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These things are becoming as meaningless as Internet polls, but I happen to live in Maryland and I was at the State Fair where this poll was held waving my sign and handing out slimjims. I’m feeling a bit of home town pride here. Indulge me.

These are unofficial results so the may be subject to change, but…

Ron Paul - 263 (28%)
Rudy Giuliani - 220 (24%)
Fred Thompson - 188 (20%)
Mitt Romney - 89 (10%)

John McCain - 54 (6%)
Mike Huckabee - 35 (4%)
Tom Tancredo - 16 (2%)
Sam Brownback - 12 (1%)
Duncan Hunter - 3 (0%)

Write Ins:
New Gingrich - 17 (2%)
Bob Ehrilich - 3 (0%) (Ehrlich is former Republican Governor of MD)
Other - 11 (1%)

Spoiled ballots - 15 (2%) (e.g. voted for more than one candidate)

Total votes cast - 926

Bill Press, veteran radio and television talk show host discusses a recent US Inspector General’s report on the performance of the CIA in the lead up to September 11, 2001.

The money quote:

But the report is troubling, also, because it proves that the strong case made by President Bush for the Patriot Act and other preventive measures after Sept. 11 was phony. The evidence is in. It is not true, as the administration claimed, that the CIA and FBI lacked the necessary tools, prior to Sept. 11, to track down terrorists planning attacks against the United States. They had the tools. They simply didn’t use them.

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