As everyone knows, the election in November will boil down to a handful of states. Romney needs to take states that Obama won in 2008 obviously. We can quibble about this state or that state being in play, but that subject will be for another entry. Suffice to say, the likely swing states this year will be: Florida, Iowa, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, | Read More »
On Wednesday, Mitt Romney delivered a speech to the Latino Coalition of the Chamber of Commerce. Some liberal websites covered the speech with derision with comments like “in 26 minutes he didn’t once mention immigration.” This underscores their ignorance and their group identity politics and show this propensity in other areas. The alleged war on women is a perfect example. In that case, liberals and | Read More »
In the span of less than a month, we have seen some desperation on the part of Team Obama and his dutiful consorts in the media. An analyst on CNN managed to compare Romney’s speech at Liberty University regarding heterosexual marriage as being akin to George Wallace’s declaration in favor of segregation. Commentators on MSNBC managed to up the ante by comparing Ann Romney to | Read More »
We are slightly more than six months away from the general election where we will decide who our next President will be and whether Republicans can take control of the Senate. The following analysis of the battle for the Senate is based on recent polling information which I then modify based on the trends and the reliability of the polling data. Obviously, some polling services | Read More »
No one on the Right denies that there is an income gap between the haves and the have nots in this country, nor do they deny that it is getting worse. In fact, 66% of conservatives polled said it was a problem with another 21% characterizing it as a crisis. So, 87% of conservatives are acutely aware of the income inequality problem in America. There | Read More »
Entitlement reform will be the main prong in the Democratic attack on Romney and Republicans this year. Whenever the subject of Social Security reform is mentioned, I am always struck by these words: “We shall make the most orderly progress is we look upon Social Security as a development toward a goal rather than a finished product. We shall make the most lasting progress is | Read More »
How often have we heard that conservatives, or Republicans, are for the rich? To hear the Obama Administration speak, everything the Republican Party proposes is dictated by some secret cabal of rich businesspeople sitting in some oak boardroom somewhere. It borders on continuously discounted conspiracy theories. But, lets look at some facts from the past three years of the Obama Administration. In reality, it is | Read More »
In the aforementioned Luntz article in the Washington Post, the author noted that a popular myth regarding the conservative voter is that they all support the deportation of illegal immigrants. However, it is exactly that- a myth. There is a fundamental difference, however, when it comes to the proposed solutions to the problem. Illegal immigration affects border states more than other states, but every state | Read More »
Happy Easter to all RedState readers. On this day, while there is a lull in politics- unless you are watching the Sunday morning talk shows- it would be good to look at where the race for the Presidency and the Senate stands at this point in time. Most of this is based upon the most recent polling data from a variety of sources specific to | Read More »
From the many comments and editorials here and elsewhere, the probable nominee, Mitt Romney, has failed the conservative litmus test…whatever that is. He has been lumped into the great depository of the RINOs and no amount of convincing by him or others is going to change anyone’s mind. For many, his rhetoric on the campaign on the campaign trail in 2011-2012 does not match his | Read More »
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