Politics
Cain 23 Romney 22 in The Des Moines Sunday Register Poll
Two months before the first votes will be cast in the Republican presidential nominating contest, Herman Cain and Mitt Romney have the strongest support among party activists who plan to participate in the Iowa caucuses, according to a new poll released Saturday evening.
The Iowa Poll in The Des Moines Sunday Register provided the clearest snapshot […]
Bet On It, Romney Will Have A ‘Mormon Problem’
Only 4 out of 10 Americans even know Mitt Romney is Mormon, according to the Public Religion Research Institute. And the only group that is catching up to this fact about Romney are white Evangelicals.
This is bad news for Romney.
According to the PRRI, knowledge of Romney’s faith rose among white Evangelicals from 44 percent in […]
Herman Cain: “The Book Tour Is Over”, Kickoff Campaign in Early Primary States
“The book tour is over,” Cain declared Wednesday, vowing to add staff in New Hampshire and Iowa and bring his campaign bus to the Granite State in the coming weeks. He hadn’t visited New Hampshire since midsummer.
Seizing modest momentum in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, businessman Herman Cain promised to invest in additional […]
51% Don’t Want Second Term For President Obama
A majority of Americans now oppose giving President Obama a second term, reflecting the country’s continued weak economic performance, according to the latest IBD/TIPP survey released Monday.
By 51%-41%, respondents in October picked “someone new deserves a chance” over Obama “deserves to be re-elected.” Among independents, it was 54%-36%. Back in September, the readings were 50%-44% […]
AP Editor: We Still Consider Herman Cain A Second-Tier Candidate
Yeah, Herman Cain won the Florida straw poll, crushing Mitt Romney and Rick Perry. And OK, a CBS poll recently found him tied with Romney among likely Republican primary voters. Sure, he also scored a resounding victory in another straw poll this weekend. And Rasmussen just today released the finding that 56% of GOP voters […]
Herman Cain surging, edging Obama (PP: 43%-41%)
In a hypothetical head-to-head presidential race, Republican Herman Cain edges Democrat Barack Obama, according to our latest national scientific opinion poll.
The poll found Cain topping Obama by a narrow 43%-41% margin, with 15% saying they had no opinion. The 2% difference falls within the poll’s 3% margin of error.
Poll Position’s scientific telephone survey of 1,135 […]
Herman Cain tops MLC straw poll with more than 50% (The Hermanator’s Surge Continues!)
Let’s just get it out of the way and all recite the mantra at once, shall we?
Straw polls don’t mean anything.
But for those who still like to follow them, we had yet another this weekend in Minnesota at the Midwestern Leadership Conference. And once again Herman Cain mopped up the competition, this time registering the largest […]
Herman Cain steps up attacks on Occupy Wall Street protests
Republican presidential contender Herman Cain amplified his criticism Sunday of the growing Occupy Wall Street movement, calling the protesters “jealous’ Americans who “play the victim card” and want to “take somebody else’s” Cadillac.
Cain’s remarks, on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” came amidst an escalating war of words between Republicans and Democratsover the merits of the movement, which has spread from New York […]
How the ‘Hermanator’ could be the Republican to challenge Barack Obama in 2012
He is a former pizza chain magnate, the son of a chauffeur and a cleaner, a conservative African-American — and, to just about everyone’s surprise, a strong contender in the Republican presidential race.
As other leading contenders have begun to falter, Herman Cain has surged into second place in Republican ranks, buoyed by his fiery oratory […]
Herman Cain drowns out Perry at Republican showdown
WASHINGTON — Republican White House hopeful Rick Perry tried to revive his campaign Friday but got dragged into a religious row and saw a plea to Christian voters drowned out by fast-rising longshot Herman Cain.
Perry, who exploded into the White House race in August but has since fallen back after wobbly debate performances, sought to […]
Poll: Cain surges, opens up 20-point lead on Romney
In news sure to inject shock and awe into the Republican political primary season, a IBOPE Zogby poll released Thursday showed Herman Cain leading the Republican field, topping former front-runner Mitt Romney by an astonishing 20 points. Cain would also narrowly edge out Obama in a general election, the poll found, by a 46–44 margin.
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Barack Obama’s father forced out at Harvard
BOSTON — President Barack Obama’s father was forced to leave Harvard University before completing his Ph.D. in economics because the school was concerned about his personal life and finances, according to newly public immigration records.
Harvard had asked the Immigration and Naturalization Service to delay a request by Barack Hussein Obama Sr. […]
Poll: Obama Doesn’t Deserve Re-Election, Faces Close Matchups with Some Republicans
Many of the major pollsters and news organizations that conduct surveys have already begun testing the possible candidates for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination and matching them against President Barack Obama. It’s an exercise probably more useful in gauging what voters think of them today than how they might feel next […]
Dancing becomes a war of political ideologies (LIBERAL COLUMNIST GETS BENT ABOUT BRISTOL PALIN)
Will a Bristol Palin victory mean the death of ObamaCare? Will liberals in Congress finally be forced to pass tough immigration laws?
Or more importantly, will ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars” have to alter the scoring system for its dancing competition?
Bristol Palin, the daughter of former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, is a […]
52% of Voters Say Their Views Are More Like Palin’s Than Obama’s
Fifty-two percent (52%) of Likely U.S. Voters say their own views are closer to Sarah Palin’s than they are to President Obama’s, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
Just 40% say their views are closer to the president’s than to those of the former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential […]
Very Hilarious: RINO and Son
Why Some Republicans Don’t Want to Win the Senate
What good is the United States Senate if you can’t use it?
That’s the question quietly being asked by several prominent Republicans on election day, as the GOP stands poised to capture the House and, just possibly, the Senate.
But two prominent inside-the-Beltway Republicans told me yesterday that they’re worried about Republicans […]
New Poll shows Republican Raese Edging Democrat Manchin by 3
After a bad couple of weeks, Republicans worried that Joe Manchin might have overtaken John Raese in the race to replace the late Robert Byrd in the US Senate. A new Fox News poll shows that Manchin made up ground on Raese, but the Republican still holds a narrow lead over the […]
Rasmussen Predicts GOP Gain of 55 in House (Polls)
Newport Beach, Calif.—Nationally-recognized pollster Scott Rasmussen last night predicted that Republicans would gain 55 seats in races for the U.S. House of Representatives November 2—much more than the 39 needed for a Republican majority in the House for the first time since 2006.
But the man whose Rasmussen Reports polling is […]
Connecticut Senate: Blumenthal (D) Holds Smaller Lead Over McMahon (R)
Democrat Richard Blumenthal now leads Republican Linda McMahon by just five points in Connecticut’s race for the U.S. Senate in a survey conducted two nights after their third and final head-to-head debate.
The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Likely Voters shows Blumenthal, Connecticut’s longtime attorney general, picking up 51% […]