Election 2012
BYRON YORK:: Winning Hispanic vote would not be enough for GOP | WashEx
By MB Snow at May 4, 2013 | 5:45 pm
After six months of mulling over November's election results, many Republicans remain convinced that the party's only path to future victory is to improve the GOP's appeal to Hispanic voters. But how many Hispanic voters do Republicans need to attract before the party can again win the White House? A lot. Start with the 2012 exit polls. The New York Times' Nate Silver ... Go To Article
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LIZ CHENEY: Republicans, Get Over the 2012 Loss—and Start to Fight Back – WSJ
By MB Snow at March 29, 2013 | 12:40 am
By LIZ CHENEY, OPINIONMarch 28, 2013, "Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. The only way they can inherit the freedom we have known is if we fight for it, protect it, defend it and then hand it to them with the well-taught lessons of how they in their lifetime must do the same. And if ... Go To Article
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JOHN HINDERAKER: Where the Money Is | PowerLine
By MB Snow at February 3, 2013 | 12:35 am
FEBRUARY 2, 2013 BY JOHN HINDERAKER -- In the 2012 election, Minnesota was a microcosm of the nation: the Democrats re-took both houses of the state’s legislature, and ballot propositions on gay marriage and voter ID went down to defeat. Today the Star Tribune highlighted the fact that record amounts of money were spent on the election: “Huge sums tossed at ballot ... Go To Article
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PATRICK CALDWELL: How to Vote Down Voter ID
By MB Snow at January 30, 2013 | 4:02 pm
PATRICK CALDWELL, JANUARY 30, 2013 Minnesotans defeat the GOP’s plan to restrict the franchise. In late October, two weeks before the election, amid the glut of attack ads, a TV commercial appeared in Minnesota that grabbed everyone’s attention. It opens on former Governor Arne Carlson, a Republican, who is a familiar and beloved figure in the state, looking ... Go To Article
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DANIEL GREENFIELD: The Great Power of Washington
By MB Snow at January 22, 2013 | 12:59 am
January 22, 2013 By Daniel Greenfield The sun has set, the shadows crawling up and down the grid of America’s first truly planned city. There was a time when it was thought that the Potomac extended across the continent and the city of government would lie at the intersection of an interstate aquatic highway. That was not to be. And like so many other dreams of ... Go To Article
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‘INSIDE THE CAVE’ Documents Obama Campaign Tech Superiority over GOP
By MB Snow at January 8, 2013 | 12:50 am
by MICHAEL PATRICK LEAHY 7 Jan 2013 A few days before Christmas, Engage DC, a well respected new media consulting firm, released '"Inside the Cave," a detailed account of how the Obama campaign thoroughly dominated the GOP in the 2012 digital arena through superior management, innovative analytics, and the deployment of cutting edge technologies. Three world class ... Go To Article
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JOEL POLLAK:: The Tea Party Has Not Yet Begun to Fight
By MB Snow at December 27, 2012 | 10:40 am
by JOEL B. POLLAK -- If the Tea Party has been weakened by the November election, why are the mainstream media expending so much effort attacking it? The latest attempt is today’s front-page article by the New York Times, which alleges that the Tea Party is turning to “narrower” issues and suggests, none too subtly, that Congress should stop paying attention ... Go To Article
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BARONE: Obama’s Numbers Went Down, but Romney Never Inspired Voters to Vote | RealClearPolitics
By MB Snow at December 27, 2012 | 12:10 am
By Michael Barone - December 27, 2012 In combing through the results of the 2012 election -- apparently finally complete, nearly two months after the fact -- I continue to find many similarities between 2012 and 2004, and one enormous difference. Both of the elections involved incumbent presidents with approval ratings hovering around or just under 50 percent facing ... Go To Article
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NEWT GINGRICH On Mitt Romney: ‘I Would Have Probably Done Better’ Against Obama
By MB Snow at December 21, 2012 | 12:20 am
Sam Stein, Jon Ward, 12/20/2012 -- WASHINGTON -- Newt Gingrich blames Mitt Romney for being a bad candidate. More than that, he blames the Republican party for fostering a corrosive culture that produced Romney as its candidate. The former House Speaker argued that the GOP has grown stale and introverted, putting itself on the wrong side of history on issues like ... Go To Article
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ELECTION ANALYSIS:: The Age of Obama? | RealClearPolitics
By MB Snow at December 20, 2012 | 11:07 am
By Charles Kesler - December 20, 2012 -- Cheer up, conservatives. Election night was gruesome, but it produced neither a landslide for President Obama nor a wipeout of the Republicans. Judging by the numbers alone, the message was not so much “Forward!” as “Sideways!” The president’s 332 electoral votes (counting Florida, which fell eventually into his ... Go To Article
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