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2012

Romney's support in steady decline in Nevada...

Donald Trump: Krauthammer's "just a sad fool" trying to ride his coattails for publicity...

Lawrence O'Donnell tries to flush out NBC: Asks if 'The Apprentice' will run next fall...

Rasmussen: Trump 19, Romney 17, Huckabee 15, Palin & Gingrich 9...

The DailyCaller poll: Top picks are Chris Christie and Donald Trump...

GOP chair Priebus exploring implications if a Paul Ryan presidential run...

Iowa Hawkeye Poll: 'Someone else' tops GOP field...

PPP poll: Trump highly unpopular in swing states...

Limbaugh: Trump has shown he can connect with average voters...

Trump tells President Obama to "get off his basketball court" and start going after OPEC...

Mitch Daniels' timeline for 2012 campaign is ticking; Iowa Gov. Branstad doubts he'll run...

Giuliani: 2012 door is still open...

Iowans holding national "Stuck on Huck" meeting June 4...

Fox News wants Huckabee to make his decision...

Trump meets today with top New Hampshire Tea Party activist...

Mitt Romney invites Donald Trump to run for president...

Trump vs. Robert DeNiro smack down...

Huckabee leads in South Carolina...

No Joke: Trump to make 8 'unannounced' stops in New Hampshire on Wednesday...

USA Today poll: 50% of Americans say Trump would make a 'poor' or 'terrible' prez...

Ron Paul officially launches 2012 presidential campaign...

Haley Barbour: I'm not running...

Derided in 2010 for predicting inflation, Palin now touted for seeing what Bernanke did not...

Franklin Graham: Palin not running...

Franklin Graham would consider backing Donald Trump for president...

Report shows Newt Gingrich received $300,000 promoting ethanol...

Is this Haley Barbour week?...

Mitch Daniels 'muddled' about 2012 run...   Friends say Daniels' wife is opposed to 2012 run...

Trump calls Krauthammer; columnist says he's running...

Romney beats Obama in New Hampshire...

Palin's secret weapon in Iowa: Peter Singleton?...

Kuhner: GOP establishment targets Trump...

Huckabee's 2008 campaign manager thinks he'll run in 2012...

Gallup poll: Trump & Huckabee 16, Romney 13, Palin 10...

Team Pawlenty: Another drunk staffer busted...

Trump blasts Jerry Seinfeld for backing out of benefit show appearance...

In New Hampshire, Former NM Gov. Gary Johnson announces 2012 bid...

PPP poll of Democrats: 44% want Hillary Clinton to run again - in 2016...

Trump says he'll only run as an independent if he is assured of beating Obama...

Ron Paul releases new book on liberty...

Trump says his views on marriage, abortion have evolved over the years...

Rick Santorum boosts Iowa team...

Trump and Hawaii's governor spar over Obama's birth certificate...

Trump hits back at Rove, GOP critics...

Shocker: Gingrich PAC raises a meagerly $53,000 in first quarter...   Gingrich announces Iowa team...

Some upset over Trump's 'red carpet' treatment in Iowa...

Palin: Don't pick on Trump...

Palin polling poorly in Alaska - 61% unfavorable rating...

Bachmann on pace to raise $52 million for 2012 cycle...

Bachmann to headline Iowa GOP fundraiser on May 26th...

Pawlenty staffer arrested for public intoxication has resigned...

Cook: Is 2012 the ultimate anti-incumbent election?...

New PPP Iowa poll: Huckabee still in the lead; Trump not getting much traction yet...

Roger Simon speculates Trump thinks the GOP is stupid...

Trump to Stephanopoulos: Obama 'mionions have co-opted' you...

Krauthammer: Donald Trump is the Al Sharpton of the GOP...

Redesigned Sarah Palin website causing a stir for looking 'presidential candidate-y'...

Iowa begins to take stock of the GOP field...

Poll: Only 45% are happy with current GOP 2012 field...

Ron Paul fans plan May 5th 'money bomb'...

Iowa conservative leader: "I'm convinced [Trump's] probably going to run"...

Palin wows 'em at Wisconsin Tea Party Rally: GOP needs to 'fight like a girl'...

Trump tantalizes the crowd at Florida Tea Party Rally...     Meet Donald Trump's political 'pit bull': Michael Cohen...

CNN video: Trump says he's bigger than Romney...

Pawlenty slams Obama at Iowa Tea Party Rally...

Herman Cain at Iowa Tea Party Rally: They're STUPID!...

Bachmann says the president is 'not on our side'...

Karl Rove: Birther issue turned Trump into a 'joke candidate'...

Decker: Trump's on a roll...

Pawlenty wins New Hampshire tea party straw poll...

Romney says he will be campaigning in Iowa...

PPP Poll of GOP primary voters: Trump takes huge lead...

Cook Report: Trump's a joke...

Palin to attend tax day Tea Party Rally in Wisconsin...

Romney not generating strong positive intensity among GOP voters...

Trump looking forward to spending plenty of time in Iowa...

Forget birtherism: Why Trump really is leading in the polls...

'Stuck on Huck' message to Iowa conservatives: stay true to Mike Huckabee...

Trump to make 2012 announcement on "The Apprentice" finale...

Haley Barbour makes first New Hampshire 2012 foray...

Ohio governor John Kasich to back Barbour 2012?...

AZ senate passes birther bill with overwhelming majority...

Santorum announces presidential fundraising effort...

Florida pushes ahead with primary calendar fight...

Pawlenty's in... oops??? Pawlenty staff says 'official announcement' will be in coming weeks...

Pawlenty says the GOP field goes from serious to Hulk Hogan...

Trump ties Huckabee for first in CNN poll...

Glenn Beck: Sarah Palin is not running, damaged her brand...

Bachmann takes on a heckler in Iowa!...

Bachmann wins straw poll in Virginia...

Gingrich highly likely to skip first GOP debate...

Santorum: RomneyCare could flatline Mitt...

The GOP 2012 'Wish List' poll...

Mitt Romney's 2012 slogan, "Believe in America" was used by John Kerry...

Trump will 'probably' run as an independent if he doesn't win GOP nomination...

Trump: 'I believe in God. I am Christian'...

Trump: I'm Obama's worst nightmare...

Trump says Obama is to blame for high oil prices...

Michele Bachmann in Iowa: I'm willing to serve only one term if elected president...

Bachman: Al Franken's senate seat a "stolen election"...

Ron Paul in Iowa:  Government should protect the unborn...

Ron Paul: Barack Obama's and Paul Ryan's budgets are both wrong...

Tim Pawlenty scores big hire: Nick Ayers...

New Hampshire Democrats taunt Romney over his healthcare 'anniversary'...

Rick Santorum wins big South Carolina straw poll...

Bachmann: $39 billion in cuts a 'disappointment'...

Joe Scarborough bullish on Trump 2012 run...

Palin on Trump: 'More power to him!'...

Romney to skip first GOP debate...

Tea Party leader peeved at Michele Bachmann...

Trump takes on the NY Times, Gail Collins...

Bill Cosby slams Trump: 'He's full of it'...

Trump: Why I became pro-life...

PPP Mississippi poll: Barbour dominates GOP field...

Donald Trump talks to RNC chairman Reince Priebus...

Fox News poll: Palin leads among Tea Partiers...

Trump sends investigators into Hawaii to check into Obama...

WSJ/NBC poll: Donald Trump now no.2!...   "I will be best for this country" says Trump...

Huckabee still the favorite in Iowa...

Trump to speak at April 15th Tea Party Tax Day Rally in Florida...

Iowa's Gov. Branstad: Michele Bachmann could match Sarah Palin...

Pawlenty goes 'meta' with his new video...

Gallup polling: Huckabee in strongest GOP position as Obama announces reelection bid...

PPP polling in New Hampshire: Look out Romney, Trump is gaining fast...

PPP polling shows Romney support falling, Huckabee support up...

Top fundraiser Michele Bachmann celebrates 55th birthday with: A fundraiser!...

'True Hollywood Story' takes aim at Sarah Palin...

Rick Santorum heading to Nevada...

Mitch Daniels to give high profile education speech in Washington on May 4th...

Barbour gets his civil rights museum...

Rand Paul slated for conservative conference June 3-4 in Washington...

Huckabee supporters in Iowa start organizing...

Iowa's Steve King teaming with Jim DeMint to headline N.H. 2012 forum...

Paper: Why Hillary must run in 2012...

Jon Huntsman wanted to be a rock star...

GOP calendar wars: Florida's Orange County chairman slams Iowa, New Hampshire's early slots...

In Iowa, Rand Paul urges GOP not to compromise...

Glenn Beck says Donald Trump is making him 'uncomfortable'...

Romney defends RomneyCare...

Donald Trump gets FOX News slot...

Huckabee wins South Carolina county straw poll...

GOP 2012 hopefuls balk at RNC's debate plan...

Michele Bachmann out-raises 2012 GOP field...

2012 Birthers: Herman Cain's with Donald Trump...

Tim Pawlenty tops with immigration hawks...  

Pawlenty already sizing up 2012 running mates...

Rand Paul headlines Iowa GOP event, meets with Iowa's Gov. Terry Branstad this weekend...

 

 

House/Senate

House passes Paul Ryan's $6 trillion budget plan for 2012...

House passes 2011 budget deal easily, 260-167...

Bill to defund Planned Parenthood fails in Senate, 42/58...

Paper: Republicans could win 60-seat super majority in the Senate...

Analysis: budget deal only reduces real discretionary spending by around $15 billion...

Budget deal cuts 'czars' funding...

Budget deal falls short of GOP cut pledge; 'As good as we could get' says Boehner...

Spending cuts total nearly $40 billion...

Boehner: Congress shouldn't be paid in the event of a shutdown...

Tea Party senator: Obama might have planned gov't. shutdown with malicious intent...

Boehner: No deal reached at White House budget meeting...

New GOP short-term budget would last one week, cut $12 billion...

GOP budget blueprint would cut spending by $5.8 trillion in decade...

Paul Ryan's new 2012 budget to cut deficits by more than $4 trillion...

 

 

Obama/White House

Report: WH bans reporter from press pool for filming anti-Obama protesters at fundraiser...  Chronicle: White House is lying...

Obama approval at all-time low for second week...

Ralph Nader plats Obama primary challenge...

Obama releases his original birth certificate - Trump takes credit... see it here   Will its release give rise to new "Certer" movement?...

       Trump moves on to Obama's college records: Release them!...

Obama campaign manager Jim Messina: Act like insurgent campaign (video)...

Shock poll: Only 38% of Americans believe Obama 'definitely' born in the U.S...

Obama skips statement on Easter; has commemorated all Muslim holidays...

Trump: Obama wasn't qualified forf Ivy League...

Hawaii senator questions Obama's true birth father...  Some Obama birth records have been public for years...

Franklin Graham - a birther???  White House smacks Graham for birther talk...

Obama: No silver bullet to bring down gas prices...

Mr. Obama: Taxing the rich won't increase revenues...

Supporters at high-dollar fundraiser heckle Obama: Where's our change?

Corsi's Birther book hits No. 2 spot on Amazon...   Corsi's book now No. 1 spot on Amazon...

Poll shows Huckabee, Romney closing the gap with Obama...

Important news of the day: Charlie Sheen is a birther...

Will new Corsi book, "Where's the Birth Certificate?" reveal Obama's true identity?...

Iowa's GOP voters doubt Obama born in US...

Paper: Obama ran against Bush, but now governs like him...

Reporter asks Obama: Why do you think you're so unpopular in Texas?...

Obama's Hollywood fundraiser: $35,000 per person...

Atlas is shrugging...

Obama to ignore czar ban...

Newspaper publishers in the Black community think Obama is foreign born...

Rasmussen polling: Obama 49, Trump 34...

Obama's Third World America...

Obama: GOP tried to "sneak" agenda into budget...

Damning for dollars? Obama says GOP will make US a third world nation...

Obama says Trump's 'birther' rhetoric is a loser's approach for GOP in 2012...

Taxpayers to Obama: Keep your hands off our deductions...

Buchanan: Obama blows up the bridge...

Paul Ryan responds to Obama's speech: "Rather than building bridges, he's poisoning wells"...

Roger Simon: Obama to soak the rich, please the Democrats...

What Obama said and what Obama meant...

GOP lawyer drafts Obama impeachment...

Paper: Obama's speech 'most dishonest in decades'...

Questionable visitors' log reveals AFL-CIO boss made four dozen White House trips...   four dozen times...

Barack Obama faces problem on left, not right...

Rasmussen: Obama hits new low in 'strongly disapprove'...

Confirmed: Obama in real trouble in Florida...

Obama puts taxes on the table...

Team Obama: Trump has zero chance...

GOV'T. SHUTDOWN AVERTED AT LAST MINUTE:

Balz: Shutdown threat tests Obama leadership style...

Obama's Pentagon running secret military prisons in Afghanistan...

Oprah not supporting Obama publicly in 2012?...

Obama says shut it down; no deal reached on budget...

Obama heads out of Washington as government shutdown looms...   Heads to Al Sharpton event in New York: Help in 2012 reelection bid...

Obama's San Francisco fundraiser: $35,800 per person - loyal supporters appalled...   Obama's fundraiser in Harlem: $30,800 a plate...

meanwhile, White House moving forward with government shutdown plans...

Iran's Ahmadinejad predicts embarrassing end for Obama...

General Petraeus being seriously considered for Director of the CIA ...

Obama 2012: Same cast, different story...

Obama 2012 e-rolls out...

Rasmussen poll shows no bump for Obama on national security...

Obama's electronic 2012 rollout coming soon...

Will Samantha Power be the next Secretary of State?...

Barack Obama's GM limo is exempt from the 'green' policy...    Government losses in GM far higher than claimed...

Obama 2012 Team: Fears Rove, targets raising 'north of $750 million"...

Maureen Dowd: How Obama loses in 2012...

NRSC launches mock 'Obama 2012' ad...

Foreign banks took most from Fed, Bernanke kept it secret...

 

 

Taxpayers vs. Public Employees Unions

MAY 1st STICKERS WAR!! Grocers prepare for anti-Walker stickering by sore loser PEU members...

Latest state to curtail public employee union bargaining rights: Massachusetts!...

Wisconsin Gov. Walker's plan hold down property taxes, delivers lowest structural deficit in 15 years...

incumbent David Prosser wins Wisconsin Supreme Court race..... loser: public unions' candidate, JoAnne Kloppenburg

Wisconsin Supreme Court race too close to count, Prosser has narrow lead - headed for recount?

Payback: Group says it has enough signatures to force recall election for Wisconsin fleebagger...  

Wisconsin: AFL-CIO tells businesses to pick a side, or else...

Palin endorses conservative Wisconsin judge...

WI Dems say they have the signatures to recall GOP state senator...

Woman charged with making death threats to Wisconsin Republicans... 

      Windels is a teacher at the Red Caboose elementary school in Madison, WI...

      Track record of making threats... why not arrested?...

 

 

ObamaCare

Idaho governor blocks ObamaCare...

Congress starts undoing ObamaCare...

'Not a penny' for Obamacare in GOP budget proposal...

 

 

TRENDS:

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer: Birther fight is destructive...

Coming soon: Levi Johnston's tell-all book...

Resurgence of Birther issue:

Nation's mood at lowest level in two years, poll shows...

Glenn Beck slams Mike Huckabee; Huckabee blasts back...

Idaho governor blocks ObamaCare...

Jan Brewer: White House snubbed me on immigration talks...

NJ: Gov. Christie unveils plan to save state on government workers' healthcare...

AZ: Gov. Jan Brewer vetoes Birther Bill...

Government handouts exceed taxes as percentage of average household income for first time since 1936...

Progressives ponder why Tea Psarty is kicking their butts...

Judge who struck down California Prop. 8 (banning gay marriages) confirms he's gay...

Alabama lawmakers approve immigration crackdown...

Rasmussen Poll: 57% prefer government shutdown to current levels of spending

 

 

GOP/RNC:

Paul Ryan calls for ending oil subsidies...

Massachusetts Republicans want Romneycare repealed...

Krauthammer: Trump not a media victim...

Gallup poll shows seniors most favorable to Ryan Budget...

Allen West heckled at GOP townhall meeting on the budget:: "You're not going to intimidate me"...

Poll: GOP still more trusted on budget than Dems after release of Ryan's plan...

Speaker John Boehner rakes in $4.8 million in first quarter...

GOP establishment feeing heat in South Carolina...

GOP lawmakers sour in 2012 field...

Gingrich praises Boehner on budget deal...

The GOP winning streak...

White House views Paul Ryan's budget plan as ammo for 2012...

 

 

DEM/DNC:

Durbin breaks from Democrats on Social Security...

Budget deal leaves liberal Democrats disheartened...

Debbie Wasserman Schultz picked as new DNC chairman...

 

 

Conservatives/Tea Party

Daily Kos polling suggests Union movement no match for TEA Party...

GOP budget guy Paul Ryan gets boo'd at town hall meeting back home...

Koch ads claim bias in CPI story about lobbying practices...

Breitbart's turn - new book drops bombs, "Righteous Indignation"...

Ann Coulter's new book, "DEMONIC" to be released this summer...

Town bans Tea Party signs in public park...

Iowa pastors working hard to revitalize the religious right...

Right seeks edge in opposition wars...

 

 

 

ISRAEL

Netanyahu wants U.N. to repeal Gaza report accusing Israel of war crimes in Gaza...

 

 

 

 

QUOTES: 

"Gibbs is a loser..." -Donald Trump

"The problem was the view was taking hold among independents. He got worried it was about to spin out of control..." -Karl Rove

"I've been told very recently... that the birth certificate is missing... it's not there or it doesn't exist..." -Donald Trump\

"Donald Trump can be Barack Obama's secret weapon in his fight to remain in the White House.  The Donald can be his Trump card" -Thomas Sowell

"We're looking into it very, very strongly. At a certain point in time I'll be revealing some interesting things..." -Donald Trump RE birther hunt

"If there's a lesson in Mr. Trump's surge and Mrs. Palin's sustained popularity, it's that the Grand Old Party needs to be more bold..." -Brett Decker

"I'm convinced [Trump's] probably going to run..." -Steve Scheffler

"Scott Walker has been vindicated by both the voters in the Prosser-Kloppenburg race and the legislative budget office..." -Ed Morrissey

"We didn't elect you just to rearrange the deck chairs on a sinking Titanic..." -Sarah Palin

"The challenge for Republicans now is to make the clowns go away..." -Charlie Cook

"Rather than building bridges, he's poisoning wells..." -Paul Ryan

"We expected the President to lead, not start his campaign yesterday..." -Marco Rubio

"If Trump is nominated, the campaign will not be a McCain-style hands-off lovefest. It will be a knockdown drag-out drawl." -Ben Shapiro

"There is zero chance that Donald Trump would ever be hired by the American people to do this job."  -David Plouffe

"Trump clearly doesn't give a damn what polite society thinks of his presidential prospects." -Joe Scarborough

"We may not have the same exact newness as in 2008..." -Barack Obama

   

 

 

 


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