Category: Elections & Polls

Obama’s Budget: More Tax, Borrow and Spend

Posted on by Michael Fell

The White House presented its 2012 budget Monday. A $3.8 trillion proposal which includes $1.43 trillion in new taxes on households whose incomes meet or exceed $250,000 (note: this is the new “progressive” definition of millionaires and billionaires), a fourth straight year of $1 trillion-plus deficit spending (which will require yet more borrowing), and new […]

 

Cleta Mitchell: GOP Super-Lawyer

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Without question Tea Partiers are unhappy with the elites of Washington D.C. Yet Cleta Mitchell is one Washingtonian that has became a welcome addition to the campaigns of some high profile Tea Party candidates. Mrs. Mitchell, you see, is the in-demand, bulldog election law attorney that many Tea Party candidates go to when things began […]

 

West Virginia Sheriff, Clerk Snared in Vote Fraud Investigation

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A Lincoln County, West Virginia Sheriff and Clerk are to plead guilty to charges of vote fraud in the 2010 Democrat primary after the pair were arrested during an election fraud investigation conducted by state and federal authorities. Sheriff Jerry Bowman and Clerk Donald Whitten were caught in a scheme to file fraudulent absentee ballots […]

 

South Carolina Primary: Newt’s The Big Winner, Romney And Paul Losers

Posted on by William Teach

He not only pulled it out, he did so in spectacular fashion (MSNBC) Newt Gingrich has won the South Carolina Republican primary, capping off a remarkable comeback for his presidential bid that reshapes the trajectory of the battle for the GOP nomination as the race now heads to Florida and beyond. The results mark the […]

 

Are You a Conservative? Welcome to the Majority!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

There has been a lot of lament by the far left in America that the Tea Party has somehow driven the Republican Party to conservative extremes. This, however, is untrue. The truth is, the American public has been trending toward conservative views for more than a decade before the Tea Party even came about. According […]

 

No, Daily Caller, Rush Will Not Back a Candidate in the Primary

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

The Daily Caller posted an Op Ed calling on Rush Limbaugh to save the GOP by offering a clinching endorsement of one of the non-Romney candidates. The writer was full of reasons and praise for the most listened-to radio talker, but for all the importuning, Rush will never back a primary candidate. The truth is, […]

 

Dear Voters, Vote For Romney, You Idiots. Love, the Establishment GOP

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Apparently, Mitt Romney and his surrogates want you to know that you should not vote your conscience or your principles this primary election. You should vote for Mitt Romney, instead. That is the message from Romney surrogate State Senator Gary Lambert in New Hampshire, anyway. “This is not about picking your favorite, it’s not about […]

 

Yes Virginia The Internet Does NOT Replace Old Fashioned Politics

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

When Howard Dean became a surprise front runner in the Democrat primary of 2004 doing so on the basis of a strong Internet-based campaign effort, tongues began to wag that the Internet might replace old fashioned retail politics. This time ’round Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich served to get people to question the old way […]

 

Salon’s Joan Walsh: Reagan Dems Voted GOP in 1980 Because They Were Raaaaacists

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Did you know that the only reason those famed “Reagan Democrats” voted for Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984 was because they were… uh… racists? Well on the little watched Ed Show on MSNBC, Salon’s Joan Walsh assured the nation — or at least the 20 people watching — that this was the truth. Sometimes […]

 

My Video At Heart of Controversy in Florida House Race

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Apparently, a video I made in Denver is at the heart of a controversy in a race for the House of Representatives in Florida. While at Blogcon 2011 I had the opportunity to interview Karen Harrington, a Republican candidate for the 20th District House seat now held by Debbie Wasserman Schultz — who is also […]

 

VIDEO: Harrington Looking to Topple Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

I was able to take a few minutes to interview Karen Harrington, a candidate for a Florida House seat. Oh, she’s not running for just any House seat. She’s running to topple the odious Debbie Wasserman-Schultz — mouth of the Democrat National Committee. Harrington ran against Wasserman Schultz in the 20th District in 2010 and […]

 

Defeat of OH Issue 2 Means $1,468 More Per Taxpayer By 2015

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Matt Mayer of the Buckeye Institute has done the math on what a defeat of Issue 2 will cost Ohio’s taxpayers. Turns out it will cost taxpayers $1,468 more a year by 2015. Mayer made a simple calculation by taking the $8 billion tax hike that a defeat of Issue 2 will usher in by […]

 

Let the Children Vote? What Lunacy From Think Progress?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Matt Yglesias of Think Progress apparently feels it’s a good idea for kids to vote in U.S. elections. No, not just 18-year-old kids. All kids regardless of age. It is ideas impossible to take seriously like this that makes one wonder why liberals are ever listened to about anything by anyone. I have to say, […]

 

Don’t Get Rid of the Electoral College

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

Ever since Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the 2000 presidential election, there has been a major push to abandon the Electoral College system. Superficially, there is a sense that the election was unfair and everyone’s vote did not count equally.: Three or four: times in history we have elected a president who did not […]

 

Democrat Governor Beverly Perdue Calls for Suspending Elections

Posted on by Dave Blount

Even with a radical leftist in the White House, you usually have to read between the lines to understand Democrats’ end game objectives — but not with North Carolina’s moonbat governor Beverly Perdue, who offers this solution to the debt crisis our rulers have created: “I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress […]

 

CA Dem Operative Embezzles Millions in Campaign $$, Dems Go Back to Donors For More

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Imagine if you are a high dollar donor to California Democrats. Imagine you just found out that all the cash you donated was stolen by one of the state party’s top operatives. Well, if you really are a donor, you don’t have to imagine. It is real. This week Kinde Durkee, a longtime California Democrat […]

 

Recall of Senator Russell Pearce Spearheaded by Far Left

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

Some extremists are targeting my favorite Arizona legislator, Senate President Russell Pearce, because he sponsored Arizona’s illegal immigration bill SB 1070. Deep pockets on the left are funding a recall effort against him. A more liberal candidate, Jerry Lewis, has been found to run against Pearce in the recall election.:  A third candidate, Olivia Cortes, […]

 

Democrats Rather Surly Over Nevada And NY Losses, Blame Obama

Posted on by William Teach

There is no love today in Liberal Land, starting with The Politico The Democratic Party’s rare loss of a congressional seat in its urban heartland Tuesday, accompanied by a blowout defeat in a Nevada special election, marked the latest in a string of demoralizing setbacks that threatened to deepen the party’s crisis of confidence and […]

 

Red State Says: “Palin Is Not Going To Run” — But — Cited Palin Interview Actually Indicates September Or October Decision — With Video

Posted on by Pat Dollard

Excerpted from Red State: by Dan Spencer “It’s fair to them to give them an answer here, in short order, so that they can jump on board with someone else.” — Sarah Palin August 13, 2011 With those words, former Gov. Sarah Palin made it clear to me that she will not run for president […]

 

Bachmann Wins Ames Straw Poll – Breaking It All Down

Posted on by William Teach

That darned “tea-inspired” woman just keeps showing up and doing well (Washington Post) Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann scored a victory in the GOP Ames Straw Poll on Saturday, a win likely to provide her considerable momentum as the 2012 race ramps up. “What we saw happen today is this is the very first step toward […]

 

Failure: Over $14 Mil Spent on Wisc. Recall By Liberal Groups, Unions

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

As a recap on the past recall effort that just occurred in Wisconsin, a final accounting shows that liberal groups spent over $14 million to beat the six Republicans that were up for recall. They failed in four of the six attempts and in the two they won, well, it was a Pyrrhic victory to […]

 

Wow: Independent Iowa Voters Disapprove of Obama 61% to 32%

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A new poll of 500 likely Iowa voters shows that Obama has fallen to new lows in his approval rating not just among Republicans but even among the all important independents. While 52% of voters in the poll disapprove of the job Obama is doing it is even worse with independents. They disapprove of Obama […]

 

Democrat Electoral Strategy: Be the Ones Who Count the Votes

Posted on by Dave Blount

Joseph Stalin, one of the Founding Fathers of progressivism, famously said, “The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.” His ideological heir George Soros and other limousine Leninists have taken this lesson to heart. A small tax-exempt political group with ties to wealthy liberals like billionaire financier […]