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“He [Michael Graham] also mentioned my abridgement of First Amendment rights, i.e. talking about campaign finance reform….I know that money corrupts….I would rather have a clean government than one where quote First Amendment rights are being respected, that has become corrupt. If I had my choice, I’d rather have the clean government.”

Your humble pundit respectfully [...]

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Hillary mulling what to do with her middle name

According to CNN:
Most Americans’ feelings toward the Democratic senator from New York change depending on which name is used, according to a recent poll conducted by Opinion Research Corp. for CNN.
Including Hillary Clinton’s maiden name increased her approval rating among Republicans polled to 23 percent. “Hillary Clinton” [...]

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Hillary mulling what to do with her middle name

According to CNN:
Most Americans’ feelings toward the Democratic senator from New York change depending on which name is used, according to a recent poll conducted by Opinion Research Corp. for CNN.
Including Hillary Clinton’s maiden name increased her approval rating among Republicans polled to 23 percent. “Hillary Clinton” [...]

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The revelations of this story come as no surprise to your humble pundit. For quite some time, I have speculated and pondered that this country would embrace a candidate who whose convictions would reflect the concerns of most Americans, those concerns being National Security and its progeny, which encompasses the issue of illegal immigration.
The debates [...]

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In a statement reminiscent of what her husband, ex-President Clinton wrought throughout the 1990s, Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) has made a significant turnabout in her stance pertaining to a key aspect of the raging immigration debate.
Responding to polls showing that a strong majority of Americans support building a wall across the U.S.-Mexican border, 2008 presidential [...]

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Two new sections are now available on the Atlas - Gubernatorial Election Polls for 2006 and Senatorial Election Polls for 2006. The new polling sections include the ability to view individual polls in detail as well as summary pages comparing recent polls by state and by polling agency. The …

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And he makes the statement while at UN. Heh. Via Reuters:
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Former Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said on Thursday he was seriously thinking about another White House bid in 2008 and will decide before the year is out.
“I will make that decision toward the end of the year, but [...]

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The 2004 Presidential Predictions turned out to be a very popular Atlas site feature - with almost 2,000 unique entries (and over 12,000 total version entries). The compiled map showed the correct winner of every state - with the exception of Ohio - which missed being called by merely …

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I looked at religious groups here, and demographic groups here. As it turns out, some of the most interesting results show when we look at issue groups.

Let’s begin with the umbrella issue groups, then move to the more specific, starting with the most general:

Among self-identified conservatives, George has leads by 15 points, at 39%, over [...]

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I already did the religious groups. Here are the demographic groups — remember that these are self-labeled (though here, I didn’t have to collapse any groups).

George leads with 32%, followed by Rudy (31%) and Romney (20%). This isn’t too surprising.

Also not surprising. Rudy leads with 36%, followed by George at 32% and Mitt at 22%.

Note here [...]

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Welcome, Hugh Hewitt readers! There will be more analysis of the data; check back. And feel free to look around (you might want to check out the articles in the education category, if you want to know what it’s like to be a conservative on campus).

Demographic groups are here; issues groups are here.

This time from [...]

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Personally, your humble pundit deplores stances such as these,
Sen. John McCain joined the ranks of retired generals who have said they have no confidence in Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
Or more precisely, the generals are falling in line with McCain’s long-standing assessment, McCain said Friday.
“I was asked a long time ago, I think a year and [...]

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Howard Kurtz writes:
John McCain was expecting journalists to start slapping him around, and he hasn’t been disappointed.
As he gears up for a likely presidential campaign, the Arizona senator knows that reporters and columnists — whom he jokingly described last year as “my base” — have to prove their independence this time around. Media folks spent [...]

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As Senator John McCain (Republican, Arizona) has worked to regain the good graces of his party, and the Bush family that holds a fair amount of power in it, in hopes of gainign the GOP’s Presidential nod, he has

…provoked a chorus of denunciations and lamentations from liberals who once were smitten with him. Where, [...]

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Via GOP Bloggers. Hillary was trashed at Brown University by Daily Kos types

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Last week, the Atlas underwent an expansion, adding Gubernatorial and Senatorial election results and integrating these data with the Presidential returns. There was already a special section for Gubernatorial results for a number of years - however the feature set for these data was limited. The site expansion …

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Senator McCain said it was necessary for farmers to employ illegal aliens because American workers are too lazy and wimpy.

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John McCain says that he wants Christian fundamentalists who oppose the teaching of evolution and favor mixing church and state to have a major role to play in Republican politics. McCain is now working in coordination with Jerry Falwell, to help Falwell advance his agenda.

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Michael Charles Smith of Corvallis, Oregon made his longshot candidacy for the GOP Presidential nomination official last month when he filed papers with the Federal Election Commission. His goal is to win at least one convention delegate from his home state of Oregon and influence the debate at the 2008 Convention…

Whoever winds up winning the [...]

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