Category Archives: Elections

Obama To Offer Non-compromise Compromise Regarding Contraception Mandate

The question is, how much will Obama scold people who have different beliefs than him, and how much will he lecture (ABC News) With the White House under fire for its new rule requiring employers including religious organizations to offer health insurance that fully covers birth control coverage, ABC News has learned that later today […]

And It’s Santorum For The Hat Trick

Tuesday night was all Rick (for the non-hockey fans, first, shame on you, and second, a hat trick is scoring 3 goals, after which people throw their hats on the ice. Not easy to score a hat trick) (Washington Post) Rick Santorum had a breakthrough night Tuesday, winning GOP presidential contests in Missouri, Minnesota and […]

Obama Leads From Behind, Rationalizes Why He Needs A Super PAC

Can we even term this leading from behind? He may be a “leader”, based on his position he purchased, but leading denotes guiding, directing, showing the way. Interestingly, a synonym of leading is “ruling.” Anyhow (Politico) President Barack Obama — in an act of hypocrisy or necessity, depending on the beholder — has reversed course […]

And The Race Card Rises Again

So, we can see the majority of the elements Democrats will use to attempt to get the Most Incompetent President Ever re-elected. Class warfare led by a rich guy who doesn’t pay his fair share? Check. Redistributive rhetoric led by rich guys who won’t give up their own money? Check. Blaming Congress, half of which […]

Nevada: Romney Wins Big

Not quite as big as some thought, as some were predicting a 50%+ win, but, very close. With 71% reporting as of 7am, we’re looking at Romney – 47.6% Gingrich – 22.7% Santorum – 11.1% Paul – 18.6% And (Politico) Network entrance polling showed Romney accomplished a powerful near sweep of most voter groups, winning […]

Santorum 45-Obama 44, Obama Approval At 20% With Undecideds

This should make R.S. McCain pretty happy (via Hot Air) (Rasmussen) The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows that 26% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty percent (40%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -14 […]

RON PAUL!!!!!1!!!! Says Illegals Being Scapegoated Like Jews In Nazi Germany

In other words, he is calling conservatives Nazis (The Politico) Ron Paul dropped his standard stump speech on Wednesday and aggressively courted Latino voters. At a senior center in East Las Vegas, the Texas congressman told about 100 Hispanics that they have been unfairly made “scapegoats” for the country’s economic troubles. He said it’s “part […]

Six Takeaways From Florida

And the results from Florida are (Fox News) Romney received 46 percent of the Florida vote. Gingrich had 32 percent, followed by Rick Santorum with 13 percent and Ron Paul with 7 percent. Romney won all 50 of Florida’s convention delegates. The Politico’s Maggie Haberman, who has done a pretty good job in covering the […]

And We Are Off And Running In Florida!

What’s it looking like? (PPP) PPP’s tracking of the Florida Republican primary wraps up with Mitt Romney at 39%, Newt Gingrich at 31%, Rick Santorum at 15%, and Ron Paul at 11%. Our three days of tracking found very little movement in the race: Romney was at 39-40% every day, Gingrich was at 31-32% every […]

Surprise! Democrats Take Secret Cash After Bashing GOP For Same

The Politico’s Kenneth P. Vogel and Alexander Burns are surely going to earn an expletive laden call from the White House for publishing this story (Politico) Democrats have seized on Republicans as the party of unlimited secret money. The only problem: so are Democrats. In recent days, Obama released an ad blasting “secretive oil billionaires” […]

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