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 February 18th, 2009 by Michael Stickings
With investigations underway in Illinois, an ethics probe launched in the Senate, and more and more evidence that he’s a lying, corrupt scoundrel, it is indeed time for Roland Burris to resign.
The Washington Post
From the moment that Mr. Burris was selected, he strove to portray himself as a blameless public servant. The sad pictures of [...]
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Posted on September 19th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton sat down together for a web cast with questions from women on the issues that are most important to them. Watch the video here:
As a single mother and a small business owner, I have to say they addressed a lot of issues that important to me, including health care, social [...]
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Filed under: Democrats, Economy, Election '08, Equal Rights, Healthcare, Obama-Biden 08, Pamela Leavey, Politics, Polls, Presidential Election, Sen. Hillary Clinton, Sen. Joe Biden, Women's Issues
Posted on July 26th, 2008 by Pamela Leavey
Matt Yglesis has a post expanding the poll from the Pew Hispanic Center, that I posted about here the other day. Yglesis says:
Back during the primaries, everyone kept formally admitting that it was wrong to engage in the form of inference “candidate X lost group A in a primary, and therefore he’s likely to lose group [...]
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Filed under: Bloggers, Democrats, Election '08, General Election, In The News, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, Polls, Presidential Election, Presidential Primaries, Republicans
Posted on May 13th, 2008 by Gilbert Martinez
You’ll have to excuse me if I’m unmoved by the keyboard jockeys claiming racism for those who are not supporting Obama. I don’t have to justify my race relations credibility to anyone. You just have to ask those who know me, about the group I helped start at the medical school I’m affiliated with to [...]
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Filed under: Civil Rights, Election '08, Gilbert Martinez, Opinions
Posted on January 29th, 2007 by Robert Stein
Cross posted from Connecting.the.Dots:
Does Cheney, a New York Times editorial asks, “simply feel free to cut the ground out from under Mr. Bush?”
Why not? In 2000, after heading the search for a running mate, Cheney looked in the mirror and picked himself.
They lost the popular vote (and who knows about Florida?), but Cheney came to [...]
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Filed under: Iraq, OP/ED's, Politics, Republicans
Posted on September 13th, 2006 by Todd Mitchell
Cross Posted From: Article of Faith:
Apologies if this has been mentioned already, but major props go to Emerging Democratic Majority for this find: a new online magazine called The Democratic Strategist which brings together “every sector of the Democratic community” to “a place where the latest research in social science and public opinion could be [...]
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Posted on November 16th, 2005 by Nick
Some liberals will be much tempted to make Judge Alito’s 1985 comments about abortion the linchpin of their opposition to Alito. Sure Alito should be asked about these comments, but if recent polls are any indication, we appear to be living in a “pro-choice” country. Sure some Dems are hurt by the [...]
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