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...Huckabee has raised just $2.3 million in total, and had $650,000 cash on hand as of Sept. 30, but he is surging in Iowa polls. In the latest Rasmussen poll he even overtook by a couple of percentage points Iowa front-runner Mitt Romney - who by comparison has raised $62.8 million so far this cycle and had $9.2 million cash on hand as of Sept...
Then again, most of these things were true 14 years ago, and Denmark's welfare-state model seemed exhausted, beset by stagnant growth and double-digit unemployment. Some on the political right--including current Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who wrote a book in 1993 called From Social State to Minimal State--were convinced that taxes and spending had to be cut dramatically. But that was never in the cards politically, and Social Democrat Poul Nyrup Rasmussen (there are a lot of Rasmussens in Denmark), who became Prime Minister that year, crafted a compromise that kept the high taxes...
...outcome was enough to give a serious scare to the G.O.P. front-runners. Religious conservatives are disproportionately represented in the Iowa caucuses and Huckabee has recently moved into second place in some Iowa polls. (A Rasmussen poll from Oct. 10-14 showed Huckabee in a tie for second with Fred Thompson, seven points behind Romney.) Huckabee is also benefiting from Kansas Senator Sam Brownback's withdrawal from the race, even though Brownback has not yet endorsed any of the remaining candidates. After his speech at the summit on Saturday, Huckabee told reporters that over the previous 24 hours, his Iowa...
...Such cosmetic changes may sound pointless, but that is precisely the point. Anders F. Rasmussen, the Danish prime minister, summed up the treaty’s benefits last June: “The good thing is that all the symbolic elements are gone, and that which really matters–the core–is left.” The core Rasmussen alludes to has several layers, all of them crucial to the project of European integration...
...TOUR DE FRANCE 13% Percentage of French citizens who say they are "very interested" in the Tour de France. Its popularity has plummeted following widespread doping scandals, including the removal of Tour leader Michael Rasmussen from this year's race over missed drug tests 71% Percentage of French citizens who think the sport's reputation has been irreparably damaged by the scandals...