Category: Election 2010

Obama in Negative Numbers EVEN in Illinois?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Public Policy Polling has released a poll of voters in President Obama’s home state of Illinois. shockingly it shows that Obama has a 49% disapproval rating in Illinois. The Illinois poll we’ll release this week won’t do much to change the conventional wisdom on either the Senate or Gubernatorial race in the state but it […]

 

What the GOP Pledge Reflects and Why We Need To Stand By It

Posted on by Heather Bachman

: : : : : : : : : : :  When the Pledge to America was first announced, it immediately met backlash from the other side of the aisle. President Obama began a tour dedicated specifically to breaking down the plan’s items one by one.:  While to many political strategists, this response may be seen as politics as usual, there are many holes in […]

 

Snap! Baucus Wants Probe Of Advocacy Groups

Posted on by William Teach

Obviously, Max Baucus is rather upset with the money pouring in to elections from both sides…..wait, what? The Senate’s chief tax writer has called for a federal investigation into advocacy groups that have become increasingly popular vehicles for outside donations. These groups, known as 501(c)4s after the section of the tax code that defines them, […]

 

Massive SEIU-Connected Voter Fraud Uncovered in Texas

Posted on by Dave Blount

Democrats still have one hope to stay alive at the polls — by cheating. Fortunately the Tea Party movement has awakened patriotic Americans, who are lifting rocks and shining lights into unwholesome crevices, making it more difficult for “community organizer” types to cancel our votes with phony ones. In the Houston area, Catherine Engelbrecht created […]

 

Unions: Democrat’s Own Extremists Taking The Local Parties Over?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Michael Barone, one of media’s sharpest observers of America’s political scene, has noted an interesting trend in Democrat politics: unions are knocking out regular liberal Democrats in America’s big cities. Barone calls it a civil war raging in the Democrat Party. He points to several big city campaigns in which unions rose up to defeat […]

 

Charlie Crist VIDEO: ‘I’m Not Gonna Change My Stripes’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Despite some fool with his car alarm blaring in the background, in this video it is quite clear that Charlie “Fliparoo” Crist is claiming that the voters can trust him because he’s not going to “change my stripes.” Of course, he said this not long before he “changed” his Senate run from Republican to a […]

 

Fish Wrap Exposes Democrats Negative, Personal Ads, Chides Them Gently

Posted on by William Teach

Tsk, tsk, says the NY Times, you Democrats are naughty boys and girls Democratic candidates across the country are opening a fierce offensive of negative advertisements against Republicans, using lawsuits, tax filings, reports from the Better Business Bureau and even divorce proceedings to try to discredit their opponents and save their Congressional majority. Opposition research […]

 

Senate Dems Pushing Another Big Union Payoff

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Senate Democrats, Harry Ried in the lead, are once again attempting to bestow a big payoff to unions by attempting to defeat Senate Resolution 30. This resolution would turn back a union payoff that Democrats slipped by the nation last May. A rules change made by Obama’s National Mediation Board, a federal agency that regulates […]

 

At Bargain Ticket Prices Obama Can’t Even Fill a 650 Seat Room!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Over at the left-wing Daily Beast, Gail Sheehy has a story that should make every Obamaite tremble in fear of November 2. As Sheehy reports it, in New York President Obama couldn’t even fill a room that holds 650 even though they slashed the ticket prices from $500 to $100 a person to get in. […]

 

Obama To Continue His Backyard Campaign Stops

Posted on by William Teach

At least he isn’t wearing the mom jeans President Obama is trying to reconnect with the American people, and he is using that most American of settings, the backyard, to do it. Actually, because of his policies, the most American of settings nowadays seems to be the unemployment line. Anyhow Mr. Obama emerged from the […]

 

Head of Ohio Democrat Party Drops F-Bomb on Voters

Posted on by Dave Blount

Unable to deal with the onrushing wrath of the public they’ve abused, Democrat apparatchiks are coming apart: The head of the Ohio Democratic Party is brushing off his description of Tea Partiers and other opponents of President Obama’s health care law as “f–kers,” saying he shares a penchant for blurting with Vice President Biden. “It […]

 

No, Thank You. I Don’t Want A Gender Card.

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

Conservative women neither want nor need a gender card, yet:  some seem hell-bent on forcing one upon us. It is one thing to correctly point out blatant sexism and the outright misogyny of the Left, particularly that of the so-called feminist Left. But it’s quite another to make up sexism out of whole cloth. Which […]

 

40 Days Out: Analysis Of All The Key Senate Races

Posted on by John Hawkins

As you read these run-downs, keep in mind that we have yet to reach the most crucial part of the campaign season. Over the next 40 days, the voters will be paying attention, the candidates will be spending everything left in their coffers, and you will see surprisingly rapid changes in some of these races. […]

 

Wear Your TEA Party Or American Flag Shirt To Vote!

Posted on by William Teach

Of course, most TEA Party shirts include an American Flag, so either one. See if you have the same issues as this lady A conservative group filed a federal lawsuit Monday to make sure voters get to wear their tea party T-shirts to the polls. The lawsuit stemmed from the case of Coconino County resident […]

 

SEIU Union Hack Admits that Local TV Stations Help ‘Get Our Message Across’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Daniel Bice of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel has a gem of a report wherein a union operative admits on tape that he and his union pals intend to launch a big campaign against Wisconsin’s GOP Gubernatorial candidate Scott Walker. That news isn’t much of a surprise, of course, but what is a surprise is that this […]

 

Unions Retreat on Criticism of Dems That Didn’t Support Obamacare

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Earlier in this election cycle unions were pumped up with an assumed sense of supreme power, they had spent millions to elect their guy to the White House and they were ready to flex their muscles. Unions began to direct that assumed power against Democrats that were reticent to support Obama’s takeover of our healthcare […]

 

Dan Maes, The Republican Candidate For Governor Of Colorado, Should Drop Out Of The Race

Posted on by John Hawkins

Despite the fact that I have long been a fan of Tom Tancredo, when he announced that he was going to put in a third party bid for the governorship of Colorado, I harshly criticized him: Despite the fact that he has a disturbing tendency to go over-the-top and say dumb things on occasion, I […]

 

Free Home Calling for Any Conservative Candidate/Cause

Posted on by John Hawkins

My friend Aaron Marks is a sharp, conservative tech guru. He goes to Republican events, he works with campaigns, and he really wants to see the GOP do well this year. So, he wants me to help publicize an offer he’s making — and, yes, this is legit: Our Phone From Home platform allows a […]

 

Newt Gingrich: Winning in ’10 Means Utilizing the Power of 10

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Joe Biden has been telling everyone that will listen to him that the summer of 2010 was “recovery summer.” In a way he was right, but only if we take up the banner and drive the socialists out of office in November. If we can get as many good conservatives and Republicans in office in […]

 

Al Sharpton’s Followers Call Whites ‘The Devil,’ Al Says, ‘Don’t Worry About it’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Al Sharpton is all about stopping the “hate,” isn’t he? At least that’s what he always claims. So how did he react when his own supporters started calling white people “the devil” when a BBC reporter was interviewing him several years ago? He said whites should “ignore it” and “don’t worry about it.” Not only […]

 

Two more Right Nation 2010 Videos: Andrew Breibart Confronts Lefty Protesters and Anita MonCrief Speaks

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

These are the last two videos I will have for Right Nation 2010. The first one is a compilation of lefty protesters that Andrew Breitbart confronted before the night began. The amusing thing about this video is that the protesters had no idea why they were there and could not explain the signs they were […]

 

The Top 15 Lisa Murkowski Campaign Slogans, Courtesy Of Twitter

Posted on by John Hawkins

As you have heard, after being defeated in Alaska’s Republican primary, Alaska’s most famous beneficiary of nepotism, Lisa Murkowski, has decided to run a write-in campaign. Given how the early numbers look, she may simply be trying to throw the seat to the Democrat out of spite. So, from #murkowskislogans on Twitter come the 20 […]

 

Obama Admin. May Attack TEA Partiers, Press Active Button For ObamaZombies

Posted on by William Teach

Obama advisers deny having talks about doing this, but, really, does anyone believe that an administration that has always stayed in campaign mode and has never had a problem with going after private citizens hasn’t discussed this at length? President Obama’s political advisers, looking for ways to help Democrats and alter the course of the […]

 

Tim Scott Celebrates His Birthday…And a Whole Lot More

Posted on by Susannah Fleetwood

[The above photo is of me and Tim Scott.] This past Friday evening, a party was thrown in honor of Tim Scott’s forty-fifth birthday. As many of you are already aware, Mr. Scott recently won the Republican nomination for South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District after a grueling and hard-fought race–therefore, this party was long over […]

 

Right Nation 2010: Video of Glenn Beck and Rep. Aaron Schock

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

I am working on some video form the Right Nation 2010 event. So far I have a few minutes of Glenn Beck and Illinois Representative Aaron Schock already finished. I’ll start with the beginning of Glenn Beck’s more than hour long address to the gathered. His talk was well received, chock full of humor and […]

 

Being forgiven for our past sins — or, maybe, O’Donnell has grown up

Posted on by Bookworm

I know this will come as a surprise to all of you, but I was not born wise or well informed. I blush to think of some of the behaviors in which I indulged, and the ideas that I held, when I was younger. When I was a very little girl, I picked up from […]

 

Right Nation 2010 — Anita MonCrief, John Fund, Dick Armey Speak

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

I am here today at the Right Nation 2010 conference in the western suburbs of Chicago (straight west of O’Hare Airport). This afternoon began with three speakers remarks, ACORN whistleblower Anita MonCrief, Wall Street Journal writer John Fund, and former Majority Leader Dick Armey. Anita was up first and she told us of her early […]

 

Unions Struggling to Get Members to Rally Behind Dems

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

When voters are not enthused even unions find it harder to get their supporters to rally to an election and this is one of the worst years for Democrats on record. Unions are finding their efforts hard slogging just like the rest of the Democrat Party is. It’s so bad even The New York Times […]