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Published: 09/16/10

Opinion: Common Ground Can Be Found

By  not in system - AOL News
Opinion: Common Ground Can Be Found

(Sept. 16) -- Tuesday night, Delaware, New Hampshire and New York joined Nevada, Colorado, Florida and Kentucky in the ranks of states where establishment Republican candidates have fallen to GOP outsiders in this year's primaries -- evidence, some pundits suggest, that voters are likely in store for more, not less, partisan politics inside the Beltway next year. If true, America's current trend flies in the face of the philosophy espoused by Irish statesman and political theorist Edmund Burke more than 200 years ago: "All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, ...

Published: 06/9/10

'The Overton Window' Explained (Not Just Glenn Beck's New Book)

By  Dana Chivvis - Politics Daily
'The Overton Window' Explained (Not Just Glenn Beck's New Book)

Glenn Beck fans who have been waiting eagerly for the June 15 release of the pundit's new book "The Overton Window" like tweens quivering for the next vampire novel will have to make due with a confusing book trailer and the first chapter of the audio book for now. But for the many stumped by his fictional novel's title, here's a primer on what the Overton Window actually is and who invented it (hint: it wasn't Glenn Beck.) The Overton Window is a public policy concept developed by Joseph Overton, who was the senior vice president of the Mackinac Center, a Michigan think tank, when he died in ...

Published: 01/26/10

Poll: Fox News Most Trusted on TV

By  Christopher Weber - Politics Daily
Poll: Fox News Most Trusted on TV

CNN bills itself as "the most trusted name in news" but the results of a new poll released Tuesday suggest that title belongs to Fox News. The Public Policy Polling survey asked Americans about their levels of trust in each of the major television news outlets. Fox News came out on top, with 49 percent of respondents saying it was the network they trusted the most. Opinions on Fox News had a partisan divide, according to the national survey conducted last week. Seventy-four percent of Republicans put their faith in the network, but only 30 percent of Democrats said they did. CNN was the ...

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