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Newt Tanking

New Polls out of Iowa confirm what Rasmussen reported on Friday.  Newt Gingrich is tanking.  Ron Paul is now formally in the lead in the Hawkeye State, but that cannot last.  His isolationist foreign policy positions are anathema to a vast majority of Republicans everywhere.  Mr. Gingrich’s precipitous drop is welcome evidence that the messaging used by other […]

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The-Anyone-but-Barack Vote

Ron Paul is in a statistical tie with President Obama if the election were held today, with President Obama pulling 47% of the vote and Congressman Paul taking 45%.  In fact, Paul would probably beat the President today, as the undecideds almost all break to the challenger in a presidential contest. Michele Bachmann is  four points behind the President […]

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The President’s Numbers, Minus the Black Vote

  President Obama fell below the 40% approval threshold for the first time this weekend, according the latest Gallup Survey, not long after the stock market dipped below the 11,000 mark again. Mr. Obama now enjoys the support of just 39% of Americans; 54% disapprove of his performance, with the rest falling into undecided territory. President George W. Bush, […]

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Blue States, Red Ink

Forbes teamed up with the Gallup Poll recently to determine which states are in the worst financial shape.  Forbes and Gallup measured each state’s “unfunded pension liabilities, changes in tax revenue, credit ratings, debt as a percentage of Gross State Product, debt per capita, growth expectations for employment and the state economy, net migrations and a “moocher […]

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Gallup Shocker

A just-released Gallup Poll has President Obama losing to a generic Republican 47-39.   No wonder Mr. Obama is getting testy.     

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