With Paul Ryan set to be officially named the Republican Party’s vice presidential candidate, environmentalists are looking back at his record with a critical eye. They say he has a lengthy record of voting against the environment, unless it also benefits his fiscal conservative push.
One of the most traditionally lefty states in the U.S., Minnesota, is home to some of America’s biggest liberal household names, including Hubert H. Humphrey, Walter Mondale, Paul Wellstone, and Al Franken. And it’s not just the politicians who lean left. In the last 81 years, the electorate has voted for democrats in all but […]
Straw poll winner Congresswoman Michele Bachmann stressed her economic credentials on Sunday while speaking at a fund-raising dinner in her hometown of Waterloo, Iowa. Rick Perry and Bachmann are now lining up as rivals to Mitt Romney in the fight for the nomination after Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty dropped out of the race because of a […]