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Amy Goodman, Democracy NOW!: 'The race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination heated up this weekend as Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann won the Iowa straw poll and Texas Gov. Rick Perry formally announced his candidacy.... We speak with Sarah Posner, senior editor of Religion Dispatches, who spent the weekend covering the poll in Iowa for The Nation magazine. 'Bachmann is, much more than the rest of them, going to use the language, the sort of rhetoric and ideology that she learned at Oral Roberts [University] to meld the fiscal conservatism, small government message with her religious message,' Posner says.'

http://www.truth-out.org/bachmanns-iowa-straw-poll-win-signals-early-tea-party-role-shaping-gop-primary/1313514473



Straw Poll Winner: Obama

Eugene Robinson, The Washington Post Writers Group: 'The emergence of Bachmann and Perry as Romney s chief rivals has shifted the GOP contest sharply to the right. This may fire up the Republican base, but it may also turn off independents who have made clear their distaste for uncompromising partisanship.'

http://www.truth-out.org/straw-poll-winner-obama/1313498730

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Bread and circuses
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