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By David Moye - AOL News
(Nov. 4) -- Now that the Democrats have suffered a historic defeat on election day, a sports handicapper is doubling down on his goal of becoming President in 2012. Wayne Allyn Root is a well-known Vegas sports handicapper and the current front runner to be the Libertarian Party's nominee for the 2012 presidential race after being the running mate to 2008 nominee Bob Barr. He may seem a long shot, but Root believes that enough Americans would embrace the Libertarian philosophy if they were exposed to it -- and to him. Richard Faverty Sports handicapper Wayne Allyn Root is considering a run ...
10 Questions for Darrell M. Stafford
By not in system - AOL NewsEditor's note: AOL News is asking U.S. House and Senate candidates to answer questions about themselves and their views on two big issues. Darrell M. Stafford is the Libertarian candidate for California's 23rd Congressional District. The Fun Stuff 1) Everyone is angry with politicians in Washington. Why do you want to be one of them? We have Republicans and Democrats in Washington but few Americans. I want to be an American and I want to be the example of an honest, ethical and responsive congressman (www.uipusa.com). Washington is void of common sense and financial knowledge -- I have ...
10 Questions for Dan Reale
By not in system - AOL NewsEditor's note: AOL News is asking U.S. House and Senate candidates to answer questions about themselves and their views on two big issues. Dan Reale is the Libertarian candidate for Connecticut's 2nd Congressional District. The Fun Stuff 1) Everyone is angry with politicians in Washington. Why do you want to be one of them? Because none of my opponents are willing to put Congress in its Article 1, Section 8 box and commit to their promises under penalty of perjury as I have (www.realedealforcongress.com/oath.JPG). And these clowns who qualify as "major" party candidates think that actually ...
Glenn Beck's 'Blaze' News Site Is Up, With Year-Old Lead Story
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Aug. 31) -- After only one day of "Blazing," Glenn Beck is already looking a bit slow. Today, fresh off his successful "Restoring Honor" rally over the weekend, the Fox News personality launched his new "news, information, and opinion" website The Blaze, leading with the following video expose. It covers Ricardo Dominguez, a University of California, San Diego professor who retrofits cheap cell phones with a simple GPS application to help save the lives of illegal immigrants crossing a perilous stretch of desert between Mexico and the United States. It's an important story, no doubt. So ...
GOP's Richard Burr Leading Elaine Marshall by 10 in N.C. Senate Race
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyA Rasmussen Reports poll last week had North Carolina Secretary of State Elaine Marshall coming within one point of first-term Republican Sen. Richard Burr on the heels of her victory in the Democratic Senate runoff, but another poll, conducted June 23-24 by SurveyUSA, puts Burr's margin over Marshall at 10 points. Burr is leading Marshall by 50 percent to 40 percent with Libertarian Mike Beitler, a business professor at UNC-Greensboro, polling 6 percent. Five percent are undecided. The margin of error is 4 points. Burr is getting stronger support from fellow Republicans than Marshall is ...
Rand Paul's Past Quotes May Complicate His Kentucky Senate Race
By Politics Daily Staff - Politics DailyWhile Kentucky GOP Senate candidate Rand Paul's comments on the 1964 Civil Rights Act and whether private businesses should have the right to discriminate commanded the most national attention in his campaign so far, the Tea Party movement favorite has a long history of controversial views on a range of subjects, according to a review of two dozen of Rand's public appearances by the Louisville Courier-Journal. The Courier-Journal said that in the appearances it checked since 1998, Rand had "condemned Medicare as 'socialism;' denounced seat-belt and anti-smoking laws as 'Nanny-state'" ...
Fox Business Network Courts Tea Party with "Freedom Watch"
By Paul Wachter - Politics DailyFox has finally made its fawning over the tea party official by creating a new show on Fox Business Network. It's called "Freedom Watch" and is hosted by Andrew Napolitano, a libertarian legal commentator for Fox. Napolitano ends the show with a sign off that must have Edward R. Murrow spinning in his grave: "From New York, defending freedom, so long America." "Freedom Watch," joins another libertarian show, "Stossell," helmed by former ABC News anchor John Stossel, on the channel. Of the former, Lew Rockwell, chairman of the libertarian Ludwig von Mises Institute, offered the following ...
What's an Obamacon?
By Dave - Politics DailyFrom the SF Gate: These are conservatives who have publicly endorsed the presumptive Democratic nominee, dissidents from the brain trust of think tanks, ex-officials and policy magazines that have fueled the Republican Party since the 1960s. Scratch the surface of this elite, and one finds a profound dismay that is far more damaging to the GOP than the usual 10 percent of registered Republicans expected to switch sides during a presidential election. Wow! That sounds serious and to underline the seriousness of this elite, the SF Gate pings six (yes a whole six!) possible conservatives who ...
Obama Girl Strikes Again
By Liza Porteus Viana - Politics DailyOnly this time, presidential hopeful Mike Gravel is chasing her tail.I just watched the video below, which literally made me fall off my chair. It's hilarious. The 77-year-old Libertarian candidate Gravel sings along (and no, he can't carry a tune) with the infamous Obama Girl, trying to get her to join his camp. "You should drop your crush on your Obama," he sings. "You ought to know you're off the chain." (I guess that means he thinks she's hot.)Obama Girl responds saying while she digs "Mike," she's still got her Obama crush. She dances around in her usual tight-fitting Obama shirt, with ...
Ron Paul's Money
By Dave - Politics DailyWow We are closing in on three important fundraising milestones for the fourth quarter: -- During the third quarter, Fred Thompson raised $9,750,821 to be used during the primary election cycle. -- Not counting money that he loaned to his own campaign, Mitt Romney raised $9,896,719. -- Rudy Giuliani finished with $10,258,019. -- Ron Paul is currently at $9,708,791 for the fourth quarter. So Ron Paul may end up raising more money than some of the front runners? ...
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