the other teams cam paign822 1 to shape our verynearterm future is apparently underway. consequently conservatives need to understand as much as possible about the dimensions of the organizational threat we face in order to swing into action right away.a the invaluable lucianne here leads us to frank greves obama calls on his internet campaign army ......
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in the last couple weeks weve seen no shortage of sentiment implying that the gop is in something akin to death throes provided that it doesnt come to resemble something other than the modern gop. this post has been building in me for a while but the latest piece by ron brownstein titled the bush gops fatal contraction kind of set me off. look im not going to ......
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mike huckabee and libertarians libertarian i really dont even have words. a fantastic article if not frightening. unfortunately i get this nagging feeling that mike huckabee will be the new face of conservatism which means that any hope of reducing government spending while restoring civil liberties is out the window probably for a really long while. also this line is ......
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over at the next right jon henke takes aim at mike huckabee so let me boil down my problems with mike huckabee. huckabee is a rawlsian liberal social conservative mike huckabee describes his political philosophy as a the golden rule do unto others as you would have them .........
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over at the next right jon henke takes aim at mike huckabee so let me boil down my problems with mike huckabee. huckabee is a rawlsian liberal social conservative mike huckabee describes his political philosophy as a the golden rule do unto others as you would have them do unto to you and b a passage from the bible 822 1inasmuch ......
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possibly the worst moment in my life was when i realized that mike huckabee was fairly young and in 2012 he would still be fairly young so there was no reason to think he wouldnt run again. it was at that moment that i realized this unbelievable gasbag was going to be annoying the living hell out of me for the foreseeable future. well leave it to huckabee to not disappoint. he is......
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the obama campaign was innovative on a number of dimensions particularly with the use of social media and the effective leverage of committed volunteers. theres been some good reporting that captures the ground truth of what the campaign actually did and some early efforts to make sense out of these facts in a way that offers lessons for those of us interested in their relevance to broader......
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jon henke over at the next right has offered a response to my earlier assessment of the conservative blogosphere. he agreed with me on some parts and disagreed on others i thought it be worthwhile to offer some thoughts on his response the rightosphere was unable to duplicate the fundraising prowess of the leftosphere because we arent really passionate about a mission. oh sure......
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i dont like having to waste time sticking up for a candidate whom i am not committed to this early before the 2012 primaries but since i am one of those who have mentioned being interested in bobby jindals candidacy and as someone who most would consider on the far right economically then i feel that i should respond in his defense. personally id like to keep the attacks......
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the politico offers its list of the top ten most vulnerable senate seats in 2010 co fl ks ky la mo nv nh oh and pa or 2 democratic seats and 8 republicanheld seats. while i do think its a bit optimistic in terms of the number of potentially competitive democratic seats conservative blog the next right offers a relatively sober look overall at the 2010 senate races. ......
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sean oxendine takes an early look at the 2010 senate races and finds that the field isnt very hospitable for the republicans at first glance the outlook is pretty grim for republicans. of the two competitive senate seats for the democrats both probably at least slightly lean their way to start. for the republicans probably three of the four senate seats for republicans are at best 5......
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the waning power of the netroots although two subcommittee chairmanships were taken away from joe lieberman because he had the temerity to endorse and campaign for john mccain for president the senate democratic caucus declined to take away liebermans important homeland security committee chairmanship. explaining the actions of his caucus senate majority leader harry reid spok......
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omg harry reid and the senate dems didnt listen to us on lieberman. its over i certainly dont have the view that conservative patrick ruffini does of this issue as any sort of serious infighting but i am bored with it already. the senate is dumb you knew they were going to let lieberman back in anyway. in a few months from now theres an important a......
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ever start to put two and two together and i was updating my bookmarks and i was surprised to see team sarah awas still activelya advocating for governor palin.a no mention of 2012 butatheir effortsawere obvious.a in recent weeks team sarahs most vocal advocate and leader has been jeri thompson.a you can watch some ofajeris performances here .a as many of you are ......
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patrick ruffini has a good thought awith a 2010 senate recruitment project. hes got candidates listed for most democraticallyheld senate seats. i think its important for this to be thought of on a state by state level. the one thing that youll see in big republican years is that a lot of the nominees fell from outside the national spotlight of governor state office hold......
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roll call covers the afteraction report by chris vanhollen dmd chairman of the democratic congressional campaign committee dccc. vanhollen gets credit for the 24seat gain so far democrats achieved in the 2008 election. hes quick to point out that despite the impressive democratic gains it seems like barack obamas coattails had little to do with ......
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patrick ruffini offers up some potential republican candidates who could challenger senate democrats up for reelection in 2010.......
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theres a contentious leadership race underway in the house republican caucus involving oklahomas very own congressman tom cole. after loosing around 50 seats in the past two elections house republicans are eager to dump the current leadershipwell not exactly. cole who many consider to be the godfather of oklahoma republican politics has been chair of the national republican campaign......
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earlier this month the washington posts kafia a. hosh wrote here about the 2008 presidential election in loudoun county. a in minorities falling economy cited in obama win in loudouna hosh reported that mark j. rozell a public policy professor at george mason university agreed that latinos right now see the democratic party as a frie......
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southern political report sees significant potential for democrats to make gains in the senate in 2010 among the southern senate seats up for election this cycle noting that there are eight republicanheld southern senate seats versus only one democratic seat. florida kentucky louisiana and north carolina look particularly vulnerable for republicans due to a combination of unpopularity......
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this is the first time in a presidential cycle as a news political junkie. oh id get the phone calls and id get the mailings. in the past the former were just plain annoying. the latter got quickly looked at if i disagreed with it rubbish time quick. if i agreed with it id read it to find the nuances. now ive come to learn that money is the mothers......
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patrick ruffini foresees some of what is likely to come out of the obama white house on the technology side heres what i think we can expect from the new whitehouse.gov. the media will fall all over themselves when these happen even though they are nothing new if youve been watching obamas new media efforts during the campaign. we can expect to see all or most of the foll......
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we simply cannot afford to lose a generation of young voters to the democrats.a as a followup to my first post from a few days back id like to propose some specific changes that would better serve the republican party in recapturing the youth vote. establish a young voter outreach arm of the republican national committee we need to fight tooth and nail to bring young voters back ......
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is stability our goal adam smith institute to listen to some commentators these days you would think that stability is indeed our goal. almost a steady state society one in which things rarely if ever change. we should deliberately curb innovation for example for this brings with it such unwanted disruption the poor get richer the next right debra a single mother who ......
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obama delivers first democratic video address with reviews rating obamas first weekly youtube address and previews the youtube presidency and obama turns to youtube for weekly broadcast . plus commentary criticism s on putting a presidents democratic address on youtube since snazzy new technology isnt enough to bring transparency to the white house and......
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