14. ACTA

  SOPA/PIPA have recently been stopped. However, there is a something worse that has been in the works for much longer. This new threat is known as the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA. From the name it might not sound like it would have a large impact on the internet, but it would. ACTA basically has SOPA built in, but a harsher version. ACTA is also world-wide.

  With SOPA, it would take under a minute to completely bypass. Under ACTA, this would be illegal. To add to that, they would have enough surveillance in place to catch anybody foolish enough to do it.

"ACTA has several features that raise significant potential concerns for consumers' privacy and civil liberties for innovation and the free flow of information on the Internet [regarding] legitimate commerce and for developing countries' ability to choose policy options that best suit their domestic priorities and level of economic development,"

"All signatory countries will be required to conform their domestic laws and policies to the provisions of the Agreement," said the EFF assessment. "In the U.S. this is likely to further entrench controversial aspects of U.S. copyright law. The recently leaked U.S. IP chapter also includes provisions that appear to go beyond current U.S. law. This raises significant concerns for citizens' due process, privacy and freedom of expression rights."

Source:
http://www.naturalnews.com/034802_ACTA_counterfeiting_piracy.html

13. Iowa Caucus results changed. Santorum wins.

Shortly after the Iowa caucus, Mitt Romney was declared the winner with a very small margin of votes. The actual amount varied, between either 8 or 14 votes. After the results were in, there was a report that Mitt Romney might have gotten an extra 20 votes that he shouldn't have. (http://ow.ly/8CfJz)

Now, the results have changed. The new results show Rick Santorum with a 34 vote victory over Mitt Romney. This means that Mitt Romney was not the first person to win both Iowa and New Hampshire. This could have an impact on his campaign, since instead of the two victories he only has one.

Mitt Romney came in second behind Newt Gingrich in the South Carolina primary. He lost with over a 75,000 vote difference.

12. "Huntsman departs race"

"Days before the South Carolina primary, Jon Huntsman dropped out of the presidential race Monday and endorsed Mitt Romney for the party's nomination, becoming the latest Republican to call the GOP front-runner the strongest candidate to beat the Democratic incumbent."

Huntsman did decently in the New Hampshire primary, placing third.

The results don't indicate a obvious reason for Huntsman to drop out of the race. However, it is suggested that the fact that he stayed out of the Iowa caucus could have hurt his running.

"Huntsman made the strategic decision to skip campaigning in Iowa. Today, Iowans are wondering if the move contributed to his demise.

While every other presidential candidate was stumping in dozens of Iowa counties, Jon Huntsman stayed away.

"Iowa picks corn, not presidents," said Huntsman, prior to the Iowa Caucus."

Huntsman did terribly in the Iowa caucus. He did not manage to receive even a single percent. He finished with 745 votes, which is 0.6% of the total votes. His comment couldn't have helped, people tend not to like it when you say things like that about their state.

Sources:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46010872
http://www.kcci.com/r/30224931/detail.html

11. "Iowa Caucus 2012 Results: Vote-Counter Says Mistake Gave Mitt Romney 20 Extra Votes"

"Speaking to a large gathering of New Hampshire voters at Windham High School, the Pennsylvania Republican said he was unaware that a local television station in Iowa had aired a report on a potential vote count discrepancy that would alter the winner of the caucus two days ago.

The station, KCCI, reported that in Appanoose County, a vote-counter had discovered an inconsistency between the number of the 50 votes he had monitored and what the Republican Party of Iowa had recorded.
'When Mitt Romney won Iowa by eight votes and I've got a 20-vote discrepancy here, that right there says Rick Santorum won Iowa,' said the vote-counter, Edward True, 28. 'Not Mitt Romney.'"

The Caucus was won by a margin of 8 votes, (According to Google, image below,) which means that if there truly is a 20-vote discrepancy that Romney in fact did not win.

 Whether or not there actually is a discrepancy is yet to be confirmed. Iowa GOP Chairman Matt Strawn's statement regarding Appanoose County caucus results:

"'Iowa GOP rules provide for a two-week certification process for reach of the 1,774 precincts. The Iowa GOP will announce the final, certified results of the 2012 Iowa Causes following this process. Out of respect to the candidates involved, party officials we will not respond to every rumor, innuendo or allegation during the two week process. That said, Iowa GOP officials have been in contact with Appanoose County Republican officials tonight and do not have any reason to believe the final, certified results of Appanoose County will change the outcome of Tuesday's vote.'"