Seven-point Democrat advantage in sample. CBS finds that Barack Obama’s job approval numbers are “mixed,” but that has more to do with the usual CBS sampling follies than it does with any actual rebound in Obama’s numbers. Obama gets a 45/47 in their latest survey of registered voters, but does worse on the issues, especially the issue that concerns Americans Read this post
Reid down to 41%. The difference between sampling likely and registered voters gets made plain in the latest CNN/Time Magazine poll in Nevada, among other states, where the results of the former show Sharron Angle taking her first slight edge over Harry Reid, 42/41 in a virtual tie. Time breaks down the internals, but avoids one key observation on Read this post
-By Warner Todd Huston Sean Duffy is running for Congress in Wisconsin’s 7th District. I met him earlier this year at an AFP conference in The Dells and he and his young family were great folks. Here is his latest ad promising to “bring the axe to Washington”: This is the sort of congressmen we need, those promising (and hopefully following through with) cutting federal spending. http://www.duffyforcongress.com/
The “tea party” partied hearty on the last big night of primaries Tuesday. In one of the most stunning results of the midterm season, marketing consultant Christine O’Donnell, backed with endorsements from tea party activists and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, became the latest “outsider” candidate to knock off an …
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'Tea party' favorite O'Donnell storms Castle in Delaware primary
By Susan Ferrechio Chief Congressional Correspondent President Obama has sought to buttress Democratic hopes in November by blaming the nation’s economic woes on his predecessor, while members of his own party are poised to reject his latest stimulus and tax proposals and some Democrats are running against the president’s…
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Obama campaigns against Bush while some Dems run against him
President Obama could be facing an uphill battle to pass his latest proposal to boost the nation’s economy as spending-weary Democrats cringe at the $50 billion price tag and Republicans reject what they have labeled as another stimulus measure. Obama on Monday trumpeted a proposal to use federal funding to rebuild the nation’s…
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Some Hill Dems cringe at Obama’s $50 billion spending plan
President Obama is not finding many allies in his latest call for bipartisan cooperation on new infrastructure spending and tax breaks, and even Democrats say nothing will get done in the two months before congressional elections. “He’s just throwing it on the wall, hoping it will stick,” said Sen. James …
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Obama hits bump in road spending
Turns out politics, for all its focus on the gloomy economy, is a recession-proof industry. This year’s volatile election is bursting with money, setting fundraising and spending records in a high-stakes struggle for control of Congress amid looser but still fuzzy campaign-finance rules. Based on the latest financial reports, House …
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Election-cash spigots running at full blast
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Obama will call on Congress to pass new tax breaks that would allow businesses to write off 100 percent of their new capital investments through 2011, the latest in a series of proposals the White House is rolling out in hopes of showing action on the …
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Obama to back more business tax breaks
Don’t choke. As if Democrats didn’t have enough trouble in this midterm cycle, it appears now that Republicans have actually picked up more momentum heading into the general election. As candidates begin the eight weeks of serious campaigning, both CNN and Rasmussen show in their latest polls that the GOP has extended its already-historic leads. Rasmussen shows Read this post