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AP Poll Spells Great News for White House

Elaine in Roanoke — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:59:41 GMT

The latest AP-GfK 2012 election poll has very good news for President Obama and bad, bad news for Willard the "Mitt" and the other remaining clowns in the GOP primary field. The national poll of 1,000 adults conducted over the past week shows President Obama decisively leading Romney 51% to 43%. Against Santorum, the latest in the GOP desperate search for the "other-than-Mitt" candidate, the president is leading 52% to 43%.
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Iowa GOP Caucus: Everybody Loses

TheGreenMiles — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:59:35 GMT

Is it possible to have a caucus that no one wins? The results from Iowa sure look like it:
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The Grinch Stole the GOP Christmas

Elaine in Roanoke — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:04:49 GMT

It looks like Virginia Republican primary voters, at most, will be choosing from a list of four pretty lousy contenders: Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Rick Perry, and Newt Gingrich. Since the state GOP has decided that candidates who submit at least 15,000 signatures of registered voters on valid petitions with at least 600 signatures from each of the 11 districts will be asumed to have qualified, only Romney is assured at this point to have met the qualifications, while Paul probably has. Perry and Gingrich turned in fewer than 12,000 signatures and still may not qualify for the ballot.
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How to convert New Agers to Right Wing Lunacy

kindler — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:00:00 GMT

GOP 2012 Presidential Field: Stunningly Unpopular

TheGreenMiles — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:46:18 GMT

In a lengthy, must-read discussion of the 2012 presidential field at FiveThirtyEight.com, Nate Silver produces this chart of the net favorability of the 2012 GOP presidential field:
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Does GOP Only Care About Freedom When It's For Corporations?

TheGreenMiles — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 17:57:02 GMT

At this week's Conservative Political Action Conference, sponsored by a who's who of front groups for billionaires & big polluters, there's been plenty of talk of freeing billionaires from taxes and freeing polluters from laws that keep our air & water clean.
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Get Ready For a Push to Return to the Gold Standard

Teddy Goodson — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 04:00:28 GMT

At first it was only Ron Paul (R, TX), the fringe libertarian Congressman who talked seriously about a return to the gold standard. Since the Wall Street meltdown and the Great Recession, however, we have heard a growing chorus of politicians (mostly right-wing), and conservative economists floating the idea of a return to the gold standard as the solution to rising federal deficits and the jobless recovery. Various bigwigs like World Bank President Robert Zoelick, Warren Buffet's father Howard Buffet, and Kansas Federal Reserve President Thomas Hoenig all have made statements supporting a return to the gold standard, but nothing has been so remarkable as hearing Alan Greenspan, in an interview on Fox Business, say:
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The Coming Assault on the 20th Century

Teddy Goodson — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 01:58:00 GMT

The Republican success in the recent midterm election is being billed as a mandate---- but exactly what mandate do the hubris-filled Republicans claim they have been given? They are running several scenarios up the flagpole, or, if you prefer, they are trying on various costumes and trotting down the runway to see which ones are suitable for the upcoming fancy dress ball they will attend in January. The various factions within the GOP, from libertarian to Tea Party, Wall Street to globalal corporations, religious fanatics to seething bigots, are drafting their wish lists, most of which will turn out to be non-negotiable demands to repeal anything even faintly tainted with a Democratic label, and that basically amounts to just about everything that came out of the 20th century. (Maybe even some of the wars, believe it or not).

Kenny Golden Endorses Ron Paul for Speaker

lowkell — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 15:00:00 GMT

Ron Paul to Back Pakistan War Supporter?

Dan Sullivan — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:14:32 GMT

Kenny Golden, independent candidate in the Virginia 2nd Congressional District who proposes a widened conflict in Afghanistan and war in Pakistan announced via tweet that he is off to court Ron Paul's support today. Golden, who sailed by Pakistan in the navy, justifies the incursion by citing the tragedy of 9/11.
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Ron Paul: Obama's "Corporatist" Not "Socialist"

lowkell — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 11:44:19 GMT