Now that the Senate has voted to vote on health care reform they can finally get to crafting a version of the measure that may actually pass. Even given the close vote in the House on their final measure it would be surprising if they chose not to agree with [...]
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio (R) performs best among a field of Republican candidates in hypothetical match-ups for next year's Arizona governor's race, a Rasmussen Reports poll conducted Nov. 18 Over the weekend, the Senate voted to open debate on health care reform. While this seems like a simple and harmless progression of events, hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent trying to prevent this very event. Throats have been made raw through vocal and angry rhetoric while reputations [...]
Senator Mary Landrieu
After ten hours of floor speeches and debate, the United States Senate is set to vote at 8:00 PM EST to send it’s version of health care reform to the Senate floor for debate. For a while, it looked as if they may fall two [...]
From Politico ~ Mounting evidence that independent voters have soured on the Democrats is prompting a debate among party officials about what rhetorical and substantive changes are needed to halt the damage.
Read the entire story at [www.politico.com]. [...] 
Tulsa blogger Michael Bates has been examining the vote returns in last week's mayoral election and found this fairly startling result: (Tom) Adelson and (Dewey F.) Bartlett Jr each lost his own home precinct. Bartlett Jr got barely a third of the votes (34.0%) [...] 
Sarah Palin will visit Norman Dec 3, for a book signing at Hastings.
By Peter Wehner/Commentary Magazine ~ The results of races for the governorship of Virginia and New Jersey were ominous for Democrats. The most alarming development for them should be that independents voted for the GOP candidates by roughly a 2-to-1 margin. This was a sea [...] 
In a highly partisan debate American Democrats in the House of Representatives took one more step toward destroying American healthcare. They found the 218 votes they needed to push though ObamaCare. 
The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 30% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty percent (40%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -10 (see' [...] Here are the “unofficial” election results. This wasn’t a huge turnout, but seems to be an average turnout for the type of election it was. By my calculations, approximately 31% of registered voters showed up at the polls. At any rate, congratulations to all the winners and a special shout [...]
Instead of telling you who to vote for (or even implying it), or worse, do something like "If I lived in your district I'd vote for..." I believe you should make up your own mind. Do I have an opinion? Yes, of course I do. But' [...] 
Perhaps the most symbolic fact about why it’s so difficult to pass rational health care reform in this country involves U.S. Rep. Dan Boren’s no vote on the U.S. House bill Saturday night.
The bill, which passed the House and now faces stiff [...]
By Randy Krehbiel/Tulsa World Staff Writer ~ Two months of highly charged campaigning have hardly budged public opinion about Tuesday's Tulsa mayoral election, the Oklahoma Poll has found.
The survey of 687 likely voters, taken Oct. 31 to Nov. 5, shows Republican Dewey Bartlett Jr. [...] This morning, prior to the vote on health care reform, the GOP orchestrated, in the now world-renowned teabagger style, an ugly disruption of the Democratic Women’s Caucus statements for the record (which had already been shortened by agreement between the two parties. The Dem leadership persists in making these agreements [...]
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