Obama turns up the heat for health care overhaul - NewsOK.com
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Obama turns up the heat for health care overhaulNewsOK.comWASHINGTON (AP) ? Facing a tough political environment, President Barack Obama on Saturday turned up the heat for the health care overhaul that has been his …Obama Pleads With Dems to Pass His Health BillFOXNewsLetters: The complications of Health care reformOCRegisterPoll Shows Americans More [...]
Republicans Retain Edge
Scott Rasmussen finds that Republicans hold a nine-point advantage among likely voters in the generic Congressional ballot, a stunning turnaround from President Obama’s inauguration, when the Democrats were up by seven points.
Meanwhile, in CNN’s survey, 52 percent of respondents say President Obama doesn’t deserve a second term. Somewhat amusingly, CNN concludes its article on [...]
Obama; debt; high-speed rail; concealed carry; Michael Sheridan; CCC - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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Obama; debt; high-speed rail; concealed carry; Michael Sheridan; CCCMilwaukee Journal SentinelLooking back on President Barack Obama's first year can be a disheartening process, but what is most disappointing is a sense that we have lost our ability …Obama's State-of-the-Union: Ten LessonsHuffington Post (blog)Obama lends support to ease college debtRU Daily TargumPoll: Obama's small business [...]
Lincoln in Trouble
A new Rasmussen Reports poll shows Arkansas Democratic Senator Blanche Lincoln trailing four different Republican challengers. State Senator Gilbert Baker leads the pack with 51 percent over Lincoln’s 39 percent.
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An Intriguing Long Shot: Could Massachusetts Save Us From Obamacare?
A TWS reader e-mails:
“Hey Mr. Kristol, is there some supersecret plot to ignore the Massachusetts Senatorial election scheduled for JANUARY 19, where an actual REPUBLICAN has a chance to become the 41ST member of the Republican caucus, which might find it in its interest to…persuade a certain Senatorial election committee to pay attention to the [...]
No Political Payoff So Far
The Democrats were determined to enact some kind of health care “reform” bill, regardless of its actual contents, because they thought the alternative was politically untenable. Perhaps, but so far voters certainly aren’t responding favorably to the Democrats’ power grab. Rasmussen finds that President Obama’s approval index has plunged to an all-time low, [...]
