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CAIR POLL:: More Than 85% of American Muslims Picked Obama | CNSNews
By MB Snow at November 11, 2012 | 12:10 am
By Penny Starr -- -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) released the results of an informal exit poll on Friday that shows more than 85 percent of American Muslim voters picked President Barack Obama in Tuesday's election. That number is lower than a similar poll conducted in 2008 that showed 89 percent of American Muslims cast a ballot for ... Go To Article
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ANDREW McCARTHY: The Voters Who Stayed Home – NRO
By MB Snow at November 10, 2012 | 10:15 am
By Andrew C. McCarthy, NOVEMBER 10, 2012 4:00 A.M. They need better choices. The key to understanding the 2012 election is simple: A huge slice of the electorate stayed home. The punditocracy — which is more of the ruling class than an eye on the ruling class — has naturally decided that this is because Republicans are not enough like Democrats: They need ... Go To Article
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STEYN: The Edge of the Abyss – NRO
By MB Snow at November 10, 2012 | 9:17 am
By Mark Steyn, NOVEMBER 9, 2012 The default setting of American society is ever more liberal and statist. Amid the ruin and rubble of the grey morning after, it may seem in poor taste to do anything so vulgar as plug the new and stunningly topical paperback edition of my book, After America — or, as Dennis Miller retitled it on the radio the other day, ... Go To Article
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ROBERT SPENCER: The Convenient Resignation of General Petraeus
By MB Snow at November 10, 2012 | 9:09 am
November 9, 2012 By Robert Spencer Apparently overcome with guilt over an extramarital affair, General David Petraeus abruptly resigned as director of the CIA Thursday. A suddenly socially conservative Barack Obama accepted his resignation Friday, as Petraeus explained in a statement made public Friday afternoon (the time when all stories that the administration wants ... Go To Article
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GEORGE WILL: Republicans must start over again – WaPo
By MB Snow at November 10, 2012 | 9:00 am
By George F. Will, Friday, November 9, 2012 Conservatives should jauntily sing as Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers did in a year when the country’s chin was on the ground. Conservatives are hardly starting from scratch in their continuing courtship of the electorate, half of which embraced their message more warmly than it did this year’s messenger. The ... Go To Article
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JOE MANTEGNA: First to Fight for the Right—And to Build the Nation’s Might – WSJ
By MB Snow at November 10, 2012 | 12:59 am
OPINIONNovember 9, 2012 First to Fight for the Right—And to Build the Nation's Might Thirty million men and women have served in the U.S. Army since 1775, yet there is no museum where their great stories can be shared with all Americans. By JOE MANTEGNA In November 1942, a young college student named William Novelli was drafted into the U.S. Army. Novelli, ... Go To Article
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KUDLOW: Little-Noticed Exit Poll Finds 63% Said ‘No’ To Raising Taxes To Shrink Deficit – The New York Sun
By MB Snow at November 10, 2012 | 12:55 am
By LAWRENCE KUDLOW, Special to the Sun | November 9, 2012 In the fierce headline debate over the so-called fiscal cliff, our newly reelected president argues that “a majority of Americans agree with [his] approach.” That approach, according to the president, is “to combine spending cuts with revenue — and that means asking the wealthiest Americans to pay a ... Go To Article
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JOHN FUND:: Romney’s Hispanic Disaster – NRO
By MB Snow at November 10, 2012 | 12:50 am
By John Fund -- Now that Florida has been called for Barack Obama by the slimmest of margins, Republicans have to confront the fact that they lost the Sunshine State because of weakness in a key demographic they used to own: Cuban Americans. Exit polls from Fox News and the Pew Hispanic Center indicate that Cuban-Americans gave Obama 49 percent of their vote, ... Go To Article
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REVIEW & OUTLOOK:: California’s Liberal Supermajority – WSJ
By MB Snow at November 10, 2012 | 12:45 am
For Republicans unhappy with Tuesday's election, we have good news—at least most of you don't live in California. Not only did Democrats there win voter approval to raise the top tax rate to 13.3%, but they also received a huge surprise—a legislative supermajority. Look out below. The main check on Sacramento excess has been a constitutional amendment requiring a ... Go To Article
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OBAMA GROUND GAME:: Data drove Obama’s ground game – The Hill
By MB Snow at November 10, 2012 | 12:40 am
By Jennifer Martinez -- The impressive Election Day ground game that swept President Obama to victory was fueled by a technological edge left over from his initial run to the White House in 2008. Obama’s campaign used buckets of data collected through Facebook, email and other social-media tools to target the voters who supported him four years ago and drive them ... Go To Article
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