2012 campaign
"Barack Obama won the great tax-cut showdown of 2010..."
"... and House Democrats don't have a clue that he did." Well, maybe they do and they just don't like him getting all the winner…
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2012 campaign
"Romney holds large lead in Nevada."
"With 9% of the results in, Romney had about 45% of the vote while former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Rep. Ron Paul of Texas were tied far b…
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2012 campaign
"Sarah Palin is launching a nationwide bus tour starting Sunday in Washington..."
"... Palin will also be stopping at other spots of symbolic national significance on the East Coast, including the Civil War battlefields at Get…
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2012 campaign
"Conservatives need to stop playing by the rules set by the left. With creativity and a little innovation, we can redefine the debate on our terms."
Writes Scott Walker, in his new book, which, we are told, criticizes Mitt Romney. Walker writes that Republicans in 2012 didn't run on their prin…
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2012 campaign
What are the chances that someone not currently running will win the GOP nomination?
Nate Silver analyzes it and finds "a small but nontrivial chance that the Republican nominee could be someone like Jeb Bush, Paul Ryan, Mitch Da…
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2012 campaign
"What is the biggest secret you were told and asked not to repeat?"/"That it’s not a surreal practical joke..."
"... Those Republican presidential candidates you see lined up for their debates are actually the best minds the G.O.P. has to offer."
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2012 campaign
Sarah Palin is the frontrunner for 2012.
Say the odds-makers. Hot Air comments: Barring a catastrophic first term, The One will be heavily favored for reelection, leading young’uns like Jind…
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2012 campaign
Did you realize there was another GOP debate last night?
I didn't! But here , you can watch the whole thing — which took place on the Fox News "Huckabee" show. Romney, Bachmann, Gingrich, San…
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2012 campaign
"A second Obama term could kill the Second Amendment."
Says James Taranto , inviting Obamans to make gun control a big campaign issue. The Supreme Court's recent cases finding an individual right to b…
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2012 campaign
"The white margin to watch: 61-39. That’s the rough break-even point."
"Obama likely needs more than 39 percent of whites to assure re-election. Romney likely needs at least 61 percent of whites to assure Obama’s de…
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2012 campaign
"John Bolton eyes 2012 presidential run."
Shouldn't that be John Bolton mustaches 2012 presidential run ?
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2012 campaign
"Dear Patriot: It's Now or Never for Conservative voters."
I get email from Rick Santorum, who ran even with Mitt Romney in last night's Iowa Caucuses (or do you want to say he lost, when he "lost&qu…
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2012 campaign
Gingrich and Perry fail to make it onto the primary ballot in Virginia.
What a screwup! You have to get 10,000 signatures.... Perry’s campaign told state election officials it had submitted 11,911 signatures, and Gingrich…
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2012 campaign
Bloomberg polling has Obama 13 points ahead of Romney.
"Can that possibly be true?" The firm that conducted the Bloomberg survey, Selzer & Co., is well regarded by polling experts. The margi…
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2012 campaign
Santorumentum.
"Rick Santorum had a breakthrough night on Tuesday by winning the Missouri primary and making strong showings in the Minnesota and Colorado cauc…
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2012 campaign
"The question for many Republicans is whether Ms. Palin is rewriting the rules of what it takes to run for president in an age of Facebook and Twitter..."
"... a world where, perhaps, there are no early visits to Iowa and New Hampshire, no need for policy speeches or press interviews – or whether t…
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2012 campaign
Romney tops Obama in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
WaPo reports Romney ahead 49% to 46%, among registered voters. (Among all Americans, the 2 men are tied at 47%.) Obama is ahead of the other 5 Repub…
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2012 campaign
The GOP race "is just a mess."
Jonah Goldberg finds "the prospect of any of them becoming the nominee worrisome and hard to imagine": The lamentations of Team Romney coun…
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2012 campaign
"John Bolton eyes 2012 presidential run."
Shouldn't that be John Bolton mustaches 2012 presidential run ?
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2012 campaign
Perry's in: "I full well believe I’m going to win.”
Good! I liked this piece about him in the UK Telegraph, by Toby Harnden: The cotton fields at Paint Creek are empty this year because of the fearsom…
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