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Well, he's already got the name recognition.

This is my feeling as well. I wouldn't vote for Huntsman but I do like him, he's a respectable moderate who is principled. Unlike Romney who will say or do anything depending on the political winds & the audience he's speaking to.

http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/fivethirtyeight/primaries/florida

Your logic is so sound.

Romney's already leading polls in South Carolina, New Hampshire gives him a bigger boost. This nomination is pretty much wrapped up.

To hell with that, we're never going to win a national title. Just give me an offense that puts butts in seats and gets us to a decent bowl game.

Fleet Foxes haven't completely got it together for me. They make some unbelievable songs, but then just can't put together a solid album for me. Their next release might finally do it though....for me anyways. Mykonos is one of my all-time favorite songs.

Lou Holtz is teh guzth coach fur toniths game.

You continually patronizing me doesn't help whatever points you're trying to make. In 1976 he was seen as a pretty moderate Blue Dog Democrat. There was also little time since Nixon & Watergate (and Ford's pardon) and Carter was seen as very anti-Washington which helped him tremendously that year.

pun·dit    [puhn-dit] noun 1.a learned person, expert, or authority. 2.a person who makes comments or judgments, especially in an authoritative manner; critic or commentator. http://dictionary.re...m/browse/pundit I'd say the 2nd definition describes us both in this thread along. Pretty much everyone on this board is a football or basketball pundit as well.

Funny, because in 1964 that's exactly what they did.

McGovern being a poor candidate had a lot to do with it. There's also a really good book called Nixonland about how Nixon was able to use fear in politics (starting with civil rights) to help solidify Republicans winning in the south. Yep. Both he and Clinton were seen as more conservative Democrats, and they were southern, so it definitely brought over a few southern states back to blue. Right. The Civil Rights was the start. Proof positive in Wallace winning all of those southern states. The Democratic party always had its more liberal northeastern & west coast wing along with its more conservative wing. What helped start that split back all the way to 1948 with Strom Thurmond as the "Dixiecrat" nominee? Civil Rights. You don't need to remind me of how the elections went in the last 50 years, I'm very aware. It doesn't really prove your point. It was a slow process no doubt, but civil rights was the catalyst. Maybe in your head Americans are furious, but in reality his approval rating is sitting pretty high considering the economic circumstances we're in. The south has always been staunchly conservative, the difference being that the parties are pretty much reversed than what they were say....I dunno, pre civil-rights? Is that a good starting point for it?

Check the timestamp brah, that prediction was made an hour before the caucus began. And every political pundit revises their predictions until the last minute because things change on a whim. Between now and Tuesday Newt Gingrich could skinny dip in the Hudson River, and Rick Perry could cure cancer. You just never know man.

Me and Screaming Eagle aren't the same person...

That's exactly what happened. Civil Rights was pretty much the catalyst for the flipping of the southern states. Nixon's southern strategy 8 years later helped solidify it. Doesn't make the Democrats any better or the Republicans any worse of a party, its just what happened.

Revised New Hampshire Predictions: Romney - 44% Paul - 22% Santorum- 13% Huntsman - 9% Gingrich - 7% Perry - 4%

Brick walls.

Santorum will crash and burn like the rest of them. http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/05/opinion/obeidallah-santorum-sharia/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Right. NDAA, SOPA, disassociation of Occupy protests, complete disregard for investigating financial collapse, Afghanistan surge, continuation of neocon dentition policies & drone strikes. Yeah, super liberal there. I'm sure there's so much legislation you can point to that proves this statement. This is such utter ignorance I don't even know how to respond. Shit, NIXON was more of a liberal than Obama. But it hasn't stopped them from becoming more and more accepting of it, no matter how much money and hatred the other side fuels the fire.

How do they disagree exactly? I'm still not getting your point. There is no left party in America. Maybe because more people find themselves moderate or conservative, but I still don't see how you're proving me wrong. Incorrect. Its not as if the court just waved a magic wand and "shoved it down anyone's throat". A lawsuit challenged the law, and the federal appeals court ruled is unconstitutional (rightly so). Barely. Higher turnout among older voters, and very high black voter turnout because of Obama being on the ticket.

Disagrees with me how? I simply stated how I view the current political parties on the political spectrum. I said outright that America is a center-right country compared to the rest of the world. And yes, I would point out that your graph shows that there's shifts, so 2011 compared to 2009 might be slightly more liberal or moderate. But its not always how people identify themselves, but how they feel about specific issues: namely just look at the survey done recently that showed for the first time since they've been asking, that 50% of the country wants marijuana legalization. Or just look at the major shift in views on civil unions and gay marriage in the last decade alone. I don't get what you're trying to debate with me here...

What do I care about Arkansas State? He's a huge player that's transferring to a Sun Belt school, this is big news.

http://www.nationalfootballauthority.com/2012/01/auburn-tigers-rb-michael-dyer-filing.html

Any time I hear people bring up the constitution and the role of government I generally just dismiss them as absolutists. I mean when the Constitution was written having an anti-slavery view was seen as liberal or even extremist. In 1910 it was "progressive" to want women's suffrage. To try and identify where the framers and politicians of that era fit on a modern day political scale would just be impractical.

VS ??? Center-right as comparable on a world stage, but a lot of developed countries are further to the left than any Democrat in America. Conservatives in Great Britain, for instance, would be seen as too far left to be electable here.