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Is This The “A” List?

Posted in Bobby Jindal, Mark Sanford, Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, Sarah Palin, Tim Pawlenty on January 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Brian Gaines, who is with the Institute of Government and Public Affairs and is also a political science professor, had this to say when asked by the Daily Illini about the next GOP presidential candidate:
Whether successful or not, I don’t think anybody is likely in the next two years to emerge as the likely [...]

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Sanford: “South Carolina ain’t no sanctuary mansion!”

Posted in Candidates, Immigration, Issues, Mark Sanford on December 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Over the next year and a half, South Carolina gradually will begin pushing all employers to use the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s e-verify program, a Web-based system run by the federal government.
Employers put pertinent employee information into the system, including name, Social Security number and birth date. The system scans millions of records [...]

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Sanford on CAR-TARP

Posted in Candidates, Economy, Issues, Mark Sanford on December 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Since, as is self-evident, the Detroit Three are actually financial firms:
The Bush administration was considering using money from the $700-billion Troubled Asset Relief Program, designed to help the financial services sector, to provide the emergency loans to automakers. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) told reporters Monday that she was optimistic action would come “sooner [...]

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Old math in the new age. Or is it new math in the old age? New math, new age, but old news? Or is it that old age is not math news, but…

Posted in Bobby Jindal, Candidates, Charlie Crist, Economy, Government Operations, Issues, Mark Sanford, Tim Pawlenty on December 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

States are heading for budget difficulties that may compel the governors to swallow hard and either propose or accept tax increases.
And there is no better way to alienate the base of the Republican Party than to push for, or acquiesce to, tax increases.
Yeah? So?
The problem is particularly sensitive for a group of governors who [...]

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The List That’s Not “The” List

Posted in Bob McDonnell, Bobby Jindal, Candidacy, Candidates, Context, Eric Cantor, Haley Barbour, John Thune, Jon Huntsman, Jr., Mark Sanford, Mike Huckabee, Mitch Daniels, Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin, Steve Poizner on November 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Chris Cillizza has a new entry in the Washington Post blog in which he reveals a GOP top 10 list that he insists is not a presidential candidates list. This is a list of Republicans, he writes, to “to keep an eye on over the coming months and years.” Uh… okay. You decide if the [...]

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