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Poll: GOP Front-Runners Show Different Strengths on Different Issues
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyWhile polls at this early stage have produced no clear favorite among Republicans for the 2012 presidential nomination, voters do have preferences for one candidate over another when it comes to how they view them on specific issues, according to a Gallup poll conducted Feb. 18-20. Republicans and Republican-leaning independents who put a priority on reducing government spending and government power are most likely to favor Mike Huckabee or Mitt Romney, while those focused on the economy favor Romney or Sarah Palin. Republicans who say social and moral values are most important favor Huckabee ...
Shirley Sherrod, Ousted USDA Official: Where Is She Now?
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsShirley Sherrod was just one of a host of people who momentarily grabbed the spotlight in 2010 and dominated a news cycle or two while getting their 15 minutes of fame. In this series, AOL News is checking in on these newsmakers and giving them a 16th minute. Shirley Sherrod Made News in 2010 When She: Was forced to resign by the U.S. Department of Agriculture after a video clip showed her making what some considered to be racist comments about a white farmer. She later received an apology when the full video showed that she was actually advocating racial tolerance and ...
Opinion: Religious Right and the Tea Party: A Marriage of Convenience?
By Barry W. Lynn - AOL News
(Sept. 28) -- Many Americans were alarmed in the 1980s when the religious right seemed determined to control everyone's life from the moment of conception until the moment of death. These days, many share a similar distaste for the tea party movement, which believes some mystical force called "The Market" will make all of America's problems dissipate in a frenzy of mergers and acquisitions that will trickle benefits to the unemployed, the uninsured and the underserved. ANOTHER VIEW The Tea Party Unites Fiscal and Social Conservatism -- Penny Nance, CEO, Concerned Women for ...
The Tea Party and the Elections: What You Need to Know
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyThe Basics - The conservative movement protests what it sees as a rapidly expanding, free-spending federal government under President Barack Obama and the Democrat-controlled Congress. - Republican leaders say the GOP will benefit from the new energy that Tea Partiers have brought to this year's campaign. - The movement has so far done more to shake up the Republicans than the Democrats, and has raised questions about whether it will hurt Republican prospects this November because Democrats may be more likely to defeat Tea Party candidates than more moderate Republicans. - There is no actual ...
David Cameron Promises End to Big Government in U.K.
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyBritish Prime Minister David Cameron was the talk of the town Wednesday as he held his first face to face meeting with President Obama at the White House. But while foreign policy and the oil spill dominated the discussion between the two leaders in Washington, back in the U.K., Cameron was in the news for his domestic policy agenda. Shortly before leaving for Washington, the new prime minister unveiled a plan to dramatically redistribute power in Britain from the central government to local community organizations. In what is being billed as his most meaty policy speech since taking office ...
JournoList Liberal Conspiracy Story: Scandal or Overblown?
By not in system - AOL News(July 21) -- Conservative news site The Daily Caller sparked a controversy today after uncovering private e-mails from a now-defunct listserv of liberal journalists, JournoList. The documents show journalists discouraging one another from covering the Rev. Jeremiah Wright story during Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign. In one case, The Washington Independent's Spencer Ackerman, now of Wired.com, encouraged his peers to label conservatives racists if they make an issue out of the controversial figure. Ackerman wrote at the time: If the right forces us all to either defend Wright or ...
Shirley Sherrod's Full, Unedited Speech [VIDEO]
By David Knowles - AOL News(July 20) -- After edited portions of a speech delivered by Shirley Sherrod were posted to Andrew Breitbart's conservative website, Big Government, Sherrod was forced to resign from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. But the story didn't end there. Late today, the NAACP said it reviewed the entire video of Sherrod's speech and retracted its criticism of her. Now the civil rights organization has posted that video on YouTube, and Surge Desk is happy to pass it along. RELATED Shirley Sherrod Backlash: Glenn Beck Joins Chorus Calling for Her Re-Hiring NAACP Retracts Criticism of Shirley ...
NAACP Retracts Criticism of Shirley Sherrod After Viewing Full Video of Speech
By David Knowles - AOL News(July 20) -- Just another day in the annals of gotcha journalism? Shirley Sherrod, a Georgia regional director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, was pressured to resign Tuesday after conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart posted edited clips of a speech of hers on his website, Big Government, drawing criticism from various individuals and organizations, including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. After watching the full, unedited tape of remarks delivered by Sherrod, however, the NAACP now says that it was "snookered" into casting judgment on Sherrod, and ...
U.S. Census is ACORN-Buster James O' Keefe's Latest Target
By Carl Franzen - Politics DailySelf-styled investigative journalist James O'Keefe, 25, is not entirely a household name, yet. But ACORN certainly is, and that's in large part thanks to him. Now it's the U.S. Census that is receiving the O'Keefe treatment. Will the results be nearly as dramatic, for either the hunter or his quarry? First, a little background: The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), a low-income housing advocacy group, disbanded earlier this year in part due to image problems that resulted from O'Keefe's expose on the group circa September 2009. In the videos, posted on ...
What's Wrong With Big Government?
By David Corn - Politics DailyOn Saturday, Sen. Bob Bennett's senatorial career came to what seems to be a rather ignominious end, when the conservative Utah Republican placed third at the GOP state convention picking the party's Senate nominee. A businessman named Tim Bridgewater and Tea Party favorite Mike Lee finished, respectively, first and second, and they will subsequently slug it out in a primary on June 22. (Under state law, Bennett, who has been in the Senate for almost 18 years, can run in the November election as a write-in, but not as an independent.) Bennett's ouster is a shocker for the politerati, a punch ...
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