Category: Elections & Polls

Crooked Unions Try to Take Out Bravest City Councilman in the U.S.

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

Phoenix City Councilman Sal DiCiccio, one of the most aggressively pro-freedom city councilmen, is under siege from the unions in one of the most corrupt local elections in the country. Along with a few other government officials around the country, which include Wisconsin’s Republican governor Scott Walker, he tried to reign in the out-of-control and […]

 

How Extreme Is North Carolina’s New Voter Law?

Posted on by William Teach

Since the new NC voter law, which includes requiring voter ID, shortens the number of early voting days, eliminates same day registration, and does away with straight party voting, liberals have been doing their typical freakout dance. They’re typical headline and/or article pushes the “voter suppression” and “disenfranchisement” memes. Here’s the Raleigh N&O Editorial Board […]

 

Why the RNC Chair is Right to Ditch NBC and CNN Hosting Debates

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, sent shockwaves throughout the media and both political parties last week by threatening: to pull the rights of NBC and CNN to broadcast the 2016 Republican presidential primary debates. If the networks don’t cancel their pro-Hillary Clinton TV specials, which are little more than free political ads […]

 

Reince Rising: Time to cut out those people, networks that are promoting our opponents

Posted on by Wayne Dupree

Reince Priebus, RNC Chairman slammed both networks for spending millions of dollars telling the story of someone who is very likely going to run for president in 2016. He accused CNN and NBC of “being in the business of promoting the Democratic party,” saying he’s tired of working with people “spending time and money” backing […]

 

America’s Fascination With Weiner, Spitzer

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

You can’t scan the news lately without hearing about Anthony Weiner, Eliot Spitzer, their sex scandals and attempted comebacks. Both conservative and liberal news outlets are glued to covering the two fallen politicians. Everyone wants to: psychoanalyze: the cheaters. CNN found Spitzer so interesting they gave him his own political TV show after his prostitution scandal. But […]

 

WaPost Enlisting ‘Hispanic Media’ To Attack GOP

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Greg Sargent of The Washington Post is very concerned that if the Republicans don’t rush through an amnesty bill, it might cause the “Hispanic media” to get mad at least he says so in his latest entry at The Plum Line blog. There, Sargent warns that the “GOP will get a beatdown by the Hispanic […]

 

Poll: Words Like ‘Incompetent’ and ‘Liar’ Most Used to Describe Obama

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Pew Polling firm has found an interesting change in the way President Obama is being described with the use of words like “incompetent” and “liar” on the rise. The latest Pew poll finds that one-word impressions of Obama are turning negative more often than they have in the past. Until now, Pew says, these wholly […]

 

Google Hires Obama’s Campaign E-Team

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The hand-in-hand nature of this White House and some of the nation’s biggest corporations is seen in yet another incident as Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign data team is now moving from team Obama to team Google. This week, Bloomberg reported that Obama’s data mining team, used to such great effect during his 2012 re-election for […]

 

WaPo/ABC Poll: Obama Lying About Benghazi, IRS Targeting ‘Inappropriate,’ Media Still Distrusted

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A new poll conducted jointly by The Washington Post and ABC News revealed some interesting trends. Among other findings, more Americans feel that Obama and his administration are lying about Benghazi, a majority feel that the IRS acted inappropriately by targeting conservative groups, and the media is still distrusted with a majority feeling that the […]

 

Leftist Hypocrites on Campaign Donations

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

One of the left’s biggest rallying cries against what they claim are the evils of the right was its opposition to the Citizens United Supreme Court decision that essentially opened up our political process to unlimited donations to political causes. The left claimed allowing more money into politics was evil and says the case must […]

 

America’s Sheriff, Joe Arpaio, Stands Alone Against Unions And Outsiders in Recall Effort

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Only three weeks after re-election in 2012, Sheriff Joe Arpaio was hit with a recall effort. Now, with anti-Arpaio petitions in circulation in Maricopa County, Arizona, “America’s Sheriff” is organizing his forces to oppose a recall backed by the deep pockets of the unions, millions in outside money, and a flood of non-Arizonans arriving to […]

 

Sanford and Other Toxic Republicans Need to Step Aside for Electable Republicans

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

Mark Sanford, the disgraced former governor of South Carolina, has just won the Republican nomination for an open congressional seat there. He resigned as governor four years ago, after disappearing from office for six days. It turned out he was in Argentina with his mistress, a reporter named Maria Belen Chapur. The legislature tried to […]

 

Can Marriage Be Just About ‘Love’?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Illinois’ centrist Republican Senator Mark Kirk was the latest Republican to join the crusade for gay marriage. On Tuesday morning the Senator posted a message on his website that claimed that marriage was all about love. But, is it? Does it make sense to make “love” a determining criteria to define marriage? Logic would not […]

 

All Other Problems Solved, Chicago Democrats’ New Law Worried About Dogs Behind the Wheel

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Having apparently solved all of the other debilitating problems Illinois is facing, Chicago Democrats have now turned their considered attention to making sure dog owners don’t let their puppies get behind the wheel of an automobile. This important bill (HB1581) amends the Illinois vehicle code to ban drivers from putting their pooch on their laps […]

 

Video: Phyllis Schlafly On the GOP Establishment, Karl Rove, Mitt Romney and Other ‘Losers’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

This year at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), I was fortunate enough to get some time to interview one of the most redoubtable conservative activists in the nation, Phyllis Schlafly. In this eighteen minute video you will encounter a woman that is extremely vital and at 89-years-of-age still sharp as a tack. As is […]

 

Big Three Nets Slant Overwhelmingly For Obama’s Gun Ban Campaign

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A new study of coverage by the big three networks of President Obama’s anti-gun crusade shows an overwhelmingly positive slant toward the President’s policy ideas at an 8 to 1 ratio. The study conducted by the Media Research Center reviewed coverage from December 14 to January 17, or from the day of the crime at […]

 

The Problem With Saying, “We Don’t Want Any More Candidates Like Todd Akin”

Posted on by John Hawkins

Karl Rove and his buddies at American Crossroads are gearing up to defeat conservative candidates in the GOP primaries, but of course, they don’t want to admit the truth. So Karl Rove went on Sean Hannity‘s show last night to spin what they’re doing. Karl Rove appeared on Sean Hannity‘s show tonight to defend himself […]

 

Why GOP Doesn’t Contest Massive Democrat Voter Fraud

Posted on by Dave Blount

In case you are wondering why Republicans never call Democrats on the flagrant voter fraud that appears to worsen with each presidential election, this could be one reason: In 1982, the Republican National Committee (“RNC”) and the Democratic National Committee (“DNC”) entered into a consent decree (the “Decree” or “Consent Decree”), which is national in […]

 

Obama’s Lawless Presidency

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

President Obama’s supporters love to call him the “cool” President, a “no drama” guy, and generally like to claim he is unflappable in office. Whatever the truth of that claim, there is one thing for sure: he doesn’t sweat the small stuff. Like following the law. During his four years in office this president has […]

 

Weekly Standard’s Kristol Throws Up Hands, GOP Should ‘Acquiesce’ to Obama

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

-By Warner Todd Huston William Kristol, Editor of the Weekly Standard, seems to have decided that retreat is the way forward for the Republican Party. In a new editorial that approaches a meltdown, the Fox commentator and consummate Washington insider essentially advised the GOP to just throw in the towel on these fiscal cliff talks […]

 

In Final Week Romney Coverage Increasingly Negative, MSNBC Had Zero Favorable Romney Stories

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

According to the latest study of the last week of the media’s coverage of the 2012 presidential election, Romney’s coverage turned increasingly negative. The worst example was that of MSNBC which didn’t have any positive stories about Romney’s campaign, not a single one. The study conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in […]

 

CNN Mad at Low-Voting Obama County, Not Worried Over No-Voting Romney Counties

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

CNN was gobsmacked over a county in Texas that saw an extremely low voter turnout for Barack Obama in the late elections. On the other hand the several counties in Ohio and Pennsylvania that had zero votes for Mitt Romney didn’t bother the cable Network at all. On Friday, November 16, CNN aired an “expose” […]

 

Buzz Feed Reporter Reveals Anti-Mormon Bigotry of Press Corps

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

McKay Coppins of Buzzfeed was one of the reporters in the Romney press pool during his late campaign for president. He is also a Mormon. In a long piece posted on November 14, Coppins reveals the stark anti-Mormon bigotry that his fellow members of the media openly displayed as they followed team Romney around the […]

 

NBC: Hey That Lincoln Movie Reminds Us of How Great Obama Is

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In yet another facile example of the Old Media equating President Obama’s presidency to the greatness of Abraham Lincoln’s, NBC News correspondent Kevin Tibbles used the occasion of the opening of the new Lincoln movie helmed by Director Steven Spielberg to do just that. On Saturday’s NBC Nightly News, Tibbles reported on the opening of […]

 

The Name ‘Republican’ Is Damaged Beyond Repair

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Fact: Millions of Republican voters did not come out to unseat Barack Obama. Explanation: The Republican brand has been damaged beyond repair. Solution: Is Herman Cain Right? Do we need to replace the GOP with a new party? The Republican brand has been destroyed beyond repair. This is all something we really can blame on […]

 

Newsweek: Hey, Whities, You’re Old, You’re White And You’re Finished

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Your days are done, white man. In its November issue, Newsweek and writer David Frum want you GOP whities to know that you’re old, you’re white, and you’re finished. Not only does Newsweek want white Republicans to know their salad days are over (and that they are racist, no doubt), but the aging magazine has […]