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Danger For Obama As His Polls Tip Down
Tweet Share on Facebook January 13, 2012 Comment (4)Pollster John Zogby updates our weekly Obama Report Card with a grade on the president's performance. Zogby uses his polling, expert analysis and interaction with major players to come up with a grade and some comments that capture how he sees the president's week ending.
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Fundraising Troubles Over: GOP Is Back Big
Tweet Share on Facebook January 13, 2012 CommentHanded last year a mountain of debt and a depressed support base, Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus has turned the Republican National Committee around, and last quarter out raised the Democratic National Committee by $3 million.
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Boehner Plan: Energy Leases Will Pay For Jobs
Tweet Share on Facebook January 12, 2012 Comment (5)House advisors to Speaker John Boehner are already preparing for an early battle over jobs and energy once Congress returns.
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U.S. Chamber Blasts Romney's Bain Critics
Tweet Share on Facebook January 12, 2012 Comment (3)The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has a rule against getting involved in presidential politics, but the influential lobby today came close to endorsing Mitt Romney.
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'Draft Hillary' Effort Targets S.C., Nevada
Tweet Share on Facebook January 12, 2012 Comment (22)The national effort to dump the president in 2012 in exchange for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is turning to South Carolina and Nevada as their best targets to get her on those states' primary ballots.
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It's Romney, But Only .61% of GOP Voted
Tweet Share on Facebook January 11, 2012 Comment (3)Following the Iowa caucuses, polls and pundits were predicting a long primary season ahead. A week later, after Tuesday's New Hampshire primaries, the GOP has its man in Mitt Romney, with the media's story line being that a Romney victory in South Carolina next week will effectively end the primary season.
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GOP: Recess Appointments Spoiled Relations
Tweet Share on Facebook January 11, 2012 Comment (4)A week before Congress returns to Washington, President Obama's recess appointment of Richard Cordray as the new director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is expanding the partisan divide on Capitol Hill.
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Obama Expert Predicts Chelsea Clinton Presidency
Tweet Share on Facebook January 11, 2012 Comment (21)Forget Hillary Clinton as vice president or a 2016 Democratic presidential nominee. Buzz is already building that budding TV journalist and former first daughter Chelsea Clinton will enter politics and become the first-ever woman president of the United States.
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Van Jones Warns of 'Turbulent' Election Year
Tweet Share on Facebook January 10, 2012 Comment (55)President Obama's surrogates, not giving up hope that the themes of the "occupy movement" will help his reelection and push Congress to back Democratic jobs ideas, are looking to the birthday and federally-sanctioned holiday of what Obama activist Van Jones calls the "original Occupier," Martin Luther King Jr., to spark action on the streets of America.
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GOP Should Cool Anti-China Talk, Say Advocates
Tweet Share on Facebook January 10, 2012 Comment (2)Advocates in Washington for greater U.S.-China trade and cooperation are closely watching the results of the Republican presidential primaries, concerned that anti-Beijing rhetoric could steer the country into a trade war.
