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Poll: Majority of Republican voters not enthusiastic about GOP presidential candidates

By | 04.21.11 | 12:04 pm

A new CBS News/New York Times poll (PDF) shows that 56 percent of Republican voters do not feel enthusiastic about any of the official or prospective GOP candidates running for president in 2012.

The highest percent of enthusiasm for a single candidate (without offering those polled a list to More…

Boehner goes after gays as far right hits him on budget deal

By | 04.19.11 | 11:46 am | More from The Colorado Independent

Image by Matt MahurinConservative celebrity Sarah Palin and right-wing blogger Erick Erickson are just two of the high profile far-right leaders disparaging Speaker of the House John Boehner for the budget deal he hammered out with President Obama and Democratic Senate leaders last week. Colorado “liberty movement” talk radio hosts are unhappy.

Iowa 2012 GOP Presidential Power Rankings: Michele Bachmann gaining momentum

By | 04.11.11 | 12:13 pm | More from The Iowa Independent

In this third edition of The Iowa Independent’s 2012 Presidential Power Rankings, the panelists take note of international and national headlines, and summarily tossing most of them all out the window in favor of their views of a somewhat more insulated and currently emotion-based Iowa ground game.

“What it really More…

Bachmann reportedly expected to form presidential exploratory committee in coming months

By | 03.24.11 | 1:51 pm | More from The Minnesota Independent

We’ve heard Rep. Michele Bachmann’s name bandied about as a runningmate for Sarah Palin in 2012, we’ve seen the Draft Bachmann website, and we’ve followed the Sixth Congressional District Republican as she’s criss-crossed the country hinting at a possible bid for the GOP endorsement for president. Now CNN More…

Black reproductive rights groups speak out against Dillard’s sponsorship of anti-abortion rights fundraiser

By | 03.16.11 | 6:16 pm

Image by: Matt MahurinThe American Independent previously reported on a Dillard’s-sponsored Heroic Media fashion-show fundraiser scheduled for April 9, with an estimated attendance of 400 to 500 Heroic Media supporters, according to Stephen Brophy, store manager of the Houston branch store sponsoring the event.

In response to the upcoming event, black women’s More…

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Palin to speak at Heroic Media event in April

By | 03.15.11 | 5:40 pm

Image by Matt MahurinThe American Independent reported earlier today on an upcoming Heroic Media fashion show fundraiser hosted by a Dillard’s store in Houston.

As the piece mentioned, in the past, Heroic Media, an anti-abortion rights media group based in Texas, has garnered a lot of attention for their star power More…

Is Sarah Palin running for U.S. Senate in Arizona?

By | 03.15.11 | 12:12 pm

Last week, Politico’s Ben Smith reported that sources within Sarah Palin’s camp had told him that, if she elects to vie for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, she’d base her campaign out of Scottsdale, Ariz., not far from Maricopa, where daughter Bristol just bought a house. Now, the More…

The Iowa Independent’s 2012 Republican Power Rankings, March 14

By | 03.14.11 | 8:57 am | More from The Iowa Independent

Image by Matt MahurinMore than three years have passed, yet The Iowa Independent’s Republican Power Rankings are beginning right where they left off with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee leading the Republican pack.

Life Always/Heroic Media to discontinue use of girl’s image on billboards

Image by: Matt MahurinLife Always, the group behind controversial billboards aimed at Planned Parenthood, yesterday announced its decision to halt using the image of a young girl in its media campaign. #

Not even Palin wants Newt

By | 03.02.11 | 10:37 am

Now that Newt Gingrich is expected to form a presidential “exploratory” committee (though he will not be announcing an official presidential bid when he goes to Atlanta Thursday to speak at American Enterprise Institute and American Solutions events, according to Reuters), it’s becoming more apparent how little More…