Alex Guerrero Wins Professional Boxing Match Tonight With A Knock Out

Salisbury News just learned Professional Boxer Alex Guerrero just won by a knock out. More details to come.

DETAILS: It started with a nice jab early in round one. About 40 seconds into the round he threw a perfect jab then a right hand was picture perfect. His opponent went down but was able to make the count. Another knock down in round one.

Two more knock downs in round two. The second knock down finished him and the bout was ended.

Congratulations Alex Guerrero!

Delmar Fire Department To Old Mill In Delmar

Salisbury News has been informed there is "action" at the Old Mill in Delmar. More to come....

UPDATE: It appears to be utility pole fire

If Only Our Local MSM Could Deliver This Kind Of Broadcast

O'Malley Asks Obama To Stump

While some Democratic incumbents appear to be distancing themselves from President Obama and his low job-approval rating, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley says he is eagerly awaiting a campaign-trail visit.

"I hope he'll come," said Mr. O'Malley, a Democrat in a tight race against GOP candidate Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. for a second term. "I continue to ask him."

Mr. O'Malley made his plea Thursday during a campaign stop at a diner in Silver Spring, Md., just eight miles from the White House.

"I know the president has 37 different states [with governor's races], but I'd really like to have him," Mr. O'Malley said moments later. "Joe Biden has been here."

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2nd Whistleblower: NAACP Pressured DOJ On Black Panther Case

The Justice Department is ignoring civil rights cases that involve white victims and wrongly abandoned a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party last year, a top department official testified Friday. He called the department's conduct a "travesty of justice."

Christopher Coates, former voting chief for the department's Civil Rights Division, spoke under oath Friday morning before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, in a long-awaited appearance that had been stonewalled by the Justice Department for nearly a year.

Coates went in depth about a controversial decision to dismiss charges against New Black Panther members after they were videotaped outside a Philadelphia polling place in 2008 dressed in military-style uniforms and allegedly hurling racial slurs while one brandished a night stick.

The case has drifted in and out of the limelight over the past year as the commission has struggled to investigate it. Ex-Justice official J. Christian Adams fueled the controversy when he testified in July and accused his former employer of showing "hostility" toward cases that involve white victims and black defendants.

Nearly three months later, Coates backed up Adams' claims. In lengthy and detailed testimony, he said the department cultivates a "hostile atmosphere" against "race-neutral enforcement" of the Voting Rights Act.

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Another Hudson Family Benefit Planned!!

You are invited to attend a benefit dinner, including raffles and a silent auction, sponsored by:

Wicomico Young Farmers

to help defray the Hudson Family's legal fees

Where:  Showell Fire Co.

When:  Saturday, November 6th

What:  Chicken & Dumplings Dinner

Time: 6:00 p.m.

Cost:  $20.00 per person

Please call Lee Richardson 410-430-2016

or Charles Wright 410-726-3482

for tickets!

HURRY!!!  Only 500 tickets available and benefit is over half-way SOLD OUT!!!!!

Alleged Drunk Driver Sends Six People To The Hospital After Being Involved In Two Separate Crashes

Location:

 

• 1st crash scene Fisher Road west of Joseph Road, near Milton, DE
• 2nd crash scene Hudson Road in the area of Cripple Creek Development, near Milton, DE

 

Date of Occurrence:

 

Friday, September 24, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.

 

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Milton - Delaware State Police are investigating two separate crashes involving an alleged drunken driver.

 

The first crash happened on Fisher Road west of Joseph Road when Henry Younger, 52, Milford, was driving his 2004 Dodge pick-up and struck Alaric Shelton, 47, of Milton as he was walking along the roadway. Shelton was wearing a reflective vest when he was struck.

 

Younger then fled the scene and made his way to Hudson Road where he was heading west and struck a 2006 Ford F150 head-on. As a result of that collision the driver of the Ford, James A. Shirk, 40, of East Earl, PA, was taken to Beebe Hospital in Lewes along with his 33 year-old female passenger, a 13 year female passenger and a 10 year-old female passenger. A 9 year-old boy who was riding in the Ford was taken to Milford Memorial Hospital. All occupants of the Ford F150 were treated for injuries sustained in the crash.

 

Younger was transported to Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury where he was admitted for injuries sustained in the second crash.

 

Shelton was also injured but no information was available at the time of this release.

 

Alcohol is suspected on the part of Younger and the investigation is still continuing.

Voting On Back Burner For House Lawmakers Seeking Higher Office

House legislative business is a low priority for several lawmakers who have their eyes trained on higher office.

Four members of Congress running for the Senate or governor have missed more than half of the votes held by the House since returning from the August recess. A fifth lawmaker has missed half of the scheduled votes.

Some of the votes have been on small bills, such as a proposal to establish the Sedona-Red Rock scenic area in Arizona’s Coconino forest.

But other issues have been top priorities of President Obama intended to create jobs during tough economic times.

The Small Business Lending Fund Act, which the House approved on Thursday, provides $12 billion in tax cuts to small businesses and sets up a $30 billion capital fund for community banks.

Reps. Roy Blunt (R), Mary Fallin (R) and Kendrick Meek (D) missed the vote to send the small business bill to Obama’s desk for approval, according to public voting records.

Blunt is running for Senate in Missouri, leading his Democratic opponent, Robin Carnahan, by about 8 percentage points. The former Republican whip has missed 22 of the 26 votes House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has scheduled this month.

Fallin, who is vying to become Oklahoma’s next governor, has missed all 26 votes in the House since it returned from a 6-week August recess.

Meek has missed 24 of 26 votes, including all the votes scheduled during the first week Congress was back in session.

Nate Webb, a spokesman for Fallin, said his boss is prepared to return to Washington if needed.

“The reason she’s missing votes is that she’s been home concentrating on her gubernatorial campaign,” he said. “She stands ready to come back to Washington for critical votes.”

Webb declined to evaluate whether the small business legislation met Fallin’s definition of critical.

While Meek has missed nearly every House vote in September, the aide didn’t hesitate to bash Meek’s opponent, Gov. Charlie Crist, an independent candidate running for Senate in Florida, for skipping out on official business.

Good-government advocates say these Republicans and Democrats are shirking their responsibilities as officeholders as they try to climb the ladder of political power.

“It is unfortunately that these office holders view these campaigns as more important than their jobs legislating,” said Craig Holman, legislative representative of Public Citizen, a liberal-leaning government watchdog group.

“They should really value their job of being an officeholder first and foremost,” Holman added. “Anyone who is missing more than half of these votes is shirking their responsibility as an office holder.”
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Judge Orders Lesbian Air Force Nurse Reinstated

A federal judge has ordered the reinstatement of an openly lesbian former Air Force major who was dismissed from the military under the government's "Don't ask, don't tell" policy.
Judge Ronald Leighton of Tacoma, Washington, made his ruling Friday. It is the latest legal and political setback for the Obama administration, which is seeking to end the policy through a legislative and executive solution.
Maj. Margaret Witt, a decorated flight nurse with 20 years of service, had sued to return to the Air Force Reserve. She was honorably discharged in July 2007 on the grounds that she had a six-year relationship with another woman, a civilian.
"Her discharge from the Air Force Reserves violated her substantive due process rights under the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution. She should be restored to her position as a flight nurse with the 446th AES as soon as is practicable," wrote the judge.
An Air Force spokesman said the Air Force believes that "Major Witt's discharge was fully consistent with the law and thus appropriate."
"While we are disappointed the district court judge did not agree that important Congressionally-recognized military interests were furthered by Major Witt's discharge, we are pleased he allowed the government to develop a more detailed factual record for the appellate courts to consider," said Lt. Col. Todd Vician.
The "Don't ask, don't tell" policy enacted in 1993 prevents gay men and lesbians from openly serving in the military and bars officials from inquiring into a service member's sexuality.
The Senate this week temporarily turned aside legislation to repeal the law.
Witt joined the Air Force in 1987 and was suspended in 2004, after her superiors discovered her personal relationship with the civilian woman. At the time, she worked for an air-medical transport unit that evacuated and treated wounded soldiers.
She was described in employee reports and by trial witnesses as an "exemplary officer" who was an effective leader, caring mentor, and skilled clinician. She had hid her homosexuality for years.

The judge found no compelling reason for her dismissal. "The application of 'don't ask, don't tell' to Major Margaret Witt does not significantly further the government's interest in promoting military readiness, unit morale and cohesion," he wrote.

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Dems: We’ll Run On Our Record

Congressional Democrats on Thursday declared they would run on their legislative record this fall, rejecting former President Clinton’s advice to counter a new Republican policy agenda with one of their own.

The Democrats’ decision to run on what they have accomplished over the last two years is politically tricky. Polls show that many Americans are skeptical of the two signature items of the 111th Congress: the new healthcare law and President Obama’s stimulus package.

House and Senate Democratic leaders on Thursday ridiculed the Republicans’ “Pledge to America,” a manifesto designed as a sequel to the “Contract With America” that helped the GOP win control of Congress in 1994. Democrats dubbed the document a “pledge to special interests” and said they have no plans to release their own governing white paper.

Democrats used a “New Direction for America” in 2006 when they recaptured the House and Senate, with slogan-friendly policy proposals such as “Six for ’06.” Some of the six policy items were signed into law in 2007 and 2008, while others were vetoed by President George W. Bush.

Last cycle, congressional Democrats adopted the “hope and change” message of then-Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), significantly bolstering their majorities in both chambers.

But this year, Democrats don’t have one clear, bumper sticker-friendly message.

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GOP Riding Wave Of Enthusiasm Into Midterm Elections

 A political enthusiasm gap is helping Republicans in their effort to roll up big gains in the congressional elections. GOP supporters are a lot more interested in getting their party's candidates elected than Democrats are in electing theirs, a new AP-GfK poll shows.

Democrats struggling to defend their control of Congress have lucked out in one way: Republicans are at least as unpopular as they are, the poll shows. Yet GOP voters are more fired up, leaving the Democrats little more than a month to energize their supporters.

How? They're using President Barack Obama and his Cabinet. Al Gore, too. And until Election Day dawns on Nov. 2, the Democrats will try to refocus voters from their anger over the stubbornly limp economy to the risks of putting Republicans in charge on Capitol Hill.

The Associated Press-GfK Poll this month shows that the public is fed up with both parties. Only 38 percent approve of how congressional Democrats are handling their jobs, and just 31 percent like how Republicans are doing theirs. Fifty-nine percent are unhappy with how Democrats are nursing the economy, 64 percent are upset by the GOP's work on the country's top issue.

More than half have negative views of each party. Most say Obama isn't cooperating enough on the economy, but even more accuse Republicans of the same thing. And former President George W. Bush and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin — the only two Republicans the AP-GfK Poll tested — are significantly less popular than Obama.

Even so, Republicans have the upper hand because their supporters seem significantly likelier to show up Election Day and vote.

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Average Government Worker Receives 85 Percent Higher Pay, Benefits Than Private Employees

Forget studies that say federal workers make twice what private sector employees make. Research compiled by analysts at conservative think tanks has found that the average federal employee receives 85 percent more in compensation, including wages and benefits, than private sector employees who perform the same jobs.

Chris Edwards, director of tax policy studies at the libertarian Cato Institute, has studied the discrepancies between federal compensation and that received by their private sector counterparts and concluded that federal government workers are vastly overpaid.

Edwards said his analysis of Bureau of Economic Analysis data clearly shows that wage increases for government workers have far exceeded those of workers in the private sector.

“Overall trends are really dramatic,” said Edwards. “Over the last 9 years, average private sector wages and compensation in the U.S. have risen about 30 percent, but average federal wages and compensation have risen about 60 percent.”

The typical federal worker received a salary of more than $79,000 in 2008, with benefits raising total annual compensation to more than $119,000. The typical private sector worker received pay of about $50,000, with total compensation just under $60,000.

Edwards was one of three conservative experts who presented their data at a discussion panel held Tuesday at The Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C.Details

Minnesota Under Attack From Sharia Law

Medicare Director Won't Answer Questions From Senate

Donald Berwick, an advocate of health care rationing and redistributing wealth through the health-care system, who President Barack Obama appointed administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) without a Senate confirmation hearing or vote, will not answer questions from the U.S. Senate, according to members of the committee that has overisght over his nomination.

“We’ve been trying to get him to answer questions in writing. He won’t do that,” Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), a member of the Senate Finance Commmittee, told CNSNews.com Thursday. “We’ve been trying to get him up for a hearing. He won’t do that. He has indicated he might come to a hearing. So far, it’s been unsuccessful, no matter how important these matters are.”

Bypassing the Senate to appoint Berwick during the July 4 congressional recess, Obama later re-nominated the outspoken physician to the position fifteen days later. That means the Finance Committee could hold a confirmation hearing on Berwick now and send his nomination to the full Senate for a confirmation vote. But Hatch said the Senate Democratic majority has done nothing to advance the nomination, and Berwick has not been forthcoming with answers. Hatch predicted there will not be a confirmation hearing for Berwick before the election.

Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), the ranking Republican on the Finance Committee, also expressed frustration that Berwick again declined an invitation to answer questions from the Senate.

“We invited Dr. Berwick to appear at today’s forum, but as you can see, he chose not to attend,” Grassley said. “The administration has to go out of its way to have a nominee avoid the regular committee review of their nomination. That begs the question, why did the administration go out of its way for Dr. Berwick? By avoiding the committee’s questions and refusing to share important information, the legitimacy and authority of Dr. Berwick to serve as administrator is called into question.”
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Texas Board Of Ed Adopts Resolution Limiting Islam

The Texas State Board of Education adopted a resolution Friday that seeks to curtail references to Islam in Texas textbooks, as social conservative board members warned of what they describe as a creeping Middle Eastern influence in the nation's publishing industry.

The board approved the one-page nonbinding resolution, which urges textbook publishers to limit what they print about Islam in world history books, by a 7-5 vote.

Critics say it's another example of the ideological board trying to politicize public education in the Lone Star State. Kathy Miller, president of the Texas Freedom Network, which advocates for religious freedom, questioned why the resolution came at a time when "anti-Muslim rhetoric in this country has reached fever pitch."

Future boards that will choose the state's next generation of social studies texts will not be bound by the resolution.

"This is an expression of the board's opinion, so it does not have an effect on any particular textbook," said David Anderson, the general counsel for the Texas Education Agency, when asked by a board member what legal weight the resolution would carry.

The resolution concludes by warning publishers the "State Board of Education will look to reject future prejudicial social studies submissions that continue to offend Texas law with respect to treatment of the world's major religious groups by significant inequalities of coverage space-wise and by demonizing or lionizing one or more of them over others."

Social conservatives control the 15-member board for now, although the landscape is set to change after one member of the bloc lost his primary election bid and another chose not to seek re-election. The board in recent years has become a battleground for social conservatives and liberal watchdogs, each accusing the other of imposing ideological agendas into what about 4.8 million public school students learn in Texas classrooms.
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Museum Day Offers Knowledge For No Cost

More than 1,300 museums, planetariums, zoos and other attractions around the country will be offering free admission on Sept. 25 to anyone who presents a voucher

What do Michael Jackson’s guitar-shaped belt buckle, an ivory telescope and a rotary jail have in common?

They’re just a few of the unusual objects visitors can see for free on Sept. 25 during Smithsonian magazine's Museum Day. More than 1,300 museums, planetariums, zoos and other attractions around the country will be offering free admission — for two — to anyone who presents a voucher..

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Famed Obama 'Hope' Poster Artist Losing Hope

The artist whose poster of Barack Obama became a rallying image during the hope-and-change election of 2008 says he understands why so many people have lost faith.

In an exclusive interview with National Journal on Thursday, Shepard Fairey expressed his disappointment with the president -- a malaise that seems representative of many Democrats who had great expectations for Obama.

Fairey explained that when he came up with the poster in 2008, he was trying to find a single image that embodied the issues he cared most about -- promoting health care, helping labor, and curtailing lobbyists. He likened the issues to projectiles.

"Looking at Obama's standpoint on various policies, it was like, 'Why throw all these particular projectiles over the wall... when I could put all those things in one projectile that I could hurl over the wall,'" Fairey said in a phone interview from Los Angeles, where he lives. "Obama was the delivery device in theory. Now, I realize that he maybe is not the correct delivery device, and I'll just deal with those issues separately."

Fairey's much-reproduced portrait of Obama -- head tilted slightly upward, gazing into the distance, with the word "Hope" emblazoned underneath -- captured the imagination of Democrats and unintentionally tweaked Hillary Rodham Clinton, whose husband had been elected as "The Man From Hope.

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Public Shares Right-moving GOP Values, View Of Government, According To Gallup Data

At the same time the public perceives the Republican Party becoming more conservative, more Americans are saying the party reflects their values and their attitude about the role of government, according to newly released Gallup polling data.

Democrats, meanwhile, have lost ground on these measures.

In a USA Today/Gallup poll of 1,021 American adults conducted Aug. 27-30, respondents were asked whether they believed the Republican Party had “become more conservative, or not” since Barack Obama took office as president. In the same poll, respondents were also asked how well each of the two major parties “represent your values” and “represent your attitude about the role of government.”

Fifty-four percent of Americans told Gallup they believed the GOP had indeed become more conservative since Obama took office, while only 40 percent said they did not believe the Republicans had become more conservative.

At the same time, the Republicans did better than the Democrats on the percentage of Americans who said the party represents their attitude about the role of government and their values.

Fifty-two percent told Gallup the Republican Party represented their attitude about the role of government either “very well” or “moderately well,” while only 44 percent said the Democratic Party represented their attitude about the role of government either “very well” or “moderately well.”

Fifty-six percent, meanwhile, told Gallup the Republican Party represented their values either “very well” or “moderately well,” while only 49 percent said the Democratic Party represented their values either “very well” or “moderately well.”

These results indicate a shift in public perception of the major political parties from four years ago, when the Republicans lost the congressional majority to the Democrats in the 2006 midterm elections. These results also resemble the results Gallup got when it asked the same questions in 1994, the year the Republicans won the congressional majority away from the Democrats.
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Around The Shore News

There was a big brush Fire in New Church, VA yesterday (Friday).  A Fire Fighter from Atlantic Volunteer Fire Company died in the line of duty fighting the fire.  I am told that his name was Hal Clarke but that is unconfirmed...

Salisbury News also learned someone had been intentionally run over by a car in Georgetown last night.

Where's The Fence?

The Republicans in the U.S. House of Representative released “A Pledge to America” today, laying out agenda items they plan to pursue if they take control of Congress, that commits the party to “establishing operational control of the border” but makes no mention of border fencing, enforcing immigration laws at the worksites of employers who hire illegal aliens or whether the party under any circumstances would grant any form of amnesty to foreign nationals currently living in the United States illegally.

By contrast, the 2008 Republican Platform, approved by the delegates at the 2008 Republican National Convention, committed the Republican Party to completing a border fence, enforcing immigration laws at the worksite and opposing an amnesty.

The House Republicans included the border security and immigration provisions of their pledge in the section reserved for national security issues.

“Our borders are a vital part of our security, so we will act decisively to ensure that the federal government fulfills its constitutional duty to protect our citizens and our Nation, working closely with our state and local governments,” says the pledge.

While stating that the party would work to give the Border Patrol the “tools and authorities to establish operational control at the border,” the pledge does not mention any specific tools or authorities. Specifically, the word “fence” does not appear anywhere in the document. Nor is their reference to any other sort of structure the Republicans would favor erecting at the border.Read more at CNS News

Ahmadinejad Rant Deals Major Blow to 'Obama Doctrine'

The bizarre U.N. rant alleging a 9/11 conspiracy by Iranian strongman Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, delivered from the same podium where President Obama had just hours before extended yet another of olive branch of diplomacy toward the rogue Persian regime, marks the most devastating setback yet in the administration's campaign of global engagement, foreign-policy experts say.

A host of nations joined America in walking out on Ahmadinejad's tirade -- including the 27 European Union states, Australia, Costa Rica, and New Zealand.

But the overwhelming majority of the diplomats representing the worlds 192 nations not only kept their seats, but applauded vigorously when Ahmadinejad finally stopped talking.

"They are literally at their wits' end. They have no idea what to do," Dr. James Jay Carafano, the Heritage Foundation national security expert, tells Newsmax of the administration. "They don't want to take the Iranians on. They don't want to appear soft on Iran. They don't want to say that having an Iranian nuclear program is acceptable, but they're unwilling to do any of the things to demonstrate that the United States truly would hold it as unacceptable."

Richard Grenell, a former spokesman for four U.S. ambassadors to the United Nations including former Ambassador John R. Bolton, tells Newsmax that Thursday's incident is another setback for an Obama strategy he says has "failed miserably on a variety of fronts in the Middle East."Here is more

General Alexander: Pentagon Faces Massive Cyber Threat

Army Gen. Keith Alexander, commander of the new U.S. Cyber Command, says the Pentagon's vast computer system is probed by potential enemies a quarter-of-a-million times every hour and needs to be protected, especially in a time of war. Alexander testified Thursday before a U.S. Congressional panel.

The U.S. Department of Defense has about 15,000 different computer networks, including 7 million computing devices on hundreds of military installations around the world.

Alexander told members of the House Armed Services Committee that those computer systems are at risk.

"We face severe threats,” he said. “Those threats to our national security in my opinion are real. It is occupying much of our time and attention. At the unclassified level, we have stated that we see probes and scans to our networks that come up on the order of 250,000 times an hour.”

The Defense Department recently revealed new details about a major cyber attack in 2008 that allowed hackers to transfer data to servers under foreign control. Defense officials say that intrusion served as a wakeup call. Cyber Command was created the following year to defend the Pentagon's computer networks.

Alexander, who directs the National Security Agency said that, since the inception of the Internet, the key problems have been hacker activity and exploitation of private and sensitive information.

"That is where someone comes in and takes information from your computer, steals your credit card number, takes money out of your account,” Alexander said. “We have seen that go on and that endures, and it is perhaps the most significant form of the threat that we see today — not just stealing our intellectual property, but also our secrets and other parts of our networks.”

Alexander warned that deterring enemies in the cyber world will not be easy and could take years to achieve. He said the government needs to work with private industry to ensure that the nation's critical infrastructure is protected.
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Finance Republicans Seek Probe Of White House Access To Taxpayer Data

Senate Finance Republicans have sent a letter to J. Russell George, Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, asking him to review whether the Obama administration illegally accessed and disclosed confidential taxpayer information.

The inquiry stems from reports quoting a White House officials that described the tax structure of Koch Industries Inc., a closely held corporation whose details are not publicly available.

"Taxpayer confidentiality laws are strict, in part to prevent the use of tax information for political gain," a release on the letter states. "The official appeared to indicate knowledge of Koch Industries' tax structure beyond what is publicly available."

Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley (Iowa), the committee's ranking member, Jon Kyl (Ariz.), Jim Bunning (Ky.), Michael Enzi (Wyo.), John Cornyn (Texas), and John Ensign (Nev.) signed the letter.There is more here

Rep. Mike Pence Likely To Seek Higher Office, Say Fellow House Republicans

Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) will likely launch a bid for higher office after the November elections, according to several House Republicans.

Pence won the presidential straw poll at the Values Voter Summit on Saturday, intensifying speculation that the third-ranking House Republican has bigger aspirations than serving in the lower chamber.

Still, some believe Pence is more likely to try to become the next governor of Indiana instead of seeking to win the 2012 presidential primary.

With the state’s popular governor, Mitch Daniels (R), term-limited, Pence would have a clear opportunity to run for his party’s nomination. Daniels, meanwhile, is mulling a presidential bid.

But a Republican lawmaker who requested anonymity believes Daniels may not be the only Indiana Republican running for the White House.

“I think [Pence is] actually going to do that. I think he’s actually going to dip his toe in there,” the lawmaker said.

While Daniels is known more as a fiscal conservative, Pence appeals to large factions of the GOP.

In 2003, Pence bucked President George W. Bush in opposing the Medicare prescription drug bill. Pence’s opposition infuriated the White House and Republican leaders in Congress, but many on the right note that Pence was one of the few GOP legislators who refused to back the biggest expansion of Medicare since its inception. Pence also voted against the Wall Street bailout bill in 2008.

And he has been at the forefront of social issues, championing the anti-abortion cause and fighting gay marriage.
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