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Election 2010: Arizona Senate GOP Primary

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:28:34 +0000

Senator John McCainâs future in the U.S. Senate may be a little less assured than previously thought. A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely 2010 Republican Primary voters in Arizona finds the longtime incumbent in a virtual tie with potential challenger J.D. Hayworth. McCain ...

Taegan Goddard's Political Wire found this 27 hours ago on rasmussenreports.com

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GOP Needs Six Weeks To Debate Health Care Bill That All Republicans Will Oppose

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:15:40 +0000

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) argued last Sunday that Republicans deserve at least six additional weeks to consider health care reform before letting the bill come to a vote. By Friday, his top lieutenant said the entire GOP had already made up its mind on the legislation. ...

Political Animal found this 3 hours ago on huffingtonpost.com

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PublicPolicyPolling: Acorn

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:41:00 +0000

Losing NY-23 candidate Doug Hoffman became the latest in an increasingly long line of conservative politicians to blame his problems on ACORN yesterday despite the complete lack of evidence the organization played any role in his defeat.

doubleplusundead found this 2 days ago on publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com

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Cloture vote on health care scheduled for Saturday. Also, cruel irony.

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:24:12 +0000

Today, the Senate debates. I've been watching all morning. Not sure what it says that the level of debate in my comments is a whole lot higher than in the world's greatest deliberative democracy. Either way, tomorrow, the Senate votes to break the GOP's filibuster and move forward to ... ...

The Moderate Voice found this 26 minutes ago on voices.washingtonpost.com

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Poll: Majority Of Republicans Think Obama Didn't Actually Win 2008 Election -- ACORN Stole It!

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:28:28 +0000

The new national poll from Public Policy Polling (D) has an astonishing number about paranoia among the GOP base: Republicans do not think President Obama actually won the 2008 election -- instead, ACORN stole it.

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Iowa Legislator To Join GOP Race Against Boswell

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:29:20 +0000

Iowa state Sen. Brad Zaun (R) will be joining the Republican field vying to oppose Rep. Leonard L. Boswell (D) in the Des Moines-area 3rd district. Zaun, who is serving his second four-year term in the Iowa Senate, told CQ...

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“Michele Bachmann:Going Crazy”

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:27:28 +0000

City Pages, an alternative weekly here in Minnesota has done a write-up about Michele Bachmann, who represents the Sixth District . Many people already know her from her rants on Fox News and other national media outlets, but the City Pages story starts from the beginning, when she unseated a ...

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How Sarah Palin Made Herself Indispensable While Destroying the Republican Party

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:00:45 +0000

Cross-posted with TomDispatch.com. Sarah Palin's heavily publicized book tour begins in earnest this Monday, but weeks before, her ghostwritten memoir, Going Rogue: An American Life, had already vaulted into the number one position at Amazon. Warming up for a tour that will take her across ...

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How Palin Could Win the 2012 GOP Nomination -

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:33:01 +0000

More than two years before the 2012 Iowa caucuses, presidential speculation should come with a soothsayer's money-back guarantee. But what all the discussions of Palin's future miss is the way that Republican Party rules are made-to-order for a well-funded insurgent named Sarah to sweep the ...

The Note found this 5 days ago on politicsdaily.com

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How Palin Will Help McCain

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:17:45 +0000

The new Rasmussen poll for the 2010 Arizona GOP Primary—John McCain 45%, J. D. Hayworth 43%—will generate a fair amount of buzz. But August is a long way away, and I assume that when McCain gets back to Arizona and campaigns, he’ll pull it out. Still, who could help McCain beat back a ...

Balloon Juice found this 26 hours ago on weeklystandard.com

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DCCC Outraises, Outbanks NRCC In October

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:38:00 +0000

The DCCC, like its GOP counterpart , spent more than it took in during Oct., thanks to the expensive NY-23 special election. Still, it outraised the NRCC, as the Dem cmte took in $3.8M last month. It also outspent the NRCC, shelling out nearly $4M (about $1.1M of which aided now-Rep. Bill Owens ...

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The Associated Press: "Going Rogue" is going big

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:35:51 +0000

(AP) 5 hours ago NEW YORK "Going Rogue" is going big. Publisher HarperCollins said Friday that Sarah Palin's memoir sold 300,000 copies its first day, among the best openings ever for a nonfiction book. In 2004, Bill Clinton's "My Life" debuted with sales of 400,000 copies. The year before, ...

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Poll: McCain Could Lose Primary in Arizona « The Washington Independent

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:30:50 +0000

Rasmussen Reports finds Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) clinging to a two-point lead over a possible challenger, former Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-Ariz.). Chris Simcox, the leader of the anti-illegal immigration Minuteman Project who’s already in the race, scores 4 percent. All of this puts McCain, who ...

Balloon Juice found this 26 hours ago on washingtonindependent.com

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Republicans Try To Explain Their Flip Flop As They Vote To Screw Doctors

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:19:07 +0000

The House passed this year’s annual fix to the flawed Medicare payment formula which would cut payment to physicians by 21 percent. The bill would also fix the formula so that we don’t have to keep going through this every year. The vote was primarily along party lines, with ...

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Monthly 2012 Numbers

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:55:00 +0000

Barack Obama's still leading all of his top potential opponents for 2012, but with his approval rating nationally below 50% for the first time his margins against a couple of them have dropped below what he won against John McCain last fall. For the eighth month in a row Mike Huckabee comes the ...

GOP 12 found this 23 hours ago on publicpolicypolling.blogspot.com

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Huckabee, Giuliani, Romney camps weigh in on 2012 primary calendar

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:34:00 +0000

WASHINGTON (CNN) – Representatives from some of the top 2008 GOP presidential campaigns gathered in Washington, D.C. Thursday to urge the Republican National Committee to lock in a 2012 primary calendar as early as possible to avoid the confusion that dogged the early stages of last year's nomination contest. One campaign manager took his recommendations a step further and suggested ending the traditional first-in-the-nation statuses of Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina. An RNC ...

Ben Smith's Blog found this 26 hours ago on politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

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MD-01: Harris Leads Kratovil

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:40:05 +0000

A new poll out today from '08 nominee Andy Harris ' (R) camp shows him leading Rep. Frank Kratovil (D-MD 01) 52-39% in the Eastern Shore-based CD, adding to mounting signs that the environment has shifted dramatically in the GOP's favor in the last year. Just over a year ago, Kratovil ...

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The GOP vote: Why Cao said 'yes'

Sun, 8 Nov 2009 15:16:47 +0000

Lone GOP defector Rep. Joseph Cao (La.) was among the last to make it to the House floor for votes on Saturday night.

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According to Rasmussen, John McCain’s Money is not going to buy 2010 election

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:16:33 +0000

Like it has bought the rest of them…. Senator John McCain’s future in the U.S. Senate may be a little less assured than previously thought. A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely 2010 Republican Primary voters in Arizona finds the longtime incumbent in a virtual tie with ...

Patrick Adkins posted 20 hours ago from politicalbyline.com

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ACORN Madness

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:00:00 +0000

I understand that constantly calling the Republican base batshit crazy gets old. I really do. Honest. But via TPM, check out this survey result from Public Policy Polling: 52% of Republicans now think that ACORN stole the 2008 election from John McCain. There aren't words for this. ...

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