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Viacom networks MTV, BET and CMT are giving an hour of free air time to President Obama less than three weeks before the midterm elections. The so-called “A Conversation with President Obama” will be live and commercial-free on six Viacom networks at 4 p.m. on Thursday. The networks will not give equal time to a Republican before the election, according to a spokeswoman. MTV denies that the Obama hour of TV is political, despite the timing, weeks before the midterm elections.

On August 30, before many others jumped in, I was proud to endorse GOP congressional candidate Sean Bielat, who is challenging entrenched corruptocrat Barney Frank in Massachusetts. Marine/businessman/father Bielat has gained immense traction since then and it has been thrilling to watch Frank sweat.

It’s starting to feel like desperation time for President Obama and the Democrats. Less than a month away from the November 2 Midterm Elections, President Obama today pleaded with a crowd of supporters in Maryland to prove the pundits wrong. Obama implored the crowd, “Don’t make me look bad.” As always, for Obama it’s all about Obama. Actually, he’s right – it is about him and his failed leftist philosophy. On November 2, Americans are going to let Obama and the Democrats know just what they think of the “change” he has brought to America.

A new internal poll conducted for Republicans shows Dino Rossi leading Sen. Patty Murray 48 percent to 42 percent, the Washington Post's Chris Cillizza reports. The sampling of 500 likely by Fabrizio, McLaughlin and Associates was taken Sept. 26-27. The margin of error was 4.5 percent. The same poll in June had the candidates tied.

These are actual quotes from the US News Story Many Americans and historians have dismissed Carter as a failure, partly because he presided over such a terrible economy. Understatement. One of the key lessons from the Carter era that has lasting importance is that a president can't really govern as an outsider. Or as a wimp with his international policy and a disaster with his economic policy. As an outsider, Carter wouldn't compromise enough to get things done. He abhorred making deals with members of Congress and he disdained the news media, attitudes which hindered his effectiveness. By contrast, Obama...

Blue Dog Democrats voted with Nancy Pelosi 80% of the time on economic issues. In the House of Representatives, the 54 members of the Blue Dog Coalition are the self-described fiscal conservatives in the Democratic caucus. Unfortunately, the description doesn't fit. Organizing into a coalition after the Republican takeover of the House in 1994, the Blue Dogs branded themselves loyal but conservative Democrats. They were, in the words of Rep. Pete Geren of Texas, yellow dogs who had been "choked blue" by the strident economic liberalism of their party leaders. In their first Congress, the Blue Dogs mostly lived up...

The USA is, IMHO, on the “cusp” of another “1994″. With a number of USA House and Senate races, plus with a number of state house and local elections around the country, the November 2, 2010 mid-terms could be not only a historic but also a very important turning point one indeed. There are a number of conservative-minded men and women who are running for public office, with ideas on how to work to scale back the over-kill of over-taxing, over-spending, and the over-regulations from the federal government. The last two years has been a good time for Americans to...

FORTUNE -- While most secular market indicators -- hemlines, sports, the weather -- matter little to big investors, the correlation between midterm elections and rising stock prices is practically gospel. "The charts are eye popping," says Deutsche Bank chief U.S. equities strategist Binky Chadha, who points out that the S&P 500 has produced gains in 18 out of the last 19 midterm election cycles. "It really is an anomaly," he says. The S&P has returned an average of 13% in the six months after midterm elections, Chadha says, and 17% over the next twelve months, which is vastly better than...

In their continued crusade to cover the Obama Regime’s rear-end, the mainstream media is proclaiming the Mid-Term Election (in November) to be all about the US economy. They made their pronouncement, of course, after it became clear the democrats will LOSE BIG in November and could, in fact, lose control of BOTH houses of Congress. Here’s the truth: This election IS about the economy – IN PART. But even more important, it is about the President’s attempt to “fundamentally transform” America from a constitutional republic to a socialist banana republic sewer. This is the concern upon which all the other...

Here is video of ABC’s George Stephanopoulos talking with GOP Strategist Mary Matalin and Democrat Strategist Donna Brazile about the chances of Republicans winning control of Congress in the upcoming Midterm Elections. Brazile put the odds at “50-50,” while Matalin said the GOP would win back the House, and that they had a “9 in 10″ chance of taking the U.S. Senate as well.

Here is a video report that includes University of Virginia Political Science Professor Dr. Larry Sabato saying that this year has been “mischaracterized as an anti-incumbent year.” Instead, he said, “It’s an anti-Democrat year.” Sabato is predicting right now that the GOP will gain 47-seats in the House to retake control.

The polling figures paint an astounding picture -- and not just for Democrats, but for the political class as a whole.In Jimmy Carter’s White House, Patrick Caddell was, in the words of Teddy White, the “house Cassandra” — an all-too-candid pollster whose prophecies spooked the president’s other advisors. Three decades later, Caddell again is warning his fellow Democrats about electoral doom. As he sips an iced tea over lunch in midtown Manhattan, Caddell sighs and tells me that the lessons of the Carter years appear to be all but forgotten by the current crop of Democrats in Washington. “President Obama’s...

Yesterday we had "top" Democrats glumly admitting that they are likely to lose the house: Top Democrats are growing markedly more pessimistic about holding the House, privately conceding that the summertime economic and political recovery they were banking on will not likely materialize by Election Day. In conversations with more than two dozen party insiders, most of whom requested anonymity to speak candidly about the state of play, Democrats in and out of Washington say they are increasingly alarmed about the economic and polling data they have seen in recent weeks. Than today you have "top" Democrat strategists singing another...

During the 3 p.m. MSNBC news hour Monday, anchor Chris Jansing asked the question and hosted an expert who supplied the seemingly desired answer. The question: Could President Obama make a mid-term comeback similar to President Reagan in 1982? The answer: Absolutely. The two discussed the similarities of the situations faced by the presidents, and seemed to conclude that if the economy turns around, President Obama would almost certainly be re-elected. It is a big if, but the short segment seemed quite focused on what would happen after the economy turns around. The two didn't bother to discuss what would...

Here is video of GOP U.S. Senate Majority Leader – Sen. Mitch McConnell – being asked if the GOP would be able to take back control of the Senate in this year’s Midterm Elections. McConnell refused to make a prediction, but he did say that if the “election were held tomorrow, we’d have a very good day.” He cited the fact that Democrats “are on defense” in at least 12 Senate elections, and the “Republicans are on offense.” “I’m very optimistic” McConnell said. I don’t think Mitch McConnell has to worry about being guilty of “irrational exuberance!”

A video to send to your representative."The spider is D.C. The lightning bug / firefly is you. The flashes are rallies. The storm is the 2010 midterms elections." Hang on. The storm is on the way!

OK...90 days to election day...the mid-terms. Will the hope turn into action? Will the rinos attach themselves to the Tea Partiers? Will the dems be able to hold? Will the vaunted "independents" stay the course? Will the anger in the and at the dems hold? Will it increase...or decrease? Will all the married gays in CA now vote conservative since they've been backed by a law changing judge? When will the real battles for the "hearts and minds" of the mid-term voter really begin? . . That's right folks....just 90 days left. Where do your friends stand? Where do all...

MSNBC’s Ed Schultz told his radio listeners that he will not be voting in the midterm elections, and he encouraged them to do the same if the Democrats continue to “fail to deliver the mail.” “I’m announcing today, I’m not going to vote in the midterms. I’m not going to do it. You can say it’s un-American. No, it’s rather revolutionary is what it is. I’m at that point.”

Here is video of White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs today predicting that Democrats will retain both the House and Senate in this Fall’s Midterm Elections. Gibbs thinks Americans will want to continue making the “progress” we’ve been making under Obama’s leadership. Of course they will! Obama’s “progress” is breaking out all over (like a bad case of chickenpox). Can’t you see it?

Here’s the new spin on why voters may be about to vote for the GOP in the Midterm Election – They are “Schizophrenic.” So says Newsweek’s Ezra Klein to a man who ought to know about such things – MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann. Klein argues that we have a “schizophrenic voter population” right now who supposedly trust Democrats more on issues but are going to vote for the GOP in the Fall. After what the Democrats have done with their power over the last couple of years, I think Klein is “whistling past the graveyard” if he thinks voters trust Democrats....