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The November mid-term elections are just over 3 months away. Now is the time for all good political pundits to come to the aid of their country. Toward that end, I’m going to do my part and come up with some billboard designs. If anyone would like to “steal” my idea and implement it, please do so with my blessings. Seriously. There is no copyright on my ideas. If you can improve upon it, so much the better. You get the idea. And if this inspires someone to come up with even better one as well, these will have served...

It struck me that with the upcoming mid-term elections, the Democrats are about to unleash a barrage of Billboard Ads in an attempt to salvage their careers while helping Barack Oh-Bummer destroy what’s left of our economy. And if you think they don’t have enough money to mount their campaigns, no doubt Uncle Barack will find extra money lying around (remember only about 1/3 of the stimulus package has actually been spent).

There’s an interesting post up at The Weekly Standard about President Obama’s odd (to say the least) behavior. The theory is that he’s trying to rev up his base so the Democrats avoid electoral disaster in November. [...] I don’t know. That could be part of it. But I think there’s more to it. He’s probably well aware that his party could lose the majority in Congress, so he’s in a hurry to fundamentally transform America while the window’s still open. He’s not your run of the mill politician who’s interested only in re-election. He’s a man on a mission,...

To become the nation's first black president, Barack Obama not only won heavy percentages of the black and Hispanic vote but also managed to trim the Democratic Party's traditional deficit among white voters. Four years after Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) lost the white vote by 17 percentage points, Obama lost it by 12, according to exit polls. While the 2008 gains were generally attributed to Obama's strength with young voters -- he won by 10 points among whites 18 to 29 years old -- he managed to improve on Kerry's showing with white voters across every age demographic.

It doesn’t sound like President Obama is confident that Congress will tackle immigration before the November elections. “I know there may not be an appetite immediately to dive into another controversial issue,” Obama told reporters about Air Force One last night. “There’s still work that has to be done on energy. Midterms are coming up.”

President Barack Obama's mid-term election strategy is officially the same one that has been guiding his presidency: divide the American people into groups and pit those groups against each other. In a new video the Campaigner-in-Chief starts by playing the victim and ends with a plea for those who supported him in 2008 to make the same mistake again.

Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is very popular in New York. Governor David Paterson and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand are not... and they're both up for re-election. Conventional wisdom has had it that Cuomo will run for one of their jobs: Paterson's. Amidst unsourced press reports that Cuomo would begin his campaign for governor sometime in March, Paterson even announced he would not be seeking re-election. But now March has come and just about gone, and there's no announcement. Cuomo, in fact, keeps insisting he's running for attorney general. But it's hard to believe the heretofore ruthless politician, suddenly lacks any ambition...

When I was 15, I became politically active. Why? Simple, I watched our Congress claim the passage of a very bad amendment on a very good piece of legislation. I'm talking about the Hughes Amendment to the Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986. The vote on the Hughes Amendment was a clear and resounding NO, but it was passed anyway. I didn't quite understand at the time, but I found it confusing that something passed that had been clearly voted against. This bit of Congressional deception opened my eyes to just how corrupt our politicians were and remain to be...

Sen. Barbara Boxer, the pro-abortion, pro-same-sex marriage liberal firebrand first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1992, now finds herself in a tough reelection battle in November 2010, a recently published Field Poll reveals. The Field Poll, published March 18, shows Boxer trailing Republican challenger Tom Campbell 44% to 43%, with 13% undecided. Boxer holds a narrow 45% to 44% over Republican Carly Fiorina, and a 45% to 41% lead over Chuck Devore, also a Republican. As a consequence of the poll numbers, political observers are now calling the race a dead heat. (... read more at link)

In the run up to the mid-term elections of 2010 it seems as if incumbents can read the proverbial writing on the wall. Evan Bayh's announcement is the most recent in a long stream of retirements. What better way to heal the "body politic" than to purge from its bowels the parasites that infect it. What better way to address the financial meltdown we have experienced than to give Congress a colonic and flush away the detritus that litters both sides of the aisle.

Here is video of Katie Couric asking President Obama in a Pre-Super Bowl Interview if Democrats are going to "get their clock cleaned" in this year's Mid-term Elections. Obama hedged, but you could tell he was uncomfortable with the question. Obama even claimed that he has not spent much time thinking about elections! This is the same President who is in perpetual campaign mode! . . . (VIDEO)

Here is video of Dick Morris telling Sean Hannity he believes the GOP will regain the House of Representatives "by 10 seats," and the U.S. Senate by "two seats" in this year's midterm elections. Morris believes Oregon, Wisconsin, Indiana, and New York have Democratic Senate Seats that Republicans can take away if they get good candidates to run. . . . (VIDEO)

Here is video of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich talking to Sean Hannity last night where he made the startling statement that Democrats now face a November mid-term election with as many as 150 seats at risk! Republicans need to gain 40 seats to retake control of the House of Representatives. Gingrich said it is vital that right now, Republicans recruit good candidates to challenge Democrats in those seats this November. . . . (VIDEO)

On Tuesday night, devastation struck the island of Haiti. As soon as news broke, Tom Garcia, candidate for Congress in Florida’s 24th district, got in touch with other candidates across the state and established a coalition for Haitian relief. The candidates discussed a strategy for relief for half of the night. At 1:00 am, the plan was finalized, Garcia had located a water purification expert who had led other disaster relief missions, a Cessna was filled with high-level purifiers and the two flew into Port au Prince. Touching ground, Garcia, a former naval commander, spent the first day distributing food...

Purely on a red-state/blue-state basis, the Republicans should be expected to lose several seats, but instead should pick up several. They'll have a much easier go of it in subsequent elections, since 2006 and 2008 saw outrageous liberal victories in red states. Republicans currently have 5 of the 16 Senate seats which look to be competitive in 2010. They need all 16 to take over the Senate (or 15, if Sen. Joe Lierberman of Connecticut or any Democrat refuses to vote for the Democrat candidate for majority leader.) Polling data and predictions for each of these 16 seats are listed...

PRINCETON, NJ -- The 2010 election cycle begins in a political climate that is shaping up to be not as favorable to the Democratic Party as the 2006 and 2008 elections were. Having capitalized on broad public discontent with the course of the nation in general and the Republican Party in particular to win control of the White House and both houses of Congress, the party faces the 2010 midterm elections trying to preserve its recent gains.Gallup's generic congressional ballot provides a summary measure of current voting intentions for Congress. This currently suggests the 2010 midterm elections could be highly...

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Key to victory is that Republicans develop a 435 strategy, fielding candidates in every seat. The need to take the fight to Democrats should be obvious to anyone who’s ever watched as much as a little league game in which one team has a great offense while the other plays a fine defensive strategy. Team offense wins 10-1. Fielding a candidate in each congressional district also allows us to gain some real stars who want to do amazing things for their district. Few if any have ever run with a more unique story than 2010’s Republican candidate for Florida’s 23rd...

Five minutes after George Bush won re-election in 2004 and began talking about Social Security reform, the pundits lined up those Senate Republicans they expected to be in trouble in the 2006 midterm election. Some things never change. Five minutes after Barack Obama took the oath in January and began signing executive orders and expanding government, those same pundits began lining up the Senate Democrats they expect to be in trouble in 2010, Obama’s first midterm. Historically, a president's party loses seats in Congress in midterm elections, so in theory, 2010 should favor the GOP. Yet it is hard to...

The GOP will automatically gain seats from redistricting, and new presidents historically take a beating in Congress in the midterm election. Just ask Clinton.