So, did you hear Sarah isn’t running?
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BREAKING: Sarah Palin announces she’s not running for President (UPDATED)
It’s being reported on Twitter by multiple journalists that Sarah Palin has sent a statement to the Mark Levin show stating she will not run for President. Follow ABC News’ Rick Klein’s Twitter feed for statement excerpts.
The Chris Christie press conference open thread (UPDATED)
I’m buried under right now and won’t be around to discuss it, but wanted to start an open thread for comments from people on the press conference coming up at 1 pm from New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, where he is expected to announce whether or not he’ll run for President. He’s said no numerous times, as documented by Politico here, but speculation has increased over the last couple of weeks and it appears he’s holding this conference to confirm/deny the rumors once and for all.
The anti-democratic Democrats
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Gov. Perdue’s office says her suggestion to suspend Cong. elections was only “hypberbole”
The Raleigh News and Observer’s “Under the Dome” blog reports on curious remarks made by our Democrat Governor Bev. Perdue on the state of the economy – and one possible way to ‘fix’ it (via Daily Caller):
Why Romney is “winning” and why he will stay in til the end, plus: Time for Palin?
I didn’t watch last night’s debate – at least not with the volume turned up. May sound odd, but I had it on mute and followed the first hour or so by reading live Tweets and comments on both Facebook and Twitter. The rationale behind it was that I didn’t think I could take listening to Rep. Michele “Comeback Trail” Bachmann’s canned answers and cheap shots for another second. Turns out that I didn’t miss much by not literally listening to it, as I’ve read many a political junkie write that it was one of the worst debates they’ve ever seen. Quite frankly, even though it’s early in the game, I’m already burned out on the whole debate thing, for reasons I’ll get into later. I’ve caught up on last night’s debate by watching clips, and reading both the transcript and various debate analyses written by people whose opinions I value.