For most of his time as a national political figure, Barack Obama has been careful to cloak his core socialist leanings behind a veil of pro-capitalist rhetoric. This makes strategic sense, as Americans still largely identify as pro-capitalist. However, based on his recent speech in Osawatomie, Kansas, the President appears to have reassessed the political [...]
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Among Evangelical voters, supporting Israel is one of the most important issues in American politics. But most are not aware of the efforts of some special interest groups to limit the discussion of the best approach to “support.” A case in point is the recent “forum” hosted by the Republican Jewish Coalition—an event where the [...]
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According to a recent Washington Post/ABC News poll, Newt Gingrich (33 percent), Ron Paul (18 percent), and Mitt Romney (18 percent) lead the pack among likely Iowa Republican caucus goers. The poll also asked which candidate best reflect a series of positive characteristics: Ron Paul trumps the others on honesty, with 23 percent compared to only 13 [...]
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One of the more enjoyable spectacles out of Washington lately has been the horror of establishment Beltway Republicans that Newt Gingrich just might be their presidential nominee, having jumped ahead of Mitt Romney in recent polls. The cause of this is simple if often disguised: Newt is the opposite of everything they just know to [...]
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“Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman Jr. is hinting he might run at the top of a third-party ticket if he doesn’t win his party’s nomination,” the folks at The Daily are reporting. After vowing to run as a Republican or nothing at all, Huntsman gave himself a little wiggle room this week to be the [...]
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The latest Fox News poll just came out and in it, a few things jump out. Obama, campaigning and pandering nearly nonstop, simply isn’t making progress. In fact, he’s losing ground. With less than a year to go before ballots are cast, Obama is in it deep and quite possibly, too deep to get out. [...]
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Back in early November, the Republican independent expenditure juggernaut Crossroads GPS wanted to take Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren down a peg, so they cut an ad insinuating that her attempts to rein in big banks had put spark to the dry tinder in Zuccotti Park. “Elizabeth Warren sides with extreme left protests,” a narrator [...]
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President Obama is underwater in key swing states, and faces electoral peril in November from both Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, according to new polls released early Thursday by Quinnipiac University, which show Gingrich surging among Republicans in three important battlegrounds, Gingrich, the former speaker of the House, leads the GOP field in each of [...]
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The White House and its allies are starting to turn their sights to Newt Gingrich, invoking his tumultuous history as House speaker to brand him as the “godfather of gridlock,” a testament to his new viability and the sudden realization that he could be President Obama’s Republican opponent. Democrats have made it clear they have no plans [...]
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In a speech delivered at Osawatomie High School in Osawatomie, Kansas, on Tuesday, President Barack Obama argued that while a limited government that preserves free markets “speaks to our rugged individualism” as Americans, such a system “doesn’t work” and “has never worked” and that Americans must look to a more activist government that taxes more, spends [...]
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Newt Gingrich has taken a double-digit lead over Mitt Romney among Republican caucus-goers in Iowa, according to a new poll from CBS News/New York Times. The poll, conducted from November 30 to December 5, shows Gingrich leading Romney by 14 percent, with 31 percent support to Romney’s 17 percent. Ron Paul chases Romney with 16 [...]
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Former speaker Newt Gingrich has seen his poll numbers climb over the past few weeks, most recently in the critical first caucus state of Iowa. That’s where Gingrich released his first ad in which he describes his love for the country and the basic changes that must happen to strengthen the economy. The Iowa caucuses [...]
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RUSH: A couple of stories here, one is from the Boston Globe by Megan Woolhouse and the other is from the New Republic. The headline of the Boston Globe piece: “Poll Finds Deepening Economic Pessimism.” The headline from the New Republic piece is: “Slice the Demographics Any Way You Want, But Obama Is In Trouble.” [...]
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“One of these days we’ll have a conversation about Newt Gingrich,” Nancy Pelosi told “Talking Points Memo.” “When the time is right. … I know a lot about him. I served on the investigative committee that investigated him, four of us locked in a room in an undisclosed location for a year. A thousand pages of his [...]
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The Donald is miffed Ron Paul has decided not attend his soirée. In response to a question about Paul’s decision to not attend – along with John Huntsman – the Newsmax GOP “debate” hosted by Trump, he said it doesn’t matter if “joke candidates” do not participate. “I think those two candidates have zero chance [...]
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