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Republican Indirectly Hurt Democrats with its Attack on Union

The Republican attacks on Wisconsin might not only curtail the rights of the union members but it could also cost the reelection of President Barack Obama. Unions are one of the largest supporters and source of financial donations of the Democrats. This is one of the reasons why Republicans are targeting them. It is clear that the Republican agenda is to hurt the unions after their success in the mid-term... 

Colorado Poll Shows President Obama leads Romney, Huckabee, Palin

A recent poll in Colorado run by the Public Policy Polling (PPP) has results that put President Barack Obama in a very good spot as we head into the 2012 election cycle. The poll results put President Obama ahead with a 51 percent approval rating, and a 45 percent disapproval rating in the states that don’t approve of his performance. This is a much better showing than in a previous poll by PPP which... 

Republicans Break Their Promises to Cut Budget

Republicans promised that they will cut the budget by at least $100 billion. Looks like this promise will be broken when the republicans pledged that they will cut $32 billion from agency budgets. That’s less that 1 percent of the total Federal budget of $3.5 trillion. Even this small amount of budget cut, Democrats are already up in arms saying that a lot of critical government services would be... 

President Obama Rebounds from Republican Midterms Win

President Obama gets back his political momentum just less than three months after the Republicans won majority of the seats at the midterm election. Several polls show that the president’s approval rating is at 50 percent or above. Political analysts attribute Obama’s rebound to his likable personality. People are disappointed with some of his administration’s policies but they don’t dislike... 

Things Reince Priebus Needs to Do

Reince Piebus took the rein of the Republican National Committee last Friday, taking over Michael Steele who had the position for the past two years. Now he needs to get down to business and accomplish things before the 2012 elections. Priebus needs to increase the funds of the Republican Party. The drop in fundraising for the RNC is one of the main reasons why Priebus won. The RNC usually collect... 

Ted Gaines to Replace Late State Sen. Dave Cox

Ted Gaines, Republican Assemblyman, became the winner of a special election, which was held on Tuesday. It was necessary to conduct this runoff election as no candidate had got more than 50 percent of the vote back in November. Gaines won 63 percent, while his opponent Democrat Ken Cooley had 37 percent. The latter was the only Democrat in a primary campaign. Both candidates became the top vote-getters... 

President Obama’s approval rating steady at 45 percent despite election setbacks

Results from a brand new Internet poll show that President Obama’s approval rating is at 45 percent and remaining steady despite election setbacks. Most Democrats are still in approval of the President’s job performance, and the general public also has a good opinion of him, even though the poll also shows they think the economy is not improving fast enough. Top of Form The President’s approval... 

Obama Gets the Worst Performance Rating

Harris Poll recently conducted a survey among Americans asking how the current president performs from their POV. Unfortunately, about 61 percent of the respondents think that President Obama is not doing his job pretty well. On the other hand, those who gave him a positive rate belong to the rest of the 39 percent. When Barack Obama started sitting at the White House, he addressed issues about... 

The Straw Poll Won by Mitt Romney

On Saturday, the straw poll was won by Mitt Romney at the Southern Republican Leadership that can be considered as a sign of the former Massachusetts governor’s power as a presidential candidate in 2012. Just a single vote helped Romney triumph over Ron Paul, taking second place 439 votes to 438. Both of them men won 24 percent. With 18 percent of the vote each, Sarah Palin together with Newt Gingrich...