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Shock: Romney Fundraising Blows Past Obama

Shock: Romney Fundraising Blows Past Obama

Obama’s terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad week just got a little worse. This morning, the Obama campaign announced that it and the DNC had raised a whopping $60 million in May, outpacing their disappointing numbers in April. Hours later, though,

Losing faith in Democrats' religious outreach

Losing faith in Democrats' religious outreach

(AP) Losing faith in Democrats’ religious outreachBy RACHEL ZOLLAP Religion WriterWASHINGTON In 2008, Barack Obama took aim at the “pew gap,” the overwhelming Republican edge among voters who regularly attend church. The Democratic presidential nominee came nowhere near closing it,

Poll: Only Three in Ten Women Believe 'War on Women' Exists

Poll: Only Three in Ten Women Believe 'War on Women' Exists

The Democrats’ “war on women” mantra has been around for months, but anew poll suggests it’s not making much of an impact. The pollby the Kaiser Family Foundation found that just 31% of women believe in a “wide-scale” effort to limitreproductive

Obama Team Worries over Campaign Cash Flow

Obama Team Worries over Campaign Cash Flow

New York magazine just published a hefty pieceby John Heilemann giving a behind-the-scenes look at the comingelection from the point of view of the Obama campaign. The O-team isconfident they’ll win, we’re told, and yet Heilemann conveys a realsense of

The President's Public Equity Record

The President's Public Equity Record

President Obama and his campaign leadership have been consistently focusing their attacks on Mitt Romney’s record at Bain Capital, a firm with some dealings in private equity. This should come as no great surprise given that Romney has made his private sector

Wisconsin's Recall Movement Sputters

Wisconsin's Recall Movement Sputters

Time Magazine recently wrote on the sputtering and splintering “recall Walker” labor movement in Wisconsin but left out the reason why the recall movement has lost steam: you can’t protest success that saved teacher jobs. … the campaign to recall

MoveOn: DNC Pulling Out of Wisconsin Recall

MoveOn: DNC Pulling Out of Wisconsin Recall

Bad economic data aside, 2012 may just shape up to be the best year ever for conservatives. Since last week, I have reported that the Wisconsin Recall election is moving firmly in Scott Walker’s direction. Big Labor’s preferred candidate, Kathleen

LightSquared Files for Chapter 11

LightSquared Files for Chapter 11

In February of 2005, Barack Obama  invested more than $50,000 in a company called SkyTerra, later known as the wireless networking company LightSquared.  According to the New York Times, Skyterra’s principal backers included four of Obama’s “friends and donors who had

Chris Matthews To Black Bishop: 'I Hope You Evolve'

Chris Matthews To Black Bishop: 'I Hope You Evolve'

Newsbusters caught Chris Matthews telling Bishop Harry Jackson “I hope you evolve” while talking gay marriage. He then giggled and said disingenuously, “I’m just teasing.”  I asked earlier when the left was going to turn on the black community for questioning

Obama Campaign Pleads Poverty

Obama Campaign Pleads Poverty

The Obama campaign is pleading poverty. Really. In an email to prospective supporters, Jim Messina directs recipients to a donation website. The upper right side of the page shows an ad for Obama, while underneath the text reads: “We know

Boehner Smacks Down DNC Talking Point As 'Nonsense'

Boehner Smacks Down DNC Talking Point As 'Nonsense'

Boehner harshly responded to the DNC talking point that CNN’s Candy Crowley made when she claimed that the Republicans were threatening women’s health by their changes to the student loan bill. “That is just nonsense,” Boehner explained and added that

DNC Demands Romney Repudiate Rocker Nugent's Remarks

DNC Demands Romney Repudiate Rocker Nugent's Remarks

Call it a case of “Cat Scratch Fever” run amok. Fiercely conservative rocker Ted Nugent rhetorically blasted President Obama this week, calling his administration “vile,” “evil” and “anti-American.” And he was just getting warmed up. Now, the Democratic National Committee wants

Far-Left Politico Cartoonist Wins Pulitzer

Far-Left Politico Cartoonist Wins Pulitzer

The Pulitzer Prize winners were announced today, and both Huffington Post and Politico won an award. The HuffPo award went to David Wood for his months-long series on wounded soldiers. The Politico award went to cartoonist Matt Wueker for “his

Rosen Apologizes … Then Triples Down

Rosen Apologizes … Then Triples Down

Amid a massive backlash from the American public and a stampeding retreat from her supporters, Democratic National Committee adviser Hilary Rosen backtracked from her words about Ann Romney last night on CNN, stating a few moments ago, “As a pundit,