Cacciaguida

Defending the 12th century since the 14th; blogging since the 21st.

Catholicism, Conservatism, the Middle Ages, Opera, and Historical and Literary Objets d'Art blogged by a suburban dad who teaches law and writes stuff.


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Who was Cacciaguida? See Dante's PARADISO, Cantos XV, XVI, & XVII.


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Saturday, August 11, 2007
 
Ames straw poll and the fortunes of "Huckaback": Romney won, of course, but, at 31%, not by a margin sufficient to shake off the others who competed. These include second-place finisher Mike Huckabee. Huck may be destined to be the social-con standard-bearer going into the real Iowa caucuses; but he, in turn, did not shake off the third-placer -- my guy, Sam Brownback -- scoring only 18.1% to Brownback's 15.3%.

The fact is, Huckabee and Brownback are splitting the pro-life, not-too-fussed-about-immigration vote. Together, "Huckaback" scored 33.4% -- beating Romney!