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Poll: Republican Push for Deep Budget Cuts Could Alienate Independents, Swing Voters
By Bruce Drake
Republicans may be in a tenuous political position as they try to navigate between tea party adherents and conservatives who want deep reductions in federal spending, and independents and swing voters who don't share the same zeal, according to a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll conducted Feb. ...
Americans Less Angry at Washington Now Than During 2010 Campaign, Poll Says
By Bruce Drake
Although trust in government remains low, Americans seem to have cooled off since last year's political campaigns, with significantly fewer of them saying they are "angry" at Washington, according to a Pew Research Center poll conducted Feb. 22- March 1. Twenty-nine percent of those surveyed said ...
Most Americans Are Moderates -- and Thus Invisible
By Mary C. Curtis
Most Americans want a compromise on the budget standoff, the polls say. They want strict controls to halt illegal immigration, but they want lawmakers to keep their hands off the 14th Amendment, which grants automatic citizenship to anyone born on American soil, including those whose parents are on ...
Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty Gets Fired Up -- Courts Tea Party
By Tom Diemer
In a bid to win favor with grassroots conservatives, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty gets fired up in a new video released Tuesday by his political operation. He praises the hard-line tea party movement as "part of the energy, the passion, the call for change" that has helped revive the ...
Rep. Michele Bachmann to Headline New Hampshire Fundraiser
By Christopher Weber
In an another trip to an early primary state, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) heads to New Hampshire next month to headline a fundraiser. The tea party favorite, who's a likely GOP presidential candidate next year, will appear at a big ticket brunch March 12 in Nashua for the New Hampshire ...
Are We Returning to the 'June Cleaver' Era? (And Would June Stand for What's Going On?)
By Joanne Bamberger
Ever since the 112th Congress was sworn in last month, there's been a seemingly endless barrage of news about lawmakers trying to take away many of women's hard-fought rights, so much so that I feel like Mr. Peabody's WABAC machine has deposited me on June Cleaver's 1950s doorstep. Morning after ...
Gay Marriage Decision May Not Hurt Obama or Help the Religious Right
By David Gibson
When the Obama administration announced that it would adopt a matador defense on the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), the reaction from conservative Christian activists alternated between rage and celebration that the president had basically allowed the political right a slam dunk for the 2012 ...
Herman Cain: A Long Shot in 2012, but That's Not Stopping Him
By Suzi Parker
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- When Herman Cain walks into a tea party event, he is greeted like a rock star. "It's him, it's him," spreads across the meeting room. And so it was here on Thursday. When people approached him, they acted like they knew him. They mentioned his Atlanta radio show. They asked ...
Poland in 1980 and Wisconsin in 2011: History Rhymes
By Gerald J. Beyer
Mentioning the campaign against unions by a Republican governor in 2011 in the same breath as the anti-labor repression by Communist authorities in Poland in 1980 is sure to raise eyebrows. Yet as Mark Twain supposedly said, if history doesn't repeat itself, it sometimes rhymes. And there are some ...
Collective Bargaining: Do SAT Scores Prove States Need It?
By David KnowlesDoes collective bargaining make for better or worse test scores? With Republican-controlled legislatures and state houses from Wisconsin to Oklahoma attempting to strip state workers of collective bargaining rights, figures on the combined SAT and ACT college entrance test scores in states without ...
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For women, and men too, weary of nuance and ...
Can the Girl Scouts Help Balance Georgia's Budget?
By Joanne Bamberger
If Georgia lawmakers get their way, ...
Mom Has Cancer. Her Son Reacts.
By Donna Trussell
My friend Julie Levine had everything I ...
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