Category: Elections & Polls

David Obey Drops Out of Re-Election Race; Hoping for His 72 Virgins?

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

And yet another Democrat, who threw himself on the proverbial grenade by voting for the health care bill, drops out. David Obey (D-WI) is the latest health care suicide bomber to call it quits. I just hope he’s not expecting 72 virgins. This is particularly painful for the Democrats, since Obey’s name lent itself so […]

 

Why Do We Want Uninformed, Unmotivated People To Vote?

Posted on by John Hawkins

In Ridgway Colorado they’re proposing mandatory voting: Residents of this Old West- meets-New Age town can be fined if their fences are too high, they have too many chickens, their dogs aren’t on leashes or their weeds are out of control. Tom Hennessy would like to add not voting to that list. Hennessy, a popular […]

 

Does Obama Want to Destroy America? Yes, But…

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Rush Limbaugh and a few other radio hosts have made it a center piece of the attack against President Obama, the Tea Partiers have often put such sentiment on their protest signs, and the conservative chattering classes have been abuzz with the question: does Barack Obama want to destroy the United States? The only real […]

 

Republican Governors Association Video: Remember November

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

I was going to submit this without comment, because the video speaks for itself. However, it appears that the video is even more effective than I first thought. Allahpundit at Hot Air notes that Time Magazine (I know. I was surprised to learn that it’s still in:  publication, too) is already frothing at the mouth […]

 

Mitt Romney Wrote the Obamacare Book

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It looks like Mitt Romney is trying to be the GOP front runner for 2012. But he is one of the main influences for Obama’s socialist takeover of America’s healthcare system. Watch this video and remind yourself why we need to eliminate Mitt Romney from any possibility for being the GOP nominee for President in […]

 

Partying Like It’s 1994–Or 1946?

Posted on by Ed Driscoll

Restoring the economic growth of 1994 through 2006 and ending “The Great Recession” — an economy being dragged to a sclerotic halt by “the New New Deal” and its myriad of wasteful spending and top-down government controls, can and should be one of the goals of the next Congress, if indeed, the map is painted red in November.

 

Indiana Right to Life Realizes No Such Thing As a Pro-Life Democrat

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

Indiana Right to Life PAC just announced that they are now barring the endorsement of Democratic candidates. “Our leadership anguished over this decision,” notes IRTL-PAC chairman Mike Fichter. “Had Democrats like Brad Ellsworth held firm in opposing federal funding for abortion in the health care bill, we likely would have rewarded such action with a […]

 

NOW is Racist and Sight-ist; Call for Governor Paterson to Resign

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

The increasingly irrelevant National Organization for Women has finally issued a statement regarding New York’s Governor Paterson and his involvement in intimidation and witness tampering. Allegedly. ALBANY, N.Y. – The National Organization for Women on Tuesday urged New York Gov. David Paterson to resign because of a report he directed two staffers to contact a […]

 

Obama Already Planning 2012 Election Campaign

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

I know, hard to believe, right? And by hard to believe, I mean totally believable and obvious to anyone without their head up their own behind. If anyone is shocked by the fact that Obama is already focusing on his 2012 re-election campaign, they may as well give up now. The man has never stopped […]

 

Ron Paul Won CPAC’s Presidential Straw Poll: What Does It Mean?

Posted on by John Hawkins

There has been a lot of talk about Ron Paul’s straw poll win at CPAC. Here’s how it broke down: Ron Paul 31% Mitt Romney 22% Sarah Palin 7% Tim Pawlenty 6% Mike Pence 5% Newt Gingrich 4% Mike Huckabee 4% Mitch Daniels 2% John Thune 2% Rick Santorum 2% Haley Barbour 1% First off, […]

 

Young Republicans 2010 book me?

Posted on by Sharise Parviz

Conservative New Media booked (me) “Sharise Parviz” – to speak at the 2010 Young Republican Annual Convention; February 19-21st – Santa Clara, California. – seems they want me to make a Conservative impression on the upcoming next generation of the Republican Party! Come join me for a grand ol’ round up! Speakers include: Brad Goehring, […]

 

Is Sarah Palin Running For President? It Sure Looks Like It.

Posted on by John Hawkins

Of course, it’s impossible to say for sure what Sarah Palin is going to do in 2012, but it’s hard to miss the fact that she seems to be laying the groundwork for a run at the presidency. Consider the facts. * She probably needed to be heavily involved in national political issues and campaigns […]

 

Chgo Trib: Who Will Smack Down the Unions?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Dennis Byrne, a columnist with the Chicago Tribune, has a great piece asking the seminal question: what politician will take on the public employees unions? This is, of course, the question we’ve been asking here for years! Who will stop these union thugs that have bought for themselves a bevy of compliant politicians at the […]

 

In SCOTUS McCain-Feingold Decision, People Miss The Best Way To Reduce Monetary Influence In Elections

Posted on by William Teach

If you haven’t heard about the SCOTUS decision, here’s a little recap Overruling two important precedents about the First Amendment rights of corporations, a bitterly divided Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the government may not ban political spending by corporations in candidate elections. The 5-to-4 decision was a vindication, the majority said, of the […]

 

McDonnell And Christie Say All The Right Things During Their Inaugurations

Posted on by William Teach

There was another big to do going on Tuesday, overshadowed by the special election in Massachusetts. The only thing I am going to say about that election is that Coakley lost because for three reasons. First, she ran a terrible campaign. She simply assumed that she would win the seat, and when push came to […]

 

The Scott Brown Election Is A Referendum On The Establishment

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

“This is YOUR seat.” — Senator Scott Brown Lest the Republicans get too smug as they look toward the 2010 midterms, I’d suggest a strong dash of humility. The Democrats seem incapable of humility so I’ll spare my breath. Scott Brown ran against Obamacare, yes. He ran against stupid DOJ policies toward terrorists, yes. Most […]

 

Well, What Do You Know, Al Franken’s Vote Getter Marc Elias Has Set Up Shop In Massachusetts

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Just great. Dan Riehl reports: Coakley attorney Marc Elias speaking now, claiming spoiled ballots … Elias is Al Franken’s former campaign attorney. Yep. Meanwhile, Mary Katherine Hamm has this screen grab from Coakley’s campaign yesterday, claiming fraud yesterday:

 

OUTRAGE: Boston Globe Calls The Election For Coakley Hours Ahead Of Time, OOPS!

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

My friend Eric at Funhouseus catches the Boston Globe reporting results in Massachusetts before they’re counted. It’s all a big mistake: [Associated Press] was testing an election data feed to its Massachusetts clients. During corresponding tests at our end, the feed of AP’s hypothetical test data was inadvertently posted for a few minutes on a […]

 

How A Brown Win Could Help The Economy

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

The economy stinks. It’s not getting better. The recovery is being hampered by mixed messages and downright hostility toward the private sector. Business owners have been holding. They haven’t upped production. If business is good, they’ve cautiously hired, if at all. If business is fair, they’ve resisted increasing overhead for fear they’ll need the extra […]

 

Scott Brown V. Martha Coakley: It Ain’t Over ‘Til It’s Over

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Come on people! This election is by no means in the bag. In fact, it’s so far out of the bag, that I’m feeling a wee bit queasy about what I’m seeing on Twitter already. This is a special election in an overwhelmingly Democrat state. People there actually liked Ted Kennedy–you know, the guy never […]

 

Podcast 80: Talking Scott Brown With Failed Prognosticator John Hawkins And Women In The GOP With RNC Co-Chair Jan Larimer

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

Actually, John is usually right about his predictions and I am usually wrong. We’ll see. Listen to see who says what. We argue, as usual. In the second half, Republican National Committee Co-Chair Jan Larimer talks to me about how Republicans treat women, the outlook for 2010 and candidate recruitment. John Hawkins joins Melissa to […]

 

Something To Warm Your Heart Before The Scott Brown And What’s Her Name Special Election

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

A profoundly distressed Andrew Sullivan: I can see no alternative scenario but a huge – staggeringly huge – victory for the FNC/RNC machine tomorrow. They crafted a strategy of total oppositionism to anything Obama proposed a year ago. Remember they gave him zero votes on even the stimulus in his first weeks. They saw health […]

 

MSNBC Urges Dems to Cheat in Massachusetts

Posted on by Dave Blount

Democrats are widely expect to cheat to hold onto the contested Senate seat in Massachusetts — and their strident supporters at MSNBC are egging them on. Here goes Ed Schultz of comrade Obama’s favorite network: If I lived in Massachusetts, I’d try to vote ten times. I don’t know if they’d let me or not, […]

 

Martha Coakley? More Like Martha Choke-ly.

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

I was going to say Croak-ley, as that is what her senate campaign is doing, but I assumed that liberals would start screeching about how Republicans “want people to die” and stuff. Sheesh, for such an allegedly cosmopolitan, open-minded bunch, they sure do get their lattes in a foamy tizzy an awful lot. Polling data, […]

 

Corrupt Politics in Cook County Illinois, Some History

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Everyone is always talking about how corrupt Illinois politics is. Well, it’s been that way since day one. Since I live here (I’ll take your condolences) I thought I’d give a brief history of Cook County, the home of the City of Chicago. There is a saying about Chicago’s weather: if you don’t like the […]

 

Ed Schultz Incites People to Commit Voter Fraud in MA Election

Posted on by Lori Ziganto

Democracy? We don’t need no stinkin’ Democracy! So says Ed Schultz of MSNBC as he calls for people to cheat in the election in order to “keep these bastards out”. Radio Equalizer has the transcript from Ed Schultz’s radio show yesterday where he proposed “voting 10 times” in Massachusetts. The key quote follows below: SCHULTZ […]

 

Coakley May Not Have to Win to Win

Posted on by Dave Blount

Scott Brown beating Martha Coakley at the polls won’t necessarily mean it’s over for the Dems. After all, appealing to voters has been rejected as an electoral strategy in favor of cheating — and the Massachusetts Secretary of State Bill Galvin has a history of playing games with absentee ballots: In 2008 [Galvin] was found […]

 

Top 15 Observations About the Massachusetts Senate race

Posted on by Jaz McKay

According to blogger Greg Sargent, Martha Coakley’s campaign has sent a frantic last minute memo to top Democratic donors urging them to shell out the Benjamin’s because an internal poll shows the race to be “very tight.” The memo is the latest sign that the campaign surge of Scott Brown has caught the Democrat establishment […]

 

BREAKING: Brown Ahead By Four!–UPDATED A Miracle Coming?

Posted on by Melissa Clouthier

I so want this to happen, I’m afraid a poll like this is just to get Democrats off their duffs to vote. New reports on the Brown-Coakley race: Riding a wave of opposition to Democratic health-care reform, GOP upstart Scott Brown is leading in the U.S. Senate race, raising the odds of a historic upset […]