6 million of her people in new, clean energy technology jobs), heads towards their complete economic domination of this country, and the world, for the rest of The 21st Century.
Yes We Can manufacture and install solar panels and solar mirrors on our homes and in our vast deserts across this great land.
Yes We Can manufacture and install even more windmills that capture the great winds that sweep through our plains.
Yes We Can build a permanent infrastructure that utilizes Geothermal energy for cooling and heating our homes, energy efficiency technologies that lower the need for heating and cooling, tidal energy that taps the great forces of the oceans that kiss our shores, even more efficient internal combustion and a seismic move to electric cars including the conversion of all Government vehicles, conversion to LEDs, biodiesel and algae farms that can produce the liquid fuels of the future, piezoelectricity and smart grids that efficiently distribute power when and where it is needed and other amazing, creative solutions.
The technology is here. Now. We can certainly have conversations about more oil drilling and nuclear energy but these are not clean, are not renewable, are many years away from making us energy independent and are not our future or the future of the 21st Century.
If everyone who wanted America to become clean energy independent by the end of this decade went to the polls on November 2 and voted for candidates that would make this happen, it would happen. That's the beauty of Democracy. We have the power. WE the people elect EVERY one of the 435 members of The House of Representatives and a determinative number of United States Senators on November 2.
We stand together for this vision and, in collaboration with three great clean energy pioneers - The League of Conservation Voters, The Sierra Club and The National Wildlife Foundation Action Fund -- have compiled a bipartisan list of those candidates who these organizations believe have the guts to do what is necessary for a 21st Century America.
It's up to you. The media will hardly talk about this issue, but we must because we can become Energy Independent on clean, American energy by the end of this decade. Join us and Maroon 5, Jason Mraz, Rosario Dawson, Jason Alexander, Michelle Rodriguez, Peter Coyote, James Cromwell, Noah Wyle, Ed Begley, Valerie Harper, Brenda Strong, Rosanna Arquette, Felicity Huffman, Richard Belzer, Tate Donovan, Richard Schiff, Melissa Fitzgerald, Deidre Hall and foreign friends of the campaign, Sting, Trudie Styler and Graham Nash, in supporting the bipartisan clean energy candidates listed at www.EnergyIndependentCongress.US so we can, in THIS election, get off of foreign oil, put our people back to work and finally solve some of the deepest, most profound problems facing this great country!
Richard Greene is an attorney, political and communication strategist, author of the Prentice Hall coffee table book, "Words That Shook The World: 100 Years of Unforgettable Speeches and Events"
Marshall Herskovitz has helped shaped American culture with his Emmy Award winning television series, "30 Something" and many movies including "The Last Samurai" and "Dangerous Beauty". He is immediate past President of The Producer's Guild.
Paul Haggis is an Academy Award winning writer and director ("Crash", "Million Dollar Baby") and co-founder of Artists for Peace and Justice. Richard Greene is author of "Words That Shook The World: 100 Years of Unforgettable Speeches and Events" and ran for Congress on the Green Party, on this very issue, back in 1992. Richard@WordsThatShookTheWorld.com
Mitt Romney began his career as a management consultant. He was very, very good at it. From there, he rose to guide one of the nation's leading private equity firms (Bain Capital), and he was very, very good at that as well. One of the keys to Romney's business success was that he always surrounded himself with exceptionally smart and capable people.
Weirdly, he has not done this in his political campaigns. His 2008 presidential campaign team was awful in virtually every respect. They misunderstood the political environment. They misunderstood the economic environment. And they didn't even bother to address the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, which were of gigantic interest to a huge swath of the US (and especially the GOP) electorate.
After the 2008 debacle, one might have assumed that Romney would clean house and get himself a new team. No dice. Roughly the same team is still in place. And they're busy making new stupid mistakes which make Romney's nomination as the GOP standard-bearer in 2012 less likely.
Consider the state of Iowa, home to the nation's first presidential preference vote (a straw poll attached to precinct caucuses). Iowa has played host to the GOP's first serious presidential straw poll for as long as anyone can remember. And it will again in 2012.
Not so fast, says Mr. Romney's legal advisor Ben Ginsburg, who may be the only person in the world who thinks Iowa will not lead off the 2012 presidential campaign voting. Specifically, Mr. Ginsburg is quoted as saying: "Whether Iowa goes first in 2012 is up for grabs in unprecedented fashion...."
Here's a rough translation of what Ginsburg is really saying: Mitt doesn't want to run in Iowa because he did that in 2008, spent a ton of money and got hammered by some guy he'd never heard of (Huckabee) who spent about 1/10th of what Romney spent. In 2012, he's afraid that if he loses to Palin in Iowa, he will be much diminished going into New Hampshire and the not-Sarah vote will look elsewhere for a champion. So he would like for New Hampshire to be perceived as the nation's first true test of the GOP presidential primary/caucus season."
Good luck with that.
Iowans will translate Ginsburg's musings as follows: "Romney really doesn't like us very much, doesn't want to campaign here, thinks Iowans are too difficult and prickly, so he's going to do everything he can to lessen our influence on the nomination process."
Good luck with that.
Here's the way the system works. The networks and the major news organizations draw up a three part budget for the 2012 campaign: primary coverage, conventions coverage, and general election coverage. Invariably, they end up spending more money than the budget calls for in what is called the "year previous" (which in this cycle will be 2011). They then amp up their spending to ludicrous levels covering the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary. And on the day after the New Hampshire primary they are all essentially out of money; they have to steal from the convention budget and general election budget to keep the machinery going.
What this means is that Iowa and New Hampshire are determinative; they decide who the front-runner is and they decide who the "challenger" is, and the rest of the field is relegated to zone coverage that, very quickly, ends up being no coverage at all. Media coverage is the oxygen of American politics. Without it, candidates simply evaporate. Their money dries up. Their support disappears. They call a press conference and no one comes.
All that being true, dissing the first-in-the-nation caucus state is an astonishingly stupid tactical error. That's what the Romney campaign just did.
This article originally appeared at Ellisblog and is republished here with permission.
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We write on behalf of dedicated individuals who believe that a large number of America's most urgent problems can be solved by simply electing candidates on November 2 who have the guts to do one simple thing...
Commit to making America Energy Independent on clean, American energy by the end of this decade.
That's it.
A commitment to Clean Energy Independence will:
- Create millions of new jobs, almost overnight
- Create new industries and a new, vibrant economy where we actually make things again,
- Stop the funding of foreign terrorists, prevent the ability of one dictator or one country to unilaterally choke off our energy supply and vastly increase America's National Security and Sovereignty
- Create a sustainable planet for our children
- Allow us to keep trillions of dollars circulating within the U.S.
- Be a heroic investment in America and generate the largest return on any investment in the history of our country, ultimately supplying virtually free energy for the rest of our lives and our children's lives
- Allow America to successfully compete with China and remain the world's #1 economic power into the 21st Century.
It's time!
This is not a partisan issue. It is an American issue and one that is critical for our very survival as a nation. Republican presidents Nixon, Reagan, Bush and Bush as well as Democratic presidents Carter, Clinton and Obama have, for over 40 years, warned us about our addiction to foreign oil, our pandering to dangerous dictators and regimes, the economic insanity of sending a billion dollars per day out of the country! In fact, way back in 1973 Richard Nixon created "Project Independence" and set a national goal for The United States to develop "the potential to meet our own energy needs without depending on any foreign energy sources" by 1980. It is embarrassing that we haven't reached that goal today, 30 years later, shameful that we haven't really even tried and more important now than ever before.
But, crippled and drunken on special interest money like a pathetic beggar with a bottle of whiskey and a tin cup, our Congress has failed to stand up to Big Oil and their lobbyists and make any significant progress to bring Energy Independence to America.
Accordingly, there is really only one issue in this election ... GUTS.
Does America have the guts to really -- no kidding -- create new jobs by investing in and building new infrastructure that will allow us to get off of foreign oil and become Clean Energy Independent?
Do we have the guts to think like Dwight Eisenhower or JFK? Can we be visionaries who plan beyond this fiscal quarter and build the modern day equivalent of a national highway system or a bold new space program, and create an energy system that can power America, on American Energy, through the rest of The 21st Century?
Do the 472 candidates we will vote for on November 2 have the courage to be real leaders?
We have come together to ask America to think beyond the lobbyists, the millions of dollars of special interest attack ads, the political bickering and also beyond party or political philosophy. American sovereignty is not a political or a partisan issue. Being held hostage to the whims of oil dictators half way around the world should never be an option for a country as ours. Sending at least $360 Billion out of the country every year for something we could produce here with American jobs is a travesty and spending an additional $50 Billion every year to send our young men and women in the military to protect those countries and supply routes that provide our addiction to foreign oil adds to the insanity.
We are better than that. We are The United States of America.
And yet we are slowly becoming a 2nd or even a 3rd world country, as Arianna Huffington writes, as our infrastructure crumbles and China, (while boldly employing 6 million of her people in new, clean energy technology jobs), heads towards their complete economic domination of this country, and the world, for the rest of The 21st Century.
Yes We Can manufacture and install solar panels and solar mirrors on our homes and in our vast deserts across this great land.
Yes We Can manufacture and install even more windmills that capture the great winds that sweep through our plains.
Yes We Can build a permanent infrastructure that utilizes Geothermal energy for cooling and heating our homes, energy efficiency technologies that lower the need for heating and cooling, tidal energy that taps the great forces of the oceans that kiss our shores, even more efficient internal combustion and a seismic move to electric cars including the conversion of all Government vehicles, conversion to LEDs, biodiesel and algae farms that can produce the liquid fuels of the future, piezoelectricity and smart grids that efficiently distribute power when and where it is needed and other amazing, creative solutions.
The technology is here. Now. We can certainly have conversations about more oil drilling and nuclear energy but these are not clean, are not renewable, are many years away from making us energy independent and are not our future or the future of the 21st Century.
If everyone who wanted America to become clean energy independent by the end of this decade went to the polls on November 2 and voted for candidates that would make this happen, it would happen. That's the beauty of Democracy. We have the power. WE the people elect EVERY one of the 435 members of The House of Representatives and a determinative number of United States Senators on November 2.
We stand together for this vision and, in collaboration with three great clean energy pioneers - The League of Conservation Voters, The Sierra Club and The National Wildlife Foundation Action Fund -- have compiled a bipartisan list of those candidates who these organizations believe have the guts to do what is necessary for a 21st Century America.
It's up to you. The media will hardly talk about this issue, but we must because we can become Energy Independent on clean, American energy by the end of this decade. Join us and Maroon 5, Jason Mraz, Rosario Dawson, Jason Alexander, Michelle Rodriguez, Peter Coyote, James Cromwell, Noah Wyle, Ed Begley, Valerie Harper, Brenda Strong, Rosanna Arquette, Felicity Huffman, Richard Belzer, Tate Donovan, Richard Schiff, Melissa Fitzgerald, Deidre Hall and foreign friends of the campaign, Sting, Trudie Styler and Graham Nash, in supporting the bipartisan clean energy candidates listed at www.EnergyIndependentCongress.US so we can, in THIS election, get off of foreign oil, put our people back to work and finally solve some of the deepest, most profound problems facing this great country!
Richard Greene is an attorney, political and communication strategist, author of the Prentice Hall coffee table book, "Words That Shook The World: 100 Years of Unforgettable Speeches and Events"
Marshall Herskovitz has helped shaped American culture with his Emmy Award winning television series, "30 Something" and many movies including "The Last Samurai" and "Dangerous Beauty". He is immediate past President of The Producer's Guild.
Paul Haggis is an Academy Award winning writer and director ("Crash", "Million Dollar Baby") and co-founder of Artists for Peace and Justice. Richard Greene is author of "Words That Shook The World: 100 Years of Unforgettable Speeches and Events" and ran for Congress on the Green Party, on this very issue, back in 1992. Richard@WordsThatShookTheWorld.com
Mitt Romney began his career as a management consultant. He was very, very good at it. From there, he rose to guide one of the nation's leading private equity firms (Bain Capital), and he was very, very good at that as well. One of the keys to Romney's business success was that he always surrounded himself with exceptionally smart and capable people.
Weirdly, he has not done this in his political campaigns. His 2008 presidential campaign team was awful in virtually every respect. They misunderstood the political environment. They misunderstood the economic environment. And they didn't even bother to address the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, which were of gigantic interest to a huge swath of the US (and especially the GOP) electorate.
After the 2008 debacle, one might have assumed that Romney would clean house and get himself a new team. No dice. Roughly the same team is still in place. And they're busy making new stupid mistakes which make Romney's nomination as the GOP standard-bearer in 2012 less likely.
Consider the state of Iowa, home to the nation's first presidential preference vote (a straw poll attached to precinct caucuses). Iowa has played host to the GOP's first serious presidential straw poll for as long as anyone can remember. And it will again in 2012.
Not so fast, says Mr. Romney's legal advisor Ben Ginsburg, who may be the only person in the world who thinks Iowa will not lead off the 2012 presidential campaign voting. Specifically, Mr. Ginsburg is quoted as saying: "Whether Iowa goes first in 2012 is up for grabs in unprecedented fashion...."
Here's a rough translation of what Ginsburg is really saying: Mitt doesn't want to run in Iowa because he did that in 2008, spent a ton of money and got hammered by some guy he'd never heard of (Huckabee) who spent about 1/10th of what Romney spent. In 2012, he's afraid that if he loses to Palin in Iowa, he will be much diminished going into New Hampshire and the not-Sarah vote will look elsewhere for a champion. So he would like for New Hampshire to be perceived as the nation's first true test of the GOP presidential primary/caucus season."
Good luck with that.
Iowans will translate Ginsburg's musings as follows: "Romney really doesn't like us very much, doesn't want to campaign here, thinks Iowans are too difficult and prickly, so he's going to do everything he can to lessen our influence on the nomination process."
Good luck with that.
Here's the way the system works. The networks and the major news organizations draw up a three part budget for the 2012 campaign: primary coverage, conventions coverage, and general election coverage. Invariably, they end up spending more money than the budget calls for in what is called the "year previous" (which in this cycle will be 2011). They then amp up their spending to ludicrous levels covering the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary. And on the day after the New Hampshire primary they are all essentially out of money; they have to steal from the convention budget and general election budget to keep the machinery going.
What this means is that Iowa and New Hampshire are determinative; they decide who the front-runner is and they decide who the "challenger" is, and the rest of the field is relegated to zone coverage that, very quickly, ends up being no coverage at all. Media coverage is the oxygen of American politics. Without it, candidates simply evaporate. Their money dries up. Their support disappears. They call a press conference and no one comes.
All that being true, dissing the first-in-the-nation caucus state is an astonishingly stupid tactical error. That's what the Romney campaign just did.
This article originally appeared at Ellisblog and is republished here with permission.
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Fox <b>News</b> Dominates Election Ratings – Deadline.com
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Fox <b>News</b> Dominates Election Ratings – Deadline.com
UPDATED WITH FINAL NUMBERS: Fox News towered over the competition -- cable and broadcast -- with its midterm election coverage last night. According to Nielsen, Fox News averaged 7 million viewers in primetime, up 128% from the ...
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Foursquare just got Facebooked. And it's more than just a poking. It might be a body blow to one of the location-based service's killer features. When I first covered Foursquare for TIME in January, I gave the (then) pint-sized start-up ...
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That big Myspace relaunch we read about last week? That's all fine and good. But the troubled Web property is a...really troubled Web property, its News Corp. parent stressed today. And it needs to get its act together before it gets ...
bench craft company
We write on behalf of dedicated individuals who believe that a large number of America's most urgent problems can be solved by simply electing candidates on November 2 who have the guts to do one simple thing...
Commit to making America Energy Independent on clean, American energy by the end of this decade.
That's it.
A commitment to Clean Energy Independence will:
- Create millions of new jobs, almost overnight
- Create new industries and a new, vibrant economy where we actually make things again,
- Stop the funding of foreign terrorists, prevent the ability of one dictator or one country to unilaterally choke off our energy supply and vastly increase America's National Security and Sovereignty
- Create a sustainable planet for our children
- Allow us to keep trillions of dollars circulating within the U.S.
- Be a heroic investment in America and generate the largest return on any investment in the history of our country, ultimately supplying virtually free energy for the rest of our lives and our children's lives
- Allow America to successfully compete with China and remain the world's #1 economic power into the 21st Century.
It's time!
This is not a partisan issue. It is an American issue and one that is critical for our very survival as a nation. Republican presidents Nixon, Reagan, Bush and Bush as well as Democratic presidents Carter, Clinton and Obama have, for over 40 years, warned us about our addiction to foreign oil, our pandering to dangerous dictators and regimes, the economic insanity of sending a billion dollars per day out of the country! In fact, way back in 1973 Richard Nixon created "Project Independence" and set a national goal for The United States to develop "the potential to meet our own energy needs without depending on any foreign energy sources" by 1980. It is embarrassing that we haven't reached that goal today, 30 years later, shameful that we haven't really even tried and more important now than ever before.
But, crippled and drunken on special interest money like a pathetic beggar with a bottle of whiskey and a tin cup, our Congress has failed to stand up to Big Oil and their lobbyists and make any significant progress to bring Energy Independence to America.
Accordingly, there is really only one issue in this election ... GUTS.
Does America have the guts to really -- no kidding -- create new jobs by investing in and building new infrastructure that will allow us to get off of foreign oil and become Clean Energy Independent?
Do we have the guts to think like Dwight Eisenhower or JFK? Can we be visionaries who plan beyond this fiscal quarter and build the modern day equivalent of a national highway system or a bold new space program, and create an energy system that can power America, on American Energy, through the rest of The 21st Century?
Do the 472 candidates we will vote for on November 2 have the courage to be real leaders?
We have come together to ask America to think beyond the lobbyists, the millions of dollars of special interest attack ads, the political bickering and also beyond party or political philosophy. American sovereignty is not a political or a partisan issue. Being held hostage to the whims of oil dictators half way around the world should never be an option for a country as ours. Sending at least $360 Billion out of the country every year for something we could produce here with American jobs is a travesty and spending an additional $50 Billion every year to send our young men and women in the military to protect those countries and supply routes that provide our addiction to foreign oil adds to the insanity.
We are better than that. We are The United States of America.
And yet we are slowly becoming a 2nd or even a 3rd world country, as Arianna Huffington writes, as our infrastructure crumbles and China, (while boldly employing 6 million of her people in new, clean energy technology jobs), heads towards their complete economic domination of this country, and the world, for the rest of The 21st Century.
Yes We Can manufacture and install solar panels and solar mirrors on our homes and in our vast deserts across this great land.
Yes We Can manufacture and install even more windmills that capture the great winds that sweep through our plains.
Yes We Can build a permanent infrastructure that utilizes Geothermal energy for cooling and heating our homes, energy efficiency technologies that lower the need for heating and cooling, tidal energy that taps the great forces of the oceans that kiss our shores, even more efficient internal combustion and a seismic move to electric cars including the conversion of all Government vehicles, conversion to LEDs, biodiesel and algae farms that can produce the liquid fuels of the future, piezoelectricity and smart grids that efficiently distribute power when and where it is needed and other amazing, creative solutions.
The technology is here. Now. We can certainly have conversations about more oil drilling and nuclear energy but these are not clean, are not renewable, are many years away from making us energy independent and are not our future or the future of the 21st Century.
If everyone who wanted America to become clean energy independent by the end of this decade went to the polls on November 2 and voted for candidates that would make this happen, it would happen. That's the beauty of Democracy. We have the power. WE the people elect EVERY one of the 435 members of The House of Representatives and a determinative number of United States Senators on November 2.
We stand together for this vision and, in collaboration with three great clean energy pioneers - The League of Conservation Voters, The Sierra Club and The National Wildlife Foundation Action Fund -- have compiled a bipartisan list of those candidates who these organizations believe have the guts to do what is necessary for a 21st Century America.
It's up to you. The media will hardly talk about this issue, but we must because we can become Energy Independent on clean, American energy by the end of this decade. Join us and Maroon 5, Jason Mraz, Rosario Dawson, Jason Alexander, Michelle Rodriguez, Peter Coyote, James Cromwell, Noah Wyle, Ed Begley, Valerie Harper, Brenda Strong, Rosanna Arquette, Felicity Huffman, Richard Belzer, Tate Donovan, Richard Schiff, Melissa Fitzgerald, Deidre Hall and foreign friends of the campaign, Sting, Trudie Styler and Graham Nash, in supporting the bipartisan clean energy candidates listed at www.EnergyIndependentCongress.US so we can, in THIS election, get off of foreign oil, put our people back to work and finally solve some of the deepest, most profound problems facing this great country!
Richard Greene is an attorney, political and communication strategist, author of the Prentice Hall coffee table book, "Words That Shook The World: 100 Years of Unforgettable Speeches and Events"
Marshall Herskovitz has helped shaped American culture with his Emmy Award winning television series, "30 Something" and many movies including "The Last Samurai" and "Dangerous Beauty". He is immediate past President of The Producer's Guild.
Paul Haggis is an Academy Award winning writer and director ("Crash", "Million Dollar Baby") and co-founder of Artists for Peace and Justice. Richard Greene is author of "Words That Shook The World: 100 Years of Unforgettable Speeches and Events" and ran for Congress on the Green Party, on this very issue, back in 1992. Richard@WordsThatShookTheWorld.com
Mitt Romney began his career as a management consultant. He was very, very good at it. From there, he rose to guide one of the nation's leading private equity firms (Bain Capital), and he was very, very good at that as well. One of the keys to Romney's business success was that he always surrounded himself with exceptionally smart and capable people.
Weirdly, he has not done this in his political campaigns. His 2008 presidential campaign team was awful in virtually every respect. They misunderstood the political environment. They misunderstood the economic environment. And they didn't even bother to address the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, which were of gigantic interest to a huge swath of the US (and especially the GOP) electorate.
After the 2008 debacle, one might have assumed that Romney would clean house and get himself a new team. No dice. Roughly the same team is still in place. And they're busy making new stupid mistakes which make Romney's nomination as the GOP standard-bearer in 2012 less likely.
Consider the state of Iowa, home to the nation's first presidential preference vote (a straw poll attached to precinct caucuses). Iowa has played host to the GOP's first serious presidential straw poll for as long as anyone can remember. And it will again in 2012.
Not so fast, says Mr. Romney's legal advisor Ben Ginsburg, who may be the only person in the world who thinks Iowa will not lead off the 2012 presidential campaign voting. Specifically, Mr. Ginsburg is quoted as saying: "Whether Iowa goes first in 2012 is up for grabs in unprecedented fashion...."
Here's a rough translation of what Ginsburg is really saying: Mitt doesn't want to run in Iowa because he did that in 2008, spent a ton of money and got hammered by some guy he'd never heard of (Huckabee) who spent about 1/10th of what Romney spent. In 2012, he's afraid that if he loses to Palin in Iowa, he will be much diminished going into New Hampshire and the not-Sarah vote will look elsewhere for a champion. So he would like for New Hampshire to be perceived as the nation's first true test of the GOP presidential primary/caucus season."
Good luck with that.
Iowans will translate Ginsburg's musings as follows: "Romney really doesn't like us very much, doesn't want to campaign here, thinks Iowans are too difficult and prickly, so he's going to do everything he can to lessen our influence on the nomination process."
Good luck with that.
Here's the way the system works. The networks and the major news organizations draw up a three part budget for the 2012 campaign: primary coverage, conventions coverage, and general election coverage. Invariably, they end up spending more money than the budget calls for in what is called the "year previous" (which in this cycle will be 2011). They then amp up their spending to ludicrous levels covering the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary. And on the day after the New Hampshire primary they are all essentially out of money; they have to steal from the convention budget and general election budget to keep the machinery going.
What this means is that Iowa and New Hampshire are determinative; they decide who the front-runner is and they decide who the "challenger" is, and the rest of the field is relegated to zone coverage that, very quickly, ends up being no coverage at all. Media coverage is the oxygen of American politics. Without it, candidates simply evaporate. Their money dries up. Their support disappears. They call a press conference and no one comes.
All that being true, dissing the first-in-the-nation caucus state is an astonishingly stupid tactical error. That's what the Romney campaign just did.
This article originally appeared at Ellisblog and is republished here with permission.
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Fox <b>News</b> Dominates Election Ratings – Deadline.com
UPDATED WITH FINAL NUMBERS: Fox News towered over the competition -- cable and broadcast -- with its midterm election coverage last night. According to Nielsen, Fox News averaged 7 million viewers in primetime, up 128% from the ...
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#1. Making cannonballs.Cannonballs are extremely easy to make, requiring a very low skill level in smithing. All you need is steel bars and a cannonball mould. One bar makes four cannonballs a piece. They may not give as much experience as other steel things, but they sell combined for about 800gp, while a steel bar only sells for 500, and then you add the experience you gained, and voila!
#2. Bow strings, the easy way.When many people decide to pick bowstrings for money, they go out to Seer's Village and start picking and then they...NO! That is wrong! It will take you forever and the money you earn will not be worth it. Instead, use all the money you have to buy flax. Then, go to Lumbridge Castle and run from the bank and wheel spinning them. Once that is done, sell them and repeat. This is the fastest way and while it won't make you as much money as picking the flax yourself, it will earn you much more in the long run. Plus, you get quite a decent amount of crafting experience.
#3. Fishing for Lobster.In this guide there will be two fish specifically covered that you can fish for a lot of money. Lobster is the first. Why is lobster on here, and not swordfish? Because lobster will earn you more money. Approximately, Lobsters sell for 250. Swordfish around 450. You get lobsters three times as fast, sometimes more. Do the math, you get a lot more money and actually a bit more experience because you don't always get tuna.
#4. Fishing for sharks. Sharks are also great for money. Also right next to a bank, they might not come out fast, but they sell for around 1,500gp (big money) and also give a lot of experience. Give or take that they are the fastest way to get money fishing, depend on how you go at it.
#5. Law running. Running runes is a fan favorite and rightly so. A full inventory of laws gets you around almost 10,000gp. Entana may not be that close to a bank, but if you can run back and forth to Draynor, you can get profits easily.
#6. Nature running. Same deal as law running...almost. Nats sell for around 300 on average, so a full inventory will net you around 7200gp, probably a bit more. The nearest bank to the altar is Shilo Village, so you might want to have done that quest first. Otherwise it is kind of a long run.
#7. Yews and Magics. Getting your woodcutting to 60 is not hard at all. In fact, woodcutting is one of the easiest skills to level. Yews sell for around 450 each, so you can get quite a lot easily, especially since there are tons around all the banks. Magics, although a bit farther, are great too, but not recommended till atleast 90 woodcutting because it takes way too long. Until then, Yews are better.
#8. Steel bars. This is like the cannonballs, but a bit different. What you need to do is spend all your money on iron and coal, double as much coal as you have iron, and then go to Al Kharid (closest bank to forge) and smelt them. This may take awhile, and not earn as much money as cannonballs, but it is much faster than having to resmelt them all, and you don't even have to sell the steel.
#9. Mithril. Mithril is a sort of inbetween for miners. It comes at just the right place and sells for just the right price. It's fast and easy and is sure to net you some money. The same trick here also works for the steel bars. If you buy all the coal you need for mithril, and the mithril itself, and smelt it, you will make almost twice as much as you spent on the coal and mithril.
#10. Bones. Bone farming is often overlooked, and if you go for the biggest bones, it might be one of the most effective ways to get money. Bones sell for tons of the Grand Exchange. Big bones, from killing giants, sell for 500gp! Bat bones, from those weak level 8 bats, sell for 200! There is tons of money to be made from running bones from the bank. Monkeys, those level 3 pests? The bones sell for 250! It really is easy money. If you find yourself by a bank with a lot of little guys around, why not just take the time and take the bones?
These are 10 ways to easily make money in Runescape. Only a few of them take dedication, and they really are quite easy. I hope this guide helps as you find yourself wanting that dragon chainmail.
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