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Republican Cash Flow Provides Clues for 2012 Presidential Field
By David Sessions - Politics DailyThe race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination began quietly last year, Politico reports, with political committees for most of the presumed hopefuls spending thousands of dollars on policy advice and strategy planning. Sarah Palin's committee spent nearly $50,000 in the second half of 2009; Mike Huckabee and Tim Pawlenty spent a combined $97,000 on fundraising lists, and Newt Gingrich spent nearly $600,000 flying around the country. The stated purpose of the candidates' expenses is to rebuild their party and advance conservative principles. But the specific uses of committee money ...
Weekend Briefing: Afghanistan, Osama, More
By not in system - AOL NewsA round-up of major developments over this weekend. 1. Afghanistan Hairsplitting Whither July 2011? The more we hear from the Obama administration about July 2011, the less significance it appears to have as a marker in the Afghanistan war. Three top administration officials -- Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and National Security Adviser James Jones -- took to the Sunday news shows to explain what President Barack Obama meant when he highlighted that date in his national address last week. What the trio provided was not so much a definition of ...
Why the Pundits Don't Like the New Newsweek
By David Sessions - Politics Daily"Jon Meacham is clearly an intelligent person and skilled writer, but his judgment about America and what America needs is somewhat inferior to that of my cat Lexie," John B. Judis wrote on the Web site of The New Republic. He was referring to the editor of Newsweek and a column he wrote for the magazine's Dec. 7 issue, boldly headlined "Why Dick Cheney Should Run for President." Judis is far from the only journalist savaging Meacham's column as well as the revamped Newsweek. In the column, the editor argued that Cheney is a "man of conviction" who would give Americans the chance to vote for ...
Obama vs. Palin: A Mock 2012 Matchup
By Carl M. Cannon - Politics DailyPaired for reelection against Sarah Palin in a new poll done by Marist University, President Obama swamps the former Alaska governor, 56 to 33 percent. The rest of the electorate in the survey pronounced themselves to be undecided, but even if Palin got most of that remaining 11 percent, such a result would mean a landslide reelection victory for the incumbent president in 2012. ...
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