Free Republic

Although former President Bill Clinton has held more than 100 election events, his wife is unable to campaign because of her foreign policy role. She is currently on a two-week tour of Asia and Australasia that includes stops in Vietnam, Cambodia, China, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand and Australia. In Siem Reap in Cambodia yesterday, Mrs Clinton met a group of about 50 victims of human trafficking at an American-funded facility and promised continued American support. Related Articles Palin hits back at Karl Rove's claim she lacks 'gravitas' Barack Obama's world turns upside down Obama's victory in pictures Prepare...

So what should be made of the historic midterm election of 2010? While all the pundits try to analyze polling data and read between the lines, syndicated columnist and Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer has a clearer view. In his view, President Barack Obama’s so-called hope and change agenda is dead and it’s up to Obama to determine his direction. “I think that the message is unmistakable that the Obama agenda is dead,” Krauthammer said on the Fox News Channel’s early morning coverage on Nov 3. “The question is how much of it is going to be repealed and how...

Just heard right now (5:40 a.m. Eastern) that live radio, in Rochester, New York WYSL RADIO, relaying the morning news segment audio of News 10 WHEC-TV (NBC affiliate) is offering voters to the polls for free.Problem is, they are telling voters to call liberal, far leftist, anti-Republican UNION GROUP and giving out their phone number.This was done by the female component, of a male/female morning straight news anouncer team.Anyone think that this violates FCC neutrality rules?They told people to call the Rochester, NY office of the COALITION OF BLACK TRADE UNIONISTS for these free rides, and also said that the...

Democrats about to be torn limb-from-limb by an outraged American electorate... As the reeling Obama administration faces a historic anti-government backlash of it's own creation along with a dead housing market, tanking dollar, and double-digit unemployment in key Democratic states, it appears that the unloved America Left is about to be taken-out at then knees... and they know it. The President and his so-called progressive allies have nothing to run on: not only is the economy comatose, this country never wanted a Big Government socialist makeover in the first-place: Obama told us he was a pragmatic moderate: he lied.With his...

10. It's really not Democratic policies that voters dislike, but rather the Democrats' inability to effectively communicate them. (I can only hope they keep talking through 2012.) 9. Obama inherited a mess. (And he only spent $600 million and campaigned for over 4 years so he could claim he inherited it.) 8. Voters are angry because Obama isn't bringing the change fast enough. (Funny how that "Hope" went away so quickly, though.) 7. Voters are slow-witted lemmings who have been misled by the Republicans into voting against their own interests and in favor of their corporate overlords' interests. (And those...

One can only shake the head in wonder at why Barack Obama, the brilliant-beyond-brilliant presidential candidate, has flopped so badly in the same type of campaign-stump venues he enchanted with fairy dust a mere two years ago. Perhaps, as he opined himself in The Audacity of Hope, the throngs loved him in '08 because he was a "blank slate" upon whom voters cast their own pictures. Now that he has an actual record of governance, his audiences are no longer fodder for easy bamboozling. In '08, the people saw what they wanted to see; reality bites back in 2010. Or...

The compilation of all of the national Senate polls is showing a 50-50 tie again. The average showed this several weeks ago but saw a small bump in Democratic polling. Today, the split is again alive and well and Republicans would be just one seat away from a true majority. Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut may change parties or perhaps Democratic Senator Ben Nelson, who should expect a tough election year in 2012. In any case, the Democrats would see what was once a supermajority which could ram down unpopular bills by going through the filibuster completely disappear.

… to find gambling in this establishment, or so says Captain Rene from Casablanca. The equivalent to that line in this election would be “Fraud? What fraud?” For example, we have Scott Murphy in Pennsylvania, who, it would seem, has had his fingers in the proverbial cookie-jar…

Here is video of a great interview with University of Virginia Professor Larry Sabato on Fox Business Network, where he discussed the upcoming Midterm Elections. Sabato shared his final “Crystal Ball” predictions that the GOP will retake control of the House with a 55-seat net gain, and will gain 8-seats in the Senate – two short of what is needed for control there. But Sabato also said he believes the final margin in the House will likely be larger than the 55-seats he has predicted, and holds open the possibility the Republicans could take control of the U.S. Senate as...

Washington (CNN) - With four days to go until the midterm elections, one of the top non-partisan political handicappers is upping the prediction of how many seats the Republicans will win back in the House of Representatives. The Rothenberg Political Report Friday forecast a net gain of 55 to 65 seats for the Republicans, with gains at or above 70 seats possible. That's up from Rothenberg's previous forecast of a GOP gain of 45 to 55 seats. The Republicans need a net gain of 39 seats to win back control of the chamber from the Democrats, who have held the...

HERE is the link to the page that has the nice, brief, 2 minute streaming video report. Japanese reporter and camera crew are following Tea Party Express. They could videotape them in (apparantly cold) Illinois.Report said the Tea Party members call Obama a SOCIALIST.Main point of the Japanese story was it said that Obama is in big trouble even in his home state of Illinois by the conservative grassroots movement "Tea Party" which has taken off in the USA, indicative by enthusiastic and large crowds wherever this Tea Party Express goes.They interviewed some of the Tea Partiers and let their...

By all accounts, the midterm elections on November 2nd will be a landslide of historic porportion for conservatives.  So what will the political and legal landscape look like on November 3rd?  Irregularities are already showing up at polling places.  Desperate to hold onto power, how far across the line are our current members of Congress willing to go?  We have seen the model for close elections in the 2008 Minnesota Senate race.   If enough doubt can be sewn into the election process, then maybe Democrats can throw a number of races into the hands of friendly courts on November 3rd.

The polls and pundits are all in alignment now. The Republican Party is headed for a victory Tuesday to rival the biggest and best of those that the party has known in the lifetime of most Americans. In 1938, the GOP won 72 seats in the House. In 1946, Republicans swept both houses and presented Harry Truman with a "fighting 80th Congress" that contained three future presidents: John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon. In 1966, Republicans picked up 47 House seats to set up the comeback of Nixon, who had led the party out of the wilderness of...

Here is video of University of Virginia Professor Larry Sabato giving his “Crystal Ball” final predictions for the upcoming 2010 Midterm Elections. In his final predictions, Sabato said he believes Republicans will pickup 55-seats in the House, and 8-seats in the U.S. Senate. That would give the GOP control of the House, but two-seats short of taking control of the U.S. Senate. Sabato said this election is “about the fundamentals” of a bad economy and an unpopular President, and “it was over a long time ago.” He believes about 40% of American voters will turnout, fairly typical for a Midterm...

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee is making a last ditch effort to survive a GOP wave by blanketing the airwaves in more than 60 districts in the final week of the campaign. According to FEC filings late Tuesday, the DCCC purchased $21.6 million worth of air time in 66 districts. The ad buys represent the breadth of the GOP 's momentum. Among those 66 districts, many were once considered safe Democratic seats, including those held by Reps. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), Gary Peters (D-Mich.), Bruce Braley (D-Iowa) and Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.). Only three of the seats in which Democrats are advertising...

Gosh, who would have guessed that Hollywood funnyman Vince Vaughn would be taking this midterm election so seriously? Especially when so many voters are despondent over what they view as their dismal Nov. 2 choices. "I'm sitting here holding Vince Vaughn's absentee voting application," laughed Chicago Board of Election spokesman Jim Allen when I called on Friday. Vaughn, the Lake Forest native who owns a condo on the Gold Coast, was apparently so hell-bent on registering to vote in Chicago and getting his ballot in before the deadline that FedEx envelopes were flying back and forth from Hollywood to Allen's...

The electoral fortunes of President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party have eroded so badly over the last several weeks that there are now more than 100 House seats up for grabs, according to NBC Nightly News Chief White House Correspondent Chuck Todd. Leading the network's nightly newscast Monday night, Todd reported that more than 100 seats are now “in play” – meaning the incumbents that hold them will poll less than 60 percent on election day. Todd cited analysts from both the Republican and Democratic parties. Republicans only need to net 39 to take control of the chamber. The...

Here is video of CBS News White House Correspondent Chip Reid saying the Obama White House, while publicly speaking optimistically about the November 2 Midterm Election, are privately “deeply worried” they will lose the House, and perhaps the Senate as well.

The Audacity of Hoopla: My Two Cents on Impoverished Political Ploys By David J. Aland /// 15 October 2010 As Dewey and Truman once learned, the American voting public is unpredictable, whimsical and fickle. A good politician plans for this. A poor politician counts on it. Sadly, the Democrats this year appear to have made it the mainstay of their mid-term election strategy, and no one is fooled. The ever-glib Joe Biden put it best recently, when he pointed out that Democrats can’t boast about achievements in Congress this year, because the policy issues are “too complicated” for voters to...

President Obama will cast his vote in the midterm elections via absentee ballot, the White House said Tuesday. The Chicago resident, temporarily employed in Washington, requested the ballot but has not yet weighed in on the many competitive races in Illinois this year, including the tight race for governor and for the Senate seat he vacated to become president. Early voting began in Illinois Monday, but a stop in his home state is not yet part of what his shaping up to be a busy campaign itinerary for Obama in the coming weeks. That schedule includes a mix of fund-raisers...