Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Et Tu Rasmussen

Commentary By Ron Beasley



The Republican friendly Rasmussen came out with a poll today that has the wingnuts in a rage.  It shows wingnut nemesis Ron Paul in a virtual tie in a 2012 match up. 



Election 2012: Barack Obama 42%, Ron Paul 41%


Pit maverick Republican Congressman Ron Paul against President Obama in a
hypothetical 2012 election match-up, and the race is � virtually dead
even.


A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of likely voters finds
Obama with 42% support and Paul with 41% of the vote. Eleven percent
(11%) prefer some other candidate, and six percent (6%) are undecided.

Wingnut Central, Red State, is furious and questions the Republican's best friend.

How can this be, when Paul was rejected so soundly in the Republican
primaries just two years ago? Reading the poll, I�m left to wonder if
it was written and paid for by supporters of the Texas Republican.

I agree with James Joyner:

At any rate, I agree with Barone that there is zero chance Paul will be
the Republican nominee for president in 2012.  These early polls are
mildly amusing but otherwise worthless.

That said I think it is an indication that the American people a pretty fed up with both parties and we might be looking at a Perot moment.



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