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Party Chiefs Reflect on Day After

mfritz — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:16:06 -0800

With the grueling campaign finally over, DNC Chairman Howard Dean and RNC Chairman Mike Duncan appeared at the National Press Club in Washington to give their thoughts on the results. Dean said Barack Obama’s victory was a clear mandate, while Duncan called the assertion “preposterous.”

If Obama Wins . . . Conservatives Panicked, Pessimistic

hhanbury — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:54:10 -0700

At a Halloween-day rally for John McCain in Columbus, Ohio, ANP asked McCain supporters a simple question: If Barack Obama is elected president, what will it say about America? One woman, who claims that Obama wants to change the flag and the national anthem, demonstrates the lasting power of a debunked anti-Obama chain e-mail. Produced in collaboration with Patricia Foulkrod, director of The Ground Truth.

Free Marketeers Rally on Capitol Hill

hhanbury — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:17:24 -0700

On October 10^th, 2008, a day when the Washington Post asked if we face the "end of American capitalism," hundreds rallied at the U.S. Capitol to support free markets and deregulation. The Bush administration may be considering nationalizing banks, but members Americans for Prosperity, the group that organized the rally, cheered the slogan, "Free markets work every time, all the time."

Last Minute Fight Against Bailout Pork

lsebert — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:29:06 -0700

Republican congressman Steven LaTourette proposed an amendment to the bailout package on Thursday, October 2, that would strip the pork out of the senate's bailout bill and limit the immediate bailout to $250 billion. LaTourette and more than a dozen colleagues who originally opposed the bill promised to vote for the bailout if the amendment was accepted. It was not.

Buchanan Under Fire

hhanbury — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:22:30 -0700

Congressman Vern Buchanan, of the 13th district in Florida, is facing increasing trouble in his reelection campaign. A first-term congressman and a long-time autodealer, Buchanan is being sued by a remarkable number of former employees and customers at the very height of the campaign season. So far, seven separate legal complaints have been filed against Buchanan, accusing him of flouting campaign finance laws, defrauding banks and customers, and even smuggling undocumented immigrants into the country to work on his beachfront house. ANP traveled to Florida to investigate the story.

Link to John Friedman's story about this at The Huffington Post.

Finance, Favors and FISA

dhutchins — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:52:58 -0700

Congress considered final passage of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) this week. ANP follows the money trail to find out how telecom dollars influence Congressmen to say what they say and vote the way they do.

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Greening the Evangelicals

tdowlatshahi — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 03:43:14 -0700

How solidly Republican will Christian evangelicals be in 2008? As the country enters the next phase in this historic election season, concern about the state of God's earth may be the issue that draws many believers into the Democratic camp. Richard Cizik of the National Association of Evangelicals estimates that perhaps 40% of evangelicals will be "up for grabs" in November.

Future of Democracy

anpstaff — Thu, 29 May 2008 08:34:39 -0700

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