I first saw this at Bearing Drift, who reported it from the Associated Press. During today’s bi-partisan health care summit, President Obama reprimanded Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) for bringing the 2,400 page Senate version of the health care bill. Obama called it a “political stunt that gets in the way of lawmakers having a [...]
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Google Adds Facebook Pages To Real-Time Search
If having a Facebook Page wasn’t a necessity for politicians before it certainly is now. Google has added Facebook Pages to its real-time search, which includes Yahoo answers, Twitter, blogs, news sites, and other sources for trending search results. Meaning when someone searches for you on Google (the number one visited website) your Facebook Page [...]
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Former Presidential candidate Howard Dean (D) continued the tired criticism of Obama opponents saying they are upset about his race rather than policy. Why is it so difficult for Democrats to believe that people are actually upset with the way Obama is governing. This may be why Obama’s approval ratings continue plummet because this administration [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Social Media: The New Career Norm
Why are you not Facebook and Twitter for your business? That is the question that CNBC’s article “Social Media: The New Career Norm” asks. Social media sites are about the only things expanding in this economy and they are exploding.
Read the rest of this entry »RPV Launches RetireRick.com
The Republican Party of Virginia has launched http://www.retirerick.com/. The web site is dedicated to ensuring that incumbent Rep. Rick Boucher (D-VA) is unseated. Read more about Virginia’s 9th District from Ford O’Connell
Read the rest of this entry »Dallas Tea Party Challenges Olbermann
Nearly every day MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann has some sort of rant about tea parties. Olbermann’s new kick is to condemn the tea party movement for a lack of diversity. Now the Dallas Tea Party is taking the fight back to Olbermann. The group points of that MSNBC has an all-white anchor lineup. They went [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Tea Party Most Popular Party In Ohio?
A recent Quinnipac poll shows that Ohioans have a more favorable opinion of the Tea Party movement than the Republican or Democratic Party: Among all Ohio voters, the Democratic Party gets a 38 – 50 percent unfavorable rating, while the Republicans get a 37 – 46 percent unfavorable score. But voters have a 32 – [...]
Read the rest of this entry »New Pew Study Makes It Clear Politicians Must Use Technology To Reach Millennials
The Pew Research Center released a new study detailing the habits of millennials. Millennials are teens and twenty-somethings that are currently entering into adulthood at the start of a new millennium. Here are some of the interesting statistics about their use of digital technology: -80% sleep with their cell phone -75% have created a profile [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Griffith to mine opening from crumbling support for Boucher
Re-posted from Examiner.com By: Ford O’Connell Add yet another incumbent Democratic Congressman to the endangered list for 2010? In 2008, Congressman Rick Boucher (D-VA) was re-elected without opposition in Virginia’s 9th district, the latest in a string of fourteen wins stretching back to 1982.
Read the rest of this entry »Flashback: 2005 Obama & Dems Condemn The Use of Reconciliation
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