There goes Nebraska. Bob Kerrey’s decision against a Senate bid in the Cornhusker State deals a crushing blow to Democrats, who saw the former senator as their last best chance at holding the seat of retiring Sen. Ben Nelson. “What I wanted to do was run, what I needed to do is make sure I [...]
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At first blush, the announcement that President Obama’s campaign is encouraging donors to give to the supposedly outside group supporting his candidacy would appear to violate the laws separating the two organizations. But technically, it is legal, according to the Federal Election Commission and watchdog groups. In an email to supporters yesterday, Obama campaign manager [...]
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Tuesday night is shaping up to be a good night for Rick Santorum. While polling has been limited in the three states holding contests Tuesday (Colorado, Minnesota, and Missouri), and an unusually high number of voters are uncommitted, pollsters are predicting that Mr. Santorum will win two out of the three and should place a [...]
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Clint Eastwood has defended himself against Republican claims his Super Bowl ad was essentially an endorsement of Barack Obama’s re-election campaign. The two-minute spot for American car giant Chrysler had the gravel-voiced Dirty Harry star declaring that it to be “half-time in America” as rousing images showed the resurgence of Detroit, the city at the heart of [...]
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“The tea party has dispersed,” Gloria Borger proclaimed on CNN after the Romney victory in Nevada. Huh? what does that mean? She concludes, as many in the Activist Old Media have, that a Romney victory in Nevada is a defeat for the tea party. My conclusion; the media is looking for any reason, any reason, to declare [...]
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Following a Georgia judge’s ruling that Barack Obama is eligible to be on the state’s 2012 Democratic Party presidential ballot, the front lines in the continuing eligibility battle are being fought in Arizona. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio told WND today his office has scheduled a news conference in Phoenix for March 1 to release [...]
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Wednesday was not a good day for Mitt Romney or economics. First Governor Romney said, “I’m not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there — if it needs repair, I’ll fix it.” Later, trying to dig out, he reaffirmed his previous support for automatic raises in the minimum wage. This is [...]
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When it comes to the unemployment rate, it’s nice to be president. Sure, it wasn’t so nice for President Obama in October 2009, when the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics declared the rate was 10 percent. But exactly a year from Election Day 2012, the rate began a precipitous plunge, first to 8.9 percent, then [...]
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When the unemployment news came out today — no, we’re gonna start with number two. I want to go back and play for you from October 28th on this show, this, just to remind you that none of this that’s happening today and what will happen in ensuing months should surprise you. It’s gonna depress you, [...]
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President Obama in a pre-Super Bowl interview aired on Sunday said that despite being unable to completely turn the economy around in three years, he still deserves to be re-elected. “I deserve a second term but we’re not done,” Obama told NBC’s Matt Lauer in an interview broadcast from the White House. Lauer noted that [...]
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Last week, Gallup released a poll indicating that if the election were held today and President Obama won only states where he has a positive approval rating, he’d be packing his bags for the unemployment line. Indeed, Conn Carroll of the Washington Examinerestimates that “Obama would lose the 2012 election to the Republican nominee 323 electoral [...]
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After his fourth-place showing in Florida, Ron Paul, by then in Nevada, told supporters he had been advised by friends that he would do better if only he dumped his foreign policy views, which have been derided as isolationism. Not going to do it, said Dr. Paul to cheers. And why should he? Observing developments [...]
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With former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney coming off his second straight victory, the race for the GOP presidential nomination heads to three states holding caucuses this week. Romney’s triumph Saturday in the Nevada caucuses, following his convincing triumph last week in Florida, bolstered the perception that he may be unstoppable in his second bid for [...]
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Hoping to ride the shoulders of passionate Minnesota fans Tuesday, Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul packed events in the state Saturday, speaking of liberty over government and rights over entitlement. “There is reason to be optimistic that now the people are thinking correctly….We don’t need more government,” Paul told a standing room only crowd in [...]
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Polls show that about 80% of Americans support photo voter identification laws. A majority of whites, blacks, Hispanics, Democrats, and Republicans support voter ID. Why do so many people want voter ID laws? According to Richmond, Virginia, Mayor Dwight Jones, “because there is a brother in the White House.” Here’s a secret. I’ve been following [...]
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