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 11:01 AM, May 11, 2012 • By MICHAEL WARREN
After Barack Obama's disappointing showing in the West Virginia Democratic primary--the president received less than 60 percent of the vote while a federal inmate in Texas won more than 40 percent--it seems the Obama reelection team may be realizing it has a problem in coal country. Below is an image of the Obama-Biden 2012 page on energy policy from a version of the site cached on May 3, five days before the West Virginia primary:
Among the topics available to read are oil, natural gas, fuel efficiency, biofuels, wind, solar, and nuclear. Now, here's a screenshot from Obama's energy page today:
All topics are still available to read except for "fuel efficiency." That's been replaced by "clean coal." The site touts Obama's "10-year goal to develop and deploy cost-effective clean coal technology."
Obama isn't likely to win West Virginia this year--ever since George W. Bush won the state in 2000, it's been in Republican hands at the presidential level. But consider that swing states like Pennsylvania and Ohio also have coal industries, and the change on Obama's campaign website makes a bit more political sense.
1:14 PM, Mar 27, 2012 • By MICHAEL WARRENA new Rasmussen poll shows Republican Senate candidate Josh Mandel has tied incumbent Democratic senator Sherrod Brown with 43 percent support apiece. That's a change from a poll in early February, when Brown held a four-point lead over Mandel in a head-to-head match-up. Here's more from Rasmussen:
Read more... 7:48 AM, Mar 18, 2012 • By JEFFREY H. ANDERSONThe latest Rasmussen poll of likely general election voters in the “core four” swing states of Florida, Ohio, Virginia, and North Carolina shows Rick Santorum leading President Obama by 4 percentage points (48 to 44 percent), while Mitt Romney trails Obama by 4 points (46 to 42 percent) — an 8-point swing.
Read more... 12:07 PM, Mar 12, 2012 • By MICHAEL WARRENThe Hill reports that Florida senator Marco Rubio will today be making his first Senate endorsement for Josh Mandel, a Republican challenging Ohio Democrat Sherrod Brown:
Read more... 1:55 AM, Mar 7, 2012 • By FRED BARNES
Mitt Romney didn’t achieve the knockout punch he wanted on Super Tuesday, but winning five of the 10 contests was no small feat. With his haul of delegates, he continued his march to the Republican presidential nomination.
Read more... 9:01 AM, Mar 3, 2012 • By JEFFREY H. ANDERSONAs BuzzFeed’s Andrew Kaczynski reports, USA Today published a health care op-ed by Mitt Romney on July 30, 2009 — just days before the start of the August recess that quickly became the August uprising against Obamacare. In his op-ed, Romney seems to encourage President Obama to move in a slower and more bipartisan manner, to abandon his planned government-run “public option” (which, under constituent pressure, the Democrats eventually did scrap), to use Romney’s Massachusetts health care overhaul as something of a model, and (as a way to keep Obamacare’s costs down) to include a federal mandate.
Read more... 4:55 PM, Feb 17, 2012 • By MICHAEL WARRENWhy did Mike DeWine, Ohio’s Republican attorney general and a former U.S. senator, shift his endorsement from Mitt Romney to Rick Santorum? “When I endorsed Governor Romney, I thought he was the best candidate to beat Barack Obama. As this campaign has played out, it is abundantly clear he is not, and I believe he [would] lose in November,” DeWine told THE WEEKLY STANDARD in a phone interview. “It’s abundantly clear that Governor Romney’s campaign is no better than it was four years ago.”
Read more... 12:01 PM, Feb 16, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPERWhen the boss called in late yesterday from Columbus, Ohio, where he gave a speech and had a couple meetings, he said he was struck how light support seemed to be for Mitt Romney—and how receptive people seemed to be toward Rick Santorum. Rasmussen's latest poll seems to confirm the boss's general impressions, as it shows an enermous uptick of support for Santorum:
Read more... 10:25 PM, Feb 14, 2012 • By MICHAEL WARRENRestore Our Future, the pro-Mitt Romney super PAC, has released a new ad that will air in Michigan, Arizona, and Ohio. The ad portrays Santorum as a "big spender" and a "Washington insider," citing his voting record when he represented Pennsylvania in the Senate. Watch the ad below:
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