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(AP) LAS VEGASTroopers say Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has been taken to the hospital in an ambulance after what appears to be a rear-end crash on an interstate through Las Vegas. Nevada Highway Patrol Office spokesman Jeremie Elliott says he

I’m not addressing those of you who would vote for Obama regardless. I’m not talking to those of you who think Obama’s grown the economy, that he’s strong on national security, or that he’s been good for Israel. If you

This morning, Gallup released a bombshell survey of likely voters this November. It wasn’t a horse race poll, i.e. which candidate is ahead, but rather a look at the underlying demographics that will make up the electorate this November. They

The Associated Press reports that the Romney/Ryan campaign is running its first advertisements in Minnesota this weekend. The Obama campaign has apparently dismissed the move as a tactic designed to create media coverage. However, the gossip among political pundits for

In an interview on Thursday, Democratic Senate candidate Chris Murphy (D-WFP), said, “I represent my state, I don’t represent my party.” Murphy, however, who is locked in a tight race in Connecticut against GOP candidate Linda McMahon, votes with his

With eleven days to go until the 2012 election, it is beginning to seem likely that Mitt Romney has a strong chance of winning the popular vote, but that the electoral college will be a more difficult challenge. Likewise, the

Update: Kyle Wood, who originally told the Daily Caller he was brutally beaten at his home in a politically motivated attack, because he is a gay republican, has recanted his story. A city of Madison police report now shows the statements wood

U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin, candidate for U.S. Senate in Wisconsin, defended her refusal to condemn Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for questioning the Holocaust and advocating the destruction of the state of Israel, in an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Baldwin

So much for Barack Obama’s nastiness about Mitt Romney’s career in developing private equity. It turns out in his ascent to power Obama was not shy about extolling the virtues of private equity if it served his purpose. When he

Small business owners have known since ObamaCare’s passage that the law’s employer mandate requires any business with 50 or more full-time employees to provide at least the minimum level of government-defined health insurance coverage to those employees.  However, a little-known

White House press secretary Jay Carney on Tuesday said Republicans in the House should “do a little work,” even though the White House has been repeatedly late with its budget proposals and Senate Democrats have not passed a budget in

We all know that “politics ain’t beanbag,” and perhaps in no setting is that made clearer than in the presidential and vice presidential debates.  Public debates on the issues are a hallmark of representative government, and, as we saw in

Aside from the economy, the biggest issue on voters’ minds this year is federal spending and the deficit. Voters across the political spectrum understand that the federal government can’t keep racking up charges on future generations’ credit cards. Which makes

The Democrat running against Republican Jeff Flake for Arizona’s senate seat once said obesity would inflict more harm on the nation than the terrorist attacks of 9/11.  At a 2010 lecture at the University of South Carolina, Arizona Senate candidate

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid called himself a “one-man wrecking crew” on Monday, bragging that he was challenging Mitt Romney on releasing his tax returns as he attempted to rev up a crowd to support Democratic Rep. Shelley Berkley and

Senate candidate George Allen released a television ad Wednesday criticizing his Democratic opponent Tim Kaine for supporting Obama and his planned defense cuts. The ad came less than 48 hours after President Obama declared in the third presidential debate that he

In a Newsweek article titled, “President Obama’s Executive Power Grab,” writers Andrew Romano and Daniel Klaidman write about the “Obama power play that could forever change the way Washington works” and how American could see more of it during a second term.  After

Michelle Obama wrote a letter in 2004 endorsing partial-birth abortions, a heinous procedure that involves removing an unborn baby during the latter stages of the second trimester or early stages of the third trimester and crushing the back of her head with

Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ), who traveled to Connecticut on Monday to campaign with GOP U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon, described McMahon’s opponent, Congressman Chris Murphy (D), as “Nancy Pelosi’s butler.” “Linda’s whole life’s been about doing things, about creating wealth

President Obama’s gaffe in Monday’s debate when he told voters in the Norfolk area, home to the largest naval base in the country, that his second term plan is to further diminish the role of our Navy, isn’t his only