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Obama Is Turning Women and Working Families Away from Dems
Tweet Share on Facebook October 29, 2010 Comment (32)Thursday’s New York Times/CBS News poll had a few gems buried in it: first, that previously undecided women are now turning to the GOP, for the first time since polls began tracking the breakdown between male and female voters in 1982. In the previous New York Times poll last month, women preferred Democrats by 7 points. As of yesterday, they prefer Republicans by 4 points--an 11-point swing that suggests that undecided women are moving to the right.
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Big Labor's Big Mistake in the 2010 Elections
Tweet Share on Facebook October 22, 2010 Comment (59)“As the political season heats up, Americans are already being inundated with the usual phone calls, mailings, and TV ads from campaigns all across the country. But this summer, they’re also seeing a flood of attack ads run by shadowy groups with harmless-sounding names. We don’t know who’s behind these ads and we don’t know who’s paying for them,” the president said in his weekly address a few weeks ago, complaining about the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Citizens United case. That case allowed corporations and unions to use their own funds to pay for political ads. The Democrats have been screaming about the “floodgates” opening on corporate money ever since, but there hasn’t been a peep about the unions. Until now.
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Obama's Attitude Toward Business Offends and Confuses
Tweet Share on Facebook October 15, 2010 Comment (18)Today's must-read op-ed comes from Home Depot founder Ken Langone, who talks about the president's alternate wooing and booing of the business community. At a recent town hall meeting, Langone himself asked the president why he was villifying business leaders who are creating growth. "Instead of offering a straight answer," Langone writes to Obama in the first person, "you informed me that I was part of a 'reckless' group that had made 'bad decisions' and now required your guidance, if only I'd stop 'resisting' it."
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Obama’s Rolling Stone Interview Proves He's Out of Touch
Tweet Share on Facebook October 8, 2010 Comment (179)Have you seen the interview with President Obama in the current issue of Rolling Stone magazine? In it, President Obama proves why he’s one of the most polarizing figures in politics today, and how deep his disconnect is with voters.
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Square Personal Credit Card Reader Will Change Everything
Tweet Share on Facebook October 2, 2010 Comment (14)Have you heard about the new “Square”? As in, “Are we square?” It’s a new square-shaped gizmo that gives people a way to accept credit card payments on their iPhone, iPad, or Android. It was invented by Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter, a guy who knows something about new ideas that catch on with people carrying cell phones.
