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WASHINGTON -- The organizers of a major conservative conference here over the next three days are trying to widen participation in a straw poll, a not-too-subtle attempt to give a Republican presidential candidate other than Rep. Ron Paul R-Texas a chance to win.

CPAC Organizers Trying To Avoid Another Ron Paul Straw Poll Win The Huffington Post News Editors 2012

WASHINGTON -- The organizers of a major conservative conference here over the next three days are trying to widen participation in a straw poll, a not-too-subtle attempt to give a Republican presidential candidate other than Rep. Ron Paul R-Texas a chance to win.

CPAC Organizers Trying To Avoid Another Ron Paul Straw Poll Win The Huffington Post News Editors 2012

That's a not-too-subtle shot at the White House, whose plan dangles tax breaks in front of employers in 2012, then snatches them away in January 2013.

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The not-too-subtle subtext is that the global economy could do worse than pattern itself on this alternative economic model.

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While the Beltway was, properly, taken aback by the not-too-subtle physical threat to Bernanke by a sitting governor who aspires to be president, they all overlooked Perry's time qualifier, "before the next election."

Paul Abrams: "Before the Next Election": The Overlooked Phrase in Perry's Treason Accusation Paul Abrams 2011

Many of these roving street bands go for laughs with impossible to translate names that make not-too-subtle references to two favored Carnival pursuits: making out and drinking.

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While the Beltway was, properly, taken aback by the not-too-subtle physical threat to Bernanke by a sitting governor who aspires to be president, they all overlooked Perry's time qualifier, "before the next election."

Paul Abrams: "Before the Next Election": The Overlooked Phrase in Perry's Treason Accusation Paul Abrams 2011

During her GOP primary campaign, in which Whitman took increasingly right-wing positions in order to attract hardcore GOP voters, she refused to take a position on the ratio law, which CNA considered a not-too-subtle way of opposing it.

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This concession is followed by a not-too-subtle excuse that Alinsky had no choice but to work with March.

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The not-too-subtle message is that if and when the GOP regains control of the House, these lobbyists 'access will depend on their PAC contributions.

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