A couple of primaries/caucuses are coming up for the Republican primary. February 4-Nevada (Binding caucus, 3 superdelegates, 25 delegates) February 4-11-Maine (Non-binding caucus, 3 superdelegates, 21 delegates) February 7-Colorado (Non-binding caucus, 3 superdelegates, 33 delegates) February 7-Minnesota (Non-binding caucus, 3 superdelegates, 37 delegates) February 7-Missouri (Non-binding primary, 3 superdelegates, 49 delegates)
Dear any Republican besides this current field, Will you consider entering this broken and unfulfilling Republican priamry field? Us Republicans all around the country need a new candidate to enter the field and take the momentum to win the Republican nomination. This current Republican field is broken and corrupt. None of the candidates represent true conservative values and what it means to be a real | Read More »
Florida (January 31)-Romney will win Florida in a close race. Gingrich will do well in the rural areas and the panhandle/areas close to his home state of Georgia, but, Romney will make up the difference in southern Florida and the coasts because that is where all of the high-income earners live. The senior vote will also go for Romney. Paul will do well in the | Read More »
There is no case to be made for Jon Huntsman. He has had no chance of winning the Republican nomination since he entered the race many months ago. He made a terrible strategy of just focusing on one state (New Hampshire), which he somehow thinks will get him the nomination. The former Utah Governor is another Mitt Romney and does not represent true conservatives across | Read More »
Some Texas tea-party activists have agreed to hold a “modified Lincoln-Douglas debate” next month between businessman and current frontrunner Herman Cain and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. Bill O’Sullivan, the treasurer of the Texas Tea Party Patriots, says that both candidates have agreed to appear at the debate. The debate will mostly focus on fiscal issues. The event will be held on November | Read More »
Apparently, California wants to infringe on our voting rights and pass a bill that would effectively limit our choices for elective office, and violate the rights we have in electing members of our government. The California State Senate will vote on Bill AB 1413 on September, 8. The bill would abolish the write-in space on all general election ballots, and deny Californians their right to | Read More »
According to some Democratic sources close to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Reid will pick his three nominees for the “super committee” assigned with finding $1 trillion in spending cuts by the end of this year. The sources say that the three are: Patty Murray (D-WA), Max Baucus (D-MT), and John Kerry (D-MA). Also, according to the sources, Reid has picked Murray to serve as the | Read More »
(Continued….) Jared Blankenship, a former teacher from Hereford running as a Republican, has been campaigning around Iowa for a while now and has been running an under-the-radar campaign. He says the belief that Americans still have in the political system rejuvenated his campaign. (He was campaigning in Osceola, Iowa when he said this). He is facing an uphill battle to try and receive votes in next | Read More »
Well, folks, with the distaste for the political system in 2012, there are more people than ever filing with the FEC to run for President against President Obama in next year’s election. Thirteen candidates for President that have filed with the FEC are from Texas, with a couple of them almost always in the headlines. Out of the thirteen candidates, there are six Republicans, one | Read More »
The University of Tennessee’s bookstore has pulled packages of breath mints off of their shelves after a state legislator complained. On the box is a picture of President Obama and labeled “dissapoint-mints.” Democratic state rep. Joe Armstrong visited the store and told the manager that he thought the mints were “offensive.” Apparently, he thinks he has all of the power. Armstrong told The Knoxville News | Read More »
Here’s a possible example of corruption in one of our nation’s police departments. The city of Oak Hill, Florida, has eliminated its entire police department last night. The police chief and some other officers were accused of illegal and other weird behavior while on police duty. The city council was so mad that they just eliminated the entire police department. That’s corruption. The mayor had called a | Read More »
The Mississippi primary is tomorrow. The primaries will be held for all statewide elected offices (excluding Senators), the state legislature, and other offices, with the most prominent being the gubernatorial primary to replace term-limited governor Haley Barbour (R), who pondered running for president earlier in the year, but, eventually decided against it. The candidates for the Republican nomination are: James Broadwater Lieutentant Governor Phil Bryant | Read More »
A former aide to former House speaker Newt Gingrich, a candidate for the 2012 Republican nomination, has come out and said that most of Newt’s followers on Twitter are fake. Gingrich likes to gloat about the fact that he has over 1.3 million followers on Twitter, which is more than Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney, and Ron Paul. Well, now, information has been leaked | Read More »
Our Secret Service has been known to be the toughest group of agents in the world; protecting our leaders at every moment of the day. Now, the Secret Service does more than protect our nation’s leaders; they pay our own Vice President rent. Joe Biden has collected more than $13,000 from the agency which protects him and his family. Since April, he has collected the rent for use of | Read More »
The stimulus has failed its country one again, showing that it was just a waste of money that didn’t help our country get out of the recession and just added more to the national debt. Central Falls, Rhode Island has filed for Chapter 9 bankruptcy, which is rare. It is one of many cities and towns around the country facing a financial collapse after the | Read More »
Just to show more evidence of how the bailout plan didn’t work and how it just added more money to the federal deficit, banks in Indiana, Virginia, and South Carolina have closed there doors. Integra Banks in Indiana had its doors closed on Friday by federal regulators. Integra is the first bank in Indiana to fail this year and it is the first FDIC-insured bank to fail in Indiana since | Read More »
The Little League World Series is a prestigious event where kids 11-13 get to play baseball, and get to live their dreams of being on national television. Now, The Department of State is ruining one of those team’s dreams. A team from Uganda would have been the first African team to ever compete in the Little League World Series, but, now, the US Department of | Read More »
While most of the other presidential candidates are campaigning around Iowa in advance of the Ames Straw Poll, former Utah Governor and former US Ambassador to China under President Obama Jon Huntsman, Jr. is campaigning around the battleground state of New Hampshire. Huntsman said stated that he will probably not compete in the Iowa caucuses, which may be a bad move for his campaign as | Read More »
More stupidity coming out of the Newt Gingrich presidential campaign today: he was asked to hold up a Newt 2012 t-shirt to the cameras at a press availability event at his campaign headquarters in Atlanta today, and got owned by an ABC producer. “We asked for t-shirts to be sent to us and they were made in America,” the ABC producer said. “I just picked up | Read More »
Former New York Governor George Pataki is mulling a presidential run, and is a few weeks from deciding on whether or not to run for the presidency. He has visited the early primary states of Iowa and New Hampshire, and he himself has said he is considering a run. He will visit New Hampshire on Thursday to have a discussion with leaders from around the | Read More »
A new series of polls of presidential matchups between announced and potential Republican presidential candidates by Rasmussen shows that other candidates are showing momentum against Barack Obama besides former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, the frontrunner in the race currently. Romney beats Obama 43%-42% in the poll, and this win is probably because he is currently perceived as the frontrunner for the Republican nomination. Obama leads | Read More »
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney has won a major straw poll in the state of Ohio: the Ohio Republican Party Straw Poll. This is a major step in Romney’s campaign to win the 2012 Republican nomination in a large delegate state like Ohio. In a poll released last week by Quinnipiac of the 2012 Republican field in Ohio, Romney leads 16%-15% against Former Alaska Governor Sarah | Read More »
A Baltimore Mayoral candidate has decided to introduce a new tax to the voters of Baltimore: a “bullet tax.” According to Baltimore Mayoral candidate and former planning director of the city Otis Rolley, he would propose (if elected) a new $1-per-bullet tax on all bullets sold within the city. He says this will help decrease crime and increase the cost to commit a crime. He | Read More »
Today is a little noticed state House special election in Arkansas in a traditionally blue district based in Crittenden County in the eastern portion of the state, where Arkansas meets borders Mississippi and Tennessee. It is in the suburbs of Memphis, which is why it is a traditionally blue district. The Democrats currently hold a 54-45 majority in the House, making it pretty close in | Read More »
A frenzy of applause went around the sports world to Derek Jeter on Friday after he hit a home run off of David Price of the Tampa Bay Rays in the Yankees win. He became the second player ever to hit a home run for their three-thousandth hit, behind Wade Boggs, who hit his when he was with the Tampa Bay Rays in 1999. The | Read More »
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