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new poll has shown a dramatic shift in the way Americans observe Christmas. The web-based poll, conducted on Christmas Day, found that 93% of Americans use the holiday to celebrate the life of politician Ron Paul, rather than the birth of Jesus Christ.
Bush will soon be gone. What progressives should be focused on now is taking on the political movement that brought Bush to power. In short, what we need right now isn't Bush bashing—what we need is partisanship.
GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee's new Christmas-themed campaign ad -- which may or may not feature a subliminal cross image -- has found an unlikely critic in Catholic League president Bill Donahue.
America's favorite neocon commentator takes a crack at America's favorite quasi-Libertarian presidential candidate. Hey, might as well - everyone else is ripping Paul, as they always do when anyone gets too big for his britches.
It's often assumed that the U.S. labor movement died a natural death, that it was made obsolete by globalization and technological change.
Illinois Sen. Barack Obama would defeat all five of the top Republicans in prospective general election contests, performing better than either of his two top rivals, a new Zogby telephone poll shows.
Hillary's not just talking tough to win votes. For her, war is the option of first resort.
In my humble opinion, Ron Paul has no chance of winning. Period. He might as well be running as a member of the Libertarian party. But let's say that he clears all odds and actually becomes the Republican candidate for 2008.
But, as always, the game for him is about him. A vote for her is a vote for him. Vanity is a big part of it, with her victory the succession legacy he was denied when Al Gore lost.
Once it was about Hillary, but now, of course, it's about Bill.
For many, Mr. McCain's long record of experience may be a liability even greater than his party-bucking moderation on immigration and his bear hug of President Bush on Iraq. What his résumé mainly does is remind a youth-obsessed culture of his age.
About the nicest adjective some analysts have applied to Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson is he's laid back.
A generation of Democrats enjoys power and prosperity thanks to Bill Clinton, who ran for president as a fresh face representing hope and change.
This is not a new idea -- Maine and Nebraska do it now and many states have done it in the past. The topic has come up recently on Newsvine and I just saw this and thought it was relevant. It's interesting on a lot of levels...
But before Huckabee's sun sets, I have another prediction. It is that we will hear a lot more not only about the candidate himself but about a topic — evolution — on which he has already been pestered incessantly by the media.
Why did Lieberman endorse McCain? Was it because of their common view of the war? Was it a nice dig and some dirt kicking for his former colleagues? Would he waste an endorsement on something that petty? Is he fertilizing the soil for a party switch? Only he knows for sure.
Although Al Gore has shown no interest in making the 2008 presidential race, activists who nonetheless want the Nobel Prize winner elected president are pressing on.
The blogger Ross Douthat has discovered a previously unknown psychological condition he calls "Huckenfreude."
"To put it in everyday terms," said Brunner, "the tools needed to compromise an accurate vote could be as simple as tampering with the paper audit trail connector or using a magnet with a digital assistant."
In the most-watched speech of his political career, speaking on "Faith in America" at College Station, Texas, earlier this month, Mitt Romney evoked the strongest of all symbolic claims to civil-rights credentials: "I saw my father march with Martin Luther King."
Americans have something to celebrate this holiday season with Tom Tancredo dropping out of the '08 election.
Christmas advertisements from the presidential candidates.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's robust 25-point lead over Sen. Barack Obama in California has shrunk by nearly half since October - but state Democratic voters by a 3-1 ratio still believe the New York senator has the best chance of winning the presidency, a new Field Poll shows.
Today on The Lunch, Rob and Will talk about candidates who talk about the issues. Also, a new poll shows the winners in Iowa will be determined by those who show up to vote. The poll also found the Iowa caucuses will be held in Iowa, and other surprising news...
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