Analyst Predicts Trouble For Democrats In 2010 Elections

Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute told Talk Radio News Tuesday that if Conservative voters are as energized in 2010 and if Independents choose to swing to the right, then Democrats will be in trouble in the 2010 mid-term elections. (0:29)
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Analyst Says New Jersey Is A Close Race

Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute told Talk Radio News Tuesday that Virginia's gubernatorial race and New York's 23rd district will almost certainly be won by Republican, but that the gubernatorial race in New Jersey is much closer. (0:22)
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Analyst Evaluates GOP Lead In Virginia Race

Cato Institute Analyst Michael Tanner evaluates Robert F. McDonnell's (R-Va.) lead in the polls for governor, saying that not only did McDonnell run a good campaign, but Virginians are more conservative on economic issues. (0:31)
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Analyst Says Democrats Likely To Win At Least One Of The Major Seats In Tuesday's Elections

Cato Institute Analyst Michael Tanner told Talk Radio News Tuesday that the Democrats are likely to win at least one of the seats up in Tuesday's elections, although he presumes it will not be in Virginia. (0:21)
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GOP Victories Today Will Signal Voter Disenchantment With Obama

Mike Tanner, Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C., tells Talk Radio News that Republicans could win this year's elections in Virginia, New Jersey and New York because voters are troubled by the current administration. (0:30)
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Cato Analyst Says Afghanistan Will Never Be "Central Asian Version Of Arizona"

Cato Institute Vice President of Defense and Foreign Policy Studies Ted Galen Carpenter says the U.S. should stop operating under the illusion that Afghanistan will someday be the "Central Asian version of Arizona." (0:20)
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Immigration Reform Will Have Huge Economic Impact On U.S. Households, Says Trade Policy Expert

Daniel Griswold, director for the Center for Trade Policy Studies at the Cato Institute, explains that the immigration policies Congress chooses to enact will have a huge economic impact on U.S. households. He also says that the difference between restricting immigration and legalizing immigration is about $250 billion. (0:31)
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"Slow Down The Health Care Train," Urges Expert

Cato Institute Senior Fellow Michael Tanner calls on Congress to not rush health care reform in order to produce reform that will work. Tanner argues that gathering more information and removing some of the emotion that is involved within the debate will lead to better analysis and more effective solutions. (0:30)
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Cato Fellow: Massachusetts Health Care Reforms Forcing Coverage Changes

Michael Tanner, senior fellow of the Cato Institute, says people in Massachusetts who had health insurance and were happy with it are having to change their coverage because their current plan does not comply with the state's mandates. It is just one example of the lessons he believes the federal government should take from the results of Massachusetts' 2006 health care reforms. (0:23)
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Expert Says Trade Key To Improved Foreign Relations

Daniel J. Ikenson, a trade policy scholar at the Cato Institute, discusses President Obama's pro-trade agenda and the positive impact it could potentially have on foreign affairs. (1:00)
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Cato Institute: Education Against Overreaction To Terrorist Threat

Christopher Preble, director of foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute, insists that a public education campaign is necessary to make Americans aware of true terrorist capabilities. This might help quell public demand for overreaction and reduce the fear exerted by terrorists over people. (0:54)
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Brink Lindsey: Nations Cannot Cooperate on Economy

Brink Lindsey, Cato Institute, says international cooperation on the global economy is a dream, but that separate approaches will test all approaches.
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We have to accept the realities of Afghanistan

vice president of defense and foreign policy studies at the Cato Institute Ted Galen Carpenter says that the U.S. has to accept that Afghanistan will not be a western style democracy. (0:54)
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The millionaires amendment pressures candidates to make an unconstitutional choice

Ilya Shapiro, senior fellow of the Center for Constitutional Studies and editor in chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review at the Cato Institute, says a brief by the Cato Institute argues that the millionaires amendment of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law forces an unconstitutional choice between self-funding and restricting speech, and that the disclosure provision will “chill” a person’s speech. (1:00)
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The Cato Institute discusses the purpose of McCain-Feingold and the millionaires’ amendment

Ilya Shapiro, senior fellow of the Center for Constitutional Studies and editor in chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review at the Cato Institute, says that the purpose of McCain-Feingold law was to get money and corrosive influences by special interests out of politics. He says that “therefore, a candidate that can fund their own campaign is cleaner, is purer, for our political system than even an incumbent.” (0:52)


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