Tag: Senate

Republicans will feature five prominent Hispanics — Govs. Susana Martinez (NM), Brian Sandoval (NV), Luis Fortuno (Puerto Rico), Sen. Marco Rubio (FL), and Senate candidate Ted Cruz (TX) — in their national convention’s primetime lineup.  Yet, the mainstream media continues

Barack Obama has made a career out of posing as a moderate when, in fact, he is an extremist. And no issue makes that clearer than his agenda to kill the unborn. As Rich Lowry cogently points out, when the

The video below says it all — Chicago comes to Massachusetts: – – “You’re messing with the wrong people!” Is this a U.S. Senate campaign or an outtake from “The Sopranos?” Well, the Obama White House did tell its supporters

There was a time that Charlie Crist was considered a rising star in the Republican party. He had won the governor’s office in Florida in 2006, an otherwise lousy year for the GOP. He was fairly popular with the voters

A new Missouri poll indicates Rep. Todd Akin’s rape remarks have not hurt Mitt Romney in Missouri, but the comments about “legitimate rape” and the controversy that ensued have damaged Akin, especially among women voters.  The St. Louis Post-Dispatch poll

According to today’s Columbus Dispatch, both the presidential race between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama and the Senate race between incumbent Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and State Treasurer Josh Mandel are tight in Ohio. Actually, says the Dispatch, those races are

Embattled Missouri Republican Senate nominee Todd Akin announced in a press conference late Friday afternoon that he will remain in the Senate race despite calls from some Republican leaders and conservative commentators that he step down.  Akin recently caused a

Polls in the U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts confirm that incumbent Republican Scott Brown has built a significant lead over Democrat challenger Elizabeth Warren. The liberal Public Policy Polling group shocked the left with a poll showing Brown up by

Fringe environmentalists are dictating to the federal government and 34 states what materials can be included in the construction government buildings. And it should come as no surprise that ideology, not science, informed the movement. The Leadership in Energy and

Fox News Latino reports that a Republican platform committee has approved a strong immigration policy: The platform stance on immigration is the brainchild of Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, the chief architect of the country’s most controversial state immigration

Naomi Rivera, a 49-year-old Democratic assemblywoman from the Bronx, likes to give her boy-toys more than just pleasure; she gets them good-paying jobs for which they are unqualified, too. Now the FBI, the state attorney general, the Bronx DA and

Late this afternoon, Drudge flashed a “developing” headline that embattled Missouri Republican Senate nominee Todd Akin (R-Mo) would hold a hastily-called press conference. As speculation mounted in some corners that Akin might announce his withdrawal from the race, others cautioned

Today, Rasmussen Reports has released a presidential poll run in Missouri on August 22.  The poll indicates alarming movement in the Obama/Romney horse race resulting from MO’s GOP senate nominee Todd Akin’s controversial remarks. Clearly, there has been collateral damage.

This morning, Rasmussen released its latest poll of the presidential race in Missouri. The poll of likely voters was conducted Wednesday, after the fallout of Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin’s gaffe on rape and abortion. The poll found Obama with

So much for the myth that Democrats are the political party for the little guy. Calling it “unbelieveable,” a fund raising appeal from Republican Sean Bielat highlights a Hyannis Port fund raiser for fledgling politician Joe Kennedy III, featuring former House

Toni Preckwinkle, an Obama ally and mentor and Cook County, Illinois Board President, said on Tuesday President Ronald Reagan deserved a “special place in hell” for “making drug use political.”  “What? You didn’t like that?” Preckwinkle said after members of the

Sources say that GOP candidate Rep. Todd Akin will leave the Council for National Policy conference confident about his decision to stay in the Missouri Senate race.  The conference hosts top conservatives annually, many of whom have encouraged Akin to

A Wednesday Rasmussen survey of 500 likely voters in deep blue Connecticut found that former WWE executive Linda McMahon (R) is three points ahead of Chris Murphy (D) in the state’s race to fill the Senate seat of retiring Sen.

President Clinton believed abortion should be “safe, rare; and legal.” But Clinton also believed in a work requirement in his welfare reform bill. President Obama apparently disagrees on both counts. After unilaterally allowing states to waive the central pillar of

Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren’s campaign took an odd turn yesterday when it launched a radio ad campaign that attacked Republican Missouri Senate candidate Todd Akin for his recent gaffe.  In the ad, Warren fails to mention Scott Brown,

Republicans have joined Democrats in Congress to give President Obama even more power to appoint officials to Cabinet positions without seeking approval from the Senate.  Obama signed the Presidential Appointment Efficiency and Streamlining Act of 2011 while Paul Ryan’s selection

The Obama campaign, its surrogates, and its media allies are accusing Republican Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan of having tried to “redefine rape”–but it was President Barack Obama himself who redefined rape in January 2012, expanding the official federal definition

It was the gaffe heard-round the political world. In an interview with a local St. Louis public affairs show aired Sunday, Senate candidate Rep. Todd Akin gave an absurd and, to many, offensive answer to the question of an abortion

Back on July 17, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) revealed the Democrats’ agenda for the economy: inflation. “Despite two false starts, we’re having a much rougher time than we ever imagined getting unemployment down,” Schumer told the Senate Banking Committee. “So