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...August, the dark horse had enough support to generate 2,587 votes at the Ames straw poll, a fund-raising fandango for the Iowa GOP at which candidates pay to have their supporters attend. Huckabee finished a distant second behind free-spending Romney, while Giuliani and McCain skipped the event entirely. But veteran pols noted that Huckabee's tally exceeded the number of tickets he bought--speculating that people were taking Romney's freebies but casting their ballots for Huckabee...
...Democratic candidates--Biden Owens insists that crowds are enthusiastic and momentum is growing. The campaign's focus is unabashedly on Iowa, where many voters remain undecided. "All we have to do is win, place or show," says Biden Owens, who has been living in the early-voting state since August. Granted, she is biased toward her brother: "He has been my best friend all my life." But she notes, "This race is really not about Joe Biden; it's much bigger than my brother's being elected President...
Competence - that was Prime Minister Brown's unique selling point. He reacted calmly to the June terror attacks in London and Glasgow, and to the August outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, followed a month later by the bluetongue virus afflicting livestock. He cheered many in his own party by signaling a new distance from the Bush Administration, while reaffirming his Atlanticist credentials. By the time he delivered a workmanlike speech to Labour's annual congress in September, doubts about his abilities had been assuaged...
Books have more than just sentimental value to some sellers. Harvard students are probably unaccustomed to seeing Frenchie (no last name given) and her partner Ken O’Brien, the formerly homeless owners of the movable bookstand outside of J. August Co. on Mass. Ave., without their faithful cat and dog—but they’re inside now, and they won’t be coming back out. “We got an apartment just by selling books without any Section 8 government help, or anything to do with that,” Frenchie said...
...really happy with the swim because I had knee surgery in August,” she said of the surprising result...