While President Obama has bent over backwards to reach a deal with the Republicans in the House to make sure the country does not default on its debt (which would have terrible economic repercussions) the Republicans haven’t given an inch; they are essentially saying “my way or the highway.” The GOP has this unreasonable position [...]

Along with the GOP polling they did; Quinnipiac also did a national poll with President Obama facing off his potential Republican adversaries in hypothetical general election campaigns. The results are very good news for President Obama: Obama 53% Sarah Palin 34% (+19) Obama 50% Rick Perry 37% (+13) Obama 50% Michele Bachmann 38% (+12) Obama [...]

A new GOP national poll from Quinnipiac have good news for Michele Bachmann in her quest for the GOP nomination. GOP National Poll Mitt Romney 25% (even from last month.) Michele Bachmann 14% (+8!) Sarah Palin 12% (not yet officially running.) Rick Perry 10% (not yet officially running.) Herman Cain 6% (-3) Ron Paul 5% [...]

Yesterday Democrat Janice Hahn beat Republican Craig Huey 55% to 45% in a special election for the open House seat in California’s 36th district. In May the Democratic Party won an open House seat in NY-26 which was quite remarkable as NY-26 is a red district. CA-36 is a blue district so this victory is [...]

Yesterday a poll came out with Michele Bachmann in first place in Iowa, today another Iowa GOP poll confirms; Bachmann is now the front-runner in Iowa. Poll Results Michele Bachmann 21% Mitt Romney 18% Ron Paul 14% Sarah Palin 11% Newt Gingrich 8% Rick Santorum 5% Jon Huntsman 3% Tim Pawlenty 2% Herman Cain 2% [...]

According to this new poll Michele Bachmann now has the lead in the Republican battle for Iowa. GOP Iowa Poll Michele Bachmann: 25 Mitt Romney: 21 Herman Cain: 9 Tim Pawlenty: 9 Ron Paul: 6 Newt Gingrich: 4 Rick Santorum: 2 Jon Huntsman: 1 Along with her four point lead over Romney, Bachmann has a [...]

President Obama is now pushing for $4 trillion in deficit reduction, significantly more than the $2 trillion deficit reduction the GOP wants. The big disagreement is that President Obama wants to end the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy (which would cut a huge amount of money from the deficit) while the Republicans want to [...]

Some of President Obama’s Accomplishments So Far * Created the strategy and made the decision as Commander in Chief that lead to the killing of Osama Bin Laden. (source.) * Health Care Reform: Prevents insurance companies from denying coverage to people with “pre-existing conditions” and expands coverage to millions more Americans. (source.) * The American [...]