Casey Cheap

Born in Michigan, Casey is a senior majoring in Communication at the University of Toledo (UT), in Toledo, Ohio and currently living in Washington, D.C. Other areas of media interest include Michigan state politics and the domestic auto industry. Casey is a member of Christians United for Israel (CUFI), Treasurer of the UT College Republicans, and is working for the "Rockets for Romney" campaign this fall in Toledo. He is an enthusiastic Detroit Red Wings fan, an avid biker and reader, and self-proclaimed history geek.

Garfield Institute Poll: Millennials Lose Enthusiasm for Obama

Despite an overall decrease in enthusiasm for President Barack Obama among young people, young people still have his back, according to a poll released Wednesday.

Conducted by the Garfield Institute for Public Leadership, the poll surveyed 600 18-29 year-olds, and the results showed that 50 percent of the college-aged vote prefers President Obama to Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s 37 percent.

By /// June 21, 2012

Sandra Fluke Admits the Left is Losing the War on Women

The Left needs to change its strategy on communicating the War on Women if it wants to win over moderates said 30-year-old Georgetown Law Student Sandra Fluke said a panel at the Taking Back the American Dream Conference on Wednesday.

For months, the American Left has been playing up the faux “Republican War on Women.” But after a Kaiser Family Foundation poll released earlier this month showed only three in 10 women believe there’s actually a wide-scale effort to restrict women’s reproductive choices, the Left has had to come to terms with the fact that its framing of conservatives’ fight for religious freedom isn’t convincing anyone.

By /// June 20, 2012

Liberal Panelist: Conservatives Hate Students

The Left’s fight against Voter ID laws took an odd turn today at the Taking Back the American Dream Conference in Washington, D.C. as liberals tried to claim that in addition to Latinos, African-Americans and disabled people, conservatives also hate students.

On a panel this morning’s Reversing the Right’s Offensive on Rights panel Executive Director for the Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights, Barbara Arnwine claimed the Right’s push for Voter ID laws, which would help ensure that only United States Citizens are voting in U.S. elections, are a “purposeful and deliberate attempt” to suppress the voting rights of people throughout the country by what she could only describe as forces of “concerted evil.”

By /// June 20, 2012

Panel Plays Up ‘Right-Wing’ War On Women

What was officially dubbed as an opportunity to discuss issues facing women today turned into an anti-Right wing rant at a panel during the Taking back the American Dream Conference in Washington, D.C.

Progressives on a panel entitled War on Women’s Health, Economic Security and Voting Rights made the case that the “war on women” narrative played up by the media is neither Republican nor Democrat.

By /// June 20, 2012

Dems say Citizens United puts ‘democracy in peril’

Congressional Progressive Caucus chairman Rep. Keith Ellison says the Koch Brothers and the 2010 Citizens United decision that allow corporations and unions to spend unlimited amounts of money in elections has  put democracy into  “peril.”

Ellison made his comments during a panel Tuesday  titled “Overturning Citizens United: A Movement Mandate”  at the Campaign for America’s Future’s Take Back The American Dream Conference in Washington.

The congressman warned that the Supreme Court decision resulted in dirty, secret money being  spent on influence at both the local and state levels.

By /// June 19, 2012

John Kerry Is Selected To Play Romney During Obama Debate Rehearsals

Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney will have to be on his toes during the debates this fall as the Obama campaign is already in debate preparation mode.

The Obama re-election campaign announced today that Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) was selected to play the role of Romney during President Obama’s debate rehearsals, according to The Washington Post.

By /// June 19, 2012

Voting record purges could be a hot-button election issue

Voter ID laws and states purging voters from the voting rolls has emerged as a major issue  the current election cycle.

Florida has led the way in announcing plans to purge thousands of voters form the state voting rolls in the face of a Department of Justice lawsuit.

But there is more controversy in Tennessee, and this time it is a purging of a different nature.

State Democrats brought a federal lawsuit against Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R-Tenn.), but have admitted the current voter purge could be a mistake, because Democrat, Republican and Independent voters have all been affected.

By /// June 18, 2012

Gallup Poll Shows Most Positive Views On Immigration Since 2006

A Gallup poll released June 16 shows that Americans are more positive about immigration to the U.S. than they have been in the past six years.

The latest poll shows that 66 percent of Americans said immigration was a “good thing,” while 29 percent feel it is a “bad thing.”

Most notably, the 35 percent who “favor decreased immigration” is at its lowest level since Gallup started keeping track of the number in 1965.

By /// June 18, 2012