The Competent Conservative

Republican voters in California have swung behind Mitt Romney, with the national presidential front-runner crushing his rivals by double digits and substantially expanding his support in the state, a new poll has found. Romney won 42% of registered Republican voters, with his closest rival, Rick Santorum, trailing by 19 points, according to the USC Dornsife/Los [...]

By Advocate.com Editors At the California Republican Convention late last month, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney won a poll of preferred GOP candidates for president in 2012. After eight rounds of voting, Romney came out on top, besting former House speaker Newt Gingrich (who garnered the second-highest amount of votes) and former U.S. ambassador to [...]

What a difference two years makes. Prop 8 has been overturned and, as President Obama likes to say, it provides us with a clear and unmistakable “teaching moment.” Cast your minds back to 2008 when Prop 8 was passed by 54% of the voting public.  How did the losing side react? Vandalism, violence, threats of [...]