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PICKET: Democrats fear backlash over Obama camp's focus on 'Big Bird'
Democrats are wondering if the Obama campaign's focus on Sesame Street's Big Bird is working against the president.
PICKET: Poll - Romney gains 8 pts in Calif. on Obama
San Francisco's KPIX TV CBS 5 just released a new poll that may very well concern this Obama campaign. The news station is reporting that Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney gained eight points on Obama in the Golden State.
PICKET: Poll - Romney closing gap in CT
Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney is closing in on President Barack Obama's lead in the state of Connecticut according to the latest Rasmussen poll. Rasmussen now says that Obama now has a six point lead over Romney.
PICKET: Banking crooks in Obama Big Bird ad all indicted by Bush DOJ
The Obama campaign is running a television ad showing three convicted finance executives who are supposed to represent the greed of Republican party, because Presidential nominee Mitt Romney wants to cut the subsidy that goes towards the Public Broadcasting Service, which airs the children's television program "Sesame Street.
PICKET: New book shows U.S. top earners pay larger share of taxes than any other industrialized nation
The Wall Street Journal's Stephen Moore has just come out with a new book titled Who's the Fairest of Them All?: The Truth about Opportunity, Taxes, and Wealth in America and he reveals some interesting information about how much the top ten percent of income earners in the United States pay in federal income taxes as opposed to any other industrialized nation in the world.
PICKET: Rep. Matheson remains silent on Eric Holder and down in the polls
Mia Love, the Republican nominee for Utah's 4th Congressional District, has pulled ahead of Democratic incumbent Rep. Jim Matheson in the polls. According to the latest Desert News/ KSL, Love, the mayor of Saratoga Springs, is polling 6 points ahead of Congressman Matheson.
PICKET: Coulter shreds 'southern strategy' myth as GOP successfully runs more blacks in conservative districts
Liberals have accounted for Democratic losses in the southeast to what has become known as the GOP’s “southern strategy.” Conservative author Ann Coulter debunks the “southern strategy” excuse in her new book “Mugged.”
PICKET: Gallup - Romney and Obama evenly split post debate
Gallup is reporting today that Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney closed a five point gap between himself and President Barack Obama following last Wednesday's debate in Denver.
PICKET: EPA told human test subjects - 'there's a possibility you may die from this'
Steven Milloy's lawsuit against the EPA has gone forward into federal court. As I wrote in a previous post, Milloy, a biostatistician and securities lawyer who runs the site junkscience.com, is suing the Environmental Protection Agency over what he discovered through evidence from a Freedom of Information Act request.
PICKET: Gas over $5 in Washington DC
Are skyrocketing gasoline prices finding their way to the nation's capitol? At an Exxon gas station on the corner of Virginia Avenue and Rockcreek Parkway NW, the price for a gallon of regular is now $5.29.
PICKET: (VIDEO) Obama 2010 - American elections shouldn't be bankrolled by 'foreign entities'
Paul Bedard at The Washington Examiner hinted at a developing donor scandal on Thursday that could emerge from the Obama campaign soon.
PICKET: Michael Moore to Obama - 'This is what happens when u pick John Kerry as your debate coach'
Liberal filmmaker Michael Moore was disappointed with President Barack Obama's performance at the first debate at the University of Denver on Wednesday night, and he made his views known on Twitter to his over one million one hundred thousand followers. Moore was also angry with PBS debate moderator Jim Lehrer, saying that "[Clint] Eastwood's chair would do a better job moderating..."
PICKET: Poll - Romney wins first debate overwhelmingly
Interviews with 430 adult Americans who watched the presidential debate conducted by telephone by ORC International on October 3, 2012. The margin of sampling error for results based on the total sample is plus or minus 4.5 percentage points. Survey respondents were first interviewed as part of a random national sample on September 28-October 2, 2012.
PICKET: Obama hits private jet owners again at Denver debate
President Barack Obama referenced corporate jet owners during a discussion on taxes at the Denver debate on Wednesday when he said, "If you've got a corporate jet, you can probably afford to pay full freight." This is not the first time the president criticized private jet owners. During a June 29, 2011 press conference he went after private jet owners and mentioned them six times.
PICKET: (VIDEO) Obama voted against funding New Orleans bridge damaged by Hurricane Katrina in '05
The recent video that surfaced on the Daily Caller's website showing then presidential candidate Barack Obama in 2007 addressing an audience at Hampton University during the Democratic presidential primary.
