Listen to FFC Chairman Ralph Reed being interviewed on Jay Sekulow Live by Jordan Sekulow

By Steve Schale
Charlie Crist will not be Florida’s next United States Senator.

Marco Rubio

In a year where most predictions are downright silly, I am very confident in that one. When Kendrick Meek won last Tuesday, with his victory went Charlie Crist’s chances. Democrats who want to beat Marco Rubio should jump on [...]

Democratic Governor Ted Strickland still trails his Republican challenger, John Kasich, by eight points in his bid for reelection in Ohio.

John Kasich

The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters shows Kasich picking up 47% support while Strickland draws the vote from 39%. Seven percent (7%) prefer another candidate in the race while [...]

By David Catanese
Florida Gov. Charlie Crist will get a late fundraising burst for his independent Senate bid from Penthouse CEO Marc Bell, according to an invitation obtained by POLITICO.

Charlie Crist

The evening event will be held at Bell’s Boca Raton home on Oct. 7, less than a month before Crist faces Republican Marco Rubio and [...]

Republican Rob Portman now picks up 44% support while his opponent, Lieutenant Governor Lee Fisher, earns the vote from 39% in the latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters of Ohio’s U.S. Senate race.

Rob Portman

Seven percent (7%) prefer some other candidate while another 11% are undecided.
The race is a bit closer [...]

The playing field of competitive House races has expanded substantially over the past two months, increasing the chances that Republicans will control the lower chamber next year.
The news is good for Republicans, as many open seats are trending to the GOP while dozens of Democratic incumbents are scrambling to keep their jobs.
Democratic leaders are on [...]

by Frank Newport
PRINCETON, NJ — Republicans lead by 51% to 41% among registered voters in Gallup weekly tracking of 2010 congressional voting preferences. The 10-percentage-point lead is the GOP’s largest so far this year and is its largest in Gallup’s history of tracking the midterm generic ballot for Congress.

By Jim Geraghty
On August 25, I offered an update on my assessment of the 105 vulnerable House Democrats and Democrat-held open seats, and the 5 or so vulnerable House Republicans and GOP-held open seats. I put 13 in the “GOP should win” category, 28 in the “GOP has good chance of winning” category, 36 in [...]

Glen Beck
Among those surprised by all of conservative TV host Glenn Beck’s recent religious talk – including at Saturday’s Washington rally, where Beck said that “America today begins to turn back to God,” – is the Rev. Richard Land, a Southern Baptist leader.
“I’ve been stunned,” said Land, who directs public policy for the Southern Baptist [...]

by Frank Newport
PRINCETON, NJ — Muslim Americans continue to give President Barack Obama the highest job approval rating of any major religious group in the U.S., while Mormons give the president the lowest ratings.

Lisa Murkowski
The abortion issue may have cost embattled U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski an untold number of votes Tuesday to Republican primary challenger Joe Miller, say anti-abortion activists.

The ballot also included a sharply contested voter initiative generally requiring parents to be notified before their teen receives an abortion. Miller came out strongly for Ballot Measure 2.
“He [...]

Roy Blunt
Republican Congressman Roy Blunt for the first time holds a double-digit lead over Democrat Robin Carnahan in Missouri’s U.S. Senate race.
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Missouri Voters shows Blunt earning 51% of the vote. Carnahan, Missouri’s secretary of state, picks up 40% support, her poorest showing to date. Five percent (5%) [...]

Forty-eight percent (48%) of U.S. voters now regard President Obama’s political views as extreme. Forty-two percent (42%) place his views in the mainstream, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
By comparison, 51% see the views of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as mainstream. Thirty-five percent (35%) think Clinton’s views are extreme. Fourteen percent [...]

Support for incumbent Democratic Senator Blanche Lincoln has now fallen to its lowest level yet as Republican John Boozman remains on track to shift Arkansas’ Senate seat to the GOP column.

John Boozman

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Arkansas shows Boozman capturing 65% of the vote, while Lincoln earns 27% support. Four [...]

Barack Obama

Illinois voters say they would be negatively influenced if a candidate was endorsed by Barack Obama. And if his support isn’t an asset in his home state it’s hard to imagine where it is.
40% of voters in the state say they’d be less likely to support an Obama endorsed candidate to only 26% who [...]

by: Erin McPike

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If Sarah Palin runs for president in 2012, she’ll have the building blocks of a coalition that extends beyond her star power – and even Democrats have taken notice.
From her list of endorsements, to her Mama Grizzlies’ campaign-style video in July, to her Facebook message Wednesday commemorating the 90th anniversary of women’s suffrage, [...]

Town Hall
Numerous vulnerable House Democrats are refusing to schedule town hall meetings in their districts over the summer recess.

A survey conducted by the National Republican Congressional Committee shows that of 75 Democratic House members who are targeted for defeat by the GOP, 65 have not yet scheduled a town hall meeting with their constituents.

The [...]

Pat Toomey
With Joe Sestak’s victory in the Democratic primary and the poll bump that came with it now three months in the rear view mirror, Pat Toomey has taken a 45-36 lead in the Pennsylvania Senate race. That’s a big change from the tie PPP saw in a June survey of the race but pretty [...]

BY James Pethokoukis
Declaring a “Recovery Summer” victory tour at the start of June must have looked like a pretty safe wager for the Obama administration. The economy seemed to have shifted firmly into gear during the spring. Lawrence Summers, director of the National Economic Council, told the Financial Times in early April that the economy [...]

By Erin McPike
While the tea party movement may be geared toward voters upset with the Obama administration over fiscal matters, Ralph Reed’s year-old organization, the Faith and Freedom Coalition, is an outlet for conservative voters who care about a range of issues.
Reed, the longtime executive director of the Christian Coalition, said his organization is [...]

The first Rasmussen Reports post-primary telephone survey of Likely Voters in Colorado shows a close U.S. Senate race between Republican challenger Ken Buck and incumbent Democratic Senator Michael Bennet.

Ken Buck

Buck attracts 46% support, while Bennet picks up 41% of the vote. Five percent (5%) prefer some other candidate in the race, and seven percent [...]

Alexander Burns
It’s a hope so audacious that few Republicans will even acknowledge it out loud: the possibility that the balance of power in the Senate might be up for grabs in November. The GOP would have to take 10 seats, knocking off virtually every targeted Democratic incumbent and sweeping the open seats held by both [...]

Republican nominee Dan Coats continues to hold a commanding lead in Indiana’s U.S. Senate race.

Brad Ellsworth

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Indiana finds Coats with a 50% to 29% lead over Democratic Congressman Brad Ellsworth. It’s Ellsworth’s poorest showing to date. Seven percent (7%) favor some other candidate in the [...]

Republican Terry Branstad continues to hold a double-digit lead over Democratic incumbent Chet Culver in Iowa’s gubernatorial race.

Chet Culver

The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters shows Branstad picking up 52% support, while Culver gets 36% of the vote. Eight percent (8%) prefer another candidate, and four percent (4%) are undecided.
Most [...]

Elena Kagan
by Gary Marx
1. This 63–37 vote was a victory for judicial conservatives. No one expected her to be defeated, but no one expected her to receive 37 no votes, either. Sotomayor’s vote last summer was 68–31.
2. The climate regarding judicial nominations has been radically altered. There is now a significant political price to pay [...]

By Peter Wehner
Here are the latest findings from Democracy Corp, the group headed by James Carville and Stanley Greenberg:
Monthly tracking from Citizen Opinion shows troubling trends in the public’s experience, perceptions and conclusions. Virtually every personal measure has returned to the lowest point on our seven months of tracking and macro-expectations have darkened too. These [...]

By JAMES TARANTO
They told us that Americans would learn to stop worrying and love ObamaCare. To judge by yesterday’s election in Missouri, they were wrong.
Official election returns show that citizens of the Show Me State voted overwhelmingly–71% to 29% in favor of Proposition C, a ballot measure described in a pre-election report from Time [...]

Most voters favor extending the so-called Bush tax cuts that are scheduled to end December 31, but they’re more ambivalent about whether the cuts should be continued for wealthier taxpayers.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 54% of U.S. voters believe the Bush administration tax cuts should be extended. Thirty percent (30%) [...]

by Shushannah Walshe
Sarah Palin passed the 2 million Facebook “friends” mark Thursday, a feat heralded by supporters and tweeted about by the reporters who watch her every move. It’s hard to argue that the former Alaska governor’s social-media strategy isn’t working for her. Every 140-character pronouncement on Twitter or Facebook post is immediately gobbled up [...]

Nikki Haley
Republican Nikki Haley continues to hold a double-digit lead over Democratic State Senator Vincent Sheheen in South Carolina’s race for governor.
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in the state shows Haley with 49% support. Sheheen picks up 35% of the vote. Four percent (4%) like another candidate in the race, and [...]

Republican State Senator Bill Brady has now opened a seven-point lead over embattled Governor Pat Quinn in Illinois’ gubernatorial race.

Bill Brady

The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters shows Brady picking up 44% of the vote, while Quinn earns support from 37%. Eleven percent (11%) prefer a different candidate, and nine percent [...]

By Michael Barone
Democratic spin doctors have set out how their side is going to hold onto a majority in the House. They’ll capture four at-risk Republican seats, hold half of the next 30 or so Democratic at-risk seats, and avoid significant losses on target seats lower on the list.
That’s one plausible scenario. The shift [...]

By Lauren Green
July 23, 2010| FoxNews.com
Arizona school children are told they can’t pray in front of the Supreme Court building … Two University of Texas Arlington employees are fired for praying over a co-worker’s cubicle after work hours … In Cranston, R.I., a high school banner causes controversy when a parent complains it contains a [...]

By Gregg Keller
I’ve been thrilled to return to my old political stomping grounds of Iowa for most of this week to hold meetings with our dynamic Iowa FFC President, Steve Scheffler. Although we have 23 FFC affiliates organized across the country, Iowa is certainly one of our strongest thanks to Steve and our team here. [...]

Newt Gingrich
If Newt Gingrich decides to run for President, chalk the following commentary that he just posted in the “feather in his cap” category. It will go a long way with Evangelicals. Newt is speaking out boldly on these plans for a mosque near Ground Zero in NYC. Read below.
There should be no mosque near [...]

John Kasich 2005
Little has changed in the gubernatorial race in Ohio this month, with Republican John Kasich continuing to hold a small lead over incumbent Ted Strickland.
The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Likely Voter shows Kasich picking up 48% support, while the current governor earns 43% of the vote. Three percent (3%) prefer [...]

By KARL ROVE
Describing the White House last week, Congressional Democrats used words like “ineptness,” “neglected” and “disconcerting,” and phrases like “isn’t aggressive enough.” President Barack Obama has only himself to blame for these protests.

Harry Reid

Well, maybe more than just himself. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs may have spoken the truth when he admitted [...]

The numbers remain little changed this month in Pennsylvania’s race for the U.S. Senate, with Republican Pat Toomey continuing to maintain a slight lead over Democrat Joe Sestak.

Pat Toomey

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in the state shows Toomey with 45% support, while Sestak earns 38% of the vote. Six percent [...]

By Kathryn Lopez
‘We don’t like this fundamental transformation, and we’re going to do something about it.” With that line, in her savvy “Mama Grizzlies” video, Sarah Palin may have captured not only the political mood of much of the country, but also why women seem to be getting ready to make tea — and political [...]

Washington’s Senate race looks increasingly like a referendum on incumbent Democrat Patty Murray with two Republican candidates edging past her this month.

Patty Murray

A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Washington State finds Republican hopefuls Dino Rossi and Clint Didier both earning 48% support in match-ups with Murray. She, in turn, picks [...]

Democratic incumbent Russ Feingold and his chief Republican challenger Ron Johnson remain locked in a neck-and-neck battle for the U.S. Senate in Wisconsin.

Russ Feingold

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Wisconsin finds Johnson with 47% support, while the Democrat earns 46% of the vote. Two percent (2%) like some other candidate [...]

Supporters of a controversial campaign finance reform bill are working the Senate floor and the grass roots in Massachusetts to persuade GOP Sen. Scott Brown to break ranks to help give them the 60 votes that they need to pass it.
Despite a crowded agenda, Democratic leaders want to move the DISCLOSE Act this work period [...]

By Dan Balz and Jon Cohen
Public confidence in President Obama has hit a new low, according to the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll. Four months before midterm elections that will define the second half of his term, nearly six in 10 voters say they lack faith in the president to make the right decisions for [...]

Indiana still has the look of a likely Republican Senate pickup, with former Senator Dan Coats remaining comfortably ahead of his Democratic opponent Brad Ellsworth.

Brad Ellsworth

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in the state finds Coats with 51% support, while Ellsworth earns 30% of the vote, his poorest showing to date. [...]

By David Catanese
Former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio raised $4.5 million in the second quarter of 2010, his Senate campaign announced Monday, bringing the onetime insurgent candidate’s receipts for the cycle to more than $11 million.

Marco Rubio

The haul surpasses Rubio’s huge first-quarter take of $3.6 million and sets a new national record for this [...]

By Michael Barone
Home mortgage interest rates are the lowest in history, but house sales are plunging. Banks can make money easily because of the Federal Reserve’s low interest rates, but they’re not making many loans. Major corporations are sitting on something like $2 trillion in cash, but they’re not investing.

Unemployment is running at 10 [...]

Chris Christie
By Deal W. Hudson
The new governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie, is distinguishing himself in two ways as a Catholic politician. Not only he is pro-life, but he is also aggressively pursuing a set of policies grounded in the principle of subsidiarity.
At a time when most prominent Catholic politicians — Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, [...]

By Reid Wilson
Pres. Obama is the best fundraiser the Dem Party has, but his drawing power is way down from its peak during the ‘08 campaign.

Robin Carnahan

Obama is heading to MO and NV today to raise money for Sec/State Robin Carnahan (D), running for an open Senate seat, and Senate Maj. Leader Harry Reid.
But Carnahan’s [...]

By Dick Morris

Barack Obama faces about the same problem that confronted Bill Clinton in 1994 when he lost control of Congress. In both cases, the Democratic presidents had alienated moderate and conservative voters and found themselves increasingly isolated with a political base of liberals and minorities. In each instance, the president worried that off-year election [...]

North Carolina Secretary of State Elaine Marshall received a big bounce in the polls last month following her run-off victory to win the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. However, the bounce is gone and the race is back to where it’s been for most of the year with Republican Senator Richard Burr enjoying a double [...]

The Iowa Independent
By Jason Hancock
U.S. Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., will make a second trip to Iowa later this year, speaking at a Des Moines event organized by the Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalition and the Iowa Christian Alliance in October. The Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition was founded and headed by Ralph Reed, the former [...]

The players are the same, and the numbers haven’t changed.

John Kasich

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of the governor’s race in Ohio finds Republican John Kasich with a 47% to 40% lead over incumbent Democrat Ted Strickland – for the second month in a row. Three percent (3%) of Likely Voters in the state [...]

Beyond the Ballot
A trip to the presidential proving ground of Iowa is in Rep. Mike Pence’s future.

Mike Pence

The Indiana Republican will be the keynote speaker at an Oct. 2 banquet in Des Moines for conservative activists.
Pence is addressing the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s 10th annual “Friends of the Family” banquet for the Iowa Faith and [...]

By Diane Macedo
For years, the Collier County School district allowed a local Christian organization, World Changers of Florida, to distribute free Bibles to interested students during off-school hours on January 16 for Religious Freedom Day.
Now the group is filing suit after being told by the school board that it can no longer distribute the Bibles [...]

“2012 — House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence of Indiana, a favorite of hard-core conservatives, will appear Oct. 2 in Des Moines to keynote the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s 10th annual “Friends of the Family” banquet for the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition and Iowa Christian Alliance Education Fund. Huge base turnout; draws up to [...]

The Ohio Senate race between former Republican Congressman Rob Portman and Lieutenant Governor Lee Fisher remains very close.

Rob Portman

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of the state’s Likely Voters shows Portman picking up 43% of the vote while Fisher earns 39%. Four percent (4%) would vote for some other candidate and 13% more are [...]

Richard Lee, Ralph Reed, Beck, John Haggee, David Barton, Jim Garlow, Tom Mullins, Professor Robert George

Republican Pat Toomey continues to hold a modest advantage over Democrat Joe Sestak in the race to replace Arlen Specter as U.S. senator from Pennsylvania.

Pat Toomey

A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Pennsylvania shows Toomey attracting 45% of the vote, while Sestak earns 39%. Six percent (6%) prefer another candidate in [...]

By KARL ROVE
At last week’s G-20 meeting, President Barack Obama achieved a two-fer. He suffered a significant international defeat, and he increased the chances his party will suffer a major domestic one this fall.

Karl Rove

Mr. Obama’s international defeat was self-inflicted. He went to Toronto to press other major nations to do as he has done: [...]

Missouri’s Senate race remains on the same course it’s held for months, with Republican Congressman Roy Blunt posting a slight lead over Democrat Robin Carnahan.

Robin Carnahan

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Missouri shows Blunt with 48% support, while Carnahan earns 43% of the vote. Three percent (3%) like some other [...]

State Representative Nikki Haley is now officially the Republican nominee for governor of South Carolina, and with the formal kickoff of the general election race, she holds a double-digit lead over Democrat Vincent Sheheen.

Nikki Haley

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in South Carolina shows Haley, the winner of a GOP Primary [...]

By Debra Saunders
Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed HR5175, also known as the Disclose Act, by a 219-206 vote. “Disclose,” you see, is an acronym for “Democracy Is Strengthened by Casting Light on Spending in Elections.”
The measure’s author, Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., also happens to chair the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee — [...]

In 2010, Conservatives Still Outnumber Moderates, Liberals
Last year’s increase in conservatism among independents is holding
by Lydia Saad
PRINCETON, NJ — Conservatives have maintained their leading position among U.S. ideological groups in the first half of 2010. Gallup finds 42% of Americans describing themselves as either very conservative or conservative. This is up slightly from the 40% [...]

Sharron Angle’s modest bounce after her Republican Primary win appears to be over, but she still holds a slight lead over Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in Nevada’s U.S. Senate race.

Sharron Angle

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Nevada shows Angle earning 48% support, while Reid, the state’s longtime Democratic senator, [...]

By Byron York
All around, there are Democrats telling us their prospects for November are looking up. Things aren’t as bad as Republicans say! Health care is becoming more popular! The country wants financial reform! People still like Barack Obama! Isn’t Joe Barton awful!
They’re fooling themselves. The basic indicators of voters’ intentions — their general [...]

Colorado Faith & Freedom Coalition (CO FFC) is rapidly becoming the leading organization in Colorado for grassroots activist training. Under the experienced direction of Jim Pfaff, Colorado will undoubtedly train and turn out the army of conservative activists necessary to turn back the big spending agendas of Denver and Washington, D.C. The CO FFC will [...]

Elena Kagan claiming the ‘Bork hearings were the best thing that ever happened to constitutional democracy’ will shock the sensibilities of millions of Americans. It is reveals her judicial philosophy and approach to the law, and not in a way she likely intended. Her statement gratuitously celebrates the coarsening of our civic discourse [...]

Republican challenger Rick Berg continues to hold a modest advantage again this month in his contest with Democratic incumbent Earl Pomeroy for North Dakota’s only House seat.

Rick Berg

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in North Dakota shows Berg with 51% support to Pomeroy’s 44%. Just one percent (1%) prefer some other [...]

Republicans’ Midterm Voting Enthusiasm Tops Prior Years
Relative enthusiasm advantage for GOP over Democrats largest in Gallup history dating to 1994
by Jeffrey M. Jones
PRINCETON, NJ — An average of 59% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents have said they are more enthusiastic than usual about voting this year compared with past elections, the highest average Gallup has [...]

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By RAMESH PONNURU
When President George W. Bush signed the bill banning partial-birth abortion in 2003, supportive legislators gathered around for a photograph. All of them were men. Nancy Pelosi, then the House minority leader, called the image “a slap in the face to women across America.”
My fellow pro-lifers winced at the picture — both because [...]

Ken Blackwell
By: Ken Blackwell
There’s an old joke about a Transylvanian cookbook. The recipe for an omelet starts off with this: “First, steal two eggs.” If that note really appeared in some country’s cookbook, don’t look for constitutional government or a free market system to arise there anytime soon. That’s because democracy is not something you [...]

Rasmussen Reports
New Jersey voters are now evenly divided over whether Senator Robert Menendez should be recalled from office, with support for recall unchanged from two months ago. But most voters aren’t paying much attention to the story, and the recall effort has a long and difficult way to go before it ever makes it to [...]

By Larry Kudlow
One problem with President Obama’s Oval Office speech was his declaration that 90 percent of the oil spill would be captured in “coming days and weeks.” Ah, if only government were that strong and powerful. Trouble is, the spill rate late yesterday afternoon was again revised upward toward 60,000 barrels per day from [...]

State Representative Nikki Haley is running stronger than her Republican Primary runoff opponent in the general election for South Carolina’s first open gubernatorial race since 1994.

Nikki Haley

The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters shows Haley picking up 55% of the vote over Democratic State Senator Vincent Sheheen, who earns 34% support. [...]

NPR Poll Shows Tough Road Ahead For Democrats
By Mara Liasson
June 15, 2010 A new public opinion survey for NPR shows just how difficult it will be for Democrats to avoid big losses in the House this November.
Democrat Stan Greenberg and Republican Glen Bolger conducted the first public battleground poll of this election cycle. They [...]

Sharron Angle, following her come-from-behind Republican Primary win Tuesday, has bounced to an 11-point lead over Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in Nevada’s closely-watched U.S. Senate race.

Sharron Angle

A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Nevada, taken Wednesday night, shows Angle earning 50% support while Reid picks up 39% of the vote. [...]

Charlie Crist Goes From RINO to PLINO” (Pro-Life In Name Only)
By David Brody, CBN
From the “I’m shocked beyond disbelief category”: (sarcasm is dripping)

Charlie Crist

Florida Governor and U.S. Senate Candidate Charlie Crist (Independent NOT Republican) has removed all pro-life references from his website.
Nice move Charlie. Oy.
Crist has always maintained he was pro-life but I guess it [...]

The June 8 elections: A verdict on incumbents, unions, and Democrats
By Michael Barone
Eleven states voted yesterday in primaries and runoffs—the largest number of the year—and one way to look at the results is that no incumbent member of Congress lost his or her bid for reelection. So does this make 2010 less of an anti-incumbent [...]

A Victory for Pro-Life Women In Politics
By Marjorie Dannenfelser
Pro-life feminists like Carly Fiorina think that women don’t view the right to abort their child as the linchpin of their freedom or their happiness.

Marjorie Dannenfelser

Primaries in 11 states are over. In recent weeks several articles have attacked particular voices and groups unabashedly supporting the “pro-life [...]

The Faith & Freedom Coalition of Georgia is excited to announce that their website is up and fully operational. Read about the latest news in Georgia politics and policy on our home page, donate financially on our contribute page, sign up to help our cause and receive more information on our participate page, learn about [...]

By Tom Bevan
RealClearPolitics

Just ahead of the President’s trip to Florida to check out the oil spill, Quinnipiac is out with a poll today showing Obama’s job approval taking a dramatic turn for the worse in the Sunshine State.
Six weeks ago, 50% of Floridians approved of the job Obama was doing as President, while 45% [...]

Washington Examiner
By Byron York
In mid-February 2008, fresh from winning a bunch of Super Tuesday primaries, Barack Obama granted an interview to “60 Minutes” correspondent Steve Croft. “When you sit down and you look at [your] resume,” Croft said to Obama, “there’s no executive experience, and in fact, correct if I’m wrong, the only thing that [...]

Support for Republican Dan Coats has fallen back to its lowest level since February, but he still runs ahead of his Democratic opponent, Congressman Brad Ellsworth, in Indiana’s U.S. Senate race.

Dan Coats

A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Indiana shows Coats with 47% support, down from 51% just after his GOP [...]

Congressman Joe Sestak’s post-primary bounce appears to be over, and he now trails Republican rival Pat Toomey by seven points in the U.S. Senate contest in Pennsylvania.

Pat Toomey

A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Pennsylvania shows Toomey with 45% support, while Sestak earns 38%. Five percent (5%) prefer another candidate in [...]

RealClearPolitics.com
By Rich Lowry
Let’s be grateful that Barack Obama’s contempt for politics as usual is a matter of public record.

Barack Obama

Otherwise, we might be saddled with a White House that offers federal jobs to potential candidates it wants to keep out of Democratic primaries, and does it in such a crude fashion that it skirts the [...]

Robert Gibbs raises the Sestak stonewall
By: Byron York
The White House’s self-exonerating report on the Joe Sestak affair has given spokesman Robert Gibbs a new way not to answer questions. Now, when asked about the offer of a federal position to Sestak in return for Sestak’s agreement not to challenge Sen. Arlen Specter in the [...]

In May, the number of adults identifying themselves as Democrats fell nearly one percentage point to tie the lowest level on record, while the number of Republicans and those not affiliated with either party rose by less than half a percentage point.
The percentage of Democrats increased to 36.0% in April, while the number of [...]

Dear Friend,
My good friend Newt Gingrich has launched his new book today entitled “To Save America: Stopping Obama’s Secular-Socialist Machine.” Already the book has rocketed to Amazon’s Top 25 list. Don’t miss your opportunity to be one of the first to purchase this provocative and insightful book from one of our movement’s top thinkers. You [...]

Obama dodges, but Sestak questions won’t go away
By: Byron York
How interested is Barack Obama in discussing Rep. Joe Sestak’s allegation that the White House offered him a big government job if he would not challenge Sen. Arlen Specter, the White House’s favored candidate in the Pennsylvania Senate primary?

Barack Obama

Well, when the president was asked [...]

While President Obama dreams of utopia, the world gets rougher
By Kevin OBrien, The Plain Dealer
May 27, 2010, 5:30AM
An assessment of President Barack Obama’s speech on Saturday to the graduating class at the United States Military Academy leads to one of only two possible conclusions:

Barack Obama

Either Obama does not live in the real world, or [...]

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 24% of the nation’s voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as president. Forty-four percent (44%) Strongly Disapprove, giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -20.

Barack Obama

The Presidential Approval Index is calculated by subtracting the number who [...]

The Faith & Freedom Coalition has been constantly on the move in recent months, with Chairman and Founder Ralph Reed traveling the country inaugurating state FFC affiliates. Sunday, May 23rd was no different and found Ralph in Milwaukee, Wisconsin launching the Wisconsin Faith and Freedom Coalition. Ralph kicked Sunday off by attending the Wisconsin Republican [...]

Newt Gingrich
By Newt Gingrich
The Obama administration has pursued a foreign policy that ranges from feckless to reckless, from pursuing fantasies like a global nuclear summit to acts of genuine irresponsibility, like diminishing longstanding relationships with allies like Poland, Israel and Britain.
But of all the national security imperatives facing the administration, none is more critical than [...]

Arkansas Democrats still have to pick their candidate in a June 8 runoff, but for now Republican John Boozman holds sizable leads over both his potential rivals in the state’s U.S. Senate race.

John Boozman

A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Arkansas, taken Wednesday night, shows Boozman, the winner of Tuesday’s state [...]

Serious Democratic analysts concede it’s their party that’s facing trouble in the fall.
The hordes are not massing at the gates of Washington—not yet. They won’t arrive until after the midterm congressional election in November. Most are likely to be Republicans, a good number of them old Washington hands. Yesterday’s primary elections, including the impressive [...]

Charlie Crist received a bounce in the polls when he left the Republican Party to run for the U.S. Senate as an independent. New numbers suggest that the bounce for the governor is over.

Marco Rubio

A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely voters in Florida finds Republican Marco Rubio with 39% support, while Crist [...]

Texas Governor Rick Perry earns himself a little more breathing room this month, crossing the 50% mark for the first time in his bid for reelection against Democrat Bill White.

Rick Perry

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Voters in Texas shows the Republican incumbent with 51% support, while White earns 38%, his poorest [...]

Health Care Law
56% Still Want to Repeal Health Care Law, Political Class Disagrees
Some things never change, and voter opposition to the recently passed national health care law appears to be one of them.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 56% favor repeal of the law, while 39% are opposed. Support for repeal [...]

Mort Zuckerman: The Crippling Price of Public Employee Unions
By Mortimer B. Zuckerman
Posted May 14, 2010
The American public feels it is drowning in red ink. It is dismayed and even outraged at the burgeoning national deficits, unbalanced state and local budgets, and accounting that often masks the extent of indebtedness. There is a mounting sense that [...]

PRINCETON, NJ — The conservative shift in Americans’ views on abortion that Gallup first recorded a year ago has carried over into 2010. Slightly more Americans call themselves “pro-life” than “pro-choice,” 47% vs. 45%, according to a May 3-6 Gallup poll. This is nearly identical to the 47% to 46% division found last July following [...]

The Hill
By A.B. Stoddard
In a movie version of this important story of our time, the bold, undaunted officeholder would look much like the boyish, handsome David Cameron — Great Britain’s new Conservative prime minister — who called on his countrymen Tuesday to embrace an “age of austerity.”

Chris Christie

But this is America. So the fearless leader [...]

By Tony Blankley
This country is divided into three parts concerning national politics. About a third think President Obama is moving in the right direction, with many of them impatient for the president to be bolder with his leftist agenda. Somewhere in the vicinity of 40 percent to 50 percent of Americans are shocked and appalled [...]

Elena Kagan
By: Ken Blackwell
On October 30, 2008, Barack Obama proclaimed, “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” On November 4, he won the presidency. Ever since that day, he’s been pursuing his vision of fundamentally transforming our country.
He must be stopped. We show you how to do it in [...]

When President Obama announced his nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, Joe Biden thankfully spared the nation another muttered profanity (there was no boasting about a “big f-ing big deal”, though surely it was.) The rest of the country is suppressing its own outburst, for the selection of Kagan takes beltway cynicism [...]

Troy, Michigan, located on the outskirts of Detroit, was the site of the most recent and successful FFC leadership roundtable. FFC Founder and Chairman Ralph Reed kicked off the day in Troy at a rally of conservative activists. Following the rally, Ralph and FFC National Executive Director Gregg Keller attended a roundtable with key Michigan [...]

By: David A. Patten
Sharply escalating the war of words over the National Day of Prayer, the Rev. Franklin Graham predicted Thursday that “millions of evangelical Christians” who voted for President Obama in 2008 would reject him because of the administration’s controversial policies.
That followed Graham’s remarks this week in an exclusive Newsmax interview that revoking his [...]

Karl Rove Book
I wanted you to be aware of Karl Rove’s schedule in Georgia on May 15-16 for signings of his New York Times best-selling book, “Courage and Consequence.” I have read this book and cannot recommend it highly enough. It combines the personal story of a man who rose from humble beginnings [...]

Franklin Graham
Rev. Franklin Graham is putting The White House on the spot and it could end up being a potential PR mess for the President and the administration.
Graham wants the President to step in so Graham can pray inside the Pentagon at a National Day of Prayer event tomorrow. Will he? Graham was disinvited from [...]

Today in Greensboro, North Carolina Faith & Freedom Coalition Chair Ralph Reed and Executive Director Gregg Keller met with conservatives to discuss the launch of the North Carolina Faith & Freedom Coalition. The luncheon was a tremendous success, with top conservative leaders traveling from across the state to attend.
“We’re very excited that Ralph was able [...]

Little has changed this month in Missouri’s race for U.S. Senate, but Republican Congressman Roy Blunt now earns 50% support for the first time against Democrat Robin Carnahan.

Roy Blunt

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of the state’s Likely Voters shows Carnahan, Missouri’s secretary of state, with 42% of the vote. Only four percent (4%) [...]

Democrats at Ramming Speed
The White House wants to pass as much legislation as possible before losing its big majorities, no matter how unpopular its proposals are.
By Fred Barnes

Fred Barnes

President Reagan had a sign on his desk that said, “It’s amazing how much you can accomplish if you don’t care who gets the credit.” If President [...]

Charlie Crist’s announcment that he is abandoning the Republican Party to launch an independent bid for U.S. Senate in Florida had a surprisingly anti-climactic feel to it The political class has known for weeks that Crist would bolt from the GOP. It was a bitter admission that he is no longer viable in the [...]

Top conservatives met recently in Houston with Ralph to discuss how to turn out the Texas conservative vote in 2010 and beyond. The group will be launching the Texas Faith & Freedom Coalition to do just that.
Pastors, heads of conservative organizations in the state, elected officials and donors were part of the meeting. There [...]

Ralph met yesterday with top conservative and pro-freedom activists in St. Louis, Missouri. Among those in attendance were Senator Jim Talent and Eagle Forum founder Phyllis Schlafly.
The group discussed plans for launching the Missouri Faith & Freedom Coalition, which will identify, educate and turn out to vote Missouri conservatives

Today in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Ralph met with a packed room of conservative leaders to discuss the launch of the Pennsylvania Faith & Freedom Coalition. Among the all-star cast was Senator Rick Santorum. Ralph and Sen. Santorum were joined by conservative leaders from across the state who came to Harrisburg to hear what the Pennsylvania Faith [...]

Governor John Hoeven continues to hold a commanding lead over his Democratic challenger, state senator Tracy Potter, in the U.S. Senate race in North Dakota.

John Hoeven

A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely voters in the state shows Hoeven earning 69% support over Potter’s 24%. Two percent (2%) prefer some other candidate, and five [...]

“Enthusiastic” Voters Prefer GOP by 20 Points in 2010 VoteOverall, congressional vote preferences are evenly divided
By Jeffrey M. Jones
PRINCETON, NJ — Although U.S. registered voters are closely divided in their 2010 congressional election preferences, those who say they are “very enthusiastic about voting” this year show a strong preference for the Republican Party.

by Jeffrey M. Jones
PRINCETON, NJ — The advantage in public support the Democratic Party built up during the latter part of the Bush administration and the early part of the Obama administration has all but disappeared. During the first quarter of 2010, 46% of Americans identified as Democrats or leaned Democratic, while 45% identified as [...]

Polls: Bad Times Ahead for Democrats
Peter Wehner
Posted on Commentary magazine’s blog Contentions
04.23.2010

Barack Obama

The latest Gallup Poll shows that the party affiliation gap is at the narrowest it has been since 2005, when the GOP was at its high-water mark in terms of political power (holding the presidency, the House, and the Senate). According to [...]

by Carrie Severino, Chief Counsel, Judicial Crisis Network
Where will our liberties be thirty years from now? President Obama is on the verge of nominating a new Supreme Court justice who will have a lot to say about that. From racial preferences and abortion to property rights and terrorism, retiring Justice Stevens and his three [...]

Conservative protest is motivated by a love of what America stands for.
By Rush Limbaugh, Wall Street Journal
The latest liberal meme is to equate skepticism of the Obama administration with a tendency toward violence. That takes me back 15 years ago to the time President Bill Clinton accused “loud and angry voices” on the airwaves (i.e., [...]

If Florida Governor Charlie Crist leaves the Republican Party and enters the U.S. Senate race as an independent candidate, he will begin the campaign in second place.

Marco Rubio

The latest Rasmussen Reports poll of Florida voters finds that 37% would vote for GOP frontrunner Marco Rubio, 30% for Crist and 22% for the likely Democratic [...]

The top four contenders for Arizona’s Republican gubernatorial nomination, including incumbent Governor Jan Brewer, have all expanded their support since last month in match-ups with the likely Democratic nominee, State Attorney General Terry Goddard. The Democrat has lost ground and now trails in all four contests.

Terry Goddard

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely [...]

Florida’s gubernatorial race may have grown a bit more competitive this month. State Attorney General Bill McCollum now attracts support for 45% of voters statewide, while Democrat Alex Sink earns the vote from 38%.

Alex Sink

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely voters in the state finds seven percent (7%) prefer some other candidate, [...]

Chris Christie seeks to mend the broke and broken state of New Jersey.
By Fred Barnes, Weekly Standard
Trenton
If the citizens of New Jersey like candor, Chris Christie is the governor they’ve been waiting for. Or I should say citizens of “the failed state” of New Jersey, as he tends to call it. It’s a “broken [...]

Following his vote for the national health care plan, Democratic Congressman Brad Ellsworth’s support remains stuck in the low 30s, while two of his Republican opponents now earn 50% or more of the vote in Indiana’s U.S. Senate race.

Brad Ellsworth

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely voters in Indiana finds that 65% favor [...]

By Michael Barone, RealClearPolitics
“Do you realize,” CNN’s Susan Roesgen asked a man at the April 15, 2009, tea party in Chicago, “that you’re eligible for a $400 credit?” When the man refused to drop his “drop socialism” sign, she went on, “Did you know that the state of Lincoln gets 50 billion out of the [...]

Across the country today, hundreds of Tax Day Tea Party events were held drawing tens of thousands of patriotic Americans who are sick of liberals in Washington mortgaging their children’s and grandchildren’s futures.
Faith & Freedom Coalition chairman Ralph Reed addressed thousands of Tea Party patriots at a Tax Day Tea Party in Atlanta this [...]

A recent study by the Media Research Center has found that the lamestream media has alternatively ignored and disparaged the Tea Party movement. The study finds that “44 percent of network stories on the Tea Party suggested the movement reflected a fringe or dangerous quality.” See the full report here.

Study: GOP on track to take over House as Gallup shows Americans plan to vote 48% R and 44% D….Independents trend R 45%-34%
By Reid Wilson, Hotline on Call
GOPers lead the generic Congressional ballot by 4 points, according to this week’s Gallup tracking poll as trends begin to suggest the minority party will take back the [...]

Republican hopeful Pat Toomey for the first time registers 50% support in his race against incumbent Democrat Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania’s contest for the U.S. Senate.

Pat Toomey

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely voters in the state shows Specter earning 40% of the vote, a level he’s held steady at since the first [...]

By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL
Strategy is driving these conservative creations, but they’ve also arrived in an environment rich with opportunity. Former Christian Coalition head Ralph Reed last year launched his Faith and Freedom Coalition, which already has 200,000 members. The Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling gives his group a bigger donor pool and the right to [...]

By Thomas Sowell
When Supreme Court Justices retire, there is usually some pious talk about their “service,” especially when it has been a long “service.” But the careers of all too many of these retiring jurists, including currently retiring Justice John Paul Stevens, have been an enormous disservice to this country.

Thomas Sowell

Justice Stevens was on the [...]

By William McGurn, Wall Street Journal
If you think that Snooki getting socked in the kisser during an episode of “Jersey Shore” epitomizes life in the Garden State, you haven’t been paying attention. The best reality show on television today isn’t running on MTV. It’s in Trenton, where Gov. Chris Christie is offering the voters a [...]

Support for Florida Governor Charlie Crist’s U.S. Senate bid has fallen this month to its lowest level yet. Just 28% of the state’s likely Republican voters support his candidacy now, down six points from March.

Marco Rubio

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely GOP Primary voters in the Sunshine State shows former state House [...]

When thinking about all the services provided by federal, state and local governments, 75% of voters nationwide say the average American should pay no more than 20% of their income in taxes. However, the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that most voters (55%) believe the average American actually pays 30% or more of [...]

Justice Stevens

The Confirmation
The retirement of Justice John Paul Stevens, the leading liberal light on the Supreme Court, was anything but a surprise to those working in the cottage industry of public policy advocacy groups engaged in judicial confirmation battles. But while it came as anything but a shock, Stevens’ timing was fascinating. Stevens [...]

Ralph and FFC had a tremendous, whirlwind 36 hours in Minneapolis this week. First, Ralph was invited by his good friend Sean Hannity to appear on his Fox News show to discuss the government takeover of health care passed by Obama, Reid and Pelosi and how it will impact the 2010 elections. Ralph told Sean [...]

By Diana Furchtgott-Roth
WASHINGTON-Some members of Congress seem to like putting taxpayers on the hook for practically unlimited liabilities. The latest Congressional Budget Office forecasts 2020 public debt climbing to 90% of GDP under President Obama’s 2011 Budget. This is not enough for Senator Robert Casey, a Pennsylvania Democrat and habitual ally of labor, who now [...]

By Charles Krauthammer
WASHINGTON — Nuclear doctrine consists of thinking the unthinkable. It involves making threats and promising retaliation that is cruel and destructive beyond imagining. But it has its purpose: to prevent war in the first place.

Charles Krauthammer

During the Cold War, we let the Russians know that if they dared use their huge conventional military [...]

Little has changed over the past month in Missouri’s U.S. Senate race, with Republican Roy Blunt maintaining his modest lead over Democrat Robin Carnahan.

Robin Carnahan

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely voters in the state shows Blunt earning 48% support to Carnahan’s 42%. Three percent (3%) prefer some other candidate, and seven percent [...]

Tax shock is just start for Obamacare
By Patrick McIlheran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Asked a question last week – whether it was wise to raise taxes in a recession – the president found himself stumble-running down a mountainside of words.

Barack Obama

Barack Obama went on for 17 minutes and 14 seconds, twice apologizing for rambling even as he [...]

April 8, 2010 – Quinnipiac – Republicans Lead In Pennsylvania Senate, Governor Races, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Rendell Approval Up, While Obama Approval Is Down
Republican Pat Toomey is back on top 46 – 41 percent over Sen. Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania’s seesaw U.S. Senate race, while Attorney General Tom Corbett, the leader for the [...]

GOP will win House, Senate
By Dick Morris
Stanley Greenberg and James Carville claim that the Republican Party has peaked too soon. Incredibly, Greenberg says that “when we look back on this, we’re going to say Massachusetts is when 1994 happened.” Stan’s only claim to expertise in the 1994 elections, of course, is that he’s the guy [...]

By Dave Catanese, Politico
Former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio raised more than $3.6 million in the first three months of the year, his Senate campaign announced Wednesday, more than doubling his take from the previous quarter and far outpacing the 2010 fundraising announcements of all other Senate candidates to date.

Marco Rubio

Rubio’s campaign boasted an [...]

The president’s new nuclear weapons policy is just the latest (should we call it “Jimmy-Cartesian”?) indication that he is determined to hasten the country’s decline, writes Tunku Varadarajan.
Consider me unimpressed. Barack Obama’s ballyhooed “Nuclear Posture Review” has turned out, in truth, to be more “posture” than “review.”

Tunku Varadarajan

As has been pointed out by a prominent [...]

By Tony Blankley
Last summer, President Obama spent several months publicly anguishing over what he would or wouldn’t do in Afghanistan. Finally, he agreed to ramp up troop levels but warned that he intended to start getting American troops out in 18 months. After anguishing in several columns over the president’s anguishing, I concluded in November [...]

Republican Brian Sandoval now leads Rory Reid by 21 points in Nevada’s race for governor, but even embattled GOP incumbent Jim Gibbons has moved into a virtual tie with the Democratic hopeful.

Harry Reid

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely voters in Nevada shows Sandoval, a former state attorney general and judge, now leading [...]

Public Policy Polling: Toomey holds small lead
Raleigh, N.C. – More Pennsylvania voters disapprove of Barack Obama than like the job he’s doing and that goes a long way toward explaining the current small lead Pat Toomey holds over Arlen Specter in the state’s Senate race.

Pat Toomey

Specter has a 71 point lead over Toomey with people [...]

I’ll be appearing on Sean Hannity’s show tomorrow night at 9:00pm on Fox. We’ll be discussing the government takeover of healthcare and what it means for the 2010 elections. Please tune in. If you’re unable to watch on TV, you can always watch the segment on our website after it airs: www.ffcoalition.com.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid attracts just 39% to 42% of the Nevada vote when matched against three Republican opponents. Two of his potential opponents now top the 50% level of support.

Harry Reid

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey in the state also shows that 62% of Nevada’s voters support repealing the recently passed [...]

Patrick McIlheran, RealClearPolitics
Russ Feingold, seeking a fourth U.S. Senate term out of Wisconsin, is by now a habit. His state wears him almost unconsciously, the way a rattling old Tercel in front of me at a traffic light still bore its “Feingold in ‘04″ bumper sticker.

Russ Feingold

Next to the Feingold sticker was one promoting a [...]

A Pretentious Word for a World Without Rules
Given thirty years of postmodern relativism in our universities, we were bound to get a postmodern president at some point.

Victor David Hanson

Postmodernism is a fancy word — in terms of culture, nihilist; in terms of politics, an equality of result and the ends justifying the means — that [...]

April 2, 2010/Dallas, GA – Yesterday, Americans for Prosperity of Georgia Director and Paulding County Republican member, Virginia Galloway, sent a release to the Paulding County Republican Examiner concerning the event; Defending the American Dream Summit that occurred on Saturday, March 27.
AFP Georgia Director, Ms. Galloway stated, “Thank you to all our members who made [...]

While the Ohio governor’s race is now a virtual tie, there’s been little movement again this month in the state’s contest for the U.S. Senate.

Rob Portman

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely voters in Ohio finds Republican Rob Portman still slightly ahead of his two chief Democratic rivals, Lieutenant Governor Lee Fisher and [...]

Jennifer Haberkorn, Washington Times
President Obama and congressional Democrats face an uphill climb to reclaim the support of independent voters who vaulted them to the White House and huge majorities in Congress in 2008.

Barack Obama

At the end of the bitter, intensely partisan battle to pass Mr. Obama’s health care overhaul plan, independent voters, once captivated [...]

The suddenly open race for Wyoming governor finds the four top Republican contenders posting big early leads over their likeliest Democratic rival, Senate Minority Leader Mike Massie, in the first Rasmussen Reports Election 2010 telephone survey of the contest.

The four announced Republican candidates – former U.S. Attorney Matt Mead, former state Representative Ron [...]

President Barack Obama’s signature on Congress’s disastrous health care plan was a disappointment to everyone who values limited government, bipartisanship and quality and affordable health care.

Gov. Rick Perry

In forcing the bill through, congressional leaders from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on down substituted their own desires and political goals for the good judgment and common sense [...]

WASHINGTON — What is it like to be a foreign ally of Barack Obama’s America?

Charles Krauthammer

If you’re a Brit, your head is spinning. It’s not just the personal slights to Prime Minister Gordon Brown — the ridiculous 25-DVD gift, the five refusals before Brown was granted a one-on-one with The One.
Nor is it just the [...]

Posted on RealClearPolitics.com by Sean Trende
Yesterday I opined that Missouri might not end up being a particularly competitive state by the time this election cycle winds up. A spate of stories over the past few days demonstrate the decline of the Democrats’ fortunes in the Show-Me state.

Ed Martin

•Last election, Democrats nearly won the [...]

Four of Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln’s Republican opponents now earn more than 50% of the vote as her path to reelection grows even steeper. The numbers are closer when Lieutenant Governor Bill Halter is the Democrat in the race, but only because there are more undecided voters.

Sen. Blanche Lincoln

A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey [...]

Idaho Governor C.L. “Butch” Otter enjoys a comfortable head start in his bid for a second term.

Gov. Butch Otter

In the first Rasmussen Reports Election 2010 survey of likely voters in the state, the Republican incumbent chalks up a 32-point advantage – 60% to 28% – over his likely Democratic opponent, activist Keith Allred. Nine [...]

The left-wing critics are right: The rage is not about health care. They are also right that similar complaints about big government were heard during the New Deal and the Great Society, and the sky didn’t fall.
But what if this time the sky is falling—on them.

It doesn’t matter who the Republicans or the Democrats nominate at this point for Governor in Alabama- the GOP candidate will be favored to win this fall.

The Republican leads by anywhere from 5 to 16 points in the eight match ups we looked at. Based on yesterday’s primary polling the most likely contest [...]

Coburn endorses Rubio, slams Crist for supporting stimulus
By Jon Ward – The Daily Caller 03/31/10 at 10:44 AM
Sen. Tom Coburn, the Oklahoma Republican who is known more for his hardline policy stands than his political endorsements, on Wednesday took sides in one of the country’s most publicized Republican Senate primary races.

Sen. Tom Coburn

Coburn [...]

A new poll showed that Republican Bill McCollum’s front-running status against Democrat Alex Sink in the race to become Florida’s next governor has strengthened.
BY MARC CAPUTO
Herald/Times Tallahassee Bureau
Attorney General Bill McCollum’s decision to sue the federal government over healthcare reform looks like a political winner, according to a new poll showing that he has widened [...]

What happened to the victory lap Obama was supposed to be taking? What happened to the spike in the polls for both him and for health care, for his acclamation as being a man who could govern, and his party, as being able to lead?

Speaker Nancy Pelosi

What happened to being allowed to “move on,” [...]

Missouri voters continue to be unhappy with Barack Obama and his health care plan and that’s helped Roy Blunt to take the lead in the US Senate race.

Cong. Roy Blunt

Blunt is up 45-41 on Robin Carnahan, but that result probably has more to do with how the state feels about Barack Obama than it does [...]

Cong. Stephanie Herseth Sandlin
South Dakota Congresswoman Stephanie Herseth Sandlin is now virtually tied with one Republican opponent but is still ahead of two others in her bid for reelection.
A new Rasmussen Reports survey of likely South Dakota voters finds Herseth Sandlin with 44% to Republican Chris Nelson’s 42%. Six percent (6%) prefer another candidate, [...]

Gov. Chris Christie
Here’s some good news for New Jersey residents, who pay more in state and local taxes than people anywhere else in the United States: earlier this month, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie released a budget proposal that contains no tax increases. He would even sunset, on schedule, a one-year “temporary” increase in the [...]

The punditocracy has recently been consumed with a debate over whether or not the Republicans will be able to repeal the recently-passed health care bill. Outside of self-professed conservative pundits, the conventional wisdom seems to be that the odds are prohibitively against repeal (or significant modification).
This Politico article typifies the attitude of those who doubt [...]

Netanyahu
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will continue discussions with his senior ministers in the coming days, looking for a way out of the crisis with the US. He received some badly needed support on Friday from 327 congressmen, who signed a letter expressing concern that “the highly publicized tensions” in US-Israeli ties will “not advance the [...]

The Rasmussen Reports Media Meter shows that media coverage in Texas is far more favorable for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill White than for incumbent Republican Governor Rick Perry.

Gov. Rick Perry

For the week ending Sunday, March 28, 2010, 79.5% of the media mentions for White were positive, and only 20.5% were negative.
For Perry, during [...]

Robert Samuelson
WASHINGTON — When historians recount the momentous events of recent weeks, they will note a curious coincidence. On March 15, Moody’s Investors Service — the bond rating agency — published a paper warning that the exploding U.S. government debt could cause a downgrade of Treasury bonds. Just six days later, the House of Representatives [...]

Michael Barone
Barack Obama’s decision to postpone his trip to Indonesia and Australia — to a democracy with the world’s largest Muslim population and to the only nation that has fought alongside us in all the wars of the last century — is of a piece with his foreign policy generally: attack America’s friends and kowtow [...]

In the first Rasmussen Reports Election 2010 survey of the governor’s race in Tennessee, all three top Republican candidates hold double-digit leads over two potential Democratic opponents, but no one earns 50% support in any of the match-ups. Nearly one-quarter of the state’s voters remain undecided, too, in every potential contest.
Knoxville’s GOP Mayor Bill Haslam [...]

Nancy Pelosi
By Kevin OBrien
The Democrats in Congress and the White House have forced upon the United States of America a federal health care plan designed for people who are too stupid, incompetent and weak to manage their own affairs.
Such people certainly do exist among us, but to gear the nation’s health care system to them [...]

President Obama2
By KARL ROVE
Democrats are celebrating victory. The public outcry against what they’ve done doesn’t seem to bother them. They take it as validation that they are succeeding at transforming America.
But we’ve seen this movie before and it won’t end happily for Democrats. Their morale rose when the stimulus passed in February 2009. The press [...]

Jack Welch
The newly passed overhaul of the nation’s health care system is expected to push expenses “out of sight” and cost the country “a couple trillion dollars,” Jack Welch, former chairman and CEO of General Electric, told CNBC.
“Right now, people do get health insurance in a more expensive fashion through emergency rooms and the government [...]

John Kasich 2005
Raleigh, N.C. – Despite continuing to be relatively unknown Republican challenger John Kasich leads Democratic incumbent Ted Strickland 42-37 in his quest to be the state’s next Governor.
The numbers seem to be much more a referendum on Strickland than Kasich. 50% of voters in the state say they don’t know enough about Kasich [...]

The two-week-old dispute between Israel and the United States over housing construction in East Jerusalem has exposed the limits of American power to pressure Israeli leaders to make decisions they consider politically untenable. But the blowup also shows that the relationship between the two allies is changing, in ways that are unsettling for Israel’s supporters. [...]

In Pennsylvania’s competitive Senate race, former Republican Rep. Pat Toomey leads both of his potential Democratic opponents — incumbent Sen. Arlen Specter and Rep. Joe Sestak — a new Franklin & Marshall College Poll finds (March 15-21, 964 RV, MoE +/- 3.2%).
Specter continues to hold a substantial lead over Sestak in the May 18 [...]

This year’s race for governor in Iowa continues to be largely a battle between two candidates who’ve already held the office.

Chet Culver

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely voters in the state shows former Republican Governor Terry Branstad leading current Governor Chet Culver by 16 points, 52% to 36%. Six percent (6%) prefer some [...]

Ken Blackwell
by Ken Blackwell
What a tragedy. After standing firm for so long against such pressure, Michigan Congressman Bart Stupak (D) betrayed his fellow pro-lifers and bought in to a worthless promise from the Abortion President. The Stupak Amendment banning abortion funding in health care garnered 240 votes in the House. The final vote on [...]

Remind me again how the success of passing ObamaCare is supposed to help Democrats in the midterms. Americans want tort reform, but ObamaCare has them so angry that they want states to sue to block it. Only 37% oppose the idea, according to Rasmussen.
As many as 14 states already have plans in the [...]

PP
While most abortion rights groups are up in arms about the restrictions in the health-care bill, Planned Parenthood tells Dana Goldstein it can still roll back some of the limitations.
In the aftermath of Sunday’s historic health-care vote, Planned Parenthood says it is confident it can work with the White House to craft regulatory language softening [...]

Two of the three top Republican hopefuls for the U.S. Senate in Indiana continue to hold double-digit leads over Democratic Congressman Brad Ellsworth. Ellsworth supported President Obama’s health care plan in a state where opposition to the legislation is higher than it is nationally.
A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely voters in the state [...]

Marco Rubio
Former state House Speaker Marco Rubio is now even further ahead of Governor Charlie Crist in the race for Florida’s Republican Senate nomination.
A new Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of likely Republican Primary voters shows Rubio with a 56% to 34% lead over Crist. Only one percent (1%) prefer some other candidate, and eight [...]

By Shira Toeplitz
Senate Democrats are no doubt bracing for sizeable losses in the fall elections, but an early look at 2012 map shows a rebound for the party could be difficult next cycle, when President Barack Obama will be at the top of the ticket.
Missouri is hosting a competitive Senate race in 2010 and will [...]

The editors of National Review sensibly counsel conservatives, in the wake of last night’s victory for Obamacare: “‘Nil desperandum’–never despair.” I agree, though I’m more inclined to the mock-Latin motto of the Harvard band: “Illegitimi non carborundum”–don’t let the bastards get you down.
Why not? Because we can repeal it.
As National Review’s editors explain (and see [...]

JIM DEMINT
This monstrosity ignores people’s will and violates the Constitution.
By Jim DeMint
There’s no fixing the government health care takeover Democrats forced through on Sunday. It must be repealed.
After telling Americans in 2008 that they would lower spending, taxes and insurance premiums, Democrats passed a bill that breaks every promise. Using secret deals, kickbacks and carve-outs, [...]

President Obama
By Patrick H. Caddell and Douglas E. Schoen
In “The March of Folly,” Barbara Tuchman asked, “Why do holders of high office so often act contrary to the way reason points and enlightened self-interest suggests?” Her assessment of self-deception — “acting according to wish while not allowing oneself to be deflected by the facts” — [...]

Nancy Pelosi
Dow Jones Newswires | Caterpillar Inc. said the health-care overhaul legislation being considered by the U.S. House of Representatives would increase the company’s health-care costs by more than $100 million in the first year alone.
In a letter Thursday to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and House Republican Leader John Boehner of Ohio, Caterpillar urged [...]

President Obama
Public views of the health care bills being discussed in Congress have remained quite stable over the past few months. As has been the case since last July, there is more opposition than support for these proposals. Currently, 48% say they generally oppose the health care bills in Congress while 38% say they generally [...]

Democratic incumbent Russ Feingold continues to lead his two announced Republican opponents in Wisconsin’s race for the U.S. Senate, and his hypothetical match-up with former Republican Governor Tommy Thompson is now a toss-up.
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state shows Feingold leading real estate entrepreneur Terrence Wall 49% to 40%. Just three percent [...]

Ken Blackwell
By Ken Blackwell
In 2002, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit cemented its reputation for left-wing judicial activism — and drew nationwide outrage — by ruling the words “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional. The Supreme Court reversed that decision
 on a technicality, and last Thursday, the Ninth Circuit [...]

WASHINGTON – Former Rep. Tom Campbell has a six-point lead over his closest challenger in the three-way Republican primary to face Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, whose popularity has significantly eroded in the past two months, according to a Field Poll released today.
The survey found Campbell leading former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina 28 percent to 22 [...]

Tom Coburn
By U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, M.D.
Congress’s latest final push in its ideological crusade called health reform is shaping up to be an act of historic arrogance and deception.
For months, the American people have been telling Congress to scrap the current bills. A recent CNN poll found that 7 in 10 Americans want Congress [...]

Levin
Mark R. Levin, president of Landmark Legal Foundation, today issued a warning to the leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives about the possible use of the so-called “deem and pass,” “self-executing,” or “Slaughter Rule” to enact H.R. 3590, the legislative version of President Obama’s health care proposal that has been previously approved by the [...]

NEJM
Health Reform, Public Option, and Physician Supply
• 72% of physicians feel that a public option would have a negative impact on physician supply, with 45% feeling it will “decline or worsen dramatically” and 27% predicting it will “decline or worsen somewhat.
• 24% of physicians think they will try to retire early if a public option [...]

By Michael Barone
The Democratic leadership’s struggle to pass the Senate health care bill in the House looks like a great case study for political scientists. They have many examples of the leaders of a party majority trying to push controversial legislation through a balky chamber. But seldom have the political incentives of the [...]

For the third month in a row, likely Republican nominee Pat Toomey holds a nine-point lead over incumbent Arlen Specter in Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate race.
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely voters in Pennsylvania shows Toomey leading Specter 49% to 40%. Five percent (5%) like some other candidate, and seven percent (7%) more are [...]

The Faith & Freedom Coalition of Georgia is excited to be partnering with Americans for Prosperity and WSB Radio to host The Defending the American Dream Summit.
The Defending the American Dream Summit will include inspirational speeches by participants such as, Neal Boortz, Herman Cain, Erick Erickson, Jonathan Krohn, and other special guests, as well [...]

Lefties (Daily Kos, TPMDC, and Huffington Post) are defending against allegations that the “Slaughter Rule” proposed strategy to pass ObamaCare without a vote is unprecedented and unconstitutional. The Slaughter Rule has the support of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and is the Democrats preferred strategy to pass ObamaCare. Liberals are peddling [...]

By: Byron York
If you have any doubt that the Democratic leadership of the House views passing the current health care reform bill as the beginning, not the end, of the process of creating a national government health care system, just note what Speaker Nancy Pelosi told a group of bloggers on Monday. “My biggest fight [...]

In both politics and diplomacy, actors must think at least one move ahead. They need to be reasonably sure that when they say or do A, then the other party will say or do B. And they should want the other party to say or do B, otherwise it makes no sense to say A [...]

Nancy Pelosi
It’s not every day you hear a sentence like this on the House floor: “Madam Speaker…they are hiding behind blooming algae as they twist arms and try to work their backroom deals.”
Those words were spoken by Rep. David Dreier, the ranking Republican on the House Rules Committee, and they were true. As the House [...]

The Iowa Christian Alliance hosted an event Tuesday evening at Walnut Community Church in Windsor Heights. With an audience of over 500 people, speeches were made by Ralph Reed, the Chairman of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, Former Senator Rick Santorum, and three Iowa GOP candidates.
In his remarks, Ralph emphasized the importance of [...]

By Ken Blackwell
Vice President Joe Biden says the Palestinians deserve a state. He has traveled to the Mideast to press the Israelis to surrender more territory more quickly to what has been termed the Palestinian Authority. The Obama administration is giving $900 million of our money to the Mahmoud Abbas regime on the West Bank [...]

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By Ken Blackwell
When the young John Roberts was confirmed as Chief Justice of the United States in 2005, he declined to put those gold stripes on his robes. They’re the ones that the late William Rehnquist had devised to indicate his status as first among equals on the nation’s high court. “I’ll have to [...]

PRINCETON, NJ — Gallup analysis of U.S. public opinion trends on abortion shows that generational differences in support for broadly legal abortion have diminished over the past decade. In the mid-1970s, when Gallup started polling on the issue, adults aged 18 to 29 and 30 to 49 were the most supportive of legal abortion under [...]

By Ken Blackwell
“I mean, in a way, Obama’s standing above the country, above, above the world, he’s sort of God.” That was Newsweek’s Evan Thomas’ reaction to President Obama’s visit to Normandy last June. The new president was on hand for ceremonies marking the 65th anniversary of D-Day. Less than one year later, our “sort [...]

RoyBlunt
Republican Roy Blunt continues to hold a slight lead over Democrat Robin Carnahan in Missouri’s contest for the U.S. Senate. These findings and the high level of opposition to the national health care plan in the state perhaps help to explain why Carnahan wasn’t around yesterday when President Obama came to Missouri to pitch his [...]

So far as we know, Denny Schaffer with WGKA (920AM) – a conservative talk radio station based in Buckhead — landed the only one-on-one interview with Ralph Reed following his Wednesday decision to skip a run for Congress.
Reed said he was confident he could have run a “very competitive race” to replace U.S. Rep. John [...]

Dear Friend:
I wanted you to be among the first to know of my decision regarding running for Congress in the Seventh District of Georgia. The following statement will be released to the public shortly but I wanted you to have it first:
“After much thought and prayer, I have decided not to [...]

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WINDSOR HEIGHTS, Iowa – As he speaks to hundreds of Iowa evangelicals about his “faith walk,” it’s clear former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum is connecting with the audience.
Santorum may have been trounced in his 2006 re-election bid, but on Tuesday night at a suburban Des Moines church the crowd of about 500 people seemed to [...]

By Dick Morris
And now the House Democrats line up at the instruction of their blind commanders for a final charge into glory as they battle to foist a health care system on a country that neither wants it nor can afford it. The charge may or may not reach its objective. But one thing is [...]

The Iowa Christian Alliance is hosting an event this evening at a church in Windsor Heights and what follows is a live blog of the festivities. Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum is the keynote speaker. Ralph Reed, formerly of the Christian Coalition, is the emcee. Neither were able to fly into the [...]

The former leader of the Christian Coalition was in Iowa tonight, urging members of the Iowa Christian Alliance to help launch a new, “sister” organization in the state. Ralph Reed, the former executive director of the Christian Coalition, said the “Iowa Faith and Freedom” organization will make sure “God’s people” know where the candidates stand.
“We’re [...]

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Colorado looks like it’s settling in for a closely contested race for governor.
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely voters in the state finds former Republican Congressman Scott McInnis leading Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper 48% to 42%. Just three percent (3%) of Colorado voters opt for some other candidate, and six percent (6%) are [...]

Support for Charlie Crist from conservative voters has pretty much evaporated, and that’s allowed Marco Rubio to build a 32 point lead in the Republican primary for Senate.
Rubio now leads Crist 60-28, including a staggering 71-17 lead with conservatives. Crist has a 49-36 advantage with party moderates, but they account for just 31% of likely [...]

Ralph backstage at Fox News with Fox News contributor Bob Beckel and country music singer and Air National Guard and the National Guard Youth Foundation celebrity spokesperson Laura Bryna.

Ralph on Hannity

President Obama
Despite his decisions to surge troops to Afghanistan, delay the closure of the U.S. prison at Guantánamo Bay, and perhaps reverse himself by endorsing military commissions for terror suspects, President Obama is still losing ground in polls related to national security.
Such is the finding of a new major survey released Monday by leading Democratic [...]

A majority of Americans say the United States is less respected in the world than it was two years ago and think President Obama and other Democrats fall short of Republicans on the issue of national security, a new poll finds.
The Democracy Corps-Third Way survey released Monday finds that by a 10-point margin — 51 [...]

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Republican challenger John Kasich has extended his lead over incumbent Democrat Ted Strickland to 11 points in Ohio’s gubernatorial race.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Ohio voters finds Kasich leading Strickland 49% to 38%. Six percent (6%) prefer another candidate, and seven percent (7%) are undecided.
Last month, Kasich held a six-point [...]

When Joe Scarborough and I talk each week on the radio, we frequently mention that former Congressman Pat Toomey is the model candidate for the Republican Party.
Though Pat Toomey is pro-life, his campaign focuses on jobs, business, regulation, and the free market. Back at the RedState Gathering in August (the next one will be announced [...]

Perry
“Stop messing with Texas!” That was the message Gov. Rick Perry bellowed on election night as he celebrated his victory over Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison in the Republican primary for governor. In his reference to Texas’ anti-littering slogan, Perry was making a point applicable to national as well as Texas politics and addressed to Democratic [...]

Washington, DC – Today the Susan B. Anthony List announced the results of a series of polls conducted in congressional districts by the polling company,inc/WomanTrend. The surveys asked registered voters about abortion funding and healthcare reform in the following members’ districts: Jason Altmire (PA-04), Paul Kanjorski (PA-11), Brad Ellsworth (IN-08), Baron Hill (IN-09), Steve [...]

Rapper Jay-Z’s apparent visit to the White House Situation Room Wednesday reveals a radical departure from the last eight years of security policy, according to a senior Bush administration official.
According to photos released by an anonymous twitter user, Jay-Z, along with his entourage and his wife Beyonce, visited the White House Wednesday before a concert [...]

By Larry Kudlow
Rather than a post-partisan olive branch to congressional Republicans and the American public, President Obama’s latest health-care speech was a declaration of war. He’s more than willing to use a 51-vote reconciliation majority to jam through a roughly $2 trillion health-care plan that amounts to a government takeover of nearly one-fifth of the [...]

By Charles Krauthammer
WASHINGTON — So the yearlong production, set to close after Massachusetts’ devastatingly negative Jan. 19 review, saw the curtain raised one last time. Obamacare lives.
After 34 speeches, three sharp electoral rebukes (Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts) and a seven-hour seminar, the president announced Wednesday his determination to make one last push to pass [...]

By Ken Blackwell
My colleague Tony Perkins has just been banned from addressing the Andrews Air Force Base prayer luncheon. His invitation has been withdrawn. Tony is president of the Family Research Council. He’s a Christian minister. And he’s an honorably discharged veteran of the Marine Corps. None of this mattered. Tony had spoken out in [...]

Last night a slew of pro-family ballot initiatives passed overwhelmingly in Texas. Congratulations to the conservative patriots who made these victories possible.
GOP Proposition 2 — Controlling Government Growth – PASS (91.9% – 8.1%)
Every government body in Texas should be required to limit any annual increase in its budget and spending to the combined increase [...]

Perry
Speaking at his election night party in Driftwood, Perry said he would unite a fractured Texas Republican Party in the November general election and stressed that Washington politics had no place in the Lone Star state.
“From Driftwood, Texas, to Washington, D.C. we are sending you a message tonight: Stop messing with Texas!” Perry said.
To read [...]

FFC Chairman Ralph Reed held an organizational meeting with key grassroots visionaries, pastors, and former and current elected officials in Nashville, Tennessee, on March 1st to launch the Faith and Freedom Coalition of Tennessee. Everyone left the meeting energized about the great promise and potential of the Faith and Freedom Coalition of Tennessee
“I believe that [...]

On ‘GMA’ this morning, James Carville wasn’t as optimistic as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Not sure that Democrats have the votes to pass the President’s plan, Carville is sure that failure will be the “Waterloo” predicted by GOP Senator Jim DeMint.
“If it goes down” Carville said, “it’s gonna be a simple statement: the Democrats [...]

Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D) now has far more to worry about than just Republican challengers in November. Lt. Gov. Bill Halter announced this morning in a video on his campaign Web site that he is taking on the second-term senator in the Democratic primary.
“Right now, Washington is not working for Arkansas families. But it [...]

Reid
WASHINGTON — During his whirlwind visit to Las Vegas two weeks ago, President Barack Obama mentioned U.S. Sen. Harry Reid by name four dozen times, gave him a big hug and talked him up as if he was a long-lost brother.
In remarks that could not have been more laudatory, Obama repeatedly characterized the veteran Democratic [...]

CNN’s Fareed Zakaria introduced George Soros as “the billionaire investor, financier, speculator, philanthropist and thinker.”
Zakaria on his “Fareed Zakaria GPS” this morning also noted that Soros was one of Barack Obama’s biggest supporters. Zakaria asked, “Are you satisfied with the job Barack Obama has done?”
Soros said he wasn’t. Soros wanted the banks nationalized, but added [...]

President Obama
The consensus among American voters is Barack Obama is better at campaigning for the job than at doing the job, according to a Fox News poll released Thursday. In addition, half of voters say the Obama administration doesn’t “get it.”
As the president’s approval rating remains in the high forties, the poll finds that voters [...]

Former state House Speaker Marco Rubio continues to lengthen his lead over Governor Charlie Crist in the contest for Florida’s Republican Senate nomination.
A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely Republican Primary voters finds Rubio leading Crist by 18 points, 54% to 36%. Four percent (4%) prefer some other candidate, and seven percent are undecided. [...]

President Obama and congressional Democrats are citing a jump in rates by a California health insurer as grounds for getting their national health care plan back on track, but voters are still more fearful of the federal government than private insurance companies when it comes to health care decisions.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey [...]

By: Sean J. Connolly
The month before Scott Brown convinced President Barack Obama’s rosy-eyed team of political climate change, Micah Sifry posted a rant on techPresident.com rejecting the notion that the Internet had empowered ordinary citizens during the president’s 2008 campaign.
“The big story of 2009,” wrote Sifry, a former editor of The Nation magazine, is [...]

Sarah Palin addressed the crowd at the Daytona 500 to cheers and applause. She also got standing ovations in meetings with the drivers and crew before the race. Looks like Middle America appreciates Palin for her conservative stands far more than opinion elites.

Palin at Daytona

Ralph and Marco Rubio both spoke at the Osceola County Republican Party Lincoln Day dinner this past weekend in Kissimmee, Florida. Ralph talked up the Florida U.S. Senate race with Marco before the dinner.