Battle for Hispanic Vote Already Underway
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 2nd, 2011 4:31 am by HL
Battle for Hispanic Vote Already Underway
Juan Williams, The Hill
Let the record show the 2012 election campaign gets started this week.I am not talking about the debt-ceiling debate. I am not talking about any shift in the polls among the candidates competing in the GOP primary.
HC Vote Highlights Obama’s Challenge in Ohio
Caitlin Huey-Burns, RCP
By Caitlin Huey-Burns – August 1, 2011Voters in the key battleground state of Ohio have an opportunity to deliver a verdict on President Obama's landmark legislative accomplishment a year ahead of the 2012 election. Ohio's chief election official confirmed last week that voters will get to decide whether they want Ohioans and Buckeye State employers to participate in the health care law Congress passed last year.A group of Tea Party, limited-government and constitutional law activists spent over a year collecting signatures to get a health care amendment to the state's…
Heroes, Sidekicks Do What Obama Can’t
John Sununu, Boston Globe
As the dust settles from the debt ceiling battle, hindsight suggests that President Obama might have benefited from an early screening of the Clint Eastwood movie “Kelly’s Heroes.’’ There, he might have found inspiration. In the penultimate scene, Don Rickles, playing a wounded GI, assesses the challenge of stealing gold bars from a bank guarded by a menacing tank. “Make a deal,’’ comes Rickles’s sly advice. “A DEAL deal! Maybe the guy’s a Republican.’’Big or small,…
