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Ankarlo Daily Read: Super Tuesday Feb. 5, 2008

It’s Super Tuesday and 22 states, including Arizona, will head to the voting booths of caucus locations today to pick their nominees for president. Here is a good look at all the states voting and the latest poll numbers in some of those states.

Scott Rasmussen will join Ankarlo later this morning. He is predicting a huge win for Sen. John McCain today. Fritz Wenzel from Zogby international will also join Ankarlo. The Zogby numbers show a huge lead for Obama and Romney in California.

McCain and Romney continue to fight over who is the real conservative. McCain told NBC’s Matt Lauer this morning that he will have to convince people he can carry the conservative mantle. Listen to the audio: McCain says he is the real conservative

Conservative columnist Andrew Sullivan says McCain’s support is a mirage. McCain even took some shots from Sen. Barack Obama. Check out the video.

Bush’s budget brings spending up to a record $3.1 trillion dollars, but he is going to spending your money to secure the border. So is it worth having another $400 billion in deficits?

A middle school has banned farting. No, I’m not kidding.

Ankarlo Audio: Mon. Feb 4, 2008

Today’s Show: Eli’s coming and the Giants win. Vietnam Vet Ted Sampley says McCain is unfit to be president and there is a fracture between blacks and illegal immigrants. Ankarlo chats about that with Steve Malanga from the Manhattan Institute.

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Ankarlo Daily Reads: Mon. Feb 4, 2008

Remember this:

Well she is at it again?

The Giants win.  Wow.

Super Tuesday is tomorrow.  Arizona gets to vote with 21 other states to try and figure out who our parties nomineess will be.   Here is a look at the latest polls in some key states.  Romney is fighting for his political life in California and it looks like another close one.  Clinton and Obama are neck and neck.

Bush’s budget is going to be over 3.1 trillion dollars.

Illegal Immigration

Steve Malanga from the City Journal joined Ankarlo Today.  He has written a new article showing how blacks are upset because illegal immigrants are moving into their neighborhoods and taking some of their jobs.  You can read the article here.

Malanga also offers up some immigration solutions in an interview with Front Page Magazine.

To read more from Steve Malanga click here.

John McCain’s war record

Most of us consider John McCain a war hero.  I certainly do.  McCain was a prisoner of war for five and a half years after being shot down over Hanoi.  He was beaten and tortured and forced to sign confessions of war crimes.  Once the Vietnamese found out McCain’s father was the commander of all the Naval forces in the Pacific the offered him a chance to go home early.  McCain refused because none of the other American prisoners of war would have been let free.  In other words, McCain said I’m not leaving without them.  That is heroic.

Vietnam Veteran Ted Sampley disagrees.  Sampley is a former Green Beret that served in combat for two years during Vietnam.  He was a guest on Ankarlo Mornings today, saying McCain’s Naval Career has been helped out by his family name (both McCain’s father and grandfather were four-star Admirals).  Sampley also says McCain has been working hard to normalize relations with Vietnam despite the fact that several prisoners of war haven’t been returned to America.  Read more of what Sampley says here.

For full disclosure’s sake, Sampley is behind a group called “Vietnam Veterans Against John McCain.”  Sound familiar?  It should because Sampley had a significant role with the “Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry” in 2004.

You won’t hear me questions either Kerry or McCain’s war record.  They served and served well.  Sampley served.  He has raised his issues with McCain.  I have my own.  But, they are based on his legislative records.  I can site three examples:  McCain-Feingold, McCain-Kennedy and McCain-Lieberman.   McCain-Feingold is a serious attack on the free speech portion of the first amendment.  McCain-Kennedy was the failed immigration “amnesty” bill from 2007 and McCain-Lieberman pushes the federal government to get more involved in the global warming debate.  That being said, McCain has a lifetime 83% conservative rating from the American Conservative Union (though his 2006 rating was only a 65).  Doesn’t that count for something?