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“Congressman Paul Ryan is a strong choice for vice president, and his addition to the GOP ticket will help Republican candidates up and down the ballot. As chairman of the House Budget Committee and author of the Republican ‘path to prosperity’ that provided the blueprint for serious spending cuts in this Congress, nobody is more qualified to articulate a conservative …

Gitcho is the Romney campaign’s communications director. We should know by 8:45am if they stick to their schedule. UPDATE: The National Review thinks it’s going to be Paul Ryan due to some charter flight activity. UPDATE II: Snicker.UPDATE III: From my pal and DC politico Karl Frisch. UPDATE IV: Huffington Post is confirming. Mitt Romney will announce Rep. Paul Ryan …

The ad referenced was actually created by a Super-PAC unrelated to the Obama campaign. It’s been by far the leading topic on GOP blogs for the last few days.

“Fellow Conservative, I need your immediate attention. This is so important I didn’t even take the time to format this email. The DCCC (the Democrat’s top campaign operation) just released the names of races they are targeting funds for in 2012 as part of their national ‘Red to Blue’ campaign to take back the majority in the House of Representatives. …

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Only 88 more days of this.

Having read the same polls as the rest of us, the Not-Romneys have published a massive manifesto calling for a delegate revolution at the Republican Convention in two weeks. From the nine-page memo announcing the campaign: “DUMP ROMNEY” contends that no delegates are actually “bound” by law or GOP rules to vote for Romney and that, to win the White …

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Enjoy.

Now THAT is a ringing endorsement.

Published two hours ago by CNN: It all adds up to a seven point advantage for President Barack Obama over the former Massachusetts governor, with 52% of registered voters questioned in the survey saying that they’d vote to re-elect the president and 45% backing Romney. “Among independent voters, the poll indicates President Obama has a 53%-42% lead,” CNN Polling Director …

Former HRC staffer Trevor Thomas lost his U.S. House bid in Michigan’s Democratic primary on Tuesday. Paul Schindler reports at Gay City News: Thomas, who is 28, had hoped to face off in November against Justin Amash, a 32-year-old freshman Republican congressman who won election in 2010 as a Tea Party darling, but was defeated by a margin of 56-44 …

Wingnut columnist Michelle Malkin tells Breitbart that the Obama administration is on “progressive witch hunt” against Christians “like we saw with Proposition 8.” The below video’s host then suggests that the GOP lure voters to the polls in November by giving away Chick-Fil-A sandwiches. Malkin adds that her “personal favorite” for Romney’s VP is Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal. That drew …

Assuming that everybody here votes, what other election-related activities have you been involved in? Phone banking? Petition campaigns? Personal donations? Do you feel like you’ve personally made a difference?

Last week the above billboard began appearing in Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia. It was paid for by the just-formed Republican Union PAC. Republican Union PAC, which filed organizing paperwork with the Federal Election Commission this week, will pay hotel and travel expenses to move people who want to contact voters in states with close presidential and congressional races, …

Via press release: Americans for Prosperity, the nation’s premier advocate for economic freedom with over 2 million members nationwide, today announced a nationwide ad buy that could top $6.7 million to expressly advocate the defeat of President Barack Obama. See below for details on an important press call today. “These are unprecedented times, and AFP has made an unprecedented decision. …