NY - 23: What Went Wrong And What Went Right?
riehlworldview.com 25 days ago — The subject of NY - 23 came up during a chat with Representative Bob Latta R - OH today. Along with touching on that when I profile Latta, I'll pass a bit of it along here as I felt his primary insight important. For the record, Latta considers ...

Quote of the Day: Republicans Need to Moderate Tone and Embrace Conservative Ideas
themoderatevoice.com 10/14/2009 — Our political Quote of the Day comes from conservative talk show host Michael Medved who, in a detailed column and analysis on Town Hall, argues that if the Republicans want to make their way out of the national political wilderness they need to do two things: (1)embrace conservative ideas ...

GOP figures jump ship
blog.timesunion.com 10/29/2009 — The campaign of Conservative candidate Doug Hoffman just put out a list of new endorsements from 23rd CD GOP figures. The news release includes a quote referring to GOP candidate GOP Scozzafava as a “Pelosi clone,” which makes the ...

Isn't 2009 More About the GOP?
fivethirtyeight.com 26 days ago — Perhaps it's my imagination, but there seems to be a lot of media discussion of how the results today in two governor's races and one rather bizarre House race serve somehow as a referendum on Barack Obama, the Democrats, their majority, the ...

RNC Planning Immediate Review of Its Abortion Coverage
blogs.abcnews.com 17 days ago — ABC News’ Teddy Davis reports: Ken McKay, the chief of staff of the Republican National Committee, has prepared a memo to the 27 members of the RNC’s executive committee informing them that RNC Chairman Michael Steele has called for an immediate ...

Fox News advances false GOP claim that premiums under their plan would be $5,000 lower than Dems' plan
mediamatters.org 22 days ago — In reports on Fox & Friends and America's Newsroom , Fox News advanced the false House Republican claim that "[t]he CBO estimates that health insurance premiums would be nearly $5,000 cheaper under the Republican reforms than the Democratic ...

Why Moderate Republicans Suck
themoderatevoice.com 7/23/2009 — Okay, that the above title might be a bit harsh. But even so, we Moderates really are in a world of hurt. The moderate/liberal movement in the GOP that once had the likes of Thomas Dewey and Dwight Eisenhower is barely alive these days. Some of that is due to the fact that social ...

Sunlight Foundation in the Dark
skepticians.com 10/26/2009 — The Sunlight Foundation’s Luke Rosiak reported on Friday the Republican National Committee spent $1.4 million on the redesign of GOP.com , a figure which totals more than five times what the RNC’s Democratic counterpart spent to host and maintain ...

The Associated Press: GOP chairman ends abortion insurance for employees
google.com 16 days ago — 13 hours ago WASHINGTON A chagrined GOP Chairman Michael Steele has told Republican National Committee staff to immediately stop providing RNC employees with insurance for elective abortions an option that Republicans strongly oppose as Democrats ...

Taking the model on the road
washingtonmonthly.com 27 days ago — TAKING THE MODEL ON THE ROAD.... In New York's 23rd, it was the Republican Party vs. the Republican Party's base. The party wanted a moderate candidate with a history of serving the community; the base wanted a right-wing newbie who...

Obama Urged to Find Climate Money (OneWorld.net) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 24 days ago
OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Nov 5 (OneWorld.net) - Climate analysts are calling on the Obama administration to use an international finance meeting this week to press for a swift end to subsidies for coal, oil, and natural gas companies around the world.

U.S. becomes top country brand under Obama: survey (Reuters) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 24 days ago
Reuters - Barack Obama has done it again. The president's starpower has made the United States the place most people want to visit and do business with, according to an annual survey that ranks nations like retail brands.

U.S. becomes top country brand under Obama - survey (Reuters) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 24 days ago
Reuters - Barack Obama has done it again. The president's starpower has made the United States the place most people want to visit and do business with, according to an annual survey that ranks nations like retail brands.

China blasts U.S. duties ahead of Obama visit (Reuters) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 24 days ago
Reuters - China denounced as protectionist new U.S. anti-dumping duties on steel pipes on Friday and called for Washington's swift recognition that it is a market economy, a week before a visit by U.S. President Barack Obama.

Palin May Visit Iowa as Republican Hopefuls Plant 2012 Seeds (Bloomberg) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 24 days ago
Bloomberg - Nov. 6 (Bloomberg) -- It is harvest season in Iowa. For Republicans who want to challenge President Barack Obama in 2012, though, it is time to start planting seeds.