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DNC Has Its Biggest Month in Nearly a Decade

By | 10.04.10 | 9:00 am

Compounding reports from the weekend that Democrats, one month out from election day, are experiencing a miniature resurgence of sorts is the news that the Democratic National Committee hauled in $16 million in September. The total represents the biggest month of the 2010 election cycle (or, for that More…

American Crossroads Announces Plans to Get Out The Vote

By | 08.27.10 | 8:55 am

American Crossroads, the conservative political action organization associated with Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie, is declaring its intention today to spend more than $10 million on a midterm get-out-the-vote effort in eight battleground states called “MOVERS” (Mobilizing Our Voters to End Reckless Spending):

Iowa RNC Official Believes Obama Is a Secret Muslim

By | 08.25.10 | 10:19 am

Top GOP figures have generally pledged to “take the president at his word,” that he’s a Christian, tacitly leaving the door open for speculation among the party’s fringe elements that he’s secretly a Muslim while covering their own tracks. Not anymore, reports The Iowa Independent:

RNC Tries to Distance Party from Arizona Immigration Law

By | 08.24.10 | 11:42 am

As a party, Republicans want to have it both ways on immigration — to tout anti-immigration policies without alienating Latino voters. On Monday, for instance, RNC Chairman Michael Steele attempted during an interview with Univision to distance the GOP from Arizona’s SB 1070 immigration law. The law was More…

GOP.com Deletes 14th Amendment as an Accomplishment

By | 08.09.10 | 4:04 pm

I noted last week that the push by some Republicans — including, now, Gov. Tim Pawlenty — to review and possibly alter the 14th Amendment to the Constitution seemed in conflict with the GOP’s website, which listed that amendment, which in part grants citizenship rights to More…

Boehner Targets ‘Anchor Babies,’ McConnell Highlights ‘Birth Tourism’

By | 08.09.10 | 12:51 pm

House Minority Leader John Boehner entered the 14th Amendment fray Sunday, telling “Meet the Press” Sunday that granting automatic citizenship to babies born in the U.S. is “an incentive for illegal immigrants to come here.”

RNC Overhauls 2012 Presidential Primary Calendar

By | 08.06.10 | 3:25 pm

Following an hour of contentious debate, the Republican National Committee voted this afternoon at their summer meeting in Kansas City to adopt changes to its 2012 presidential primary calendar. The measure received 103 votes out of the 144 members voting, just clearing the two-thirds majority threshold required for passage.

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RNC Addresses Tepid Fundraising, Vows to Investigate Leaks

By | 08.05.10 | 9:47 am

Two pieces of news from the Republican National Committee summer meeting in Kansas City. First, the RNC’s budget committee approved a $10 million line of credit to make up for the committee’s fundraising woes:

RNC Can Feel Bullish About Economy Message

By | 08.04.10 | 9:04 am

With Republican National Committee officials from all fifty states filing into their annual summer meeting today in Kansas City, GOP pollster Whit Ayres has supplied them with some good news.

RNC Postpones Fundraiser with Breitbart

By | 08.02.10 | 10:51 am

Coming off months of poor fundraising, the Republican National Committee generated buzz last week by announcing a big August fundraiser in California that would feature Chairman Michael Steele and conservative blogger, Andrew Breitbart. Now it’s not clear whether Breitbart will be there after all, and today Jonathan Martin More…