Posted on April 24th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
President Obama’s first months in the Oval Office have strengthened his “standing with the American public, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, giving him political capital for battles ahead.”
As his 100th day as president approaches next Wednesday, the survey shows Obama has not only maintained robust approval ratings but also bolstered the sense that he is a [...]
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Filed under: Conservatives, Democrats, Economy, In The News, Obama Administration, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, Polls, President Barack Obama, Republicans
Posted on October 29th, 2008 by The Country Doc
Barack Obama is seizing upon a gaffe by McCain adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, about the Republican candidates’ health care plan. When the adviser was asked on CNN Money about young workers abdoning employment based health care. ”Why would they leave?” he said. “What they are getting from their employer is way better than what they could get with the credit.”
The [...]
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Filed under: General Election, Healthcare, The Country Doc
Posted on October 27th, 2008 by Hart Williams
The Swamp, the Chicago Tribune’s Washington bureau blog, reports:
A campaign official privately tells the paper: “She’s now positioning herself for her own future. Of course, this is bad for John. It looks like no one is in charge.”
ABC News, among others, notes that, in an interview with CNN, one McCain adviser anonymously called Palin “a [...]
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Filed under: In The News
Posted on September 26th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
H/T to Political Wire
“It just proves his campaign is governed by tactics and not ideology. In the end, he blinked and Obama did not. The ’steady hand in a storm’ argument looks now to more favor Obama, not McCain… My guess is that plasma units are rushing to the McCain campaign as we speak to [...]
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Posted on July 1st, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
In a Zanesville, Ohio speech at the Eastside Community Ministry, Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee whose entire campaign was based on the concept of ‘Change’, advocated the expansion of the the faith-based social programs initiated by George W. Bush. He announced plans to expand the use of federal money to support faith based social [...]
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Filed under: Democrats, Election '08, George W. Bush, In The News, Political News, Politics, Presidential Election, Stuart O'Neill
