Check out news & commentary about the 2012 Presidential Race for the White House. Will Obama get re-elected for a second term or maybe the Republicans will score an upset? Stay up to date about the election dynamics with news polled from Twitter and the web.
- California to increase sales, income taxes to save budget and decrease $16 billion deficit Brown has said there will be even deeper cuts, mostly to public education, if voters do not improve tax hikes in November. He is seeking a quarter-cent increase in the state sales tax for four years and a seven-year hike on incomes of $250,000 or more tha...
- Poll: Romney opens 8 point lead over Obama The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows Mitt Romney earning 50% of the vote and President Obama attracting 42% support. Four percent (4%) would vote for a third party candidate, while another three percent (3%) are undeci...
- Obama labels as 'criminals' and anti-American those who donate to Romney WSJ: "This past week, one of campaign websites posted an item entitled "Behind the curtain: A brief history of Romney's donors." In the post, the Obama campaign named and shamed eight private citizens who had donated to his opponent. Describing ...
- Jon Huntsman: 'We've Forgotten to Put Country First' According to Jon Huntsman, Jr., former Utah governor and Republican presidential candidate, "partisanship has seeped into campaigning that breaking through with a message that is beyond party politics ... is a very challenging thing to do." Yet ...
- Google+ to live stream Republican National Convention VentureBeat.com: "Continuing efforts to push its new social network into the mainstream, Google will live stream this year’s Republican National Convention on Google+, the company announced in a blog post today." Link...
- Obama launches war against stay-at-home moms, Twitter reacts The Obama Campaign has launched the war on stay-at-home moms... and then they realized it's probably a bad idea and started apologizing after a huge outcry on Twitter erupted. Shaun McDonnell @McShauno Ann Romney has raised more kids than Oba...
- Porn industry advocates to vote for @BarackObama The porn industry released a video advocating to vote for Rick Santorum because only Santorum ensures that Obama will win in November. The win of any of the Republican candidates would mean that masturbating would be outlawed in America. ...
- [VIDEO] Rick Santorum calls Obama "a government nigger" Woops. It looks like Rick Santorum had a bad tongue slip. He probably wanted to call Barack Obama a government "niggard," which means stingy or ungenerous, but he ended up calling him a "nigger". Will Barack Obama say that Rick Santorum could be his own s...
- [VIDEO] Watch Barack Obama singing 'I'm sexy and I know it' He can pass an unconstitutional health care law. He can stimulate the economy with trillions of dollars. He can run up the public debt to the Greece's limits. He can call a beer summit. He can speak out loudly when a black professor is being arrested by a...
- Zimmerman who killed Trayvon Martin was a registered Democrat Recently we found out that if Barack Obama had a son, he would look like Trayvon Martin. Perhaps because of the same color of skin, who knows. Today we found out that "the individual at the center of the controversial Trayvon Martin shooting is a register...
- Cory Booker sets his eyes on 2016 presidential race, boosts his foreign policy credentials The charismatic Mayor of Newark, Cory Booker, met with Great Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron to discuss economic issues but also U.S. foreign policy and NATO's intervention in Afghanistan. Apparently, Booker already is boosting his foreign policy c...
- Video of Obama in 2008: "I promise you to lower gas prices if you vote for me" Credibility is what makes people follow a leader. Leader who says one thing but does the other cannot be taken seriously. Here are Mr. Obama's promises from 2008 to lower gas prices and then his words in 2012 that lowering gas prices is a cheap political ...
- Santorum: Obama is a better choice than Mitt Romney Presidential candidate Rick Santorum on Thursday said Republicans should give President Barack Obama another term if Santorum isn't the GOP nominee and for a second day compared rival Mitt Romney to an Etch A Sketch toy. Link...
- Report: Obama piles up more cash than entire Republican field FoxNews.com: "The Republican Party's extended primary campaign has allowed President Barack Obama to build a huge financial lead for the fall election. New fundraising reports released Tuesday show that Obama is stockpiling cash as the GOP hopefuls ...
- Romney inches it out in Illinois, time for Gingrich to get out of the race FoxNews.com: Mitt Romney left Rick Santorum with a dwindling number of opportunities to shake up the race, at least for another month, after trouncing his chief rival in the Illinois Republican primary Tuesday. Link...
- Rick Santorum: ‘I Would Consider’ Air Strikes in Syria I spoke to Rick Santorum by phone for a few minutes on Monday afternoon as he rode across Ohio on the eve of tomorrow’s Super Tuesday extravaganza. The interview mostly covered ground for a piece you can read in the upcoming issue of TIME. But I did ask...
- Daily Kos trying to stage protests at Andrew Breitbart's funeral... well, there is never shortage of liberal pinheads Although the news of Andrew Breitbart’s death is still fairly fresh, the merry band of faceless marauders at the Daily Kos have decided it is time to use his death as an opportunity to make political hay. A post dated March 1 by “dragon82a,” t...
- Bill Clinton increases anti-Obama rhetoric, says we should embrace Keystone Pipeline Former President Bill Clinton said the federal government should embrace the Keystone XL pipeline that the Obama administration rejected last month. Clinton also said that one of the “best things” about being out of office is “you can say whatev...
- Huffington Post calls Catholics a barbaric cult A group of socially conservative leaders is demanding Huffington Post publisher Arianna Huffington apologize for allowing a column to be published on her website that compares Catholics to pedophiles and attacks communion as a "barbaric ritual." Link...
- Green energy company given Obama stimulus funds lays off 125 workers, gives pay raise to executives An electric car battery company reportedly has laid off 125 employees since receiving $390 million in government subsidies, but is still handing out big pay raises to company executives. Link...
- Billary Clinton certain Obama will get reelected Hillary Clinton: ""He's our president. He represents all of the United States, and he will be reelected president, so I think that that will be a very clear signal to the entire world as to what our values are and what our president believes," she said,...
- President Obama Confident He's Got Five More Years in White House President Obama pressed with confidence about his future at the White House saying, "I've got another five years coming up," when asked why he hasn't passed immigration reform in a radio interview Wednesday with Univision. Link...
- Google enters 2012 race, manipulates search engine results for Romney and Santorum to help Obama win Fox News: "A Google bomb is the intentional manipulation of a search engine to return a specific result, thanks to large numbers of relevant links or related searches. One recently uncovered by FoxNews.com connected the search string define: to certai...
- Rasmussen: Obama 47% - Romney 43%, Obama 48% - Santorum 42% Rasmussen Reports: "In a potential Election 2012 matchup, the president posts a 47% to 43% lead over former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. If former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum is the Republican nominee, the president leads 48% to 42%." Link...
- Samuel L. Jackson: I voted for Obama because he is black.. oh, well, what a surprise Acclaimed actor, Samuel L. Jackson, publicly admitted that he voted for Barack Obama in 2008 because Obama is black. Seriously? What a surprise. Nobody would expect. Over 80% of African Americans voted for Obama in 2008. The definition of democracy is suc...
- Jon Huntsman joins Ford Board of Directors Motor Trend: "Two senior executives at Ford Motor Company have announced they will retire in April, and Ford announced it will place former Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman, Jr. on its board of directors." Link...
- Mitt Romney: "I don't care about poor people" TheDC: "On Wednesday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel, syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer reacted to a statement former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney made earlier in the day that he was “not concerned about the very poor.”...
- U.S. company making Santorum sweater vests is booming The Bemidji Pioneer: "Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s call for a return to “Made in America” production also includes “Made in Bemidji” as part of his campaign. The former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania donned a royal blue swe...
- Sarah Palin and Herman Cain: Vote for Newt! TheDC: "Well, when both party machines and many in the media are trying to crucify Newt Gingrich for bucking the tide and bucking the establishment that tells you something.” Based on that, Palin told viewers to “rage against the machine” and to ...
- Facebook to reach 1B active users in August, that’s 14% of the world VentureBeat: "Facebook is soon to have 14 percent of the world’s population all to itself. A new study says the social network will hit one billion users this year. Gregory Lyons, a senior analyst at digital marketing firm iCrossing, ran the number...
- Romney breaks into 2 digit lead ahead of Gingrich before FL primary Rasmussen: "The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Florida Republican Primary Voters, conducted Saturday, shows Romney up by 16 points with 44% support. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is a distant second at 28%. " Link...
- Chris Christie: New Gingrich has embarrassed the party in the past "On Sunday’s “Meet the Press” on NBC, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said that Former Speaker of House Newt Gingrich “has embarrassed the party over time,” and that “we don’t need another legislature in the Oval Office.” In the Republican ...
- Mitt Romney Opposition's File Who is real Mitt Romney? Is he trully a conservative or a leftist liberal? What does his birth certificate say? How many companies did he destroy if any? How many people did he fire in his business career? Is his wife suffering from multiple sclerosis? Th...
- 3 new SC polls: Newt Gingrich ahead of Mitt Romney TheDC: "In three South Carolina polls released Wednesday, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich bested former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who had previously maintained a lead in the state." Link...
- NYTimes: Jon Huntsman to drop out of GOP race on Monday morning NYTimes: "Jon M. Huntsman Jr. informed his advisers on Sunday that he intends to drop out of the Republican presidential race, ending his candidacy a week before he had hoped to revive his campaign in the South Carolina primary." Link...
- Michelle Obama plans to run for Senate in 2016 from Illinois TheDC: "In November 2016, Illinois voters will go to the polls to decide who they want to occupy the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Republican Sen. Mark Kirk. And although it is a long way off, could one of the names on the ticket be first lady Mich...
- The largest SC newspaper endorses @JonHuntsman for President The State: "Mr. Huntsman is a true conservative, with a record and platform of bold economic reform straight out of the free-market bible, but he’s a realist, whose goal is likewise to get things done. Under his leadership, Utah led the nation in job cr...
- Mitt Romney has a secret: Mitt the Ripper Mitt Romney: "Corporations are people, my friends!" That's what Mitt said about his experience at Bain Capital before he tore some companies apart. Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow Super PAC just released a new ad summarizing Mitt's performa...
- Poll: Americans fear Obama's re-election more than Iran's nuclear weapon U.S. News & World Report: According to the newest poll conducted by the newspaper: "As we enter the presidential election year of 2012, what potential news event do you fear the most? President Obama wins reelection 33% Taxes will increas...
- Gov. Chris Christie attacks Jon Huntsman a day before NH primary TheDC: "In an appearance with “Morning Joe” co-host Mika Brzezinski in Manchester, N.H. that aired on Monday, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie alleged that former Utah Gov. Jon Huntman’s presidential run itself calls into question his integrity. C...
- Rick Santorum: Will This Man be America's Next President? Evangelical Christian right is coalescing around Rick Santorum presumably due to his solid-right “social values” but also let's kick some ass foreign policy positions. He is anti-gay and anti-choice. He stated he is in favor of profiling Muslims at th...
- Jon Huntsman gets endorsement from 2 New Hampshire newspapers, Mitt Romney scared Reuters: " Republican Jon Huntsman, who has based his 2012 campaign for the White House almost exclusively on a strong showing in New Hampshire, has been rewarded with endorsements from two newspapers in the state with an early primary election. The Kee...
- We bet you 10K that Mitt Romney won't be the GOP nominee Yeah. It looks like Mitt Romney had another awkward moment in the last night's GOP debate organized by ABC News & the increasingly leftist Yahoo.com, which may be even worse than the infamous Rick Perry's brain freeze. Well, Romney tried to bet Rick P...
- Charles Krauthammer: ‘Obama is more like Hugo Chávez than he is Teddy Roosevelt’ TheDC: "In his Friday Washington Post column, Charles Krauthammer criticized the president for waging class warfare on the so-called “1 percent” and likened the brand of populism he offered in a speech last week to Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chávez, an...
- Cory Booker to run against Chris Christie for Governorship of New Jersey The Boston Globe speculates that Newark's Mayor, Cory Booker, may run against Gov. Chris Christie for the governorship of the state of New Jersey in the upcoming elections. Both gentlemen are rising starts of their respective parties. Cory Booker is a c...
- Rasmussen Poll: Jon Huntsman finally breaking into two digits support in New Hampshire GOP primary Rasmussen Poll: "The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of Likely Republican Primary voters in New Hampshire shows former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney on top at 34%, followed by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich at 24%. Ten points behi...
- Gov. Chris Christie to Obama: What the Hell Are We Paying You For? Barack Obama is complaining about the failure of the Super Committee, but why didn't he get involved if he really wanted it to succeed? Here is what a leading conservative, Gov. Chris Christie, has to say about it. ...
- Analysts: Huntsman's personality responsible for his miserable showing in the GOP race SFGate.com: "It's not so much where he's at on the issues, it's how he's approaching it," Russo said. "It comes across as too academic." Or occasionally as "arrogant," said Brendan Steinhauser, federal and state campaigns director at FreedomWorks, the co...
- CNN Republican debate: Winners and losers The Washington Post has a funny and yet interesting and insightful commentary on the last night GOP's CNN debate. Do you want to know who won and who lost the debate? Check it out here. Link...
- Pro-Obama Google fixes anti-Romney search engine algorithm CBSNews: "It appears that Google's mysterious search algorithm has been making a suggestion that Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney may not appreciate. When a Google user types the phrase "Romney can win" into the search engine, its spell chec...
- Miami Herald: If Herman Cain falls Jon Huntsman will rise Miami Herald: "There’s a chance that Jon Huntsman, polling in the single digits, could rise if Herman Cain falls — thanks to Huntsman’s money, record and a biography that looks scandal-free." Link...
- Romney, seen as most electable, still struggles to break out of pack, poll shows Washington Post: "Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney has a significant advantage over his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination in only one area — electability — and will approach the next round of candidate debates with several ...
- NBC/Wall Street Journal Poll: Obama Beats All GOP Rivals. You serious? NewsMax: "Despite facing an electorate that overwhelming believes the country is headed in the wrong direction, President Barack Obama continues to lead all Republican challengers. Obama’s smallest lead, three points, is against a generic Republican cha...
- The comeback kid: Gingrich beating Romney in Iowa poll TheDailyCaller: "Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich has jumped into second place in Iowa, ahead of Mitt Romney, according to a poll released Monday." Link...
- New York Times: @JonHuntsman is the only Republican who can easily beat Obama in general elections Oh, ho ho!!! That's probably the first time that we here at the EuropeanCourier.org actually agree on something with the leftist New York Times. Can you believe it? This time the NYT got it perfectly right. According to their study and infographic, Jon Hu...
- Obama: I spoke to God, he told me to create jobs in America, that's why you should vote for me in 2012 The Hill: "President Obama invoked God on Wednesday as he criticized Congress for voting on commemorative coins and a resolution reaffirming “In God We Trust” as the national motto in all public buildings, public schools and other government instituti...
- Cain accuses Perry of leaking sex harassment stories to the press. Really? Please don't cry, Herman! Forbes: "Was the recent attack on Herman Cain’s presidential campaign a professional hit job? Absolutely, says Herman Cain. And he says he knows just where to look for the guy who did it: At 815 Slaters Lane in Alexandria, Virginia, a low-slung former w...
- Hey Republicans! There's One Real Conservative Left To Vote For Check out this Business Insider's story on Jon Huntsman. As it comes out, Huntsman's records got applauded not only by the Wall Street Journal, but also by the CATO Institute, Forbes magazine, and many anti-tax organizations. Under Huntsman's governorshi...
- Herman Cain: I did not have sexual relationships with those women Looks like a hard day for Herman Cain's campaign as Politico.com forced him to battle 10-year-old allegations of sexual harassment, which Cain supposedly committed when working for the National Restaurant Association. “Fearing the message o...
- Jon Huntsman gets huge endorsement after the snow storm paralyzes New Hampshire GOP hopeful Jon Huntsman got an unexpectedly huge endorsement in New Hampshire after the snow storm paralyzed the entire New England. Now, Huntsman can sleep well - with this endorsement he will have the GOP nomination almost certainly given to him. :-) ...
