Balance the budget- the many paths available

    If you are like me, you’ve rooted for dozens of tea party candidates over the past few months due to their high priority of balancing the budget. We’ve watched them make broad statements saying the number one issue is restoring fiscal order. Up to this point, their has been very little in the way of serious proposals for combating our number one security problem: further | Read More »

    Our former speaker of the house endorsing 3rd party potential

    Source At a question / answer session at the college of the Ozarks, Newt Gingrich showed his die hard support for the Republican party- He predicted the rise of a third party by 2012 if Republicans don’t get their act together.  And he acknowledged that most of the big financial problems the country currently faces began under the era of former President Bush. “Remember, everything | Read More »

    To turn the clock back 10 months

    In this political season where we seemed predestined to lose, where we have tasted what it is like to lead, still have a solid hope of pulling off the presidential election, and minimizing congressional losses, I’ve found myself drifting back a few months to our heated candidate comparison during our party’s presidential primaries. I’d like to preface this by noting that Conservatives lost in the | Read More »

    The yet to be unfolded game-changing nature of Sarah Palin

    If you’ve payed a lick of attention to the news over the past 2 weeks, you’ve undoubtedly caught at least one major trend: the primary political discussion has turned into a comparison of Obama and Palin. -Who is more politically experienced? -Small town Mayorship vs Community Organization -Who is really creating a Cult of Personality -Who is playing Identity Politics -Palin’s speeches causing fundraising for | Read More »

    A month of presidential polling transition in one table

    Like many other pollsters, Rasmussen rates states as safe XX, likely XX, leans XX or toss up. Today they made their first update in a month. Now I know the slight shifts in race have been well documented here. But, this gives a nice chance to step back and look at the progress of the race as a whole. So without further adieu- State- Former | Read More »

    How close the Clintons are…

    Lets have some fun with numbers- First, lets assume Obama gets his way and we get a fully unsanctioned Democratic Convention. That means the route to a clear nomination requires 2,210 delegates out of 4,418. When one adds up the pledged, and unpledged but unofficially pledged delegates, BHO appears to have 2,307 delegates or 52% of the vote. The split looks like this- Pledged votes: | Read More »

    More than just noise

    In addition to Rasmussen’s tracking polls, which have shown McCain and Obama within 1% for the last six straight days, they also produce voter trust polls for each candidate on several issues. Now, a good deal of these numbers are only available to those who pay for premium member status to the pollster, but the gist of the polls are released to the public- and | Read More »