Re-posted Examiner.com
By: Ford O’Connell
The battle for the GOP Arizona Senate nomination could be one of the fiercest Republican primary battles of 2010.
There are three announced candidates vying for the Arizona Senate GOP nomination, with conventional political wisdom viewing this race as a two-way battle between incumbent Sen. John McCain and former [...]

Great editorial article from Washington Examiner.  The article highlights Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick’s (D-AZ) bill that would cut Congress’s salary by 5%.  While this bill would show the American people that Congressmen are serious about fiscal responsibility in these hard economic times, I have a hard time believing it will pass because it directly influences their [...]

Title is from AllahPundit

Re-posted from politicsdaily.com
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2008 election: Obama 53 percent, McCain 46 percent
SurveyUSA, Dec. 11-13; Public Policy Polling, Oct. 31- Nov.1;
SurveyUSA says 54 percent disapprove of Obama’s performance while 44 percent approve, with 2 percent undecided. Sixty-eight percent of whites (72 percent of the sample) disapprove while 88 percent of blacks (18 percent of the sample) approve. [...]

The Congressional Budget Office came out their projected figures for the Obama administration’s addition to the national debt and surprisingly they don’t match up.  The CBO projects that Obama’s budget will add $9.7 trillion to the national debt over the next decade, while the White House estimated they would only add $8.5 trillion.  It never [...]

Really a good day?

RNC chairman was on Fox News to discuss the leaked RNC presentation that has gotten a lot of negative media attention.  Steele stayed on point and was able to put this incident behind him and the RNC.

Usually we don’t agree with former DNC chairman Howard Dean but this time we do.  Dean told The Hill, “The plan, as it comes from the Senate, hangs out every Democrat who’s running for office to dry — including the president, in 2012, because it makes him defend a plan that isn’t in effect essentially [...]

Columbia Journalism Review put out a report on the lack of transparency and accountability newspaper websites have.  The study shows that about 50% of the time “major errors” are corrected online with no notice to the reader.  The study goes further to say that websites that have more than 50,000 unique visitors a month are [...]

Patrick Williams at Dallas Observer made the claim before Tuesday’s Texas gubernatorial primary that Governor Rick Perry will serve as Governor for four more years.  He explained that high primary voter turnout for one party likely means that that party will win in the general election.  Williams based his prediction based on early voting that [...]