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Conservatives remain scarce in the news media landscape. Only 6 percent of the national press corps describe themselves as "conservative" in a population that includes reporters, editors and producers from major television and radio networks, daily newspapers, news wires and online sources. Those who consider themselves "very conservative" amount to just 2 percent, according to a wide-ranging survey of 585 journalists and news executives released yesterday by the Project for Excellence in Journalism. In contrast, 36 percent of the overall population generally consider themselves conservative. There are more conservatives in broadcast than print — 10 percent and 2 percent, respectively....

But it does allow Obama to use what his Harvard Law School classmate Ken Mehlman, soon to be chairman of the Republican Party, calls his "star power" to work with the GOP on bridging Red-Blue divisions and getting some things done. The son of a black economist from Kenya and a white teacher from Kansas might be uniquely qualified to nudge the country toward the color purple. "One party seems to be defending a moribund status quo, and the other is defending an oligarchy," he says coolly. "It's not a very attractive choice." Obama's a Blue State Democrat, all right,...

RNC RESEARCH WHO IS AL SHARPTON? A Liberal Democrat Out Of Touch With America “In the last decade it is hard to tell what a Democrat stands for. It is time for Democrats to be Democrats to be Democrats. And that’s one of the reasons I am embarking on this race.” (Rev. Al Sharpton As Quoted In Mike Glover, “Sharpton Vows To Engage In All Early Tests,” The Associated Press, 2/10/03) THE FACTS ABOUT AL SHARPTON (D-NY) SHARPTON HAS AN ULTRA-LIBERAL AGENDA FOR AMERICA * Sharpton Is Against The Bush Tax Cut, Welfare Reform, The Death Penalty, Opportunity Scholarships And...

RNC RESEARCH Who Is John Kerry? A Massachusetts Liberal Out Of Touch With America. “Kerry is . . . a man who opposes the death penalty, wants to restrict access to guns and voted against the resolution approving the start of ground operations against Saddam Hussein in 1991 -- just what you would expect from Ted Kennedy’s partner and Michael Dukakis’s running mate . . . .” (David S. Broder, “Testing The ‘04 Waters,” The Washington Post, June 5, 2002) THE FACTS ABOUT SENATOR JOHN KERRY (D-MA) KERRY: A NORTHEASTERN LIBERAL AND DUKAKIS’S LT. GOV. WHO VOTES LOCKSTEP WITH TED...