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I asked an American why the National Rifle Association (NRA) is more influential than the former President Bill Clinton and President George W. Bush and he said the Second Amendment has made the NRA to be very powerful in America. The NRA is the most powerful lobbying organization in America. The NRA has the support of over 80 million gun owners in America and they can make or break the popularity and electability of any of the presidential candidates. “In each of the last four even-year general elections gun owners have had a massive impact. And the National Rifle Association has proven to everyone that if you want to win the presidency, earning the support of gun owners and Second Amendment defenders might be the deciding factor. The NRA is in a stronger position than ever to influence the 2008 elections.” ~ Kenneth Blackwell of the New York Sun. Many of the American presidential candidates have been courting the NRA for the endorsement of their candidacy, but Chris Cox, the Executi...

Number of Democrats who See Each Democratic Candidate as Presidential Hillary Clinton 44% Barack Obama 17% John Edwards 14% Bill Richardson 4% Joe Biden 3% Chris Dodd 2% Dennis Kucinich 1% Mike Gravel 1% In the race for the Democratic Presidential Nomination, it’s Hillary Clinton 38%, Barack Obama 27% and John Edwards 14%. Bill Richardson is supported by 4%, Joe Biden and Dennis Kucinich by 3% of Likely Democratic Primary Voters. ( see recent daily numbers ). Iowa: Clinton 29% Obama 26% Edwards 22% Florida: Huckabee 27% Romney 23% Giuliani 19% 47% Say White House Knew About CIA's Torching of Torture Tapes Generic Congressional Ballot: Democrats 46% Republicans 36% Obama Ties Giuliani 43% to 43%, Leads Romney by Four

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4 Dec 2007 00:06 Africa/Lagos Clinton, Thompson Win First Presidential 'Primary' Nation's Social Studies Teachers Flex Voting Muscles and Choose '08 Contenders Pearson Sponsors Presidential Primary at National Council for the Social Studies Annual Event SAN DIEGO, Dec. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and former U.S. Senator Fred Thompson of Tennessee are the top choices for the 2008 Democratic and Republican nominations for President of the United States, according to the nation's first Presidential "Primary" of voters at the National Council for the Social Studies annual conference in San Diego. Sponsored by Pearson, more than 700 of the nation's social studies teachers flexed their voting muscles and put the principles they teach about every day into action by casting their votes. Senator Clinton won her party's nod with 41.9% of the vote. Senator Thompson was the Republicans' top choice wit...

25 Nov 2007 18:17 Africa/Lagos NEWSWEEK: Cover: Rudy's Roots How Growing Up in a Family of Cops and Hoods Shaped Giuliani's Moral Universe NEW YORK, Nov. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- In the December 3 Newsweek cover "Rudy's Roots" (on newsstands Monday, November 26), a team of correspondents look at presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani's background and influences that explain his moral code, which is at once rigid (in public) and flexible (in private life). Click here for the High Resolution Photograph As Editor-at-Large Evan Thomas and Senior Writer Suzanne Smalley write, on the one hand, Giuliani has been a crusader against outlaw policemen, as well as mobsters, pornographers, drug dealers, crooked businessmen and politicians and death-dealing jihadists. He now offers himself as the presidential candidate who would deliver us from evil, from terrorism abroad and corruption at home. On the other hand, he was the man who appointed Bernard Kerik, now under indictm...