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Published: 11/16/10

Bend It Like Glenn Beck

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Published: 11/13/10

GOP's Rural White Guys: The Night They Drove New Dixie Down

By Donna Trussell - Politics Daily

Republicans are busting with pride about the parade of rural white men who voted overwhelmingly for their candidates in last week's midterm elections. And not just on the national level. You have to go back to 1966 to find the same number of state legislature switches. You have to go back to 1928 to find this many state legislature seats filled with Republicans. That fact alone could ripple for years to come, due to the potential for partisan gerrymandering (fun fact: so named for the salamander-shaped district designed by a Gov. Gerry in 1812 Massachusetts). Representative districts are ...

Published: 10/28/10

Tea Party Candidates: Catch Us If You Can

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Published: 10/22/10

What the Tea Party Could Learn From British Conservatives

By Paul Wachter - AOL News

(Oct. 22) -- Tea partiers bemoan the swelling federal deficit but offer no ideas for substantive cuts in government spending to bring it down. As I've pointed out before, whenever Republican, tea-party-backed candidates are asked which entitlement programs they'd cut to reduce the deficit, they dodge the question. Not so British conservatives, who actually are committed to cutting government spending. Peter Beinart, the former New Republic editor, takes a look across the pond in an article for the Daily Beast: I have my philosophical differences with British Prime Minister David Cameron, but ...

Published: 10/20/10

Counting on Independent Voters? Careful What You Wish For

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Published: 09/25/10

Opinion: A Tea Party Warning for Conservatives

By not in system - AOL News

(Sept. 24) -- While some view the Tea Party as a continuation of the Ross Perot movement, it may be better understood as the third wave of modern conservatism (the first being Barry Goldwater's victory over the GOP establishment in 1964, and the second being the rise of the Christian right in the late 1970s). ...

Published: 09/1/10

From a Lefty: Five Things the Right Is Doing Right

By Donna Trussell - Politics Daily

For nearly two years, the Democrats have controlled the House, the Senate, the presidency and two new judicial appointments to the Supreme Court. So why does it feel like the Democrats lost in 2008? I think it's because the Democrats have turned losing into an art form. You know how they say a good dancer makes it look easy? That's the Dems. They make winning look like losing, and losing look like the eternal hell-fires of damnation. The left could learn a few things from the right. To wit: 1) The right talks to average people. Even unabashed progressive Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) ...

Published: 08/9/10

Sarah Palin Endorsement: Aw, She Shouldn't Have

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Published: 08/5/10

Democrats Try to Turn the Tables on the Tea Party

By Paul Wachter - AOL News

(Aug. 5) -- Democrats are providing an interesting wrinkle to the tea party fever sweeping over Red State America. Just as tea partiers have pressed GOP candidates to announce their conservative bona fides, the Democrat National Committee is now challenging Republican office holders and candidates to declare their feelings about the tea party before the November midterm elections. For all the buzz about the tea party and polls showing high support for the movement's candidates, Democrats believe its principles are out of touch with mainstream America. The DNC today began sending letters ...