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The AP notes today that President Obama is calling for an elimination of the debt ceiling, in part because of the leverage it gives Republicans to push for spending cuts and deficit reduction.   “Speaking to corporate executives [yesterday], Obama set down a hard line: ‘If Congress in any way suggests that they’re going to tie [...]

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In the following polls, I have graphed the skew – shown in green – and the Obama lead – shown in purple for all of the polls averaged at Real Clear Politics as of this morning. Rasmussen is showing a 1 point Romney lead for their final tally, but they have yet to post the [...]

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The data and charts are posted here on Political Poll Check. The Short Version: After a few weeks of collecting and compiling data for Political Poll Check, we finally saw our first poll come in for a second time around (since we began collecting data). This gives us the first opportunity to compare the same [...]

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Yesterday  Thomas  Hurt  (  Washington  Times )  answered   what  impact  the  TEA  Party  would  have  on  the  upcoming  elections.    Mr.  Hurt  was  not  denigrating  us  when  he  referred  to  the  movement  as  the  “Rodney  Dangerfield”  of   politics.  He  was   making  the  point  that  in  spite  of   the  number  that  identify  themselves  as   supporters  of  the  [...]

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Primaries are about momentum. Once it becomes inevitable, or nearly so, the voters begin lining up behind the winner. And that looks to be what is happening in Pennsylvania, Rick Santorum’s home state. Mitt Romney now leads in Pennsylvania by 5 points – 42% to 37% according to a new PPP poll. The only candidate [...]

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Last night, Hollywood once again took the opportunity to pat themselves on the back with awards. Normally, I don’t bother with tripe like that. But last night, a Silent Movie, “The Artist” took home the Best Picture award marking the first time in 83 years that a silent film won an Oscar in the category. [...]

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I was very disappointed in the showing in Iowa.  It was abetted by the apparent early signs of victory on some of the cable shows.  I could see that Paul was falling behind both Romney and Santorum (who repeated the lie that RP says the US invited the 9/11 attacks in a debate) and I [...]

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The world now knows that Rep. Michele Bachmann won the Ames Straw Poll by less than 200 votes over Rep. Ron Paul (4823 to 4671 – it was less than one percent) and it is awful to lose.  I hope this does not affect momentum (I was disappointed that former Senator Santorum was gloating over [...]

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Presidential Candidate Cong. Ron Paul came to Davenport (on the Mississippi River), IA and spoke to a packed crowd according to this report from the Paul campaign and the local TV station! I would say momentum is moving toward Paul this week.  The debt was downgraded, terrible casualties in Afghanistan, and a sense that politics [...]

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This BBC report told me what I feared:  UKIP did not do well in the local elections. The UK Independence Party (UKIP) has rejected calls by one of its MEPs for leader Nigel Farage to stand down after it failed to make a breakthrough in English council elections. The party made no net gains despite [...]

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… as soon as tomorrow! The momentum is really picking up to stop this law.  The Republican controlled house passed H.R. 2. just a few weeks into the 112th congress.  Yesterday, Federal Judge Roger Vinson became the second federal judge to rule Obamacare as unconstitutional.   In the U.S. Senate, Sen Jim DeMint was able to [...]

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Virginia Right! has endorsed Congressman Eric Cantor for reelection in the 7th Congressional House race, but there is one other race in the Central Virginia area where we are (mostly) based. Fellow Va Right blogger Michelle has noted Chuck Smith Gains Endorsments and Momentum and Sandy has opined that A SOLID CHOICE in the THIRD [...]

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Tuesday could turn out to be a much larger landslide than we could possible imagine. I have not seen Read the full story