Republican pollster Ed Goeas sees the potential for 2010 to be “the year of the angry white male” at the polls, in part because unemployment is hitting men harder than women. In the recent George Washington University Battleground Poll, 33 percent of Republicans and 26 percent of [...]
George W. Bush is not a conservative. He is conservative, but not a conservative. While Christianity has certainly always defined who George Bush is, conservatism has not. Put another way in which I think we can all agree, George W. Bush’s gut instinct is a conservative one, but the fiber of his [...]
The other day, I wrote about a recent Rasmussen poll demonstrating that "A Non-Existent Center-Right Political Party is More Popular than the Republican Brand."
Look at the preference among unaffiliated voters, according to Rasmussen. It's' [...]
In a three-way Generic Ballot test, the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds Democrats attracting 36% of the vote. The Tea Party candidate picks up 23%, and Republicans finish third at 18%. Another 22% are undecided.
Among voters not affiliated with either major party, the Tea Party comes out [...]
News of the involvement of former pharmaceutical company executive and 2010 Democratic gubernatorial candidate Tom Wiggans in a federal securities fraud lawsuit in California, and especially of its recent settlement for $12.75 million, only compounds the skepticism about Wiggans’ electability. Republicans already were making much [...]
A few big-government Republicans are attempting to hand-pick former Kansas Senator Nick Jordan as the Republican candidate for the 3rd Congressional District.
Nick Jordan, who was a state senator through the end of 2008 and was the 2008 Republican congressional nominee, lost his senate district to incumbent Democratic Congressman Dennis Moore. [...]
Overall, 18 percent of Republicans and GOP-leaning independents cited Sarah Palin as the person most representative of the party’s core values, but those who regularly listen to Rush Limbaugh picked Palin by 48 percent, and among Glenn Beck’s viewers, it was 35 percent, The Washington Post [...]
Though Republicans are overwhelmingly united in disliking President Obama, they aren’t particularly happy with their own party leaders, either. The Washington Post reported that fewer than half of the Republicans and GOP-leaning independents surveyed “see the party’s leadership as taking the GOP in the ‘right direction,’ [...]
What would the liberal media and Kansas Democrats say if, after more than a year of trying to find a viable candidate, Kansas Republicans begged a wealthy, pharmaceutical executive to move back to Kansas to run for State Representative...er...State Senator...er...GOVERNOR OF KANSAS?!?!?
Let me write down the answer you are saying [...]
In the wake of the disputed 2000 presidential election, many Republicans thought that election reform was a nonissue and that Congress shouldn’t be telling locals how to run their elections. Nine years later, with a Democrat in the White House, 52 percent of Republican voters surveyed [...]
Given the conservative challenges in several states against incumbents who are viewed as RINOs (Republicans in name only), would Ronald Reagan, if judged on his record, be pure enough for the GOP circa 2009? Newsweek’s Evan Thomas noted that “Reagan piously gave lip service to the [...]
In Topeka, the Kansas Republican House Campaign Committee (RHCC) wants your input. You can click here to go to the RHCC's Web site to vote in the following poll (scroll to the bottom of the page, and in the center):
Despite the current economic challenges Kansas is facing, some [...]
