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Giuliani Notes: Rudy 33% McCain 21% Romney 9% Thompson 9% in Latest Washington Post-ABC News Poll
Washington Post-ABC News Poll:
The GOP Nuts:
Rudy appears to be solidifying his support albeit at a slightly lower percentage. A multi-candidate field has divided the Mayor’s opposition.
Fred Thompson who met with fifty plus GOP House Members today in exploring a race for the Presidency is NOT catching fire and is at the same percentage as Mitt Romney. A subset poll demonstrates that if he does not run then Giuliani receives the most of Thompson’s support/votes.
Flap bets Fred Thompson will not run. Newt Gingrich will not run either.
So, is Rudy the inevitable GOP candidate?
Here are the latest Real Clear Politics Presidential Poll averages:
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Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran Moves Ahead with Uranium Enrichment
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (C) speaks during a military parade to commemorate Army day in Tehran April 18, 2007. The banner reads ‘Peaceful nuclear technology is a basic fundamental right for our country’.
AP: Watchdog: Iran moves ahead nuke program
Iran is delivering small amounts of uranium gas to centrifuges that can enrich it to weapons-grade level and is running more than 1,300 centrifuge machines, according to an
International Atomic Energy Agency document obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press.The confidential document — a letter to Iranian officials from a senior staff member at the International Atomic Energy Agency — also protests an Iranian decision to prevent agency inspectors from visiting the country’s heavy water facility that, when built, will produce plutonium.
Enriched uranium and plutonium can both be used for the fissile core of nuclear warheads.
The letter, signed by IAEA deputy director general Olli Heinonen and dated April 18, said Iran has provided information to the agency that it has put into operation 1,312 centrifuges — the machines used to spin the gas into enriched uranium.
The letter also cites Iranian information to the agency that “some UF6 is being fed” into the centrifuges at the underground Natanz facility, referring to the uranium gas that can be enriched to levels potent enough to be used for nuclear arms.
Iran stopped experimental enrichment — which it was doing on a much smaller scale — in exchange for negotiations with European nations. Talks broke down in 2005, but Tehran has generally refrained from even small scale enrichment, while continuing to develop the technology.
The document reports a significant development, particularly considering the number of centrifuges involved, and the next step — large scale enrichment.
The ball is now in the United Nations Security Council’s court. Here are the resolutions that Iran is clearly violating.
The United Nations sanction resolutions:So, what will the feckless UNSC P-5-Plus Germany do?
Probably talk with Iran until the Mullahs have a few nuclear weapons. But, will the United States and Israel wait?
NOPE.
Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad points to his supporters as he speaks at a sport complex in the city of Shiraz, 895km (556 miles) south of Tehran April 16, 2007. Iran will announce unspecified new ‘nuclear achievements’ if the United Nations takes fresh steps against it over its disputed atomic program, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday.
Stay tuned……..
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Michael Ramirez on Iran’s National Day of the Nuclear Technology
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The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.
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Michael Ramirez on the US Supreme Court Upholding the BAN on Partial Birth Abortion
Supreme Court OKs Abortion Procedure Ban
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority handed anti-abortion forces a major victory Wednesday in a decision that bans a controversial abortion procedure and set the stage for further restrictions.
For the first time since the court established a woman’s right to an abortion in 1973, the justices upheld a nationwide ban on a specific abortion method, labeled partial-birth abortion by its opponents.
The 5-4 decision written by Justice Anthony Kennedy said the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act that Congress passed and President Bush signed into law in 2003 does not violate a woman’s constitutional right to an abortion.
The law is constitutional despite not containing an exception that would allow the procedure if needed to preserve a woman’s health, Kennedy said. “The law need not give abortion doctors unfettered choice in the course of their medical practice,” he wrote in the majority opinion.
Doctors who violate the law face up to two years in federal prison.
Kennedy’s opinion, joined by Bush’s two appointees, Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, was a long-awaited resounding win that abortion opponents expected from the more conservative bench.
The administration defended the law as drawing a bright line between abortion and infanticide.
Reacting to the ruling, Bush said that it affirms the progress his administration has made to defend the “sanctity of life.”
GOP Presidential candidates in favor:
Democrat Presidential candidates against:
The case 05-380 Gonzales v. Carhart
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Giuliani Notes: Rudy 35% McCain 22% Thompson 10% Romney 9% in Latest Gallup Poll
The Gallup Poll: Election 2008
There are clearly developed presidential front-runners within each major party. On the Democratic side, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton is the clear leader, maintaining a double-digit lead over Sen. Barack Obama. On the Republican side, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani has emerged as the front-runner — although the lead he enjoyed in February and early March has diminished. Sen. John McCain remains in second place among the Republicans.
The GOP Nuts:
Favorability:
Giuliani maintains a positive image, although by late March his favorable rating had fallen by a few points to the lowest in Gallup’s three-year history of tracking his image. Still, his favorables are the highest of any candidate from either party, including a 74% favorable rating from Republicans. Giuliani gained steadily as the candidate of choice among Republicans in February and early March, but fell back in late March. Republicans consider him the most electable candidate in November.
Rudy continues to maintain a double digit lead over McCain. This latest poll shows that neither Fred Thompson nor Mitt Romney are making inroads into the top two candidates.
McCain and Romney show a slight uptick while Rudy goes down a bit.
Is this the reason McCain is going negative in South Carolina?
However, McCain’s fundraising ability is suspect.
Here is this morning’s summary of polls from Real Clear Politics:
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Giuliani Notes: Giuliani – Thompson Ticket?
Talk Of The Town: Giuliani-Thompson
You’ve probably seen the “Clinton-Obama ’08” bumper sticker proclaiming the Democratic dream team. Now on the GOP side we’re hearing lots of buzz in political circles and among Republican congressional leaders of a Rudy Giuliani-Fred Thompson ticket.
But Thompson isn’t keen on riding shotgun yet. “If he gets in,” says an ally, “he’s running to win the presidency.”
This ticket works for Flap.
Flap doubts Thompson will get into the race. He is in the high teens in the polls and is about $20-30 million behind in fundraising.
Will there be an announcement by Rudy?
Look for it around the 4th of July.
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Day By Day by Chris Muir April 18, 2007