W.Va. GOP Still Playing Catch-Up Wheeling Intelligencer By MIKE MYER , The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register West Virginia is becoming less and less a Democrat Party stronghold, to judge by voter registration numbers. You couldn't prove it by filings for this year's elections, though.
Indiana Republicans Enact Right-to-Work Law The New American This event is but the latest chapter in a political power shift that began with the 2010 state legislative elections. The consequences of this shift have been particularly evident in Wisconsin, and now Indiana has taken a similarly significant change ... Indiana becomes 23rd "right-to-work" stateReuters
EDITORIAL: Raese is West Virginia's Original Reaganite HNN Huntingtonnews.net John Raese re-established himself on the West Virginia political landscape with his spirited campaign against then Democratic Governor Joe Manchin in the 2010 US Senate special election. But Raese's credentials as a true political conservative run deep ...
Democrats may get lengthy Republican primary race Boston.com "They've awakened some sleeping giants," said Ira Leesfield, a Miami attorney and a longtime Democratic fundraiser. As the GOP voting shifts to contests in the Midwest and West, front-runner Mitt Romney's chief rival, Newt Gingrich, is attacking him at ...
Democrat Jim Moran, Violent Racist FrontPage Magazine Congressman Jim Moran is an old white Democrat from Virginia who thinks he can judge whether we minority conservatives are acting sufficiently non-white enough. Moran's an inveterate bully, a brawler, a crook and a bigot.
Eve Samples: Is US Rep. Allen West a 'strategic thinker' — or a carpetbagger? TCPalm Nevermind that West has never lived in our community. There's a simple explanation for his move, and he provided it when he appeared on Fox News' "Hannity" that night. "They drew in more Democrats into the district I represent," he told host Sean ...
Raese May Have Found a Sweet Year to Run in 2012 HNN Huntingtonnews.net John Raese's political career can be neatly divided into two halves. As a young man, he went up against two titans of West Virginia politics: Jay Rockefeller and Arch Moore. In only his mid-thirties at the time, Raese shocked the West Virginia...