Elections Blog

Yesterday, Glenn Kessler in his Washington Post article, entitled “Rice’s pre-election appearances buck tradition — Secretary of State is expected to stay above the partisan fray,” reported on Condi’s pre-election activity with a rather critical tone. While Dr. Rice has largely avoided the megabuck politcal fundraising circuit with its infamous “rubber chicken” and photo [...]

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Ben Cardin, the Democrats’ $4 million man (and that’s just the primary)

In an example of Party discipline that would have made Stalin’s commissars proud, the Maryland Democratic machine recruited and nominated Congressman Ben Cardin to defeat Kweisi Mfume, a former congressman and past president of the NAACP, who - in the opinion of many political [...]

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What are the correct terms for homosexual couples and their family members? Somebody tell us. I, and perhaps you, have struggled with this one for a long time. I am so behind the times that I still struggle with how to refer to unmarried heterosexual couples, much less gay ones. (See side bar) In an [...]

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Rudy Giuliani, dubbed “America’s Mayor” by none other than French President Jacque Chirac, has consistently come out at, or near, the top of polls for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination. These same polls have Senator McCain and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice rounding out the top three. The rest of the pack are [...]

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For those of us that are “Fox Fans,” we are used to the informal banter that goes on during Fox and Friends in the morning. Today, in a segue to the Sandy Berger investigation story, the morning crew began doing impersonations of the former Clinton official. During the segment, Condi — and her [...]

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Robin Williams is Candidate Tom Dobbs

The concept of a female president is increasingly finding it’s way into popular culture. Robin Williams, while promoting his new movie Man of the Year, a comedy about a comedian that runs for President and wins, spoke about the race in 2008 during an interview with Susan Wloszczyna, of [...]

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Marist College Institute for Public Opinion - WNBC

Sept. 2006
Feb. 2006

RudyCondiMcCainGingrichRomneyFristAllenPatakiBrownbackTancredoHagelOtherUndecided

23%20%15% 7% 4% 4% 2% 2% 1% 1% – na 21%

22%22%22% 5% 4% 2% 2% 2% – 1% 1%an 17%

The results of a recent Marist poll seem to reflect [...]

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Our enemies in the Global War on Terror (GWOT) are economically dependent, in large part, on support from oil-exporting countries. As Secretary of State, Dr. Rice has spoken of how energy “warps” our foreign policy. Without much fanfare, Dr. Rice at the Department of State, in conjuction with the Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman (bio), has [...]

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November 14th is a very special day: the birthday of Condoleezza Rice. We at Americans for Dr. Rice would like to make it one to remember.
Condi was born in Birmingham, Alabama during the segregation era. She had to endure domestic terrorism as a child : church bombs, Klan attacks, and police brutality. She persevered [...]

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We are featured in a news story today on the ABC News website. It talks about our movement and the possibility of Condi running for President. My favorite part of the article talks about how Condi is being groomed to become a possible contender for 2008.
It’s media exposure like this that will encourage people [...]

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The Republican leadership of the House, and especially Speaker Dennis Hastert, need to seize the opportunity to resign their leadership positions NOW.  Their replacements need to be thrown “into the breech” as soon as possible so that they can maximize their effectiveness prior to the midterm elections.   In doing so they can  dramatically illustrate the differences between Democratic [...]

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In response to Bill Clinton’s outburst to Chris Wallace on FOX News, Condoleezza Rice set the record straight.  Bill said that he did everything he could to fight terorism while president.  He said he even a left a complete plan on how to fight Al-Qaeda for Bush.  He then concluded that Bush did nothing for 8 [...]

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Producer Linda Ellman (Linda Ellman Productions) was concerned that her documentary, On Native Soil, would be overshadowed by other 9-11 related programming for the 5th Anniversary of the terrorist attack that changed America even though she was able to get Kevin Costner and Hilary Swank to narrate.  (Swank spells her first name with only one “L.”).  [...]

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Right, or wrong, celebrities play a large role in our nation’s political life.  It’s a point that shouldn’t be lost on us and our efforts.
It took Cher to turn the issue of better combat helmets into a newsworthy item.  And she was more successful than all of our generals, wounded veterans, etc.  (MSNBC, ABC)  Dr. Rice, being something of [...]

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The stakes for the 2006 election are huge. And it is incumbent upon all of us to make sure that when “Secretary Rice” becomes “President Rice” that she’ll be in a position to govern effectively. If control of the Senate or the House is lost in 2006, her position will be weakened considerably.

Diana Irey [...]

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Condoleezza Rice has an interview in this month’s Essence magazine. I will warn you, only the first part of the interview is available free on the website. You have to actually buy the magazine to get the complete interview. They ask a lot of the tough questions, but Condi answers with confidence and intelligence as [...]

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She is, to almost all Republicans, the “800-pound gorilla,” in the 2008 election. (This is not a reference to her any of her physical characteristics.) However, Americans for Dr. Rice has been very careful not to follow Dick Morris’ lead and make the next presidential contest a strictly “Condi vs. Hillary” affair. The possibility of [...]

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Last month at the Iowa State Fair, there was a Presidential straw poll. In true Iowa fashion, the “Cast Your Kernel” poll had a corn theme. Channel 13 WHO-TV sponsored the poll . they wrote the names of 10 potential Democrats and 10 potential Republican presidential candidates on hard kernels of corn. People could take [...]

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In Opinion Editorials (”All the opinions that are fit to print” — a project of the Frontiers of Freedom center-right think tank), Lee Ellis, a retired journalist who previously worked for CBS and Gannett, filed his August 8, 2006, article, Candidates for President in 2008–Who’s Needed in an Era of Terrorism? (He must’ve worked in [...]

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Click here to see larger image, when enlarged to a full screen image it is quite readable.

This is a copy of the actual Waco Tribune-Herald newspaper today, Sunday, August 6, 2006. Congratulations to all that were involved. Job very well done. Special thanks to Valerie of the Crawford Texas website for scanning and sending [...]

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