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Aaron Borders: Republicans and the Blue Collar Worker

Thursday, May 23rd, 2013

I want to open this article with a simple, yet profound, statement from President Reagan “You can’t be for big Government, big taxes, and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy.”

When I talk to Blue Collar workers I have found many of them do not spent much time following politics. They rarely know how government works from the federal level down to local government, yet they have a common thread as they often tell me, “Republicans ONLY care about the Rich.” It always breaks m...

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Latinos and the Republican Party: How the GOP can succeed in winning Latinos

Tuesday, April 30th, 2013

By Aaron Borders

I want to start this article with this thought in mind. Republicans don’t need to change their platform to bring in Latinos to the GOP, they need to get their message to the Latino people. I base that comment on my MANY conversations with Hispanic and Latino Arizonans. It seems that when I approach a Hispanic or Latino Voter I ask them what they think about the Republican Party. I usually get one of these two answers or both. “Republicans are racist and they hate Latinos”...

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Latinos/Hispanics and Republicans

Monday, April 29th, 2013

By Aaron Borders

I want to start this article with this thought in mind. Republicans don’t need to change their platform to bring in Latinos/ Hispanics to the GOP, they need to get their message to the Latino/ Hispanics people. I base that comment on my MANY conversations with Hispanic and Latino Arizonans. It seems that when I approach a Hispanic or Latino Voter I ask them what they think about the Republican Party. I usually get one of these two answers or both. “Republicans are racist and...

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Study: What messages work for conservatives (fascinating results)

Saturday, April 20th, 2013

Americans Open to Serious Entitlement Reform For Future Generations
How Conservative Communicators Can Effectively Discuss the Debt and Budget Crisis

Washington, D.C. –Independent Women’s Voice (IWV), as part of its continuing effort to rigorously test what works and what doesn’t, commissioned Evolving Strategies (ES) to conduct innovative experimental research to determine what messages are most effective at increasing support for controlling government spending and the debt with swin...

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Republican House Victory Committee Providing Key Support to AZGOP

Tuesday, March 26th, 2013

Republican House Victory Committee Gives Nearly $20,000 to Arizona Republican Party

PHOENIX – Robert Graham, Chairman of the Arizona Republican Party, announced today that the Republican House Victory committee has contributed its surplus of nearly $19,500 to the Arizona Republican Party.  The committee was instrumental in electing Republicans to the Arizona House of Representatives in 2010 and 2012.

“We’re entering a new election cycle for 2014 and this contribution is not just ...

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Where are all the women at? We’re at war. (video)

Friday, April 6th, 2012

No longer just a punchline from Blazing Saddles– “Where are all the women at?” became a rallying cry for feminists across the country when a male-dominated Congressional committee refused to allow women to testify about insurance coverage for birth control. Two Congresswomen– Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) and Eleanor Holmes (D-DC)–walked out of the committee hearings because no women [...]

On the eve of Super Tuesday: John Nichols critiques the Republican Presidential race (video)

Monday, March 5th, 2012

Is Newt Gingrich really looking for his fourth wife on the campaign trail? Check out The Nation’s John Nichols’ humorous critique of the Republican Presidential candidates. Nichols spoke last week in Tucson.