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Three in four support cutting back on government employee perks
The public has some advice for Libertarian officeholders looking to trim government fat — start with how you finance government employee benefits. 74 percent of adults favor “requiring public employees to contribute more toward their own pensions and health care,” and 24 percent oppose, a new Reason-Rupe survey of Wisconsin finds. “The Reason-Rupe poll asked […]
Read moreZogby: Obama in trouble as his 2008 youth vote turns Libertarian
John Zogby, writing for Forbes, writes that Barack Obama’s biggest obstacle to re-election may be disillusioned voters turning libertarian: Mitt Romney has spent months selling himself to the Republican base. Now, Barack Obama is working overtime trying to re-sell himself to his base of voters age 18-29.Team Obama knows that hard times and the growing […]
Read moreThere’s no such thing as Election Day.
If you think elections votes are cast on the first Tuesday in November, you’re wrong. There’s no such thing as Election “Day.” Thanks to more states opening up early and absentee voting, the use of mail-in ballots in states like Colorado and Oregon and because of our increasingly busy lives, in many elections more than […]
Read moreTip for candidates: Be human.
Running for office? Avoid the dry and wonky. Remember you are dealing with your friends and neighbors. And if you don’t? You end up like Mitt Romney, trailing a failed president no one likes, but are convinced cares about them. “Mitt Romney’s electoral trouble with women — more precisely with college-educated women — is real […]
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