The National Republican Senatorial Committee is supposed to represent Republicans -- aren't they? Heck, they've got the word "Republican" right there in their name. They certainly don't hesitate to hit up Republicans for money. They also bill themselves as THE organization to give to if ...
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Score: 12Return to Top John Hawkins | September 18, 2009, 12:33 pm |
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Note: I realize that this is sort of narrow, but I attended the Illinois GOP Central Committee meeting today and I thought some of you might be somewhat interested to see what is going on in Obama's home state on the Republican front. The excitement ...
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Score: 3Return to Top Warner Todd Huston | September 19, 2009, 5:21 pm |
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Obama has conveyed to Gov. Paterson, through various admin officials, that he doesn't want Paterson to run for re-election:
President Obama has grave concerns that New York Gov. David Paterson cannot win a reelection contest in 2010, and the White House has taken the unusual step ...
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Score: 2Return to Top Sister Toldjah | September 20, 2009, 11:05 am |
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Charlie Cook, one of the most respected of the political prognosticators, continues to sound the alarm for Congressional Democrats. Since August, Cook has been telling them they're headed for electoral disaster in the 2010 midterms if they don't change their ways.
Most of the erosion ...
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Score: 9Return to Top McQ | September 22, 2009, 10:53 pm |
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What are we going to do to clean up Obama's corrupt Chicago Democrats? The Cook County GOP has some ideas...
I just got back from attending the Saturday session of the Cook County Republican Party Convention (and before you ask, yes, there IS a Cook County ...
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Score: 1Return to Top Warner Todd Huston | September 26, 2009, 11:38 pm |
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Rasmussen polling group has recently reported its findings on the upcoming California Senate race and the results seem to say that the National Republican Senate Committee has jumped the gun by endorsing a candidate so early in the race.
To date, Rasmussen has found that incumbent ...
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Score: 4Return to Top Warner Todd Huston | September 28, 2009, 5:26 pm |
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We seem to have a trio of sudden Republicans in the news these days. I say sudden because there is a lack of any long history on the part of these three candidates of being Republicans for very long before running for office. In fact, ...
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Imagine that. In this day and age most of the GOP Party organizations in the great state of Illinois do NOT have a web page. Illinois has 102 counties, but only 23 of them have a usable, working webpage.
In this Internet age, the very first ...
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Score: 4Return to Top Warner Todd Huston | October 4, 2009, 12:45 pm |
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-By Warner Todd Huston
Meg Whitman has had some bad days lately. After recently proclaiming herself a "darned good" conservative Republican, Senator Barbara Boxer's staff revealed that Whitman was a Boxer supporter in 2003. Dangerously for Whitman, Senator Boxer is one of the most liberal members ...
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Score: 4Return to Top Warner Todd Huston | October 4, 2009, 12:06 pm |
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Much has been made about Meg Whitman's spotty voting record by many, including me. When the Sacramento Bee's Andrew McIntosh first reported that records for Whitman's voter registration going back a decade or so were nearly non-existent it seemed that the anti-Whitman camp(s) out there ...
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Score: 4Return to Top Warner Todd Huston | October 6, 2009, 3:24 pm |
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Cary Fiorina, former Hewlett-Packard CEO and probable candidate for U.S. Senate from California, is starting to look like a viable choice for conservative voters in the Golden State, giving the GOP two conservatives from whom to chose.
Fiorina's bona fides have been a question to many ...
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Score: 6Return to Top Warner Todd Huston | October 13, 2009, 4:25 pm |
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"This is a big part of the reason that I don't think it made that much sense for Specter to switch instead of retire. The reality is that the liberal activist groups have a lot of reason to primary him -- and if they find ...
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Score: 10Return to Top John Hawkins | October 14, 2009, 1:23 pm |
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A few weeks ago Jon Fleischman of FlashReport.org was fortunate enough to snag an interview with gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman. But the results of one segment of the meeting left him admittedly non-plussed, or as he termed it "unnerved." Fleischman was aghast to learn of ...
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Score: 4Return to Top Warner Todd Huston | October 16, 2009, 6:56 pm |
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I am not a Mark Kirk fan. For me he is and always has been far too "moderate" on social issues and his now (maybe) retracted Cap and Tax vote sticks in my craw pretty badly. But Steve Benen of the Washington Monthly blog Political ...
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Score: 3Return to Top Warner Todd Huston | October 18, 2009, 3:35 pm |
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Childlike Democrats: Call my name! Obama, please! Save us!
Obama: All right, I'll do it. I'll save you. I will do what I dream!
Bastian: FUNDRAISING!
Even though the midterm elections are still a year away, President Barack Obama and the White House have started to unleash the ...
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Score: 9Return to Top William Teach | October 19, 2009, 9:56 am |
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On a regular basis, we hear Republicans in DC pouting about the base. "Why are they so hard on us? Why don't they trust us? Why are they so unreasonable?"
They don't take into account the fact that the Republican Party betrayed many of its biggest ...
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Score: 5Return to Top John Hawkins | October 20, 2009, 3:36 pm |
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In July liberal Republican DeDe Scozzafava was tapped by the 11 Republican county chairmen of New York's 23rd Congressional District to run for the seat being vacated by John McHugh, who resigned to take Obama's offer to become Secretary of the Army.
The NY GOP made ...
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Score: 18Return to Top Warner Todd Huston | October 22, 2009, 12:40 pm |
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With word that former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has endorsed conservative Doug Hoffman to fill the House seat vacated by Army Secretary John McHugh, there is a real chance the once and future Republican could score an upset, defeating GOP nominee Dede Scozzafava and Democrat ...
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Score: 8Return to Top B. Daniel Blatt | October 23, 2009, 12:25 pm |
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National Right to Work President Mark Mix is calling on Newt Gingrich to rescind his endorsement of Dede Scozzafava, the liberal candidate chosen by New York's GOP powermen for the special election for the 23rd District Congressional seat. The reason? Scozzafava is a supporter of ...
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Score: 2Return to Top Warner Todd Huston | October 31, 2009, 5:51 pm |
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In Human Events today, I talk about the effort by conservatives to back Doug Hoffman over the liberal backed by the GOP establishment. And I wonder if this isn't the beginning of something more important -- a fight not only within the GOP but AGAINST ...
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The good news about the House vote yesterday to approve PelosiCare is that the city where I was born, Cincinnati, Ohio will, come January 2001, once again have a Republican Congressman. Now that Steve Driehaus, who currently represents the Queen City, voted in favor ...
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Score: 12Return to Top B. Daniel Blatt | November 8, 2009, 4:05 am |
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Mark Kirk is denying that he's trying to angle rightward in the run up to the GOP primary next year with his recent reaching out to Governor Sarah Palin to secure her endorsement for his candidacy.
"I think I am who I am. I am a ...
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Score: 7Return to Top Warner Todd Huston | November 12, 2009, 2:42 pm |
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On November 11, I wrote of the statements that Charlie Crist made denying that he ever supported Obama's $787 billion stimulus bill in his role as Florida's Governor. Unfortunately for his obfuscation, though, I noted that he and 17 other governors signed a letter in ...
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Score: 9Return to Top Warner Todd Huston | November 18, 2009, 9:05 am |
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A few weeks ago we reported on how the Services Employees International Union was attempting to fix the vote in Sonoma County, California so that Sonoma's in-home healthcare workers would end up with SEIU representation instead of NUHW representation.
Well, Sonoma wasn't an isolated case. The ...
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Score: 3Return to Top Warner Todd Huston | November 21, 2009, 4:59 pm |
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As mentioned in the earlier post, I was invited to cover the Illinois Conservative Summit sponsored by the United Republican Fund of Illinois.
The URF is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year and is Illinois' oldest, independent, conservative GOP organization. The URF's charge is to advance ...
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Score: 0Return to Top Warner Todd Huston | September 4, 2009, 8:09 pm |
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