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Top Republicans for Obama

Top Republicans for Obama

Two top Republican businessmen and party fundraisers are throwing their brainpower, their intimate understanding of Republican core values and their money behind getting Senator Barack Obama elected as U.S. President. Authors Wilbur O. Colom and James W. Parkinson have teamed up to write a new 104-page book that makes a fiscal and social argument on why conservatives should vote for Obama. Their book, “Turning Red States Blue: Obama’s Mission to Win the Republican Vote”. (read more . . . ) “Small town America is hurting and crying out for change,” said Colom, president of Genesis Press which is publishing...

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Palin Peaked

While Sarah Palin has energized the campaign of John McCain, political scientist Andrew Dowdle of the University of Arkansas suggests that the effect of her celebrity has peaked. Dowdle is an assistant professor of political science in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas and editor of The American Review of Politics. â’Historically, the vice presidential candidate hasnâ’t played a role at all in how an election plays out. No matter how much attention the VP gets during the campaign, people vote for the president. â’Sarah Palin has certainly made the race...

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Palin : The Next Cheney

Palin : The Next Cheney

With John McCain and his new running mate offering more of the same lies and distortions on the campaign trail, the Democratic National Committee today relaunched its website The Next Cheney. Since McCain chose Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, the American people have learned that she suffers from ethics problems, held secret Cheney-style energy hearings, and relied on the same old crowd of Republican lobbyists to steer earmarks back to Alaska. Since McCain and his campaign have refused to run on the real McCain-Palin record, the DNC is setting the record straight at The Next Cheney. “Between...

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Internet Strong Influence on 2008 Election

Internet Strong Influence on 2008 Election

Search marketing firm Didit‘s 2008 Search Engines and Politics: A Study of Attitudes and Influence study found that “nearly 7% of those surveyed reported that were likely to change their vote before the election.” This alone may not be particularly surprising. However, there is no record of which advertising accounts on Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are driving traffic to which sites, meaning any individual corporation, PAC, candidate or political party could be buying ads, sending clicks to any site. “With no restrictions on how much an individual or political action committee can spend buying search terms, and no record...

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West Wing Star at GOP Convention

West Wing Star at GOP Convention

What is Stockard Channing doing at a GOP Convention?  Has someone from left Hollywood didn’t get the memo “We Support Obama”? Please don’t say it is so . . . the woman who played Rizzo (Grease), the Mother of a lesbian (Something About Jane) and the First Lady (West Wing). Not only that was she at the GOP convention but sitting in Palin seating with the Alaskan Delegates!  I just never suspected.  There has to be a legit reason, maybe research for a part . . . anything is better than Stockard an Republican.

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