Buddy Roemer 2012

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The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For May 18, 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.18.2012

What began in Indiana continued in Nebraska this week, as long-shot state Sen. Deb Fischer scored an underdog victory in Nebraska's GOP primary for th...

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The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For May 4, 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.04.2012

This coming Tuesday, in Indiana, voters will go the polls in the GOP Senate primary to decide if they are going to stick with six-term Sen. Dick Lugar...

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The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For April 20, 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.20.2012

For as long a time as your Speculatroners have been dutifully cataloguing the damage that the primary process has been doing to Mitt Romney's brand, w...

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The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For April 13, 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.13.2012

This week, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum decided that the time to quit his upset bid had finally come. He shuttered a campaign that had risen...

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The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For April 6, 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 04.06.2012

So, did you hear? This week, the GOP nomination pretty much became a settled issue. Barring some accident or emergency (or some freaktastic alchemical...

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The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For March 30, 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.30.2012

This week the attention that's mainly been lavished on covering the 2012 campaign got reoriented, slightly, in the direction of the steps of the Supre...

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Americans Elect Having Trouble Finding Americans Who Want To Elect

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.27.2012

Americans Elect, as you likely already know, is a goofy, secretive little group with a unique view on how to go about starting a third-party candidacy...

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The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For March 23, 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.23.2012

But as important as the win in Illinois was for cementing Team Romney's delegate realities, the most critical turn in the race wouldn't come until Wed...

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The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For March 16, 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.16.2012

Last week, after the dust had settled on Super Tuesday, we surmised that you couldn't really call the 2012 GOP primary contest a battle between Mitt R...

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The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For March 9, 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.09.2012

Bill Kristol says it's just getting started. Sarah Palin says all bets are off. Other GOP luminaries say that so far, what they've seen has been "a collective yawn." What are they talking about? The GOP race for the 2012 presidential nomination, that's what. And all of these assessments have been handed down from on high in the wake of Super Tuesday's results. But wasn't Super Tuesday a pretty unequivocal win for Mitt Romney, leaving him as the only candidate with a path to the nomination that doesn't require a series of miraculous events?

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The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For March 2, 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 03.02.2012

With nothing but weeks of time to fill between Maine's Caucuses and this week's primaries, we heard unending talk about the importance of the Michigan...

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The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For Feb. 24, 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.24.2012

For the bulk of the campaign season, we've been keenly aware that the GOP establishment-types had some grave misgivings over the fact that Mitt Romney...

WATCH: Roemer Formally Announces Third Party Bid

The Huffington Post | Sara Kenigsberg | Posted 02.23.2012

Former Louisiana Gov. Charles "Buddy" Roemer formally announced his third party candidacy for president today from the headquarters of Yowie, a video ...

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The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For Feb. 17, 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.20.2012

This week, one of the few things that anyone found worth talking about in the 2012 race was the extent to which money was likely to determine everythi...

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The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For February 3, 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.03.2012

Congratulations, America: you survived January of 2012, along with its four super-hyped primaries and its eleventy-billion debates. Your reward? A sno...

Buddy Roemer for President: Pro-Life, Anti-Big Money, Pro-Awesome

Death Race | Posted 04.03.2012

Death Race

Buddy Roemer and Gary Johnson are considered boutique candidates, dismissed by the Republican party. And yet when you consider the level of crazytalk that has pervaded the Republican nominating contest, it becomes apparent the only thing keeping them from recognition is money.

Audio Report: The Few, the Proud, the Supporters of Buddy Roemer

John V. Santore | Posted 03.31.2012

John V. Santore

This audio report on the Buddy Roemer presidential campaign features interviews with Krista Johnson and Joshua Fischer. Johnson was one of just 17 Iow...

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The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For Jan. 27, 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.30.2012

So, yeah, this campaign season is getting ridiculous. Credit the candidates, we guess! From one week to the next, we have seen the race seesaw between...

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The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For Jan. 20, 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.21.2012

This week, as the 2012 race for the GOP nomination swung into South Carolina for its "First in the South" primary, things seemed to come in pairs. ...

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The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For Jan. 13, 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.13.2012

With two primary contests in the books, we've arrived at the point where everyone has so much to say about so little and only a few more minutes befor...

Obama Links GOP Candidates To Rivals In Congress

AP | By ERICA WERNER | Posted 01.10.2012

WASHINGTON -- On the eve of the crucial New Hampshire primary, President Barack Obama told supporters Monday that the Republicans vying for his job ou...

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The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For January 6, 2012

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.07.2012

The real reason that we put up with the idea of the Iowa Caucus, despite the quadrennial concerns that it allows a few people from a small state to ha...

Buddy Roemer's Self-Deprecating Tweets

The Huffington Post | Meghan Neal | Posted 02.15.2012

While the political world speculated who would win Tuesday night's 2012 Iowa caucus, oft-forgotten GOP presidential candidate Buddy Roemer was busy tw...

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The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For December 30, 2011

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.02.2012

This is our last Speculatron Slideshow of the calendar year, everyone. When we next have the opportunity to relate all of the week's campaign highligh...

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The 2012 Speculatron Weekly Roundup For Dec. 23, 2011

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 12.23.2011

We'll be home for Christmas, as the saying goes, but sadly, our heroic 2012ers -- still foraging for votes in the wilds of Iowa -- won't be able to sa...