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We have just released a wonderful new tool that we have created that enables everyone to help us spread the word about our 2010 voter guides.

It is our new “Donate Your status” application, and it works with both Facebook and Twitter.

Put simply, if you use either of these services, it allows you to “donate” a status update on behalf of our voter guides one time each week between now and the coming elections – automatically!

You just click the appropriate service logo on our “Donate Your Status” page, and then give our application permission to post the message on your behalf.

That’s it!

Each week, your friends on these networks will see a message from you encouraging them to participate in our voter guide program.  And given the viral nature of Facebook and Twitter, it will help us reach out to hundreds of thousands of other potential pro-family activists, increasing our chances of success.  read more »

Gallup has just reported its latest "generic ballot" numbers, (where potential voters are asked which party they intend to vote for in the next election).

The results are historic, with Republicans taking their biggest lead in the sixty year history of the Gallup poll.  read more »

Here is a list of some of the ways that you can help us promote distribution of Christian Coalition Voter Guides this fall.  (If you haven't already sign up up yourself, click here and visit our sign-up page)

Post a link on Facebook

More than 40% of Americans now have a Facebook account - and if you have one, it's a great way to let others know about our voter guides.  Click here and post a link to our voter guide sign-up page and help us spread the word on Facebook!

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We’re unveiling part 2 of our “2010 Online Outreach” program.  It’s a new way we’ve created for you to help us spread the word about voter guide distribution for the upcoming elections. 

It’s our new “Voter Guide Widget”, and makes it easy for you to allow others to sign up to help distribute Christian Coalition voter guides right from your own websites.

(Click here and download yours!)

You can customize the widget dimensions to suit your own site, get your custom code and then place it on any website that you control.  In fact, you can even place a widget within a blog entry, or any place where you can post html.

That’s it!  The widget does the rest by allowing your site’s visitors to sign up.  We will let them know when voter guides are ready.

So help us spread the word by downloading your own customized widget today!

Also, if you know anyone else who has a blog or other website they can place a widget on, send them a link to this page today and encourage them to do the same.

And be sure to share this page on Facebook or Twitter!  read more »

Here's another entry from the "Are you kidding?" department.

In late June a group of conservative high school students who were visiting the Lincoln Memorial were ordered by a security guard to STOP singing the national anthem.

Yes, really.

Again, this was at the Lincoln Memorial...on the National Mall...in our nation's capital.

The US Park Police admitted that the students were told that they were in violation of some federal law because it demands that the area remain "completely content neutral".  Content neutral?  Again, this was at the Lincoln Memorial...on the National Mall...in our nation's capital. 

If free speech is to be celbrated, allowed, or encouraged anywhere, one would expect it would be in what is probably the most high profile public space in our country.  But no.

“They told them to stop singing,” said Evan Gassman, a spokesman for the Young America’s Foundation. “I was taken aback. You wouldn’t expect a display of national patriotism to be censored."  ...

The incident occurred on June 25 as students were taking a monument tour of the nation’s capital. The decision to sing the national anthem at the memorial was a spur of the moment event, according to Shawn Balcomb, of Richmond Hill, GA.  read more »

The latest polls from Gallup continue to bear bad news liberals hoping the Democrats will retain power in Congress after the upcoming elections.

Gallup's latest "generic ballot" poll, where respondents are asked which party they intend to vote for in the next election, has the Republicans up by six points, (49% to 43%).

The current six-percentage-point Republican lead ties the largest for either party so far, although Republicans have generally tied or held an advantage over Democrats since Gallup began tracking the generic ballot in March. The major exception to this prevailing pattern came July 12-25, when Democrats moved ahead with six- and four-point weekly advantages. ...

Republicans historically enjoy a turnout advantage in midterm elections, meaning that a final pre-election registered-voter margin either tied or tilting in the GOP's direction would almost certainly translate into major Republican seat gains. This possibility is underscored by Republicans' substantial advantage in enthusiasm over Democrats so far this year. ...

The chart below shows the generic poll results since March of this year:

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We want to invite all Coalition supporters and other fellow conservatives to take advantage of the newest tool we have developed to make it easy for you to stay informed as well as support your values.

It’s the new Christian Coalition of America Community Toolbar for web browsers.

The toolbar gives Coalition supporters constant access to our updates and action alerts, as well as offers you a NO COST opportunity to raise funds with online searches and shopping.

The new online store connects you with over 2,500 retail merchants – all of which contribute a percentage of your purchases back to Christian Coalition of America!  In addition, each time you use the toolbar to conduct an online search, you’ll be raising funds for our shared mission.

The toolbar will not only make it easier for you to stay informed, but it also offers you a 100% free way to support your values and raise critical funds for our 2010 voter education efforts.  read more »

Leave it to eighteen term Democrat Congressman Pete Stark to pretty much encapsulate what's wrong with the federal government.  That being that we have too many members of Congress such as himself who don't recognize constitutional limits on the power of Congress.

In the following video Stark is confronted by a constituent who proceeds to take him to school on the Constitution and the fact that it does indeed limit Congress to specific delegated powers, leaving others to the state governments or to the people.

For his part, Stark was faced with a pretty hostile crowd and does a poor job defending his position.

Of course, this was the same member of Congress who caught flack for telling a constituent at a previous town hall meeting that he wouldn't even bother to urinate on them, (yes, really), so maybe he was just trying to be low key.  Regardless, his statements underscore just how far beyond recognition liberals have misconstrued and perverted our Constitution.

Tuesday afternoon, an interesting victory was won by the Republican Party in the United States Senate.  All of the Republicans stuck together  --  including the 3 left-wing to moderate New England Republicans  --  providing a victory for the GOP and First Amendment rights for all Americans.  Christian Coalition of America (CCA) has been working for weeks trying to defeat this disaster of a bill, which actually passed the United States House of Representatives.   

By a margin of one vote in the Senate, the onerous legislation called the "Disclose Act" introduced by the Democrats to help their union boss cronies and to censor the free speech rights of their opponents, was defeated.  The major immediate problem was, the Supreme Court would not have been able to strike down this clearly unconstitutional bill in time for the November elections during which the Democrats hoped to hold down the great losses they will now undoubtedly suffer.  Most analysts believe the House of Representatives will revert back to the Republicans after 4 disastrous years of Democrat control under San Francisco Democrat Nancy Pelosi.     read more »

Once again, Planned Parenthood has been caught on hidden camera misleading women about abortion.  In this case their staffers attempted to use euphemisms to convince a woman her unborn child was "not a baby" and convince her to have an abortion.

Then the Planned Parenthood employee went further, telling the "client", "It's not a baby,
it's a fetus," which, she claims, is "not like a person."  And, when asked if an abortion will hurt the chances of having children in the future, the employee replied, "Nope".  But recognized medical statistics show an increase in the chances of miscarriage after abortion to be anywhere from 20-50%.

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