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A story from ABC News this morning shows that women are increasingly turning away from President Obama and the Democrats and taking another look at GOP candidates this fall. 

According to an ABC News poll, women are 10 points more likely to be registered as Democrats, but on the generic congressional ballot test Democrats’ lead among women is within the margin of error.  This further illustrates the trend that began in 2009 as GOP candidates made historic gains among women voters in the gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey and the special U.S. Senate election in Massachusetts. 

In response, President Obama is making a last-ditch appeal to women and hosted an event last night at the White House for female business leaders.  According to the ABC News story, White House advisers are hitting the airwaves to talk about education and pay equity and Jill Biden is hosting a fundraising event billed as “an evening on Broadway.”

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New polling from Gallup shows that the upcoming November elections could surpass even 1994 in terms of being an historic pivot back to common sense, conservative Republican governance. 

The poll of nearly 2,000 likely voters shows Republicans leading Democrats 53-40 percent in a high turnout model, and 56-38 percent in a model showing lower turnout.  According to political analyst Michael Barone, polling like this, “if translated into popular votes in the 435 congressional districts, suggest huge gains for Republicans and a Republican House majority the likes of which we have not seen since the election cycles of 1946 or even 1928.”

The Gallup poll also shows that the enthusiasm gap continues to widen.  The poll released last week showed Republicans leading Democrats in enthusiastic voters by 20 percent.  The reasons for this gap are clear.  Moderate and independent voters who believed the Obama campaign’s promises in 2008 are rejecting the reality of the Obama White House in ... more

Throughout the debate over ObamaCare, President Obama and Democrat leaders in Congress peddled the fiction that the federal takeover of health care would not force the American people to lose coverage they already had and were satisfied with. 

As the bill is being implemented, more and more people are finding that claim to be false.  As an editorial in the Manchester Union-Leader shows, private health plans across the country may find it makes more sense for their bottom lines to drop Medicare Advantage plans because of provisions in ObamaCare.  The editorial was spurred in response to a recent decision by a Massachusetts health plan that will force some 22,000 people to change their health coverage. 

We have known for some time that the president’s claim that people would not be forced into different coverage was false.  In June of last year, President Obama said the government would not force people to change coverage.  In response, Politifact.com said, “It's not realistic for ... more

Every 69 seconds, breast cancer claims another life somewhere in the world.  Despite all of our progress – progress that has helped make sure 2.5 million breast cancer survivors are alive today – the number of mothers, sisters and daughters lost to this disease is still far too high. 

Today marks the beginning of October and National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.  Breast cancer will strike 1.3 million women this year, and claim almost 500,000 lives, making it the second largest killer of women worldwide.  Nearly every American has a friend or family member affected by this disease, including me.  I am grateful to say, thanks to my faith, my family and my doctors, that I have been a survivor for 12 years. 

To raise awareness and support the effort against breast cancer, let’s take action by updating our Facebook and Twitter status using the hashtag #fightbreastcancer.  Using this hashtag indexes your status update across the internet and will help spread the message to millions of ... more

With nearly 15 million Americans still unemployed, and with taxes set to go up for every tax bracket at the end of December if Congress fails to renew the Bush tax cuts, Democrat leaders in Congress today closed up shop until after the November elections and sent their members home to campaign. 

The most basic function of Congress is to approve a budget and the annual appropriations bills that fund the government.  This year, the U.S. House under the regime of Nancy Pelosi approved only two of the dozen annual appropriations bills required of Congress.  Harry Reid’s Senate fared even worse, failing to pass a single appropriations bill. 

Even worse, the Democrat leaders chose to delay any action on extending the Bush tax cuts until after the November elections.  This means at least two more months of uncertainty for job creators who are waiting to invest until they know how large their tax burden will be next year.  With unemployment lingering near 10 percent for 16 consecutive ... more

In an interview to be published Friday in Rolling Stone magazine, President Obama says it would be “inexcusable” for Democrat voters suffering from a lack of enthusiasm for his Administration and the Pelosi Congress to sit out the midterm elections. 

Vice President Joe Biden had a similar message for his party’s base voters.  At a fundraiser in New Hampshire, Biden urged Democrats to “stop whining” and said President Obama has done “an incredible job” and “kept his promises.” 

Democrats like Obama and Biden have good reason to bemoan the enthusiasm gap.  The latest Gallup poll shows that Republican voters are far more motivated to head to the polls than are Democrats, with 48% of Republicans saying they are “very” enthusiastic  to vote, opposed to just 28% of Democrats.    The same Gallup survey shows that Congressional job approval is now at 18%, the lowest rating measured by Gallup before any midterm election since 1974. 

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In February, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said of the federal takeover of health care, “It’s about jobs.  In its life, it will create 4 million jobs – 400,000 jobs almost instantly.” 

Wrong again.  According to the federal government’s jobs report that month, 14.9 million Americans were out of work in February.  That number is exactly the same as the 14.9 million unemployed Americans the government reported last month. 

Now, instead of taking the first real steps toward economic recovery by extending the Bush tax cuts for every American, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are rushing their chambers to adjourn until after the November elections, at which time they say they may or may not take up legislation extending the tax cuts. 

What are they waiting for?  The Democrats’ bailout of Wall Street, their failed stimulus plans financed on the backs of future Americans and their steadfast refusal to deliver tax relief to the American people is prolonging the stagnation in the job market and ... more

With nearly 15 million Americans still unemployed, and with new data showing that nearly 1 in 7 people in our country were in poverty last year, the Democrats in control of Congress have announced they will not schedule a vote on extending the Bush tax cuts for every American and instead will adjourn at the end of this week so that Democrat members about to lose their seats can scurry home to campaign.

American taxpayers and small business owners face tremendous uncertainty over their total future tax burden.  The crippling tax increases contained in ObamaCare, along with the Pelosi Congress’ failure to extend the tax cuts and prevent one of the largest tax hikes in history, is causing many small business owners and investors to take a wait and see approach when it comes to creating jobs.  The Democrats’ failed economic agenda is prolonging our economic uncertainty and making the wait in the unemployment line even longer.

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More and more pundits, analysts and news outlets are beginning to understand that there is a movement afoot that can reshape politics in this country and sweep a new Republican majority into office this November. 

As CNN reported this week, one of the main stories behind this year’s elections is the rise of female Republican candidates.  Five female Republicans are currently running in competitive U.S. Senate races.  Many more are running for seats in the U.S. House and in statehouse races.  Earlier this year, a new record was set for Republican women running for federal office, beating the previous mark set in 1994. 

The impact of this trend has been clear as I’ve traveled this year to meet with women candidates and conduct Regional Women’s Summits for female Republican volunteers, activists and candidates.   All across the country, conservative women are stepping forward to change their states and their communities for the better.  I saw more evidence of this in Hawaii last week ... more

The comparisons between Jimmy Carter’s failed presidency and President Obama’s term in office are now being made even by Carter’s Vice President, Walter Mondale. 

Mondale said this week that the public is reacting to the Obama presidency just as it did to Carter’s in the 1970’s.  The comparison is easy to make.  Both presidents lost touch with the American people and  failed to take the steps necessary to jump start the American economy. 

A Time Magazine article printed in 1980 sounds as if it was ripped from last week’s edition.  The magazine wrote, “By last week it looked as if the President's promises of a tame little downturn for 1980 were wishful thinking. The Labor Department reported that during April the nation's jobless rate ballooned by a startling .8%, pushing unemployment to a full 7%, tossing some 825,000 workers into the street, and swelling the ranks of the nation's unemployed to 7.3 million. It was the largest rise in overall unemployment since January 1975…”

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