All Posts Tagged With: "governor rick perry"
Perry Backs Romney over Abortion
Rick Perry the Governor of Texas is not worried about Mitt Romney’s reluctance to speed up legislation that restricts abortion rights. Perry said on Wednesday about his former GOP primary rival that he is confident Romney will appoint a constitutionalist to the Supreme Court. Perry said he feels the issue will ultimately be decided at [...]
One Surprise among Voters Opinions
Recent polls show that voters have for the most part, are divided consistently along familiar lines, similar to 2008. One veteran pollster said that geographics are trumped by demographics. All of the six swing states in the poll show “class inversion.” Meaning, Obama has more popularity with whites who have at least a university degree [...]
Southern Governors Do Not Want Medicaid
Texas Governor Rick Perry and Florida Governor Rick Scott both said they would not expand Medicaid coverage to more working poor, rejecting the central part of the healthcare reform law designed to give coverage to approximately 15 million additional Americans. The two governors are able to do that because last month the Supreme Court ruled [...]
Republican Hopefuls Try to Get the Hispanic Votes
Although it looks like an impossible mission, Republican hopefuls would try to get the support from the Hispanic communities as they push their campaigns in key states of New Mexico, Nevada, Colorado and Florida. Critics say that the Republicans’ campaign has an anti-Hispanic tone. Political watchers and immigrant-rights groups say that the damage has already [...]
Romney Takes Iowa Caucuses
Mitt Romney flew into New Hampshire in a Boeing 737 filled with reporters after his win in the Iowa caucuses. Rick Santorum placed second in Iowa and he would use this in his campaign to be the standard-bearer of a conservative insurgency. Romney went to a high school gymnasium to accept the endorsement of Senator [...]
Gingrich Leads Iowa Poll
Newt Gingrich became the new GOP leader in the Iowa Poll a month before the state opens the official 2012 presidential nominating season. The Republican race has been volatile so far and people are speculating whether the former House speaker can sustain his lead. Observers perceive Gingrich as the best alternative to Romney, who has [...]
Four Way Race for Republican Presidential Nominations
Heading into the Republican presidential caucuses, Iowans picked their top four candidates. Among the likely attendees of the caucuses in Iowa, Herman Cain got 20 percent, Ron Paul got 19 percent, Romney got 18 percent, and Gingrich got 17 percent. Republican voters are concerned about economic issues such as taxes, jobs and government spending. They [...]
Perry Promises Reduced Regulation and Increased Drilling
Governor Rick Perry of Texas gave out his proposals last Friday that resembles a wish list for the gas and oil industry. He promises new drilling across the United States, which includes ones in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. He also proposed the decrease of environmental regulations and the dismantling of the Environmental Protection Agency. [...]
Romney States Christie will be in his Vice President List
Mitt Romney is now the leading Republican presidential nominee and he said that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie would be part of his short list of possible running mates. That is, if he manages to win the Republican presidential nomination. The former Massachusetts governor won Christie’s endorsement and together they appeared for an interview with [...]
California Passes New Immigrant Study Law
California passed a law over the weekend that allows undocumented immigrants to apply for public financial aid for college. This would be the highest profile change in policy with regards to illegal immigrant youth since the failure of the Dream Act last year. Democratic Governor Jerry Brown signed the California Dream Act into law last [...]
As the shareholders in Germany opposes the re-election of Mr Flint as Chairman and Mr Gulliver CEO of HSBC Holdings ...
Since Obama seems to never know anything about any issue at any given time on any given subject from any ...
a one year high of $63.82? On May 15th?
What a nonsense, the shares were at $77.11!