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Fox News Viewers Believe the Darndest Things, Study Finds

By David KnowlesDec 17th 2010 – 1:35PM

(Dec. 17) -- Fair and balanced ... and factually incorrect? A newly released study out of the University of Maryland concludes that viewers of the Fox News Channel were "significantly more likely" to believe a host of factually incorrect information than viewers who watched other television news organizations. Fox is by...

Opinion: GOP's Pledge Misses the Mark

By Bob MaistrosSep 23rd 2010 – 7:40AM

(Sept. 23) -- Congressional Republicans have maintained that their "Pledge to America" would not be another "Contract with America." That's for sure. In the same sense that Dan Quayle was "no Jack Kennedy." The 1994 Contract was a masterpiece of political communication that rocked the nation by laying out in clear,...

Opinion: GOP to Tea Party -- Your Votes, Not Your Ideas

Sep 22nd 2010 – 10:56PM

(Sept. 22) -- I had a good chuckle at Erick Ericson's enraged piece on the Republican pledge, now being circulated by Democratic spinmeisters. Question for Erickson: What did he expect? Here is the GOP cruising to a handsome election victory. Do you seriously imagine that they would jeopardize the prospect of victory and...

2010 Shaping Up to Be a Tough Year for Democrats

Jan 2nd 2010 – 1:44PM
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WASHINGTON (Jan. 2) -- An already difficult situation for Democrats in Congress is worsening as the 2010 political season opens. To minimize expected losses in next fall's election, President Barack Obama's party is testing a line of attack that resurrects George W. Bush as a boogeyman and castigates Republicans as cozy...

Background on 2010 election

This national electoral calendar for the year 2010 lists the national/federal direct elections held in 2010 in all sovereign states and their dependent territories.

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