republican

Some quick fun with the transitive property. Item one:
Nearly half of all Americans — 48 percent — disapprove of how [Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)] is handling her job as Speaker of the House in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released Monday, while 39 percent approve of her performance … That puts her approval rating at [...]

The results of a new Gallup poll show that between 2001 and 2009, the percentage of Americans who identify as “Republican” or “lean Republican” has declined in every measured demographic group, except those who identified as frequent church-goers.
The survey found the most dramatic drops in party affiliation, perhaps unsurprisingly, among college students (10 percentage points) [...]

Florida’s Republican Senate primary has quickly become a contest between the party’s base and its national leadership.

The Republican Party is hurting for foreign policy and national security standard-bearers. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), chairman of the GOP’s flagging Senate recruitment effort, is hurting for a measure of relevance. Cornyn’s scheduled speech to the American Enterprise Institute next Thursday, entitled “No Time To Cash In A Peace Dividend,” is kismet unseen since Frank [...]

I’m at the Republican National Committee’s winter meeting, where the party members will choose their next chairman. Former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell is the first candidate to be nominated (the order is random), and Gary Jones of the Virginia GOP rises for a sort of scattered nominating speech.
“It’s funny that this is Superbowl [...]

Another day, another overheated statement from former House Speaker Newt Gingrich giving politically dubious marching orders to the Republicans he last led a decade ago.
Senate Republicans should make it clear that they will not permit a tax evader to become the secretary of the Treasury … it would be wrong for someone who did not [...]

Here at the Republican Working Committee on Economic Recovery hearing, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) pushes bipartisanship again: “President[-elect Barack] Obama recognized last week that the monopoly on ideas does not belong to one party.” He introduces former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R), whose statement I am reading through.
Research by Christina Romer, the President-elect’s Chairwoman for [...]

In addition to super-accurate presidential and local race polling, Rasmussen Reports traffics in polls that ask unusual questions that have been bouncing around conservative circles. In October 2008, for example, the company asked if Americans agreed with President Ronald Reagan’s first inaugural address and the statement “Government is not the solution to our problem; government [...]

2004:

The news that former congressman and President George W. Bush’s Office of Management and Budget director Rob Portman might run for Senate in Ohio is lighting up conservatives like nothing since Sarah Palin shot sparkles from her eyes. Hugh Hewitt:
This is an easy call for GOP supporters across the country.  Rob Portman is smart, experienced, [...]