In honor of the National Governors' Association meeting taking place through Sunday, the question, "Who is your favorite current governor, and why?", was posed to the office this week. Here are a few of our responses.
Chad Peace:
At the end of May the team at Independent Voters of America announced the launch of the most inclusive ongoing study of independent voters’ opinions with our iVoter Project.
Last week, Mitt Romney's wealth and his record at Bain Capital became a major talking point for Democrats and the Obama campaign, after charges and countercharges brought into question the length of his involvement with the business. With the recen
Five democrats voted in favor of the health care law repeal earlier this week. The United States House of Representatives voted 244 to 185 on Wednesday, July 11, 2012 to fully repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly known as 'Obamacare'.
Local Cincinnati news anchor, Ben Swann takes a look at why Independents in swing states are turning away from Mitt Romney in favor of President Obama. He ultimately concludes that the GOP's problem is that it keeps packaging Romney as "Not Obama," but to attract Independent voters, candidates have to offer something of substance, a constructive alternative. It can't all just be about what they're not. This is a great watch:
http://youtu.be/Lpbxjn_cE4M
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Comic Con roars into San Diego this week for a three day fantasy, comic, video game and cinema bonanza. The famous annual conference dedicated to anything geek will run from Thursday, July 12th through Sunday, July 15th. The conference is expecting 123,000 attendees and 1,000 exhibitors.
Drug addiction in mothers is leading to a sharp and alarming rise in babies born addicted to drugs in the US. The addictions are almost always to powerful opiates like Oxycontin and Vicodin, which are legal, similar to heroin, and sometimes sneeringly referred to as “hillbilly heroin.” But the drug addiction is happening everywhere in the country, not just in rural south, even if the epidemic is worse there.
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POLITICO – Lance Armstrong Getting Help from Capitol Hill
The 7-time Tour de France champion has passed over 500 drug tests and could “be in the unenviable position of carrying the burden to rebut testimony from witnesses he cannot even cross examine.” – Rep. Sensenbrenner