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Too good to check: Former staffer claims 80% of Gingrich’s Twitter followers...
Hmmm. Not only is it too good to check, it’s impossible to check. He has 1.3 million followers, more than twice the number Palin has and many, many, many times more than other Republican candidates....
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Palin knocks it out of the park
Lady’s got chops. Few people in the public eye have said anything useful about the recent unpleasantness with the national debt and the national credit rating. The president hasn’t. The vice...
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Open thread: Republican debate in Ames
Hot Air and Townhall are on the scene! Tonight, the Republican candidates for the presidential nomination — most of them, anyway — square off for a televised debate in Ames, Iowa, from the Stephens...
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Why the 10:1 cuts-to-revenue-increases question is a policy non-sequitur
Not addressing the problem. Call this The Debate Question That Would Not Die. Eight days ago in Ames, Iowa, Fox News’ Bret Baier asked the Republican candidates whether they would walk away from a...
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Romney edging Obama, Perry ties in latest Gallup poll
Bachmann only 4 points back? If the presidential race was held today, according to the latest Gallup poll, Barack Obama would be … in a lot of trouble. In head-to-head battles with the top four...
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Video: Was the NBC/Politico debate fair to the Republican candidates?
Bias. Conservatives complained after the NBC/Politico debate on Wednesday night that the questions were biased and hostile. Bill O’Reilly and Bernard Goldberg debated last night whether conservatives...
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Republicans muster up a big explosion of “meh” to Ponzi-scheme rhetoric
The War Games strategy. With Republican candidates ginning up outrage over Rick Perry’s remarks on Social Security, one might think that some internal polling shows primary voters will punish Perry...
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Obama’s raised more money for Democrats from Wall Street donors than all...
Populist. The story’s a day old but it’s not to be missed. How much filthy “bankster” lucre are we talking about here? Put it this way: He’s raised more than twice as much for himself and the DNC as...
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Video: Chris Wallace wonders when Mitt Romney will show up
He’s been served. Yesterday’s Fox News Sunday closed on a puzzling note. Chris Wallace concluded an interview with Governor Rick Perry by noting that FNS has now interviewed every Republican...
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Bipartisan plan for premium-support reform of Medicare?
Big deal. Democrats had to have a plan to tie all Republican candidates to that crazy notion floated by Paul Ryan to transform Medicare into a premium-support plan, an idea so radical that no Democrat...
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Previewing the final Iowa debate of the year
One last opportunity for Perry? I’m not sure whether to feel happy, disappointed, or relieved that the Republican candidates will hold their last major televised debate of the year on Fox News Channel...
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Rush: Remember when National Review was the voice of conservatism?
“It’s changed a bit.” CNS News catches Rush Limbaugh in a reflective mood yesterday after National Review’s anyone-but-Newt-or-Perry editorial earlier this week. Instead of railing about the attack...
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New AP/GFK Poll: Majority of Americans want Obama out
But three-quarters still find him likable. They might have reservations about the Republican candidates, but the majority of Americans still want President Barack Obama out of office, according to a...
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Rasmussen: Romney tops Obama, 45/39; Update: Party affiliation ratio in...
Plus, Gallup poll shows Obama on the extreme of American politics. Two polls released today show Barack Obama in serious trouble for re-election. Rasmussen has polled Obama head-to-head against...
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Virginia AG: On second thought, maybe we shouldn’t change the rules in the...
Fairness. Yesterday, Virginia’s Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli injected himself into the controversy over the failure of several Republican candidates to access the presidential primary ballot....
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WSJ: Say, Jindal’s education reform works pretty well, huh?
Hint. Hint. Hint. What a great time for the Wall Street Journal to bring up this topic. After all, the Republican candidates in the nomination battle have focused their arguments on actual...
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Last debate, last stand?
The final four? Tonight, the Republican candidates for the presidential nomination will hold the 20th nationally-televised debate — or 24th, or 22nd, depending on what counts as an official debate and...
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Study: Yep, Obamacare probably cost Democrats the House
In case there was any question. In case Republican candidates need confirmation that Obamacare was and is a huge vulnerability for the president and Democrats, a new study suggests that, of all the...
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Rasmussen tracking poll puts Romney up 5, Santorum up 1 over Obama
Obama 44/54 on job approval. Rasmussen’s daily tracking poll has good news for Republicans, and two of the Republican candidates. The ongoing daily survey of 500 likely voters shows Barack Obama’s...
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Rasmussen: 59% think Obama is more liberal than themselves
Only 37% pick Obama over Republican candidates for viewpoint. Rasmussen has two polls out today, but neither have anything to do with Alabama or Mississippi. In surveys conducted last week and...
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Democratic trackers posting videos of Republican candidates’ homes online
Hardball. I started this story fully expecting that it would end with a caught-in-the-act ass-covering scramble by the DCCC to blame it all on “overzealous trackers” or whatever. Of course the...
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Quotes of the day
Outreach. Until yesterday, I thought of Mitt Romney as a spineless, disingenuous, and supercilious but more or less decently intentioned person who at least wasn’t the race-mongering pyromaniac that...
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