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Purgason Beats Carnahan by 12 Points in New Poll

July 30th, 2010 · 3 Comments

Republican Chuck Purgason, the 14-year veteran of the Missouri State Senate taking on Congressman Roy Blunt in the Aug. 3 GOP primary for U.S. Senate, says the results of a new poll show him as “the clear favorite” in November. Purgason cites a Magellan Strategies poll which questioned 1,234 registered voters in the state of [...]

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Ignoring Obama Birth Certificate Issue, Democrat Demands GOP Candidate’s Birth Certificate

July 12th, 2010 · 3 Comments

Hector Maldonado hasn’t gained much traction in his bid to win the Republican primary for U.S. Senate race in Missouri.  Recently, however, he did earned national headlines when he told a campaign crowd in Branson that he’s thinking about filing a lawsuit against Robin “Coakley” Carnahan, the lone Democrat in a contest littered with Republicans [...]

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‘Joe the Plumber’ Endorses Chuck Purgason

July 2nd, 2010 · 3 Comments

Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, a man better known as “Joe the Plumber,” declared his endorsement of Missouri State Sen. Chuck Purgason in the Republican primary race for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Sen. Christopher “Kit” Bond. “Joe the Plumber” made his way into the hearts of the voters as the voice of next-door America [...]

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Inhofe Declares Kerry-Lieberman Bill ‘Dead’ (Update)

May 12th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) made a lot of good points during a Fox Business interview with Stuart Varney this morning. Most importantly, Senator Inhofe explained that the Kerry-Lieberman Global Warming Bill is basically another form of cap-and-trade legislation and that it’s dead before it hits the U.S. Senate. On offshore drilling in the wake of [...]

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Obama’s Approval Rating Hovers at All-Time Low

April 21st, 2010 · No Comments

President Barack Obama’s job approval, which bounced slightly to a 45 – 46 percent split March 25 in the wake of his health care victory, has flattened out at 44 – 46 percent, his lowest approval rating since his inauguration, according to a Quinnipiac University national poll released today.  Most interesting to me is the [...]

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Bunning: ‘Dems don’t want to help unemployed’

April 5th, 2010 · 1 Comment

U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) issued the following statement this morning on the failure of Congressional Democrats to extend the unemployment benefits that are scheduled to expire today: “Before the Senate adjourned for the Easter Recess, Senate Republicans and Senate Democrats had agreed to pass a one-week extension of unemployment benefits that was fully paid [...]

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Where Do President Obama’s Loyalties Lie?

March 21st, 2010 · 1 Comment

After supposedly pro-life Congressman Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) announced he had reached an abortion compromise with President Barack Obama and, as a result, would cast a “yes” vote in favor of the Senate health care bill today in the House, Americans on both sides of the political aisle are waiting to see where the president’s loyalties [...]

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