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The American people sent a strong message to President Obama on Tuesday night. Keep the change!!! The Republican Party went from having 178 seats in the House of Representatives in the 111th Congress to acquiring 239 seats in the upcoming 112th Congress (a win of 61 seats). As for the Senate, the Republicans went from having 41 seats in the 111th Congress to acquiring 46 seats in the 112th Congress (a win of 5 seats). Republicans also picked up at least 10 governorships that may shake up the game a bit before the 2012 presidential election. The Power of the...

(Nov. 1) -- The American people are mad as hell, and they aren't going to take it anymore. They're tired of billion-dollar bailouts that have bankrupted the country. They are tired of Democratic politicians who are raising their taxes. They are tired of a Congress that has basically done nothing over the past two years. Come Tuesday, these angry voters are going to shake up Washington, by voting for a Republican Party committed to reversing the failed policies of the Democratic Party. Sounds like a pretty good list of complaints, right? There's one problem. It's simply wrong. In reality, bank...

If you're a conservative, you've just gotta like this. In the wake of a poll released after April 24, 2009, Democrats were loudly proclaiming a study showing Republican identification had dropped to 21%. The mainstream media pundits all agreed that the Republican Party was clearly dead. What the talking heads failed to mention was the fact that both parties had declined in identification (with independents growing and now representing the largest group), and the actual difference from the earliest poll result shown from January 2008 showed the Democrats had only picked up two points. But get a load of what...

White House political operative Karl Rove told a Republican rally in Ohio Monday that Democrats faded from national power because the GOP has claimed the "mantle of idealism" over the past 40 years. "It has been a remarkable rise," Rove said, "but it also is a cautionary tale about what can happen to a dominant political party when its thinking becomes ossified." He said the GOP was nearly dead in 1964, after Democrat Lyndon Johnson crushed Barry Goldwater. He predicted it could be on the cusp of a political realignment that will leave it in power for a generation. Rove,...